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WXYZ has swapped it's digital subchannels. LiveWell Network has been moved from 7.2 to 7.3 and Bounce TV has been moved from 7.3 up to 7.2, this was effective Monday.

If the add a third hour to GMA what happens to Live?

Besides Roz it already has, so I imagine it wouldn't be awkward at all. She is the only original member from 25 years ago. Besides I think they would do a 30 and not 26th anniversary, but It really makes no difference who says "look our anniversary"! Over the prompter. The beat will go on, non awkwardly.

Why?

Not bent out of shape at all, amused is more like it. You didn't look high enough: The imaginary powers that be are the grim reaper and god, we can argue about the latter, the former is a when not an if. I was trying to make a tongue in cheek joke with that about longevity or something but it didn't resonate like I thought it would. I'll have to try to get better writers. Anyway Harry Porterfield is incredible, most people don't even make it to 85 let alone function that well. That's a very unique situation there. I suppose it all depends on if Ron wants to take it easy or not. Somehow I think they will be sold before Ron leaves but who knows. I'm glad to have the guy around, he livens it up a bit. I just wish he was younger so he would be around longer.

I should get an abbacus and a spreadsheet and start writing this stuff down (I already have too many Detroit numbers and other useless numbers in my brain and they are beginning to run together). Are you talking WLS tenure or Chicago News in general tenures? I might need some help on a few whenever I find time to make a chart. Lots of them are listed in bios though.

More of that wonderful chemistry we were talking about with Cheryl? :lol: She sounds like a 5th wheel. Ron is cool, I wish he could stay another 20 but I don't want the man to run himself into the ground doing it either. It's one of those things that happens every 10-15 years that a stations talent ages out. Ron joined in 200? from WMAQ didn't he? When these guys are gone the next aging out will be 2022 or something like that so not a lot of turnover but they are popular people.

Right, but that isn't my point. You are the one talking about pushing and asking. My point was that the man is 69 not 39... you do the math and tell me if he will be there another 5 or 6 years or not. The odds say he will not be 75 or 76 and still anchoring. Health and age become factors (see about the powers that be below). Linda looks fine, she broke her leg... not a big deal. Jerry is getting up there and I do worry about his health from time to time. The powers that be I mentioned in the post you quoted were not the bosses at WLS. You read into that who or more like what they might be. It went right over your head the first time.

Ron is 69 and is gonna retire sooner than later, Alan succeeds Ron. Tell the powers that be that Ron is untouchable... as much as I like the guy (and that is a lot), he doesn't have too long to go, the same goes for Jerry Taft (71) and Linda (67). Theresa Gutierrez and Paul Meincke aren't gonna be far behind. both have to be nearing the 65-70 retirement zone by now. Everybody else but Mark Giangreco and Jim Rose are still under 60. But there will be some major upheavals in the next 2-3 years. We haven't seen anything yet as far as these reshuffled newscasts go. I have nothing against anybody at WLS (one of my favorite stations), but this seems like reality.

You get that way after 20 some years as a number 1 in every time slot. It's a foregone conclusion major attrition and personnel changes will quickly impact abc7 at some point, it's a matter of when not if at this point. I think Babich will replace Judy Hsu and she will move to 4 to replace Linda Yu to be honest. Kathy should be on at 5, 6 and 10 and Cheryl needs to be moved to full time feature reporter. This new guy will probably remain a reporter for a while until Ron retires and Alan moves up, then he will end up at 4, they will not totally nuke and rebuild the morning news, they don't need to, it just needs a pick me up, Tanya Babich would provide that, she gives it energy when she is on with Hosea or Ben Bradley or most anybody else.

Ah, I gotcha, that worked pretty darn well then. They fooled me.

I'm kinda confused as to what was so amazing... It looks pretty normal and standard to me.. I wasn't wowed by anything there. What did baffle me was that this is not a normal thing. What were they doing before that must have been completely outdated to make this so different?

Not only that but the average viewer is probably 1/10th as in tune as we are on the technical side. They simply don't care that much.

