the February 2013 sweeps, WGRZ widened its lead in the morning by 24%, in large part due to the addition of Melissa Holmes as co-anchor of Daybreak. That program now has almost the same number of viewers as WIVB-TV and WKBW-TV's morning shows combined. WGRZ also further increased its lead as the #1 newscast for its early evening newscasts with anchors Scott Levin & Maryalice Demler. Only the late evening newscasts during the week trail WIVB-TV in viewership; however, WGRZ is still dominant in the key demographics which advertisers covet most. Viewership for WGRZ's weekend newscasts also places at a dominant #1, although as an NBC affiliate, it is subject to far fewer sports pre-emptions than its competitors, both of which carry more college sports on weekends as affiliates of CBS and ABC. WGRZ held the lead in the ratings viewership for most of the time between 2011 and November 2018; during the latter sweeps month, WIVB retook the ratings lead. Notable current on-air staff News Maryalice Demler – evening co-anchor Contributors Andrew Peters – co-host of Sports Extra; former Buffalo Sabres & New Jersey Devils left winger Ruben Brown – co-host of Sports Extra; former Buffalo Bills & Chicago Bears guard Notable former on-air staff June Bacon-Bercey – meteorologist (1970s) John Beard – anchor (2009–2018) Susan Candiotti – reporter (now at CNN) Nick Clooney – anchor (1994) Geoff Fox – meteorologist (1980–1984) Bill Mazer – sports anchor (1954–1964; left for WNBC-AM in New York City) Danny Neaverth – host of Nearly Noon with Dan Neaverth (now at WECK) Kevin O'Connell – chief weather anchor (1993–2018, fired in an endorsement dispute) Gary Papa – sports anchor (left in 1981; went to WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, died in 2009) Joey Reynolds – teen correspondent (mid-1950s) Allison Rosati – anchor (now at WMAQ-TV in Chicago) Ernie Warlick – sports anchor (1960s; former Buffalo Bills tight end) Logo In the 1960s, the station used two cartoon elves, named Earis and Iris, as part of its logo. In 1983, to coincide with the call letter change to WGRZ-TV, the "futuristic" logo consisted of two lines, making an outline of the number two. In 1988, the station's logo consisted of simply a large number "2" in a common Avant Garde font, with a yellow triangle over blue added in the early 1990s. In the mid-1990s, the logo changed to a blue-on-red box with the bottom reading