Showing posts with label Chris Cato. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chris Cato. Show all posts

January 31, 2013

New Faces at NBC 10 @NBCPhiladelphia

Chris Cato with now "veteran" anchor Denise Nakano
Sometimes it seems you can't keep up with the new additions to the newsroom over at NBC 10. The comings and goings have been many in the past few months.

No longer on the air are veteran NBC 10 staffers Tim Lake, Terry Ruggles, Dawn Timmeney. Recently added are weekend weather anchor Brittney Shipp, along with reporters Daralene Jones, and Nefertiti Jáquez. Shipp comes to Philly from the NBC station in Phoenix. Jones arrives from Orlando, and Jaquez, the former Fox 29 reporter returns to Philly from Houston.

By the way new news anchor Chris Cato did a great job filling in and doing sports on the weekend during one of the recent weekend newscasts. He came off very creditable. ...Impressed!

Here are the aforementioned in a recent Twitter photo. [below]

December 9, 2012

Tim Lake No Longer with NBC 10 WCAU TV

NBC 10 News anchor Tim Lake worked his last shift at the station on Friday night's 11 p.m. newscast. His contract was not renewed by NBC Universal. He had been told months earlier that he would not be offered a new contract. He left the airwaves with no fanfare. Would that have happened at Channel 3 or 6?

Lake had been with Channel 10 for 20 years and is the last on-air anchor at WCAU-TV who transitioned with the station from its days as a CBS affiliate to being owned by NBC. That big switch happened in Philadelphia in 1994. Channel 3 KYW-TV of course became CBS 3.

NBC 10 is said to be looking for a new main anchor, however newcomer Chris Cato is probably slated to fill that position.