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Shiba Russell of WNBC is an idiot

Just watch her for five minutes and you will concur.

And no, I'm not Sue Simmons.

by Anonymousreply 92July 7, 2019 3:20 AM

I concur, OP.

Unfortunately, her competition (Sade Baderinwa on WABC and Kristine Johnson on WCBS) are equally idiotic.

Why are all 3 so stupid? Why were all 3 given the plum 11 pm anchor spot?

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION.

by Anonymousreply 1November 8, 2012 6:02 AM

R1 I agree 100%. I do enjoy watching how her various co-hosts react as she spews out those idiotic comments or half-finished sentences.

And what happened to Dominica Davis?

by Anonymousreply 2November 8, 2012 2:24 PM

Where is Liz Cho?

by Anonymousreply 3November 8, 2012 2:35 PM

R2 - Dominica Davis's contract was not renewed and she was let go; replaced by queeny-yet-straight Steve Villanueva.

R3 - Liz Cho is on WABC - she co-anchors the 4:00 pm hour of news every day with David Novarro, and the 6:00 half-hour with Bill Ritter.

by Anonymousreply 4November 10, 2012 7:38 PM

[quote]replaced by queeny-yet-straight Steve Villanueva.

You can tell he graduated at the top of fey weatherman school!

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by Anonymousreply 5November 11, 2012 9:26 PM

I resent the queeny part!

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by Anonymousreply 6November 11, 2012 9:32 PM

Wait a minute Steve Villanueva is straight? C'mon.

by Anonymousreply 7November 11, 2012 9:36 PM

I cannot watch local TV news because of the stupidity of the "reporters" and the lowest common denominator level of the stories. This morning I accidentally happened upon one anchor discussing the "electorial college." Sigh.

by Anonymousreply 8November 11, 2012 9:42 PM

She's not an idiot! She is an intelligent young black woman you people need to stop the hatred! Your white sheets are showing.

by Anonymousreply 9February 4, 2014 5:31 AM

Never mind Shiba. Is Chris Glorioso still there? And is he still hot as fuck?

by Anonymousreply 10February 4, 2014 11:41 AM

Sibela Vargas is way worse. Her voice is sort of screechy with silly high notes thrown in for emphasis along with overly animated facial expressions -- almost a parody act. She is unlistenable and unwatchable. I switched to Dana Tyler and crew at WCBS after having watched WNBC for almost 40 years.

by Anonymousreply 11February 4, 2014 11:50 AM

r10 hope you're sitting down. Chris married a woman on September 14, 2013.

by Anonymousreply 12February 4, 2014 11:56 AM

Shiba and Sibila are swapping seats.

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by Anonymousreply 13February 4, 2014 11:59 AM

What's with these anchors whose long stringy hair hangs down to their tits? They look like streetswalkers.

Shade has the best style. BTW, for outta towners her name is pronounced sha-DAY. It's part of her lengthy Indian first name.

by Anonymousreply 14February 4, 2014 12:03 PM

And by the way, it's spelled 'Sade,' R14.

by Anonymousreply 15February 4, 2014 1:06 PM

NBC-4 should bring back our brother, weatherguy, Joe Moreno.

by Anonymousreply 16February 4, 2014 1:15 PM

PIX-11's cute Dan Mannarino is leaving soon. Began as a reporter, promoted to anchor. Was told "services no longer needed." In search of a job as I type.

by Anonymousreply 17February 4, 2014 1:19 PM

Really, R17? But why? He's adorable plus he seems to do a very good job on-air. What the hell more do they want?

by Anonymousreply 18February 6, 2014 4:34 AM

Sade is not Indian, she's half Nigerian on her father's side. She a sista!

by Anonymousreply 19February 6, 2014 5:41 AM

I cannot stand Shiba. She is so full of herself and humorless. I miss Sue Simmons.

I get the feeling that WNBC is hiring all these younger Sue Simmon lookalikes such as Sibila, but they are not genuine!

