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What are these two Seattle TV weekend anchors doing?



Abby Acone and Taylor Winkel must have a lot of time on their hands while anchoring the weekend morning news on Fox 13 Seattle.  Incidentally, Acone is a prolific Instagram poster using her station's studio to emphasize certain ideas, behavior which seems to be continually ignored by her bosses.    Posts on a personal handle is one thing, but again, here, the anchors are using their studio to dance.   Credibility killer.    Thoughts?

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  1. IDC9January 20, 2026 at 9:22 AM

    I don't recall Acone doing any of this cringy nonsense when she worked at KOMO. Fox 13 and KOMO are very different stations, but expectations of professionalism for people in the news departments shouldn't be.

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    1. Wayne LJanuary 20, 2026 at 8:40 PM

      It's unfortunately a trend. A tik tok side affect.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 20, 2026 at 6:05 PM

    You would think network management wouldn't approve of this behavior, but then again, even ND Jake Wiederrich could hardly care less about what his employees did off-air. They gave Abby more airtime (five minutes!) announcing her engagement to her soon-to-be wife than they did about the homeless situation in Downtown Seattle or another smash-and-grab robbery. As for Taylor, she's perhaps the weakest anchor and reporter in the Seattle market. She has such a flat, monotone delivery in her standups out on the field and on the anchor desk. I won't watch a newscast when they're treating it like a slumber party.

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    1. Wayne LJanuary 20, 2026 at 8:39 PM

      Winkel came at a low price for newscasts NOT on the main channel. It's a weak weekend team with Acone, but, again, it's a duopoly play with no promotional support anyway. Fox will likely muscle up the show again on Sunday prior to Hawks playoff as they did this past Saturday with Mirey Gracia and Brain MacMillan on set to minimize Winkel, who never sells any copy at all unless its dogs, cats or babies.

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  3. MartinJanuary 20, 2026 at 7:29 PM

    Does Acone have some dirt on Fox 13? That could be how she is getting away with this crap. Though I am not a Winkel fan, I would have expected a bit more professionalism out of her.

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