They also act like Ann Curry and Deborah Norville no longer exist. I doubt that Matt will be involved with any event pertaining to the Torah show. I guess Meredith doesn’t care for what he was accused of doing. I think it would be quite awkward and even wrong to expect people who testified against him to be in the same room as him for a celebration. Apparently it was also a dislike on the part of NBC and the Today Show that he was even able to get away with as much as he did. They probably want to forget about it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.