CBS Mornings, The Price is Right, soap operas like The Young and the Restless and Beyond the Gates, prime-time shows like 60 Minutes and NCIS, and, for the time being, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert—which has been canceled and will air its final episode in May—will all be aired by WUPA.
A CBS representative stated Wednesday night that the company is “excited for CBS programming to officially launch on CBS Atlanta starting August 16 and even more thrilled about the launch of our news operations this September.” Our dedication to creating a robust, community-focused newsroom is reflected in the job posts.
Based in New York WUPA became a UPN affiliate in 1994 and has been owned by CBS ever since. After UPN merged with the WB in 2006, it became a CW affiliate.WUPA broke away from CW in 2023 and became an independent organization.
WUPA will be the fifteenth CBS-owned and operated station to broadcast CBS programming. Other businesses own the majority of CBS affiliates.
Given that WANF, a CBS affiliate for the previous 31 years, intends to continue its current news operation after it becomes independent, CBS will be constructing the city’s fifth English-language TV newsroom.After buying what was then WGCL-TV from Meredith in 2021, Atlanta-based Gray Media significantly enlarged its newsroom and rebranded it from CBS46 to Atlanta News First in October 2022.
Following the move, WANF intends to add additional sports programming to its repertoire and fill its 24/7 airwaves with at least 90 hours of news-focused programming per week, the station said.
Since its parent firm, Paramount, recently sold to Santa Monica, California-based Skydance, CBS is undergoing significant changes.
11ALIVE SCREENSHOT is credited.
11ALIVE SCREENSHOT is credited.
New 11Alive digital programming
In an effort to attract new viewers and combat the decline in traditional TV viewing, 11Alive has launched a new local news program that is exclusively available digitally and airs from 7 to 9 a.m.
In a Zoom interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Carol Fowler, vice president of regional content for TEGNA, the company that owns 11Alive (WXIA-TV), stated that we are not constrained by network programming on the digital side. For us, streaming offers an open area.
In the digital edition of 11Alive, Rachel Cox-Rosen and Doug Turnbull tag-team traffic, Jonathan Martin or Aisha Howard reads the news, and Chesley McNeil provides the weather. According to Fowler, it’s hardcore news. (McNeil also hosts and conducts interviews on his own internet show at 9 a.m.)
For a few minutes between 7 and 9 a.m. on the broadcast network, 11Alive will still offer local cut-ins during the national Today show.
According to Adrienne Roark, TEGNA’s chief content officer, the company has produced digital shows of this type in more than 50 markets across the country.
“It’s been good,” Roark stated. In almost every market that has done this, we have witnessed growth. More local news is what viewers desire, especially at this time.
Additionally, because the show primarily involves current employees, developing it is not a difficult task. 11Alive added Turbull and another producer to help with traffic tasks.
Credit: AJC/RODNEY HO
Credit: AJC/RODNEY HO
New show for Erick Erickson
After his radio show ends each day, Erick Erickson, the host of WSB’s early afternoon radio, has started sharing an afternoon news update on YouTube.
Erickson told the AJC, “I was getting frustrated because as I’m getting off the air, there would be all this breaking news.”
He therefore looks over the headlines after wrapping up his three-hour syndicated show at 3 p.m. and composes a brief synopsis of the events, which he subsequently records at 3:30 p.m. By 4 p.m., the footage is available on YouTube.
For six to ten minutes, Erickson provides a brief summary of trending topics under the title Four Things to Know This Afternoon.
“I can do something for people who don’t have time for a three-hour podcast on their way home,” he remarked. They might only have a short time. And it’s functioning. We can currently focus on four headlines in the TikTok universe.
On July 23, he reported on former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper’s entry into the Senate race, the Department of Education’s investigation into scholarships that give preference to undocumented students, the man who killed four Idaho students receiving a life sentence without the possibility of parole, and record-high home prices.
An anchor reading the news dryly is not what this is. Erickson continues to twist the news in a conservative manner.
Every YouTube video currently receives between 2,000 and 3,000 views. Additionally, Spotify and other podcast services offer it.
