WBBM, the CBS owned station in Chicago, rolled out new branding for its weather and traffic.

The station began using the banner “Realtime Weather” at the beginning of February 2020 — with the matching name of “Realtime Traffic” introduced as well.

Previously, CBS 2 News branded used simply “CBS 2 Weather” — with the name “Weather Watch” mixed in during severe weather coverage.

Traffic was known as “Timesaver Traffic” before and the new name also comes with an “alert” option.

The station created a logotype in the Gotham typeface it uses elsewhere, stylized so that the “L” in “Real” and “T” in “Time” are butted right up against each other.

Below each logotype are small icons.

The ‘Alert’ branding can also be used on the video wall behind the anchor desk.

Over the course of the first week of February, the “Realtime Weather” branding has started to sneak into the station’s weather graphics — while the “Weather Watch” name has popped up a few times as well.

In addition, the station also added a “Realtime Weather Alert” option that includes a red background.

The move is similar rival WLS’s use of “AccuWeather Alerts” and “AccuWeather Alert Days” on ABC 7 Eyewitness News.

ABC 7 branded its weather as “First Alert” from 2014 to 2017, when it switched to solely using the AccuWeather brand. Previously, the AccuWeather logo still appeared in select weather graphics.

WLS also relies heavily on its “Live Doppler 7 Max” S-band radar branding.

WLS doesn’t directly brand its traffic reports — though it often uses the “Traffic & Weather” banner since the two reports are typically stacked next to each other.

That said, ABC 7 has a weather “brand” in the name Roz Varon — whose long tenure at the station has made her synonymous with traffic reporting. Varon is widely credited with inventing the concept of traffic reporting.

Over at NBC owned WMAQ, the station uses “Storm Team 5” as well as the “Most accurate” WeatheRate branding. Its traffic is known as “On Time Traffic.”

It uses the “storm” theme for its “Storm Tracker” mobile weather truck and “Storm Ranger” mobile doppler radar truck that it shares with KXAS in Dallas. 

WFLD, the market’s Fox O&O, uses “Fox 32 Weather” and sometimes uses the “Weather Alert” branding as well — and its traffic is similarly branded as “Fox 32 Traffic.”

WGN, the market’s independent station, uses “WGN Weather” and “WGN Traffic.”

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KELO, the Nexstar Media Group owned CBS and MyNetworkTV affiliate in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has debuted a new set.

In many ways, the set is a scaled down version of the set Nexstar designed and built for WBRE and WYOU in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, but with some unique elements and design tweaks.

Pennsylvania duopoly gets high tech set upgrade

For starters, KELO, which brands on air as “KELOland News,” only has three of the six vertically mounted video panels in the corner of home base that WBRE and WYOU have.

Filling out the space camera right is a faux stone column, blue structural elements and a vertical stack of low profile video panels as well as a wavy patterned wall and landscape oriented video panel.

This look, in turn, is remiscent of some other non-symmetrical home bases found on Nexstar sets.

Camera right of home base is a flexible standup area with a nine panel video array.

The video panels are from Phillips and also feature prominently on the front of the anchor desk and weather pod.

AV integration by was provided by Digital Video Group, while the set itself was designed in house. 

The set also includes a new weather center with frosted glass wall separating the presentation pod from work area, as well as an angled video wall intersected by a blue angular element.

Overall, even the scaled back version still packs quite a punch with technology for such a small market.

More faux stone is featured here, as well as in other areas of the set, including on columns fronted with frosted panels featuring the KELO logo and Mount Rushmore and a portion of the city’s Arc of Dreams sculpture.

In addition to the new set, Nexstar also invested in new Hitachi studio cameras with Vinten robotic camera peds. 

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CBSN has launched its eighth regional streaming network — this time at KDKA in Pittsburgh.

The new 24 hour streaming service launched March 5, 2020.

Like in other markets, production for the service is provided by the local CBS owned station, in this case KDKA.

CBSN Pittsburgh will air simulcasts and repeats of newscasts on KDKA and CW affiliate WPCW as well as the “Pittsburgh Today Live” lifestyle show along with breaking news coverage as needed.

