Tegna owned KARE (Minneapolis) is adding another Anchor body to the newscasts.

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The station announced that Lauren Leamanczyk will join the 5 p.m. newscast starting July 8.

She will join news anchors Julie Nelson and Randy Shaver, meteorologist Belinda Jensen, and sports anchor Eric Perkins.

Leamanczyk, who currently anchors KARE 11 Sunrise, will also continue to work on the station’s investigative team.

“We are creating a new ensemble cast to showcase and tell stories differently during KARE 11 News at 5,” Director of Content Stuart Boslow said in a news release. “By adding Lauren to this already well established and award winning anchor team, we will be able to allow all three of our news anchors to get out in the community more and share stories that matter to all Minnesotans.”

Let’s see, after commercials, the 5PM half hour newscast is just 22 minutes long. Add the show open and some bumps and you take another 2 minutes off making the newscast 20 minutes. Give 4 minutes to Weather and 3 minutes to sports and you are down to 13 minutes of news. Throw in 5 Reporters packages and live shots and that will take up 10 minutes of time, leaving your 3 headed anchor team about 3 minutes to talk in the half hour.

That means each of the 3 Anchors will get about a minute each.

Yep, that seems like money well spent right there.

This is Tegna….

H/T NorthPine.com