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Lori Stokes leaving Good Day?  If RadarOnline, a gossip website, is to be believed, the answer is yes: https://radaronline.com/p/lori-stokes-good-day-new-york-no-longer-co-host-morning-show-rosanna-scotto/

With Dari Alexander out, it seems logical that Lori could slip into the 10pm slot, and maybe the 5pm, although maybe not since she already does 6pm. 

32 minutes ago, NowBergen said:

Who knows?   It also happened from 11-3 yesterday, plus at 5, as well as today at 5.  Rana Novini has been substituting for over a year on various newscasts, so if it was permanent I would think it would have happened already.   

It is strange, though, that WNBC has a solo anchor, Adam Kuperstein, at 11am and 5pm. Less strange at 11, but not too common to have a solo anchor at 5pm for an hour long newscast. 

There’s a commercial airing with clips from vintage 10pm newscasts, trying to show that the current Fox 5 is similar to the Fox 5 of years ago. Sadly, that’s not the case, and I doubt we’ll see any format changes. 

Fox 5 has changed the branding of its evening newscasts. Instead of “Fox 5 News at [Time],” they are calling the newscasts “The [Time] O’Clock News.”  This is clearly an homage to the longstanding “The 10 O’Clock News” and somewhat follows the pattern of other newscasts with their own name, like “Good Day New York” and “The Noon.”

What do we think?  I don’t know if I like dropping the “Fox 5” part from the title. 

Just now, j.wer said:

I don't usually watch their evening news, but I haven't seen Lonnie Quinn in a while

What's going on?

He has been on the CBS Evening News a few times over the past two weeks (I think from the weather barn in his home).  Probably just time off at WCBS for the holidays.  I would not read too much into it.  Kristine and Maurice have been off for two weeks, too.

3 minutes ago, Spintech33 said:

Christine Sloan now with ABC News. NY based correspondent.  No wonder I haven’t seen her for the better part of this year.  

She's been gone from WCBS for three or four years at this point.  From WCBS, she moved to Fios 1, where she hosted Restaurant Hunter until Fios 1 shut down a year ago.

39 minutes ago, Spintech33 said:

Valerie Castro is now with NBC News & MSNBC. NYC based correspondent and substitute anchor for early mornings on NBC. 

Nice to see that she was able to secure a position at NBC News and MSNBC.  Valerie left WCBS to join NBC to anchor a program on the now-defunct Quibi mobile service.

As an aside, per the Washington Post, there is a COVID outbreak at the CBS Broadcast Center, which seems to be centered at WCBS-TV.  Of course, most people will remember that there was an outbreak in March, at the beginning of the COVID crisis, at which time KCBS-TV produced WCBS-TV's newscasts for a few days.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/11/20/cbs-headquarters-reports-15-coronavirus-cases/

10 minutes ago, B2r4a6n said:

 

Also, Part of Phil's twitter bio says..."News Anchor/Reporter, working at WNBC in NYC.'

Looks like he’s reporting only, at least to start:

On 8/24/2020 at 7:41 PM, mooneyhill1 said:

I don't think so, they both be anchoring together in the studio for real, in the WCBS-TV studio, not the CBSN New York studio.

Chris and Mary were back together in Studio 46 as of late, but starting on Monday, Mary has been home and Chris is solo in Studio 46 (Elise Finch has been at home since the pandemic started, with her home chromakey).

Chris tweeted that Mary traveled out of state last week and is self-quarantining, per New York State guidelines:

11 hours ago, Liugrad2020 said:

It’s too bad that this didn’t get more coverage. I know Nina wasn’t the star at WCBS although she was a reporter there who was way to young to pass away. 

WCBS had extensive coverage on Monday. See a story by Lisa Rozner that aired at 5:00, followed by genuine thoughts by Kristine Johnson and Dick Brennan (in for Maurice) here: https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/07/20/remembering-nina-kapur/

The same package aired at 6:00 that night, with comments from Dana Tyler thereafter. The video of Dana’s comments appears at the bottom of the story linked above. 
 

