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This week every news organization is going to have an abnormal schedule. It's the holidays. It's expected. We go through this every year and seem to begrudge people for taking time off during the holidays and...no. Just enjoy different people getting on the air. Some of them REALLY need it after the abuse some of them have had to deal with this year from the public, politicians and c-suiters pushing them to their last nerve. Live with your ABC station not having news on Wednesday because of the NBA being on all day and get over that your local station doesn't have your precious morning news and advertorial show on that morning and instead runs a mass, some bargain-bin Christmas film from Trifecta, or a taped parade. I feel like I have to say this every year and it's tiring. People deserve time off.

It also doesn't warrant every anchor sub being reported. It won't get back to normal until after the new year. Enjoy the season. Even anchors & reporters deserve time off with heir families.

Putting it bluntly, the New York contingent on this forum has the tendency to be a mind-numbingly aloof echo chamber.

Every year at this time, there are many not usual substitutions as many staff, especially those with long service are off before, during and after Christmas. Typically this time of year can be slow news cycles (this year may be an exception). On air and behind the scenes staff take needed vacation days. Many have to use it or loose it, just like those who work elsewhere.

The only subs that really needs to be documented here is if we get a reporter who never anchors getting to sub or a significantly unusual pairing

Yeah one of the more enjoyable things about this week and next is seeing weird things like the lead sports anchor doing the 6pm newscast as an anchor or some young street reporter giving it a try when few are watching anyways. It’s a break from the mundane.

I was going to add that channel 7 might do as they've done for years and have their prominent Jewish staffers (aka the "Eyewitness Jews"–Bill Ritter, Lauren Glassberg, Lee Goldberg among them) front the Xmas day shows. But with Hanukkah starting on Wednesday as well, probably not.

And why are we even speculating that is the case? Some things just are.

All the best to Neil Cavuto in the nest chapter it seems that Neil health problems that he was more off than on for the last few years. When FOX News was added in the cable lineup in 2001, I watched his show a lot for years, but I haven't watched his show for years as well. I watched his final send off last night very good and touching and bittersweet as well.

They do weather from the backyard all the time.

They are back in the studio.

It's more than nothing!

The new CFP graphics were interesting. They definitely felt like an evolution of both the existing graphics and the SEC graphics, while also having clearly adopted some elements of the MNF graphics. https://x.com/FOS/status/1870281123609092348 Meanwhile as was reported earlier, despite how surprisingly competent their Mountain West coverage was, the CFP games on TNT are ESPN productions, just with ESPN logos replaced by TNT Sports on the graphics.

Say what you want about Fox News- Cavuto was always solid, and he persevered through a lot. I agree with what he said in his signoff about calling balls and strikes- he often had no problem bucking the consensus of many others in the lineup. Chris Wallace left CNN to do move over to the "new media environment"- A Wallace/Cavuto team-up might be interesting to see. Otherwise, his reporting style might have a place over at CBS... I'm excited to see what's next for him.

His final sign off...

Well that's certainly going to create a lot of holes in their lineup. He had Monday-Friday shows on FNC and Fox Business, as well as a 2-hour Saturday morning show on FNC. He hosted the 4pm ET weekday hour on FNC basically since the inception of time. The USA Today article says that FNC will roll out a new programming schedule in January, with guest hosts filling his shows in the interim.

Mentioned in the Sets & Studios section, this is only temporary for the week has they have work done on their main studio.

I like this idea. They could also move Syfy's few remaining original series to USA, leave Syfy's mix of popular movies (only some of which are sci-fi or fantasy), and rebrand itas USA2 or even USA Movies.

Unsaid: all five clearances come at the cost of TheGrio.TV. In two markets the move is a lateral or downgrade (LA and Chicago) from lower-major-number Nexstar stations. It's an upgrade in New York (WRNN) and Atlanta (WUPA). And they had no clearance in Phoenix.

We may have a new scoreboard coming for non-SEC ESPN games, specifically debuting during the College Football Playoff. I was personally expecting the SEC one but more white and gold; this appears to be a hybrid between the SEC on ABC scoreboard and the current one. The fact they adapted both the Saturday Night Football and CFP logos into the same SEC template indicates this is probably the look going forward.

USA is basically the general entertainment cable network, something that is considered a liability nowadays because streamers have eaten up much of their value proposition. But it's still one of the biggest cable networks and knowing that "USA Networks" has a history as a corporate moniker, I think using that for this company would be a good idea.