ARTICLE: ABC Owned Television Stations in New York, Philadelphia and Raleigh-Durham Add Late Morning Newscasts, Pushing ‘Tamron Hall’ to Afternoon Slot

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Earlier today we reported what fans can expect to see during the upcoming season of “Tamron Hall,” now comes word that the ABC Owned Television stations in New York (WABC), Philadelphia (WPVI) and Raleigh-Durham (WTVD) will be moving the daytime talk show outs of its longtime 10:00 a.m. time slot, effective Monday, September 11, in place of all-new local newscasts, despite record-breaking season four ratings.

“Tamron Hall” will instead be moved to the afternoon, taking over the 2:00 p.m. time slot in those markets, aligning her with the other ABC Owned Television Stations’ afternoon programming.

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“Tamron has had an exceptional year, and I know this move will grow her incredibly passionate Tam Fam even more,” said Chad Matthews, president, ABC Owned Television Stations. “And the addition of local news programming at 10 a.m. – led by these extraordinary teams – will allow us to dig even deeper into the topics and events that showcase our local communities and the issues most impacting them, as well as extend and expand upon breaking news and topics being discussed on ‘Good Morning America’ and ‘Live with Kelly and Mark.’”

At ABC7/WABC-TV New York, co-anchors Shirleen Allicot and Mike Marza – who has just been promoted from “Eyewitness News Weekends” – will take on the additional 10:00 a.m. time slot. Sam Champion and meteorologist Dani Beckstrom will also join the 10:00 a.m. hour. Meteorologist Brittany Bell – also being promoted from weekends to the weekday mornings – will join Champion weekday mornings for the 4:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. broadcasts.

Meanwhile, 6abc/WPVI-TV Philadelphia’s news anchors Alicia Vitarelli, Alyana Gomez and Nydia Han will host “Action News at 10 a.m.,” with meteorologist Karen Rogers expanding her duties and joining the team with the AccuWeather forecast.

Lastly, ABC11/WTVD-TV Raleigh-Durham’s “Eyewitness News” morning newscast will be led by trusted co-anchors John Clark and Barbara Gibbs. They will be joined by meteorologist Kweilyn Murphy.

Overall, the eight owned ABC television stations are multiplatform local news and information leaders. Collectively No. 1 across all U.S. television, reaching 23% of households and more than 34 million Total Viewers and 62 million digital visitors a month, with a record of 2.2 billion minutes streamed, the eight stations are comprised of WABC-TV New York, KABC-TV Los Angeles, WLS-TV Chicago, WPVI-TV Philadelphia, KGO-TV San Francisco, KTRK-TV Houston, WTVD-TV Raleigh-Durham and KFSN-TV Fresno. WABC-New York, in particular, has remained the No. 1 station in the country for 19 years.

“Tamron Hall” launches Season 5 on Tuesday, September 5.

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Technically, in NYC, the 10:00 AM news won't be debuting until September 12th.

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53 minutes ago, AbcNbc247 said:

Technically, in NYC, the 10:00 AM news won't be debuting until September 12th.

Oh right, the reading of the names on 9/11…

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Thanks @Paul Raven
Funny to read about the security of a soap job when Judith was fired within a year (in spite of being promised she wouldn't be).

By DRW50 · 2 hours ago2 hr
ALL: Proposed Soaps Over The Years

Thanks @Paul Raven
I can't say I'm surprised these didn't go forward. I doubt pilots were even made. If they were I wish we could see them.

