Central Florida News 13 announced Monday that Orlando TV news veteran Marla Weech is now the anchor for Your Morning News. Weech, who has been on Orlando TV since the 1980s on channels 6 and 9, joined News 13 earlier this year. “I can’t think of a better person than Marla to help Central Florida…
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Marla Weech is back in the anchor chair
Wonder what’s been up with former WFTV and WKMG anchor Marla Weech? Weech, who lost her job at Local 6 in the station’s first wave of layoffs in July 2008, was spotted back in the anchor chair on Tuesday — this time providing coverage of a satellite launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Yes, you…
Weech out as anchor at WKMG
Longtime O-Town anchor Marla Weech is being laid off from WKMG as the slowing economy starts to takes its toll at Local 6. “I’m being laid off,” she told Orlando Sentinel TV Guy Hal Boedeker on Friday. “It’s tough economic times. My position is being eliminated. My heart goes out to anyone who’s losing a…
Mowry’s delivery leaves Weech all alone
The 5 a.m. hour of Tuesday’s Local 6 First News could have been renamed "The Marla Weech Show." The station’s traffic reporter position is vacant, co-anchor Lauren Rowe was out because she was ill, so it was supposed to be just Weech and meteorologist Larry Mowry on the show. But Florida Today reports that just…
Marla is Back … And On Channel 6
Scott Maxwell of the Orlando Sentinel breaks the news that longtime Central Florida anchor Marla Weech is coming back to TV, this time on WKMG-Channel 6. The gig is listed as only temporary (for now), as she will join Local 6’s morning show to fill in for Mark McEwen as he recovers from his stroke….