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Anthony Ponce quits WMAQ

Posted on 15 July 2016. Tags: ,

Anthony PonceAnthony Ponce has resigned from his job as weekend morning anchor and reporter at WMAQ.

His last day on the air is July 24.

Ponce, who had been at NBC’s O&O in Chicago since 2007, is leaving the station “to pursue other opportunities outside of television news.”

Chicago TV columnist Robert Feder points out that Ponce was “passed over for promotion to weekday morning news anchor after the departure of Stefan Holt,” who is now 4 pm anchor at WNBC.

Anthony had replaced Holt as weekend morning news anchor in 2012.

Before joining WMAQ, Ponce worked as a reporter at WISH-TV in Indianapolis and WANE-TV in Fort Wayne.

He is related to two other Chicago TV journalists. His father is Phil Ponce, hosts nightly television magazine “Chicago Tonight” on WTTW-Channel 11. His brother is Dan Ponce, a morning news anchor at WGN-Channel 9.

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I'm an Emmy award-winning journalist, who's worked as an on-air reporter in Spanish and English-language television news. I've worked for Univision, Telemundo, CNN en Español and Los Angeles Fox and UPN stations before diving into a convergence model at the San Jose Mercury News. I was president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists from 2004 to 2006, and inducted into the Hall of Fame in August of 2016. As an online news manager, I was West Coast Web Editor for impreMedia and Managing Editor of IntersectionsSouthLA.org. In addition to running Media Moves, which I founded in June of 2007, I'm a regular contributor to Forbes and also do freelance work as writer, reporter and producer.
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