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In terms of my post, my criticism towards the WCBS weather team and the promo was separate. I thought the promo was terrible and separately I was also posting my thoughts on their weather team. As I said though, those were my opinions and as always, we can agree to disagree.

Here is a new promo called "Gotta Listen to Lonnie." https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152677428319024&set=vb.13539254023&type=2&theater This seems like a failed attempt to copy WABC and "Weather and Heather" or "There goes that news van again." The only thing is, this is turning weather into entertainment where as WABC's was for the Morning Show and just general EWN. Honestly, WCBS's weekend weather team should be the weekday one. They are professionals and true meteorologists as opposed to the entertainers that they have on the weekdays. And don't get me started with the "are his sleeves up?" It literally makes no difference if Lonnie's sleeves are up or down, its all for entertainment and it just makes their weather department look mediocre. In terms of weather, I have to hand it to WABC, WNBC and WNYW, they have what I think are the best weather teams in New York, ones that you can actually trust. Even WPIX has a pretty good team. WCBS could be good if Elise and Vanessa were the weekday meteorologists. I like Lonnie and John, I just don't see them as serious weather-casters, John was great on The Couch and Lonnie would be great at hosting something too.... Thats just my opinion though...

Maybe they will give Mike the title "Chief Meteorologist" and give Tracy the title "Senior Meteorologist" to make them feel better. I don't see Phil being let go at all. Maybe he quits but I don't see him being fired by any means.

Correct. All newscasts will continue to air from their current studios. When something special is going on at Barclays, like a basketball game, they have a small studio there to report from rather than broadcast from the street. My guess is this will be used for some sports events with Scott reporting from Brooklyn but I have a feeling it won't be used too often. In my opinion, rather than build this, they should be investing money to build a new main studio. It just does not look like a professional studio.

Some big news from WPIX today... http://pix11.com/2014/12/09/pix11-barclays-center-announce-multi-year-strategic-partnership/

That has GMA written all over it.