Changes ahead at KSDK-TV, Channel 5; also update on Deanne Lane
Rebecca Wu
NEWS FROM CHANNEL 5: Rebecca Wu, a news anchor at KSDK-TV (Channel 5), is rumored to be leaving the station to take a job with the FBI. Wu joined KSDK in 2003 after working as a reporter and fill-in anchor at KPTV-TV in Portland, Ore., beginning in 1999. She went there from Jacksonville, Fla.
Wu did not return messages and repeated phone calls Wednesday. Mike Shipley, news director at the station, said Wednesday: “There are some developments with Rebecca but I can’t go into the details. Call me back in a week.”
On the plus side of the ledger, the station has hired Ashley Yarchin to be a reporter. Yarchin, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., is rumored to be the niece of Leisa
Zigman, also a reporter at KSDK.
Yarchin did a stint at KSDK some years ago, where she has said she “did everything from rolling teleprompter to off-air reporting.” She graduated from Washington University with a degree in Comparative Arts in 2002.
Ashley Yarchin
While earning a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University, Yarchin worked in Washington as a capital correspondent for KMID-TV in Midland, Texas. After graduation from Northwestern, she was hired as a crime reporter for the West Texas station.
She left there in 2005 to be a general assignment reporter at WLTX-TV in South Carolina. That station and KSDK are owned by Gannett.
Here’s an update for those who call and write to ask about Deanne Lane. I was at a graduation party for a friend’s daughter on Saturday. It was a purely social event. Lane, who is friends with the couple that was holding the party, walked in, saw me and left. She has not returned phone calls since she was fired from KSDK in April. I have no idea what she is doing at this time.
(18 votes, average: 2.89 out of 5)
Loading ...
Don’t everyone love how i end my reports with a screaming FOX NEWS?
You all are killin’ me! I’m LMAO. “..Mike Owenth.” TOO FUNNY, Great Cornholio!
“COMPARATIVE ARTS?” What kinda degree is that???
The other residents at the home just told me I was laughing so loud that they couldn’t hear Billy Mays hawking junk on the TV box. Don’t forget to turn your air conditioners down really low so your Ameren bill goes really high and I will see you on the commercials.
Why aren’t there any hot latina TV reporters in St. Louis?
Deb please fix that hair!!!!!!
Interesting parallel- you have no idea what Lane is doing, and clearly, no idea what YOU are doing either. Deanne Lane clearly knew that there was nothing positive about running into someone from a two-bit paper looking for grist for gossip.
Ashley is very cute. With a smile like that I don’t even care how well she does the news. I’ll be watching for her on KSDK.
Yes, I agree. Ashley is very fresh faced. Except for that nose. Let’s get her under the knife and fix that issue post haste. Thank you.
Re: Jack2008
Rebecca Wu - Hers probably goes sideways, but still cute.
Deanne Lane - Pleathery; if scared by an innocent scribe like Deb than she’s bush league. One of the most condescending people you’ll ever encouter.
Jasmine Huda - Hot and spicy. Love to watch her talk.
Mike Bush - “And there ya have it … I was better when I stuck to dissing Zip Rzeppea.”
Rene - Stilted delivery but passable at one-on-ones and panel discussions.
Leisa Zigman - I used to like her, but the A-B piece destroyed all sense of objectivity and seriousness.
Ashley Yarchin - Probably cuter in person, and looks like she’ll keep herself in shape. Good for her.