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Well the weekend people have never gotten much respect in first place. Only Lester and Katie have been promoted I do like Natalie she my favorite person on the show. I hope they don't phase her out. Noah Oppenheimer said changes were needed but could be made with it current cast which I agree But Andy Lack Who came soon afterward probably had a different idea. And NIW that he done with Nightly and in the midst of Reinventing MSNBC he probably now probably his next thing far need change; TODAY Matt may have been able to save their jobs lady but who know if he will be able to now. Maybe asAndy is one who hired Mtt for TODAY

They seem to be switching things up for some reason. Natalie has not read News Briefs In The First Hour for Three Days now for whatever reason. I have to admit frankly kind of bothers me a little

Hmm very intriguing..

I had kind of forgotten that Juju was News-anchor at one time. She was not there very long, her tenure really seem to fly by. Juju was there for 15 Months. Josh tenure was on 2 Years 10 Months but seem like it was longer then that for some reason. In looking at past GMA News-anchors none of them seem to be there for more then 4 years except for Steve Bell who was News-anchor for 11 years. Although I think Amy will still be News-anchor by 2019 making her the Second Longest Serving.

You right, it just very interesting. I remember being get a little surprise when Deborah Norville showed up for TODAY 60th. It brought back some bad memories for the show

I have to say that I am a bit surprise that Kevin Newman and Lisa McRee are going to be there. After all it was during their short tenure that GMA fell to 3rd Place

Lisa was

TODAY Show continues to make strides against GMA winning sixth week in Age 25-54 category and came within 401,000 Total Viewers last week. http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/morning-show-ratings-week-of-oct-5/274730 And yet Jamie Horrowitz wanted to fire everyone last year except for Matt and Hoda. Yeah that would have ended well for them. I guarantee you that whim weeks TODAY Show would have found themselves in Third Place has Horrorwitz gotten his way. NBC would not have realize what just hit them until it was too late. I applaud Matt for his actions last year in saving his Co-workers Job. he knew that would be catastrophic from a mile away and knew he would likely get the blame again and would be even more unfairly criticize Does the show still need to make some changes? Yes but mainly small ones. Mostly with content then anything. They don't need any changes to the cast especially nothing drastic like that. But I think they can lose a couple. Carson is hardly there anymore. The last thing the show need is any more major cast changes especially with it man four where it now showing stability

Never thought about that. That could be.

No that was Ryan Seacrest

I have read that. but clearly he could do both TODAY Show and MSNBC Primetime Show. I think there is to many people on the show as it is. They could lose a few hosts. As long as they don't mess with the main four or Willie

So who job will Billy Bush take on the 3rd Hour? You know someone about lose their Job. You can't have Five hosts on the 9am Hour. NBC is looking to add Billy to the TODAY Show and lead the Third Hour. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-nbcs-today-spoiled-abcs-831919

I do not like the camera setup when they are all setting at the desk. I find it annoying you can only see two anchors and the other you only see the back of and then the camera does circle thing. I know CBS does a similar thing but their desk is larger and is shaped differently so it will work. I don't know who idea that was but I am surprise Deborah and Andy supported that move.

What exactly is CBS This Morning Bench of successors? at ABC Robin top substitutes are Lara, Amy and Elizabeth at NBC Savannah is Natalie, Hoda and Tamron. So what is Norah? Would be her Top three Successors?

I know a lot of people did/do not like Jenna Wolfe but when she got demoted not a lot of people were not happy. It like a lot of people complained about Ann Curry but we all know what happened when she was removed form the show. I don't think Ann was right for the Co-anchor chair but NBC could have handled it much better no doubt. I wonder how things would have turned out if NBC had done things differently back in 2011 and not have chosen Ann to replace Meredith. Would they be still number 1 If: They had moved Ann off the show when Meredith left and replaced Ann with Natalie (or Amy) and Meredith with Savannah or visa versa as it is now and given Amy Third Hour job. or replaced Meredith with Hoda (or Natalie) and kept Ann as newsreader. or replaced Meredith with Hoda and Ann with Amy. But then you ran the risk of losing Natalie to someone like ABC Natalie, Amy, Willie and Al would have made a great team for the third hour I have to say. With Amy departure it made room for Tamron.

