By RODNEY HO/ rho@ajc.com, originally filed Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Recently retired Channel 2 Action News reporter Jeff Dore had a heart attack Friday but is recuperating. He left the hospital Monday and is expected to recover fully.
He posted this note on his Facebook page, accompanied by a photo smiling outside the hospital: "Getting out of Emory St. Joseph's Hospital today after going in with a heart attack Friday. Great care by everyone there!"
UPDATE: I sent a note to Dore on Facebook and this is what happened:
I had horrible chest and arm pains Friday and asked my wife to come right home from work. She got here fast and drove me to St. Joseph's (very near our home) where they quickly figured out I was having a heart attack, isolated an artery with about 100% blockage and put in a stent. The pain stopped immediately (okay; a stent AND huge , massive, ungodly amounts of morphine). A few days in the hospital and gt home yesterday. Now I'm trying to see if anyone wants to take my place on a one-week bike-riding trip in Tuscany that begins Saturday. You interested?
Among the 130 well wishers on his Facebook page was legendary retired WSB anchor Monica Pearson: "So happy to see you smiling and on the mend!"
And morning anchor Fred Blankenship included this: "There goes that famous smile. Glad to see you doing better buddy."
Dore retired last year after 30 years at the station.
“After the two winter storms and sleeping on an air mattress in a Channel 2 office, I realized it was time, ” Dore said last year, who retired soon after Snowmageddon.
Dore contracted leukemia a decade ago and has been in remission ever since. One side effect: a reduced immune system that has made him susceptible to other illnesses. In late 2012, he was down for the count with pneumonia, taking him off the air for two months. A second new bout of pneumonia hit him almost immediately and he was gone again for two months in 2014. “It was very very hard, physically and mentally,” he said.
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Credit: Rodney Ho
Credit: Rodney Ho
Scott Light, who was at CBS46 for a brief time as an anchor before being let go during the spring, has found a new job at a CBS affiliate in Columbus, Ohio.
He will be a political reporter and an evening anchor at WBNS-TV.
Light was at CBS46 for 18 months and was let go during a major house cleaning project at the perpetually struggling station. He had come from Phoenix and won a Southeastern Emmy right after he was released.
And maybe things will really change at CBS46 soon enough. Media General is buying Meredith, which owns CBS46 and 16 other TV stations.
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Credit: Rodney Ho
Credit: Rodney Ho
Steven "Steak" Shapiro is bringing his brand "Atlanta Eats" to prime time.
This Saturday after University of Georgia football, CBS46 will air a special hour-long "Atlanta Eats" from 8 to 9 p.m. focused on tailgating. He shot scenes out of the College Football Hall of Fame museum and will repurpose moments at restaurants the show has shot in the past such as Fox Brothers BBQ, Grindhouse and Smokebelly BBQ. Kevin Rathbun and Mara Davis are the other hosts.
The show will repeat one more time on CBS and three times on sister station Peachtree TV.
He will also air other "Atlanta Eats" specials this fall after football, including one from Buckhead Atlanta focused on date night.
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