Next up is CBSN Chicago, according to a press release, which is expected to launch later in March.

The network will then launch, as previously announced, services in the remaining markets it has a local news operation: Dallas, Miami, Sacramento and Baltimore.

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With the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City essentially out of commission while it’s cleaned, the network’s flagship affiliate WCBS originated its newscasts from Los Angeles March 12 and 13, 2020.

DeMarco Morgan, who normally anchors KCBS’s morning and 11 a.m. newscasts solo anchored WCBS’s newscasts at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. eastern time (2 and 3 p.m. in L.A., respectively).

NEW YORKERS and TRISTATE…TUNE in TONIGHT and Watch at 5pm and 6pm on CBS2. I’ll be anchoring the local evening news for CBS New York…. Get Complete Coverage on the #Coronavirus Crisis with everything you need to know. Helping out our fam at CBS2NY hang in there guys… pic.twitter.com/XH1oNq2m39

— DeMarco Morgan (@DeMarcoReports) March 12, 2020

Meanwhile, forecaster Lonnie Quinn delivered weather from the streets of Westport, Connecticut using the station’s mobile weather lab vehicle and live truck.

The back hatch of the vehicle was open with a video panel sitting on the floor of the cargo area, though Quinn didn’t try to use it for his maps — which were instead shown fullscreen.

KPIX, CBS’s O&O in San Francisco, produced some morning newscasts for WCBS as well. 

CBS Broadcast Center is closed down after three employees tested positive for coronavirus. Staffers are working from home while the facility is cleaned.

WCBS and KCBS have similar sets (view more here and here) and logos — which came in handy since a wide shot of the studio was shown at the end of the 6 p.m.

Both sets also have two video wall installations — and KCBS’s was, in a bit of a dichotomy, fed with a New York City skyline.

CBSN New York is originated from WBZ in Boston, as the nationwide feed of CBSN, with sports production moved to Florida.

After the initial two cases were announced March 11, WCBS stuck with its studio in the the sprawling complex — but apparently the network decided it wasn’t safe for production March 12.

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Along with a ramp-up of specials at the national level, local stations are also producing additional coronavirus programming including specials and branded hours.

Spectrum News NY1, the 24-hour cable news network in the New York metro area, has added a daily coronavirus town hall show at 9 a.m. eastern branded as “One New York.”

Fronted by Pat Kiernan, Annika Pergament and Jamie Stelter, the program aims to answer viewer questions and brings in a variety of subject matter experts via Skype.

Viewers are encouraged to submit questions to the show via the #OneNewYork hashtag on social media, with the show also airing live on Twitter and Periscope.

Meanwhile, Fox 5, WNYW, recently rebranded an hour of its “Good Day New York” program for a special.

Hosted by Rosanna Scotto and Lori Stokes joined by Dr. Mehmet Oz, who has also turned his daily syndicated show into a headquarters of coronavirus information, the program included answers to viewer questions along with demonstrations on how to wash hands and tips for cooking at home while quarantining.

NBC Bay Area, KNTV, also produced a special to help viewers understand the coronavirus, anchored by Jessica Aguirre.

Along with expert insights, the program included a variety of segments with answers to common questions.

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CBS New York, WCBS, continues to be without a permanent studio after multiple CBS employees tested positive for coronavirus forcing the closure of the CBS Broadcast Center.

WCBS did return to the building for a small period of time at the beginning of the week, utilizing the CBSN New York set, before switching back to Los Angeles origination.

On Wednesday, March 18, the broadcasts moved to a split format, with New York 11 p.m. anchors Maurice DuBois and Kristine Johnson on the sidewalk outside of the Broadcast Center on West 57th Street while continuing to rely heavily on KCBS talent. Chris Wragge and Mary Calvi continued the format for the morning news on March 19.

Hermela Aregaw in the KCBS newsroom in Los Angeles.

KCBS anchor DeMarco Morgan and Hermela Aregaw continue to be the face of WCBS while local anchors have made a few appearances during each hour of news broadcasts.