I have switched to WCBS where at least I can tolerate Christine Johnson.

by Anonymousreply 20February 6, 2014 5:51 AM

Dan Mannarino is great, he's so funny, he has on-air chemistry with the re-hired Marisol Castro, who can be a bit of blowhard. She was on WPIX morning news many years ago, along with Linda Lopez, yes Jello's sister, and the original morning crew. Marisol failed at CBS, she's now back at WPIX and was paired with Dan very early in the morning, IIRC this newscast comes on at 4AM.

Not to mention, it's great for NYC news shows to actually have anchors and reporters who are native New Yorkers. btw, Dan claims to be str8!

I also noticed that Magee Hickey, formerly on NBC's local news, is now working for both WPIX as well as NY1! WTF? Actually Magee is from a wealthy Manhattan family, guess she works for something to do.

Over the years, WPIX morning news has let a lot of good reporters go, yet they've kept motormouth Sukyana Krishnan? Why? She talks too fast, she screws up so many news reports. She sounds like she's on speed.

by Anonymousreply 21February 6, 2014 6:10 AM

Dan Mannarino is as straight as Raphael Miranda - and I should know, I've fucked them both.

by Anonymousreply 22February 6, 2014 6:21 AM

I like Kristine Johnson. She has great chemistry with everyone she shares the anchor desk with and she has a sense of humor. And I think she's really cute. And she can barely contain her contempt for Lonnie Quinn when he goes overboard with the weather hysteria. I rarely watch NBC but there have been a few times when I thought that Shiba exhibited an anti-white bias and wasn't even trying to hide it. It made the other people sharing the news desk visibly uncomfortable. I never watch ABC.

by Anonymousreply 23February 6, 2014 8:53 AM

Raphael Miranda was on The Cycle tuesday and he is so cute and personable. I love him.

by Anonymousreply 24February 6, 2014 8:55 AM

I don't know what PIX-11's problem is with Dan. After three weekends they decided he wasn't a good fit to co-anchor with Kaity Tong. He was re-assigned (aka demoted) to co-anchoring 4:00-7:00AM. Soon he'll be back to General Assignment Reporter. PIX has hired a black woman (last name Harris) from FSB-3 in Hartford who'll be Dan's replacement as a reporter.

by Anonymousreply 25February 6, 2014 10:48 AM

[quote]btw, Dan claims to be str8!

Not true. He's very much openly gay. Over the holidays, one of the other reporters doing a segment on gift-buying brought gifts on-air for the anchors and her gift for Dan was a Match.com subscription, plus they put up on-screen all his potential matches and they were all men. So no, he mostly definitely does not claim to be straight.

by Anonymousreply 26February 6, 2014 11:46 AM

Raphael's friends call him Carmen.

by Anonymousreply 27February 6, 2014 9:04 PM

Aren't there trainers who can teach these weatherguys how to butch it up?

by Anonymousreply 28February 6, 2014 9:47 PM

r,4 is Liz still dating Josh Elliot? A year or so ago it was reported they were together, while she was married to guy in Westchester.

by Anonymousreply 29February 6, 2014 9:54 PM

Isn't Raphael Miranda married? And if so, what does his husband do?

by Anonymousreply 30February 8, 2014 3:53 AM

Raph's husband Doug is a businessman. They've been married for years.

Here's their Christmas card photo from this past year:

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by Anonymousreply 31February 10, 2014 6:14 AM

[quote]Not true. He's very much openly gay.

He wasn't open about it when he first started on the PIX morning news!

I forgot who he was anchoring with in the morning at the time, it wasn't Marisol, she hadn't come back to PIX yet. Dan and the woman her was paired with, maybe Kirsten Cole? had just finished some fluff report about dating in the city.

The female anchor then told Dan, that yes, it was extremely difficult to meet someone in the city. Dan's reply was, "I haven't yet met the woman of my dreams." or something along those lines. There was even talk of children. He didn't seem to be joking or saying it sarcastically.

When is Dan leaving? He was on this morning. He was laughing and joking, he didn't seem like a guy who was fired!

by Anonymousreply 32February 10, 2014 9:22 PM

bumpity

by Anonymousreply 33February 11, 2014 9:53 AM

Anyone know how to contact Brian Williams?

