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I guess it's somewhat intriguing but for a studio audience with another co-anchor why didn't Michael just stay at LIVE?

Oh goodness. I'll pass.

I'd say because of the studio audience it's likely that whatever they're unveiling will be on the second floor. Would be nice if they did a complete overhaul of the set, I would like to see everything changed from the layout to the design of the first floor studio. They haven't done anything to it other than refreshes for about 5 years now. When watching over the past few weeks I've noticed that there is some kind of construction work happening outside the studio as there is scaffolding surrounding the famous Times Square Studio ribbons on the building. Anyone else picked up on that?

Call it a lie or whatever you want, in his original interview Lotche claimed that he and others were forced to the ground by gunpoint after their car was pulled over or whatever. That has been determined to be a lie, Ryan Lotche himself has admitted that. And forgive me because I don't watch too often, but the few times I have seen Today's Take they pretty much spend the first 20 minutes discussing hot topics and giving their own opinions on it. If that's the format of the show, Al Roker was well within his rights to voice his opinion. He's a weatherman on the Today Show, yet you're acting like he must be as impartial as an investigative journalist on 60 Minutes or something. Also, the Olympic committee itself has spoken out about taking action again Lotche and the other swimmers for their stupidity. I doubt that they're seriously upset with NBC for reporting the news as they should, and if there are indeed strained relations between them and NBC it most likely stems from the peacock's shitty Olympic coverage.

Wouldn't quite say that Today's ratings are great, they're down an average of 2 million ~ compared to a decade ago. The "great ratings" have more to do with GMA losing so much rather than Today gaining (which they haven't)

Yeah his rant about Lotche was the first time I found myself enjoying Roker's presence in some time. Still he needs to be shown the door, what's up with him and Lauer hanging on for so long? It's been about 20 years for both of them in their positions on the program.

According to Willie Giest he's no longer on the third hour of the show. Not sure if that had been confirmed here or not. [MEDIA=twitter]767741463149051904[/MEDIA]

I wasn't even aware that Fox Chicago had a weekend morning program

I agree with the bolded part so much it hurts. Lauer and co. have literally made fools of themselves by proclaiming Lotche to be innocent after an interview. Not even sure why I'm so shocked at the lack of journalistic integrity from Matt, he's never been an actual journalist/reporter. Just a damn good TV personality who has managed to work his charm up to NBC.

Robin brought Charlie and Diane back to the show in 2013 I believe for a small segment it was awesome to see the three of them together.

I doubt NBC forced Bryant out of his spot, wasn't Today a few years into their 15 year morning tv dominance when Bryant left? If anything I would imagine they did everything they could to keep him. Bryant worked on the sports side of NBC as well before moving to news and Today.

Oh boy weren't those the days? Never took the top spot from NBC but in my eyes these 4 together were GMA's glory days mostly because I really started watching during this time.

Amy does briefly read headlines during the first half hour and again at 8am, she also does a lot of segments in the last half hour. To my point about being confused on who does what, the main presenters are fairly obvious but I was alluding to them often having TJ Holmes, Sara Haines and Mara S. provide reports then hang around the show for the rest of the program. On even given day one could easily assume that TJ or Sara Haines were one of the main presenters of GMA. It's just too many people crammed into that tiny studio. I think they ensemble cast worked so well for them back in 2012 that they've expanded on that idea and brought way too many people into the fold. Sorry to go on a rant about it but it's pretty annoying and uncomfortable to watch when they do this because it's as if those talents are there without any real purpose. Then they're bringing Michael into the fold full time September which is going to be awful. That's nearly 10 "primary" presenters on a daily basis for a two hour program. Totally agree about the Today Show though, they've got way too many people as well but they also benefit from having 4 hours to spread personalities over. CBS This Morning captures the essence of what made me love morning TV of the 80's, 90's where Charlie and Joan or Jane and Bryant led their respective programs and there was no overwhelming factor of too many faces on any given day hosting segments.

Also I think it's quite ridiculous that I sometimes have no clue who the official members and anchors of the program are. There are always so many people on at one time that it's extremely confusing

He's been with Robin this week while George is away. Amy, Ginger and Jesse have been there this week as well. Also I don't think David is cold, I just don't think his personality or presenting style is morning tv. I honesty don't enjoy him on the evening program much either, he just seems to be much better when he's in the field.

David Muir is surprisingly awful when he fills in on GMA in my opinion, he's definitely way too dry and robotic for the light hearted pace of morning television. Not sure why ABC insist on having him fill in for George.

What exactly is Savannah's role on the show for the few weeks where they go all out Olympics? She's obviously back in New York but is she doing the headlines or what?

We could only be so lucky...

Haha I figured that much, just wanted to mess with you a bit. And I completely agree, Jesse is almost like a breath of fresh air on that show. GMA needs a shake up and bringing in Michael ain't going to cut it.

Granted I haven't been able to watch much the last few weeks, but who the hell is Jeff?

Still hot as ever

I guess you do have a point there, when you look at the figures Today hasn't improved much GMA has just shredded so many viewers. Everyone seems to be headed to CBS.

I was under the impression that Today is actually growing stronger and posing a real threat to GMA for the first time in 4 or 5 years. I doubt Matt is behind any ploy to get rid of anyone because the last time he did that it backfired on him and ruined his brand severely. I don't think Savannah is being removed I was just saying that she should be, I find her terrible.

Dump Savannah and replace her with Hoda who I thought should have been news anchor after Ann and then given Ann's spot but I digress. Hoda is good and she works well with really just about anyone. For what it's worth I don't see the phasing out of the news reader role as something permanent but we'll see.

Would David Muir move from the official flagship program of the network to GMA? (despite GMA sort of being the unofficial flagship) Also David isn't really that strong on GMA and never has been I remember going back to days where he filled in for Diane with Robin and he's not really morning show personality to me.