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So Savannah got married this weekend and announced she is 4 months pregnant. Congratulations to her. I find it hilarious how she did it, if you didn't see, they played the NBC News Special Report music and then they announced her "breaking news" that she is pregnant. What I really want to get to though is that, it's probably obvious Natalie will take her spot while she is on leave but who do you think will sub as news anchor? Ann Curry Seriously though, Willie? Carson? Tamron? What do you think?

Yes. They NEVER have a sub at 6pm unless both Liz and Bill are off and at that, they still get someone to solo.

Ok, there are a lot of red flags going off right now. Rob is co anchoring with Liz at 6pm right now and Laura is doing sports. This never happens. Bill or Liz usually solo when the other is out. Very, VERY odd. Could this be in prep for Bill retiring, could this be because NBC 4 doesn't solo at 6 anymore? Either way, very odd.

John is the weekend sports anchor, Harry is a "sports reporter" but really does general work.

2 things on weekend GMA weather anchor hunt. 1. They seem to be leaning towards another female. 2. They must be narrowing the choices down because they are repeating the same people a little more often now. They had Adam Joseph from WPVI do it a few months back, I was hoping for him but they haven't had him back since.

I don't know why they had her solo but it was not good. A lot better with Jim next to her. I mean, I can't blame her, it must be difficult not having any information and trying to speak and get info at the same time.

GDNY has been doing very well in the Demo's recently. Seems to me like advertising GMA and Today needs to be stepped up in NY. https://twitter.com/LewsView/media I know Lori, Ken, Heather and Bill were shooting a promo with the GMA team a few weeks back. Those commercials with EWN and GMA are always good, I look forward to seeing it and hopefully, it will air a little more often to notch the demo back up to #1 everyday.

I am indifferent about it. I guess it's good to start a conversation on Twitter.

And Today copied GMA in many ways too, one good example is how all the anchors including Al and Natalie sit at the anchor desk rather than just Savannah and Matt. It happens, not sure how it is that big of a deal.

On a separate note, I think ABC should find an anchor spot for Amy Robach on GMA similar to what NBC has done on Today for Tamron Hall and Carson Daly. Even if Amy had the equivalent of Carson's job on GMA (reporting from the #SocialSquare), she is a vital part of GMA these days. Also, another rising star on GMA... Sara Haines.

The orange room was the first thing I thought of. The only thing is the #socialsquare has a lot more features and seems a lot more usable than the orange room. Also, it looks like they got rid if the kitchen for this. Not a bad thing, GMA doesn't do that much cooking and most of the kitchen segments are outside.

She is fine, she is on vacation. It is a common practice at the end of a sweeps period for many anchors to take off because they are not allowed to take off in February, May, July and November so it condenses when they can be off to just 8 months rather than 12. I am not disputing anything you said, I am just doing to dissect some of it. "She is not required to report from the field" Not many anchors are though. The only time most of the anchors do, is when there is a big news even like Newtown, Lori Stokes was live the next morning from Newtown. Tom Llamas, Rob Schmitt and the other few are a select few and those are special circumstances. "has limited fill-in requirements" She is the lead fill-in for Sade Baderinwa and often fills in for Liz Cho. This was at her request though. Besides that, everything else you said is pretty straight forward. You gain a good salary, paid benefits and vacations as you gain seniority which she has certainly earned by now. She is New York's Katie Couric -- New York's Sweetheart.

Even against the Olympics, GMA won February sweeps in total viewers. http://abcn.ws/1g31J00

I think its gonna be the opposite if anything. Cindy can hold a newscast solo, I'm not sure Andrea could do that, especially in the evening.

I find it interesting, The Pix 11 Morning News does better in the demo in NY than CBS This Morning. https://twitter.com/lewsview/status/439113714391089152

Photo shoots are this week and the weekend morning team will be shooting new opens and promos next week! http://instagram.com/p/kpdaJOn6Cg/ https://twitter.com/mcharlesworth7/status/436249492816683010

No surprise, Today won last week in total viewers and demos because of the Olympics. I must say though, by a pretty lousy gap. http://nbcumv.com/mediavillage/networks/nbcnews/pressreleases?pr=contents/press-releases/2014/02/18/todaywinsrating1538438.xml I have not doubt GMA will be back next week if not this week with oscars coming. Not saying Oscars can beat Olympics but it will help considering its not a huge viewer gap.

Maybe WABC can fill the 3pm time period with this? http://www.cbstvd.com/press_release_detail.aspx?newsID=258

Dick work weeknights. He is not going back to weekends. He is a runner up for the 6pm spot. He is doing amazing with Alice. He is not moving. And Diane has said she is going to mornings so you don't even need to mention evenings.

Maybe Cindy is being moved to weekend evenings only or Andrea is being moved to weekend evenings solo or with Cindy. I'm personally hoping for the first, Cindy moving to just evenings.

I'm just gonna say for anyone else who will want to start talking about this again, there is a thread on this in, "Network News", lets not turn this thread into that again. http://forums.tvnewstalk.net/index.php?/topic/12966-abc-world-news-fluff/page-2 I will say though, I enjoy ABC's Good Evening America.

This is a general thread to discuss ABC World News. I'll start it off by saying I find it very odd that during sweeps Diane would be on and off. She has been in and out for the past 2 weeks with David and George filling in.

yeah.

They only have one version of each (TINY, News 4 NY and Storm Team 4). They need more versions at least.

Ummm... I think she was back today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75N3TzPI424