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  1. Looks like Marissa Torres began her maternity leave a few weeks ago on October 23rd. Unlike when Steve Bender was on paternity leave earlier this year, and Stephen Morgan filled in for him the entire time, they're not sticking with a steady fill-in for Marissa. The week of October 23rd was Kendall Smith in for Marissa all week. The week of October 30th was Kiyana Lewis the entire week. This past week of November 6th was different almost every day. Haley Meier did Mon/Tue. Rick Reichmuth did Wed. Jane Minar did Thu, and Steve Bender hosted solo yesterday on Friday. Surrounding Kiyana's Mon-Fri fill-in shift the week of October 30th, she's been off weekends since October 28th. Since then, the past three weekends have featured Jane moving back up to her old 6am-9am ET slot alongside Craig, and then the 9am-12pm ET show has been Michael Estime and Bob Van Dillen for the first hour, with Rick Reichmuth joining both of them for the final two hours. He's not with them for the first hour of the show since he's still on Fox & Friends at that time.
  2. Wonder if the courts are as weird to look at in person as they are on video.
  3. Surprisingly, Studio K, not seen since mid-August, remains in-tact and is occasionally being used for America's Weather Center as of this week. The show has been displaced from Studio A all week. This week's shows have split days between Studio K and Studio W. Fox Weather First and the first two hours of Fox Weather Live continue to originate from Studio A as normal.
  4. Last week, on Thursday I believe, TWC rolled out a new squeezeback local forecast that airs during programming. It currently takes place at the start of segments at :29, :39, and :59. It does not air at :09 (mid-segment) or at :19 and :49 (directly following the full screen Local on the 8s) 1) It seems to have all of the features of the full-screen Local on the 8s, aside from the text forecast with narration. But overall, the same weather information is all here, and it also has an hourly forecast, which the Local on the 8s lacks. 2) It's interesting that they didn't try to slap Local on the 8s branding on this new feature. This makes me think ownership no longer sees value in that brand and might try to phase it out, which leads me to... 3) We've already seen, since Allen Media Group took over in 2018, the Local on the 8s become reduced from "on the 8s of every hour" to a short 1-minute segment that airs only at :18 and :48. I could see this new squeezeback being the precursor to the total elimination of the full screen Local on the 8s segments. Also, within the past ~3 weeks, the Local on the 8s music that had been in place since November 2013 was finally ditched and replaced by what kinda seems like production music.
  5. Yep, morning show is still a rotating co-anchor, and Jason is M-F in the afternoons.
  6. I actually came here to talk about this... guess what... no Daily Bender this week. They have now reverted all the way back to the pre-Labor Day setup of Steve and Marissa in Studio A from 6-8pm ET, and then moving the show to Studio W from 8-10pm ET. Both today and yesterday followed this pre-Labor Day format. (albeit with Kendall filling in for Marissa yesterday).
  7. Ok, so I finally got a shorter day at work today. Here's what I saw today: "The Daily Bender" is, at present, a sub-title of Fox Weather Live. The show uses the Fox Weather Live graphics and title still. This may change when they have time to actually develop a new graphics package, if they bother to make that effort? We'll see. "The Daily Bender" is two hours from 6pm-8pm ET and is formatted very similarly to Ian Oilver's show in that "home base" for the show is the Expert Desk in Studio W, and Steve regularly tosses to another meteorologist throughout the show in the same way that Ian tosses to Kendall throughout his show. In the case of tonight's edition of "The Daily Bender," Haley Meier was the meteorologist who Steve tossed to throughout the show. No idea if she's going to be the regular on the show or not. Interestingly enough, Marissa Torres filled in for Kendall on the 2nd half of Ian's afternoon show today (Jason filled in for Kendall during the first half). Marissa then joined Haley for the nighttime Fox Weather Live beginning at 8pm ET.
  8. Because I can't get off work early to save my life lately, I checked their video clips on their website, and I see that yet again, Steve Bender was on earlier this evening from Studio W while Hailey is with Marissa again on the nighttime show in Studio A. Was Bender solo? And is he only on for one hour from 6-7pm ET? I really hope the nighttime Fox Weather Live continues after Marissa goes on leave, regardless of who they can get to fill the timeslot. I know it's a tough timeslot to get the weekend folks to fill because the weekend team is all morning folks, aside from Haley.
  9. I hope Haley Meier enjoyed her one day off yesterday. She was on Thursday and Friday in for Kelly Costa, hosted her own show Sat/Sun, filled in for Kelly Costa again on Monday, had Tuesday off, and filled in for Steve Bender today. I think today was her first time hosting one of the regularly-scheduled weekday live shows, as opposed to the pre-recorded loop style of shows, or the overnight special hurricane coverage, that she has hosted to date. If my calculations are correct, Marissa Torres is one month or less away from maternity leave. If Steve Bender is going to be hosting a new show, I wonder if that entails bringing an end to their current pairing.
