Bumped Up in Chi-Town

WMAQ (Chicago) has bumped up Weekend Anchor Michelle Relerford to the Monday through Friday shift at the NBC O&O.

The station says that Relerford will be joining the weekday morning newscasts.

Robert Feder reports that Relerford will solo the news from 4 to 5 a.m. weekdays and report from the “news update desk” from 5 to 7 a.m. while Zoraida  Sambolin anchors. 

Feder writes the moves are part of a wide-ranging reorganization of anchor roles at NBC 5 announced to the staff today. They were prompted in part by the announced resignation of weekend morning anchor Katie Kim, who’s moving back home to California, and the death of veteran Chicago broadcast journalist Dick Johnson, who anchored weekend nights.

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