{"id":3916,"date":"2008-08-07T13:50:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T19:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3916"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:42:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:42:30","slug":"justin-farmers-out-brad-hawkins-is-in-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/justin-farmers-out-brad-hawkins-is-in-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Farmer’s out Brad Hawkins is in… for now"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Brad<\/a>
Brad Hawkins - WFAA reporter\/anchor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As reported by Uncle Barky<\/a> (as well as here<\/a>) earlier this year, Justin Farmer’s last day with WFAA, Channel 8’s Daybreak was Friday, August 1. His contract officially ended August 5th.<\/p>\n

Farmer made the announcement back in January (the same day morning co-host Cynthia Izaguirre<\/a> joined the WFAA team) that he would be heading back to Atlanta to work for WSB.
\nUncle Barky also reports that Brad Hawkins will be given the the rest of this year to win the job permanently.<\/p>\n

It appears there was no mention of the switch on the air. Just a new face next to Cynthia Izaguirre on Monday morning (even though Hawkins has been filling in for Farmer throughout the year).
\nHawkins will join Izaguirre, Alexa Conomos and Greg Fields weekday mornings from 5 – 7 a.m.<\/p>\n

Folks seem to have varying opinions on the switch and move (see the comments on my original post<\/a>). Amazing to see how dependent\/accustomed we become to our favorite news anchors.<\/p>\n

related ::<\/strong>
\nUncle Barky’s original post<\/a>
\nSSL :: Justin Farmer to leave WFAA<\/a>
\nUncle Barky :: Local Nielson ratings snapshot<\/a>
\nWFAA :: Daybreak<\/a>
\nWFAA :: Brad Hawkins<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As reported by Uncle Barky (as well as here) earlier this year, Justin Farmer’s last day with WFAA, Channel 8’s Daybreak was Friday, August 1. His contract officially ended August 5th. Farmer made the announcement back in January (the same day morning co-host Cynthia Izaguirre joined the WFAA team) that he would be heading back … Continue reading Justin Farmer’s out Brad Hawkins is in… for now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[233,1349,1350,1351,600,882,597],"class_list":["post-3916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-newsandpop","tag-abc","tag-brad-hawkins","tag-cynthia-izaguirre","tag-daybreak","tag-justin-farmer","tag-news","tag-wfaa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-11a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11150,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions\/11150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}