WeatherandTraffic

Tammie Souza filled in on the mornings on CBS Chicago this weekend and last night CBS Philly in the evenings. Weird set up.

This morning, ABC7 just pulled a WCBS and scrapped traffic this morning as Roz is on vacation. Diane had been filling in all week and she was not on today. Most likely they won't give traffic reports til Tuesday as labor day is coming up.

https://www.robertfeder.com/2019/11/22/robservations-reporter-jesse-kirsch-moving-fast-abc-7/ No surprise, he's been promoted to General Assignment reporting. He is reporting on weekend mornings. Which bumps Diane Pathieu to weekday morning reporting. Make sense since she fills in for Roz on traffic and fill's in for the morning show. BTW. i'm not sure if this is just me, but I feel like she fits in really good with the rest of the team on the weekday morning show.

Siafa Lewis is Anchoring Tomorrow morning according to his twitter page (Sorry, I don't know how to post with the twitter post). They are taking a page out of CBS2's book on how they tested with Ryan Baker. This iS a test. Not a permanent move.

Her usual fill ins, Stacey Baca, Karen Jordan and Diane Pathieu. But more likely Stacey or Karen, as Diane fills in for Roz on traffic.

I think she's due at the end of February according to a reply on her Facebook page.

With Christmas just a few days away. Today started with a team we have never seen before. Mark Rivera, Liz Nagy and Tracy Butler. Same team tomorrow too.

A new reporter named Alexis McAdams is joining the station. I'm wondering if it's freelancing since Megan Hickey left, or she's going full time.

Diane Pathieu filled in for Mark Rivera today and I gotta tell you, It was a nice change to see her and ironically, I didn't want her to get the seat perm a year ago, but now I wish she did. She seems less fake than Mark.

There's a small plane that landed on LSD, too bad it happened in the afternoon.

Maybe I'm being a bit over dramatic, but i've seen other annoying anchors, "cough cough" Suki "cough cough".

How would you guys rate the weekend team? I like both Marks, but Stacey is annoying and too perky.

Tracy was on today and will be on tomorrow. It's rare for her to do both weekend days.

I think Diane Pathieu is the main fill in for Roz for traffic again. In march, when Roz was off for a week and again today, it's been Diane and not Kristin Byrne. Now that Disney is in cost cutting mode, it makes more since to have Diane fill in on traffic than Kristin.

She's basically Cheryl Scott's twin sister, which she also talks to viewers like they are 2 year olds.

Do you guys think they will hire Mark McGinnis as a full time Meteorologist or hire someone else from outside Chicago?

When Larry was welcomed to the 6pm tonight. Alan and Kathy mention the last change to the 6pm newscast was when Alan joined in 1998. That's how long the team lasted before Jerry retired on Friday.

He will get the 4 from Cheryl and the 6 and 7 from Jerry. Cheryl will keep the 5 and 10. I find this a logical idea for the post Jerry era.

Well, she needs to rest because Wednesday is the blood drive, and she needs to be well for it.

Everybody is basically drunk on Countdown Chicago. This programs needs to end and put Dick Clark's New years rockin eve back on.

According to Stacey and Diane's facebook pages, it seems like it's their last weekend together. Next week Stacey is on Vacation and Diane and someone else will fill in. My 4 picks with Diane are, Liz Nagy, Hosea, Tanja or Terrell. Then the following weekend, Mark Rivera starts anchoring weekend mornings with Stacey.

Mark Mcginnis is filling in for Phil Tonight.

I feel Dan and Lauren should get an extra hour or contribute IN STUDIO between 6-10.

If Diane is going to back to the field, her studio time is almost reduced to none as we now have with Mark on weekends and Kristin Byrne is now the main fill in for Roz.