CBS News streamer launches 'Weekender' - NewscastStudio

CBS News Streaming Network launched an hr of live, anchored programming nether a caller sanction Friday, Jan. 13, 2023.

The amusement airs astatine 7 p.m. eastbound connected Fridays, the aforesaid clip the John Dickerson-anchored “CBS News Prime Time” airs Monday done Thursday and is called “CBS News Weekender.” 

Jan. 13’s variation was anchored by Catherine Herridge from CBS’s Washington, D.C. bureau and featured its ain chiseled unfastened with elements of some the “CBS Evening News” look that debuted successful August 2022 and the streaming network’s akin graphics.

It uses the aforesaid euphony utilized by different portions of the streamer’s newscasts, which itself incorporates elements from the latest “Evening News” theme’s signature.

Most of the newscast was a azygous one-shot of Herridge astatine the flashcam presumption overlooking the D.C. newsroom, though determination was what appeared to beryllium a taped interrogation conception that Herridge conducted from the “Evening News” acceptable successful the bureau with generic CBS News graphics fed to the video walls.

The newscast included re-airing of a bundle utilized earlier connected the “CBS Evening News” (which notably wouldn’t person aired yet successful astir markets extracurricular the cardinal and eastbound clip zones) but astir incorporated galore anchor voiceovers work implicit footage oregon graphics from CBS’s newsgathering resources and, successful immoderate cases, utilized earlier successful the day. There were besides what appeared to beryllium unrecorded shots (or astatine slightest look-lives). 

CBS besides mixed successful archetypal content, including appearances and interviews with correspondents and guests arsenic good arsenic an archetypal upwind update acknowledgment to its partnership with The Weather Channel. “Entertainment Tonight” contented was besides repurposed (CBS Media Ventures distributed the syndicated show).

The sanction prime of “Weekender” is simply a spot odd, considering the broadcast doesn’t really aerial connected the weekend, though by the clip it airs galore radical person started their weekends.

It is besides imaginable CBS plans to yet grow the broadcast to Saturdays oregon Sundays (or both), though that was not announced. However, web quality streaming offerings are often expanding with further blocks of anchored news.

The sanction besides has similarities to the “CBS Weekend News,” the rubric the web uses for the newscast that typically airs astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic the “CBS Evening News” connected weekends.

The broadcast mostly maintained a hard quality format, though it did dive into health, user and popular civilization news. An extended study and interrogation astir the Mega Millions jackpot served to circular retired the broadcast earlier it chopped to a graphic depicting Friday’s banal marketplace closes.