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3 has another new reporter: Wakisha Bailey from WPBF in West Palm Beach recently joined the station. Now, three reporters have left, but three more have come. Recently left Greg Argos (February 2021) Dan Koob (June 2021) Kimberly Davis (June 2021) Recently joined Alicia Roberts (December 2020) Jasmine Payoute (June 2021) Wakisha Bailey (July 2021)

Former WPVI assignment editor Eric Hughes passed away last night. He had a pulmonary illness for the past several years. Prayers to his family.

On Twitter, she said "hope you're feeling better, Sarah Bloomquist," so she might be sick. However, she soloed at noon today (also, unrelated, but at the end of the noon David Murphy said "sus" as his kids requested... LOL). I don't understand why they would continue to have Sarah do a Sun-Thu schedule now that she anchors at 4:00. They can probably have Sharrie or Alicia fill in at 4, but still, that's a little weird to have someone always be off of two newscasts one day each week.

Jasmine Payoute, formerly at KSDK in St. Louis, joined CBS3 as a reporter last month.

Sarah is on tonight, although when they showed the overhead shot of the desk Walter was not sitting there so she was probably filling in. UPDATE: Yes, she's just filling in. "Walter Perez is off"

Krystal Klei was standing next to the desk at 11am as well.

Yeah, LOL, at the end of the 6pm, Cecily said it was past his bedtime and he promised he would be awake for the 11. I don’t think it would make sense for it to go to an outside person (or really anyone except Sarah), considering how many times she has filled in. Then again, though, after Monica left, Sarah filled in at 5pm most of the time, but the spot went to Sharrie.

Interesting fill-in tonight: Matt O'Donnell is in for Jim Gardner at 6. Anyway, it's been around 30 weeks since Jeannette left and there's still no official replacement. Sarah has subbed at least one time all of those weeks (or nearly all of them; I can't remember a week she was off every day). I wonder if they are just waiting for the new voiceovers to announce it? Currently CVD only does the opens and isn't used for anything else. I would hope they don't use the VA's that do the station promos and closing announcements; I don't think their voice would go well with MCTYW.

So, in recent months, three reporters have left (Dan Koob, Kimberly Davis, Greg Argos) and only one has joined (Alicia Roberts).

Today is Dan Koob's last day at CBS3. He came to the station in 2018 as a reporter/fill-in sports anchor. It looks like he is joining some sort of sports betting app.

I didn’t see the beginning, but Jaclyn Lee is co-anchoring with Gray Hall this morning. She can’t be filling in for Nydia, because she’s only on Sunday mornings (unless she’s adding Saturday mornings). Is this just for Memorial Day Weekend, or a permanent change?

Their website shows the usual half-hour at 6pm for this Saturday, but an hour at 6pm on the 5th. Looks like they are the only O&O doing this if they actually are.

Sharrie just said “Brian and Sarah are off” at 4:30. I guess that means Sarah is the new 4pm anchor, like we thought.

Joy Howe announced that today was her last day anchoring at noon. She'll continue to do reports in the evening.

I guess we can confirm Brittany Boyer will debut on-air next weekend - Chris Sowers is in tonight, and she should be starting this April, so she's either debuting on Sunday or next weekend (unless she's going to fill a different role).

Christie Ileto in for Brian at noon today. Wonder why Sarah didn't just handle it solo?

CBS3 adding the 8am hour back to Eyewitness News This Morning on Sundays.

Sarah is off, guess who's filling in at noon? None other than Maggie Kent. I wonder why she has been filling in so much? Not that I dislike her, but I don't understand why she's the only person they can have sub.

Also, I take from Brittany Boyer coming to the station this month that they'll probably record the new opens with a new announcer, since Charlie van Dyke only VO's the opens from a year or two ago. I wonder who will become the new voice of Action News...

That’s what I’m wondering too. I think I actually prefer Chris on weekend evenings now. On a different note: Maggie Kent is in for Gray Hall on Action News Saturday.

I definitely agree, it looks a lot better than the Good Day/Youse Up Yet logo.

Me too! It's probably an April fool, but they made shirts, hats, a logo, and a full opening sequence. We'll just have to see what tomorrow brings, LOL.

Goodbye, Good Day Philadelphia, hello Youse Up Yet?...

Good Day is doing a 25th anniversary show on Thursday, the 1st.

Maggie Kent was in for Tamala Edwards this morning.