Daybreak

I think you're right. I watched her a few times and she improved a lot over the years. I blame WNBC more than her for why she hasn't worked out. She basically was hired to be Sue 2.0. Sibila is great but its not like she is so much better than Shiba. But I'm sure Shiba is going to be fine wherever she goes. I think Kerry Barrett is going to take Shiba's place when/if she does leave.

I just knew once I read the story on FTVLive that it would be discussed on here

They really don't need that many meteorologist. Its pretty crowded already. Why would they hire another meteorologist????? What is the schedule looking like right now

You maybe right. And I didn't know Tampa moved up that much wow.

I like the graphics but hate the theme. I wish they would use some other composer.

Maybe they are switching the format up a bit. I think Natalie is experiencing what Amy went through as she mentioned in her book. NBC has the tendency to drop a rising star when they see someone fresh come through, so they start putting all the attention on them and then drop the people that are there. This cycle always happens especially at NBC . I believed that this was happening to Lester too until the Brian Williams scandal. And we see how that turned out, Lester is their Saving Grace. I for one would like Natalie to leave too because she seems like she isn't happy. I know they would never do this but I would like for them to really phase out some people at Today (Matt, Al, and Natalie).

This seem like a dumb move in my opinion. I wouldn't leave a DMA 4 to go to a DMA 14???? (correct me if I'm wrong with Tampa's market number). I just thought he would stay longer than the average contract of 3 years.

Me too. He left so hasty and you could tell there was some bad blood.

All of the anchors are coming back so yes you will see Lisa McRee and Kevin Newman. Its funny because I forgot about a few personalites like Mike Barz and JuJu Chang. Those years JuJu was on went by so fast.

It definitely was a fast promotion. It's almost like she already had the job. Maybe this was in the works for a while but this is really fast.

What was in the job description and did they specify the time they would be working?

I knew they was going to do something like this. I thought this would happened sooner rather than now.

She will still be on today in the same compacity. She anchors the 3rd hour of Today which starts at 9 a.m. and ends at 10 a.m. She will also anchor the 11 a.m. MSNBC Live time spot so nothing really change but the name. I believe Kate Snow will anchor the 10 a.m. news after Morning Joe ends.

You are probably right. It seem like I was correct when I said I hope people get what I was trying to say. Clearly I did not.

I never said that both sets look alike. I just said they tried to do something to me in the direction of what GMA would do and be a bit more flashy but their concept did not transcribe well. That's all

I hated the set overall and kinda saw this coming. It was too orange and never felt like something Today would do. It felt like they were trying to capture GMA style/essence. It didn't feel true to them and I guess they are realizing it now. I hope people understand what I'm trying to say.

Well it looks like WPDE is finally launching a 5 p.m. newscast after more than 20 years of canceling it. It's premiering on September 14.

I said the same thing. I saw her on CBSN a few times a couple of months ago. Either she's going to work for CBS as a correspondent or this is just something she have in her contract... Who knows?? But this is a great look for her and from what I've seen she's doing a terrific job.

That is crazy. Amy is too popular to be demoted to weekends and basically she's in line to take over for Robin she leaves. and Josh is never coming back to GMA. It was some bad blood when he left so that's that. If your plans happen, they would be in jeopardy to becoming number 2 again and they wouldn't want that to happen.

I feel the same about Diana too thats why I put a new female anchor in parentheses.

KYW needs a to do a complete overhaul and they need to invest in the stations. Their product has been lacking for a few years now. I may get a big backlash from this but I think the Alycia Lane and Larry Mendte saga/incident, whatever you want to call it, messed up the channels reputation a bit and leaving the viewers with a bad taste in their mouths . They were on top at one point but now look at them. CBS in general needs to do some work on about all of their stations (WFOR, WCBS, KCBS, KTVT, etc.). I do agree that they need to hire at least 3 male anchors an another female anchor. A rebrand of their sports department and another male weathercaster for weekend mornings. Here's my take below: Mornings: Erika von Tiehl and Male-co anchor Noon: Pat Ciarrocchi and Male co-anchor (from the mornings) Evenings should be broken up into 2 teams 5 p.m. and 11 p.m.: Ukee Washington and Jessica Dean 6 p.m. and 10 p.m.: Natasha Brown and Male co-anchor Weekend Mornings : Nicole Brewer Weekend Evenings: Diana Rocco (or new female anchor) and Male co-anchor If they do this and stick with the teams for more than 3 years to show stability, then they might have a shot. Heck add a 4 p.m. or 7 p.m. newscast but make it a bit lighter and try to interact with viewers.

I hope its Kimberly but who knows? (I hope you all know she's one of my favorite anchors).

That's the rumor. I kinda figured that's where Fred was going because, all the other stations have pretty solid teams with the exception of WJZY and I highly doubt he would be heading there.

My bet is either WCNC or WJZY.

Well this could be a stretch but she's probably moving back to Cleveland to WKYC because I know her husband was the Defense Coordinator with the Jets for a few years but I don't know if he's still there or not. So if its not Cleveland, it'll probably be wherever her husband goes.