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I heard that WEWS has now overtaken WKYC for second place. Viewers are not liking the new format on 3.

I saw on another forum back in '09 that there were rumors that WEWS was thinking of pairing Kimberly Gill with Duane Pohlman for evenings. How would that have worked for a team, and wasn't he up for Ted Henry's spot after his retirement?

The new morning format at WKYC has resulted in a departure already. John Anderson announced on his social media pages that he's no longer at the station.

Does anyone know the national ratings for Daily Blast LIVE? Even the ones for each markets? I'm curious how the show's doing, but the new season's a turn off after they started having two of the hosts engage more in split-screen fights.

John Anderson appears to have left WKYC according to his post in his Facebook page following its format change in its morning newscast. This will be the second time he has left the station.

And WEWS should have never ditched Macie Jepson for Jackie Fernandez (pre-ticket scandal).

Speaking of WEWS, Nick Foley is leaving the station for WPHL in Philadelphia.

WEWS now has TWO openings in the weather department - one part-time and temporary, the other for "Good Morning Cleveland." (Yup, another one from that show is gone!) JD Rudd appears to be gone from the station as his bio is no longer on the station's website.

JD Rudd appears to be gone from WEWS. The station is now looking for a new AM meteorologist, along with a temporary part-time one.

Romona Robinson is leaving WOIO/WUAB at the end of the year, according to Cleveland.com. She said it's her decision.

Here's a promo for tonight's 50th anniversary celebration for WUAB:

WUAB is planning 50th anniversary special on Monday night during its 10pm hour. It'll be a reunion of its 1990s news team followed by half-hour retrospective of the station's history. http://www.cleveland19.com/2018/09/12/special-night-programming-cw-celebrates-years-wuab/

Tegna's syndicated Daily Blast Live is off to a bit of a rough start. Two of the show's host got into a disagreement that went viral for the wrong reasons. So much so that producers have been trying to stop footage from going viral. Too late. https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-this-painfully-brutal-panel-show-exchange-you-are-the-living-embodiment-of-white-privilege/ https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/daily-blast-white-privilege_us_5b9abfd5e4b0b64a336d12a3

Beth McLeod out at WOIO/WUAB. There's already a job posting to fill her spot.

They do need to do something about that slogan and logo. Plus, the on-screen graphics are atrocious.

Wasn't a former WKYC anchor at the time of Ted's retirement approached to fill the chair? I saw a lot of male reporters filling in for Ted's job, only for it to go unfilled until 2011. I even saw there was the possibility of one of the investigators replacing Ted with its morning show co-anchor joining him.

There have also been some bad press regarding WEWS during the last few years as well from two of their morning show personalities being let go after sharing on social media they were in line for a political event to two news superiors being let go following a mishandling of sending a crew to the house of an assault victim in a Cleveland suburb that's battling out the station in court over an investigation report related to ticketing. Come to think of it, Chris Flanagan was co-anchor with Danita Harris of the 11pm news when it was #1 in 2013, and I thought he was a great anchor. I even heard that Good Morning Cleveland was #2 when Macie Jepson and Mike Dunston were the anchors back in 2012/13. That last one likely caused WKYC to move John Anderson back to mornings (and eventually have Lynna Lai join him), and have Chris Tye and Erin Kennedy reassigned to general assignment reporting. Seemed like the anchor hirings of 2011 was starting to pan out at 5 before some tinkering ruined it. It was the tinkering after changing news directors in 2014 that's started WEWS' recent slide. A "young and hip" GMC team didn't have time to pan out following those late 2016 firings (only Terrence Lee remains from that team), the revolving door continues to spin among on-air talent, some talent gets more airtime than others, and the aforementioned bad press didn't help. Not to mention WJW is unstoppable, WKYC is still solid, and WOIO is looking a lot better all the time. I wouldn't be surprised if they're once again pulling ahead of WEWS in the ratings. There were times between 2001 and now that WEWS had signs of life in the ratings, only for the station to find ways to mess it up again. I still remember when after the 2004 makeover, WOIO started beating them out at 11pm. Seems to be up-and-down since then. The station does have a good news product. They just can't keep up with WKYC and WJW. Hopefully the new news director will get the station back to the top of the ratings, and learn from the mistakes of the past.

WOIO/WUAB has hired Erin Logan to anchor the 10:30pm portion of its 10pm newscast on 43.

WEWS is moving "Right This Minute" to 3:30pm next week after "Who Wants to be a Millionaire." Then, on September 17th, the station will expand its Noon newscast back to a full-hour.

More problems for Channel 55's owner. BIG problems!

WEWS has once again hired a news director from KMGH. They haven't filled the assistant news director position yet, though didn't they hire one earlier this year? https://www.cleveland.com/tv/index.ssf/2018/08/wews_channel_5_hires_new_news_director_from_denver.html#incart_river_index I have a feeling the investigative team at News 5 will remain unchanged, while more changes happen elsewhere.

WEWS has hired a new news director a little over a week after WKYC hired its new one. Both are the second and third station to add a brand new ND after WOIO/WUAB earlier this year.

WOIO/WUAB is moving Jeff Tanchak to mornings and Samantha Roberts to afternoons and evenings. Next week is likely when the changes will take place.

Speaking of WEWS, here's more on Janessa Webb leaving the station for NBC News and MSNBC from Cleveland.com.

Paul Kiska in Cleveland has resurfaced at WJW Fox 8 after working 18 years at WEWS News 5. I saw his name pop up on the "People" page of the Fox 8 website.