Massachusetts Station Announces Morning Anchor Lineup Changes
The station will have a new morning anchor team after Taylor Knight (pictured right) announced she was leaving the station after nearly seven years, while Rich Tettemer (left) said he will retire on June 6 after 37 years at WWLP-22News.
Knight, who said she was leaving to 'be closer to family,' joined the station in 2018 as a multimedia journalist. She worked as a reporter for FiOS1 News in New Jersey, before that.
Tettemer joined the station on April 18, 1988, which was Patriot's Day with both the Boston Marathon and the Red Sox morning game. He moved to morning anchor in 2006, after more than 18 years on the sports desk.
He started his broadcasting career in 1984 as a videotape editor at WFLA in Tampa, Florida. He then went on to become a weekend sports anchor at KODE in Joplin, Missouri.
The station said Kaelee Collins will replace Knight on Thursday, April 24. She started working at the station in 2018 as the weekday morning reporter before being promoted to weekday morning anchor in 2019.
Tettemer will be replaced by reporter Julia O'Keefe.
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