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The 7am hour appears to be unchanged. There was a long-form interview in the middle of the 6:30, so it is still a little looser, but I think the looseness depends on the team. Karen and Cheryl S. aren't going to give you as lively of a show, among the various combos.

The hour-long 7pm show has apparently been dumped in favor of a 30-minute show at 6:30. It SEEMS like the Elgas-Burton-[rotating weather] team will continue in the streaming slot, but nothing has been declared. Ravi and Cheryl are off, so Rob anchored at 6 and stayed put, while Karen and Cheryl S. relieved Judy and Larry between shows. This means WLS joins WABC as one of the few O&O's to not air any streaming newscast between 7pm and the late news.

Yeah, the whole story should've been posted. LMAD is moving to 3, and I'm assuming the already-hour-long 9am news will air OTA. The 9:30 has just been streaming-only til now.

I know Doris Burke is polarizing, but I like her enough. But listening to Doc Rivers 3 hours a night, up to 3 or 4 nights a week, during the postseason? Goodness.

With all due respect, you sure use a ton of words to say the same damn things, over and over.

Another site obtained the memo to staff, and Hughes will be on evenings with Karen.

One ounce of research would make it fairly clear that Tamron is returning for the new season, while Rachael Ray has ended. Therefore, Tamron is moving to afternoons.

Why is all this being discussed here? There's a new thread for the 2023-24 season.

Please don't encourage people to call newsrooms, even if you're not serious. Frankly, I suggest you lose that number, as well. Nobody should be calling a newsroom line (what was posted above was a public NEWS tipline), whether publicly-advertised or not, for any trivial shit, like weather graphics. If you don't like it. Don't watch. It's that simple. Frankly, I'm getting tired of this discussion, no matter someone's opinion on this matter. That means that no response to this post is necessary. Failure to restrain from reiterating the same tired points could result in...well, let's hope it doesn't come to that.

Can't link right now, but her last day on the morning news will be August 4th.

I would guess Phil does the 7 tonight, with Jaisol doing her normal shift tomorrow. Greg will probably be back tomorrow night, with Sunday morning being the variable.

What year is this? What were the chances that his first show back would be alongside the old weekend team? "Phil, great to see you. You're like the Tom Brady of meteorologists. Retire for 3 weeks, and you're back!" "Yeah, for three days. Don't get carried away with it."

For the record, we don't know if she, Jenn Schanz, is even going to WFLD. I was just thinking of who recently had anchor vacancies posted to their websites. And, if we're splitting hairs, 32 still has that listing up, anyway. She could be going to WLS, for all we know.

I totally understand the phasing out of male co-anchors during the latter third of last century, for obvious reasons, but as women have broken through and feature more prominently in weather and sports coverage, I don't know why even one-off fill-ins of male co-anchors are still seen as a non-starter. It just seems silly that stations look like they're afraid of the virtually non-existent blowback.

There is an anchor at WXYZ who just announced she is heading to Chicago. Not gonna bore anyone with the details, as there aren't any, but she is someone to keep an eye on, perhaps for that early slot. Mike also mentioned that Scott will have a Sunday morning program in the works, as he eases into the beat. I'd assume it'll air in the Friday and Saturday 9:30pm slots, as well.

The job listing for the weekend evening slot was online until late last week, while other job slots remain. Whether the search is suspended or completed it unclear. We'll see.

It took like 4 months for Ravi to debut after Rob Johnson left,14 months to hire Mark to replace Ben Bradley, about 5 months to name Samantha Chatman for Stacey Baca's slot, and Elgas & Baichwal weren't named to succeed Alan for more than 4 months. The last example is a freaking eternity to leave your flagship shows without an anchor, despite it being "a logical progression." Ravi's only been off weekends for 3 months. Hiring practices (yes, even if they promote from within) have slowed, and budgets have tightened. If they can roll with a solo weekend anchor for upwards of 3-6 months, I'm sure corporate would be pretty happy, for salary's sake. When it comes time to name who'll join Karen, I'm beyond confident that it'll be Mark.

Studio 1A, as always. No reference was made that they'd be leaving for tonight's relaunch. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ctr3XoHp4B_/

For literal decades. Even after the hard reset new look a year ago, Chicago's weather graphics have always been rather evolutionary. Hell, there are differences in how WLS, WPVI and WTVD have implemented the weather package. Not every station is going to have the exact same everything.

We don't need anymore ABC O&O line-ups. KTRK isn't using their talent resources particularly well. We get it.

No, that's the outgoing wordmark, but with the new ABC.

Not an ideal schedule, but is he not doing both weekend shifts? Meanwhile, Laura Bannon has been out for several weeks, and it seems like there was a death in her family. That left Albert and Ed picking up some morning shifts, recently, and now fellow former NewsNation meteorologist, Gerard Jebaily, is even filling in.

Other than the daily beat, they'll have to replace the 90 minutes (Fri & Sat 9:30pm, Sun 8:30am) of airtime Mike provided with his prerecorded political show. Granted, the show replace live news, but maybe they don't want to reinstate that or have the manpower to do so.

Probably streaming, but it's on signage all over the inside of the station. Has been for more than a year.

Oops. Too late.