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Apparently they want to act like Matt no longer exists. I can’t blame them.

So they have a anchor team at 6, a solo anchor at 5, Sunday night a anchor team and yesterday morning Michael Anchored solo. No of that makes any sense to me whatsoever.

They don’t. A solo anchor at 5 but not at 6? That doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.

Any clue as to why David and not Chuck or Natalie closes out the 6pm newscast?

It would make more sense for Gilma to co-anchor with Adam on weekdays than with Phil on weekends. The 5pm newscast should have 2 anchors.

Adam K started today at 5pm.

Given he was at the station for 4 years and not 40 plus years like Chuck I think that was an appropriate send off. The 4pm newscast was not the final newscast he did so it was not necessary for him to say much. Once Chuck either stops anchoring at WNBC or retires I expect them to give him the type of send off that WABC gave Diana Williams last year.

Exactly. He was not there for very long at all. When Chuck eventually retires expect a major send off. Even for Janice and Bruce.

Interesting.

It’s odd although it could be permanent.

It’s Natalie and David. I think it would have been better to have them at 5 and 11, have Adam with a co-anchor at 11 and 4 and have Chuck go solo at 6 for now. That makes more sense than someone going solo at 5. Perhaps this is why Stephan is going to WMAQ. Perhaps it’s not a demotion per say but a part of a overall cost cutting move.

It feels like a demotion for Ali IMHO

If anything they should have someone solo at 6pm.

Another possibility is that WMAQ is not thrilled with there current ratings and they think that Stefan would be an improvement and WNBC is confident they have someone else who would keep the ratings stable so they see it as a win-win.

Perhaps Stephen and his wife wanted to move back to where they grew up. Perhaps they will be close to his wife’s parents or perhaps WNBC is looking to save money and that’s a factor in this. Stacey Bells recent departure makes me wonder if that might be the case.

Stephen and Natalie are in the studio together.

Thanks for sharing this.

It’s too bad that this didn’t get more coverage. I know Nina wasn’t the star at WCBS although she was a reporter there who was way to young to pass away.

I’m impressed with the energy she has.

Right. Maybe to be an anchor. She might. Another possibility is Darlene leaving TINY if she’s tried if the hours. Gilma probably makes the most sense. David solo I suppose could be an outside possibility as well.

I was thinking when a decision is made about a co-anchor for David that Morgan Ratford is the best bet. She had the personality, energy and appears to be friendly with Janice Huff.