Credit: Rodney Ho
Credit: Rodney Ho
By RODNEY HO/rho@ajc.com, originally filed Tuesday, March 3, 2015
The mystery of 11 Alive anchor/reporter Karyn Greer continues. She has not been on air at least since mid January and the station has been mum about her whereabouts or her job status.
I last posted an item about her on February 10. The next day on her work Facebook and Twitter page, she shared a link to an 11 Alive story about the "American Sniper" trial but since then, nothing. It's been nearly three weeks since that last sign of her public social media imprint.
People keep posting on her Facebook page "Where are you?" but she is not responding.
A source inside the 11 Alive building has not seen her but noted that her face is still on the 11 Alive website and her desk still looks occupied.
UPDATE: March 15, 2015: Her face is off the "Meet the Team" page of 11 Alive, which tells us what we suspected: she's out. But still no comment from 11 Alive or Greer.
11 Alive eliminated the noon show and 7 p.m. newscasts this week and added a 5 p.m. newscast, dropping the second hour of "Dr. Phil," who remains at 3. The network dropped Greer from the morning show last year for Vinnie Politan but at the time placed her on day duty, including the now defunct noon telecast as anchor.
She has been with 11 Alive for more than 15 years.
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Credit: Rodney Ho
WSB-TV has shifted its Sunday line-up to include more national news.
Starting this past weekend, the Atlanta ABC affiliate has added "GMA Sundays" from 8 to 9 a.m. It had previously been running four straight hours of local news anchored by Sophia Choi from 7 to 11 a.m. Now, she starts at 6 a.m. and runs to 8 a.m. Then she'll return from 9 to 11 a.m.
In the evenings, "ABC World News" with Cecilia Vega and Tom Llamas will now air at 6:30 p.m. after "Channel 2 Action News at 6 p.m." This cuts local news by a half hour. So for the first time, WSB will be airing the national evening news seven days a week.
"This continues our goal to give our viewers the right balance of local and national news when they want it," said Mike Dreaden, news director for Channel 2 Action News. "We've enjoyed a great partnership with ABC News over the years."
The weekly community news program "People 2 People" moves to 12:30 p.m. Sunday from 6:30 a.m.
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Credit: Rodney Ho
Fred Blankenship, morning anchor for Channel 2 Action News, spent time with Rep. John Lewis for a 30-minute special "Return to Selma" airing Wednesday, March 4, on WSB-TV at 8 p.m.
Lewis is the last surviving leader of that march. “Bloody Sunday” occurred on March 7, 1965, when hundreds of Civil Rights marchers tried to cross the now infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were beaten back by police officers equipped with tear gas and clubs. The Oscar-nominated film "Selma," partially shot in metro Atlanta, featured these events.
Lewis tells Blankenship what it was like to lead the march knowing he could die. He explains what happened after being hit in the head by state troopers with night sticks, and what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told him when he woke up in the hospital. He also talks about his philosophy centered on patience and love.
The special will pre-empt "The Middle," which will air later that night at 1:07 a.m.
WSB-TV is part of Cox Media Group, which also oversees the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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