Bantering even when the camera's off

Brian reports that instead of seeing the ending of "Eli Stone" last night, Channel 5 viewers got to listen to pre-newscast banter:

We caught Ed Harding and the weatherman making jokes, smalltalk and discussing a baseball game. The latter practiced his weather tease three times.

LUCKILY, and I do mean luckily, Harding and the rest of the news team seemingly kept the language clean, didn't criticize anybody or say anything incriminating. ...