I want to make a complaint to him. I dvr both the NBC Nightly News and the WNBC 11 o'clock news, and then watch them back-to-back, but both shows use so many of the same stories and the exact same video footage!

I want to ask Brian if he can recommend a different evening news program, or a different 11 o'clock report.

Why should I watch the same stories twice? It's so annoying.

by Anonymousreply 34February 11, 2014 5:57 PM

If Dan is fired by PIX 11, ABC should snap him right up and give him Josh Elliot's job anchoring on GMA. He would make a great fit there.

by Anonymousreply 35February 12, 2014 12:20 AM

Danny Mannarino is a good Catholic boy from New Jersey, so he's not going to be flaunting his gayness on TV. But if you follow his personal twitter account, he's all about NEWSIES and boy bands and all kinds of things only gays care about - never sports or girls or other straights stuff. Rumor has it his boyfriend is PIX reporter Joe Mauceri.

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by Anonymousreply 36February 14, 2014 7:35 AM

Joe Mauceri is HOT!

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by Anonymousreply 37February 17, 2014 7:55 AM

Does WABC Insider no longer post here?

by Anonymousreply 38February 17, 2014 1:21 PM

Getting back to OPs subject, Shiba ...

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by Anonymousreply 39February 17, 2014 2:11 PM

Dan The Man is too cute for Joe.

by Anonymousreply 40February 17, 2014 2:24 PM

Still here, R38, thanks for asking.

But can't add anything new to whats already been posted - none of it is about people I know personally and I've only heard the same rumors already posted.

by Anonymousreply 41February 18, 2014 6:28 AM

R41, hey WABC insider, how the fuck did that cocked eyed anchor get hired? He hosts the 12 noon show with Lori Stokes. His eyes are fucking freaky to watch. I no longer watch WABC because of him, he's gawd awful and watch his eyes, beyond creepy and scary.

by Anonymousreply 42February 18, 2014 6:36 AM

Hate Shiba and Sibila!

WNBC seemed to find younger version of Sue and it is not working!

Shiva and Sibila hate each other!

by Anonymousreply 43February 18, 2014 6:52 AM

That's Ken Rosato, r42. He looks normal now compared to his roving reporter days. He made Boehner look like an Albino he was so tanned. He was also a total gym rat and was a very natty dresser, though his head looked too big for his body. I believe he's out and is an ex-priest. He is a vast improvement over Bartelstein though. WABC Insider, care to weigh in?

by Anonymousreply 44February 18, 2014 8:15 AM

WABC Insider, R38 here. Thanks for answering! So glad you are still around.

So what can you tell us about Matt Kozar? He's such a cutie. Gay or straight?

Also, is Michelle Charlesworth as cool in real life as she appears to be on the news? She's always been one of my favorite personalities.

by Anonymousreply 45February 19, 2014 1:26 AM

Kozar claims to be straight - I too have my doubts. I also think he's adorbs.

Chuck (as she's known in the newsroom) is THE BEST. Everybody loves her. The same cannot be said for any other female anchor, except Diana. The others (Sade, Sandra B., even Liz) have their detractors.

Here's a bit of gossip - Jeff Smith, who's been engaged to his fiancee for over 4 years (that's them at the link), broke it off in January - won't tell anyone why, won't talk about it. An engagement that long and no wedding - and Jeff is very very close with Laura Behnke.

