From a press release issued this afternoon:
Monday, February 15th the following anchor schedule will go into effect:
Good Morning Connecticut 5-8AM
Anchors: Chris Velardi and Kristen Cusato
Weather: Gil Simmons
Traffic: Desiree Fontaine
News Channel 8 at Noon
Anchor: Keith Kountz
Weather: Dr. Mel Goldstein
News Channel 8 at 5 & 5:30pm
Anchors: Darren Kramer and Sonia Baghdady
Weather: Geoff Fox
News Channel 8 at 6pm
Anchors: Keith Kountz and Ann Nyberg
Weather: Geoff Fox
Sports: Noah Finz
News Channel 8 at 10pm
Anchors: Darren Kramer and Ann Nyberg
Weather: Geoff Fox
Sports: Noah Finz
News Channel 8 at 11pm
Anchors: Darren Kramer and Sonia Baghdady
Weather: Geoff Fox
Sports: Noah Finz
In addition to these changes, 5pm news anchor, Jocelyn Maminta, will focus exclusively on her role as a Health and Medical Correspondent. Maminta will also do feature reporting for various newscasts. Anchor, Ted Koppy, will move to anchoring the weekend newscasts, and return to the field as a reporter during the week.
Will Sarah Welch remain on Weekend Evenings or will Ted Koppy anchor evenings and Sarah move to mornings?
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….who cares. They’re all decent, none exceptional. It’s a demotion for the ageing Ann and it’s age discrimination ala Shelly sindland and christianson at 61..Darren is is quite good, otherwise..no biggie.
Okay, I get it:
Anchors = 1 male + 1 female
Weather is a Man Gig
Sports is a Man Gig
Traffic is for Girls
21st century? Not so much.
I feel bad for Sarah Welch if she’s off the weekends…. really like her and think she’s better than Kristen C.
As for “Tessa’s” comments about Shelly Sindland… that comparision doesn’t apply– her “discrimination” claim is bogus… AND she has NEVER been demoted at Fox 61.
AMMYJ doesn’t know how to read the comments. CTMichelle would be the commenter in question.
I NEVER watch WTNH anyhow, if I want to see REAL news, I watch a REAL news station WFSB 3, They may be based out of Rocky Hill/Hartford, but they do a much better job than WTNH….
Desiree is a camera hog – Sonia is all about showing off her upper body. The rest of the crew are just fine.
With all due to respect to “Like I care,” no doubt WFSB has a great crew, but c’mon. You are telling me TIC, TNH, VIT doesn’t do REAL news??? What an absurd comment. (By the way, is naming winter storms a product of real news? Just curious. Because I thought NOAA was the only agency to do that…) Besides – if you put all the newscasts side by side – they are all doing the same basic thing anyway. If you want to make a real, thoughtful critique, “Like I care,” perhaps you should comment on the fact that all news is basically homogenized.
Let’s see: Middletown Explosion: All the stations do that one? Yep.
Let’s see: Murder of Annie Le: All the stations do that one? Yep.
Let’s see: Cheshire home invasion: All the stations do that one? Yep.
Let’s see: Mayor Perez arrested…twice. All the stations do that one? Yep.
WHere’s Matt Scott in all this? Obviously not there which is too bad. I like the way he handles himself. Also wish Sarah was playing a bigger role. Jocelyn – I know she’s been there for a long time, but she always looks very unhappy. I hope she isn’t, but I really don’t want to see her on the news.
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Just want to say that I watch channel 8 all the time and find that it is fine for me. Desiree is someone that I would not have picked for “public viewing” she is more a restaurant hostess person. She is always trying to cut Gil out of camera time, kind of a hog.
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