I am talking about female anchors promotion to weekday TODAY.

True. But while it too bad that Amy got lost in the musical chair/shuffle of 2011 and 2012 ass Amy said moving to ABC News saved her life. Amy like other Weekend TODAY Anchors of the past (Maria Shriver, Campbell Brown, Soledad O'Brien, Jodie Applegate) would not get promoted. Unfortunately Weekend TODAY Anchors rarely ever get promoted to the weekday Show. Only one has and that was Katie Couric. It is too bad really because when they join Weekend Show they do use that as a stepping stone with the intent of being promoted to weekdays. They all left for the same reason: they got tried of waiting.

In her new book talking about her battle with Breast Cancer Amy Robach talk about why she left Toady Show and NBC. She was Unhappy. She was going through a lot of stuff at the time (Stress along with anxiety attacks and other things and at one point she had a doctor appointment in early spring of 2011 where she found out her heart was damaged) and said how for the last few years she was not feeling the love anymore at NBC like they (the executives high up not her co-workers. she was still very much respected and love when it came TODAY Show staff) really did not want her there anymore. Her career has hit a dead end and she was not really going anywhere. she been doing Saturday TODAY for 4 1/2 Years. She had until 2010 been filling in for Meredith, Brian, Ann and Natalie but suddenly the calls started coming less and less. She was told by doctors she needed to slow down with working. in 2012 her contract was up soon but she was not hearing at all from NBC about renewal and her agent was not getting any calls and that made her worried. She admit that she really wanted to move up to Weekday TODAY when Meredith announced she was leaving. She wanted the Third Hour co-hosting job on the weekday show. When Savannah got the Third Hour Job job she then felt it was time for her to leave. And so she joined ABC. I should say she has no animosity for Savannah whatsoever. Just thought I should point that out. she doesn't blame her at all. She was at Savannah baby shower last year and Savannah was at Amy book party the other night.

One you leave you can't always go home as Sam and Josh learned. They are not going to boot Ginger off so he can get his old job back. they are still number 1 and Ginger is popular. It did backfire on them and I think they thought NBC would use them a lot about they haven't much. It did backfire Now Josh is another story. From the sounds of it he was a Diva. I think all those stories in the press were true now as in her book Amy write about how on the day that she was at the hospital for all the testings and when she found out she had cancer Josh called her because he needed to vent about GMA or something (probably had to with Lara) that happened that day. He obviously couldn't really vent to Robin and probably wasn't that close really to George. Amy was still fairly new so he knew he could vent to her But it was obviously he wasn't happy about how things were at GMA and would not have left if he wan;'t and considering his outrageous salary demands. They thought if they threaten to leave ABC would buckle but they didn't.

Watching Matt and Savannah meet The Pope last night at evening Prayer was a great moment to witness.

What does everyone think about these stories of Amy and Lara feuding?

Thanks for sharing that. I heard that Willie may get a Primeitme show on MSNBC but it too early to say. I think Willie will be Matt successor and I am starting to think Matt will leave at the end of next year.

Sources are saying she will most likely be bump down to 10 and anchor until noon. If she does TODAY at 9 and then her show at 10 there is no way she has enough time to go form studio 1A to across the street to MSNBC Studio to do her show. so likely if she does take over 10AM slot on MSNBC she will be leaving TODAY. when it was 11 she had an hour to prepare and go over,etc,. Changes are coming TODAY eventually but Andy is fixing the mess that is MSNBc. Jamie Horowitz wanted to demote Tamron last year.

Is Tamron about to be demoted from TODAY? According to reports from yesterday and today it says she will be taking over the 10am slot on MSNBC. TODAY Show Third Hour end at 10, before her show airing at 11 work because it gave her an hour to g go across the street and prepare for Newsnation. But if she take over 10 it would be impossible unless she did the show from Studio 1A but that unlikely.

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