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Tomorrow marks 2 years since the passing of Dick Johnson. I was really sad when he passed as he was underrated and one of the best journalists I've seen. NBC5  should have given him top spot as he had great chemistry with everybody. 

38 minutes ago, TheRolyPoly said:

 

Wow. I'm in love! Some of the best weather graphics I've ever seen, anywhere.

Agreed. 

1 hour ago, 24994J said:

Time to blow the dust off this thread. The weather graphics are almost always the canary in the coal mine, the fist sign of changes. These debuted at 4pm, an they align with all new graphic teases I've seen, from the colors, to the font, to even the little arrows that appear in a few spots.

 

Nice reminder: if anyone quotes this post, please remove the screenshots from the quotation box.

 

This station has always had one of the best graphics in this market, if not, the country, next to Hearst. The outgoing graphics were 7+ years old and they aged well. 

45 minutes ago, MorningNews said:

Yeah it would really suck for Rob to not stick around. He’s a really good fit with the weekend and weekday crew.

It is really unfortunate, but he maybe wants a job with weekends off or wants to have 8 hour days and not do both GMA and WNT. He doesn't do that much on Weekend GMA anyway and the second hour of GMA on Saturdays is pointless. It's just to give the anchors more time anchoring. They can easily get put on ABC news live. The regular anchors of ABC news live are not the best besides Linsey and Terry.

6 minutes ago, 24994J said:

I'm not going to engage with such random speculation. Mark's return means nothing in relation to the rest of thestuff, except that there's going to be some summer vacation time, coming up. Suggesting that other ABC stations' opening make Greg & Cheryl shoo-ins for the job is a big reach. You can just admit you don't seem to care for them. There's no shame in it.

Cheryl has gotten a lot better, especially since being paired with Larry on weekdays and more experience so she doesn't bother me. I'm saying with Greg, if he wants to move up more or get a weekday job in a top market, they're are openings. WABC needs at least 1 more also as Sam's schedule is limited and overworking Brittney and Jeff is not a good idea. Plus Cheryl, Greg and Danielle Breezy from Nashville are the most often GMA fill ins, although Danielle and Cheryl are both in too good positions to leave their current jobs. 

The Rob Marciano situation is still weird. He hasn't been on GMA (both weekend and filling in for Ginger on weekday) for months now. But he still doe WNT and ABC news live. Last week, Sam filled in for Ginger and did Weekend GMA from Florida, yet Rob Marciano was in Florida for WNT. So is he leaving ABC or stalled contract issues?

14 minutes ago, 24994J said:

 

Despite not appearing for 26 months (March 2020 to last month), he had been pretty adamant on Twitter that he wanted to come back, and he'd be called back. Whether it's the exposure, the workplace, or the money, he clearly thinks the commute is worth his time.

Don't get me wrong I like Mark McGinnis. His forecasts are simple and not over the top like Greg, even though Greg is good, he just needs to stand still more and stand a little further from the camera. But with openings in Philly, I think were Cheryl Scott grew up in that area as Cecily Tynan was her inspiration. Wcvb has an opening as Harvey Leonard retired and no one has replaced him officially and another meteorologist is Pregnant. Greg and Cheryl Scott's fiance are from the Boston/Southern New England area. I can see one of them jumping over to Boston or Philly. More likely Greg since he's on the weekends and can get a weekday job in those 2 markets. So if one of them is leaving, bringing back Mark McGinnis makes since.

Is there a reason they brought back Mark McGinnis as a fill in. I'm surprised he's filling in again since he lives in Milwaukee area and has his own company. I know it's extra money. but with the gas prices, I'm surprise he said yes.

We all know Fox News is conservative channel. Is Fox Weather more conservative or neutral?

56 minutes ago, 24994J said:

 

Tracy was off all week, so MAYBE that was pre-planned time off. Roz was broadcasting from home, but appeared at a charity event and her Silver Circle induction, so that was probably a precaution, so she could stay healthy for those occasions. Terrell was on on Monday and maybe Tuesday, and when Ravi filled in the next day, he mentioned getting the call fairly late the night before, as if unexpected. Tanja no longer appeared when Terrell did, and Val filled in for her, until she was out on Friday, doing Windy City Weekend from home. Sam was out all week, but returned Saturday to anchor for Stacey.

 

TL;DR: COVID outbreak seems likely amongst some of the morning team.

Wouldn't Mark, Stacey, Ravi, Greg, Phil, Karen and Val need to be quarantined since Val sat next to Terrell and sat in Tanja's seat Monday and Tuesday, Ravi sat next to Val Wednesday morning, Karen Wednesday at 11am,   Mark sat next to Val Thursday morning, and next to Stacey Thursday at 11am, Friday and Today. Phil did Monday through Wednesday and Greg did Thursday through Saturday. Unless the anchors and Meterologists can't interact with each other as here and WABC has still one of the most strict Covid Guidelines.

