The news presenter, Ellen Leyva, leaves Channel 7 of Kabc-TV after almost 30 years, marking the last exit of an outstanding local news budget.
Leyva made the announcement on Monday during the afternoon program of the Walt Disney Co. Station she plans .
“After much contemplation and introspection, I know that I am ready to move forward and concentrate on my next great adventure in life,” Leyva told the spectators, and added that the decision was “something I have been thinking about for a long time a long time . “
In an email to the staff, Kabc's general manager, Wendy Granato, called the retirement of Leyva “Noticias Agridulce”.
The Glendale -based station has long presented one of the most stable teams in the Los Angeles air. Their anchors are still popular among the spectators, even when the news consumption patterns change and the stations become less lucrative divisions for the main networks. Last spring, a report from the Pew Research Center highlighted the change of industry, noting that a growing number of Americans obtains much of its local news online.
Even so, an overwhelming majority of respondents said that local news coverage is important for their community, according to Pew's study.
And the local broadcasters demonstrated their temper, and importance, by providing marathon coverage of the forest fires of Altadena and Pacific Palisades and the devastating consequences as thousands cried the loss of loved ones, homes, churches, schools and business.
Leyva is the last local news presenter to leave.
The popular meteorologist of KNBC-TV Channel 4, Fritz Coleman, retired in 2020. Two years later, a picture of prominent KNBC journalists: Beverly White, Chuck Henry, Kim Baldonado and Angie Crouch, retired from the station. Also in 2022, Lynette Romero, for a long time, changed to KNBC after a high profile output of Ktla-TV channel 5.
And last year, two deaths surprised the local transmission community: Ktla's unconditional entertainment student, Sam Rubin, who died in May; and the co-presenter of Kcal-Tv Channel 9 Chaunch Glover, who died unexpectedly in November at the age of 39.
Leyva, who grew up in Arizona, joined Kabc in 1995 as a health reporter and then joined the anchor desk.
Over the years, it has been co-elanfitrion of the arrivals of red carpets of the Oscar, flying with the blue angels and provided a constant presence in the air. He also served as Kabc team leader for AIDS Walk Los Angeles and advocated mental health services for unattended communities.
“To say that it has been an invaluable and truly treasured member of our eye news team is euphemism,” Granato said in his email.
The station did not specify the departure date of Leyva.
“This station, all who work here and all of you are really my home away from home,” Leyva told the spectators. “I could not have asked for a more rewarding career with the best people in the best city in the world.”
