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Your A-List: Best evening news anchors
Judy Maggio and Ron Oliveira might be anchoring a ratings-challenged newscast on KEYE, but they squeaked out a victory in the Best Evening News Anchors category in our Your A-List poll.
Just a few percentage points behind Judy and Ron were KVUE’s Christine Haas and Tyler Sieswerda, who helm the top-rated local news in Austin at 6 and 10 p.m.
Why did the No. 3 anchors beat the No. 1 anchors in our poll? Name recognition might have something to do with it. Ron and Judy have been anchoring together and separately in Central Texas for a couple of decades — including a victorious stint together at KVUE.
KXAN’s Robert Hadlock and Michelle Valles were a distant third in our poll, although a couple of the station’s weekend warriors — anchor Sally Hernandez and meteorologist Laura Skirde — received write-in votes.
Here’s how the poll results stack up:
Judy Maggio and Ron Oliveira (KEYE) — 43 percent
Christine Haas and Tyler Sieswerda (KVUE) — 40 percent
Robert Hadlock and Michelle Valles (KXAN) — 10 percent
Loriana Hernandez and Mike Warren (KTBC) — 3 percent
Crestina Chavez (News 8 Austin) — 3 percent
Gustavo Monsante (KAKW) — 1 percent
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By TexIrishRose
September 18, 2007 4:46 PM | Link to this
No surprise at all for me. I believe that Robert & Michelle are way too mismatched. Robert is a quality anchor and deserves someone on his level of experience. I think Michelle sells sex more than the news...it's so hard to take her seriously and her overeager laughter is embarrasing and uncomfortable.
At least she doesn't wear the tight sweaters that show off her ample bosom and wear the matching bow earrings anymore. My friends and I always believed that she was planning on a night out at the clubs as soon as she was thru with the newscast on most nights.
Robert is wonderful, though, but I tend to watch KVUE. Tyler and Christine are evenly matched and don't distract from the news and are amicable enough for me to "enjoy" a newscast.
By Bob Moore
September 13, 2007 3:40 PM | Link to this
Hadlock and Valles don't have much chemistry together. The new news set makes everyone look awkward, standing around.
By Raul Bernal
September 13, 2007 3:10 PM | Link to this
Robert Hadlock and Michelle Valles (KXAN) — 10 percent
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