Weather, meanwhile, has been able to continue in New York thanks to the station’s mobile weather truck.

WCBS is not the only broadcast impacted by the closure of the facility, with “CBS This Morning” relocated to the Ed Sullivan Theater and a host of other changes to weekend production and overnight newscasts. 

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WMAQ in Chicago shifted its early evening and evening meteorologists to working from home.

The NBC owned station had Paul Deanno and Brant Miller both joining newscasts remotely from home.

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Deanno, who appeared on the 4 p.m. newscast, March 19, 2020, was seated in front of an arched white shutters with houseplants behind him while Miller appeared to be in a living area next to a fireplace with a smaller TV monitor over his shoulder.

Deanno was not wearing a visible pair of earbuds or mic, while Miller appeared to have an at least quasi-professional grade mic on and was using a single earbud as an IFB.

As both forecasters started their various segments, the control room put their image in a small box next to a larger weather map before taking the weather computer fullscreen. 

Chicago stations keep traffic reporters home

On March 20, NBC 5’s Alicia Roman switched to delivering weather from home.

Over on CBS 2 WBBM, morning forecaster Megan Glaros delivered the morning weather reports from her home in Indiana (many people who work in Chicago commute from the neighboring state).

The move follows fellow Chicago traffic reporters Roz Varon on ABC owned station WLS and Yasmeen Hassan on CBS owned WBBM who started working from home earlier in the day.

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After a few days of bouncing around studios and outdoor venues, WCBS has struck a deal to use the Fox Sports Networks owned YES Network studios while CBS Broadcast Center remains mostly closed down due to coronavirus.

The network, which is also owned by the Yankees and a handful of other partners including Sinclair Broadcasting, runs out of Stamford, Connecticut.

With the MLB mostly shut down, the network presumably doesn’t have a lot of original programming to produce given its focus on the Yankees. 

CBS New York, meanwhile, is using the flexible YES set, taking advantage of the multiple video walls and panels to insert NYC skylines and its station branding.

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It’s not clear how long WCBS will use the space. 

The CBS Broadcast Center, which houses “CBS This Morning” and other CBS News operations, including WCBS, had multiple cases of coronavirus and, out of “an abundance of caution,” the network is spreading out its NYC operations across multiple facilities, according to a memo for the news division president.

“CBS This Morning,” for example, is running out of the Ed Sullivan Theater, normally the home of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

‘CBS This Morning’ originates from ‘The Late Show’ Ed Sullivan Theater stage

The network is also leaning on some of its owned stations across the country to handle the production of some shows.

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Broadcasting from home has quickly become a popular solution for helping out with social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.

Here’s a running list of prominent broadcasters who are working from home.

This list is not exhaustive and is sometimes limited by the availability of video or imagery and some talent may have changed situations since they were first added to the list. We’ve posted them in roughly the order they began hosting from home.

Send your tips on who’s anchoring from home to coronavirus@newscaststudio.com.

March 24, 2020

• Jennifer Ashton (ABC)
• Tracy Butler (WLS, Chicago)

March 23, 2020

• Dana Perino (Fox)
• Doug Dunbar (KTVT, Dallas)
• Grant Johnson (KXAS, Dallas)
• Joy Behar (ABC)
• Kelly Ripa (ABC)
• Laura Harris (KXAS, Dallas)
• Nicolle Wallace (MSNBC)
• Ryan Seacrest (ABC)
• Samantha Davis (KXAS, Dallas)

March 21, 2020

• Hari Sreenivasan (PBS)

March 20, 2020

• Alicia Roman (WMAQ, Chicago)
• Anderson Cooper (CNN)
• Megan Glaros (WBBM, Chicago)
• Vladimir Duthiers (CBS)

March 19, 2020

• Brant Miller (WMAQ, Chicago)
• Paul Deanno (WMAQ, Chicago)
• Roz Varon (WLS, Chicago)
• Yasmeen Hassen (WBBM, Chicago)

March 18, 2020

• Savannah Guthrie (NBC)
• Whoopi Goldberg (ABC)

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WRAL, the NBC affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina, has introduced a nightly 7 p.m. show about the coronavirus crisis.

