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Not sure what to make of your unnecessary hyperbole, nor did anyone suggest a "grand conspiracy." I simply pointed out that while Disney PR told People Magazine that this was intentional, I suspected it wasn't. You essentially just restated what I already said -- there was likely a delay necessitating it. That's all.

Well sure, but you showcase the brand new studios you just built. Not a random office building atrium.

Call me a skeptic, but unless Bob Iger's ego is as fragile as Trump's, I don't buy "we wanted to show off the 10th floor of our new corporate building" that none of their viewers care about. Sounds like a post-hoc justification for unforeseen circumstances.

Sam Champion confirmed the producers want to change up the GMA3 format and try different things. He and Lara are subbing in intentionally.

Never understood how Joy Reid was able to sustain a career in broadcast -- in liberal media, no less -- after posting a series of bigoted and homophobic/transphobic posts on her blog, then denying she wrote them and claiming someone must have hacked her, and after an investigation involving the FBI (yes, the FBI) proved no evidence of that, she still insisted she had no recollection of making those posts. Would have respected her more had she owned her past views, apologized for them, and explained why she was a better person now, rather than inventing stories and wasting the time and resources of the literal FBI to investigate her lies about being hacked. But since she never took responsibility for that, I'm not sorry to see her go.

Gotta love a show called "Live" being taped two weeks in advance.

Interesting concept but a little weird when the majority of the shot highlights empty desks and powered-off monitors.

CNN's new lineup premieres today.

Just announced: Gayle King is going to space on a Bezos Blue Origin flight with Lauren Sanchez, Katy Perry, and others.

Kristin Thorne left WABC earlier this year to be an investigative reporter and host with Law & Crime, focusing on true crime.

Will be an opportunity (or unexpected obligation) for the network to reconsider both talent succession planning and show format. Will be interesting to see if the show maintains a three-anchor format by just replacing Strahan and moving on, or if we see a return to either a two-anchor format a la Charlie-Diane/Diane-Robin, or to more of the ensemble format (Robin, George, Josh, Sam, Lara) that jettisoned GMA to #1.

The new studio will not be street-side in the way it currently is. As wabceyewitness said, the move is planned for this month. Not sure what the latest plan is, but in the absence of unforeseen problems, I would expect the new studio to debut beginning with the weekend broadcasts.

It's a conscious effort to air mostly features at the expense of the day's headlines. The strategy is seemingly multifactorial: 1. Try to tap into the same audience attracted to the style of 60M and Sunday Morning 2. Cut costs. Flying correspondents and their production crews all over the country every day on a whim to cover breaking stories is expensive. As to the question about whether the show will be anchored tonight from the site of the plane crash, the reporting on CBS's strategy suggests they'll opt for correspondent-led field coverage over anchoring the show remotely, again, because the latter is expensive. I could alternatively see them sending one anchor to lead coverage from the field while the other anchor stays in studio to anchor the rest of the show, which wouldn't be as costly, but otherwise predictions are that the anchors will remain at the desk. We'll find out tonight.