{"id":5631,"date":"2014-11-11T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=5631"},"modified":"2014-11-11T06:01:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T12:01:19","slug":"marianne-murciano-tamron-hall-took-my-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/11\/11\/marianne-murciano-tamron-hall-took-my-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Marianne Murciano: \u2018Tamron Hall took my job\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Marianne<\/a>

<\/a> Marianne Murciano<\/p><\/div>\n

Fourteen years after she lost her morning news anchor job to Tamron Hall at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32,<\/a>\u00a0Marianne Murciano is speaking out about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cTamron Hall moved in and took my job while I was on maternity leave,\u201d Murciano said Monday on the WGN AM 720<\/a> midday show she co-hosts with her husband, Bob Sirott. Murciano\u2019s comments<\/a> were prompted by a New York Post<\/a> report about a behind-scenes power struggle on NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show between Hall and Natalie Morales.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m reading about all this and I\u2019m thinking, wow, yeah, I can see how Natalie Morales must be feeling,\u201d Murciano told listeners of the Tribune Media news\/talk station.<\/p>\n

Murciano and Sirott met and married during their seven-year run as co-anchors of \u201cFox Thing in the Morning.\u201d After the birth of their daughter, Daniela Samantha, in May 2000, Murciano went on maternity leave, and Hall, then a 27-year-old relative newcomer, filled in for her alongside Sirott. When Murciano returned to Fox 32 six weeks later, she was reassigned to the noon newscast, where she worked out the remainder of her contract.<\/p>\n

\"Tamron<\/a>

Tamron Hall<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cIt was kind of a shock that I went off to have a baby and that while I was on maternity leave, Tamron Hall was filling in for me, and then she became very close with management, which sounds like what\u2019s happening now, and then suddenly she had my job. . . . Like I was never able even to come back and say \u2018I\u2019m leaving\u2019 or anything. It was just done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hall spent 10 years at Fox 32 before joining NBC News in 2007. Earlier this year she was promoted<\/a> to co-host of the 9 a.m. hour of \u201cToday.\u201d<\/p>\n

The New York Post reported Sunday that Morales had been passed over for several key roles and was \u201cplanning her next TV move because of the tense atmosphere behind the scenes\u201d at \u201cToday.\u201d The Post\u2019s Page Six<\/a> column claimed Morales and Hall were locked in a \u201cpower struggle\u201d with NBC News president\u00a0Deborah Turness. \u201cToday\u201d executive producer Don Nash branded the story \u201ctotal nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whatever the similarities, Murciano doesn\u2019t seem to have any regrets: \u201cIt all worked out for the best because I\u2019m glad I don\u2019t have to wake up early in the morning anymore,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fourteen years after she lost her morning news anchor job to Tamron Hall at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32,\u00a0Marianne Murciano is speaking out about it. \u201cTamron Hall moved in and took my job while I was on maternity leave,\u201d Murciano said Monday on the WGN AM 720 midday show she co-hosts with her husband, Bob Sirott. Murciano\u2019s... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5631"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5640,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions\/5640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}