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No one ever said it wasn't a big deal. When you're in the public spotlight, it comes with the territory. While I am not a doctor, if what the papers are saying is true, then I doubt that that situation qualifies for a four month medical leave. She's a public figure in the public eye. If she doesn't want her personal life in the news then she picked the wrong profession. I'm not saying it's right that the newspapers are printing her personal business, I am just saying that it comes with the territory. Had she come back after a "reasonable" time off, this probably would not have been in the papers. You're right, her love life is nobody's business but hers. However, your work life is also your boss's business. She is human and does have feelings. I never said that she shouldn't. She's entitled to be heartbroken and depressed if that is indeed what she's gone through (I probably would have been too). I never criticized her for what she's going through. I simply stated that most people in that situation would have been terminated. I suggested that she should have returned to work after a reasonable amount of time off while continuing to cope with the situation. If everyone took off four months after a personal tragedy (much worse ones than this one), we'd have a lot of issues in many workplaces. Good for you! Glad you're learning important life lessons from TVNewsTalk.net! I wish some others on here would learn grammer, punctuation, and common sense. For the record, I wasn't judging her. I and anyone else would have probably experienced similar feelings. I was simply stating my assessment of the situation. I think many of you are more emotional about the situation than she is. You need to get over yourselves. Life throws many curveballs. You can't just crawl into a corner and come out when you feel like it. People need to learn to deal with them because life goes on.

No disrespect to her, but if I or any of you took that much time off because we were heartbroken and depressed, we no longer would be employed. She should have taken two weeks off, and then further coped with it while returning to work.

I don't think a lot of stations aired it between 9am and 11am. But those were possible airtimes hence why she would not appear after 9am unless there was a major breaking story.

Weekends at 6/11 used to be the same until Rob Jennings retired. Now Sunday's are co-anchored. I imagine when Jim retires he will be replaced by two co-anchors on both those newscasts (likely Rick&Monica at 11 and Brian&Sharie at 6).

Michael Strahan appears on Fox during football season. Ryan Seacrest contributes to Today on NBC, hosted American Idol on Fox, and hosts New Years Rockin Eve on ABC. Tom Bergeron used to host the syndicated Hollywood Squares (on lots of CBS affiliates) while he hosted AFV on ABC.

Not sure if this clears anything up: http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/miami-meteorologist-moves-to-detroit/170011

Wonder if they'll use the "NewsEdge" name for it. Also surprised they didn't use a different anchor for it.

I wonder if they will promote their entertainment person (Carson?) to be the "fourth person" on the main show.

Kirsten Cole should be a shoe-in that spot or alternatively should have her co-anchor with Kori on weekend evenings. As for the male, I see Jay Dow or Dan Mannarino co-anchoring the weekend mornings. Narmeen Choudhury should also be in the mix for either weekend evenings or mornings.

I also enjoy Natalie, and would rather see Al and maybe Matt go. But I don't foresee her continuing in the newsreader capacity from the west coast. She would come on air at 4am PT, plus have AH to do. Doesn't seem likely.

Wonder who will replace Natalie as newsreader? I'm guessing Tamron will. Al needs a new role. He's become boring and stale. Will Natalie host AH solo or with Kit Hoover? Will Natalie also co-host the spinoff AHLive?

I agree. I was just stating that it appears that there is no permanent anchor, but rather a set of rotating anchors. If you look back on this thread, you will see that some were insisting that Jose D-B was the permanent anchor.

If my memory serves me correct, Jose D-B has only anchored Saturday NN once in the past 4 weeks. Thomas Roberts anchored twice, and tonight Willie Geist was the anchor. The intro didn't say that Roberts or Geist were filling in, nor did either of them mention they were subbing. So as I suspected earlier in this thread, it appears that Jose D-B is one of a few rotating anchors of Saturday NN.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/billy-bush-exits-access-hollywood-888032 Looks like ABC isn't the only one that's gonna experience changes in the 9am hour. Billy Bush seems to be joining the 9am hour of Today in some capacity. More surprising is that he'll be exiting AHL (which airs at 11am after Today on NBC affiliates in quite a few markets) and AH (which airs at 7:30pm on NBC affiliates in a lot of markets).

While I agree with Ron they should've asked his consent, I don't believe they were legally obligated to and therefore he likely has no legal grounds to sue upon.

Vai usually does it. He is the normal anchor. Tracy usually anchors the beginning of the morning show solo as well.

Duke used to be at nights and went to mornings. At that time, Russ was exclusively on the My9 side and when Duke moved to mornings, Russ would appear on Fox5 from the My9 newsroom to do sports. When My9's newscast got cancelled Russ began appearing in studio at Fox5.

Wasn't implying that Jackie was being supplanted by Tracy. Just saying they could've easily used Denise or Rosemary to sub as they do otherwise. It seems Tracy is in the mix along with other two to be paired with Keith, and they could mix up the evenings pairs as they did when Renee was still there.

Tracy is anchoring at 4pm again today with Jim. I'm still convinced that they're testing different pairs in the mornings and afternoon/evenings. I see she was on in the morning too. On the weather front, the schedule for the time being seems to be Violeta Yes handling Saturdays and Glenn handling Sundays while getting a weekday off (on that day Bill usually adds the 11am while Sheena adds the 4pm/6pm).

Russ leaving FOX5: http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/longtime-sports-anchor-leaving-wnyw/169336

On today's episode of "As All My Young and Restless Days of our Daytime Drama Lives Turns": http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-kelly-ripa-live-20160422-story.html http://m.tmz.com/#article/2016/04/23/kelly-ripa-michael-strahan-live-abc/ Kelly will be back to work on Tuesday. She needed some time away to process this all. There's a distinct possibility Michael may be gone before September. ABC has given Kelly assurances Live won't be cancelled, although if GMA expands, it could get moved to 10am.

I wonder if Lisa Rayam will take her place on Good Day Atlanta, making room for Stephany Fisher in the evenings.

Thankfully you're not in charge. I think many more sympathize with Kelly than those who are labeling her as rich and stubborn. So firing her would be an even bigger PR nightmare than they already have in their hands. Plain and simple, not only was this a bad decision, but to top it off, it was poorly handled. Give it a week for heads to cool off and I'm sure things will be a bit better.

Was searching the web but I could not find anything about this. I honestly don't remember anything about this. The only thing that I've heard about GMA and Kelly is she was mentioned as a fill-in for Robin when Robin was out all those months.

I don't know the reason why, but it happens all the time.