The Channel 6 Action News Thread

[TVNewsLover 777]

Wondering if and when Sarah will officially be named 5pm co-anchor. For most of the time Monica’s been gone, Sarah has anchored Monday through Thursday at noon and 5pm, while maintaining her Fridays off and continuing working Sunday evenings. Christie Ileto has been the most frequent sub for her on Fridays at noon and also doing the 5pm.

 

I’d be shocked if anyone else gets the spot (as Sarah has been the fill-in 80% of the time). I hope they don’t continue her with this Sunday-Thursday schedule. Unless they’re going in a different direction, they need to give her the 5pm and make her schedule Monday-Friday. That way they can start testing co-anchors with Walter on weekend evenings!

[ddaniels20 68]

John Rawlins has announced his retirement, effective today.

 

 

Edited September 30, 2019 by ddaniels20

[SF1964 63]

Reporter John Rawlins is retiring today (9/30).

https://twitter.com/JRawlins6abc/status/1178640647202451457

[TVNewsLover 777]

Hmm Sharrie was anchoring at 5pm today. Wonder where Sarah was (she was on at noon). C’mon 6abc, make your decision already!!

Edited October 8, 2019 by TVNewsLover

[SF1964 63]

WPVI is selling a book commemorating 50 years of Action News.

Info on book.

 

 

[Lamont 1]

21 hours ago, TVNewsLover said:

Hmm Sharrie was anchoring at 5pm today. Wonder where Sarah was (she was on at noon). C’mon 6abc, make your decision already!!

Same today with Sarah was reporting. I didn't like seeing that!

[TheRolyPoly 2393]

19 hours ago, SF1964 said:

WPVI is selling a book commemorating 50 years of Action News.

Info on book.

 

 

 

Bought myself a copy and now waiting for it to be shipped over. I didn't hesitate. I had to have this.

[TVNewsLover 777]

A new fill-in today. Saw Bob Brooks filled in for Rick at noon alongside Sarah.

[Mrknowitall526 115]

On 10/8/2019 at 5:51 PM, Lamont said:

Same today with Sarah was reporting. I didn't like seeing that!

That's the thing about Sarah.  She's a great reporter AND anchor.

[TVNewsLover 777]

Brian’s anchoring at noon with Sarah today. I caught the 12:30 opening, and it was a generic opening. I wonder if it was because they have a lot of news to get to today, or if it’s because they’re testing new pairs. 
 

UPDATE: When they close their newscasts, they usually say the names of those that are there as well as those that are off. Mysteriously, Rick’s name was not mentioned at the closing of the noon newscast.

Edited October 29, 2019 by TVNewsLover

[WCAUTVNBC10 413]

1 hour ago, TVNewsLover said:

Brian’s anchoring at noon with Sarah today. I caught the 12:30 opening, and it was a generic opening. I wonder if it was because they have a lot of news to get to today, or if it’s because they’re testing new pairs. 
 

UPDATE: When they close their newscasts, they usually say the names of those that are there as well as those that are off. Mysteriously, Rick’s name was not mentioned at the closing of the noon newscast.

 

They ran the generic open at the top of the show as well. Perhaps something's up.

[TVNewsLover 777]

3 hours ago, WCAUTVNBC10 said:

 

They ran the generic open at the top of the show as well. Perhaps something's up.

Seems like something’s definitely up. Jeanette Reyes co-anchored at 4pm with Brian, and Sarah filled in for Alicia doing the features. The 4:30pm rejoin mentioned Sharrie in it, but she was not included in the close. But she gave the 5pm preview, and is now anchoring the 5pm with Rick. And Alicia was in studio at 5pm doing a story!!!

Edited October 29, 2019 by TVNewsLover

[WCAUTVNBC10 413]

25 minutes ago, TVNewsLover said:

Seems like something’s definitely up. Jeanette Reyes co-anchored at 4pm with Brian, and Sarah filled in for Alicia doing the features. The 4:30pm rejoin mentioned Sharrie in it, but she was not included in the close. But she gave the 5pm preview, and is now anchoring the 5pm with Rick. And Alicia was in studio at 5pm doing a story!!!

 

Perhaps Rick and Sharrie are the new 5PM paring, with Rick moving to 10PM and Brian to Noon?

[TVNewsLover 777]

28 minutes ago, WCAUTVNBC10 said:

 

Perhaps Rick and Sharrie are the new 5PM paring, with Rick moving to 10PM and Brian to Noon?

Alicia was mentioned in the closing of the 5pm. If these are permanent pairings, it’s kind of sad to see Rick and Sarah broken up. Also, I feel like it’s a slap in the face to Sarah if she is not given the 4pm or 5pm as she well deserves it. 