  10. Better than my preferred title of "Goin' on a Bender w/Steve Bender."
  11. Looks like now that we've reached Wednesday, Craig Herrera is hosting Fox Weather First. So indeed, they're keeping the Michael(Mon-Tue) and Craig(Wed-Fri) rotation that used to be on America's Weather Center. That does lend fuel to your theory that this is not a permanent arrangement, and something new is in the works.
  12. Thinking back over the past ~15 years, I don't think NESN has ever had good graphics. Their current score bug looks like it was made in 5 mins, and their lower thirds feel like a knockoff of the 2017-2020 Fox Sports package.
  13. No co-host, just Kendall as a single-segment contributor. Looks like Kiyana is the standard third co-host of Weather Command Mon-Wed now. I guess they could make Craig the Thu-Fri co-host of Weather Command if Michael does Mon-Fri on Fox Weather First going forward.
  14. The last of the original pairings from 2021 has been broken up. Effective today, Jason Frazer has been moved from Fox Weather First to America's Weather Center. https://www.instagram.com/p/CxvIkvBg5yq/ Michael Estime was Britta's co-host on Fox Weather First today. It's not clear to me if Jason or Michael (or neither of them) will be taking weekends. Given that they've already got Jane, Rick, and Bob on the weekend edition of Fox Weather Live, they may very well keep both Jason and Michael on weekdays - who knows. The evening schedule appears to be back to normal today, with Fox Weather Live running from 6pm-10pm ET again.
  15. Yeah, Haley is in for Kelly both Thu-Fri this week. Looks like Haley's overnight show started early again tonight. I tuned in during the 9pm ET hour, and she was already on. I missed the 8pm ET hour, so not sure about that one. I saw that Marissa Torres was the studio host of Fox Weather Now today, as Ian Oliver co-hosted the show out in the field from Coney Island to report live on the NYC flooding. Steve Bender was on during the 6pm ET hour, but unsure if he had a co-host since I had to get back to work and couldn't stay to watch long enough.
  16. lol, figures they make a huge change on a day I'm stuck working a huge data project at work and didn't have a chance to tune in a single time today. Looks like Fox Weather Live is currently on with Steve and Marissa, and the show has moved back into the main studio W again. Wonder what tomorrow's schedule will bring. Curious how "permanent" this arrangement will be.
  17. Based on the FTV post, Robach's show will be a weekly show. So either this will be an expansion of Sunday programming, or a replacement for one of the Sunday hours of NewsNation Prime on Sundays, or they'll throw a curveball and replace one night of some established weekday show with Robach's show, a la what MSNBC does on Monday nights. Earlier in this thread, I predicted incorrectly that Dan Abrams wouldn't be long for NewsNation. I was wrong. They inked Dan to a new multi-year deal. https://www.newsnationnow.com/press/newsnation-dan-abrams-agree-to-multi-year-extension/ And last but not least, NewsNation completed its weekday lineup today 9/25, as Connell McShane became the anchor of the 3-5pm ET block of NewsNation Now. With the move, Nichole Berlie now anchors the 1-3pm ET block of the show. https://www.newsnationnow.com/press/connell-mcshane-joins-newsnation-as-anchor-of-newsnation-now-from-3-5-pm-et/ McShane's edition of the show originates from the NYC studio. With this, the 2pm ET hour is now the last Chicago-based hour of programming each weekday. I feel like we're re-living CNN's exodus from Atlanta all over again. Just now it's NewsNation's exodus from Chicago. I *guess* the making and dayside shows will probably stay in Chicago for a while, but I could see an all NYC/DC schedule coming in some number of years from now.