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by Anonymousreply 46February 20, 2014 5:51 AM

This is why we love you, WABC Insider. Thanks.

by Anonymousreply 47February 20, 2014 11:40 AM

She may be an idiot, but she's certainly no Ashleigh Banfield, the high empress of news moronic idiocy.

by Anonymousreply 48February 20, 2014 11:57 AM

Lori Stokes embarrasses herself every day. The Traffic reporters and Ken, her co-anchor, all say "Root 17." She continues to say "rout" and says a-vuh-NOO instead of a-ven-yoo.

by Anonymousreply 49February 20, 2014 12:29 PM

Isn't Sue Simmons writing her autobiography? I want to hear backstage dish. I want to hear about Sue's affairs with Lena Horne and Jessica Savitch.

by Anonymousreply 50February 20, 2014 3:46 PM

No she isn't.

by Anonymousreply 51February 20, 2014 8:50 PM

I was watching boring Shiba last night and longing for the days of the beautiful, funny Sue Simmons. Shiba has no personality whatsoever, but that sour, smug, extremely pale bitch Dari Alexander on channel 5 is the worst.

by Anonymousreply 52February 20, 2014 9:24 PM

Jeff Smith seems gay gay gay.

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by Anonymousreply 53February 21, 2014 12:40 AM

90% of all weathermen are gay, r53. Look at Lonnie Quinn. Quinn talks like a 14 year old boy tying to prove he's not a girl.

by Anonymousreply 54February 22, 2014 4:00 PM

Someone has to buy Michael Garguilo a mirror. His suits and ties hurt my eyes! I've stopped watching NBC in the morning because I can't stand to see he clothes.

by Anonymousreply 55February 22, 2014 11:02 PM

Jeff Smith used to be fat!

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by Anonymousreply 56February 22, 2014 11:11 PM

But look at the bulge in those pants! Jeff Smith has a big dick!

by Anonymousreply 57February 23, 2014 3:55 AM

I miss Sue and her ground hog impersonation. She never took herself too seriously.

by Anonymousreply 58February 23, 2014 5:09 AM

R55 - that's probably because Michael dresses in the dark. He has to be at work by 4 am!

by Anonymousreply 59March 6, 2014 6:00 AM

bump

by Anonymousreply 60March 7, 2014 11:56 AM

So who is Rob Schmitt's boyfriend?

by Anonymousreply 61March 8, 2014 9:16 PM

To answer the above question, Shane R Duffy, a "model/actor."

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by Anonymousreply 62June 12, 2014 2:48 AM

WABC Insider what about Toni Yates? I love that gal. I love when Chuck and Toni did the mornings together on weekends. Is Lauren Glasberg really a cunt? I've heard rumors that she is.

by Anonymousreply 63June 12, 2014 3:03 AM

Rob and Shane are a hot couple!

by Anonymousreply 64June 12, 2014 3:16 AM

Rob and Shane need to do a sex tape.

by Anonymousreply 65June 12, 2014 7:27 AM

Has Dan Manarino been fired from WPIX?

Someone mentioned here on DL that he was let go, Dan then proceeded to be on the air for months. He hasn't been on this week, I'm wondering if he's finally gone.

He's a lot of fun and has great on-air rapport with Marisol Castro.

by Anonymousreply 66June 12, 2014 7:41 AM

Agreed about Dan. He has great chemistry with Ms Castro and has been an asset to the show. The ratings must be so bad they are trying to throw anything at the wall and see what sticks.Fire the fat lustful windbag Suki Krishna and be done with it. She is annoying as can be.

by Anonymousreply 67June 12, 2014 11:44 AM

Another vote for Dan. Love love love him. If they were stupid enough to let him go, I hope it turns into a great opportunity for him to go someplace else and do so much more with his career.

Though I'm no fan of GMA, he seems tailor-made to be on a show like that (plus it's on a major network, which is even better). Either that or maybe hosting an entertainment news show like ET or Access Hollywood. Dan is cut from the same cloth as Gio Benitez and Ron Corning, the cute, telegenic gay guy who can do serious news as well as the fun stuff, so he will hopefully have lots of opportunities coming his way.

by Anonymousreply 68June 12, 2014 2:54 PM

If Mannarino wants to move up in the broadcasting world, he needs to get rid of that pronounced lisp. Too queeny!

by Anonymousreply 69June 12, 2014 3:48 PM

We hear dogs barking!

by Anonymousreply 70June 12, 2014 3:55 PM

[quote]Fire the fat lustful windbag Suki Krishna and be done with it. She is annoying as can be.

