Veteran WTVQ Anchor Tom Kenny Out After Station Decides to Go in a ‘Different Direction’

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Veteran WTVQ Anchor Tom Kenny Out After Station Decides to Go in a ‘Different Direction’

Kenny said, "It was decided that I wasn’t a part of the future on air plans and that is just how our business works.”

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Tom Kenny, the main news anchor and managing editor at ABC 36, was on air for the last time Friday.

According to Kenny, the news team at ABC 36 “decided to go a different direction,” and was let go from his position.

“The station came to me and said that they were terminating my contract as the main anchor because they wanted to go in a different direction,” Kenny told the Herald Leader. “I was offered another position in the newsroom that I respectfully declined and so we parted ways.”
ABC 36 News Director Miranda Combs confirmed this in a statement as well, calling the decision a “tough one.”

“We absolutely adore Tom but we decided to go a different direction on the anchor desk and offered him a different role and he declined that,” Combs said. “Tom was incredible in the newsroom, and he will be dearly missed.”

 

[Prescott Joe]

I was visiting Lexington recently and saw one of the anchors wearing bib-overalls at the
anchor desk. I don't recall what station it was but perhaps one of the locals might be so
kind as to enlighten.