New WCCO weekend anchor
Posted on January 12th, 2009 – 10:15 PMBy Neal Justin
Well, that was fast. Liz Collin, who joined WCCO in June 2008 as a part-time reporter, has been elevated to the rank of weekend anchor. She’s start co-hosting with Dennis Douda on Saturday, Jan. 31.
“Liz is a rock-solid reporter and an accomplished anchor,” news director Scott Libin said in a pres release. “She’s curious, smart, energetic and enterprising – exactly the kind of journalist we want. And I can’t think of anybody who has made a more immediate or positive impact on a newsroom than Liz has.”
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So let’s see - ‘CCO let a mess-ah people go recently and now we have a co-anchor on the weekends and a traffic dweeb on at 5:00 a.m.? Suggestion: Don Shelby could relinquish one of his two fulltime jobs and give someone else a job. (Ditto that for Soucheray and Sansavere.) That would be good for the economy! Might I suggest he leave television, work exclusively at the Old Neighbor, and then I would not have to look at him or listen to him. I cannot stand all of the commercial interruptions on the Old Neighbor, so I don’t listen. I am still a loyal fan of the ‘CCO news team (Darcy Pohland and Pat Kessler are great!) I might even tune in at 10:00 p.m. with “Ain’t I Amazing” Shelby gone from my sight!!
Lowerhay,
What did I do to you?
I can’t help it I’m perfect!!
Bow to me, mortal!!
Wow, Lowerhay is way harsh on the Don. Did he cut you off in traffic or something? I guess you’ll be happy to know that Don is expected to hang up the full-time TV gig in a year or so.
I worked many years with the Don!! He really is a great guy. I will miss all the man has contributed to WCCO - TV. I will tell you one thing, if Frank gets the job I will switch channels. I think Frank is a weak anchor. His personality is not strong enough in my opinion to be a lead anchor in this market. But, WCCO TV is not the same since it was purchased by CBS. The sad thing here is that these stations keep cutting people and replacing them with low-cost and poor quality talent.