Word is, she has 'connections' that's why she still has a job there.I have no idea what that means, her husband is a fireman, what kind of connections could she have?

Marysol was let go a few weeks ago and Dan is in limbo, If anyone should have been let go, it's Suki. She's awful. Her delivery is that of a speed freak. She makes so many mistakes because she talks too fast, because of her rapid fire delivery, her thoughts are jumbled.

Then again, do ANY of these so-called newscasters actually SEE their news before they read it off the teleprompter? They have some papers in front of them, but do they at least skim them before airtime?

It appears very few of these people hired as anchors have actually covered hard news out in the field. They are hired because they are 'TV personalities'. Most seem to be hired for their looks or their connections, not their actually experience.

In the morning, WPIX constantly repeats the same news over and over again during a 30 minutes span. You can switch to another station come back and they are once again repeating the same news! If they had kept Howard Thompson, James Ford, Greg Mocker and Andrew Ramos in the morning, and showed their pre-recorded segments, that would have alleviated some of PIX' repetition of the morning news.

As for guests, when they do have an interesting guest, they stick them on during the last 5-10 minutes of the broadcast. What are the producers thinking! I could do a better job! I actually work in advertising, this broadcast is one hot mess.

The question should ALSO be, where are these so-called executives at WPIX being dredged up from, they are utterly clueless and have absolutely no clue what the public wants to see in the morning. A college student with an interest in broadcasting could make much better hiring decisions than these fools.

I really enjoyed the team of Marysol and Dan, they were both strong personalities, you have to be, especially seeing how cut-throat WPIX management and Suki seem to be! They did stand up for the constant sarcastic remarks from Large & In Charge Suki!

Marysol and Dan were certainly a great reprieve from the too loud and fast talking Suki. Hopefully, Suki will be taking more time off in the future, hopefully weeks at a time! Then again, I'll probably stop watching this 'news' show.

by Anonymousreply 71June 24, 2014 9:16 AM

With all these morning news firings over the years, it's surprising PIX have any viewers left.

Now they've hired THREE new people for the morning broadcast! Three women with ZERO in the personality department, one a former beauty queen, BIG surprise there.

Where is Chris Knowles, the guy who filled in for traffic and weather? He was hilarious. I loved his dry and deadpan delivery. I guess he was too avant-garde for PIX! He would sometimes quote heavy metal lyrics. I guess he didn't fit in with the low rent demographic PIX seems to be courting.

The woman with the speech impediment, Andy Adler, is extremely annoying. The first day she was on, I originally thought something was wrong with the audio on my TV! Where the heck did they find her? Who wants to try to figure out what someone is saying so early in the morning?!! She sounds like Marlee Matlin!

WPIX execs can justify firing Marysol, and they are now keeping Dan in limbo, yet they actually hired a reporter who is difficult to understand?! This appears to be a first for morning news, a TV reporter who is close to incomprehensible.

II have to wonder if Andy Adler is partially deaf or fully deaf and able to read lips, Her speech pattern reminds me of the sound of a deaf person talking, her voice has that odd speech impediment sound. I don't understand how someone with such a strange voice can be reporting any type of news. When she talks fast, like Suki, forget it.

At this point, they might as well hire a reporter who speaks broken English, they appear to be headed in that direction. While, they're at it, they should hire some random person off the street, they can't be any worse than the people they have on now.

by Anonymousreply 72June 24, 2014 9:55 AM

So, anyone know what's up with Dan?

This morning I briefly put on PIX, I noticed there's a new Italian/American reporter, he doesn't have the charm, looks or humor Dan has and he looked sickly and kind of creepy.

by Anonymousreply 73June 24, 2014 11:38 PM

What's the story on Andrew Ramos? Gay? Straight?

by Anonymousreply 74June 25, 2014 1:09 AM

From Dan Mannarino's Facebook page, posted today:

[quote] I am staying in Dallas for EyeOpener until July 18th. After that, it is back to NYC to report! See you all then. NYC Peeps, what am i missing???