Despite its name, “Coronavirus: Facts Not Fear,” the special uses bold red and slightly over the top graphics accented with grungy textures.

The Tuesday, March 24, 2020 edition was anchored by Debra Morgan and Gerald Owens and included, among other WRAL team members, Mark Boyle at the “live desk.” 

The show’s primary venue is the station’s main news set that was installed in November 2019 — and producers make generous use of the video walls to showcase topical graphics.

The station is pushing back “Inside Edition” to make room for the 30 minute newscast and moving “Entertainment Tonight” to its Cozi TV subchannel.

Other local stations have also started expanding local news during the coronavirus crisis, including NBC owned stations in major markets.

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If you feel like the days are sort of starting to blend together now, a Cleveland station is here to help.

So, WJW Fox 8 in Cleveland is helping out viewers with lighthearted segment that answers the now age old question: “What day is it?”

The segment is, appropriately, called “What Day Is It?” and features a calendar themed graphic. 

Morning co-anchor Todd Meany is named as “host” of the segment — which involves him walking on camera from the left, pausing briefly in front of a video wall with the day of the week, saying, as he did April 3, 2020, “It’s Friday,” and walking off frame to the right.

The video wall features a matching calendar style graphic that reads “Today is…” with an abbreviated version of the day of the week in bold black letters below.

Many TV stations and network newscasts include the time and temperature in their bugs — and it’s not uncommon for tickers, especially during morning news, to feature the day of the week and date, often in the form of “Good morning, it’s…”

In addition, many newscasts also feature either an on screen display of the date, someone saying it or a combination of both, during teases, opens or title cards.

For instance, “Today” almost always works the day of the week, month, day and year into the final part of the teases one of the anchors reads just before the open runs; working it in as a sentence that uses the word “today” as both the name of the show and a reference to generic definition of the word. 

Other newscasts, such as “ABC World News Tonight” include the date in the tease graphics, but don’t mention the day of the week (“Tonight” did previously include the announcer mentioning the date in the open).

“Good Morning America” typically displays the date on screen at the end of its teases.

“CBS This Morning” switched recently to showing the date on screen before cutting to anchors on camera — previously an anchor would mention the date just before cutting to the “EyeOpener” news roundup.

Another common technique, used by many shows, is to feed a graphic to on set video walls or panels, such as “CBS Evening News” does on the square riser outfitted with LED panels the anchor desk sits on and typically shown briefly in a wide shot of the studio before cutting to anchor Norah O’Donnell. 

Local newscasts, meanwhile, may use a combination of these techniques or none at all. 

Displaying the date somewhere on screen not only helps reinforce the idea of the show being current — and helping viewers know what date it is (even under normal circumstances) but also serves as a sort of visual “tag” of the date of production for archival purposes. 

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WBBM, the CBS owned station in Chicago, has gone live with CBSN Chicago, its local version of the nationwide streaming news and information network that launched in 2014.

After that network launched, CBS announced plans to start rolling out regional networks in markets where it runs a local news presence.

Chicago’s version was slated to go live in March, the coronavirus pandemic apparently lead to delays.

At this point, the Chicago iteration isn’t quite as ambitious as some of the other versions — it features segments from already aired CBS 2 News broadcasts with little original content, though some versions other of these regional networks have expanded original offerings in the months or years since launch.

WBBM is also known as one of CBS’s weakest owned stations in terms of local newscasts despite strong primetime ratings.

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WCBS is airing a promo that’s part of its “Listen to Lonnie” campaign — but showcasing the struggles of working from home.

Lonnie Quinn, like many weather broadcasters, is working from home during the coronavirus pandemic, and the promo showcases clips from when he opted to have his daughters take part in a forecast — with hilariously mixed results, including the two young girls not understanding that they have to step out of the key.

CBS N.Y. gets in on the fun with Lonnie Quinn action figure promo

Near the end of the promo, on screen text first reads “Gotta listen to Dad” before “Dad” gets crossed out and replaced with “Lonnie.”

