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Live at Five is Gone!
Starting on September 10th, WNBC will be making a seismic shift on the local television landscape. Live at Five is gone, with infotainment show Extra taking its place at 5 p.m. with News 4 You remaining at 5:30 p.m. However, there will be not net loss of newscasts, since WNBC will be starting a new 7 p.m. newscast, but it is not as new an idea as it would seem, since WNYW aired a 7 p.m. newscast from 1987 to 1993. WNBC’s Station Manager and Senior Vice President of News, Dan Forman, noted: “Our news at 7pm meets the needs of viewers coming home from work and is a perfect compliment to ‘NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams,’ which precedes it.”
The current incarnation of Live at Five is nothing like its original incarnation from the 1980s and now more of a traditional newscast For those of you who may not recall the original Live at Five, it was a mix of news, interviews with newsmakers and celebrities, and lifestyle reporting.
Fellow NBC owned and operated station WTVJ in Miami is also making a similar move ditching their 5 p.m. newscast for one at 7 p.m., so this may be repeated at other NBC owned stations throughout the country.
There are even more shake ups with the talent. David Ushery and Lynda Baquero moving to the 6p.m. newscast, Chuck Scarborough will be anchoring the new 7 p.m. newscast solo, and Sue Simmons will only be anchoring at 11 p.m., still with Chuck. So this isn't simply moving one newscast into a new time slot.
Channel 4 will also be adding brief hourly news updates between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. which will also be seen on their digital subchannel 4.4 and on their website.
The just released schedule also gives us official confirmation about the much talked about fourth hour of The Today Show airing in the 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. timeslot as well as a few other time slot shifts, with The Ellen DeGeneres Show moving to 11 a.m, The Martha Stewart Show moving to 1 p.m., Days of Our Lives moving to 2 p.m., and Merv Griffin’s new game show Merv Griffin’s Crosswords airs at 4 p.m.
Drew Carey Come on Down
If you haven’t heard by now, Drew Carey has been tapped to be Bob Barker’s successor on The Price is Right.
A Woman in the White House
The new president for the new season of Fox’s 24 will be a woman. Tony-winning actress Cherry Jones will be stepping into the fictional Oval Office and she sort of looks like Hillary Clinton.
Andrew Lloyd Webber Wants His Own Reality Show
Andrew Lloyd Webber, the person responsible for giving us Cats, is looking to get a piece of the fakeality television market apparently not learning the lesson from NBC’s You’re the One That I Want. A new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat may be the vehicle for the new show. At least it isn’t Jesus Christ Superstar.
Comings and Goings at CNN
NBC’s Campbell Brown will be heading to CNN while veteran anchor Paula Zahn will be stepping down. Zahn will be leaving the news network on August 2nd and will be taking a break from television. Brown will be starting at CNN most likely in November.
Dateline Hogwarts
If you missed any of Meredith Vieira’s interview with Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling on The Today Show this week, it and some more material will be on Dateline NBC on Sunday (7:00 p.m., WNBC 4). If you haven’t read or finished the book, don’t watch, since there will be spoilers.
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I hate to be a stickler, but the least that you could do is proofread the post before posting it!
But I love Sue! I wonder why she is only doing the 11PM broadcast.
Sue probably told management to go jump off a short pier. For her it's the 5p or nothing until 11p. 7p is right in the middle of dinner for her.
Sue's got a lot of clout at that sad station.
FYI they're going to get killed by "Jeopardy!" and even "The Simpsons" ... good luck to them all.
At least now i can watch the news when i get home from work. Living in NJ sucks!
NO! NO NO NO! We must have Sue Simmons at Five!
This is total and complete bullshit.
I can stand the total evisceration of nightlife by retards, I can stand the character of the city being beaten out of it by corporate interests, but I WILL NOT STAND FOR LIVE AT FIVE NOT BEING THERE WHEN I GET HOME FROM WORK.
WE MUST START THE REVOLUTION!
i agree, this is a sad development. Live at Five with Sue Simmons has been a staple of life in NYC since I was a kid 20 years ago. and she looks the same as she did then!
What pinhead programmers have they hired over at WNBC? They don't realize that Sue Simmons is a municipal treasure? This is like benching Lou Gehrig or tearing down Penn Station, an unthinkable prospect and a regrettable decision. "Live at Five" with Chuck and Sue is the sine qua non of local news. Instead we get to watch "Extra"? Shame WNBC, shame.
#6 and #7, I remember when Sue came to New York from Washington D.C. back in 1978 (I believe). NBC wanted someone to compete with Roseanne Scarmadella and Bill Beutel (RIP) on ABC. Roseanne had become a national celebrity after Gilda Ratner of Saturday Night Live had those Weekend Updates with "Roseanne, Roseanadanna". Whatever happened to Roseanne?
In any case, if you ever find a copy of the Newspaper ad put out by NBC welcoming Sue to New York, you'll notice that, as you say, she really hasn't changed. She must have a portrait in her closet that is aging for her instead.
However, there will be not net loss of newscasts, since WNBC will be starting a new 7 p.m. newscast, but it is not as new an idea as it would seem, since WNYW aired a 7 p.m. newscast from 1987 to 1993.
Wow. Someone thought this was a sentence.
at least sue stays with her anchor husband for a show.
but life without live at five won't be the same (even though i don't really have time to watch it b/c it's so early).
Who actually has time to watch TV at 5pm anyway??
Maybe get a life outside if you have that much time on your hands that you are watching TV at 5pm on a weekday.
#11, being abreast to the news of the area and the world is not a trivial matter. maybe you should get off peoples back who actually want to get real news and stay informed.
One less place for Gothamist to steal their news from.
It was sue that kept me watching your news! I'm sure i am not the only person to jump to another channel. The new programing is just plane boreing.