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1 hour ago, NYNewsCoverage said:

Agreed that John and Kala are probably currently the most underutilized talent at PIX. I find Kala a better anchor than Arrianee; and agreed that John has been moved around to every single slot and he's managed to comply. He must have a lot of patience; that is not quite how you should treat your groundbreaking veteran AM news anchor. And the same with Kaity on weekends. If anything put Kala as weekend anchor and have Kaity where she belongs-at 6pm weeknights! 

 

Either way back to real life, the current lineup seems to be

4-5pm :Tamsen and Arrianee (currently Kori since Vanessas on leave)

5/6/6:30: Tamsen and Kori

10pm: Kori and Shirley

Kala on the weekends doesn't hurt knowing that she was originally hired as weekend anchor when she joined in early 2016. 

On 4/17/2023 at 2:55 AM, MediaZone4K said:

Nextar wouldn't want to pay that many bodies.

AM

4:30-7 Vanessa & (Marysol?)

7-10 Dan & Tamsen? (if not then Hazel)

10-11 Marysol & Alex

PM

4 & 6p Kala & Craig Treadway

5 & 10p John & Shirley

 

I wonder if Tamsen would be better in the AM with Dan?

 

 

John and Kala would be the right fit

8 minutes ago, 24994J said:

 

And who's paying for them to have 6 weeknight anchors? Certainly not Nexstar or any sane station owner in 2023.

At this point. Kala should've gotten the 6:00pm 

How to fix the PM team:

4:00pm: Arianne and Shirley

5:00pm: Tamsen and Kori

6:00pm: Kala and John (Should have happened many years ago at this point)

10:00pm: Shirley and John.

John should've never left 6 and 10pm. The station has gone downhill since October 2010 when Kaity and Jim were demoted in favor of a solo anchor being Jodi Applegate herself. Since then, the station has been suffering through a lot of changes that were not necessary. When John rejoined in 2014, rating started to increase beating WNBC and WNYW. 

59 minutes ago, dabx said:

News expanding at night - 6:30 - 7:00

It won't last long. It happened twice in 2009 and then in 2016 with Kaity and Brenda Blackmon only lasting 8 months. 

Kala and John would be a perfect pair that should have been happening since 2016.

7 hours ago, dabx said:

WPIX is starting a 4pm newscast - no mention who the anchors are

Hopefully Kala Rama and John Muller get paired if a 4pm newscast happens. If it does, I know that it will be temporary as the 6:30pm newscast in 2016 with Kaity Tong and Brenda Blackmon only lasting 8 months. PIX has gone downhill in the past few years as they added their morning newscast all the way until 11am when no other local station has that kind of time slot. But hey, at least theiy fired Suki. 

12 minutes ago, DMA said:

Is he going to take over the 11am from David?

Afraid not. Adam Kuperstein will take 11am and 5pm 

2 minutes ago, SnellKrell said:

Adam Kuperstein is replacing David, who's replacing Stefan.

 

I would imagine that Phil will replace Adam co-anchoring the weekend 6 and 11,

and doing general reporting.

I assume thats what might happen

5 hours ago, RealNews18 said:

I’m sorry but an hour long newscast should not be anchored solo. I understand the pandemic perspective (and budget cuts) but in the long run I don’t see a solo an or at 5 working out. 

Was expecting that Gilma would also join Adam for 11am and 5pm with Adam and again fill a vacancy of weekends with Jen Maxfield and/or Rana Novini until further notice.

Feels like another hour of copy and paste. Nothing special but stupid antics and no news related after 8:30 am. I see the 9 and 10 am shows gone in a year from now as how an extra hour is going to help the station again. The 6:30 pm newscast with Kaity Tong and Brenda Blackmon lasted only 8 months (January - September 2016) as it did not helped the station to its expectations. Lets see in the coming months if this extra morning hour was worth to budget. 

9 hours ago, SnellKrell said:

Don't forget Adam Kuperstein - I think he has a better shot than Gus Rosendale.

 

My own choice would be David Ushery.  I've been a fan since his days at WABC.

Gus is fine on the weekends with Pat as I like their chemistry together. I think it's going to be most likely Adam that will replace Stefan for 4 and 11pm respectively. David Ushery is fine doing 5pm solo for now as I don't think they will hire somebody to Anchor with him at this time. As a result, Gilma will be anchoring by herself if Adam moves to weeknights or they can probably move her to 5pm with David. That's how I see it going forward, as for the weekends, I guess it's going to be a rotation of filling in with Jen Maxfield and/or Rana Novini again. Any thoughts?

2 minutes ago, 24994J said:

 

C'mon, be better. 1. His name is Dave, and 2. It's summer. He's just taking some time off. 5 days off-air isn't enough to file a missing person report.