[Action Newsroom 1277]

Just finished watching the 6pm with a tease for the 10pm on WPHL. Rick is featured with Sharrie, Adam and Ducis.

[TVNewsLover 777]

[double post]

Edited October 29, 2019 by TVNewsLover

[TSSZNews 1051]

Interesting time to experiment given we're at the November book...

[TVNewsLover 777]

14 minutes ago, Action Newsroom said:

Just finished watching the 6pm with a tease for the 10pm on WPHL. Rick is featured with Sharrie, Adam and Ducis.

Hmmm, interesting. Perhaps Brian wanted off the 10pm to be home with kids. I think Rick’s kid is older and getting ready for college, so the noon/10pm switch makes sense for them. I hope that they are then going to test pairings at 4pm, with Sarah being the frontrunner. I do like Jeanette and Maggie, and think they are better at the anchor desk than Christie, but one of them should be put on weekend evenings with Walter, while the other two serving as fill-ins. 

[Action Newsroom 1277]

1 minute ago, TVNewsLover said:

Hmmm, interesting. Perhaps Brian wanted off the 10pm to be home with the kids. I think Rick’s kid is older and getting ready for college, so the noon/10pm switch makes sense [...].

Maybe but we don't know for sure yet. We'll see. All I can say is congrats to Rick for the upgrade from noon to 10, and congrats to Brian for becoming the afternoon anchor (I'll miss him at 10pm). I just wish the station announced these pairings beforehard to end the madness.

13 minutes ago, TVNewsLover said:

I hope they test pairings at 4pm, with Sarah being the frontrunner. I do like Jeanette and Maggie, and think they are better at the anchor desk than Christie, but one ... should be put on weekend evenings with Walter, [&] the other two ... as fill-ins. 

I hope too. Also, agree on Jeanette or Maggie getting a slot someday. They are fantastic behind the desk. Christie too, but them more.

[TVNewsLover 777]

Noon today had generic opens with Brian and Sarah anchoring. Jeanette gave the 4pm preview from the newsroom and Alicia did an in-studio story in the 12:30 half hour. The close had Alicia standing by David, and her name was mentioned in the close.

[WCAUTVNBC10 413]

1 hour ago, TVNewsLover said:

Noon today had generic opens with Brian and Sarah anchoring. Jeanette gave the 4pm preview from the newsroom and Alicia did an in-studio story in the 12:30 half hour. The close had Alicia standing by David, and her name was mentioned in the close.

 

They must be going back to the drawing board to rethink the show formats. Traditionally for them, the noon news was predominately a hard news show and when they expanded it to an hour, they had the lighter stuff towards the back end of the second half hour. When the 4PM launched, it was faster paced with the news and features were dispersed through out. The 5PM has always been longer form hard news. 

 

With Alicia possibly joining the noon (perhaps only for the 2nd half hour) maybe they want the noon show to become like (or replace) the 4PM and have the 4PM become a harder news show to compete with 10 at 4. As of right now, 10's the only station in that timeslot doing a full hard news hour. 3's doing a complete fluff show (hell they sit on damn couch) and 6 is trying to do both and perhaps they want to get away from that.

[TVNewsLover 777]

These changes must be permanent. Sarah was mentioned in the 4pm Close even though Alicia was doing the feature stories today. They also referred to Jeanette as an anchor when they tossed to her for a story during the 5pm. 

 

Must say I’m not a fan of the changes and feel like they came out of nowhere (usually they test pairs on air).

 

Rick and Sharrie have little chemistry. There’s really no room on the 5pm show for soft feature stories that Alicia now does. Jeanette jumped from reporter to 4pm anchor. Christie was the main reporter subbing as an anchor and she got nothing (so far). Sarah was subbing at 5pm since May and all she get’s is the 4pm feature role, definitely a slap in the face. And they need to get Walter a full time co-anchor.

[Action Newsroom 1277]

31 minutes ago, TVNewsLover said:

Must say I’m not a fan of the changes and feel like they came out of nowhere (usually they test pairs on air).

I'm afraid I agree.

The only change-up that (could've) worked was upgrading Sarah to 5pm anchor - and nothing else. They have everything else right with everyone else in the same place (and have been for years). And a new co-anchor for Walter would've been their only other conundrum they would've sorted out immediately. If official (which we still haven't had a word from the station yet), it's gonna take a while to settle with this line-up.

[radioinactive 7]

I agree, no chemistry between Rick and Sharrie, most of the changes seem to come out of nowhere, change for the sake of change. Sarah should be on at 5 with Rick, it was a solid newscast.

This reminds me of the debacle when they tried to change the theme music.

 

[justin2kx 237]

On 10/8/2019 at 5:25 PM, SF1964 said:

WPVI is selling a book commemorating 50 years of Action News.

Info on book.

 

 

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Edited November 2, 2019 by justin2kx