One Of the Last is Signing Off

Chuck Scarborough one of the last million dollar plus Anchors in TV news is signing off next month.

The 81-year-old Scarborough joined WNBC in New York when local news was in its heyday. Viewers trusted the anchors, loved them like family, and those anchors were paid very handsomely for their work.

Now, the trust in the local news anchor doesn’t exist, viewers don’t care, and when their contracts come up, they are offered a decrease in salary.

WNBC says that Scarborough will pop up from time to time doing special reports. Stations often say that when a longtime journalist signs off. You might see them show up once or twice and then never again.

As Scarborough told viewers he was signing off, he said, "When I arrived here at NBC in 1974, I couldn't have imagined this moment: that I'd still be gainfully employed at the network's flagship station 50 years later. Time does have a way of slipping quietly through our fingers while we're preoccupied with the noisy present. But this could not have happened without you.

"I have been the beneficiary of a small army of brilliant broadcast journalists on both sides of the camera, and they have my enduring admiration and respect," he continued. "But without you, this personal milestone could not be reached. Thank you for the gift of your loyalty and trust through all these years."