Anyone with 50 cents and a monkey could make WFLD do better than they are now. A 1.7 rating at 9pm? Certainly things were nowhere near there at WEWS. More importantly than ratings she knows Chicago having been ND at CLTV.

I agree, I think David Muir is a stronger anchor than Diane Sawyer at the format they have and I think the news is harder on his weekend show then her show, but It seems like by :38 after they are talking about things like "banning the word bossy" or some other fluff during the week. I remember when it was hard news until the last story under Peter and Charlie, I didn't see much of the Bob and Liz tandem so I can't comment there. Nowadays I just get my 5 and 6pm local news on WXYZ, go check my email and get the 7pm news, I can't stand Diane Sawyers Good Evening America routine.

Not to derail this but can we have David muir replace Diane Sawyer? George isn't really lead anchor material. As for Josh he will probably end up staying put at GMA, he's probably trying to leverage ABC into giving him more than they originally planned, surely not $8 million, that's outrageous.

I mentioned the paper throwing thing and somebody posted it to youtube so they could be doing this and be this loose: This is from 3/19/14. I realize thats absolutely not WLS's style but since I described it..

Ok thanks for clearing that up, I've been following along lurking for awhile so I had kind of been wondering if she had anchored at all yet. Still can't believe she made that big of a jump that quick. I will be very interested to actually see her fully in action tonight on the app.

Do you mean this one? (I edited it down to the relevant parts, I didn't see any others mentioning her) I see the word evening but no mention of Ravi unless it was another thread? Just trying to keep it all straight here.

It's not a big thing, she just walked on him a bit and probably should have paid more attention to the count, the graphic was an oops. Where did you say they were good together? I hadn't seen you say that, that's why I ask. You can easily banter in a thirty minute show if you pad it out a bit with a cushion to factor it in, you can even throw balled up paper if you want. If you are in an unfamiliar spot (like working with Ravi) it's not as easy to get a rhythm. I also do not know ABC7's blocking structure and what extra time is built in, it's not usually much. So when you get to 30 seconds and she tries to banter it's gonna clunk because he was trying to get out, they barely made it but Ravi saved it. I wonder what the blocking is like at her old station in Syracuse, my guess is that it isn't as tight.

Caught the last few seconds, that close was very awkward plus the graphic at the end was from the story not the copyright one. Live tv is fun stuff. I'll have to wait to see her at 10 I suppose.

That sucks about Mike's dad. I'm surprised they didn't have Jerry come in or that he didn't come in voluntarily, very nice of Tracy to cover the whole thing. Perfect storm of absences but at the same time can't imagine why they would not use Troy. It almost seems inhumane. Hopefully she gets a few days off to recover.

Probably, sounds like Phil got stranded on a beach. Why not use Troy? I'm sure he could handle it.

At this rate she's been sleeping at the station.

Not saying that at all about Alan and Kathy, I'm just saying they are both relatively stiff anchors. They both do a great job but they aren't exactly chatty or super lively and bouncy. That's the thing about abc7, it can be ridiculously good and it can be rediculously stunted, stilted and stiff, kinda get one or the other. I would never say Alan or Kathy throwing it to Chuck doesn't look a little silly when they say it. Some of the scripts are a little bit overly formal and repetitive too, same lines every day like clockwork for throw overs, I wasn't so much saying it's awkward. You have to go to that New Years special for that (it's still hillarious anyways). That may be why WGN is starting to win mornings, they are looser and more fun as a group. Remember the 7 in the morning ad? Trying to make them more relatable. It's also that abc7 had become a little stale, things have to evolve and change over time but I think they leave things go too long there, like the last graphics package, 8 years is a long time for a graphics package to live. Don't expect Hosea, Judy, Roz and Tracy as a team to last the rest of the year. I keep hearing that Tanja Babich is in line to kick Judy out. That would be a dumb move but ratings are down and idler seems like a guy who doesn't always get it right. Tanja is ok but her "Tanja Babich ABC7 Eyewitness News" is hard to decipher because it's said way too fast. This is an outsiders perspective from somebody who watches a hybrid that's closer to WPVI in style but like abc7 In format so it was never as formal at all. But I have watched years of abc7 as well and done my homework before reaching this conclusion.