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Raegan Medgie posted on IG that she has left WABC. Unclear if it was her choice or theirs.

2 hours ago, RealNews18 said:

If Mike were to do any of the earlier ones I would hope they’d give him the 5 with Sade. Let Bill finish up his time at 6 with Liz. 

Yeah, but he said he wanted to get home for dinner with his family. It's a longer trip now that they're downtown.

18 minutes ago, RealNews18 said:

I was just coming here to say the same thing. I assume that he will be doing some sort of reporting/main fill in. I thought it was originally reported that he would be stepping down from the 5 and 11, staying on the 6, so it's surprising it's just the 11. 

They should get rid of David Navarro, let Bill do 4 and 5, and put Mike at 6 and 11. But that's not happening. 

23 hours ago, MediaZone4K said:

Was thinking that as well! I'm sure she worked side-by-side with those people at some point, now she's having to be hostile with them.

I'm guessing that getting up at 2am for the morning news was probably more enjoyable than having to deal with the Adams mess right now.

For those who remember her, Kayla Mamalak (now Altus), formerly a morning reporter at Fox5, is now Mayor Adams' press secretary. She had been deputy but when she came back from maternity leave recently, she was promoted. You can hear her telling reporters that they're not going to discuss other stuff in Friday's press conference. Talk about an unpleasant job to have right now!

On 1/24/2025 at 6:19 PM, HanSolo said:

Humans are human. 

On 1/24/2025 at 10:39 PM, ns8401 said:

That implies they have a file of those somewhere. Somebody grabbed the wrong Friday. 

So they tape the news break and don't broadcast that one live? I know that GMA3 isn't live, it's taped at 10am (and I thought they were rearranging their schedule so it would air live). The insert always seemed sort of haphazard, no introduction and often interrupts a commercial.

Someone screwed up and showed a repeat (yes, repeat) of the mid-show break-in newscast with Sandra Bookman during GMA3 today. The show itself was not a repeat. I've never seen that before. Learned about the inauguration moving indoors and 40-degree temperatures again.

On 1/9/2025 at 12:43 AM, MediaZone4K said:

Josh Eineger even went all the way to England to assess how congestion pricing worked out for London.\

Ali Bauman from WCBS did that, too. The story was put on hold when congestion pricing was postponed.

On 1/8/2025 at 1:31 PM, MediaZone4K said:

So Rosanna isn't even trying to hold up the guise of an objective journalist....not that she's good at hiding her opinions anyway.

 

But from her days with Greg Kelly it was very obvious -- even though not explicitly stated -- that they were Trump supporters. Thats fine for FNC but not for the local broadcasts which already live in the shadow of the "Mother Ship's" bias. 

Wasn't she always friends with Trump?

As for the rest of the folks at Fox5, I noticed last week that Natasha and Bianca were going after LA mayor Bass after the Post reported that she had rejected the help from NYC firefighters. The Post article was updated to say that she denied that happened (maybe even before it was discussed on the broadcast), but I doubt that was ever reported on the air.

17 hours ago, IceManNYR said:

Not sure why Rosanna Scotto needs to be a panelist on the Fox News show The Five today.
She made a notable mistake in U.S. history,

 

So basically, she was perfect for that show.

9 hours ago, Vlad said:

But it's been more than 10 years in the studio so it makes sense for them to refresh again, hopefully, they'll get a nicer look, hopefully, a bit brighter this time than their previous look. But they used that space pretty well all in all so will be nice to see what the future holds for them at their new space at 7 Hudson Square.

And now they'll be in the congestion pricing zone, which they were not at the current studio. It's been mildly amusing seeing reporters who you know are going to be affected by it do stories about it. Fox5 will be the only one outside the zone.

Byron Miranda doing morning and evening weather this weekend.

Lisette Nunez has left the station. Hayley Fixler (most recently in NC) seems to be her replacement. They look fairly similar, at least at a glance. In fact, I was wondering if Lisette had not actually left when I saw Hayley doing a story.

Update -- Lisette ended up at the ABC station in Chicago. Seems like she has family there.

On 10/27/2024 at 10:03 AM, newsdude said:

I got news for you: local Emmys have ZERO weight on someone's employment. The idea that someone wins a trophy because a producer in Kansas City thinks someone is a great anchor in a market like New York City is pretty wild in the first place.

Did not realize that they vote in markets other than their own. But you're right, it seems like almost everyone gets one. Still, seems kind of ironic that someone who never officially got the anchor position won the award.

21 hours ago, Telly Genick said:

Chris (Welch)  turned up on NY1 this week, as a street reporter.

That seems like a major step down. I wonder what he did to get the boot and have to settle for something like that?

Alexa Farrell is joining PIX11 as the new traffic anchor on Monday. She's married to Ryan Kristafer of FOX5. She's most recently from FOX61 in CT, but before that apparently spent six years at News12. She was a news anchor at both of those, so this seems like a step down, but I guess it's NYC.

Alexa Farrell (@alexanfarrell) • Instagram photos and videos

Update - still not on the air as of Tuesday.

In an ironic twist, Teresa Priolo won the NY Emmy for news anchor, even though she never officially had the job and was replaced. She told me that they are able to submit their own tapes, and she did. She wasn't even at the awards ceremony. Maybe it gets her an anchor job at another station where they have more brains.

1 hour ago, MediaZone4K said:

Wow! Star was growing to be one of the station's popular personalities. She had gone viral on social media for her outfits.

 

People on social media thought she was going to be the new traffic person when she teased a big announcement on Saturday.

Star Harvey announced that she is leaving on 11/3. No word on where she's going, but it's not New York. Wouldn't be surprised if she ended up back in LA or at least California based on her social media posts and frequent visits back there.

On 10/9/2024 at 12:15 PM, 24994J said:

On 10/9/2024 at 12:05 PM, TheNewsTV said:

Chris Welch left WNYW? Bianca Peters is anchoring The Noon alone.

Yes, it's been awhile.

Was it announced? His social media is quiet.

Natasha Verma posted on social media that she's co-anchoring the Sunday night newscasts with Arthur Chien during football season.

Also, no on-camera meteorologist tonight, they just showed the forecast.

On 8/13/2024 at 10:07 PM, NYNewsCoverage said:

I noticed that Alex Lee was dropped from a recent morning show promo, and her bio was scrapped off the website and any promotions. Quite strange, something must have happened. Dan did NY Living today with Marysol, Kendis did it the other day. I think Julie Millet has been covering traffic and wrote she will be filling in the next few weeks. I think Alex's last day on air was August 2nd.

Her Linkedin has the #OpenToWork tag.

Oops I see this was reported above.

On 7/15/2024 at 7:58 AM, TheNewsTV said:

And at WABC we had David Navarro and Sandra Bookman. Only WNBC didn't bring their main anchors to the late news.

And WNBC did it again this week. Same for MSNBC, they had their weekend people. WABC brought in Bill and Sade for the 11pm news.

PIX11 news went on right after the Mets game ended at ~4:50pm on Sunday. Kaity came on, but announced that they were switching to NewsNation for coverage of the Biden news. Not clear if they ever went back to local because I'd had enough of them after five minutes, but she was on at 10 with local news. I know that NN was still on at 6pm when The Broadway Show was supposed to air.

WNBC is the only one of the O&O not to bring in their weekday anchors for the 11pm newscast on Sunday to cover the Biden news.

In other interesting (or unusual) news, Dave Price is doing Sports Final at midnight.