If anyone's curious, Derrick Waller and Danielle Leigh's bios are now on the ABC7 website.
http://abc7ny.com/about/newsteam/derick-waller/
http://abc7ny.com/about/newsteam/danielle-leigh/
They also fixed a strange mistake on the WABC news team website. For some reason for like 3 months this year, photos that date back 2 headshots ago were up instead of the current ones.
WABC was nice enough today to post the 9/11/2002 roundtable featuring Michelle Charlesworth, Jeff Rossen, Anthony Johnson, Joe Torres, Nina Pineda, Glenn Mayrose and two other photographers.
http://abc7ny.com/video-eyewitness-news-roundtable-on-09-11-02/291417/
Marcus Solis' piece on the heat today talking about the 1977 blackout on July 13-14. Larry Kane was shown broadcasting that day (one of the 70s pieces on YouTube.)
For those who want the 1977 version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=zvcHtJK3Dhg;t=1
This is a big loss to WCBS. Lou Young has been a staple of New York news for over 30 years now from WABC to WNBC to WCBS. I really wish he'd come back to WABC, but I don't see that as likely.
Diana Rocco was one of the per diem freelance reporters with WABC that they have several of. No guarantees because I don't have insider knowledge, but I bet her contract ended.
Apparently today was Dr. Richard Besser's last day. He is moving to a job at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
They gave a farewell at EWN First at 4.
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Much congrats to Shirleen! There was an office bet on what to name the child when she was born.
Second, kind of off topic, but ex-WABC anchor Greg Hurst is departing KHOU.