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"It's late at night, you're wide awake, and you're not wearing pants."

1. He's in France. 2. He wasn't going to be there, anyway, since CNN doesn't give a shit. NBC is obviously not as much of a dick on such occasions.

His aging accelerated not long after he retired. I recall on his last day of GMA, Diane and Robin greeted him at his apartment at 5am, and his hair already nearly white. If I were to guess, I'd also say he had a partial hairpiece his last few years.

It still maintain that she's miles better than when she first arrived, and she's gelled pretty well with the team, even the old guard.

I think we got unspoken confirmation today that Cheryl will not likely be the sole weeknight weather anchor once Jerry retires...at least as long as the WCIU-cast exists. Jerry's off this week, so Phil filled in at 6 and 7 the last two nights. Phil's not coming in tonight, so Tracy was on at four, and Cheryl's now on at five. Sure, maybe Cheryl was busy during the day, but they haven't hesitated to use only one meteorologist for a single night in the past, even with the 5 broadcasts.

It's was nice seeing George candidly admit what he has to do, day to day, considering his background...and the advantages and disadvantages. It's also nice how Charlie politely forced the issue, not to expose or pressure George, but to encourage him. I was also fascinated by Charlie's voting practices (or lack thereof), stemming from his role on the Ford campaign trail. Anyone who didn't see the interview and has any interest in the bias in modern journalism should check it out.

"You can feed me like a foie gras'd goose, just so long as it's on the internet and on TV." -Dan Harris

"How many animals that you brought had sex on the air?" -Gibson, to Hanna

I hope they post the ENTIRE team interview, because I'm watching on an hour and a half delay, and I know that won't last before my connection gives out.

Quick overview of the overnight hours. World News Now is being broadcast like normal during the stream, but the commercial breaks are being filled by this guy and this lady hanging out and doing various jobs at a Times Square all-night diner. They also going to be checking out various haunts in the area as the night progresses. It's not really GMA-ish, but it's kinda fun, and it breaks up the full-on Paris coverage that WNN is providing tonight. Outside of my antenna/LiveWell feed this YouTube stream (leftover from One Direction's earlier performance) has been providing the best quality for me... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMMl3Ix9EE4

"If you're still with us, and we hope you are, that means One Direction didn't crash our servers." It's like an old cable access show, and that's why I like this.

Excuse while my bitchy inner "fangirl" comes out... Nobody here is holding a gun to your head, forcing to watch either GMA or Today. Call me when a CBS This Morning reaches 10 years, much less 40 years. Also, give me a call when they actually reach 2nd place. That said, I take no issue with how any of the news divisions, network or cable, conduct their morning shows. That way, there's a product for everyone, but don't get on my case for watching one of the many options. Heck, GMA's not even my usual morning show. I regularly worship at the church of Larry, Robin, and Paul.

Considering the regional delay and stuff, I don't know, but they've been at headquarters for the last few hours, so they could have some of the lower-ranking team members continue the stream from their Social Square-recreated virtual set uptown.

You said it yourself, though; the GMA format has always been a mix of hard and soft content. If they'd been doing 5 hours of death and destruction and Trump til now, they'd be drawing the internet equivalent of hash marks. Don't tell me that if CBS was doing something like this, that they wouldn't be tapping into the broader resources of the network, like 60 Minutes, Stephen Colbert, the ladies of The Talk, or even Entertainment Tonight. A few select hours of a 40 hour program is a bad sample size, and if you want the 24 hour news cycle, there're a dozen other channels for that. Even if it's silly and generally a waste of the viewers' time, this is an ambition project, nonetheless. When Peter Jennings did his 25 hour marathon at the new millennium, there were people that were worried that the world was going to end, we'd all go bankrupt and planes would fall out of the sky, yet that was only a part of the full broadcast. I'll bet you that, come 7am, normal GMA will be on the air with 60-90 minutes of the latest on the apocalypse, and we all won't have missed much.

I'd like to see you fill 40 hours of airtime. The first hour was like 50 minutes of straight news, and the second hour started similarly. Also, with how gloom and doom the last week has been, some fluff on a commercial-free online stream is no way to judge an entire news organization.

WLS has it, so it's safe to assume all 8 stations have it.

Then why post it here?

I've forgotten how good a team Robin and George are together, without 12 other voices around them.

I didn't realize that Good Morning Tunisia started the same year. Maybe not in that symbolic image of them all standing together, but everybody will be there, except for Chris Cuomo.

I still hate GMA's new desk with a passion. The wood tends to be a little over the top in parts, but it's okay enough. This era of the set (not used very long, about two years ago) is still my favorite version of the first floor set. That said, the the second Times Square set that debuted for their 30th in '05 is my all-time favorite, with its two anchor sets (this and the classic REAL window backdrop).

I think the update over the weekend is even more substantial than what was done to the anchor base and weather board. Having a full video wall over the old "couch backdrop" (so to speak) is a big change, and the area separating the studio from the social square has gone from a bunch of screens that could rotate to open the gap to just the two sliding screens. The social square appears to be completely redone in the wood motif with a table and stools, much like the Orange Room's update. The touch screen area between the studio/square doorway and the windows has also been redone.

Their streaming broadcast begins Tuesday evening, so while they'll do stuff tomorrow and Tuesday morning (a bus tour beginning in Chicago), I'd imagine it will be mostly relegated to the second hour, or even the last half hour. Heck, this morning they moved onto other news (not fluff and stuff), in the second half hour.

New reporter...Will Jones, '06 Northwestern grad from WDIV Detroit. I've lost track of who he technically succeeds, but he appears to be full-time, unlike Thoren and Hernandez. http://chicagoradioandmedia.com/news/7780-abc-7-hires-will-jones-as-newest-reporter This article on Jones' hire hints that ABC 7 is still leading through the first 2 weeks of sweeps.

The original version of that theme was soooooo much better.

Yeah, the weekend staff seems to know what they're doing. It's really not that hard. The open has been fixed, but the headline cue, like 'World News Tonight', doesn't flow well into the intro.