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Speaking of Amy Freeze, she will be on GMA filling in for Ginger on Monday and Tuesday.

Lauren Glassberg filling in for Joe Torres tonight.

The decision was a reflection of the silent majority of Today viewers who still love Matt. As one article put it, most of the people who felt Matt was to blame for the botched Curry ouster have already left to GMA or CBS. Even though Today is #2, it is still very profitable for NBC and axing Matt would surely cause chaos that would risk disrupting that profitability.

Six?! Wow, didn't know that. Just assumed most had 3-4 like WABC.

It does seem Cecily has been a regular between GMA Weekend and now GMA. I wonder why they haven't been having Bill, Lee, or Jeff from WABC.

Byron Pitts in for David Muir anchoring World News tonight.

For a while Gerard McNiff was ABC's meteorologist. Maybe he's not there anymore. Here's an article: http://www.juliewan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/gerard-mcniff.pdf

Joe Torres filling in for Bill Ritter tonight on the 11.

Any proof?

Right. I didn't say anything to suggest otherwise. He wanted to know if he could ask Tamsen a question/have some conversation with her or if he should go right to the next story after she tossed it back from Point Pleasant to him in the studio.

He wasn't getting pissed. He was trying to ask the control room if there was going to be time for him to banter with Tamsen or if he should go right to the next story while the control room folks were in the middle of doing a hundred things to keep the show running. Sometimes anchors need to ask more than one time before someone in the control room (especially one like at PIX which probably isn't heavy on staff) hears them or is not in the middle of doing something. It happens often and isn't unique to PIX.

It would seem to make more sense for Meredith to do it as a way to promote herself for her upcoming talk show. That being said, maybe planning for the show will leave her too busy to step into Today. Who knows. Yeah, it seems like Couric even substituting on Today might be complicated given the partnership between Yahoo and ABC News. On a separate note, they have a long list of internal candidates who are more than able to sit in for Savannah. Seems like it might send the wrong message to them and to some loyal viewers to bypass all of them in favor of Katie or Meredith, although if it's all about ratings, that might not be a factor in the mind of execs.

Ben Sherwood's first order of business as Pres. of DATG? Can't find any info on this on the internet. Do the promos advertise Lara as the host?

This morning, it's George and Amy, with Lara playing her usual role and Dan Harris filling in for Amy. So, it doesn't seem Lara is Robin's automatic backup.

I think he should be between George and Lara, or on the end next to Lara. Looked too crowded on the one side and too large of a gap between George and Lara this morning.

It sounds to me like it's just an additional title for her to have that she wanted as part of her contract renegotation. She'll probably continue doing what she's been doing, maybe with a few extra stories and interviews. I suspect it also means she'll be the main fill-in at the desk. Anyway, confusing for all of us, I think. We can read into it all we want. Who knows...

I'm guessing that for the first few months we'll see all of them getting a chance to sub in until the folks in charge figure out who gels best with the rest of the anchors, and that person will become primary fill-in.

Gio is filling in for Lara through Wednesday while Lara fills in for Robin. He's done the news for GMA Weekend, but if I'm not mistaken (do correct me if I am), I think this is Gio's first time filling in for an anchor on GMA weekday.

Not that I'm aware of. I thought Heather wasn't too bad at all, either.

They should do this more often! http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=9487105

Sara Haines needs to tone down the touching and rubbing of Gio Benitez.

Haven't been watching it regularly. Is it not Josh, Lara, and Ginger every day anymore?

They've still got Rob Schmidt anchoring just a half hour per day? Why even bother.

They used it this morning, too. It's gotta go. Not sure what it looks like in HD, but it looks absolutely ridiculous on a CRT.

Agreed. Lots of great banter at the desk.