The news anchor, Ellen Leva, leaves Kabc-TV after nearly 30 years, which represents the last departure of the prominent local news project.
Liva announced on Monday during the afternoon program of Walt Disney Station. The station officials said it was planning to stay on the air, along with the long -term participant David Ono, for another few months during a transitional period.
“After a lot of meditation and meditation, I know that I am ready to move and focus on my great adventure in life,” Leva told the viewers, adding that the decision “something I was thinking about for a long time.”
In an email to the employees, the general manager of Kabc Wendy Granato described the retirement of Leva.
Station based in long GLENDALE One of the most stable stable Distinguish on the air in Los Angeles. Its anchors are still common for viewers, even as news consumption patterns change and become stations Less profit sections for the main networks. Last spring, the Pew Research Center report The most prominent transformation at the level of industryNoting that an increasing number of Americans get a lot of their local news online.
However, an overwhelming majority of the respondents said that local news coverage is important for their community, according to the PEW study.
Local broadcasters showed their lifting – And importance – By providing marathon coverage of the colors of Altadina and Pacific Palceids last month and beyond the destroyed, where thousands mourned the loss of loved ones, homes, churches, schools and companies.
Liva is the latest broadcaster for local news to go out.
KNBC-TV Fritz Coleman retired in 2020. Two years later, cadre of prominent journalists in KnBC – Beverly White, Hakk Henry, Kim, Dunado and Angi Crawch – Retired from the station. Also in 2022, Lynette Romero has long turned Knbc after a high-level departure from KTLA-TV 5 channel.
Last year, the Mottan of the local broadcasting community surprised: the entertainment anchor in KTLA. Sam Robin, who died in May; and KCAL-TV Channel 9 Post Chauncy Glover, who died unexpectedly In November at the age of 39.
Leva, who grew up in Arizona, joined Kabc in 1995 as a health reporter and later joined the anchor office.
Over the years, I participated in hosting Oscal a red carpet their arrival with blue angels and provided a fixed presence on the air. She also worked as the captain of the Kabc team in AIDS Wook Los Angeles and called for mental health services for disadvantaged societies.
“Saying that she was a truly invaluable and proud member of our eyewitness news team is at least.”
The station did not specify the date of leaving Leva.
“This station, everyone who works here and all of you is really really away from home,” Leva told the viewers. “I couldn’t order a more feasible profession with the best people in the best city in the world.”
