DC Anchor Goes M-I-A (Patreon)

Back in January, FTVLive named WTTG Anchor/Reporter Annie Yu as FTVLive's 2017 News Person of the Year.  

Yu is that rare example of an awesome talent and a great person as well. 

Last week, Yu filed a few reports for the Fox O&O's morning show, packed up and left for the day and never came back. 

Station staffers had no idea what had happened to their co-worker and many emailed FTVLive to ask what we knew? 

Word is that WTTG GM Patrick Paolini's assistant was seen packing up Yu's belongings and putting them in a box. 

No one in the newsroom was told what had happened and why Yu was no longer coming to work?

Station insiders say that News Director Paul McGonagle has told them nothing and that he only inquired with the web people if they could take the Fox5 off of Annie Yu's twitter account @AnnieYuFox5. 

It seems that McGonagle is under the impression that he personally owns the 3 letters and number Fox5. 

Yu is not talking about her future. But, she (or the station) changed her Twitter account to @AnnieYuTV and she is telling her large following to stay tuned. 

Sources outside the station say that Yu is weighing other offers from TV stations coast to coast.

One source tells FTVLive that Yu was spotted at The Capital Grille recently eating with station executives from Tegna owned WUSA in DC. 

One viewer emailed FTVLive and said that they saw Yu sitting at a restaurant with WJLA Anchor Jessob Reisbeck. Not, sure if they are friends, or if Yu is also talking to the Sinclair station?  

If Yu is headed to WUSA or WJLA, it would be one of the best hires a Sinclair, Tegna station has ever made. 

Yu is telling people on social media to stay tuned and a call to her Agent Micah Johnson was not returned.

As for the people still working at WTTG, they have been told nothing and many said that they have reached out to Yu, but she has not tipped her hand as to what is next. 

Why the management at WTTG have not even acknowledged that Yu is gone is perplexing? They pack her her desk in the middle of the day as a way to tell other employees that everyone is replaceable. 

How anyone thinks that leading by scare tactics, intimidation and secrecy is good management skills has no clue what the hell they are doing. 

"I don't know what Annie is doing, but I'm sure that she is so happy to be out of this hell hole," said one employee that still works at Fox 5. 

Stay tuned....