For more than 30 years, Gene Cox has been supplying viewers with late-night news from behind the anchor desk.
Starting tomorrow, Cox will no longer be part of WWBT’s top-rated 11 p.m. newscast with longtime partner Sabrina Squire, but will remain as co-anchor with Squire for the 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. broadcasts on WWBT and solo on the CW’s 6:30 p.m. broadcast.
According to WWBT, Cox and Squire are the nation’s longest-running anchor team, together since 1984.
“I think Gene put it best – he wants to go to bed earlier at night,” said Don Richards, general manager of local NBC affiliate WWBT. “He’s going to have some new assignments during the day, and wants to work more dayside and early evening.”
Filling Cox’s 11 p.m. slot will be Curt Autry, who currently co-anchors the 10 p.m. “Fox News at Ten” with Diane Walker.
“Curt has been at the station for 15 years and he’s done a great job not only doing the Fox newscast, but also reporting on our station and doing substitute anchoring when Gene has been out. He and Sabrina work well together. It was a natural decision,” Richards said.
WWBT’s Ryan Nobles will slide into Autry’s vacated position to co-anchor the 10 p.m. newscast with Walker. Nobles will also take over Cox’s 4 p.m. anchoring slot.
In other WWBT news, yesterday was the last day for reporter Ashley Swann; her husband was transferred back to their native Georgia, so she departed the station to leave with him.
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