  18. Looks like at the end of August, during Hurricane Idalia when the whole network exclusively used the main Studio W during landfall coverage, they took the opportunity to replace the anchor desk in Studio A (former Fox Business studio). As previously noted, after Fox Business stopped using the studio in early 2023, the studio is available for the Fox Weather team to use throughout almost the whole week, but on Friday afternoons, the studio is used to pre-record The Journal Editorial Report ahead of the show's Saturday airing on FNC. Previously, from March to August when Fox Weather first started occupying the space, Fox Weather would use a separate anchor desk for its own programming, while the FNC show would use the original desk inherited from Fox Business. In this previous look, you can see the FNC / previous Fox Business desk parked in the back left behind Steve Bender. That white horizontal LED bar is part of the surface of the desk. Starting the week after Labor Day, both the Fox Weather Desk and the FNC desk were scrapped from this set and replaced with a new desk: This new desk also has an optional raised telestrator platform that can be added whenever they deem it useful: (looks like in the above shot, someone forgot to put the TV monitor in place behind Marissa/Nick, leading to that empty space with wiring/metal grid being exposed.) The telestrator platform is just an added perk that's not used on every show. Heck, it's not even used on Fox Weather Live every night. I think they're still trying to sort out when they want to use it. The meteorologists are still able to telestrate using the MS Surface tablets in front of them, in lieu of the telestrator platform. This brand new desk is now used both by the Fox Weather Team and by The Journal Editorial Report on FNC. With this change, Fox Weather First no longer gets kicked out of this studio on Friday mornings so that the FNC team can re-arrange the studio for their show. On the other hand, America's Weather Center is still unable to use this studio on Friday afternoons, presumably because it directly conflicts with whatever timeslot the FNC show is recorded. Most Friday editions of America's Weather Center have been originating from the Expert Desk in Studio W, but one Friday in August, they used Studio K as a one-off. Also with this change, it appears that the weekday edition of Fox Weather Live no longer moves from Studio A over to Studio W for the 8pm-10pm ET block. They now seem to stay in Studio A for the entire 4-hour show. With that being said, Studio A has easily taken over as the primary studio (by hours) for Fox Weather: Weekdays: 5am-9am ET - Fox Weather First - Studio A 9am-12pm ET - Weather Command - Studio W 12pm-3pm ET - America's Weather Center - Studio A 3pm-6pm ET - Fox Weather Now - Studio W 6pm-10pm - Fox Weather Live - Studio A Weekends: 6am-9am ET - Fox Weather First Weekend - Studio A 9am-12pm ET - Fox Weather Live - Studio W Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it just seems odd that Fox Weather is pushing the majority of on-air hours into Studio A, which is vastly smaller and less impressive in terms of appearance than Studio W. Part of me is wondering if the powers that be are looking to repurpose Studio W away from Fox Weather and give that studio back to FNC, and thereby push the entire Fox Weather operation into Studio A. It's total speculation, but it just seems really odd to reduce Studio W's usage down to only 6 hours on weekdays and 3 hours on weekends. I'm sure Fox Weather isn't a great money maker for Fox News Media, so I could see them wanting to repurpose the much bigger Studio W back over to the FNC side of things in the future.
  19. Fox Weather did a 180 from their lackluster Hurricane Hilary coverage and is going all-in on the weekend coverage for Hurricane Lee. They stayed live all overnight Friday night into Saturday and are staying live all afternoon and evening on Saturday. They brought in a significant portion of their weekday hosts and staff to cover the event from start to finish. Also of note, comparing 2022 to 2023, in 2022, Bryan Norcross handled both hurricane landfalls (Ian and Nicole) from his work-from-home setup. In 2023, Norcross flew to NYC and handled landfall coverage for both Idalia and Lee from the studio.
  20. Trying to figure out if this is just NewsNation management doing a 180 and realizing that they need some form of weather presence, or if they just intentionally wanted to shed themselves of Jebaily for one reason or another.
  21. I like the overall motif, but the wideness of all of the fonts makes me feel like I'm looking at a 4:3-designed graphic stretched to 16:9.
  22. Looks like another weekend schedule change: As of apparently yesterday 9/9, both weekend morning shows have been reduced to three hours each, and a pre-recorded weather show hosted by Haley Meier (in the same format and production style as the weekday Kelly Costa overnight show) has been added, starting at 12pm ET. After three weeks of them running a super modified weekend schedule due to hurricane coverage, it appears that the 4-host format of Fox Weather Live, previously seen on August 12th, is here to stay. The current weekend schedule as of 9/9/23 is: 6am-9am ET: Fox Weather First Weekend with Craig Herrera and Kiyana Lewis 9am-12pm ET: Fox Weather Live with Michael Estime, Jane Minar, Bob Van Dillen, and Rick Reichmuth 12pm-8pm ET: Untitled Fox Weather show with Haley Meier (same 30-min pre-recorded format as the weekday Kelly Costa show) 8pm-2am ET: Long form programming 2am-4am ET: Night Light 4am-6am ET: Long form programming (runs until only 5am ET on Monday mornings since the weekday edition of Fox Weather First starts at that time) On a side note, since we didn't discuss this earlier, I will say that Fox Weather poured a lot more hours into Hurricane Idalia coverage compared to Hurricane Hilary, since Idalia was well-anticipated as a storm that would make US landfall as a major hurricane. I believe Fox Weather outpaced TWC in hours of coverage during the weekend and the weekday overnights leading up to landfall, and they far outpaced TWC in the number of hours of primetime, overnight, weekend coverage during the aftermath of the storm. After the storm's August 30th landfall, Fox Weather showed coverage of the aftermath nonstop all day throughout the rest of the week and the entire weekend, not returning to a regular schedule until Labor Day. To be clear, not all hours of aftermath coverage or pre-storm weekend coverage were fully live, but at least it wasn't the standard faire of long form that TWC was airing during the overnight hours as soon as two days before landfall and during primetime as soon as two days after landfall.
  23. The look definitely gives off those simplistic vibes of the ABC MNF days. I would say that a completely revamped graphics package is long overdue this year. Seems like the perfect time to roll out a new, simple look.
  24. The choice of light blue and purple in the title bars kind of hearkins back to the late 2000s - early 2010s-era graphics. You know, these... Wonder if the entire on-air look will go back to this color scheme again.
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