Who Is Leaving Wcco Morning Show (2024)

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WCCO-TV will soon have a new morning meteorologist, though it's not clear just yet who will be replacing Riley O'Connor. The team at WCCO This Morning announced Friday that O'Connor is switching career paths, though he'll still be a part-time weather anchor at to-be-determined times on the CBS Minnesota affiliate.

The Emmy and Edward R. Murrow award-winning journalist returned to WCCO as a reporter in 2014 and later also anchored WCCO Saturday Morning for 6 years. Then in early 2024 she focused on her new role as Senior Investigative Reporter. Jennifer likes to tell stories that positively impact the community.

Lisa Meadows is an Emmy Award winning meteorologist for CBS in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

WCCO-TV morning anchor Kim Johnson has been fired. Johnson announced the news via a Monday morning Facebook post. “They told me they wanted to go in a different direction,” Johnson said Monday. “This is just part of the industry.

"Fabulous in the summer, not so great in the winter. I slipped and fell right here on the driveway, drove my shoulder into the ground and now I am paying the price." An MRI revealed three tears in his rotator cuff, the joint that keeps the upper-arm bone in the shoulder socket. And, it was a pretty large tear.

I am now the on-air host of The Morning News on WCCO radio.

Mike Max, a Minnesota sports journalist who's more famous than many of the athletes he covers, has lost his spot on the WCCO Radio team. The departure was shared in an internal memo that went out Tuesday to station employees.

Emmy Award-winner, Ginger Zee is Good Morning America's chief meteorologist, reporting on the nation's weather throughout the morning broadcast.

She grew up watching Midwest thunderstorms in her hometown in northwest Indiana. She obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology with a minor in mathematics from Valparaiso University.

Meteorologist Lucy Doll is in Monroe, LA.

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I've met people and gone places I'd never imagined." He went onto say that there has been "a stirring in his soul" and that he wants to try something different. In an interview with the Star Tribune Tuesday, DeRusha said the time has come for him to take a chance. "It is weird to walk away from a job you love.

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He was a weatherman in Chicago at WBBM-TV for three years before returning to Minneapolis where he worked at WCCO-TV from December 1997 until he was laid off in April 2008 as part of nationwide cutbacks by station owner CBS.

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According to the station, meteorologist Mike Augustyniak asked to be reassigned to a different shift. Instead of reporting the weather for “WCCO 4 News This Morning,” his new role will be as weekend meteorologist, along with producing weather during the week. He'll remain full-time at WCCO.