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THANK YOU for posting this...Agree 100% I strongly disliked this promo, does not promote their weather team at all. Lonnie and John are nothing put two people reading a prompter and making jokes. That's all. Elise and Vanessa actually understand the weather, and they can elaborate on it. Lonnie and John try, but its still not the same. They may appeal like they know what they're doing to the public, but they really don't in the weather world. I am actually studying meteorology and some of the things they say make me burst out in laughter. Actually I wish they brought back John Marshall and maybe an outsider and stuck them in either weekday or weekend spots and then had Lonnie and John do entertainment shows. No matter how they promote Lonnie and John, I am not gonna listen to them. Sorry, WCBS. But although the song is terrible and annoying, it does kinda stick in your head after hearing it... And the fact that they even have to call Lonnie a weathercaster is just embarrassing. Of course it can be debated with some people that do have meteorological sense without a degree, but in reality, I think that people should not be allowed to tell the weather on TV until they get at least most of their meteorology degree. Just my opinion.

Tom Llamas anchored tonight.

Totally agree; at least get rid of those awful pastel colors, and replace it with a darker, more interesting background or something. It looks like something that belongs on an entertainment show. Agree on that standpoint too, but it seems that no one was really available. I believe Monday is Kaity's night off, so I don't think she was available to fill in. And Narmeen Chodhury and Kristina Behr, the two female anchors that were being "groomed" to be anchors were not available either; Narmeen still on maternity leave and Kristina busy with the Better Show. There are a few other reports they probably could of chose from, but there probably weren't enough to chose from. I think Ayanna Harry should be given a shot at the anchor desk, I think she'd be a good backup....I also think Magee Hickey is another possible choice...But still they should've had even Kirsten Cole or someone come in and be a second anchor. But she was probably busy as well...Also Tamsen was on the morning show discussing pictures that were taken of the royals at the Barclays, so that's why she was off at 10pm.

Sorry if this sounds like a really stupid question, but is PIX fully moving to this new Brooklyn studio and leaving the old one? I believe they are still keeping their current studio as their main bureau and studio, right? Just a little confused.

Oh yeah I actually saw that the other day too and forgot to mention it on here- certainly looks very interesting. Also they have a new weather "transition" package ie. they now have custom "Eye on the storm" lower thirds and newer transitions. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=829485750445790&set=vb.345395675521469&type=2&theater

I think it's clearly obvious that ABC is still VERY indecisive about who they want to stick in the weekend chair. Wonder how long it will take for them to decide on a permanent anchor, or if they just stick to a rotation on the weekends.

Kinda interesting since Craig Allen & Andy Adler worked together on FOX5 just a few years ago. They now have a full weekday and weekend team, which is fantastic.

He did weather a few days ago in the morning when Linda was off. I think they like to give Chris the AM fill-in spot since he has more of the personality for it, and Joe Cioffi the weekend fill-in spot since he has a bit of a stiffer personality. Since Linda doesn't take off all that often, they've been giving Chris a general assignment reporting spot to kinda keep him busy. I think he does more reporting during the weekends than during the week. But he'll still do weather when needed.

Andy Adler now does weekend sports.

The PIX11 sports desk moves to 7 nights a week starting December 12th. I guess this includes weekends? Wonder if Scott will finally get a desk LOL

Noticed this is the 2nd night in which PIX has extended their news past 6:00 because of the Eric Garner case. I know this has to be asked, so I will: Could this be an experiment? After all PIX is the only station without a 6pm newscast.

The Top of the Rock camera is back! Finally!

Kaitlin Monte did traffic at 5:00pm today, wonder if she's going to be on the 5:00 pm permanently now. Not sure if they would throw her on in the evenings just for one night (the weather wasn't that bad today, it was worse last Wednesday), and they had Greg Mocker doing traffic that day. Well if they threw a traffic reporter on the 5pm permanently that would really give them an advantage over the other networks that doesn't do traffic at 5pm. Also, lots of other cities have traffic reports during their evening shows, so I think at least one station should have traffic reports (I know EWN first @4 does a short traffic update at 4:14pm).

Kinda interesting...I think they ended early if I am correct...seems like they went off the air at 8:11..I think it was mainly a recap of the day's top stories and Scott with more analysis on the Jets game. I don't think it was a full-blown newscast. They are also going to be on after the game tonight, but that probably won't happen until really late. Kinda surprised they did a newscast instead of a special edition of "Sports Desk" that they usually put on before the Jet games.... EDIT: They actually came on at 11:27. Jets game ended early.

Tom Llamas is anchoring for the first time tonight on WNT. Not able to see him right now, but I'm sure he's doing a great job.

Good point; maybe they should've had Ben anchor with Christina instead of Antwan? But I still think Antwan and Christina are great together. Ben and Juliet are OK, but not my favorite. All along I've been thinking it's Juliet that's been turning me away from GDWU, but maybe it's Ben's dry personality and I'm not realizing it. I'll have to see how Juliet does with another male co-anchor and decide from there. Haven't seen Morris fill in but based on the work I've seen from her she doesn't see like that great of an anchor.

Definitely agree; Ben is a great hard news anchor and Teresa deserves the promotion. The Ernie Anastos format is something that they should stick on Sundays like WABC, WPIX, and WCBS does with Diana Williams, Marvin Scott, and Dana Tyler respectively. I also noticed that Ernie Anastos still does the live teases for the 5pm show during the 3pm hour, instead of Steve or Dari.

Busy "news" night for us; also some minor updates to the WNYW graphics:

Also some updates to the WABC 4:30 and 5:30 pm rejoin opens. Here's the 5:30: