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(May 2011)

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DK
DanielK

Interested to see where they find an hour in daytime for this. Can't see them cutting back Today; so Days of Our Lives looks likely for the chop.

Daytime local news runs in 2/3 hour blocks no? Definitely a stupid idea to have that in the first place...
BR
Brekkie
The wording in that article suggests they're looking for affiliates to drop an hour of syndicated programming to air it.
CH
Charles
They would not be stupid enough to force affiliates to run it as an additional show. Affiliates would never let NBC have another hour of network daytime programming just that easily, especially after getting back another hour after the fourth hour of the Today show launched.

I think her daytime show will take over the Days of our Lives slot. It was last renewed in February for one year only, and the announcement is pretty coy about as to where her show will land. I smell another programming announcement coming about a month from now.

As it stands, a typical NBC affiliate schedule is this:
4/4:30am: Early Today
4:30/5-7am: local news
7-11am: the Today show
Stations usually run a half hour or full hour of local news at 11am or noon and fill the rest of the afternoon with syndicated programming (Ellen DeGeneres, Extra, etc.) Days of our Lives usually runs at 1 or 2pm for a full hour. Local news picks up again at 4 or 5pm, and NBC Nightly News typically runs at 5:30 or 6:30pm depending on time zone.
NBC primetime then runs from 8-11pm or 7-10pm depending on time zone, and then a half hour of local news follows that before the late night block (The Tonight Show, Late Night, Last Call, and a rerun of Nightly News).

29 days later

GI
ginnyfan
First Megyn Kelly victims at NBC - 3rd hour of Today hosted by Tamron Hall & Al Roker canceled. Hall leaving NBC & MSNBC.

Trump era already making it's stamp on TV.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/01/media/tamron-hall-leaving-nbc/index.html
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mark Founding member
I see the CNN Money story suggests two options: a Megyn Kelly show at 9am, sandwiched between the two bits of Today, and moving Hoda and Kathie Lee up to 9am, with Megyn Kelly at 10.

I guess a third option would be to move Hoda and Kathie Lee up to 9, give the 10am hour back to the affiliates, and schedule Megyn Kelly's show elsewhere in the day.
BR
Brekkie
Can't see them breaking up Today so either option 2 or Megyn Kelly's show being Today branded.

11 days later

ST
stuartfanning
Josh Elliott leaves CBSN under unfortunate circumstances. Arguably he was the best CBSN anchor.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/josh-elliott-cbs-news-cbsn-1201986773/
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Mouseboy33
Josh is a good anchor. But he always winds up leaving under such odd circumstances. This 3 networks now. Not good in the long term. None of the big 3 will want a trouble-maker.
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mark Founding member
I did think that was quite a big sign-off for someone who, by all appearances, was just being bumped from CBSN after a pretty short tenure. The fact that it should never have happened makes perfect sense.

It feels like he really wants a big gig, but his career moves since GMA have only served to achieve the opposite. Before GMA's ratings really started turning around, he was tipped to replace George Stephanopoulos as main anchor - but that never happened so, even though he was successful in his news/substitute anchor role, he left for NBC, where he was tipped to replace Matt Lauer on Today. That never happened either, so he wound up at CBSN.

Leaving GMA seems to generally be a terrible career move. Other examples...

Sam Champion: Left to host a new morning show on the Weather Channel, which was axed after less than two years. Moved to other programmes on the channel, and left a year later. No current gig.

Marysol Castro: Left her weekend weather anchor gig to become the main weather anchor on CBS's The Early Show, which was axed less than two years later. Moved to early mornings on WPIX in New York, and was out after a couple of years. Last seen hosting a boxing show on ESPN.
NY
NYTV
Josh Elliott leaves CBSN under unfortunate circumstances. Arguably he was the best CBSN anchor.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/josh-elliott-cbs-news-cbsn-1201986773/

He was fired from CBS and escorted by security out of the building because no one told the executives that he wanted off of the digital network.
NY
NYTV
mark posted:
I did think that was quite a big sign-off for someone who, by all appearances, was just being bumped from CBSN after a pretty short tenure. The fact that it should never have happened makes perfect sense.

It feels like he really wants a big gig, but his career moves since GMA have only served to achieve the opposite. Before GMA's ratings really started turning around, he was tipped to replace George Stephanopoulos as main anchor - but that never happened so, even though he was successful in his news/substitute anchor role, he left for NBC, where he was tipped to replace Matt Lauer on Today. That never happened either, so he wound up at CBSN.

Leaving GMA seems to generally be a terrible career move. Other examples...

Sam Champion: Left to host a new morning show on the Weather Channel, which was axed after less than two years. Moved to other programmes on the channel, and left a year later. No current gig.

Marysol Castro: Left her weekend weather anchor gig to become the main weather anchor on CBS's The Early Show, which was axed less than two years later. Moved to early mornings on WPIX in New York, and was out after a couple of years. Last seen hosting a boxing show on ESPN.

Marysol Castro is currently at WTNH New Hampshire
NY
NYTV
Josh is a good anchor. But he always winds up leaving under such odd circumstances. This 3 networks now. Not good in the long term. None of the big 3 will want a trouble-maker.

This departure may effectively kill any chances at a network gig again unless he wants to return to ESPN or go elsewhere. How does one announce their departure from the anchor chair without clearing that news with the top bosses?
Him leaving could also put his wife, WABC-TV 4pm and 6pm anchor Liz Cho in a particular situation she may not need.

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