It’s official Kristy Krueger is giving up the 11pm job. As previously thought Kristy Krueger wants to be relieved of her 11pm news anchoring duties to spend time with her kids. On the surface yes, but undercover it’s a different story.
Rummor has it management pushed Krueger away from the 11pm anchor chair and replaced her with Lauren Sanchez currently at KCOP to spice up the ailing newscast a bit.
Then Wendy Corona might be moving to bigger and better things, and her place in the mornings will be taken by, as previously mentioned, Delaine Mathieu currently morning co-anchor for 7News.
Nice strategy 10, but who will replace Corona at 11
Miami Herald
Krueger gives up
Posted on Thu, Aug. 05, 2004
Krueger gives up
anchor chair
Kristi Krueger, co-anchor of WPLG-ABC 10’s late newscast for the past decade, is going home to bed, she announced on the air Wednesday night.
Though she’ll remain at WPLG as a health reporter and anchor of the 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts, Krueger said she’s giving up her anchor chair at 11 p.m.
”I’m going to be the happiest woman in the world,” Krueger said. “I’ll finally be getting more than four and a half hours of sleep a night.”
Though WPLG has been shuffling anchors and reporting beats the past few weeks as part of a mild shake-up at the station, Krueger said — and station executives confirmed — that she asked to leave the 11 p.m. newscast during contract negotiations last spring in order to spend more time with her two young children.
”I told the station I wanted to stay, but I need to be home at night,” Krueger said. “The kids have a million activities, and I’ve never been home, I just burned the candle at both ends.”
Krueger will continue to anchor the 11 p.m. newscast until her replacement is found, which station executives said would be “soon.”
It’s getting increasingly tough to care about Channel 10, which is turning into the worst of Channel 7. I wonder when Michael Putney, who’s about the only thing left worth watching in that place, is gonna get fed up and head for the door.