Spring Rubber

As for the progression of the presentation of Kelly's new show. It started on night 1 (May 30th) as a stand-up show: On nights 2 and 3 (May 31st and June 1st), the show moved to a seated position in front of the standard Fox Weather Orlando nighttime backdrop: The fun police, seeing that Kelly purchased a pair of glasses that matched the background perfectly, decided that the fun had to end, so on June 2nd and going forward to this day, they have now switched the background to a still picture of the Expert Desk area of the NYC studio: I'm not a big fan of taking a picture of a different studio in a different city and using it as a fake backdrop, but whatever. I liked the standup format they used the first night. Kinda wish they could do at least one stand-up segment per show, even if the rest of it is done sitting down. I'm curious what system they're using to run the lower thirds. It's obviously different and lower-quality than whatever is used on the rest of the shows during the day. Must be some automation software that Kyle David is able to run while simultaneously acting as the weather producer for the show. As for what the sit-down position looks like in Orlando, it's a little more involved than a traditional flashcam setup. https://www.instagram.com/p/CtKOz7qOKbp/?hl=en It kinda looks like a converted radio studio, doesn't it? Did any radio stations previously operate in the WOFL building?

Marissa Torres just announced on the air, while doing a segment about the air quality's effect on children and mothers who are expecting, that she is 4 months pregnant. Congrats!

Well, I believe it just based on the schedule nonsense I've seen on the air. They're constantly changing schedules around every few days. As Jman mentioned above, it makes no sense why you would completely change show names and times just because certain on-air folks have the day off. You need to have sufficient fill-ins available to cover shifts when people are off. Take this Monday, for example, the first day of Jason's paternity leave, Kendall had to cover the entire Fox Weather First and then come back on the air 3 hours later to host her entire normal shift on America's Weather Center. That stuff shouldn't have to happen. The whole network schedule shouldn't fall apart because two OCMs are out. They have lost John Marshall and Katie Garner from the network, and they have moved Nick Kosir to a non-host role, yet no effort has been made to replace any of them. I can't speak for what the behind the scenes folks must be experiencing, but I noticed that many of their on-air staff have become a lot quieter on social media than in the early days of the network.

Seems like something they should have done leading up to the rebrand, not a few months after the rebrand. Very strange to be stuck on a temp set while trying to grow the new branding.

It looks like NewsNation is going to start experimenting with Sunday night special features. This Sunday night 6/11, NewsNation will air We Are Not Alone: The UFO Whistleblower Speaks at 9pm ET, followed by We Are Not Alone: NewsNation Special Report immediately following at 10pm ET. The two shows will re-run at 11pm ET and 12am ET, respectively, before normal reruns of the weekday shows start at 1am ET. NewsNation Prime will be reduced to two hours from 7pm-9pm ET this Sunday, and Prime will not have any scheduled reruns that night.

There might be a new schedule in effect. I noticed that as of this Monday 6/5, other changes took place as well: Fox Weather First has moved into the former Fox Business studio (temporarily? permanently? Hard to say for sure.) Fox Weather Now has been three hours long every day this week from 3pm-6pm ET. Across America has not aired at all. Fox Weather Live has been four hours long every day this week from 6pm-10pm ET. Strangely, the first two hours are hosted in the former Fox Business studio, and then for hours 3 and 4, Steve and Marissa move over to the main Fox Weather studio W. -The new untitled show with Kelly Costa continues this week from 10pm ET throughout the entire night, on a half-hour recorded loop. From what I can tell, it seems that it even airs through the overnight, with Night Light seemingly reduced to weekends only. Schedules are a bit weird right now, because Ian is on vacation, and Jason Frazer and his wife just had a baby on Saturday, so Jason's going to be out of action for a while. But some of this stuff feels a bit permanent, because the 4-hour Fox Weather Live thing is brand new. So far this week, Brigit has hosted the Monday/Tuesday editions of Fox Weather Now from the studio and then hosted the Wednesday edition of the show from the field, with rotating OCMs covering the studio duties (Adam Klotz for hour 1, Steve Bender for hour 2, and Craig Herrera for hour 3). I could see a future where, when Ian returns from vacation, Fox Weather Now becomes his only show for three hours instead of one, and either Brigit joins him as a co-host, or Brigit joins the Weather Command crew. I noticed that due to short staffing, both the Tuesday and Wednesday editions of that show were just Amy and Stephen this week, with no third co-host. We'll have to see how it all shakes out next week. Unlike America's Weather Center(still exists) and Across America(RIP maybe?), which both relocated to the former Fox Business studio several weeks ago and use a huge video wall as a backdrop with barely any physical set visible, the new renditions of Fox Weather First and Fox Weather Live from the former Fox Business studio feature the desk rotated in a different direction, such that almost the entire background is a view of the physical set. The new desk angle can be seen in this video, announcing the birth of Jason and Romney's child:

I wonder if they'll still have Ian and a rotating meteorologist back in the studio. Would have been cool if Ian could have joined Amy on location too.

