News Director/Anchor Hawkins Departs WCYB

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Steve Hawkins, the WCYB Tri-Cities news director and anchor, has departed the station, reports Kingsport Times-News.

WCYB VP/General Manager Jim McKernan said the station was beginning a nationwide search for his replacement.

Hawkins' career at WCYB began almost 35 years ago, reports the newspaper, when he was a junior in college. He was named news director in 1985 and served in that role until last week.

WCYB is owned by Bonten Media. The Tri-Cities DMA is situated around the Tennessee-Virginia border.

Hawkins anchored the 6 p.m. news, says the Kingsport Times-News, and had also anchored the 11 p.m. in the past. 

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.