Mark McGinnis returned to ABC7 today after a 2 year hiatus due to the pandemic filling in for Greg. They must be short staffed bc, Cheryl is doing Weekend GMA for the second weekend in a row and Tracy Butler is MIA during the sweeps as well as Tanja and Terrell. 

7 minutes ago, Georgie56 said:

I guess Diane Pathieu replaces her, then?

I don't think she will want to go back to weekends, she's a weekday morning reporter/fill in anchor/fill in traffic.  If they go the solo route with Mark Rivera. which is highly unlikely , then they have to cut down on the weekend morning newscast. For a while they will probably use Samantha Chatman, Tanja, Diane, Liz, Karen(if needed and Val(if needed) until they find a permanent replacement.

1 minute ago, 24994J said:

 

Those with the most fill-in hours, in order, would be Diane, Liz, and Samantha (who seems least likely, as she's entrenched on the morning show), if they don't go outside, of course.

Diane hardly fills in on the weekends anymore since she got promoted to weekday reporter and fill in on the weekday morning show.

I think Stacey Baca is leaving the station, I didn't see her announcement but she said 2 more months and Mark and Greg were saying that they were going to miss her. 

7 minutes ago, TheRob said:

 

Stations in New York and Philadelphia, and to some extent Washington, are having illness problems right now. You don't make people work marathon double shifts in top ten markets unless it is an emergency.

I think that's why some stations WABC and WLS are hesitating to go back to normal sitting. If I was an anchor, I would rather be distanced than sitting right next to someone. 

With Larry and Cheryl Scott both off, Phil is doing all the evening shows, very underused meteorologist, wished his talents weren't wasted on the weekends, like Karen and Ravi. 

1 hour ago, MorningNews said:

Really WABC’s actual news product is not very good either. It’s overtly sensationalized and editorial from the graphics to the on-screen commentary. Horrible horrible. Channel 4 and channel 2 are in a different league compared to 7.

Agreed, their talent is okay, but some of their tans look awful and dress like it's 1950's aka Lee Goldberg. Others can dress whatever way they want and doesn't have to wear a suit and tie aka Sam Champion. I don't get the hype about either of them, especially Sam. Their best team is the Weekend PM team.

What do you guys think about the digital newscasts. I like Val and Terrell's chemistry in the morning and it seems like her, Samantha and Diane are the main fill in's for Terrell and Tanja. You don't really see Karen, Ravi, Mark and Stacey filling in for them anymore. The evening newscast is good too, but the rotation of meteorologists is weird. but it gives Phil and Greg more on air time during the week.

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Kaitlin Sharky is out after 2 years. Two female sports anchors out at two stations in one week.

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Lauren Magiera is out. With Dan pushing his retirement back and Payton the obvious person to replace him. She maybe felt she was not getting the lead sports position anytime soon.

12 minutes ago, MisterBill said:

 

Why would they need five when two of them only work weekends? WPIX just added a weekend morning newscast, and they're having their weekday morning meteorologists to work one day each weekend. Then they seem to get a day off during the week and the weekend evening person covers their morning slot.

Because their days are so long, especially the morning shift. In at 3am and out by at least 1:30. No wonder why Amy Freeze left. Though, if they hated their schedules, they can always find another job that's more flexible. Also, by adding one, the network can pull from here instead of flying some from Chicago, Nashville, etc.

They are also cheap in terms of adding another meteorologist. They need it as Sam only works Monday through Thursday. I don't get why the biggest market and the strongest station can't have 5 meteorologists.

Do you think Lara Spencer is going to leave or get let go from GMA. Cutting her would make sense since she's only on 3 days a week and TJ and Amy can do her spot, files reports and fill in for the main anchors. Cutting her would save money for ABC and won't lose that much viewership.

Have you guys seen Mark Giangreco's twitter. He keeps tweeting and retweeting other people bashing Cheryl Burton and Jim Rose. I know he has beef with Cheryl Burton, but Jim Rose. Make me think he actually called her "ditsy." He also praises Dionne miller saying that she deserves the top sports spot. What do you guys think?

What I meant is Today does more stories on ordinary people as well as entertainment news. GMA is straight up tabloid from 7:15am through the end of the show. All they do is talk about famous people and laugh. Is the TODAY show the best morning tv show ever? No, but it's certainly better than GMA, and CBS Mornings is better than GMA as well in terms of news and lighter content.

10 minutes ago, noggi said:

 

You're asking if anyone watches the morning show that happens to have the most total viewers? (Today wins narrowly in some demos). 

 

They must be doing something right... it's almost as if a majority of viewers don't care about news and would rather wake up to something softer and more digestible. 

The reason why their number 1 I think is that they have strong local newscasts before it and people don't change the channel. Plus, TODAY does a better job at doing lighter content than tabloid GMA. Plus TODAY has better personalities.

Does this show even do news anymore. They rush through the news to get to entertainment and tabloid stuff. They should drop the news and turn this program into and entertainment/talk show. Does anyone ever watch this fake show?