Longtime WEWS talent Leon Bibb and Lee Jordan announced yesterday that they will be leaving the Scripps station.

If we didn't know better, we'd say this sounds like a couple of buyouts.

The longtime WEWS Channel 5 anchor-reporters each decided it was time to enjoy life away from the cameras, studio lights and daily deadlines.

Bibb made history as the first black prime-time news anchor in Ohio. That was in 1976 at WCMH in Columbus. He puts the finishing touch on a 38-year Cleveland television run on Tuesday, Aug. 1.

"You only get so much time in life, and I guess I needed to step away," Bibb said. "It is an emotional time for me. I've been a reporter since I got out of high school. But I want to do some living where I don't have to show up eight or nine hours a day."

Lee Jordan leaves the station's main Anchor chair.

"I'm not going to head home and sit in a rocking chair, but I really want my time back," Jordan said. "I'm incredibly happy about this, which doesn't mean there isn't a bittersweet feeling about all of this. I'm going to miss the people at Channel 5, but the feelings are all positive."

"We'll go on," WEWS News Director Jeff Harris said. "But you just don't replace people like Lee and Leon. You can't."

Well you can, but they will be a lot younger and be paid a lot less money.

H/T Cleveland.com