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Well Ruhle will also anchor on MSNBC and will be the regular Saturday co-host so I presume to think that Melvin will be in the same boat.

There's really no reason for Harman to be in these promos but I guess he wants the facetime?

Andy Lack and the strategy makes sense. If you want to push MSNBC more in the hard news direction in the daytime (which I think is the right idea), aligning it closely with NBC News makes a lot of sense.

I think it's a matter of time until GMA expands, they're leaving money on the table. After all, there was some speculation a year ago that Ben Sherwood wanted to cancel The View and put a third GMA hour at 11 (which I don't think would have been that great an idea). As others have said, Live is too successful for it to be outright cancelled and moving it to 10 could face some resistance from the affiliates. GMA's problem to me is that they just have too many cooks in the kitchen and this just compounds that. They're obviously all hands on deck since Today is gaining some and has the Summer Olympics coming in the distance but what will Lara's role be with Strahan in the mix? Seems to be there's another move coming.

Except for the fact that Jenna was terrible on Sunday Today. The drop-off from Robach to her was pretty stark. As I've said before, I've always been pretty meh on Hill. Doesn't stand out but you could do worse. She and Wragge never stood a chance on the last rendition of the Early Show and she wasn't really going anywhere at NBC. Given that there's no regular Saturday co-host as is, I'm interested in seeing what NBC will do here.

Jose Diaz-Balart could be poised to lose his MSNBC show as well while staying with NBC Nightly News on Saturday. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/msnbc-will-cut-ties-with-show-host-who-wrote-critical-email-to-colleagues/2016/02/27/bce30c8e-dd82-11e5-891a-4ed04f4213e8_story.html

But don't forget, they then took Cho off of the 11 so would WNBC put her on the 4, 6 and 11? Personally, I think they'll try to make a splash and bring in an outside hire to go with Holt at 4.

I agree with this, he gives the show the kind of gravitas that it desperately needs with their tabloid direction regardless of what you think of the Clinton Foundation stuff. However, I don't think that Lara is necessarily the problem either because don't forget, bringing her back to the show in 2011 did play a role in the show's ratings rise as well as bringing on Josh Elliott to do the news and doing the whole everybody at the table thing. I know it's always easier to fire somebody or to move the chairs around but I'm not sold that changing out anybody will make the key difference needed.

In an FTV Live exclusive, she's interviewing with WFLD Fox 32 today. http://www.ftvlive.com/todays-news/2016/2/5/look-which-ny-anchor-is-interviwing-in-chicago-today

Wow, what a shock there!

And that 1994 mark was set the morning after the conclusion from the Lillehammer games so for CBS to eclipse that mark without having the benefit of something huge like those games were is a BFD.

Exactly, normally there's an announcement that the show is ending before they start to staff up. If anything, that's pretty unfair to Hayes to start staffing a new show while he remains in this sort of limbo. Just because it's been expected that his show will get canned doesn't mean he deserves this sort of treatment. FWIW, the posting has been updated. https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGWEbHost/jobdetails.aspx?partnerid=25354&siteid=5108&jobid=299280

I don't see Pelley going anywhere soon and he isn't that much older than DuBois is (I believe it's eight years). Next CBS gig likely to open up would be Charlie Rose's spot on CBS This Morning considering he's in his 70s but he did also sign a "long-term contract" last February.

I always thought that when Rob Morrison got canned that they put Wragge on mornings as a temporary bandage but he has stuck. IMHO, I think he's a better fit for mornings than evenings and he works well with Calvi. Personally I'd prefer to put Dick Brennan on evenings over Wragge but I don't see DuBois leaving anytime soon.

I totally agree but even then, this is much better than the previous look.

Other posters have noted that PIX has tried a 6:30 newscast before and it failed. I understand the appeal of having a local newscast during the network time (we have that down here in DC with WRC with them having Nightly News at 7) but what makes you so sure this will be a big hit with the ratings?

My goodness, that looks terrible. That idea should be left on the drawing board.

It probably was IIRC, but why not pair Ushery and Russell for the 5 and then bring on Chuck and Vargas for the 6?

Forgive me if this has already been discussed but why does PIX 11 need to have a separate team at 6:30 pm than from their 6 pm? I do get that they're promoting this as an alternative to the network news but I've never been a big fan of having a separate team at the half hour. I'm not a fan of what WNBC does in the 5 pm hour with a new team at 5:30.

That's a fair point, although my point was ultimately that they want MSNBC and NBC now to be more interchangeable, particularly in daytime. And to be fair, I'm not the biggest fan of Diaz-Balart on MSNBC but I do think he's better on Nightly. I do wish NBC would appoint a regular person to that gig instead of contuining this hodge-pose, if you will.

I think either Roberts or Diaz-Balart would make sense because it would then reinforce the notion of how MSNBC and NBC News are one (again) with having prominent MSNBC folks doing Nightly News on the weekends (including Kate Snow).

I don't agree with this quota thing. Why does it have be some sort of quota that he's getting more prominent work instead of his qualifications for the gig? And it's not like he's some guy they just pulled out of nowhere, he's been around for a while now including of when he was on the This Morning on CBS in the late 90's (and yes, I know this was when you couldn't pay somebody to watch morning news on CBS but still). It is 2015, right? As for Erica Hill, I've been all that fond of her but I don't think she's terrible either. She's capable but never really stood out to me. But she's perfectly fine filling in on MSNBC and considering she's a fill-in, that's all you need IMO.

And while I do realize the Elliott-Horowitz connection at FS1, but who's to say that ESPN won't be in the mix? They're launching a 7 am SportsCenter in February and Elliott would give them a high-profile anchor (and he did help start the 9 am with Hannah Storm) to lead off with. Would hate to see Cho go because she's very good but playing into the hypothetical of if she does, would love to see Charlesworth get that gig but I do think you probably would see Stokes slide into that role and maybe have Charlesworth take the morning. Fortunately for them, WABC has themselves a pretty good crop of anchors to work with (although I'm not the biggest fan of Sade TBH).

Here's a pic of the Fox broadcast graphics:

I think it was Inside Cable News that likened him and CNBC president Mark Hoffman to cockroaches in that they keep surviving against the odds. I was surprised to see Lack keeping him on as they were planning to wholly revamp the channel.