https://deadline.com/2019/08/e-expanded-slate-entertainment-news-programming-e-news-mornings-new-york-1202662347/
The transition to a morning show will take place in 2020, with 20 to 25 Los Angeles-based E! News staffers getting laid off. E! News has aired at 7 p.m. ET/PT for years. Next year, E! News will air at 7 a.m. ET/PT from Rockefeller Center in New York City. E! also announced that Nightly Pop will expand to four nights a week beginning in the fall.
Giuliana Rancic and Jason Kennedy are not expected to join E! News' morning show (https://pagesix.com/2019/08/12/giuliana-rancic-jason-kennedy-not-expected-to-join-e-news-morning-show/)
Both Rancic and Kennedy currently host the Los Angeles-based evening edition of E! News, which will transition next year to the New York-based morning edition. According to Page Six, Kennedy and his wife Lauren Scruggs are currently building their "dream home" in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles-based Rancic is also not expected to move to New York City.
Giuliana Rancic on whether she'll move with E! News to New York: "We'll see" (https://pagesix.com/2019/10/04/giuliana-rancic-speaks-out-on-e-news-moving-to-new-york/)
E! News is moving from Los Angeles to New York early next year to become a daily morning show, but the L.A.-based Rancic hasn't decided if she's also switching coasts. "We'll see," she told Page Six. “I’ll always be with E!. I mean, I have the red carpet.” She added: “I’ve been there now 20 years, so it’s been a really amazing ride.”
E! names Lilliana Vazquez and Scott Tweedie as the new hosts of New York-based E! News and Pop of the Morning (https://pagesix.com/2019/12/05/e-announces-lilliana-vazquez-and-scott-tweedie-as-hosts-of-new-york-based-morning-show/)
Vazquez and Teedie will make their debut on Monday, Jan. 6, when E! News moves to mornings. “With many years of entertainment reporting experience, Lilliana Vazquez and Scott Tweedie are well-respected, seasoned hosts, who have fun, relatable TV personalities with undeniable chemistry,” E!'s executive vice president and editor in chief Tammy Filler said in a statement. “They are the perfect pair to join the news team as we continue to build our presence in New York.”
E! cancels E! News, Pop of the Morning and In the Room (https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/e-news-pop-of-the-morning-in-the-room-canceled-amid-greater-nbcuniversal-restructure-exclusive-1234726583/)
The three New York-based shows have been axed as E!'s parent company, NBC Universal, "looks to streamline its programming and restructure internally to create more efficiencies," reports Variety. The coronavirus pandemic also played a role in the cancelations. E! News premiered its New York-based morning show in January after moving from its longtime home in Los Angeles.