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.
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