Jennifer Santiago left WFOR last year during the mass exodus that took place when new management took over the station.
Then she landed a job at HDNews as a Miami-based correspondent and producer.
Now she hosting a new , as yet unnamed, series on The Travel Channel. In a blog post from April 6th Jen says she will be filming around the world at least until October starting with Beijing in May where she’ll board a luxury ship for a two week cruise in the South China Sea.
The Travel Channel will air at least 17 episodes
On her Facebook page, it says that she will be in Asia for a few weeks. She also writes a bit on what the show is going to be about, and keeps people posted.
After seeing her once in a bikini, I’d spend two weeks with her on a cruise, BOO-yah!!
Spare Me! Used to work in another dept and she would always talk down to us like we were just dirt because we were not talent or in the news deptartment. Plus she wasnt that great of an anchor. The 10pm newscast was a big joke. Jennifer Klarman is just a fake.
I disagree. Jennifer Santiago was a good anchor and an excellent reporter.
Jennifer Santiago was a fantastic anchor for CBS4 and an excellent reporter as well. Her stories were effective, with purpose, and thought provoking. I actually think it was a loss for CBS4 when she was replaced. However, seeing as how she is now hosting her own show on a national network such as the Travel Channel, I think she is doing just fine =)
In addition, Jennifer Santiago reported on people in the Miami community who “fell through the cracks.” She was a voice for the voiceless. I enjoyed how she reported on the plight of Haitians. Santiago is greatly respected and appreciated by the Haitian community. I wish her the best!
If she was THAT GOOD, the NEW management at cbs4 would have done anything to stop her from leaving! From what i heard, when she told them she was not siging another measly contract, CBS did NOTHING to try to entice her! She was just another PRETTY reporter/anchor in the crowd…… thats the NEWS INDUSTRY TODAY! GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU in this industry…..its DEFINITELY a dying institution. MAKE YOUR FUTURE BACK-UP plans NOW……
Joe that’s not true. Jennifer Santiago was solid.
Yusila Ramierz, Danielle Knox, Mike Kirsch, Beatriz Canals, Ron Hanrahan, Nefertitti Jacquez, Angela Rae, Joy Purdy, and Art Barron were all good reporters and anchors.
From what I heard, the new management did “NOTHING” to entice them to stay either.
If Santiago was “just another pretty face,” then why did she win three Emmy Awards, along with countless honors during her tenure at WFOR?
I agree. The news industry is dying. But don’t blame the industry on arguably poor management decisions. Have you looked at WFOR’s ratings under this new management team over the last year and a half?
The ratings have and continue to plummet.
Disclaimer: The ‘Joe’ above is not me…
I thought JS was pretty good, certainly a lot better than some folks currently on the air (on other stations).
lets see…she went
from porn
to local news
to cable
interesting career path
Back to my original observation (by the pool)… she’s hot!
she is hot
OK…lets get some stuff straight here about the people mentioned above.
Rob, Yusila, Mike and Art. All good people and great reporters and would’ve been great under the current management. Mike’s firing…still something was not right about it and his “arrest.”
Betriz: Did not work with her but she was a good anchor from watching her. They wanted to renew her contract but she wanted to be with her son and have more family time. Nights doesnt really help with that situation. SHE chose not to renew. More power to her!
Joy: Great anchor but she’s married and hubby is a cop in J’ville. Totally understand why she left Miami. Again HER CHOICE!
Danielle: From what I was told HER CHOICE to go. She wanted more time with my family. She was a good anchor in the AM and during that really bad Hyper-SVN 10 o’clock.
Jennifer: Gonna burn some bridges but oh well. She just was very condescending and disrespectful to the Tech. dept. Always talked down to us like we were just a bunch of servants and morons. Sorry, your title means nothing. Her stories were just weak and self serving IMO. Anchoring, all of the above mentioned were better than her. Glad she’s doing fine but sorry, Jennifer is not that great of a talent.
Angela: Where can I start. I’ve never met such a vicious, venemous person in my life. She constantly yelled at staffers left and right. Stand up to her and you lose your job. Friend one minute and stabs you in the back the next. Sad part is she could’ve been a great anchor but it was her behavior that destroyed it. The stories I could tell you when she got promoted to main anchor but it would take forever to tell you.
Am I jelous of her professionally. No! Just stating the facts. She wanted out of channel 4 but I hate to say this but she should’ve been fired years ago.
Yes I was part of FOR during Shannon’s time. We were #1 but after a while people got smart to the fact it was just another SVN clone and we suffered. Sorry you can’t out do SVN. Gotta forge your own identity! They’re trying right now. Also FOR still has good reporters there. Gary Nelson, Joan Murray, Michelle Gillen, Michael Williams, Laurie Stein to name a few.
I’m tired of the FOR bashing. I’m Proud of my time there. Rant mode off
GatoOnTheradio hit in on the head.
Angela Ray is emotionally disturbed. She sucked the air out of every room she walked into. She suffered a real lack of confidence and always had to be the center of attention. She could wear you out in a matter of minutes and you couldn’t wait to get away. She did have great talent though. Could of been big but her mouth killed her career.
Jennifer was also talentless and another one who lives to draw attention to herself. Just look at her website. Its and exorcise in self absorption.
Also dead on with WSVN clone. It was short lived success.
Shannon built WFOR from the ground up. She was a great news director.
Did Jennifer Santiago write her own wikipedia page? That’s sad. And then she brags about how many award nominations, and wins she gets. That’s not that classy. I like modesty, even if it’s faked and the reporter/anchor in reality thinks they are God. At least try to appear humble.
Congratulations Jennifer. Ignore the jealous haters who don’t have anything better to do with their lives than to criticize someone who advances in her career. Best Wishes.
itsjustnews,
they always fire the great ones don’t they?
i guess no one else at ch4 with a staff of over a 100 people ever did anything until she arrived? gimme a break. she was hired to do wsvn on ch4. fact. period. there was no thought, no creatvity. nothing. it was a ch7 rip off job. people who work thier know this. it had a short run at the ratings, ran its course, ratings tanked and they shoved her out the door. if she was that great she’d be a news director somewhere.
by the way the gm who hired her went on to dallas to do svn style news there. they are the leader in low ratings there too. el flopo.
FACT.
“Shannon High-Bassalik is the managing editor of MSNBC in October, overseeing weekday and weekend live news programming and breaking news coverage. She reports to Mr. Griffin. She comes from CBS-owned WFOR/WBFS in Miami, where she spent eight years, most recently as news VP. Ms. High-Bassalik took the station’s news ranking from last place to first in the market.”
-TVWEEK
itsjustnews
FACT?
You call that a fact? Uh, Mr or Mrs newsperson, that was from a PRESS RELEASE. Press releases aren’t real reporting. You must be new to news. It was PR written by MSNBC.
It sort of left out the fact that she was fired and left the station in the tank.
Are you looking for a job? Quit being such an ass kisser. All the ass kissing jobs have been filled.
email me jen