Happy Friday to all who celebrate! In this week’s edition of stories we didn’t get to for one reason or another, a New York anchor celebrates 25 years while a Chicago anchor threatened, or promised, to streak down a city street if the Bears lost another game.
WLS morning anchor Val Warner won’t have to worry about overexposure or the meaning of streaking after vowing to do so down State Street in Chicago if the Bears didn’t win on Thursday night. They beat the Carolina Panthers 16-13.
On the Tuesday 6 a.m. show, Warner said “I‘m going to streak down State Street if the Bears lose.” She then let viewers know she wasn’t planning on going full birthday suit. “You dirty birds. You were thinking something that I didn’t say.” When a co-anchor replied, “I only know of one thing to streak in.” Warner said, “Well, you can streak in multiple things.”
One of New York’s best-known local broadcast journalists, Darlene Rodriguez (pictured) is a multiple Emmy® Award winner with deep roots in our local community. For two decades, Rodriguez has served as the co-anchor of Today in New York, airing every weekday between 4 a.m. and 7 a.m. Click here for more.
After almost 40 years covering Colorado’s news Anne Trujillo, Denver’s longest-serving continuous evening news anchor, has announced she will sign off from KMGH this fall. Click here for more.
The studio for Baton Rouge, Louisiana station WAFB will now be known as “The Donna Britt Broadcast Studio,” the station announced Friday. Click here for the story.
Lauren Fabrizi, a veteran news reporter who worked for News 12 Connecticut for eight years, thanked her viewers in a social media post this week following layoffs at the network in October. Click here for the story.
Milwaukee station WISN 12 is excited to name Diana Gutiérrez as the new co-anchor of WISN 12 News at 10:00 p.m., effective November 20, 2023. On weeknights, she will work alongside co-anchor Patrick Paolantonio, Milwaukee’s chief meteorologist Mark Baden, and sports director Dario Melendez. Gutiérrez will also serve in an enhanced reporting role on “WISN 12 News at 6:00 p.m.” Click here for more.
Former local anchor Lily Wu was elected Mayor of Wichita, Kansas. Wu had a commanding win over Incumbent Mayor Brandon Whipple in Tuesday’s election. Wu said she is grateful to those 35,000-plus voters for their support. Click here for more.
After more than 30 years at WTMJ and more than 40 years in television overall, veteran anchor Carole Meekins announced today that she’s retiring from Milwaukee airwaves. Click here for more.
NBC Connecticut on Tuesday announced it is shaking up its talent lineup with some new anchor assignments. Click here for the story.
A longtime Tulsa television station will be changing how it presents the news. KTUL, the city’s Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned ABC affiliate, announced Thursday that all news the station airs will soon be produced out of Oklahoma City, although local content from Tulsa-based reporters will still be featured. Click here for more.
Anne Allred‘s replacement for KSDK’s 10 p.m. broadcast has been found — and the station didn’t have to look too far. Kelly Jackson, Mike Bush‘s co-anchor for the 5 p.m. newscast, will join the 10 p.m. show in addition to her regular spot. Click here for more.
KTVE/KARD is proud to introduce its new reporter Jadyn Maloney to the Ark-La-Miss. Jadyn is from Oakdale, Louisiana, and she is a student at the University of Louisiana Monroe, majoring in Communications with a concentration in Integrated Media. After graduation, Jadyn plans to stay in the Monroe area and obtain her Master’s degree in Communication from ULM. Click here for more.