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UPDATE: ANCHORS AWAY

LA's new FOX Anchor
Carlos Amezuca pulls into port!

(Septemper 17th, 2007 6:20PM PST)

BY ERS NEWS

ERSNews has learned that Carlos Amezuca will start anchoring the 10pm news tonight (Monday 9/17) on Fox/KTTV in Los Angeles. ERSNews originally broke the story when Carlos surprised KTLA by jumping ship to join KTTV here in Los Angeles. He was originally scheduled to start on the air at KTTV in early October. John Beard, the former lead anchor on the Fox affiliate has not been seen on the air since the Amezuca announcement. The Fox station has been running Carols Amezuca with Christine Devine, Beard's former co-anchor, promos for a number of days. So far the jury is out on where KNBC's Anna Garcia fits into this.

Over at Carlos's former home, KTLA also in Los Angeles, tonight's anchor du jour team is none other than Kurt "The Cyber Guy," Knutsson and Leila Feinstein. That's some replacement for Hal Fishman's 47 years of experience. Apparently the folks at Tribune think that rotating anchors is the answer to experience. That tactic was abandoned by ABC News after Elizabeth Vargas and others drove the ratings on World News to below Katie Couric on CBS. ABC settled for the old experienced guy (Charlie Gibson) and World News is now number one in the ratings.