LA Station to Shake Up Anchors and Newscasts (Patreon)

Sources tell FTVLive that The Firm’s KTTV is looking to shake up a number of their newscasts. 

We hear that the KTTV’s morning anchors Tony McEwing and Araxya Karpaytian are getting pushed back an hour on their start time. They were anchoring 6AM to 9AM, but will now be doing 7-10 AM.

The 6AM show will be done by new anchors Dan Cohen and Rita Garcia.

That leaves Anchors Megan Collarossi and Vanessa Borge unassigned and their futures at the station uncertain. 

 We also hear that the main weekday anchors will be moved from a Monday thru Friday schedule and now work Sunday through Thursday. This was a gimmick that many stations tried years ago. The thinking is that viewers tuning in for football will get more exposure to the main team. 

The football season only lasts 20 weeks and it is a flawed idea that had many stations moving their main teams back to M-F. 

Look for KTTV to do the same. 

We also hear that the fate of Anchor Elex Michaelson’s much-ridiculed and gimmicky news talk show “The Issue Is,” which airs Friday night at 10:30 is up in the air. 

The positive for the show was it let the station retitle the last half hour of its Friday 10PM newscast, which often gets hash marks.