Chicago Anchor Exits for Philly

WMAQ lead Sports Anchor Siafa Lewis is leaving the Windy City and blowing into Philly.

Lewis is headed back to his hometown of Philadelphia, but this time to anchor news and not sports. Lewis dabble in news anchoring at WMAQ, by doing the the weekend morning news at the NBC O&O, along with his sports duties.

“We thank Siafa for his years of work here in Chicago and send him back to his hometown with our best wishes for his future success,” Frank Whittaker, station manager and vice president of news at NBC 5, told staffers in an email.

Lewis had been at the Chicago station for the past 7 years.

H/T Robert Feder