And Another One from Tegna Tampa

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While you're at it, you can cross Mark Rivera off the WTSP lineup card as well. 

Rivera was working at the Tegna station as the Weekend Anchor but is leaving for a much bigger market and a much better station. 

Rivera has landed as the new Weekend Morning Anchor at WLS, the ABC O&O in Chicago. 

Here is the internal memo sent out to the staff in Chicago: 

All –

I’m very excited to let you know that we have a new weekend morning anchor! Mark Rivera is coming home to join Stacey Baca on the anchor desk.

Mark is currently weekend news anchor/political reporter at WTSP-TV in Tampa, Florida. He’s covered local and national politics for WTSP for the past three years and helped establish the first weekend morning show at that station. He was on the anchor desk the morning of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in nearby Orlando, and anchored six hours of wall-to-wall coverage. Before moving to the political beat, Mark hit the streets as a general assignment reporter at WTSP and covered a wide variety of stories from hurricanes to human interest. Mark started his career at WAND-TV in Decatur, Illinois, where he was the weekend morning anchor and a general assignment reporter.

As I mentioned earlier, Mark’s roots are in the Chicago area. He grew up in Crystal Lake and graduated from Crystal Lake Central High School. He’s also an Illini, having graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mark’s wife Alissa grew up in the Grayslake/Gurnee area and they both have lots of family members here who are excited about their return.

Mark’s first day at ABC 7 will be December 11. Please join me in welcoming Mark to our Eyewitness News team!