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Jim Gardner Reducing Schedule, to Retire at End of 2022


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Wow, this hits hard. It's going to be a completely different landscape in market #4 without Jim. He absolutely earned and deserves his retirement after over four decades as Philadelphia's most trusted and beloved news anchor, but I personally will miss him on my TV screen every weekday evening.

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After his retirement, the obvious schedule to me is:

 

Noon, 4pm, 6pm: Brian, Sarah, Adam, Jamie (only 4/6), Alicia (only noon/4)


5pm, 10pm, 11pm: Rick, Sharrie, Cecily, Ducis, Alicia (only 5)

 

I imagine they will eventually decide traffic between Jessica and Matt, with one doing mornings and the other afternoon/evening. 

 

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On 11/11/2021 at 3:03 AM, TVNewsLover said:

After his retirement, the obvious schedule to me is:

 

Noon, 4pm, 6pm: Brian, Sarah, Adam, Jamie (only 4/6), Alicia (only noon/4)


5pm, 10pm, 11pm: Rick, Sharrie, Cecily, Ducis, Alicia (only 5)

 

I imagine they will eventually decide traffic between Jessica and Matt, with one doing mornings and the other afternoon/evening. 

 

Where would Christie fit in? She has joined 4pm permanently now. 

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On 11/23/2021 at 10:55 AM, newsteam13 said:

Philly and America's longest-running local news theme (and a record shattering one) Move Closer to Your World will turn 50 next year.

 

That's the same year that Gardner will leave 6ABC.

 

Apparently, Jim Gardner will have been there for the balance of that half-century of MCTYW, the way I understand this.

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So was it Jim’s last 11 o’clock? 
 

Seems strange they’d just do fill-ins and not name a successor. 
 

Will they continue with a solo anchor at 6 and 11? My guess would be Brian Taft. Or maybe Brian and Sarah at 4 & 6 and Rick and Sharrie at 5 & 11? 

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