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Intrestingly enough Chris Wragge and Mary Calvi anchored today at 5pm. Alice said that her and Dick Brennan are doing the 9 and 11.

I have to say Greg Easterly seems like a well-known GM as he has worked at WGN before (a real winning station), so if he took the PIX job full time, I think he'd do a great job. If the 6:30 newscast doesn't work out (I have this hunch that it may get cancelled just as the old 6:30 did back in 2009), Kaity and Brenda should get expanded roles at the station. We need less Tamsen and Suki, and more Kaity, Brenda, Lisa, Kirstin, and Kala.

I feel like WCBS is only being nice to Dana since she's a longtime veteran of the station. If she was a relatively new anchor, I'm sure she would be axed by now. But yeah, I agree, taking 4 months off to get over a breakup is still ridiculous.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/phil-collins-blame-wbcs-anchor-dana-tylers-absence-article-1.2632130

According to FTV Live, they've set a date for Dana to return before the end of the May book, but that could change. Either way Dana has always been one of my favorite anchors, so I can't wait until she returns.

http://www.ftvlive.com/todays-news/2016/5/11/m-i-a-new-york-anchor-has-return-date

Thoughts on this....

Anna Gilligan (entertainment reporter for GDNY)

Russ Salzberg (sports anchor evenings)

Haven't been replaced. I know that Russ just left on Friday, but having the anchors do sports/entertainment seems a bit weird. I would assume they would at least have fillins.

 

Is this where they are headed or do you think these players will eventually be replaced.

 

There was the new weekend girl for sports... I almost wonder if Ryan Asselta is gone too. He has been off the last 2 weeks and this new girl is the new weekend sports girl...

Happened to catch WNYW this weekend and Erica Wachter is the new weekend sports girl. According to her Linkedin, she is employed by WNYW as of April 2016. They also just welcomed her to the show; so I'd say Ryan is gone and she is permanent.

Was anyone watching this morning? I saw a few posts on Facebook about something Rob Nelson said that was in appropriate? Just wondering what it was.

Based on posts I've seen, I think it was a comment a guest made (one of the chef guests) about her making something at 13 years old "completely stoned." Nelson and Charlesworth commented that everyone was caught off guard by that comment.

Here's the video:

http://abc7ny.com/video/

If they promote from within, I think most of us can agree that Kirstin Cole or Lisa Mateo should get the spot. Not sure about male anchor though. Or maybe Kirstin and Lisa should anchor together, like CBS 2 did with Diane and Andrea. Since this is only from TunedIn, I won't assume this is true until Tvspy or PIX itself reports it.

regarding anna ftv said baruch semtov was gonna take over but hasn't has he?

Baruch was there like one day I remember but the rest of the time it's just been the anchors I believe.

Noticed WCBS was using a new background at 5pm, not sure about other dayparts. I couldn't tell but it may even be a live background.

What's the new PIX line up? I hope Suki and Tamsen are gone

Unfortunately they are like the only two who are unchanged yet again.

Morning 5-6 am: Craig Treadway and Kala Rama, Linda Church and Kaitlin Monte

Morning 6-9am: Suki and Scott Stanford, Linda Church and Kaitlin Monte

5-6:30 pm- Tamsen and John, Mr. G, and Andy Adler w/ sports

6:30-7pm-Kaity and Brenda, Mr. G and Andy Adler w/ sports

10pm-Tamsen, John, Mr. G, Andy Adler

Weekends 5 and 10pm- Kori Chambers, Craig Allen, and Dyrol Joyner w/ sports

Although Suki may very well be a big factor of their low ratings, ratings were high during her early regime, with John Muller, at least from what I remember. I believe they were even beating WNYW at a time (before Rosanna and Greg established chemistry and credibility.) Scott is well liked, and has a fun personality, and has worked with Suki before, so I don't think this is a bad experiment. However, if a year from now, and the ratings are still low, if Suki isn't shown the door or demoted I don't know what to say.

Craig and Kala are really good on the weekends, and they're a pretty solid hard news anchor team. However, they are both adapted to mornings in the past, so they'll probably enjoy the change back.