So he's working down in Dallas, doing their early morning news show until mid-July. I wonder if he's hooked up yet with that other ex-NY morning news gay, Ron Corning? Corning also works in Dallas now...

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by Anonymousreply 75June 27, 2014 6:13 AM

Corning is a fatty now!

And he was just tweeting about Shia LeDouche and Sherri Shepherd at 9:15pm Dallas time. No date tonight?

But I feel for him. It was hard to fill my pioneering shoes on World News Now. Impossible, really.

by Anonymousreply 76June 27, 2014 6:26 AM

Especially since Anderson Cooper did it first, David, before you.

Seems Anderson always gets there first.

Will you follow in his footsteps again now that you're a main anchor and COME OUT?????

by Anonymousreply 77June 27, 2014 6:35 AM

Andrew Ramos is married, to a woman.

Is Dan still working for WPIX, but in Dallas? Is is coming back to NYC, to PIX? I can't imagine him wanting to stay, especially after how poorly he and Marysol were treated. What a douchebag TV station.

Marysol was let go from PIX many years ago, then when she comes back years down the line, PIX barely gave her a few months to get some momentum going. Though, she did have great rapport with Dan.

Dan and Marysol were great together, they joked like old friends and/or siblings. I remember while on the air, Dan informed the viewers, that they didn't know each other until they started anchoring together.

The anchor team of Cori and Suki, well, they are horrible. I have no idea where Cori came from, but he's very amateurish.

Cori always seems to be taking a backseat to Suki's caterwauling. Suki is a terrible anchor, period. She talks over everyone else, not to mention, you can sometimes watch her glaring at the new women reporters. She is very sarcastic to the woman, Andy, the one with the speech impediment. Suki enjoys arguing with women she dislikes.

I stopped watching a few days ago, I cannot bear to watch that low rent broadcast. Perhaps if Dan comes back, I'll go back, as it is now, no way.

by Anonymousreply 78June 27, 2014 7:16 AM

Dan has a contract with WPIX - as long as he's under contract, he has to do what they assign him, be it anchor or reporting.

Right now, he's on loan to their sister station in Dallas, and that loan has been extended. Seems like he wants to come back to NYC, but it also seems like the Tribune Corp. (who is the parent company of WPIX and the Dallas station) would rather keep him off the air in NYC and use him elsewhere.

The good news is: the eye candy named John Muller is returning to anchor the WPIX Ten O'Clock news.

by Anonymousreply 79June 28, 2014 6:37 PM

[quote]Seems like he wants to come back to NYC, but it also seems like the Tribune Corp. (who is the parent company of WPIX and the Dallas station) would rather keep him off the air in NYC and use him elsewhere.

R79, what is their justification for treating Dan in this way? It sounds almost like they're punishing him for something he did wrong. He's a perfectly fine reporter and on-air personality, certainly just as good as anyone else they have over there, so they need to either bring him back to NYC and let him do his job or cut him loose so that he can find better opportunities elsewhere.

Banishing him to Dallas for an extended period for no reason is just really shitty.

by Anonymousreply 80June 29, 2014 10:38 PM

Dan's promotion to anchor was done under a news director who is no longer at WPIX - first they tried pairing him with Kaity Tong on weekend nights, but that lasted all of 2 weeks - no chemistry and Dan was petrified of anchoring. He was better when they put him on early morning shifts - looser.

But the ratings got no better, so the corporate suits at Tribune fired the news director, and are slowly but surely getting rid of all the changes he made - moving Dan and that chick off the early morning shift, moving Scott Stanford from anchoring at 10 and replacing him with Muller, bringing back a sports reporter (which the old n.d. got rid of) - conveniently, Scott Stanford did sports on NBC before moving to WPIX to anchor, so it's back to sports he goes.

Dan is just a victim of mismanagment. I'm sure he'd like to come back to NYC (his Facebook postings and tweets certain say so) but his contract is a contract. He is, in a way, being punished for mistakes made higher up the food chain, but they won't fire him when they can get him to work, either in NYC or Dallas. And that's the news business!

by Anonymousreply 81June 30, 2014 12:57 AM

Thanks for the inside dish, R81. I hope Dan gets to come back to NYC sooner rather than later.