The end screen features the “#ListenToLonnie” hashtag along with the postscript “…and his daughters too.”

WCBS is the CBS owned affiliate serving the New York City metro area.

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KTVT in the Dallas and Ft. Worth, Texas has become the latest CBS owned station to launch a local version of the national CBSN streaming service.

Named CBSN Dallas-Ft. Worth, the new service is the 10th of 13 planned regional services under the CBSN banner.

CBSN Dallas-Ft. Worth is the second service to launch during the coronavirus pandemic.

CBSN Chicago launched April 21, 2020, after a delay mainly due to the outbreak.

To mark the occasion, KTVT’s midday newscast at 11 a.m. local time was aired from an alternate studio venue — and aired on both the OTA and OTT feeds. 

CBS stations in Miami, Sacramento and Baltimore are still on deck to launch, though no firm launch dates have been announced.

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Raleigh ABC owned station WTVD’s streetside studio was vandalized over the weekend amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd.

The streetside facility is one of two the station uses for newscasts — with the other being at its main building in Durham, North Carolina.

Raleigh station debuts updated downtown studio

Like many stations, many of WTVD’s newscasts have been originating from anchors’ homes during the coronavirus pandemic.

Lost in the video I took early this am is this one of the Downtown Raleigh @ABC11_WTVD station. I know there are much bigger issues here but this still hit different when I first saw it in person. pic.twitter.com/cQGj6DShDg

— Bridget Condon (@BridgetABC11) May 31, 2020

A video posted to Twitter by sports anchor Bridget Condon shows the streetside Raleigh “Eyewitness News Center” with broken glass windows.

The facility itself appears to be empty in video clip, though monitors and other equipment are powered on inside. 

Like most windowed broadcast facilities, the downtown studio features two layers of glass — one that is a more typical commercial grade glass while the other array is typically angled inward to help avoid on air glares when using the windows as a background and may also include special coatings to prevent sunlight from damaging equipment or wreaking too much havoc with lighting. 

Also like many other streetside studios, this second layer of glass does not cover the entire height of the windows.

In some streetside studios, one or both layers of glass may also be reinforced — even to the point of being “bulletproof” for security purposes, though it’s not immediately clear if this is the case at WTVD.

WTVD sister station WLS in Chicago, which also operates a streetside studio, had a van crash through its glass in 2007. ABC flagship station WABC in New York City also has a windowed studio.

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Back in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, WBBM in Chicago rebranded its 6 p.m. newscast using a different approach to referring to when the broadcast airs.

Starting, March 18, 2020, the CBS owned station began referring to “CBS 2 News at 6” as “Hour 18” in its opens and other graphics.

NewscastStudio is admittedly running a bit behind the time, as it were, reporting this news but it somehow got buried with the slew of shifts in the broadcast industry over the past two months. 

For the debut, the name was subheadlined with “Outbreak in Chicago” and combined a clocked based design (a la “60 Minutes“) with the station’s coronavirus pandemic branding.

Initially the concept included 21 minutes of commercial free news that was entirely dedicated to pandemic updates. 

“Hour 18” is a reference to how 6 p.m. is labeled in 24 hour time — as opposed to 12 hour time that is more commonly used by U.S. civilians. 

24 hour time is sometimes referred to as “military time” in America, although 6 p.m. would more often be read as “eighteen hundred” or “eighteen hundred hours.”

The name — and accompanying music update — gave the newscasts a more hard hitting, urgent feel.

Meanwhile, nearly two months after the “Hour 18” branding was introduced, the station continues to use it, though it now has opens and graphics sans coronavirus branding to encompass broader news topics, including the unrest follow the alleged murder of George Floyd.

In addition to being used on air, the newscast is appearing as “Hour 18: CBS 2 News at 6 p.m.” in most TV provider grids. 

The approach does have the advantage of being both unique and giving the newscasts a slightly more edgy, tactical feel.

However, “18” could also be confusing for viewers not familiar with 24 hour time — though the anchors do helpfully remind viewers that it’s the same as saying “6 p.m.” at the top of most newscasts.

