Changing markets, changing jobs
03/27/07 06:35 PM
By ED BARK
CBS11 reporter Raquel Eatmon is stepping down to a smaller market in order to step up as an anchor.
The former Miss Ohio World, who joined the station in 2005, will be anchoring the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts for NBC affiliate WPMI-TV in Mobile, Ala. She'll join fellow newcomer Greg Peterson, formerly of KMTV-TV in Omaha, Neb. They're replacing a recently fired anchor team that took the fall when WPMI dropped to last place in the local news ratings wars.
Mobile is the country's 59th largest TV market, a considerable drop from No. 6 Dallas-Fort Worth. But Eatmon will get far more face time and responsibility in her new small pond.
Over at Fox4, veteran Chris Yates will be shifting jobs. He'll be the station's full-time sports web producer, dropping a Saturday morning anchor spot. Fellow Fox4 vet Max Morgan will be the weekend sports anchor, with Yates still likely to be filling in on occasion for weekday sports maestro Mike Doocy.