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Chuck Henry, Beverly White, Vikki Vargas Among 5 Veteran KNBC Newscasters Exiting Station
08.12.2022 - 21:23 / deadline.com
The face of KNBC news is changing dramatically. At least five veteran newscasters at Los Angeles NBC owned KNBC have accepted “voluntary early retirement” buyouts and will leave the station at the end of the year, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
Evening news co-anchor Chuck Henry, along with longtime reporters Beverly White, Vikki Vargas, Angie Crouch and Kim Baldonado, accepted the voluntary buyouts that were presented to staff earlier this year, the Times reports, citing three station insiders who were not authorized to comment.
Deadline has reached out to KNBC for comment.
Vargas, the station’s Orange County bureau chief, announced her retirement on social media Wednesday night. “I didn’t want the feeling in my heart to get lost in the written word,” Vargas wrote, “so I decided to announcement my retirement transition this way, marking both an end and the beginning.”
In an emotional video, Vargas said “I hope to take the skill of storytelling and maybe use it for the greater good, whatever that looks like, but mostly I thank you for being part of this, with me for 40 years. Forty years.” You can watch it below.
Henry joined KNBC in 1994 and has worked alongside co-anchor Colleen Williams for more than a decade. He won multiple Emmys for his work on Eye On LA. He started his career in 1966 at a station in Honolulu and went on to work for NBC affiliates in Anchorage, Alaska and Chicago before his move to Los Angeles.
White joined KNBC in 1992 as a general assignment reporter and has specialized in covering breaking news for the station. She was honored with a lifetime achievement award from the National Assn. of Black Journalists four years ago.
Vargas, who has been with NBC since 1982, received a
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