Figuring out military time requires taking any number greater than 12 (exclusive) and subtracting 12 from it (in this case, 18 minus 12 equals 6) — but all that might be a bit too much math for someone sitting down to watch local news.

The use of “18” also creates a bit of “number soup” — with the numbers “2,” “6” and “18” all regularly rattled off within the first few seconds of the newscast (plus “21” when anchors mention the extended A block).

WBBM, which historically struggles in the ratings, has experimented with a variety of branding changes — including using “Nonstop News” and “Nonstop News team” in the mornings as well as “Real Time” for weather and traffic. 

The station was also hit hard by ViacomCBS layoffs in late May 2020, losing a longtime investigative reporter, morning anchor and meteorologist and more. 

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KSL, the NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City, has updated its 2012 set with some upgrade LED panels.

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Working with the set’s original designer, Broadcast Design International, the station removed a 3 × 3 low profile video wall with an 1.6mm seamless video wall from ESD Lumen.

In addition, KSL’s unique anchor desk also had its two low profile panels replaced with a seamless ribbon.

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Nexstar Media Group’s KGET in Bakersfield, California, has debuted a new set that is largely arranged around corners of the studio.

The revamped set, completed by the group’s in house broadcast design team, follows the general look and feel of sets installed at many of its sister stations.

The set is also used for newscasts on KGET’s subchannel for its role as a Telemundo affiliate, so color each newscasts have been assigned specific lighting cues thanks to the color changing LED.

On set video panels also make it easy to change out graphics as well as enhance weather and news storytelling.

KGET’s home base is, like many other Nexstar stations, situated in the corner and creates the look of vertical “windows” using video panels but also includes both a stack of horizontal and vertical panels camera right.

Next to the anchor desk is an additional, smaller video wall before the design transitions to a weather center with wall mounted video panel and angled glass wall separating the studio from work area.

This area is also situated in a corner, with a standing height pod situated in the middle that, when shot wide, gives viewers a look at the wall mounted screen and frosted “Your Local Pinpoint Forecast” weather branding on the glass wall.

The studio also includes a corner outfitted with two walls that meet at a 90 degree angle that can be used for both weather and news standups.

Cameras can be positioned at different angles, either shooting one wall or the other straight on or using both walls at differing angles. 

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Winston-Salem, North Carolina’s NBC affiliate is emphasizing the contributions its new set made to local small businesses that may be facing challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic.

In the slowly paced, elegant promo, WXII, which is owned by Hearst, starts by noting that “everyone needs small businesses … and we do too.”

“During these times, these hands have helped to shape the future of WXII,” the female announcer continues. 

Meanwhile, on screen, viewers see a close-up shot of a pair of hands opening toward the lens as a floating graphic appears between them, with its transparent green-blue frame tracking along with the subtle movement of the person’s hands. 

Overall, the effect is sort of a blend between a holographic augmented reality element and a futuristic “handheld” hologram. 

The image inside the pair of hands is a construction worker with a white hard hat, protective eyewear and a shirt that matches the color scheme of the floating frame he’s in. The same worker’s face is visible in the background, albeit in shadow.

Next two other construction workers appear, though one, a man in blue painters’ overalls, isn’t wearing the same shirt as the other two.

There is then a series of shots showing various construction work being done, following by a quick view of a timelapse set construction image and mostly tightly framed views of talent on the new set.

Finally, the spot ends with another view of opening hands “holding” a translucent card reading “Coming July 2020” along with the station’s logo before it disappears when the hands close. 

Devlin Design Group worked with WXII on the new set design. 

WXII brands on air as “WXII 12 News.”

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Chuck Scarborough has reported on many stories throughout his 45-year career at WNBC in New York City and now after a brief stint of working from home, he’s back in the studio at 30 Rock.

In a new promo, WNBC is emphasizing “welcome back Chuck” including cameos from Natalie Pasquarella and chief meteorologist Janice Huff.

On the network side, NBC News and MSNBC continues to rotate anchors through the building’s studios while other local affiliates have also resumed some in-studio production.

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