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How long has the 10am been in the main desk instead of the circular one? Passed by the studio yesterday before the thanksgiving day parade (they had the curtains up) and the circular desk is tucked away in the corner of the studio.

Traditionalism makes me want to say no but realistically the industry is going to have to evolve and adapt. This isn’t the worst idea.

Interesting. I haven’t caught the weekend news in a few weeks. Sandra is great but would agree that adding another anchor for 1 hour is interesting but no unconventional.

WABC never formally announces these things but Sandra Bookman is appearing with David in promos featuring the noon team.

This is the same show that just did a full blown out celebration of an anchor’s bachelorette party and wedding. Michael is entitled to his privacy but you can’t stop people from asking questions. Sadly there are different expectations of “privacy” for someone in a public profession.

He, like anyone else, definitely deserves his privacy no doubt. But I’m not surprised some people are curious of his absence, he’s an anchor on the most popular morning show and NFL Sunday.

https://pagesix.com/2023/11/07/entertainment/tamsen-fadal-leaving-pix11-after-15-years/ Last day is Friday.

I was just wondering this yesterday because he wasn’t on NFL Sunday either. It could be any number of reasonable things but nonetheless I'm hoping all is well.

I like the desk but I’m never going to stop complaining about how stupid the standing anchors look is.

Caught a glimpse of F&F this morning. For those who watch the drivel with any regularity, is Lawrence a legitimate 4th host of the show or is he used more as a side to Steve, Ainsley and Brian? Also noticed they were sitting at a desk to close the show out.

They did mention that Sam was away for this week so Brittany was helping out. More notable to me was Sandra, Shirleen and Mike rotating the GMA cut-ins this morning. Sandra also appeared at 10 to tease the stories coming up at noon.

Really dumb of me to forget the 3 hour time difference between coasts.

strategy especially for the Fall going up against CFB and NFL. Doubt they expect to be super competitive in this slot but hard to see how news is cost effective over whatever programming they were showing.

That sucks but I could see it coming a few years ago when they eliminated most views of TS on the set. Both GMA and WABC are seemingly obstructing views of their set on and off screen. TS and the Lincoln Center areas are going to feel like voids without those two there.

Yeah I did a double when I turned the news on tonight. Bill was off yesterday’s 11pm so it was probably planned.

I’m curious to what everyone’s general thoughts are about Tom Negovan? He was at WGN for a long time and I always thought he was one of their best. Surprised to see him as a freelance weekend reporter for WABC. Obviously this current set up could be his preference.

Explain for this layman, when station groups do these mandated graphics is there also a mandated timeline for stations to implement the new packages or is it more of an eventual phasing?

Talent opens scrapped and no mention of Shirleen at noon would seem to confirm this. Seems reasonable that she wouldn’t do 4:30-7, GMA cut ins, 10am and noon too.

First time watching the full 10am show and it’s pretty damn good. A very unique hour for the traditional EWN brand. Dani appeared on today’s show to provide a hot topics type of segment with Shirleen, Mike and Sam that ran for about 8 minutes and then stuck around through the end. It’s really cool to see this water cooler style format. Though as someone said earlier, this is a show designed for Michelle Charlesworth rather than Shirleen.

Sandra Bookman and Lauren Glassberg have alternated the last few weeks.

Is 13 using talent bumpers? I’d love to see those if so. They’d also be one of the few in the O&Os group still using them too.

Yeah the live update open is more appealing to me because it’s dynamic without being too busy like the opener.

It makes sense to sideline Alicia for a period of time. Other than in reference to her show’s absence I don’t think it’s necessary for them to report on anything beyond the facts of the case. Alicia isn’t implicated in any of the legal charges against her father.

SIAP but I like them using a different talent open that features just Shirleen, Mike and Dani today since Sam is not on Fridays. It’s small and insignificant but it always annoyed me that EWN This Morning used the talent opens with Sam on Fridays.

So did I. I guess this just makes it officially official although Mark hasn’t appeared in his regular capacity on GMA in over a year.