At least five KNBC-TV station reporters set to depart

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At least five veteran reporters at KNBC-TV Channel 4 will leave the station at the end of the year after accepting early retirement packages, according to news reports.

Chuck Henry, who first appeared on Southern California newscasts more than 50 years ago, as well as Beverly White, Vikki Vargas, Angie Crouch and Kim Baldonado are all said to be departing the station after this month, according to the Los Angeles Times and other news outlets.

KNBC officials did not respond to requests to comment on the departures and most of the reporters leaving have not made public statements either.

But in an emotional video posted on social media, Vargas, who worked at the station for 41 years, confirmed that the news about her retirement is true.

Henry joined KNBC in 1994 as an anchor and reporter, though he already was familiar to Southern California viewers from his 19 years at KABC-TV Channel 7 where he worked from 1971 to 1978, and again from 1982 to 1993.

White arrived at KNBC in 1992 and for many of the 30 years that followed worked the late shift, reporting on breaking news around Southern California. Four years ago, she received the National Association of Black Journalists Chuck Stone Lifetime Achievement Award.

Baldonado grew up in San Gabriel and landed at the station in 1995. Crouch, after graduating college in Michigan in 1988, made her way to KNBC in 2004.