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Sharon Pelletier--WABI TV Bangor

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amguy

What happened to Sharon Pelletier, Channel 5 Anchor on Bangor--WABI? She's not on the air and not listed on their web-site
 
I didn't see it amguy, but my Mom told me today that her last day was Friday 7/9. She is going to school for (I'll probably get this wrong) to be an advocate for childrens issues. It was that or she's going to do morning drive news on AM 1370 WDEA.
 
Thanks, Maine-i-ac

I missed it too. Perhaps you've started a rumor about 'DEA's morning drive news---although, that should be your job.

Boy, the face (or faces) of Bangor TV have changed over the years. Very few, if any, of the anchors were even alive when I was there. Yikes!
 
amguy said:
Boy, the face (or faces) of Bangor TV have changed over the years. Very few, if any, of the anchors were even alive when I was there. Yikes!
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I'd say none of 7's were alive when you did your broadcasting. As for 2 (and I'm talking 2, not 6) Steve McKay. And 5, Throckmorton, Ewing, Morris, Pegram? and "the guy with his view on sports", Hale. Sound about right?
 
Excellent analysis--a lot of people have come and gone--worked with Steve Martin--now, I believe, announcer for an NBA team, Jeanne Meserve, went on to CNN, Jonathan Leveen, went to Boston, and many, many more. Tim Throckmorton was a DJ on Big Country, if I remember right. Those were the days we scotch-taped AP wire copy to 81/2 X 12 inch copy paper, no teleprompter, black and white film for in-the-field reporters, etc.

And yes, of course, George Hale.
 
Maine-i-ac said:
I didn't see it amguy, but my Mom told me today that her last day was Friday 7/9. She is going to school for (I'll probably get this wrong) to be an advocate for childrens issues. It was that or she's going to do morning drive news on AM 1370 WDEA.
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She did give a rather teary-eyed good-bye last Friday at the end of the 6PM news. Is Jon Small going to do the 6PM news solo now? or are they getting ready to break in a new co-anchor? Have been away for a few days, and was surprised to still see him doing it solo still last evening (Thursday).
 
Who knows rjoc? Over at Mount Hope Ave. they haven't been too quick to give Chris Facchini a co-anchor. Maybe in this age of belt tightening, we'll start to see solo anchors in the Bangor market.
 
Maine-i-ac said:
Who knows rjoc? Over at Mount Hope Ave. they haven't been too quick to give Chris Facchini a co-anchor. Maybe in this age of belt tightening, we'll start to see solo anchors in the Bangor market.
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I've noticed that myself as well...I always liked Kara M. (not even going to try to spell her last name)....Where did she go?
 
Kara joined her hubby Scott Sassone (another WLBZ vet) in Boston; last I heard she was freelancing for WBZ-TV/wbz.com as a producer. She's good people and her departure was a big loss for Maine TV news.

Cutbacks seem to be the watchword for Maine TV news. About the only unaffected stations are WGME, thanks to the news share with FOX 23, and WVII, which really has nothing left to cut.

WMTW cut weekend sports, having shifted its former SD Dave Guthro to weekend morning anchor and general assignement reporter. News anchor Jim Keithley does the sports at 6 and 11 on weekends now. Channel 8 will go to one-man-bands over time (it's a corporate mandate) which in their case might be an improvement due to very spotty in-house reporting (their reporting on weekends is all but nonexistent, and their meager weekday coverage is supplemented by repurposed NECN reports.)

WCSH/WLBZ, per Gannett corporate policy, is managing its news budget (and cutting quality of coverage) by going with generally inexperienced one-man-bands for reporting, especially in Bangor (which leads to debacles like their disastrous coverage of the Obama landing at Trenton.)

I have the feeling that there won't be a second anchor at 2 or 5 anytime soon, or perhaps ever. I think what we're seeing now is 'the new normal.' 5 cut its staff to the bone last year, in which several station veterans were laid off and the Downeast bureau was closed.
 
to clarify the wmtw part of your post. Dave Guthro was not sports director, Travis Lee was/still is. They are now a one man on air sports department. they do have a sports photog/producer that helps out writing shooting etc. Travis only anchors monday-friday at 6pm....at 11 the anchor does it like you have seen on the weekend. watching the anchors read sports can be a bit brutal, the sad thing is they still cover more locally then the other two stations that have two anchors
 
You're right about Travis and Dave's roles; I forgot that their roles were reversed despite Dave's seemingly more prominent on-air duties when it was a two-person on-air department. And good point about the oft-ignored photog component in sports (and news, for that matter) coverage. If the move to one-man-bands has any benefits to the viewer, it should allow for more actual reporting and fewer soundbites. As Gannett's current implementation shows, though, quality control still needs to be ironed out.
 
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