Hi there, my mistake for the misspelling. Just edited the threat. 

Where is Dave Price? He has been off since last Thursday

12 hours ago, Bill from Maspeth said:

 

Morgan Radford works for the network.  Would she want to leave?   Maybe she like to travel?

I don't think they will add somebody to co-anchor with David at this time. Knowing there staff budget is fine. Rana, Gilma, Jen and Adam constantly fill in when David is off for 11am and then 5pm.

WCBS Reporter Nina Kapur passed away from a moped accident

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/07/19/cbs2-reporter-nina-kapur-dies-following-moped-accident/

It looks like it's going to start happening little by little. Hopefully Michael, Darlene, David, Stefan, Chuck and Natalie will get back to normal with the studio with the six-feet distance.

6 hours ago, Spintech33 said:

 

Basically a demotion. What's not broken doesn't need to be fixed.

 

But if PIX is trying to catch  WABC and WNBC for top morning show between 4:30-7, they still have a long shot.

Exactly my point, WPIX is well know for doing these "If it ain't broken, don't fix it" for a decade now. John Muller was fine for the 6 and 10pm since 2016 while Kala and Craig were the perfect fit for 4:30-6am. These changes has been going on since Kaity Tong and Jim Watkins were removed in October 2010 and were replaced with Jodi Applegate. That was a turning point for the station at the time as it did not felt the same prior as Kaity and Jim were the perfect fit for the station for years prior as nothing was wrong in which it all dates back to these "If it ain't broken, don't fix it" things. I am pretty sure the morning ratings will an increase, who knows. Because when Scott and Sukanya had the slot, that was a turning point for the morning news with all these unnecessary antics which made the show very unwatchable. But hey, John Muller is a veteran and a personal favorite of mines as he's been on with the station for 2 decades. 

32 minutes ago, cbs2idiots said:

On Facebook, it states Craig and Kala will be reporting and they will be the filling anchors weeknights.

1 hour ago, Spintech33 said:

 

I don't see WNBC management making any moves with regards to David's co-anchor anytime soon.  If I were a bettor Rana should deserve the top spot. I also too like Jen Maxfield. However, Gilma Avalos is fine on the weekends.  Now, I could only see Kala staying if she's out on the field. However, if she decides to leave. WNBC would be the logical place for her. Look Myles Miller is there and he's doing very well there. So the possibility of 2 PIX alums at WNBC is not far in reach.

I think know they just wanted to go under the budget on WNBC for now. Stacey Bell left the station for personal reasons in the first place. Rana Novini and/or Jen Maxfield seem like the right fit due to them constantly filling in at 11a and 5p. Kala should probably end up on the field while continuing at PIX in either shift as I don't think they would dismiss her at any time. 

28 minutes ago, NYNews said:

 

I would like see Rana Novini take the spot as David's co-anchor. She does a good job anchoring and reporting. Not a fan of Gilma.

 

 

But didn't ratings improve drastically with the team of Dan, Betty, Byron and Marissa? Why mess with it?

Rana Novini is a good one as she does the job right in both anchoring and field reporter. But I wouldn't give any hopes for that to be official at this point. 

On the other hand, ratings kind of improved in mid 2017 when Betty and Dan became the new morning anchors as there was not any problem with their chemistry (unlike Sukanya and Kori). As for Kala Rama, I hope they keep her on PIX 11 as she's one but the best of the morning anchors. Hopefully, she'll be on the field intentionally. 

3 hours ago, Spintech33 said:

Either Breaking news anchor during the AM or 6PM news or simply out on the field reporting..

I personally don't think that WNBC is ready to fill that slot as of yet... Still too early to tell on that. Stacey only left a few months ago.

Newsrooms are cleaning up shop in other places. Not in NYC as of yet.

Insert Treadway & Rama at 6PM...  That's if PIX management wants to go that route.

It’ll take a while for David Ushery to get a new co-anchor. Had a feeling Gilma Avalos would do it but she remains to anchor during the weekends.  Hope they don’t drop Kala out of the morning news on the other hand, 

2 minutes ago, TellyGenic said:

Where is Gilma?  Haven't seen her since before the COVID crisis started.  I know she had a baby a while back, but shouldn't she be back at work by now?

 

She will be back in mid-July

Erica Grow is just doing fill ins every now and then.  

1 hour ago, RealNews18 said:

Craig Allen is filling in tonight on News 12 Hudson Valley.. not sure if he was picked up by Altice but pretty cool if that’s the case

Its assumed he's just covering. 

PIX just hired a new Sports Anchor named Justin Walters from the "now-defuncted" FiOS 1. It's assumed that he's most likely Scott Stanford's successor during tge week since Andy Adler is most likely on the weekends