By DRW50 · 2 hours ago2 hr
ALL: Proposed Soaps Over The Years

This is the first time I've across any detailed talk of these proposed shows. Do you think that format could have worked? I guess it all comes down to execution. Anyway ABC didn't go ahead with these but did premiere New Love American Style in Dec 85.
Greenfield Recorder, Wednesday, June 26, 1985
Dry those tears, here come the 'soapcoms'
By JAY SHARBUTT Los Angeles Time
HOLLYWOOD - Although the five-day forecast for soap operas still calls for furtive affairs followed by pregnant pauses, it is said that a faster pace, an occasional murder, disco music and location shooting have enlivened the plots in recent years. Now another ingredient is afoot: humor. The setting is what is called a "soapcom," a cross between a soap opera and a situation comedy. Such may seem heresy for a network, or at least as improbable as a tuba solo during a Jane Fonda workout. But two soapcoms are being created for ABC; "Fitzgerald and Fennelli" and "Love on Trial "
The former is by soap-and-comedy veteran Ann Marcus, the latter, by Lin Bolen, NBC's daytime programs chief for 4 1-2 years and now an independent producer. The term soapcom and these works in-progress were unveiled last month to ABC affiliates gathered in New York by Jacqueline Smith, the network's head of daytime programs. She described a soapcom as "perfect for the mornlng,"
She later declined to be interviewed about these matters, pending developments, particularly by Marcus and Bolen. In separate phone interviews, though, the Los Angeles-based developers recently said their respective shows would be daily half-hour efforts. The programs, they said, probably would air in late morning, in game-show country, instead of in the afternoon where the ladles and gentlemen of most soap operas now get their exercise
All this, of course, depends on when and if ABC's proposed soapcoms — still in the planniiig and mulling stages — go into production and get slots on ABC's daytime schedule. (No similar enterprises were announced to executives of NBC and CBS affiliates during their conventions last month.) Neither Marcus nor Bolen finds it odd that television's traditional vale of tears soon may be invaded by a chuckle or two, "although 20 years ago I don't think the (predominantly female) audience would have watched," concedes Bolen, who left NBC in 1975.
Her theory is that while women still account for perhaps 90 percent of the daytime soapopera audience, "they're much more educated and sophisticated" now and thus more willing to accept a different' approach to an ancient form. The traditional soap-opera form itself is ripe for change, says Marcus, who co-created the noted, syndicated soap-opera spoof, "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," and whose writing credits include "Search for Tomorrow," "Days of Our Lives'' and "Love of Life.'' The producer-writer, also a veteran of primetime situation comedy work in the '60s, believes that "it's kind of a natural thing that comedy should come to daytime. Everyone's getting sick of heaving and grunting." The torrid boudoir scenes of unshirted passion that have become a cliche of contemporary daytime drama have been adopted as an art form by the various nighttime soap operas now at large, she notes.
"I think it's time there were changes to shake people up, to have fun, and be a little stimulating to the head,'' Marcus says. At the ABC affiliates gathering, "Fitzgerald and Fennelli" was bouncily described in a recorded announcement; the announcer may yet hear from Gloria Steinem: "two girls on the rise and on the loose in New York." Marcus is content to describe it as the stories of two young professional women who, because of an unscrupulous "holistic dentist," must share a Greenwich Village apartment (each thought she was subletting his place for her own). Fitzgerald, she says, is a Boston blue blood, a Harvard Law School grad working as a public defender. Fennelli. from Trenton N.J., and blue-collar stock, toils as a production assistant' at the kind of talk show only Phil Donahue could love, or do.
The Donahue brand of televised social inquiry offers possibilities galore for "marvelolus satire," Marcus says. But her soapcom, she adds, would not be parody. It would be a daily diet of "strong stories" with humor, stories that are "mainly about the lives, loves and experiences" of the show's leading ladies. "Love on Trial" is set in a big-city family court. There, producer Bolen says, stories, of family feuds, divorce and juvenile problems, and the pathos, anger and humor evolving from same, hopefully, would evoke "laughter and tears simultaneously.' *"We aren't going to make fun of people's problems," she emphasizes. Instead, she says, the funny, the sad and the in-between would come from both their stories and the neverceasing efforts of a harried judge to keep families together. The show would have eight regulars, plus what she calls a "short-term" cast of actors who for a week or so would portray various family members in distress, then withdraw as other actors and new plot lines enter the courtroom. Bolen says the focus always will be the family, not the behind-closed-doors baring of human pelts so common in daytime soap opera. "I'm not suggesting we won't see anybody in bed. ' she acknowledges. I'm saying it's not the thrust of the piece."

By Paul Raven · 3 hours ago3 hr
ALL: Love in the Afternoon, and Evening: New Soap Opera Book

I get the feeling that maybe Knots Landing was the one major primetime soap she didn't grow up watching... (She does admit that the final year of Falcon is bad...)

By EricMontreal22 · 3 hours ago3 hr
DAYS: Sony to begin releasing previous seasons on YT?

This playlist shows 45 videos, with only two published so the full season 34 is likely coming at least:

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHS7x6eNIzq0lcz2jdmbGBSy3USajojkF

By te. · 3 hours ago3 hr
DAYS: Sony to begin releasing previous seasons on YT?

Finally! A bit odd of a start, but I think it's good they're finally starting to upload. It's a huge project to undertake so I won't complain.

