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Roger Simmons
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Birds, Words, Pics + TV

Personnel Changes Coming to WESH

Roger Simmons, April 7, 2006

You’ll likely be seeing some new faces on WESH soon, but the real question is whether these new faces will be replacing any existing ones at the station.

WESH is advertising for an evening news anchor and a meteorologist on its website. The anchor might be part of Channel 2’s plan to break its evening newscasts back into 30-minute blocks. Several months ago in a staff shakeup, WESH sent 5:30 anchor Raul Martinez to weekends and decided to package the 5 p.m. newscast as an hourlong show with Jim Payne and Wendy Chioji anchoring it as well as the 6 p.m. newscast.

As for the meteorologist, WESH has not yet filled its weekend morning weather slot, previously held by Marty Stebbins. This might be it, or is there another change in the weather coming? Stay tuned …

SPEAKING OF THE WEATHER …
Orlando Sentinel good guy Scott Maxwell writes today about WOFL’s Jim Van Fleet — weatherman by day, country music sensation by night. Give it a read here.

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