“Management was very kind to offer a new contract, but after 5 years, it was time for a change. I am currently looking at some new and very exciting opportunities,” he wrote on his Facebook page today.
When Juan Carlos joined CBS 12 in January of 2008, he started out as a weeknight anchor/reporter, but was moved to mornings and last year, to weekends during a newsroom shake-up at the station.
Prior to WPEC, Juan Carlos spent 6 years at WGN-TV in Chicago, where he was a reporter/substitute anchor and host of “Adelante Chicago,” the station’s weekly Latino issues program.
Before WGN, he worked as a reporter/substitute anchor at WSVN-TV in Miami. He previously reported for WPBF-TV and WPTV-TV in West Palm Beach. He began his career at WHBF-TV in Rock Island, IL.