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Michelle Charlesworth and Kemberly Richardson this morning. Michelle and Tim Fleischer tonight.

Toni Yates and Tim Fleischer anchoring EWN at 6 (and I presume 11) tonight, with Andy Field doing the lead story. Talk about calling in the reserves! Toni's been behind the desk a lot the past few days. I haven't seen Tim anchor in years. Edit: They work well together. Tim is really good.

Anchoring on Christmas Day will be Bill, Stacey Sager, and Lee. Stacey hasn't anchored in years. Normally it'd be Bill, Lee, and Lauren Glassberg, but she's on maternity leave.

Andy Field reported live tonight on the 11. What's up with that? Haven't seen him on EWN in years, and even back then it was a short stint. Maybe too many people are on vacation and he's just freelancing again?

Yeah. What a waste of eight characters in the Twitter handle. Looks ridiculous.

David doing 2 hours on air? I don't know about that.

I don't think Bill's planning to retire anytime soon. But, when he does, you guys really think David will replace him? I think David fits well for a morning or afternoon show (i.e. in his current role or replacing Ken), but I have a hard time envisioning him as the anchor who is the face of the station's news coverage. Even Rob Powers fits that role better, I think. Also, don't forget about Rob Nelson. Who knows what'll happen with him down the road.

Rob Powers and Sade anchoring the 4 today. Good chemistry between them. On another note, the person doing the voiceovers for the promos sounds different.

Why try to promote a hashtag anyway? It's short-sighted social media strategy. If anything, put @ABC7NY there instead.

Rob Powers filled in for Joe Torres, Jeff Smith appeared on World News with David Muir, and Lee Goldberg will be filling in as weather anchor on GMA Sunday.

I assume they called him in. Diana was also called in to replace Phil.

They changed the main Twitter handle from @eyewitnessnyc to @ABC7NY.

This morning Michelle was presenting an emotional story about a group of boys standing up for a peer who was being bullied. She got choked up and Phil jumped in to finish the piece. Did anybody happen to record the moment, or find it online?

I did notice they dropped "Storm Watch 7 is in effect" in favor of "Accuweather Alert mode." Not sure why.

Do we know what her arrangement is? I wonder if she's still employed by Metro/Shadow Traffic contracted by WABC, or if she's just been hired by WABC outright.

Between this and the "Weather and Heather" promo, it seems the Creative Department has a new strategy with these jingles. I like it.

http://forums.tvnewstalk.net/index.php?/topic/13276-phil-lipof-is-going-to-wcvb/

You guys hit the nail on the head. As for using Channel 7 over ABC7, it's also more relatable for viewers. Puts the emphasis on the channel and not the network branding. Less corporate, more personal. That said, they do need to work on brand consistency on social media.

7online.com has been around for a while, so I think the assumption is that, by now, viewers know the website. Even if someone didn't put two and two together, they could Google "7online," and the first result would be WABC's website.

A circle sandwiched between two bars is just horrible. If they really want to do that, they should move the time/temp bar below the circle also.

Bill Ritter will be anchoring EWN @ 4, 5, and 6 tomorrow from Seaside.

They might not be holding off; they may just have a date in mind. For example, they've debuted things in the past around the time of the start of a new television season, which is later this month. There was no indication that they planned to utilize new opens as soon as they were ready. That being said, let's remember that all of this is wild speculation based on two words -- "new look" -- in the post of another poster on this thread.

I'm thinking the same thing.

Seriously? I feel like the look was just updated, and I like it. Doesn't look old yet. I'm curious to see what's coming.

This opening for a general assignment reporter has been listed since at least March. You'd think they'd be able to fill that opening relatively quickly with a presumably large pool of applicants from which to choose. http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=resources/inside_station/station_info&id=5783115