As for the Kori Chambers thing, I don't see that working out. I don't think he'll be good solo, and is honestly "Ok" as an anchor. I'm one of the few who tuned in nightly on the weekends to watch Kala and Craig, and formerly Kaity (since they were a really good team in my honest opinion), Kori Chambers just isn't going to do it for me. I think he should get a co-anchor; I was going to say Lisa Mateo, but I think she enjoys doing entertainment fluffy stories in the morning. I think Kirstin Cole might work out, however if they wanted to try that. Even newbie reporter Shirley Chan used to anchor in CT, so if they wanted to give the weekend gig to her I don't see why not.

As far as weeknights are concerned, Brenda and Kaity need expanded roles. Tamsen and John have too much airtime, what WABC does seems to work (mashing up their evening anchors). Tamsen and John should stay at 5pm, because that pulls in good numbers. I think at 6pm for the hour we should have Kaity and Brenda, and at 10pm Kaity and John. They can make always Tamsen a featured in-studio reporter for the 10:00 too. If the 6:30 show doesn't work out and pull in numbers, then maybe they should scrap that and invest those resources in a weekend morning newscast or midday newscast.

As far as sports is considered, I really feel like the whole PIX11 sports desk thing was created specifically for Scott. Now that Andy will basically be taking charge of that department, they maybe should think about just doing regular sports; or revert back to just having the Sports Desk on Friday nights. I guess that means either Dyrol Joyner or Joe Mauceri will take over the weekend sports. One thing is for sure- Scott's sure going to miss messing with G every night!

Hmm.. I'm assuming this will happen before May sweeps? I saw the Dan Mannarino thing earlier on fb. However I'll believe the rest of it when someone else reports it I really don't go by what TunedIn says anymore

Craig treadway confirmed his shift on Twitter so I believe this time it's true. I'm glad they realized that chambers and Krishnan didn't have chemistry however.

Ugggh....Not again... Sorry but if this is true..Not feeling these changes...

http://tunedinnyc.com/2016/04/13/big-changes-at-wpix-chambers-to-weekends-stanford-back-to-news/

Don't mean to sound insensitive, but she's been out two months. Life goes on. I can understand taking some time off, but two months?

I agree, she's entitled to her privacy, but there has to be another reason for her absence.

For anyone wondering about an update on Dana Tyler, this may provide some insight.

http://www.ftvlive.com/todays-news/2016/4/7/new-york-anchor-has-been-m-i-a

Reporter Jessica Schneider just tweeted that today was her last broadcast on CBS2.

Think it's worth mentioning that Richard Rose is anchoring the news at 9 tonight with Dick Brennan. This is the first time I've seen two men anchor a regular newscast in I don't remember. Also the first time I've seen Richard anchor a broadcast since the station was bought by CBS.

PIX used this background during breaking news today. Still don't understand for the life of me why they don't use this view regularly.

prob the 5 and 11 pm team

Yeah It's been Kristine and Maurice every night. I honestly wish Dick and Alice would fill in. It would be great to get them some exposure to the 6pm time slot, but I guess they're in need of reporters at that time.

What was so bad about Andrea Grymes?

I personally really like Andrea Grymes, she's seems like a pleasant woman who I liked waking up to. I guess some think she's just a lightweight reporter, but I see nothing wrong with her. I think Andrea and a new male anchor would make a nice team. Diane will be missed though; at one point Diane was the primary fill-in, whether it be the morning, 5pm or covering for Cindy on weekends.

Well this looks like a very scary incident.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a6785f5929204a598faff6b72380e344/man-waves-gun-behind-tv-reporter-during-live-broadcast

According to this tweet by Greg Mocker, PIX has new mic flags.

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Well this is probably their worst nightmare, nothing is working right. Some video of waves crashing keeps playing over everything. Too funny, lol

Well looks like WCBS is having some technical problems trying to get their 5pm newscast up. It's been about 15 minutes of straight commercials since Judge Judy ended. The anchor's are tweeting saying it is in fact technical problems and to stand by. They just actually fixed it now, so the news is finally up. It started pretty shaky though, with the anchors' mics going through the videos, among several other technical problems.

I saw a clip of this mornings news online and realized they were showing a live shot of 42nd street as the backdrop. I know they did it during the storm too. Hope it's permanent cause it's 1,000,000,000,000x better than the normal background

They still use that godawful generic backdrop at night though. Hope they change that too. The one they first used when they debuted the set wasn't bad, not sure why they had to change it.

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This live camera is my favorite, though. Looks so professional.