
Her biggest role model is her mother, who has shown her that through hard work and perseverance, you can make any dream a reality. Sally also enjoys giving back to her community with two mentoring organizations: Motivating Our Students Through Experience and USC’s Neighborhood Academic Initiative. When she’s not working, Sally loves to travel, sing, spend time with her husband, family and friends, and eat delicious food.

While at Spectrum News, Sally hopes to inspire Southern California through her stories and share plenty of sunshine with her weather forecasts. Sally then moved to Las Vegas, where she worked for 8 News Now as a weather anchor and general assignment reporter for nearly five years. It was at KABC that she learned everything she knows about news and met her mentors.įrom there, Sally joined KIDY Fox News/KXVA Fox 15 in San Angelo and Abilene, Texas, working as an MMJ, weather forecaster and morning anchor. Her dream of being a reporter then took her to KABC Los Angeles, where she worked as a news assistant and later, a traffic producer for the morning show. She studied Media Studies and Spanish at Pitzer College, where she delivered the weather and a news segment for the school’s underground radio station, 88.7FM KSPC. Early on, she knew she wanted to inspire, be a voice for her community and change the world through journalism. Storytelling has been Sally’s passion since she first held a mic in her family’s talent shows. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Sally is overjoyed to finally be back home on the Golden Coast with her family, friends and community. “I feel very bad and embarrassed - it was a perfect storm that, in the end, really hurt me,” she said.Sally Jaramillo joined the Spectrum News 1 team in July 2022. hour - that broadcast was the one that went viral. Most news anchors are required to put in several hours inside a newsroom before and after their broadcasts.


The same schedule was to play out Sunday. That schedule included on-air appearances on Saturday between the hours of 6 a.m. Kovar’s last weekend at WRGB-TV saw her work an unusual schedule. “I’m just overwhelmed and appreciative of all the compassion and support I’ve received,” Kovar said in a recently-published interview. Kovar has not announced where she intends to land next, though she has told local media outlets that she’s concerned the on-air incident earlier this month will follow her around as she attempts to secure a new television job. “I’m happy to jump in and help with the weekend mornings,” Slater told the Albany Times-Union newspaper. Her role with WRGB-TV is through a temporary contract that will have Slater anchoring the Saturday and Sunday morning broadcasts while she continues to work her other job during the week. Slater joins the station several months after she left Hubbard-owned NBC affiliate WNYT (Channel 13) to take a full-time job as a technical recruiter at a local consulting firm. Sinclair has tapped Jacquie Slater to fill Kovar’s slot. This week, it was confirmed she will not be returning to the station. Though armchair pundits on the Internet assumed she was drunk, Kovar eventually explained that she was sleep-deprived after dealing with the death of a close family member. Kovar was placed on leave while officials at the station investigated the incident. But that exit date was accelerated after Kovar slurred her speech and appeared unfocused and disheveled during a news broadcast earlier this month.

CHANNEL 8 NEWS ANCHOR LEAVING TV
Heather Kovar, the morning news anchor at CBS affiliate WRGB-TV (Channel 6), intended to leave the Albany TV station later this month when her contract was up at the end of the month. A television news anchor in upstate New York who went viral earlier this month over an awkward broadcast has decided to leave the station early.