By te. · 4 hours ago4 hr
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I want the Ada doll, with the dish towel over her shoulder

By Stevel · 4 hours ago4 hr
NBC Daytime

DAILY SENTINEL ROME, N.Y., SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 21, 1975
She breaks through in Daytime Ratings
Just four years ago staid NBC broke precedent by allowing a woman into the inner sanctum of network programming, a men's club by tradition. Now, the breakthrough can't be attributed to pressure from women's liberation or change in upper - echelon thinking. Such turnabouts are pure fiction. The idea of including a woman's viewpoint in program selection simply never occurred to TV executives until bright Lin Bolen came along. Small, pert, and a bit of a fighter, Lin, who resembles actress Elizabeth Ashley, beat out 30 guys in persuading execs to give her a chance in prime - time programming, and soon had "McMillan & Wife" on solid ground by cutting out the jokes and by putting the family - type leads in jeopardy. Her skillful moves did not pass unnoticed, so when Lin read one morning in a trade paper that NBC's Daytime programming spot was open and she decided to apply, the name of Bolen was familiar to the brass. She got the job by knowing all about who dated who in soap opera history, and NBC daytime programming hasn't been the same since.
Thanks to Miss Bolen, "Another World" and "Days of Our Lives" expanded to full hours this past winter and spring, and the audience loved the move, according to ratings. Then, in April, Lin launched a 90 minute drama on "First Ladies' Diaries: Rachel Jackson," the first of a series, and that, too, earned big figures for the afternoon set.
In the game show department, Lin's delight in lights and pizzazz, has transformed NBC into a colorful gambling den with such newcomers as "Celebrity Sweepstakes," "High Rollers" and the latest gadgetry, "The Magnificent Marble Machine." When cynics pass wisecracks about Lin's penchant for razzledazzle, she counters with "We're in the entertainment business. I found theatricality missing in the way producers stage TV game shows." On a win streak, impresario Bolen really put it all together last St. Patrick's Day with a $100,000 pot on "Celebrity Sweepstakes," by bringing in contestants and hosts from other NBC game shows. And guess who walked off with the marbles? Not the learned history professor, but a Pasadena housewife who revealed the experience had given her "a new sense of self. I never felt I knew very much" she said. "Now, I feel really good."
That kind of answer has Lin Bolen purring inside. She's being helpful. You can entertain and be constructive too. Lin's woman's touch also looks good on paper. Since January, NBC jumped from third to first place in attracting the 18-to-34- age bracket among women, and the network is now tied for 1st place with CBS in the daytime sector. How did Lin do it? Three years ago, NBC was idling along, being clubbed by the opposition. Programming hadn't been overhauled in five years, and development projects were nil. Then Lin Bolen entered the picture. She asked for money, she ordered research to find out what women wanted to see, and she spent a year developing reltaionships with outside show packagers. And she went by gut feeling — her tastes and instincts. She guessed wrong on a realistic young - marrieds' soaper, "How to Survive a Marriage." The show attracted young marrieds like flics, but older women were put off, feeling either left out or threatened. "I made a mistake," Lin said. "You must find a common denominator in a show. Appealing to a limited group doesn't work."
So far the Lin Bolen common denominator is successful in the long form — the hour soap opera and the 90- minute "First Ladies' Diaries." The standard 3- minute scenes can run as long as 12 minutes, and fans seem to enjoy that extension. Costs may have doubled in the process, but the revenues, unnamed by Miss Bolen, are not far behind.
What's next? Lin Bolen, the daytime whiz, teams with documentary producer Lucy Jarvis and "Today's" Barbara Walters for a big September daytime splash — a 90-minute European venture as Barbara Walters visits nobility and royalty — the Duke and Duchess of Orleans, and Queen Margarethe II of Denmark and her husband. Prince Henrik. Cameras will also follow along as Miss Walters attends the posh Versailles Ball and mingles with European notables. So, at last, the women are having a say and their way at NBC. Everybody appears to be benefiting.

By Paul Raven · 4 hours ago4 hr
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Yes Irna had a rep for that. Richard Holland and Will Lee were dropped after one episode I think on ATWT and Fran Sharon was also replaced as Susan on AW. it seems that if Irna wasn'r entirely happy with an actor onscreen immediately they were gone.

By Paul Raven · 4 hours ago4 hr
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Reading Cher's "autobiography" part I. Quite entertaining and easy to imagine her voice as narration. An easy read for someone my age, 67.
Friends have asked when she became a gay icon. I have no definitive answer but I feel the following link solidifies it.

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