A Disney-owned California TV station has misplaced its fourth on-air persona in simply three months — leaving one viewer evaluating the departures to “the break-up of the Beatles.”
Christine Gregory, a morning meteorologist for Fresno’s ABC30, left her job Friday after saying her departure earlier this month, ending three years of delivering the morning climate.
“I’ll have you realize it was an extremely tough resolution,” Gregory mentioned on air. “It didn’t occur in a single day as a result of I do actually love what I do.”
Gregory mentioned she needed to “make a alternative” between her profession and residential, and “my coronary heart” selected the latter, she mentioned.
She is transferring to Buffalo, New York, to be nearer to household and taking a break to settle into a brand new dwelling together with her boyfriend.
Gregory was born and raised in Syracuse and began her profession in Rochester earlier than coming to Fresno in 2023.
Her colleagues reacted to the information with disappointment. Anchor Jessica Harrington described Gregory as “sunshine in human kind,” whereas fellow anchor Cory James mentioned the back-to-back departures have been a “double whammy.”
Simply final month, reporter and climate anchor Tiffany Olin left ABC30 for KVVU-TV, the Fox affiliate in Las Vegas, to anchor the climate on its weekday 1 p.m. and a pair of p.m. newscasts.
Metropolis Corridor reporter Gabe Ferris additionally left the station in mid-July to hitch sister station ABC7 in Chicago as a basic task reporter.
The exodus additionally impacted longtime sports activities director and anchor Stephen Hicks, who signed off in June after eight years with ABC30. Hicks relocated to Southern California to be along with his new spouse, fellow tv journalist Hunter Sowards.
The departures lengthen past ABC30. Late final month, KMPH anchor Kim Stephens known as it quits after 23 years on the air for a full-time, tenure-track place with Fresno State College’s Media, Communications and Journalism Division.
The string of exits and accompanying shifts in jobs have appeared to depart Fresno-area viewers devastated.
“I’m so bummed! My all time favourite morning crew. It’s just like the break-up of the Beatles,” one social media consumer commented.
The turnover seen this yr shouldn’t be essentially distinctive, the Fresno Bee reported. TV information contracts usually run two to a few years, and Fresno noticed related turnover in 2019 and once more in 2022-2023.
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