The Baltimore Sun
After 21 years on-air at Baltimore’s WMAR-TV, Mary Beth Marsden, the face of Channel 2 news, is leaving the station, the veteran anchorwoman said Thursday.
Marsden, who now anchors the station’s 5, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts, said her last day will be Dec. 2.
The 48-year-old newscaster said the reason for her departure now is that she is taking a buyout offer made to union employees at the station.
“It’s probably in the end as mutual a decison as you can get,” Marsden said Thursday morning. “I would call it an amicable divorce — if there is such a thing. Thank God, we don’t have any children together.”
Marsden’s departure from Channel 2’s anchor desk will mark a major changing of the guard in local TV, with Sally Thorner‘s already announced retirement from WJZ-TV on Dec. 18. Marsden was the anchorwoman tapped to replace Thorner as the lead anchor in 1993 when Thorner jumped to WJZ in a highly publicized move. More…