Let's Go Live, errrrr....Let's Go to the Pre-Recorded News

Sources at Nexstar’s WCIA (Champaign, Illinois) tell FTVLive that new News Director Andy Miller has pulled the plug on the live edition of the weekend morning news.

They say there is still a newscast, but it is prerecorded and it is anchored by Andy Miller.

“he canceled the live show and reformatted it to be a knock off of CBS this morning and a very bad one. It’s all recycled content, all prerecorded. No actual news.” said a station insider to FTVLive.

The insider thinks it is a cost-cutting move or the fact that WCIA isn’t able to staff the newsroom fully.

A few weeks ago, FTVLive told you that Miller was posting to social media trying to get people to come work for his station.