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No matter how many people beat this long-dead horse, Morning Express is not coming back. Not now. Not tomorrow. Not six months from now.

Morning Express on CNN would be a square peg in a round hole. There's a reason it co-existed with the flagship. They want to do a show on CNN that has panels and politics, and that is the polar opposite of everything HLN was airing. IF 'Morning Express' and its former anchor were brought to CNN, it would be in name only, and Robin Meade would be terribly miscast.

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And her intro:

Nexstar is opening the Nexstar Weather Center based in Dallas. Its job is to serve as a "relief hub" for its small/medium markets that have had stubborn openings for weekend meteorologists and allow the any full-time staff to take time off (as in several of these markets meteorologists are working 6-7 days a week). No word on a launch date (presumably later this year). These weather segments would be forecast and produced out of Dallas then sent out to that individual market. Multiple ways to think about this. One could argue if Nexstar has the time and resources to create an entirely new hub to provide relief for its small market meteorologists, it could also use those resources to make those weekend weather/MMJ jobs (which is what the vast majority of them are), more appealing to college grads or sub-3 year professionals. However, it also shows the struggles of small markets to hire anyone out of school since now top-50 markets are more than willing to do that themselves. Would you work in Lubbock, TX out of college, or Norfolk, VA?

And they're even using Antenna TV's Facebook page to plug their latest washed-up host. Last I checked, Geraldo was not a classic sitcom. An 80s and 90s talk show, but not something Antenna TV carries. Good old Nexstar....

Or it was something of its time that complemented what HLN did at the time. It lasted longer than HLN in that incarnation, great. It was complimentary to that network, and to what was being done over on CNN. But times change, viewing patterns change, corporate owners change, technology changes, audiences change…and the show reached the end of its purpose for the company.

Good to see that Lockwood is finally giving them a look of their own instead of the old Gray look they kept until now.

Graphics are a huge upgraded. They needed to have died years ago. They must've been doing this in a second studio.

Fox Weather has been added to Hulu + Live TV and TCLtv+ (TCL's AVOD live TV service accessible on its television set models).

Time to just bring Morning Express and Robin and be done with it, instead of trying to throw stuff at the wall to see what sticks. She was probably the most likeable person CNN had on-air. In today's divided and chaotic times, a lighter and more fun show might work in the morning. Might as well call her back if the next change fails.

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