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Rob Jennings to retire from 6ABC Action News

6ABC's bench was stronger than other stations' first teams.

Shame that he never got a chance to do more than wait for Gardner to go on vacation. The two of them are the only news presenters in town with gravitas. When Gardner goes, the light-weight, blow-dried, empty-headed vacuous Ken dolls take over.
 
I was never over-enamored with Jim Gardner for some reason. After he took over for Larry Kane, It just never seemed "right" to me. But Rob Jennings has a class and style that got me to tune in on weekends. His presentation was perfect for the Action News format and remains so to this day.

As I worked in and around the Bala corridor for years, I'd often run into Rob Jennings in local stores, restaurants etc., and he always seemed like a class act even off camera. I think he'll be missed, and I wish him well.
 
They still call it "Action News" but it hasn't been for a long time. Sometime around when or after Larry Kane made his brief foray to New York, they got all chatty and started doing Eyewitness News. Basically, all four stations do Eyewitness News. Blame some consultant. Blame a new news director who wanted to shake things up and show he was smarter than the last guy. Most of all, blame ENG. But the Action is mostly gone.
 
So, to maintain some gravitas on the weekend evening Action News in Philly, how about moving Walter Perez to the slot? Or, perhaps, giving sometimes-fill-in-anchor-ace-reporter David Henry the slot?

If they would move Perez to weekend evenings from weekend mornings, they could use the Sat. And Sun. AM news to groom a new anchor who might come from 6's existing reporter ranks or from outside the current staff.
 
What was the story about Larry Kane going to NY? As I recall Action News would show story after story with lots of film footage while Larry read the news so you would not see much of Larry. Their promo commercials for Action News even made fun of the fact that you would not see much of Larry. It was exciting and did work.
 
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