Spring Rubber

Looks like they're not going to debut anything in time for February sweeps, so... maybe they'll have something for May sweeps?

I guess I'm not surprised. I never really realized that he was coming up on his retirement, but I guess I should've been it coming.

So when's he starting on-air officially? The week after this?

Don't even remind me of the slew of political ads we're gonna see over the next 10.5 months. I'm dreading it.

ABC7 has now gone so far as to do tag-team meteorologists on a Saturday morning. They've got Cheryl working alongside Troy right now.

At least a hyped Tom Skilling is always fun to watch.

Oh, and this isn't specific to the 10 pm news per se, but as of about a week ago, they stopped having the sports anchor stand up at the desk. They're now seated at the desk, squeezed in between the anchor and the round "table" at the edge of the desk. Might as well eliminate that round "table" thing on the desk. I guess it's not used for anything anymore. And wow, that was a very rushed and disjointed close to the newscast.

lol, I'm on the floor right now.

Yeah, I don't understand their strategy. Why not just extend the 9 pm newscast to 10:00 on the dot (instead of 9:57) and start there with the actual top stories?

This, a million times over.

It's the WGN News at Ten at 9:57 PM.

And now there's like a 30 second weather update at 9:50 that serves as basically nothing but a teaser for the 10 pm weather segment.

...and the Sports segment has been moved to 9:39.

The 7 Day Forecast is now a part of the 9:30 weather segment as somebody else predicted above. No more 9:45 7-Day.

Yeah, WGN switched to letterboxing their SD feed as of yesterday. I wonder if the whole graphics package is gonna be modified or what.

These recordings of Linda are so depressing.

Confirmed. The promos that they recorded yesterday for the morning news say, "Demetrius has your forecast, Monday from 4-6 A.M."

Looks like they gave Mark and Micah off tonight in preparation for the 10 PM news. Not sure if they're doing last minute rehearsals behind the scenes or if they're totally off today.

They just announced at the end of the midday newscast that today was Tom's last day on that newscast, and he'll only be doing the Evening, Nine, and Ten newscasts going forward. Demetrius is taking over the Midday news. Any idea what this means for the 4-6 AM news? I haven't heard.

I'm glad they gave Linda such a fitting goodbye. She truly deserves it. She's been such a fun and inspirational host for so many years. The best part was when Linda and Micah did tricep dips together at the news desk. So hilarious! Micah was having a blast!

I've updated my avatar, as well. Here's hoping Linda finds some other sort of on-camera work in the future. I'm gonna miss her dearly.

Lower third for Dana Kozlov right now just read "Dana Kovloz". What the heck...

Actually, I think it's the second. I saw him on the mothership a few weeks ago. Interestingly, he didn't stick around for the 9pm news. To my shock, Dan Roan actually came in on a Saturday to do the 9pm.

Demetrius is in for Tom tonight.

Mike Hamernik (or "Mike Hammernik" as the lower third said) is filling in for Tom tonight this morning on the WGN News at 12:30 AM.