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WXIA Wes Sarginson goes part time

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Wes Sarginson, at WXIA-TV since 1997, is stepping back to spend more time with family by dropping the 11 p.m. duties. But he will stay at 6 p.m. starting after New Year's. His 11 p.m. replacement is a guy named Ted Hall from WBIR-TV in Knoxville.
 
> Wes Sarginson, at WXIA-TV since 1997, is stepping back to
> spend more time with family by dropping the 11 p.m. duties.
> But he will stay at 6 p.m. starting after New Year's. His 11
> p.m. replacement is a guy named Ted Hall from WBIR-TV in
> Knoxville.
>


Ted Hall is a class act all the way. I have no doubt that he will do a great job in Atlanta. A video of his announcement to the Knoxville audience is on the front page at www.wbir.com
 
> Wes Sarginson, at WXIA-TV since 1997, is stepping back to
> spend more time with family by dropping the 11 p.m. duties.
> But he will stay at 6 p.m. starting after New Year's. His 11
> p.m. replacement is a guy named Ted Hall from WBIR-TV in
> Knoxville.

I believe Wes is getting ready to retire, and he is slowing down before leaving.

This is similar to what happened to Don Farmer from WSB-TV and Jim Axel from WAGA-TV in the mid-90's. They took smaller workloads before retiring altogether. WSB-TV is doing this with Monica Kaufman currently, and probably will start with John Pruitt soon.

Wes (like Monica and John) has been in TV news for a long time now, and time comes when you have to move on to do other things in your life before you cannot. We will be talking about Wes' retirement in a couple of years, like we will about Monica's and John's retirement.

(Sidenote: For those interested, Don Farmer has retired to Florida (with his wife, fellow former WSB-TV anchor Chris Curle), and is a columnist for the Naples Daily News. Jim Axel also has retired to Florida as well.)
 
> > Wes Sarginson, at WXIA-TV since 1997, is stepping back to
> > spend more time with family by dropping the 11 p.m.
> duties.
> > But he will stay at 6 p.m. starting after New Year's. His
> 11
> > p.m. replacement is a guy named Ted Hall from WBIR-TV in
> > Knoxville.
> >
>
>
> Ted Hall is a class act all the way. I have no doubt that he
> will do a great job in Atlanta. A video of his announcement
> to the Knoxville audience is on the front page at
> www.wbir.com
>

Must be nice to make the jump from Knoxville straight to Atlanta. I wonder if Ted knows about the way Gannett transferred Denver's top anchorman in the 90s for the prime news anchor slots eventually taking the seat from him. Mike Landis is finally back in Denver doing the 6&10 on a competitor.
 
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