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What CBS anchors were fired in Chicago? ›

Other layoffs included news anchor Erin Kennedy, sports anchor Megan Mawicke, meteorologist Megan Glaros and reporters Mike Puccinelli and Mai Martinez.

Meteorologist at CBS 2 Chicago.

Albert Ramon - Chief Meteorologist - WBBM | CBS Chicago | LinkedIn.

Ed Curran serves as a meteorologist and reporter for CBS 2. Curran is a veteran Chicago broadcaster with a background in television and radio.

Audrina Sinclair is an Emmy Award-winning anchor on both the CBS Chicago morning news and the station's streaming service, CBS News Chicago. Sinclair joined the station as a reporter in 2015.

The House Judiciary Committee is calling CBS on the carpet over the firing of veteran reporter Catherine Herridge, who was probing the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, and the subsequent seizure of her personal records, The Post has learned.

Glaros was laid off with other CBS employees due to corporate restructuring on May 27, 2020. Glaros was replaced by new CBS 2 weekday morning meteorologist Laura Bannon on April 5, 2021.

Olga Breese is a meteorologist for KOAT Action 7 News. Olga grew up in Los Angeles and started her career as a reporter and was quickly attracted to world of weather and weather forecasting.

Iisha Scott is an award-winning meteorologist for NBC Chicago. She recently earned the prestigious Certified Broadcast Meteorologist seal from the American Meteorological Society.

- Meteorologist @cbschicago. - CBM, BS & MS in Meteorology @univmiami. - 4x Emmy winner, TEDx, GQ, History Channel. - Husband, dog & cat dad.

Is Paul Deanno leaving? ›

I tell weather stories… and LOVE doing it! 26+ years as a broadcast meteorologist. 1st to do the weather on all three network morning shows: CBS This Morning, Good Morning America, & The Today Show. Today marks the end of a wonderful chapter in my career, as it is my last day working at NBC 5 in Chicago.

Jaisol Martinez joined ABC 7, Chicago's number one news station, as morning news weekend meteorologist in January 2023.

On May 6, 2019, it was announced that Dickerson and O'Donnell would leave CBS This Morning, with Anthony Mason and Tony Dokoupil named as successors.

The former MTV personality gave birth to her only child, whom she shares with ex-husband Corey Bohan, in June 2016. Audrina and the BMX rider tied the knot five months later and called it quits in September 2017.

Casey Loza (Audrina's Sister)

Casey is married to FMX rider Kyle Loza, and together the two share three children: daughter Sadie, son Sam and son Vallon Wilde Loza.

Other CBS News staffers who have been laid off include Christina Ruffini, a CBS News correspondent who has been with the unit since she was an intern, and Pamela Falk, a CBS News correspondent who covers the United Nations. Staffers at CBS News were not surprised by the layoffs.

However, after several years of stability with co-anchors Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell, Rose was fired over multiple sexual harassment allegations in November 2017.

On March 13, 2019, CBS Chicago announced that his contract with the station would not be renewed. He subsequently joined a company as a communications consultant.

Rosato's firing followed a series of recent high-profile terminations in the American media industry. Four months earlier, ABC anchors TJ Holmes and Amy Robach were let go after their extramarital relationship was made public.