WNWO-TV, Channel 24 is about to lose yet another anchor.
Weekend anchor/reporter Andrea Mock will work her final day at the NBC station Sunday.
Mock is headed for WLTX-TV in Columbia, S.C., where she signed a three-year contract to serve as co-anchor of the 5 and 11 p.m. newscasts at the CBS affiliate.
She is moving to South Carolina along with her soon-to-be husband, Chris Todaro, a captain and F-16 pilot who has been assigned to Shaw Air Force Base. They are getting married June 9.
Mock, from Warren, Ohio, said she is leaving behind a lot of friends at Channel 24, where she has worked since April, 2005.
"I know our ratings aren't great, but I loved NBC 24," she said. "It was a great place to work. Everyone works so hard here, and it's a wonderful group of people. We were hustling every day, just like the other stations.
"I will be leaving behind some of my very best friends, but Chris and I plan to move back to Ohio when we can."
Before joining WNWO, Mock was an anchor/executive producer for the morning and noon newscasts at WDTV-TV in Clarksburg/Morgantown, W.Va. The Kent State graduate also spent time working as a host and a field producer for News Ohio, a PBS program geared toward teaching young people about civics and government.
In other news:
• WTVG-TV, Channel 13, has won two regional Edwin R. Murrow awards for excellence in electronic journalism.
The Murrow awards are judged by the Radio-Television News Director's Association, with Region 7 encompassing the states of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana. Toledo TV stations competed in the 51-plus market size category.
Channel 13 claimed one Murrow Award in spot news coverage for its reporting on last summer's first severe thunderstorm.
And it grabbed another in the news series category for weekend anchor/reporter Bill Hormann's work on "Truth Test," which examined the accuracy of claims made in political advertisements.
Hormann previously was named the 2007 national winner of the prestigious Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism for the same series.
•WTOL-TV evening anchor/reporter Chrys Peterson won a regional Murrow Award in the features category for a story called "Little People in a Big World."
Peterson profiled a local family in which the husband, wife, and child are dwarfs. Paul Kwapich was the photographer on the story.
• Kidd Kraddick in the Morning, a syndicated radio show based in Las Colinas, Tex., has replaced Johny D and the Morning Crew at WTWR-FM, 98.3 weekdays from 6-10 a.m.
Kidd Kraddick, which airs on 57 affiliates nationwide including stations in Dallas-Fort Worth, New Orleans, Lexington, Ky. and Ashtabula, Ohio, began airing Monday.
The controversial Johny D and his executive producer, Jeremy Baumhower, were let go by Tower 98 in mid-January.
Contact Ron Musselman at: mussel@theblade.com or 419-724-6474
First Published March 30, 2007, 10:48 a.m.