Well, this is interesting. Tonight they're trying something totally different in the 10pm ET and later hours. Instead of the normal Fox Weather @ Night format with tons of pre-recorded interviews and features, tonight they are doing a full nationwide weather synopsis for the full half hour, hosted by Kelly Costa in Orlando (guess the Orlando studio isn't dead after all). This is reminiscent of the overnight content that TWC used to do back in the 90s and early 00s. No interviews, no features - just a constant in-depth examination of the weather. I really hope they keep this up. Best nighttime format they've tried to date.

I know she showed up earlier this year on several shows to promote her new book, but she didn't host any shows. Given that she hosts weather full time Monday-Friday mornings on FNC (unlike Reichmuth and Klotz who mainly appear on FNC on weekends only), she might be exempt from hosting shows on Fox Weather.

It looks like there's even further work underway to integrate the Fox News weather team with the Fox Weather team. This week, Fox News weekend meteorologist Adam Klotz played the "third wheel" role on America's Weather Center Monday-Wednesday, hosting occasional segments throughout the show each day. And now tonight, Rick Reichmuth is hosting Fox Weather @ Night. None of the Fox News weather team have been added to the Fox Weather personalities page on their website, but it kinda feels like that's right around the corner.

Ashleigh is back in her old digs up in CT tonight. So I guess she's only going to come to NYC occasionally, probably only on nights where they have somewhat high-profile in-studio guests booked. Somehow I kinda figured she wouldn't be down with commuting to NYC every day or relocating closer to NYC.

Tonight's edition of Banfield is coming from the new NYC set that's used for Elizabeth Vargas Reports. Based on the way Ashleigh introduced tonight's show, calling it their "new set," makes me think that this might be the new permanent home for Banfield. To date, wasn't she doing the show either from home or from a flashcam studio somewhere near her home in CT? As the only show on the network not hosted from one of their three studios in Chicago, NYC, and DC, I have to wonder if this was a network decision to bring their last remaining show in-house. I gotta say, the show looks way better in studio.

Thank you for the heads-up. I knew something was up with why Early Morning was being kept with temporary hosts. This explains why... because they weren't quite ready to roll out the new format show, yet they were desperate to cut Carr from the staff. Ouch, that's brutal. I was not surprised when they cut weather out of the evenings, but to cut weather out of the mornings, that comes as a shock to me. My best estimation is more hours of content, but with continued significant turnover in personnel and in the schedule.

I was glad when Fox Weather Wild got canned, simply because it allowed the addition of another hour of live weather programming. I do agree that it should have been kept at least on a semi-regular basis, not as a nightly show. It was cool to see Kendall host the show today from Chicago, not because of severe weather, but because of really nice weather.

I'm looking at their YouTube content, and I'm seeing that after Mitch Carr was laid off, Early Morning has continued on Friday and Monday with Nick Smith hosting. If the plan is for Early Morning to be cancelled, maybe it's pending a retooling of the rest of their morning schedule, perhaps in the week(s) following Memorial Day?

Today, Fox News chief meteorologist Rick Reichmuth worked the 10am-2pm ET shift alongside Michael Estime. Overall, it's not clear what's happening with weekends. Ever since the start of May, Jane Minar has only appeared as a M-F fill-in, rather than on her normal Wed-Sun shift. As a result, all month long, they've been rolling with only 3 regular weekend mets. The first weekend of May, of course, is when Tom Wachs flew in to cover. The second weekend, Brigit Mahoney worked the weekend and then took the ensuing week off on vacation. And now, the third weekend, Rick Reichmuth from the Fox News side is covering. Also, the weekday schedules after 3pm ET remain bizarre, as well. Ever since early April, they seem to follow this general rule: - If there are a total of 5 mets available after 3pm ET, they run with the "normal" schedule: -- 3pm ET: Fox Weather Now with Ian Oliver -- 4pm-7pm ET: Fox Weather Across America with Brigit Mahoney and Stephen Morgan -- 7pm-10pm ET: Fox Weather Live with Steve Bender and Marissa Torres -If there are 4 or less mets available after 3pm ET, they run with a shortened schedule: -- 3pm-6pm ET: Fox Weather Now with 2 mets hosting (some combo of Ian, Brigit, and Stephen, or a fill-in if needed - whoever isn't off. For all intents and purposes, this show might as well be Across America, but they use the Fox Weather Now branding, and it's hosted from the main studio instead of the former Fox Business studio, like Across America normally would be.) -- 6pm-9pm ET: Fox Weather Live with Steve Bender and Marissa Torres With that second setup, live programming ends one hour early. It seems very annoying to have this inconsistent of a schedule, and believe me, the latter setup has been happening a LOT lately. As for Kelly Costa, she's been in NYC a lot more often lately. There's barely been any appearances of Kelly from Orlando as of late. Wonder if the Orlando operation is being phased out.

