Peña leaving WMAQ

May 9, 2011 by Veronica Villafañe

Chris Peña is leaving his assistant news director position at WMAQ-5 in Chicago at the end of May to take a job at NBC news in New York.

Robert Feder reports Chris’ new network role will be announced soon.

Chris joined WMAQ in September 2008. He had previously been executive producer at the NBC station in Miami.

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Chris Peña, NBC News, WMAQ

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Hispanic media and entertainment contributor to Forbes.

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