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Medgie seems like a "last resort" type. Right place at the right time and not much more. Her presence is unremarkable, but good for her to find work.

People like her make a compelling case for an outright ban on TikTok.

Just a quick adjunct to this -- but do they not have prompters in that newsroom? The dude's reading a story off his phone like he's in the field. Bad look all around.

Doreen Gentzler was another one.

Agreed. How Kristine Sorenson was ever promoted to a weekday anchor job, and still has it nearly 20 years later is beyond me.

Missed opportunity to promote Sosna. He's solid at what he does.

Longtime WCAU assistant news director Kathy Gerrow is the new news director at CBS3. https://www.paramountpressexpress.com/cbs-news-and-stations/releases/?view=100531-kathleen-gerrow-named-vice-president-and-news-director-at-cbs-news-and-stations-philadelphia-properties

She had such potential, but she seems to put more effort into being a clown on TikTok. And what does it say about CBS that they are importing their Philadelphia weather forecasts from Pittsburgh?

WTTG FOX 5 is now running spots announcing morning meteorologist Mike Thomas is moving to nights to replace the retiring Sue Palka starting March 24th.

The KDKA/KYW hybrid thing was a result of CBS forcing their O&Os to come up with redundancy plans after the COVID-19 outbreak at CBS News/WCBS HQ in NY. Of course, it forced other stations to pick up the slack last minute (Boston covering for NY, etc.) I doubt any of these will really ever see the light of day, but who knows?

WTTG and the Fox DC bureau are separate entities. WTTG is in Bethesda, MD, about 8-9 miles from the Fox DC bureau on N Capitol Street (where NBC and others have their DC operations as well.)

CBS had golf coverage on this afternoon...that's why.

Teaming up with Project Veritas and RT'ed by the right-wing "Breaking911" Twitter account? Seems legit.

You’re absolutely right. There’s little doubt they were going to go after another anchor in the market, so to string their existing talent along is pretty low.

Imagine being a reporter or working behind the scenes at WUSA. The bosses have now paid money to lure 3 primary anchors away from WTTG and yet, they’re still in 4th place. And still, everyone’s being asked to shoulder the load of corporate pain, taking unpaid furloughs, etc.

Deep sources. And just because someone is joining does meant they are automatIcally staff off the bat. Trust me on this.

FYI. Phil will be freelance reporting. Not anchoring.