Post by ATLinsider on Apr 26, 2007 18:48:45 GMT -3
From AccessAtlanta.com:
Veteran WXIA-TV news anchor Wes Sarginson has decided to retire after more than 45 years in broadcast news, he announced Thursday.
Sarginson, 64, who also anchored beside Monica Pearson on WSB-TV from 1978 to 1984, has been at the NBC affiliate for the past decade. At the end of 2005, the award-winning evening anchor stopped anchoring the 11 p.m. news, leaving those duties to a new guy from Knoxville named Ted Hall.
Sarginson will stay on the desk until the end of May. Sarginson will continue to do his popular “Wes Side” stories featuring profiles in courage at least for a few more months. (He’s under contract through March 2008.) He also may sub out for Hall at times so Sarginson won’t disappear from the TV screens immediately.
Sarginson is nothing but honest. He said though he was no longer doing the 11 p.m. anchor job, “I ended up working more hours and doing more stories. My wife was constantly on my case.” He said through the decades, he never spent enough time with his kids and wanted to do more for his two grandchildren (one more on the way in August.) “One year when I was in Atlanta, I was made ‘Father of the Year’ by one group,” he told Buzz “I thought it was the worst decision I ever heard. I was never home.”
He’s looking into teaching broadcast journalism at Piedmont College near Gainesville and producing documentaries about science and other topics. He said ultimately he gets more personal satisfaction reporting stories than anchoring.
In his career at 11Alive, Wes has covered the 1998 Hall County tornadoes and their aftermath, the Heritage High school shooting and the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy.
He’s been a big supporter of charities and seems genuinely grateful to the viewers who have been his fans over the years: “I will miss my friends and real characters in the 11Alive Newsroom, and I hope to tell their stories some day. The support of our viewers has been unbelievable. Every time I’ve told them about the need to save something worthwhile in our community, they have delivered. I’ve always said if we can fix a problem with money, our viewers will reach deep into their pockets and come to the rescue.”
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Here's the link to 11Alive's article which includes video of his announcement.
Veteran WXIA-TV news anchor Wes Sarginson has decided to retire after more than 45 years in broadcast news, he announced Thursday.
Sarginson, 64, who also anchored beside Monica Pearson on WSB-TV from 1978 to 1984, has been at the NBC affiliate for the past decade. At the end of 2005, the award-winning evening anchor stopped anchoring the 11 p.m. news, leaving those duties to a new guy from Knoxville named Ted Hall.
Sarginson will stay on the desk until the end of May. Sarginson will continue to do his popular “Wes Side” stories featuring profiles in courage at least for a few more months. (He’s under contract through March 2008.) He also may sub out for Hall at times so Sarginson won’t disappear from the TV screens immediately.
Sarginson is nothing but honest. He said though he was no longer doing the 11 p.m. anchor job, “I ended up working more hours and doing more stories. My wife was constantly on my case.” He said through the decades, he never spent enough time with his kids and wanted to do more for his two grandchildren (one more on the way in August.) “One year when I was in Atlanta, I was made ‘Father of the Year’ by one group,” he told Buzz “I thought it was the worst decision I ever heard. I was never home.”
He’s looking into teaching broadcast journalism at Piedmont College near Gainesville and producing documentaries about science and other topics. He said ultimately he gets more personal satisfaction reporting stories than anchoring.
In his career at 11Alive, Wes has covered the 1998 Hall County tornadoes and their aftermath, the Heritage High school shooting and the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy.
He’s been a big supporter of charities and seems genuinely grateful to the viewers who have been his fans over the years: “I will miss my friends and real characters in the 11Alive Newsroom, and I hope to tell their stories some day. The support of our viewers has been unbelievable. Every time I’ve told them about the need to save something worthwhile in our community, they have delivered. I’ve always said if we can fix a problem with money, our viewers will reach deep into their pockets and come to the rescue.”
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Here's the link to 11Alive's article which includes video of his announcement.
