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Pedro Rivera officially promoted to weekday mornings 

Will they ever announce a replacement for Maurice? Schedule since he moved to network seems to be Jessica Monday thru Wednesday and then Allan/Dick/Alice on Thursday and Friday. I would hope something more permanent would go into place? 

I’m wondering if we’ll see an “official” announcement about Pedro this week? Mike took over the 5 last Tuesday and Pedro was on vacation so it would make sense. 

Effective tomorrow Mike Marza takes over the 5:00 with Sade. Bill stays on the 6 with Liz. 
 

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1 minute ago, MorningNews said:

They’ve also been running the morning promos with Mike Marza edited out. I would have figured they had the AM succession plans all sorted by now.

Have they? I’ve seen the one where they edited him out and it’s just Shirleen and the crew, and then there’s other ones “recapping” the show from the day, with the team and whoever is in that seat, usually Pedro 

8 hours ago, cg4 said:

According to FTVLive, Byron Miranda was “escorted” from the station recently. Apparently he and Stacy-Ann Gooden didn’t get along, and he wasn’t easy to get along with.

Wow. So now they’re down to 3 meteorologists. 2 of whom are on the evening shows and none on the weekends.  

2 minutes ago, civic110 said:

Tom Kaminski, formerly of WCBS880 and Air11 on WPIX was reporting in NewsCopter 7 tonight.

 

Wonder if John or Shannon are cutting back or departing, or if Tom is just filling in?

He’s been on for a few moths now. According to a post on his social media Shannon had knee surgery and would be out for a few months. John D has also been on in the afternoons 

Mike Marza filled in last night at 5. Liz did the 6 solo. 

2 minutes ago, TheNewsTV said:

I noticed these days that Mike Marza never fills in for Bill Ritter when he's not at 5pm and 6pm. Is there any logical reason for this?
(not that I mind, of course, I'm just curious)

Yesterday Sandra was there for Bill at 5pm, today we had David and Sandra at 5pm; Liz did both days at 6pm only.

 

I thought that because Mike was Bill's soon-to-be replacement, he would be his immediate replacement on his time off.

Mike was out covering the Diddy trial yesterday. Not sure about today but yesterday he did several reports for all evening shows. 

At the end of the 5pm today after the last weather hit Lonnie announced why he hasn’t been doing the 6 and 11. He suffered a head injury a few months back, was told to work shorter days and to not drive at night, he is now taking time off. Here is the link of him announcing on Evening News.

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4 minutes ago, TheNewsTV said:

This morning, Janice Yu said that she was replacing Pedro Rivera. So nothing has been made official yet, as people were assuming.

“Replacing” or “in for” cause there’s a big difference.

Who knows maybe we’ll see someone we least expect. Again, I thought they said Mike officially takes over on Tuesday, we may see him tomorrow morning, who knows if an official decision is even made but if it is I guess we’ll find out. 

Promo for the morning show already had Mike edited out. Only has Shirleen, Brittany, Sam and Heather. No shots of them together. I assume we’ll see new promos anyway for all shows being that all of them show the old studio.

I also wonder how much longer Sam will be around, he was very vocal on Instagram and Facebook live the first few days of the “move” and how he no longer lives in NYC (most of the time) and this doubled his commute time. 
 

Also.. I’m thinking Mike will appear on the morning show Monday to give an official “goodbye” to that team and the viewers at that time? Do we know for certain that Pedro will take over? Or is there a chance it will go to someone else? 

25 minutes ago, MisterBill said:

 

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. 

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. 

3 minutes ago, TVNewsLover said:

I wonder what Mike’s other roles will be in addition to anchoring the 11pm. Will he report from the streets at 4pm, 5pm, and 6pm? Will he sort of be a third “breaking news” anchor on those earlier shows? I’m surprised Bill didn’t step off one of the earlier shows too. 
 

Does anyone understand what Bill says at the 1:19 mark, right before “my brother”?

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. 

I assume they’ll give Mike his announcement in the morning with the team and Pedro there (assuming he’s still the one taking the spot) and I’m sure weekends will be rotating with the typical people (Toni Yates, Chantee Lana, Janice Yu) until an official replacement is hired.

Here’s a pretty cool transition in the newsroom 
 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGx4pCbg4OF/?igsh=dXdmcDI3d28wM3lz

Lee Goldberg did the last 5pm weather hit and first 6pm weather hit from the roof. It was a pretty cool shot with the World Trade Center in the background and the sunset. He also mentioned many more angles up there and more live shots to come. Should be pretty cool 

18 hours ago, MediaZone4K said:

That would be a full circle moment as they were previously co anchors at 5.

They must be "testing" the pairing of Chris and Kristine (even tho they were together) because Jessica did a report from the desk tonight. In my opinion moving him to evenings would be a great option. 

They just had a really cool closing “thanking” viewers for watching and visiting them all these years in their building. They ended with a long zoom out of the outside of the studio and the extended theme. If anyone has it recorded and can post it was pretty cool.

New set debuts at 6pm tomorrow 

https://nypost.com/2025/02/20/media/nyc-pix-11-anchor-claims-she-was-treated-like-slave-before-firing-lawsuit/?

Here we go..
 

https://nypost.com/2025/02/20/media/cbs-backtracks-on-evening-news-revamp-just-weeks-after-launch-with-network-boss-in-the-hot-seat-sources/?utm_medium=social&sr_share=facebook&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=nypost&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1dXgc6Joec9yQ-TOnvUkTlX6KRUpN9ix7UfTNnD4bV9ietmsiX91A0seA_aem_nXucqpMNW0s7gF2JJKerjw

Kirstin Cole is stepping away from weekends anchoring and going back to weekday AM reporting. Wonder who the replacement will be 

On 2/15/2025 at 8:19 PM, TVNewsLover said:

Is the anchor switchup happening at that time too? I noticed on Friday that Mike was also in for Bill at 5PM, but Bill was on at 6PM. And interestingly, Pedro was off this morning.

Michelle was off Sunday morning, Toni anchored with Pedro. A few weeks ago when Pedro was on vacation we saw Chantee Lans and Janice Yu with Michelle so potentially trying pairs again (yes I know they’ve all anchored together in the past) but if a move is coming maybe testing. 
 

Also note that with rehearsals going on over on the new set this afternoon/evening they had Joe and Tanya anchoring at 5. Sandra anchored 6 solo

Ryan Field posted picture of the new set.