And now they've added a super tacky "News for All America" tagline on the screen not in one place, but in two places! Both taglines alternate with the channel logo and the show logo. The taglines seem to appear once every minute or so.

So turning into a 24/5 news network means cancelling your live 6am ET show...

With the way that the CNN bug and the lower third are now physically connected, I feel like it would look much better to have the CNN logo aligned with the lower third text. But yeah, without seeing where people's names and titles will be displayed, and how things will look when the lower third isn't up, it's hard to say for sure.

For the weekday 1pm-3pm ET block, they went with Keleigh Beeson the full week Monday-Friday, and it's Beeson on there again today. Zouves anchored her normal weekend evening shifts. Maybe they're going to be swapping the weekday 1pm-3pm ET anchors on a 2-week rotating basis. Zouves did her two weeks, and now Beeson is on her second week in that slot.

On Wednesday night, NewsNation aired a 2-hour edition of Cuomo from 8pm-10pm ET, to provide post-event coverage of the Trump Town Hall that aired on CNN. As a result, Dan Abrams Live was bumped from the schedule entirely that night. Banfield aired at its usual time immediately following Cuomo. I'm trying to remember... wasn't there at least one other time that Dan Abrams Live got bumped for an extended edition of Cuomo? Or maybe I'm thinking of the night that it was bumped for the Trump arraignment coverage that was co-hosted by Abrams, Cuomo, and Vargas... can't quite remember. Either way, for Dan to be entirely bumped from the schedule like that in the middle of the week on a busy news cycle, it makes me wonder if his show isn't long for the network. I've always personally felt like he launched the show at NewsNation mainly to keep a presence in the cable landscape while he jockeyed to bring Live PD (now On Patrol: Live) back on the air. I remember how the early days of the NewsNation show contained a lot of content favorable to the Live PD audience. Now that he's accomplished the return of that show, I feel like he's not going want to keep doing live TV six nights a week forever (Mon-Thu on NewsNation / Fri-Sat with On Patrol: Live [plus pre-recording the Friday NewsNation show in advance]), in addition to his daytime radio show and all of his business ventures. My personal take is that Dan will remain on NewsNation for now, but if the network comes across the opportunity to hire a super high-profile primetime host, I think Dan and the network would amicably part ways so that NewsNation can give the high-profile host a slot, while Dan can focus on the 1,000 other companies he either owns or works for.

Jennifer was gone from TWC freelancing like mid 2021 through early 2023 during her WSB-TV stint. Similarly, Julie Martin was gone from TWC freelancing for basically all of 2022 into early 2023 when she was doing a lot more work for Scripps News. She now says on her LinkedIn that she's a freelancer for both companies simultaneously. TWC's in a tough spot right now as both Molly McCollum and Colleen Coyle are on a near-simultaneous maternity leave (I believe Molly just went on leave this past week, while Colleen had her baby in mid-to-late April), so I suspect that we'll be seeing a lot more of Jennifer and Julie from now through July.

I don't understand NewsNation's scheduling, but Zouves anchored this entire weekend, meaning she worked 7 days straight Monday-Sunday. With that being said, that leads me to believe that it's going to be someone else in the 1pm-3pm ET slot on Monday and Tuesday this week. We'll see.

From what I've seen, WNYW has had no involvement with Fox Weather since its inception. I've never seen any of their meteorologists or reporters participate in Fox Weather in any way. WTXF in Philly is the only O&O in the northeast that has had any involvement in Fox Weather.

For the first time ever, an O&O met has been tasked with filling in on Fox Weather. Tom Wachs from Fox 6 Milwaukee has flown to New York, and they just announced on air that he will be filling in for Michael Estime this weekend Sat/Sun from 10am-2pm ET on Fox Weather Live.