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Norah’s reputation has been widely reported over the last several years as being difficult to work with so I don’t think this is just someone bored and trying stir a hit piece up. However, I’ll believe it when I see it. It is interesting that a Business Insider piece reported something similar just last month. Where there’s smoke there’s fire…

Savannah for as nice as she seems is just one of the weaker anchors in the show’s storied history imo.

Could be that Jill doesn’t want the full-time gig.

Does anyone know the reason GMA seems to prerecord so many of their first hour interviews? Whether it’s a medical expert or today’s William Shatner interview, it always seems to be prerecorded. 

They are all trying to play the victims in this situation and I don’t feel a single ounce of pity for them. Fire them all if you must.

Could it be an expanded role with ABC?

While it was shocking to hear them announce it today, I’m not completely shocked to hear their departures. Art has scaled back his work on the station and gave up the 6pm to work the 11am and 5pm. I thought he was a shoe-in to replace Dave Ward.

Dominique has been growing her presence heavily as a social media influencer. It was a matter of time before they made her choose one or another.

Dan Harris signed off from GMA and ABC News for the final time this morning. He’ll be sorely missed! 
 

Any bets on who will move into his spot? I feel like Phil Lipof makes sense to at least get a shot but could also see names like Will Reeve, Janai Norman and Matt Barrie of ESPN getting additional shots at filling in.

Yeah seems wildly disorganized. They had been heavily promoting the VPs appearance for 2 weeks and to have it all go down the way it did today is cringe.

Someone mentioned it recently and boy they weren’t kidding. NN needs to sort out and clean up the camera operations in Studio 1A. Tonight they were doing way too much and it just looks sloppy with all the active moving around.

We now know that CBSN (to be rebranded as CBS News followed by the market name) will relocate to the former CTM studios.

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/cbsn-new-name-cbs-news-streaming-1235071267/

Bummer.

I mean this is the same station that put someone like Sukanya Krishnan on air every AM for 15 years, I don’t trust them to pick talent wisely.

I often feel bad for late night news when the NFL broadcast pushes the news into the next morning but who is going to complain about extra football especially if it’s a particularly good game (as one might be if it’s ending an hour late)?

Kala is still at Pix? What does she do now?

^ That’s exactly my concern too. 

I don’t like the consolidation of studios in such a vast footprint as Rockefeller Center but NN utilizes Studio 1A rather well. Even better than Today.

That’s interesting, I wonder what spurred the move.

2 hours ago, iron_lion said:

I guess intelligent morning tv would be like the Bryant Gumbell/Jane Pauley years on Today as the best example. Extended interviews, news magazine type feature pieces and conversations with people like military generals, foreign policy experts, and introspective authors.

 

Dumbed down would be modern GMA. Stories on some former Power Ranger actor caught up in a murder mystery or secret recordings of dentists’ snarky side comments while the patients were under anesthesia (ACTUAL stories that they have done). 

 

CBS Mornings on the other hand would be focusing on millennial home buyer-ship rates, climate change’s threats to Florida’s oyster population, and pandemic exoduses from cities to the rural areas (actual stories they’ve done).

 

They borrow some bits from the competition but the positives outweigh that for me.

Fair enough. My family has watched GMA for as long as I can remember and the quality today is nothing to write home about despite having one of the strongest anchors (George!) at the helm. 
 

However I have to say comparing anything with Gayle King to the great days of Jane and Bryant is an insult! /s

I don’t want to belabor the point further but just what does intelligent mean in morning TV? I certainly don’t feel any smarter having watched CBS over any other program lol. They hosts singers, actors, chefs, social media stars too - just without the flashiness. I’ve seen a viral video or two be shared on the show for a “cute” moment. Lipstick on a pig if you ask me.

Wow. RIP to Allison. Had she been sick at all recently and I missed it?

Looks like they added a glass extension to the new desk. I preferred the way it looked initially.

5 hours ago, AA55 said:

Are you all watching the same show that I am? The reporting is in depth and layered and smart. They have great chemistry and the set is stunning. 

No offense to you but I really wish people would come off of this “smart” stuff especially when using it to ridicule the other shows. The first hour of each network morning show is full of news and investigative reporting, yes it descends into crap at 8 a.m. but CBS second hour isn’t exactly what it’s first hour is either. Lipstick on a pig is still a pig.

1 hour ago, iron_lion said:

Is any part of Times Square visible from the set? If not, what was the point of moving to Times Square if they weren’t going to utilize it as a backdrop?

 

Obviously ABC doesn’t Times Square but it feels a bit duplicative to center another morning show nearly across the street from GMA, and have Nate (who I like) taking on a similar role to Michael Strahan.  

 

On the flip side Fox & Friends is also at Rockefeller Center (just not that adjacent) so touché.

I guess the difference is in the branding of the shows - Fox & Friends doesn’t advertise themselves as being in Rockefeller Center although their building technically is. GMA has been the morning show of Times Square for 20+ years, it’s a core piece of their identity.

1 hour ago, iron_lion said:

Of all the Morning show attempts CBS has has was CBS This Morning (2012) the most successful? and I’m curious as to which morning show attempt do you think was CBS’s best?

Their morning program featuring Charles Kuralt and Diane Sawyer in the 80s topped Today for second place for a brief period. Their program in 1998 topped GMA for a second place finish one week during GMA’s failed McRee/Newman experiment. I don’t think CTM ever notched a full week out of 3rd place but did have a few days at #2 and even #1 after the Super Bowl iirc.