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A slightly darker shade of blue, as the weekly Summer Concert Series sadly was held indoors due to the severe weather in Central Park.

Pretty dress on Ginger

Thanks, bigzman

The celebs for Season 33 of Dancing With The Stars were revealed. Before the entire crew met to close out the show, Ginger displayed that she still has the moves--this being eight years! after appearing on DWTS.

With Lara Spencer:

Thanks Bigz!

This comes a few days after spending a good chunk of two weeks covering the major damage of Hurricanes Helene and Milton:

To make up for missing Halloween, Ginger briefly talked about an nonprofit group called the New York Road Runners team for climate that she represents.

The pics during a prerecorded segment show her during a warmup in Central Park. It is a ShakeOut run that is simply called plogging. The definition is simply the act of picking up litter while running, walking, or jogging.

This definitely qualifies as the 'you learn something new every day' frame of mind.

Thanks for Ginger

ABC News started a weekly series on Tuesday with Ginger A to Zee.

The series deals with climate change, a hot-button topic during the 2024 Presidential Election.

Part one deals with conspiracy theories and misinformation (just take a look at her Instagram and you will see how she handles the criticism on almost a weekly basis).

Here is her first feature, which I found to be quite interesting:

https://youtu.be/ZJ75E7KRGts?si=ayKyBvsDTMwjeZia

With Ginger out of the studio for a while, she took to her Instagram in recent days to mention that they started filming the new season of Hearts of Heroes.

Also of note on Tuesday, she said this:

"Have you ever done a sleep study? I’ve been wired up for almost 24 hours for an overnight and 5 naps, an important test for my narcolepsy journey. I did one of these in 2001 but doctor needed a fresh one."

Her tests for the most part came out great. She hopes to explain more on GMA during Wednesday's show--fully realizing that we are down to the final days of 2024. A well deserved holiday break (finally) awaits.

Thanx for the update, largedude! (I know his handle is bigzman, if he doesn't like nicknames, I will cease and retest....wink..grin...) Have a cool yule, everyone!

Thank you for correcting my nickname, mid sentence no-less.
And just fyi--I am not that large a person, never have been. Just to clarify

It has been a while, I know (perhaps she might have noticed our caps--hint hint .)
But I digress.

In the first few minutes during Episode 4 of 5 on ESPN's foray into late night comedy with the former They Call It Late Night With Jason Kelce show, Friday night had Joe Buck setting up the scene from outside Union Transfer in Philadelphia, and got really excited.

Seconds later was something I believe we have never seen before, as Ginger pops up during a pre-recorded segment leading into the weekend:



When the image zooms closer, take a closer look towards the bottom half of the screen.



That's right--it was snowing indoors!
Even one of the guests in Ryan Clark was complaining if the snow was fake



The segment closed the same way with the camera zooming to her familiar pose we always see leading into a commercial break, then Scott Van Pelt did his usual commentary bit--albeit a shortened version than the typical 3 or 4 minute rant you see on the late night SportsCenter.



Overall, the show has had its' moments--but the comedy is not exactly up there with David Letterman or Jay Leno. Even on the first show, Jimmy Kimmel gave Jason a hard time.

Realizing this isn't a sports themed site, I found it quite fascinating with the last time Ginger appeared on ESPN was on a morning edition of SportsCenter two days prior to Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014. She said a blizzard affecting MetLife Stadium in New Jersey would not happen until a few hours after the game, and it turned out to be true.

From Thursday:

Thanks very much Mr. Bigz!

Counting down the final months before ABC moves to the Hudson Square Complex, of which The Hollywood Reporter mentioned in 2023:

"The new Disney headquarters will be 1.2 million square feet of offices and production facilities, with a distinctive green facade and a height of 22 stories, or 338 feet, according to architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill."

The first six caps are from the morning show, while the rest are from the third hour of GMA3.

The change started on April 4, with the usual crew of Eva Pilgrim, DeMarco Morgan, and for a segment with Dr. Darien Sutton. It is part of the overall blending of the morning show with more pop culture elements and interviews with TV stars or movie actors that happen to be in New York.

In other words, it doesn't feel like the show we saw from March 2020 until early March when they led off with the medical headlines and the top five news stories of the midday hours: