TitanTV listings indicate CBS News Detroit begins tomorrow. Only 6 and 11PM newscasts to begin with. I'm rooting for them.

Another look at the new newsroom from Terell Bailey:



As well as a brief video:

https://twitter.com/terellbaileytv/stat ... 96/video/2

Wait a second, that's the full news set? Where's the backdrop of downtown Detroit or the spot for graphics? Where's the CBS/CBS Detroit logo on the set? How are you going to fit all four of the anchors, weather, and sports at that desk? That set looks like it was designed for a HS AV class. What ki...

For history's sake, an evolution of the WKBD-WWJ newsroom: 1989, a year after the new facility's opening: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/393992581467471883/1065744895970639932/image.png Late 1990s/very early 2000s after the news had moved out of the newsroom: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attac...

We can only speculate as to what CBS News Detroit's actual content will consist of until it actually debuts. That said, I'm hoping Paul will have good sense and emphasize longer-form stories and investigative journalism, and hopefully utilize the community reporting angle in that regard. There's onl...

non-anon bob wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 04, 2023 1:55 pm

Do they even have enough employees to fill all the seats at that conference room table?

To be fair I think that table's been there since the 90s, when WKBD probably employed more people.

I know it's been explained here before, but I'm becoming increasingly forgetful as I age. Why did WXON channel 20 not affiliate with CBS? The news set for the new effort still looks like a generic office, if ya ask me (albeit a modern one). The WKBD set and newsroom from the late 80s looked much mo...

Now that my account's finally been activated, I can clear some things up about what's been going on. Firstly, yes, that is in fact the old WKBD newsroom they've renovated -- they turned it into generic offices for the 20-year interim, so the transformation is frankly amazing. https://scontent-lga3-2...