WSFL cancels 'The Morning Show'August 09, 2010
Say goodnight to the The Morning Show. After 16 fruitless months of trying to build an audience for the wake-Morningshow-up program, a kind of rapid-fire ADD version of The Today Show, WSFL-CW 39 pulled the plug after Wednesday's telecast.
Even the arrest of news anchor Lisa Hayward on DUI charges (not to mention a domestic-abuse bust of her WSVN-Fox 7 reporter husband Derek just 48 hours later) apparently failed to move the Nielsen meter. Filling The Morning Show's 5-to-9 a.m. slot: reruns of an ancient Canadian teen soap called Edgemont, Cops, Springer-clone Steve Wilkos, and the mock-court proceedings of judges Mathis and Hatchett. What, no Everybody Loves Raymond? More detail from Herald Ace-ette Bridget Carey
here.
UPDATE: While Tribune Broadcasting Co. was firing everybody at The Morning Show, it had
these job openings posted on its website: "We’re recruiting a solid team of anti-establishment producer/editors, 'preditors,' to collaborate on a groundbreaking morning news/infotainment format unlike anything ever attempted on local TV." Except at our station in Fort Lauderdale, where we're about to fire everybody.