Lisa Rozner also reported another story yesterday, this one with more details about Nina’s passing, and facts about Revel: https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/07/21/revel-scooters-new-york-city-cbs2-nina-kapur-death/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Just now, Bill from Maspeth said:

I find it highly unusual that CBS2 chooses to have a solo anchor (Cindy) on weekends.  I believe that Andrea Grimes is out on maternity leave, but why not a sub?  I guess it's easy to blame Covid, but if CBS2 can have dual anchors socially distanced on weekdays, they can do it weekend mornings.  I don't compare this to the weekend evening newscasts because they are only 30 minutes long at 6 & 11.  I just feel their news department is very low budget, even lower than channels 5 & 11. 

I agree. This definitely makes the station seem low budget. I also do not like how they’ve been using the secondary CBSN studio for noon and 6 weekdays with Dana Tyler, and for all weekend newscasts. It is unclear whether Dana is permanently at noon, or if Chris and Mary will return at some point. 
 

Andrea Grymes has been back from maternity leave for at least a month, if not more, but seems to only be reporting. It is unclear whether she will return to the anchor desk weekend mornings. Also, Cindy Hsu posted on her Facebook page recently that she will be having knee replacement surgery soon, so it will be interesting to see if Andrea returns to replace Cindy while she’s presumably out on medical leave.  I also wonder if they’ll bring in a co-anchor. 

11 minutes ago, brianpr3 said:

 

An amazing accomplishment no matter what the field, but especially in television news, and especially at WCBS, which has historically had a lot of talent turnover. I hope they have a tribute to Dana tonight at 5 or 6.

With Dana celebrating her 30th anniversary, Cindy Hsu is celebrating her 27th, also this month.  Truly remarkable, given WCBS’s history. 

1 hour ago, Georgie56 said:

Alternate take: 4:30-7 is actually a very good time, considering (in normal times) everyone has to get up and ready for work/school. It's one of the most important timeslots for a news operation.

 

At least Muller's back on the morning shift again.

I agree with your take. Also, the real demotion for Muller was when he lost the 10:00 p.m. slot (almost two years ago, I believe) to Kori Chambers. When Muller returned to PIX from ABC, he was the main anchor at 5, 6, and 10:00 p.m.  He was eventually replaced by Chambers at 5, but retained the 6 and 10. Then he lost the 10, leaving him with only a half hour at 6. 
 

It IS funny to me, though, that he’s anchoring the 4:30-7:00 a.m. slot, since he was the main morning anchor for years, dating back to the launch of the Morning News. Of course, he lost that slot and was replaced by the late Chris Burrous in 2010 and moved to the early morning slot until he left in 2011 and moved on to ABC. 

8 hours ago, JoseRM303 said:

Someone asked if Kala was joining him at 6 pm and he replied “afraid not” meaning Kala is either staying on the morning shift at PIX, moving to a reporter role or leaving the station all together. 

Read more closely. The person asked Craig two questions:  if he was taking over the 6:00 p.m. news, and if Kala would be joining him. Craig’s reply, “afraid not,” could mean Kala’s not joining him, but it also might mean that he’s not going to be anchoring at 6:00 p.m.  

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I haven’t seen anything specifically stating that Craig will be anchoring at 6:00 p.m.  We know John Muller is leaving the 6:00 p.m. for the 4:30-7:00 a.m. newscast, and we know Craig is moving to evenings. But we don’t know for sure that Craig will be anchoring. For all we know, he’s going to be reporting. 

Joe Toohey has left Fox 5 and is joining WJW in Cleveland as 7:00 p.m. anchor: Welcome to the Fox 8 Family, Joe Toohey!

It seems that this is a personal move, as this press release notes that Toohey’s sister is a Cleveland radio personality.  His father in law, former ESPN anchor Jay Crawford, is an anchor at WKYC there as well. 
 

Toohey has been the anchor of Fox 5’s noon newscast, The Noon, since its launch in September 2019. He had also been the primary anchor of the 6:00 p.m. newscast since Ernie Anastos stopped anchoring in March. 

