Media Moves

Roanoke’s Fox affiliate anchor Kenney set to depart

Amanda Kenney

Emmy award-winning journalist Amanda Kenney is set to leave her morning news anchor post at WFXR-TV Ch. 27, a Fox affiliate in Roanoke, Va.

Kenney had joined Nexstar in February 2017 as an evening news anchor at WTAJ-TV Ch. 10, a CBS station in Altoona, Pa. She wrote on X/Twitter:

“It’s my last week at @WFXRnews! I’m happy to call Roanoke home so I have no plans to leave! Let’s make it a great last week! TUNE IN to Good Day Virginia all morning long, and I’ll see ya there!”

She worked as an education reporter and anchor at CBS station WDBJ-TV Ch. 7 in Roanoke and has also worked at Tegna.

She also held the posts of reporter and weekend anchor/producer at WICZ-TV Ch. 40, a Fox and MyNetworkTV affiliate in Binghamton, N.Y. Additionally, she worked as a production assistant at NBCUniversal and interned at NBC News.

Kenney has a B.A. in broadcast journalism and political science from Hofstra University in New York.

Be sure to congratulate Kenney on X/Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

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