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New set changes coming to WPVI

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genius

Much like the last revamp, they moved a chunk of the old set into the secondary studio. They just needed the newsroom for a couple of days to dismantle and move that piece. It should be pretty obvious what’s shown above is not a permanent set.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Much like the last revamp, they moved a chunk of the old set into the secondary studio. They just needed the newsroom for a couple of days to dismantle and move that piece. It should be pretty obvious what’s shown above is not a permanent set.
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I've had to do that on more than one occasion. Over a weekend, rip out and modify chunks of a weather center set, with monitors and lighting, desk, and recognizable parts, and shoehorn them into another space while the studio's interior is demoed. Makes for a very long weekend.
In one instance, I took a panorama series of photos of the current studio set from the studio camera's point of view and inserted the photos into the background of an Orad virtual studio system we had at a bureau. We then moved the anchor desk to the bureau and they did all the hourly and long form newscasts in front of a green screen. I don't think any viewer noticed they weren't actually in the studio. We operated virtually this way for two months while the new sets were installed and configured back at the main studios/offices.
 
The last time PVI went through it, they had an “out” for relying on the newsroom for a weekend. They used the secondary desk in the main studio that was used for a couple of newscasts for all of them, before heading to the snug…ok, cramped…quarters of the other studio.

Not belittling the effort of the crew at all to call it an easy switch, just that to viewers it’s not a huge jolt when the main set piece is still there.
 
In the meantime Chris Sowers is out at WPVI, leaving for WPTV in West Palm Beach:

www.inquirer.com

Meteorologist Chris Sowers leaving 6abc for Florida station

Meteorologist Chris Sowers is leaving 6abc for a position in West Palm Beach, Fla., ending a 13-year run at the news station.
www.inquirer.com www.inquirer.com

Wonder if someone told him it doesn’t snow there? 😉🤣
 
genius said:
In the meantime Chris Sowers is out at WPVI, leaving for WPTV in West Palm Beach:

www.inquirer.com

Meteorologist Chris Sowers leaving 6abc for Florida station

Meteorologist Chris Sowers is leaving 6abc for a position in West Palm Beach, Fla., ending a 13-year run at the news station.
www.inquirer.com www.inquirer.com

Wonder if someone told him it doesn’t snow there? 😉🤣
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Oh he’ll figure that out, but what they may do is actually promote deserving talent instead of repeatedly passing them over for outside hires.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Oh he’ll figure that out, but what they may do is actually promote deserving talent instead of repeatedly passing them over for outside hires.
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Snow=tropical systems down there 🤣

Word on the street is some are speculating that Payton Domschke lands the role…maybe.

Sowers should have been promoted by now but it seems in his (and a few others) that 6ABC abandoned their line of succession they had once had.
 
Payton was already hired as a full time role, somewhat akin to the old radio days of swing shifts. Lots of coverage for anyone, and basically the default noon person on Brittany’s “weekends” of Monday/Tuesday. They could easily make her weekend mornings plus three weekdays, the same as Brittany. And either of those two full-time gigs should have gone to him.

Or Payton covers in the long-term interim until they hire a new part-time sixth person to do weekend mornings and the odf extra coverage shift here and there. In and of itself, that’s a perfectly fine gig, but it would appear to only have a path to advancement if you fit a certain category.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
but it would appear to only have a path to advancement if you fit a certain category.
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Given the weirdness surrounding Jamie Apody’s exit you’d think 6ABC mgmt would get a better handle of things over there but alas something is lacking over there.

While 6ABC suffered has suffered a small loss of viewers since Gardner left it still has a significant lead over its competitors (despite what some vocal naysayers on social media say hoping their fantasies come true). But fumbling talent doesn’t have a good look especially from a station that traditionally had a good “farm” system in place.
 
In all due balance, they happened to have had a number of the once-young reporting crew reach retirement in a relatively short window. Such is the way it goes. But it would have been easy to move Sowers up a slot and hire his replacement.
 
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