WESH have announced Martha Sugalski is coming to the station. On their site they’ve even posted videos of WESH’s 2 main anchors meeting with Sugalski who was at the station and apparently anchored the news!? Or at least she was at the anchor desk.
Follow the link below to watch the videos
Great loss for NBC6/WB39. They should have used her more. Hope her all the best of luck up in Orlando. Any news on when she will be going up north???
Those little “meet-and-greets” were awkward, especially the one with Jim Payne. It’s funny how she kept saying how much “slower-paced” Orlando news is (or at least WESH’s news). It’s almost like she’s saying, “Your news sucks, but I’m taking the job anyway.”
I assume she starts 8/14, the day the 4pm show premieres.
I hate saying stuff like this, but I sincerely hope they do something with her hair, did anyone else notice how absolutely awful it looked in those clips?
Funny how I just got on the blog right now and I find out that shes coming to Orlando. Im in Orlando. Hehe. Also, who else is starting the 4 p.m newscast? Also a tad off subject, I am very happy to announce that Space Shuttle Discovery has landed safely here in the Kennedy Space Center. Congratulations Astronauts!!
It will be Jim and Martha on the 4pm newscast, and Martha and Wendy at 11. Unsure if Jim will also do the 5PM newscast, or if weekend guy Rauol Martinex will be bumped up, but Jim and Wendy are staying with the 6PM newscast for sure. As for Martha’s comments, WESH covers over 6 counties, I’ve been watching them all year while I am at UCF. They can be just as fast paced as NBC 6 is. But comming from an anchors standpoint, shes probably making more money at WESH since she has such a primary role. If I were WESH, being less fast paced would be a good thing, less murders ect… I personally dont consider it a good thing to be more fast paced. This way more time can be spent on presenting a quality newscast. Being slower paced dosent nessacarily mean that they suck though.
You’re right, it’s a better job for her because she’ll be playing a major role on a main show on one of the three main stations up there, as opposed to the pathetic newscast she anchors down here. But it’s also important to point out that WESH is in big trouble right now. They came in 4th at 5 in May, even behind the Fox station’s upstart 5pm newscast — that’s bad. She’ll have some pressure on her.
I’ve seen many, many, many WESH newscasts, although very few recently. I’m personally not saying “slower paced” is better or worse, but from Martha’s tone, it kinda sounds like she’s slamming either the station or the town — not what you want to do before you even get on the air there.
Ok… but no one’s really explained the video clips. Was she anchoring the broadcasts? I noticed she had scripts in front of her. Or was she just doing an on-air “hello” to the audience. Or was this just done for the web?
And even though she’s leaving WTVJ just before going on-air at WESH, I would think there would be a problem with her being on air there before signing off the air at WTVJ.
I have been in Central Florida (Kissimmee) for two years after living quite some time in Miami. The news that Martha is coming up here to WESH gives me some good news that I’ll have a piece of Miami with me. I have enjoyed her at WTVJ and NBC 6 in general when I lived in Miami, so this is a treat for me.
I think WESH is boring so I’ll just tune in at 4pm. Probably Martha will do a good job in spicing up the 11pm newscast.
Until then… I’ll tune in to WKMG Local 6.
I cannot believe that WTVJ is allowing home grown talent leave for the back woods of Orlando. C’mon! Jackie is good but Martha was the face of that network ala Belkey’s with WSVN and Laurie Jennings with WPLG. Who the heck did Martha piss off?! It’s the only thing I think of as to why her airtime was so limited and got even worst over the past few months.
there is no video just a picture of the beautifulo Martha why did she left Miami she was the only reason to watch channel 6 news and wb38 news
There is no video just a picture of the Beautiful Martha , why did she leave miami ? she was the only reason to watch channel 5 news and channel 39 news