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Long day for Rick. Solo anchored at Noon, then co-anchored at 4pm & 5pm, and now is solo anchoring at 10pm!!

 

Why doesn't Jim Gardner ever fill in at 10pm?

 

Don't you mean Andrea Bennett?

 

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She has 2 names?

When will Fox29 be changing their website to the new Fox O&O layout?

 

WFMZ has some super blurry cameras that they use out in the field - awful!

 

Fox is better to watch in SD because it doesn't look messed up.

Does anyone think that fox29 has the most blurriest cameras? When I watch in high definition it is bad.

Greg Argos is joining CBS 3 on Monday as a Reporter

Matt Rivers is now a correspondent for CNN

 

Meisha Johnson joins KYW as Traffic Reporter.

http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/meisha-johnson-joins-kyw-as-traffic-reporter/151860

 

I wonder why it took almost a year to hire someone to replace Bob Kelly.

Tonights newscast at 5 and 6 was really good with Ukee and Jessica. They did a shot of the whole studio before they went to break kind of like what 6abc does.

Justin Drabick did the weather reports live this morning on Eyewitness News instead of taping the report the day before.

 

Ukee's last morning show was Wednesday. Nicole Brewer was on with Erika Thursday & Friday. Btw, Pat Gallen from 97.5 radio has been added to CBS3 to cover sports. http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/entertainment/Pat-Gallen-moves-from-975-Fanatic-to-CBS3-Phila.html

 

Will Pat Gallen be doing the sports report on the weekends or weekdays?

Who will be filling in for Ukee on the morning show until they get someone new?

Is NBC10 close to beating 6abc in ratings?

 

Why has Justin been doing traffic recently? Did they get rid of Vittoria Woodill too?

 

For some reason, they have Justin doing traffic Monday and Tuesday. Vittoria does traffic in the evening those 2 days. But then Wednesday-Friday, Vittoria does the morning news and there is no traffic for 5-6:30

Also, when the networks give their affiliates money, what kind of things do they do with the cash?

Is Lesley Van Arsdall the official replacement for sports director or no?

 

So apparently Kate Bilo worked Friday 11:00PM, and then did Saturday monring, because they are so low on forecasters. I'm assuming Katie Fehlinger did Sunday AM, and Justin whatever did the weekend eveneings.

 

Now this is a hectic schedule as it is with only 3 meteorologists on staff, but CBS 3 really needs to act quick because Fehlinger is pregenaunt, and from the looks of it ready to pop any day. So they're on the verge of losing her for several months too

 

On the Sunday morning show, it was pretty weird. Nicole Brewer actually did some of the weather reports and then for the 7 day forecast, she turned over to Justin Drabick who taped the forecast on Saturday Night.

 

I'm ok with a 7AM newscast. I just don't see the need for a weekend 5 to 7 or 8AM and again at 9AM. It's a lot of the same stories from the day/night before. I'm waiting for Fox29 to start early (earlier than 8) on the weekends soon, too. I think each station just wants to one-up the other.

 

Whenever I wake up on a Saturday morning and I want to watch local news, I can't because it ends at 7am and I am not awake for that. On Sundays, for example, Action News is on from 6-8AM and also throughout the morning so I can watch.

 

WCAU now has a drone: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/video/#!/news/local/NBC10-s-New-Aerial-News-Camera-Debuts/311601241

 

Having trouble playing this on my iPad.

 

What are they naming the drone?

 

I've been wanting to check it out but I always seem to be out to lunch at that time. Is it just like a regular newscast or does it still have some stuff from Talk Philly?

 

For the first 20 minutes, they read the news. Then once Katie is done with the weather forecast, they go over to an interview in that huge space in the studio with the giant monitor.

The new Eyewitness News at Noon is much better than "Talk Philly". They are actually doing good interviews and Ukee, Pat, and Katie are interacting with each other since the change of the 12pm show.

Will Ukee still anchor Eyewitness News at Noon?

 

 

Ukee's moving to nighttime and other changes. http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/phillygossip/292945081.html

 

 

 

More changes at CBS3, which on Tuesday let go of three of its biggest on-air names: anchor Chris May, chief meteorologist Kathy Orr and sports director Beasley Reece.

Starting July 13, longtime morning anchor Ukee Washington will replace May as co-anchor, with Jessica Dean, of the 5, 6, and 11 p.m. newscasts on CBS3 and the 10 p.m. newscast on CW57, a station spokeswoman said Wednesday.

 

Kate Bilo will replace Kathy Orr as chief meteorologists on those newscasts, with Katie Fehlinger taking over Bilo’s duties on the noon show.

Meteorologist Carol Erickson, who has been with the station on and off since 1978, was offered a new contract but has decided to leave to, in her words, “focus on my commitment to animal welfare in the region.”

 

No word on replacement for Reece.

 

 

 

Now this is a better move!

It's like all of the stations are taking away things from 6abc. First it was nbc10 taking the official Eagles station title now fox29 is taking the pa lottery station title

Whoa!!! Did not see that coming! After how many decades???

 

What influences these types of decisions?