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ABC News puts focus on candidates with elegant, dark debate stage design

ABC News‘ coverage of the Sept. 10, 2024, debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump originated from a self-proclaimed “intimate” setting using a deeper, more subtle stage design than many past debates.
Like a COVID-era town hall it produced in 2020, ABC took over the central hall of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, a space that normally hosts a multimedia introduction to the museum that visitors see before visiting the exhibits. The space is, without any modif...

ABC’s ‘World News Tonight’ maintains visual identity in move to Hudson Square facility

ABC’s “World News Tonight with David Muir” broadcast from its new studio at Hudson Square for the first time on Friday, March 7.
Located within The Walt Disney Company’s newly constructed New York City headquarters, the program joins other ABC productions such as “The View”, “ABC News Live” and “World News Now” that have already relocated to the facility.
As the most-watched evening news program in the United States, “World News Tonight” opted not to stray far from its successful design formula....

TWO-TIME DAYTIME EMMY AWARD-WINNING ‘TAMRON HALL’ SHOW RENEWED FOR SEVENTH SEASON WITH THE ABC OWNED TELEVISION STATIONS AND HEARST TELEVISION

Tamron Hall Announces Season Seven Renewal HERE
“Tamron Hall,” the nationally syndicated Emmy® Award-winning daytime talk show and Disney’s second longest-running syndicated talk show, has been renewed for a seventh season (2025-2026) with the ABC Owned Television Stations and Hearst Television.
The ABC Owned Stations carrying “Tamron Hall” are WABC-TV New York, KABC-TV Los Angeles, WLS-TV Chicago, WPVI-TV Philadelphia, KTRK-TV Houston, KGO-TV San Francisco, WTVD-TV Raleigh-Durham and KFSN-TV Fr...

Inside the new ‘GMA’ studio: 187M pixels, moving multipurpose walls and a loft vibe

“Good Morning America” has moved into a new home that artfully combines hard scenery, virtual set extensions and massive movable multipurpose LED units that move around on tracks, allowing the space to be reconfigured in a myriad of ways.
“I was trying to create something that took kind of all of what ‘GMA’ is now and expand on that,” Seth Easter, the production designer for ABC News who led the set design efforts, told NCS in an exclusive interview.
“GMA,” like multiple other Disney- and ABC-ow...

'The View' Has a New State-of-the-Art Studio for Season 28: See Inside with PEOPLE's Exclusive First Look Photos

The View's co-hosts are going to take a little time to enjoy a brand new view when the hit daytime series returns for season 28 on Tuesday, Sept. 3.

Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin will all be back for another season of Hot Topics. And while the iconic table remains the same, everything else around them has had a major upgrade.

PEOPLE has an exclusive first look inside The View's new swanky state-of-the-art studio, located in the Wa...