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She could be doing the noon and 6pm as Lucy Noland was.

Another rumor has her possibly landing at KNBC in LA.

Okay, so Sarah Bloomquist continues to co-anchor Sundays at 6pm & 11pm with Walter, but for the past few weeks she is back to doing the Monday through Thursday noon show with Rick. On Friday, Eva Pilgrim subs for her. I am still puzzled by all of this... Why does Sarah co-anchor on Sundays, but she (or someone else) doesn't on Saturdays? Why is Sarah doing Sundays? Is the long term plan to move her there with Walter? If so, why the slow transition? Why isn't the noon solo anchored anymore when one person is off? Don't get me wrong, I like the subs/two people! What is the purpose of Sharrie Williams? Is Jim retiring? Who is going to sub for Nydia while she's on maternity leave? Why doesn't Lisa Thomas-Laury sub anymore?

Those were my thoughts exactly when I read the article.

You know, that's one pairing I never cared for. Don't really see the appeal of Diana and Sade together. I know it's otherwise popular, I just don't care for it.

They could really keep Bill and find a place for Rob. 4: David & Liz 5: Rob & Diana 6/11: Bill & Sade I don't think Bill's going anywhere soon though.

David Muir? That way when George moves to World News David could move to the anchor position from news anchor.

Yeah, too much going on, too many changes, particularly ones that don't make sense. Just give Vai and Tracy the entire 4-7am shift. As for the 11am, they should give it two anchors and stop rotating it! Either give it to Keith & Renee, or Vai & Tracy. Keep Chris on the weekends!!

Doubt it. Says it's been sold to the CBS Television Stations and Tribune too. While I don't see WCBS picking it up, I see it likely ending up on WLNY, and if not, then on WPIX. I still think at this point the extra hour will be filled with some sort of Millionaire/Wheel/Jeopardy second showings combination, probably for a year, until they find something more permanent.

Comparing apples and oranges. The network news and the cable news channel are different newscasts from local newscasts. Do they have a regular traffic, weather, and sports segment? What works for them might not work locally. All the solo anchors you mentioned are legends in their own right. I don't really see it with today's anchors. When Jim anchors solo on 10, it feels like a long boring newscast.

Okay, first off, I wasn't thinking or assuming you didn't know about Rob Jennings retirement. So you ask why wait six months? Because that's how Channel 6 is! When they make changes, they do them slow and gradually! And I bring the music up because that is a change people will get angry about (I mean the masses, not news junkies like us). Adding Sarah as a co-anchor to the weekend evenings will not anger the masses, but prolly just a few news junkies. When they tried to change the music, they were flooded with complaint calls. I doubt that happened this past weekend.

I have a feeling they are going to fill it with some combination of Jeopardy/Wheel/Millionaire second showings.

It did feel like a test. Oddly enough, Sarah was not on the noon today, Nydia Han was on with Rick. If she does move to weekend evenings, they should just have Tamela or Monica handle the noon with Rick. Solo anchors do work, but it takes the right person to do it, and I feel not too many are capable of doing it. There are not too many Jim Gardners out there. And CircleSeven, here change already happened in the sense that the weekend anchor retired last summer. So why not test things out now? It's not like they are changing the music theme.

I gotta say I actually enjoyed it, a lot. Walter solo was a bit boring. I feel like the newscast flowed better with both of them. I guess it helps that I also think Sarah and Walter make a good team, going back to the days when they were fill-ins on the weekday morning newscast before they settled on Matt and Tamela. Sometimes change is good. There's a first time for everything. And I truly believe when Jim does call it quits, two people will replace him.

So if this was a weekend evening, and the weeknight/chief meteorologist was tag teaming with the weekend evening person, is the chief/weeknight evening person supposed to take a back seat to the weekend evening person? Same with anchors. The weeknight team is sometimes brought in to anchor Sunday after special events. Seniority means something, and so does being further up the totem pole.

No she's definitely the morning person at KYW. KYW has three weekday weather people, so maybe one of the others filled in. Btw they have three weekday people bc of WCBS. WCBS had Katie originally and when they got a new person they bumped Katie to Philly.

Wonder who did the am shows in Philly, as Katie is the am weather person at KYW/CBS3.

Or possibly team her up with Elliott at noon and 6.

Sure there is. They won't pair two women (or two men for that matter) at 11pm in the biggest television market on the number one station. It works at 5pm because the audience is different at that time.

And I doubt they would team her with Sade at 11.

With regards to those saying that the questions state if the person was no longer at WLS, the question about Tracy actually says if she was no longer at WLS from 4:30am-7am, so that doesn't imply that she would be gone all together, but rather if she were gone from the mornings. Also, if Jerry leaves, the simple solution is Tracy stays in the am and at 11am WCL, and picks up 12noon; Mike drops the Noon, keeps the 4pm and adds 5pm, 6pm, 10pm; Troy does all weekend mornings; Phil just keeps weekend evenings. To keep Phil happy, maybe give him a special segment during the week on the 4pm (Backyard BBQ in people's back yards during summer, Christmas Lights at people's houses during the winter). No way Mike goes to weekends. That would be a demotion. And it seems pointless to let Jerry go and hire someone new (although new persons salary would be much less). I don't think a station needs more than four weather people.

As to Rob, I was not implying that he was forced out. You made the comment that Jim hasn't declined over time. I assume you were referring to his presentation. Jim is 65. I was simply stating that I believe Rob is in his upper 60s (youngest kid is a senior in college) and that he hadn't declined in his presentation either (despite the fact that you think he has in 2012), but chose to retire despite still having his A game. So it is possible that Jim could decide to retire too for the sake of enjoying retirement, even though he still has his A game. As to Marc's replacement, Rick and Monica were both in the mix to replace his as was Rob. I believe they didn't want to break up Rick and Monica, so towards the end, the feeling was that Rob was the leading choice, especially since he was already the primary fill-in for 5,6, and 11, and also had more seniority. I remember reading something at the time, I believe perhaps written by Laura Nachman, but can't find it now. Lastly, it is laughable that they would ever consider Rick or Brian for the weekend. That would clearly be a demotion!

A few quick notes. Rob Jennings was the leading contender to replace Marc Howard but that all changed when Lisa got sick. Jim may have not declined, but neither was Rob, and look where he is now. Lastly, while Walter is okay on weekend evenings, I think he'd be better with a co-anchor.

Okay, I get that he or she is upset, but they honestly need to get over it. I mean, is there a need to go on and on and on and on and on about it? We've had two (to my recollection) extremely lengthy posts, which to be honest with you, feel like they are repetitive and some parts of which are pointless. Life is full of changes. This is one of those changes. If you can't get over it, stop watching! If you can't stop watching, then stop complaining! There are bigger problems in the world, and bigger changes in life that affect people more dramatically. Same thing with the Saturday into Sunday overnight movie... it's gone so deal with it!!!!! You've expressed your disapproval, so let's move on.

Any reason you have to do a double post everytime you upload something? You don't have to give us a 5-minute warning! Just do it and put in a single post.