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WILX Mornings

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gotigers
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WILX Mornings

Post by gotigers » Sun Jul 04, 2021 9:20 pm

Is Mallory Anderson solo again on WILX mornings? I know Lansing is a revolving door of talent, but this was a super quick one (like a handful of weeks). WILX introduced Amicia Ramsey as a morning co-anchor with Mallory on May 11, but today I noticed she was gone from the WILX website. She hasn't posted a WILX-related Facebook post or tweet in a few weeks. Her latest Instagram post from 5 days ago is a photo from the WILX set with the caption: "They can't stop me, even if they stopped me." I wonder what's going on there...



wsummers
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Re: WILX Mornings

Post by wsummers » Sun Jul 04, 2021 11:13 pm

gotigers wrote:
Sun Jul 04, 2021 9:20 pm
Is Mallory Anderson solo again on WILX mornings? I know Lansing is a revolving door of talent, but this was a super quick one (like a handful of weeks). WILX introduced Amicia Ramsey as a morning co-anchor with Mallory on May 11, but today I noticed she was gone from the WILX website. She hasn't posted a WILX-related Facebook post or tweet in a few weeks. Her latest Instagram post from 5 days ago is a photo from the WILX set with the caption: "They can't stop me, even if they stopped me." I wonder what's going on there...
Yes, Amicia Ramsey was released after less than 2 weeks on the air. She struggled during the second week while Mallory was on vacation. She was solo the first day, but had the morning weekend anchor added the next day. Mallory was back solo on Friday of that week and Amicia wasn’t seen on air again. WILX has had the position posted for a week or so.



whitebalance
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Re: WILX Mornings

Post by whitebalance » Mon Jul 05, 2021 11:38 am

Maybe Gray shouldn't own stations if the can't manage them.



gotigers
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Re: WILX Mornings

Post by gotigers » Mon Jul 05, 2021 5:53 pm

wsummers wrote:
Sun Jul 04, 2021 11:13 pm
Yes, Amicia Ramsey was released after less than 2 weeks on the air.
Wow. Didn't realize it was that quick. Thanks for the info. I'm out of the Lansing market now but I try to keep track of comings and goings via Facebook posts and the website.



dirtymind410
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Re: WILX Mornings

Post by dirtymind410 » Sat Aug 28, 2021 8:41 am

I enjoy viewing Mallory Anderson in the mornings but I do miss Claire Cameron. I thought that Emily Wahls would become a weathercaster. Where is she?



wsummers
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Re: WILX Mornings

Post by wsummers » Sat Aug 28, 2021 8:57 am

dirtymind410 wrote:
Sat Aug 28, 2021 8:41 am
I enjoy viewing Mallory Anderson in the mornings but I do miss Claire Cameron. I thought that Emily Wahls would become a weathercaster. Where is she?
Beginning on Monday…



SBaxley
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Re: WILX Mornings

Post by SBaxley » Sat Aug 28, 2021 11:50 am

also beginning on sept 6 all 4 hours of Today LIVE! [and a midday news at 11am] , by the way ..good job Gray on filling the down hours on VUit with your own little newsnet



MasterB
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Re: WILX Mornings

Post by MasterB » Sat Aug 28, 2021 11:27 pm

Live With Kelly & Ryan move to Fox47.


Go Pistons, Let's Go Redwings.

babastooey
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Re: WILX Mornings

Post by babastooey » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:51 am

wsummers wrote:
Sat Aug 28, 2021 8:57 am
Beginning on Monday…
Are you sure?



scott8x82
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Re: WILX Mornings

Post by scott8x82 » Mon Aug 30, 2021 9:15 am

wsummers wrote:
Sat Aug 28, 2021 8:57 am
dirtymind410 wrote:
Sat Aug 28, 2021 8:41 am
I enjoy viewing Mallory Anderson in the mornings but I do miss Claire Cameron. I thought that Emily Wahls would become a weathercaster. Where is she?
Beginning on Monday…
Not any time soon, Darrin Rockole had been promoted back to chief, and will be back on mornings next week. I guess we look for Emily on the 11am newscast?



wsummers
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Re: WILX Mornings

Post by wsummers » Mon Aug 30, 2021 9:24 am

babastooey wrote:
Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:51 am
wsummers wrote:
Sat Aug 28, 2021 8:57 am
Beginning on Monday…
Are you sure?
Obviously, things have recently changed. Darrin said a couple weeks ago he would be splitting weekends and the 11am news. He announced he would be taking over mornings next week this am. They also had an ad campaign for Emily joining on the air beginning today airing for the last month.

Here is the news release. Note, no mention of Emily Wahls…. https://www.wilx.com/2021/08/30/wilx-ne ... reporting/
Best guess is a contract dispute as this would be one year and it would likely be up for negotiation.

Also, new graphics package and branding began today.



gotigers
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Re: WILX Mornings

Post by gotigers » Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:28 pm

This has been such a strange year for the WILX weather department. First Darrin "retires," then he comes back part time, then he comes back full time (but says on his social media that he's not the chief meteorologist), and now here we are... right back where we started with Darrin doing mornings as chief, Andy in the evenings, and Justin filling in the gaps. And to top it all off, the Fox 47 news share agreement ended so we lost a couple other meteorologists at that point.

Is Emily Wahls even at WILX anymore. She didn't even get a mention in the article. Her LinkedIn has said "chief meteorologist - WILX-TV" for a while now, so I wonder what happened.



Graham Wellington
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Re: WILX Mornings

Post by Graham Wellington » Tue Aug 31, 2021 10:14 am

So their "big change" is that they reverted back to the same weather lineup they had for years, and turned the logo they've had for years red. Oh how exciting!



jmeltonwx
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Re: WILX Mornings

Post by jmeltonwx » Tue Aug 31, 2021 11:16 am

Interestingly enough, the open meteorologist position from Diane's departure at WLNS is no longer on Nexstar's jobs page. Have to wonder if Emily is going back there...



nonewsgoodnews
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Re: WILX Mornings

Post by nonewsgoodnews » Tue Aug 31, 2021 1:54 pm

The day before Emily was supposed to start -- she got an offer somewhere else out of state and told Wilx she was leaving. Whole plan blew up on them. A year getting paid to do nothing at WILX completely worthless. So, back to Darrin whose retirement happened before Emily was even in the picture. Looks like grass wasn't greener on the side so it worked out for him.
so- all that buzz for nothing new but a new logo.



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