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UPDATED with additional details: Three days after CBS News top brass got blindsided when Josh Elliott announced on-air that he was leaving the CBSN anchor desk, and issued a statement saying Elliott “is going to be taking field assignments and reporting longform pieces as well” across various platforms, CBS News says…

Another move in the volatile world of TV News on-air talent. CBS News’ Josh Elliott announced “on air” this morning that today is his last day in the daytime anchor chair at CBSN, joking, “Although knowing how things work around here, I may see you again on Monday morning.” CBS News said in a statement: "Josh is going…

Josh Elliott made his CBSN debut this morning, a day earlier than planned, jumping in at noon ET to help anchor coverage of the ISIS attacks in Belgium. Elliott had been scheduled to begin tomorrow at 9 AM. On March 1, CBS News announced Elliott had been named lead anchor of its digital streaming service. He exited NBC…

Josh Elliott has landed at CBS News, where he will be lead anchor of CBSN, the 24/7 digital streaming news service, later this month. Elliott will also appear on CBS News broadcasts and other platforms, CBS News announced. "CBSN is the future of news and we are thrilled to have Josh on our team," CBS News president Dav…

It was back in March 2014 that then-Good Morning America host Josh Elliott accepted an offer to jump to NBC Sports. Today, he’s off the team. "Josh and NBC Sports mutually decided to part ways,” an NBC spokesperson told Deadline, “and we wish him the best of luck in the future.” Elliott was part of the GMA team that wr…

The two former GMA-ers talked about Elliott’s NBC Sports debut covering Kentucky…

“On Friday, May 2nd, former Good Morning America colleagues Josh Elliott and Sam Champion will reunite for the first time live on air from The Kentucky Derby,”  The Weather Channel boasted cheekily today. Upping the cheek, the channel said Elliott will join Champion at 9 AM ET from Churchill Downs live during its…

The same day ABC's Good Morning America officially said so long to news anchor Josh Elliott, it announced it had delivered its most watched quarter in more than 22 years in first quarter 2014. The show also celebrated its first demo win for a quarter in which NBC broadcast an Olympics, since Nielsen's electronic…

Having accepted NBC’s offer, Josh Elliott is out at Good Morning America and, unlike Sam Champion, won’t be seen on the show again to say so long to colleagues on-air. But the GMA gang this morning sent Elliott off with a we’ll-miss-you clip job anyway, in keeping with the show’s one-big-happy-family image : ABC US N…

Departing Good Morning America news anchor Josh Elliott says he has not personally had any discussions about working on NBC’s Today, that he hopes co-anchor Matt Lauer will still be at Today “when I step away from this gig 30 years down the road,” and that he loves ABC News chief Ben Sherwood deeply and passionately…

UPDATED: Michael Strahan, one half of Live! With Kelly & Michael, also soon will be seen on ABC‘s morning infotainment program Good Morning America. Strahan will continue to co-host his daytime talker with Kelly Ripa. Ripa also had been approached about joining GMA, but she declined, according to a source with…

UPDATE, 6:40 AM: GMA gang this morning told viewers that Josh Elliott is leaving the show to go to work for NBC Sports, marking the second successful poaching of a GMA cast member by NBCU, and that he would be replaced as news anchor by Amy Robach, who was on the scene —  Elliott himself was on “vacation.” Meanwhile…