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Johnson remained at the station until October 1996 when, along with several other notable personalities, he was fired. The firings came abruptly, as Johnson and co-anchor Michele Marsh previewed the upcoming 11pm newscast at the end of the 6 pm news, with their dismissals occurring in the interim four and a half hours.
He came to New York in 1998, and joined WCBS-TV, where he co-anchored the noon newscast with Cindy Hsu, and the 5pm newscast with Lisa Cooley (later known as Lisa Hill). He left WCBS in April 2000 after a contract dispute and joined rival station WNBC-TV, where he co-anchored the 5pm newscast ("Live at Five") with Sue Simmons.
For a while, WNBC moved its 5:30 newscast back to 5 p.m. (bumping Extra to the 5:30 slot), but did not return the Live at Five name to the newscast. Once again, Sue Simmons anchored the program, with David Ushery as co-anchor; the current 5 p.m. newscast continues to use the general News 4 New York brand rather than the Live at Five brand.
Legendary New York City TV anchor Chuck Scarborough announced Thursday that he will leave WNBC after a historic five-decade run. The Emmy Award-winning newsman – a fixture in homes for 50 years ...
News anchor Joshua Johnson is saying goodbye, for now, to NBC News after a year of leading his nightly news The post Joshua Johnson exits ‘Now Tonight with Joshua Johnson’ on NBC after almost ...
WNBC-TV was the first station on the East Coast to air a two-hour nightly newscast, [33] and the first major-market station in the country to find success in airing a 5 p.m. report, when NewsCenter 4 (a format created for WNBC by pioneering news executive Lee Hanna) [35] was introduced in 1974, a time when channel 4 ran a distant third in the ...
A husband and wife who both worked on-air at KARK-TV in Little Rock, Ark., were fired this week, along with two other station employees, after two videos they made and posted on YouTube became the ...
The station first signed on the air on October 8, 1948, as WNBQ; it was the fourth television station to sign on in Chicago. [1] [3] It was also the third of NBC's five original owned-and-operated television stations to begin operations, after WNBC-TV in New York City and WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., and before WKYC in Cleveland and KNBC in Los Angeles.