Chuck Henry, Beverly White, Vikki Vargas Among 5 Veteran KNBC Newscasters Exiting Station
deadline.comThe face of KNBC news is changing dramatically. At least five veteran newscasters at Los Angeles NBC owned KNBC have accepted “voluntary early retirement” buyouts and will leave the station at the end of the year, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
Evening news co-anchor Chuck Henry, along with longtime reporters Beverly White, Vikki Vargas, Angie Crouch and Kim Baldonado, accepted the voluntary buyouts that were presented to staff earlier this year, the Times reports, citing three station insiders who were not authorized to comment.
Deadline has reached out to KNBC for comment. Vargas, the station’s Orange County bureau chief, announced her retirement on social media Wednesday night. “I didn’t want the feeling in my heart to get lost in the written word,” Vargas wrote, “so I decided to announcement my retirement transition this way, marking both an end and the beginning.” In an emotional video, Vargas said “I hope to take the skill of storytelling and maybe use it for the greater good, whatever that looks like, but mostly I thank you for being part of this, with me for 40 years.
Forty years.” You can watch it below. Henry joined KNBC in 1994 and has worked alongside co-anchor Colleen Williams for more than a decade.
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