Landing in Baton Rouge

Former WTVD anchor Tisha Powell signed off from the station to move back to her native Louisiana.

She has now found a part-time job and it should be something she is qualified for.

Powell has landed a part-time Anchor job for WAFB in Baton Rouge.

She said that part-time anchor jobs just don’t happen, “Honestly, I didn’t think this was possible,” she said.

“A lot of people don’t get the opportunity to work part-time anchoring,” she said. “They approached me and asked if I would be willing to work full-time and I said no — if I wanted to do that, I wouldn’t have left the job I had!”

Powell said this week that the folks at WAFB, a Gray Media station, had asked her what it would take to get her to come back to news.

She told them it would have to be a part-time job that would allow her to finish working on her Leadership and Communications Master’s of Science degree at Purdue University, and also give her time with her family.

When they told her they could make that happen, she asked her husband: “Do I really want to go back?”

“This is exactly what you wanted, so why not?” he responded.

“I was a little apprehensive at first because I got my mind wrapped around coming back here and just finishing school and decompressing and going in a different direction,” Powell said.

But the WAFB position — with the coveted part-time hours — was too good to pass up.

H/T News-Observer