Her goodbye post below! After an almost five-year stint, FOX 13 meteorologist and part-time news anchor Abby Acone ends her run there with a final show on this Sunday morning. Married earlier this month, she left no word on what's next. Not sure if it is fully her decision, but I'm told she had 'favored nation' status with news management. Before joining 13 in December of 2021, she worked three years at KOMO and also did a stint in Tri-Cities. Fittingly, this last shot on IG is studio appropriate. I've been frequently critical of her on this site for using the station's studio to post questionable videos (IMO), but for now, good luck. Here's Abby's goodbye post: My heart is so full as I reflect on my final week at FOX 13 ❤️ 🥹 I’m incredibly grateful for my time here and for the remarkable people who made this place feel like home. I’ve had the joy of working alongside some of the most talented, hardworking, and genuinely wonderful people in th...
Good crews, except KING 5. They won't drop the race flag.
ReplyDeleteYou missed the entire point, sorry.
DeleteDEI is not dead, and the Seattle TV stations are a good illustration of that. There are plenty of white people, of course. But there are also a respectable number of people of color, which is great.
ReplyDeleteKOMO and Fox 13 seem to be the least diverse. This isn't intended to be a negative, but more of an observation. Both stations have diverse presenters and reporters, but perhaps not quite as many as one might expect in a market as diverse as Seattle.
KIRO actually struck me as being the most diverse, which is interesting as KING has long been the leader in this department. KING is certainly diverse. No doubt about it. But KING's current talent roster is fairly white. KIRO packs an admirable amount of diversity into their small team, with their new traffic anchor being the latest diverse addition.
I was really looking at the dearth of one particular ethnicity.
DeleteThere does seem to be a lack of Black people compared to the region's demographics.
DeleteAsians are well represented across the board, and Fox 13 has several Hispanics/Latinos.
Interesting to note that none of these stations has ever hired someone who was born in the European continent on the air or behind the scenes. After all, they could speak two or three other languages on a conversant level and they could bring a little international flavor to their newsrooms when it comes to foreign news from abroad and the impacts for that ethic community here.
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