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Yesterday, Weekday Traffic Anchor Katherine Whaley left Ch. 13 to spend time with her family. But something tells me we'll see her back on TV in a few years. With longtime Weekday Morning Anchor Tom Koch retiring after nearly 40 years on May 28th, it appears the weekday morning newscast will be looking different with possible more changes on the horizon: https://mikemcguff.blogspot.com/2021/03/katherine-whaley-leaves-abc13-ktrk.html?m=1 Whaley's Instagram message to her followers on her decision to leave the ABC O&O Station: https://www.instagram.com/p/CM1yHFhpzMp/ https://www.facebook.com/photo?fibd=293015292188645&set=a.292306375542870 https://www.facebook.com/KatherineABC13 Chelsey Hernandez, who does the "Stretch Your Dollar" segments & recently moved to the weekday afternoons in 2019, has left the ABC O&O Station as well, plus her biography was taken off the station's website & Hernandez removed all mentions of Ch. 13 from her Social Media accounts: https://mikemcguff.blogspot.com/2021/03/chelsey-hernandez-leaves-abc13-ktrk.html Any thoughts on the changes going on at Ch. 13 ? Big question is whether we'll see more departures down the road ?

I noticed that Steven Romo has been subbing in for Tom Koch in Ch. 13's Weekday Morning newscasts in the last couple of days, but where is Koch ? If anybody can tell us where he is, let us know.

With Courtney Zubowski and Katherine Whaley leaving KHOU-TV for "new opportunities". There's been rumors going on that some people don't like the Gannett ownership at KHOU and are leaving the station, changing things such as forcing reporters and others to carry their own stuff to do news reports, kicking out longtime people, who've been at formerly-owned Belo stations for 2 or 3 decades. There's also the part of demoting weekday or weeknight anchors to sideline reporters, which is considered an insult. What's y'all take on the ongoing turnover at Gannett stations such as KHOU ?