By the way, I don't think they'll ever recapture the glory days of the 10 p.m. newscast back when it was anchored by Kaity and Jim Watkins. It just hasn't been the same since.

by Anonymousreply 82June 30, 2014 2:34 AM

Dan returns to WPIX tomorrow (Monday) - for the 10 pm broadcast. It's unclear if he'll be just a reporter, or if he'll have some other beat. Tune in and find out!

by Anonymousreply 83July 20, 2014 3:53 PM

Last week, Dan was back doing one morning broadcast. Cori was 'on vacation', apparently he just took a day off. I was hoping Dan was going to be on the entire week.

The on air people who had worked with Dan previously, all seemed genuinely happy to see him. Linda Church, the weather woman, gave him a big hug on air and they were all joking around. It's clear he had chemistry with everyone. Dan definitely brings some fun and cheerfulness to a terrible morning news show!

Who knows, perhaps Suki was involved in him being let go. Years ago, there were rumors she was involved with Linda Lopez (yes J.Lo's sister used to work for PIX) and few others getting fired. The rumor is, she will throw anyone under the bus who she fears will take attention away from her.

Does anyone know why Suki still has a job, she seems to get worse with each passing year. What are these so called 'connections' she has? As I mentioned upthread, her husband is a fireman, is that considered a connection to get an anchor job on local NYC news?! I doubt it.

by Anonymousreply 84October 9, 2014 11:52 AM

So, now Shiba is gone. Who will take her spot?

Plus, why does WNBC always hire female anchors/reporters who look exactly the same?'

by Anonymousreply 85February 24, 2016 3:29 PM

Do I really deserve this treatment?

by Anonymousreply 86February 24, 2016 3:37 PM

Pat Battle, who has been a reporter for the NYC NBC market for years, has been anchoring with David Ushery. Not sure if Pat is permanent as the co-anchor. She's usually on NBC Saturday and Sunday mornings.

Shiba was too stiff, she always looked nervous and her attempts at humor, were terrible. Any reason as to why she was fired? IIRC, the 5PM, 6PM and 11PM broadcasts usually had different anchors, there was certainly enough news to go around!

by Anonymousreply 87March 5, 2016 3:55 AM

Had to bump this, Dan Mannarino is now back on WPIX in the morning, he back permanently. He's paired with a woman from CNN, Betty Nguyen.

Suki was FIRED!

by Anonymousreply 88June 22, 2017 9:45 AM

Any gossip on why Suki was fired? I thought her so-called connections would help her keep that job, guess not.

She was such a motor mouth. Always talking over her co-anchors. Loud and obnoxious.

by Anonymousreply 89June 28, 2017 2:27 PM

Dan has been adorable, any gossip on him?

He's gotta be gay!

by Anonymousreply 90June 29, 2017 10:09 PM

Speaking of Shiba Russell, WTF happened to her after she was fired from NBC?

I do know Chuck Scarborough will no longer do the 11PM news, it was his choice to leave. Lester Holt's son Stefan is now doing double-triple co-anchoring shifts all day! IIRC, he's been on from 4-6:30, then again at 11PM. I think David Urshery will get one of those shifts or Chuck will be back from 6-6:30PM. Chuck didn't retire.

Sue Simmons was on the week Gabe Pressman died, she looked fantastic! Black don't crack! Sue was on about three times doing tributes to Gabe.

by Anonymousreply 91July 3, 2017 3:03 AM

Bumping this old thread for new gossip.

A whole lot has changed since the old gossip above, namely that Dan Mannarino is now the king of the morning newscast over at WPIX. In fact, they have a really great crew on there with Dan, Betty, Byron on weather, and this cute married couple, Anthony DiLorenzo and Kala Rama, who just had a baby. There's also the black celebrity interviewer they call "Oji" for short who has a lot of chemistry with Dan and they can be pretty funny when interacting on camera together.

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