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As you may know the new anchor changes at channel 5 begining August 28 will be like this: 4A-7A: Alex, Zoraida, Andy and Kye 4A-7A: Alex, Marion and Alicia/Kalee 4P: Patrick, Marion and Brant 5P, 6P and 10P: Rob, Allison, Brant and Siafa Weekends Mornings: Susan, Christian, Kalee and Marley Evenings: Dick, Michelle, Alicia and Jeff/Mike I think if Rob comes back to the 5, 6 and 10P newscasts, Dick will go back to the weekends just like did before Rob is going on a medical leave back in March?

Last week the station's bug was switched in time next year's Winter Olympics; NBC meanwhile, the Olympics bug also switched from the network's standard bug recently, it will be the earliest to switch to the Olympics bug rather than the usual begin to use at the start of Fall TV season, the kickoff to the 2017-18 TV season will be in 5 weeks from this week. also, as of today, the station's website was switched to their Olympics logo and the station's Facebook page, Twitter account and Instagram account was still using the station's standard logo.... can not wait until the Olympics logo will include to the station's Social media accounts.

Michelle Releford was doing 4pm news today with Marion Brooks. Allison Rosati joined Marion for the 5pm also. Allison and Michelle are both doing the 6 and 10pm news this evening. great girl power all night long.

Well anyway, Allison is doing the 5, 6 and 10 tonight; Ally was with Marion at 5 and Dick at 6 and 10. Is the Italian-american female journalist in Chicago had fill-in with Marion at 4 last week? great question.

WMAQ has hired Tracy Davis, the news director currently working at CBS-affiliated station WDJT in Milwaukee to appointed as the station's assistant news director. this comes 6 months following its former news director Debra Juarez was promoted as VP, digital for its Miami sister station. She will start working at the station June 5. http://www.robertfeder.com/2017/04/04/nbc-5-hires-assistant-news-director-milwaukee/

This Saturday Night is the biggest New Year's eve party in Chicago today, entitled "Chi-Town Rising". Channel 5 will be back to broadcast the NYE event Live as like did to last year, which is became the highest rated NYE event despite the hosting complaints and the video production errors. Weekend morning Traffic reporter Marley Kayden will be back as co-host for that event, Some NBC5 on-air talent will appeared on the broadcast will include Fill-in Sports anchor Siafa Lewis who co-host the broadcast alongside Sheinelle Jones from NBC News and MSNBC, Weekday morning Traffic reporter Kye Martin, Weekend evening Meteorologist Alicia Roman and 11:00 am Meteorologist Bryon Miranda. http://chicagoradioandmedia.com/news/8631-nbc-5-telemundo-chicago-s-chi-town-rising-2016-2017-broadcasts-set

I saw this week's issue of "Entertainment Weekly", there's an ad for "New York Live". Does WNBC themselves putting the ad for the local show in a national magazine?

KXAS reporter Ray Villeda is possible to joined WNBC: http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/kxas-comes-out-even-adds-one-reporter-subtracts-one/149385

WNBC is now using new graphics ONLY in promo end tags. How did News 4 gets a makeover? https://vimeo.com/119563732

This Sunday is SNL 40th Anniversary Special, and I guess Channel 4 will aired an special episode of 1st Look with New York Live's Sara Gore and Jacque Reid following the news... and an ad for the actual special was appeared in this week's New York Magazine but missing from the ad is the mention of "1st Look Live From New York" who is advertised on the station but not on the NY Magazine ad, and also missing from the ad is the use of the "4 New York" branding in which channel 4 runs the special, Instead they used "NBC" for national promos instead of just "4 New York" for advertisments of some National NBC Programs in magazines (like New York) and however they wanted to use the "4 New York" branding for some promotional materials in newspaper and outdoor advertisments of National NBC Programing... [ATTACH]1477.IPB[/ATTACH]