CBS 2 News at Noon is back today, with Dana Tyler anchoring from the CBSN New York studio and Elise Finch with weather from her home. I missed the beginning so I’m not sure if Dana said she was in for Chris and Mary. 

10 hours ago, wabceyewitness said:

Ernie Anastos is leaving FOX5 to enroll in Harvard Business School programs. 
 

https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/250133/back-to-school-for-ny-anchor-ernie-anastos/

This seems like total spin on Fox 5’s part. Ernie hadn’t been on air since before the pandemic, and it’s very likely that his contract was expiring and they elected not to renew it. He’s 76 and was likely paid a big salary to anchor the 6:00 newscast and contribute his “feel good” stories. 
 

After 15 years at Fox 5 and over 40 years in NYC, he got a pre-taped package and this odd story about how he’s leaving to take classes at Harvard Business School.  Ernie even mentions in his Instagram post today that he plans on developing new TV programming for NYC.  But it clearly won’t be for Fox 5. 
 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CBeOdlpMVBT/?igshid=1fh88vossygb6

Editing my post to speculate that perhaps a more substantial farewell had been planned but was ultimately unable to proceed because of the pandemic. 

Regardless, I would have expected a 40+ year career and 15 year tenure at the station would have received more recognition than what Fox 5 did. 

Not exactly an official source, but Kerry Drew’s Instagram profile lists that she is the anchor of Good Day Wake Up from 4:30-7:00 a.m.

https://instagram.com/kerrydrew?igshid=d2n0zlsz5mx3

Just now, fox5fan said:

Any new rumblings on what may happen with Good Day Wake Up?

Any chance of Teresa/Antwan reuniting?

Kerry Drew/Robert Moses???

 

Just wondering if any "insiders" have any scoop! It's been a couple weeks, so I fee like conversations may start happening. 

Last week, Kerry Drew and Raegan Medgie anchored for the whole week. This week, Drew and Robert Moses anchored Monday, and Drew solo anchored Tuesday and this morning. Solo anchoring for a 2.5 hour newscast seems like a lot for one person to handle. 

2 hours ago, Spintech33 said:

 

You might be on point with this. Not even FTV has reported this portion yet. FTV has only reported that he will be going to WNBC. However, no official start date to be announced. As others eluded that it is a mid-September start date. However, stay tuned.

He tweeted that his first day is September 9th, but that doesn’t mean it will be his first day on air.

On 8/6/2019 at 8:12 AM, Spintech33 said:

 

Thank You for pointing that out for me. I rushed it a little too quickly. However, you are correct. I say mid-September for his start.

https://wccoradio.radio.com/media/audio-channel/matt-brickman-heading-nyc

In this interview, Matt Brickman officially confirms that he will be the weekend evening meteorologist at WNBC. I’m not sure this was officially reported anywhere else before now. 

11 minutes ago, RealNews18 said:

Today was Sukanya Krishna’s last day on Good Day Wake up.. tomorrow is Jenn Lahmers last day.. wonder who the new team will be.. maybe Robert Moses and Kerry Drew? 

Here’s Sukanya’s Facebook post announcing her departure. It sounds like this was her decision, although it’s odd to me that she’s not sticking around at least until tomorrow for Jennifer Lahmers’s last day.  

1 hour ago, IceManNYR said:

Elise was subbing for John this morning.

Jeff Berardelli is subbing for Vanessa.

Scott Rapoport is subbed Friday night and is on tonight doing sports.

Weird. And John Marshall filled in for Elise a few mornings this past week. 

15 hours ago, Spintech33 said:

 

Now those Good Day Wake up bus ads can stop for a bit in New York City...

Who's been taking Jennifer spot as of late or is Suki doing the show by herself?

When Jennifer is off, usually Kerry Drew or Robert Moses are the primary fill in anchors. 

Jennifer Lahmers, cohost of Good Day Wake Up, with Sukanya Krishnan, since 2017, is leaving Fox 5 for “Extra.”