SHILL ALERT!
I'm not kissing butt here, honest, I really mean it.

Brad Drazen has been named morning co-anchor, and NBC 30 management couldn't have made a better choice.
Head honcho David Doebler and VP News Mike St. Peter looked high and low (That doesn't make sense. Why would they look low?) for the best replacement for Brian Shactman, and found him already occupying the seat next to Keisha Grant.

For those who don't know, (and judging by many emails to the station, many don't) Brian moved on to CNBC as a business correspondent. That's one of the good things about being owned by NBC Universal. They knew of Brian, saw his potential, valued him, and kept him in the Peacock family.

Brad is as good a guy as you'd want to know. Family man, great reporter, perfectionist. He's also his own biggest critic. (You only have to play golf once with him to learn that. My favorite Brad story: He nearly dropped a 40-foot putt. I say, "great putt." He looks at me and asks, "Did it go in?" End of conversation.)

Sometimes you don't recognize what you have. Congrats to our managers for recognizing what they have in Brad, and congrats to Brad on getting a job well deserved.