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New anchor makes Seattle TV debut

 


Natalie Fahmy has joined Theron Zahn at the weekend morning desk, replacing Hannah Knowles.  Zahn is co- anchoring news as well as doing weather.    They had some early banter when Ms. Fahmy remarked how flat Ohio is (she worked last in Columbus) compared to Seattle's hills.


I don't remember Zahn doing this much hard news anchoring with Knowles, but it competes against the FOX 13+ duopoly duo on weekend mornings (Winkel and Acone).  On the other hand, Zahn has a lot more field experience than Abby and has been soloing the weekend news since Knowles left.   Seems to make sense to upgrade the show.  KING still going with solo news (Farah Jadran- Niko Tamurian's spouse) and weather talent (Ashley Ruiz).  Of course, KIRO is MIA as usual.

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  1. IDC9August 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM

    Theron has long helped out with some of the hard news anchoring on the KOMO weekend morning shows, dating back at least to the era where Marlee Ginter was by his side, especially in the A block and the block starting at the bottom of the hour (I think this was normally the D block). It sounds like he might be doing a little more than that now.

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