WOIO/19 "19 Action News" weekend sports anchor David Pingalore is leaving the Raycom Media Cleveland CBS affiliate for Florida.
In his blog, Orlando Sentinel TV columnist Hal Boedeker writes that Pingalore is headed for Orlando, where he takes the top sports job at CBS affiliate WKMG/6.Boedeker writes that Pingalore heads south later this month to become that station's sports director.
Up here, Pingalore is second in the "Action News" sports department to Chuck Galeti, the long-time local sports personality who has also been heard on radio (WTAM/1100, WXRK/92.3).
Pingalore came to WOIO in 2005 after working six years in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre PA market. It's actually a return to Florida for him....his first TV internship was in Tampa, and his first on-air job was in Jacksonville...
12 comments:
No big loss, Pingalore is just a journeyman sportscaster who goes from town to town, up and down the dial (a WKRP reference there).
We've seen a thousand like him before, and will see a thousand like him after.
I wish David luck. This is also ironic considering that David Wittman used to anchor at WKMG before heading to Cleveland.
Who ?
This sucks. He's HOT.
Maybe they can bring Katie Pollock back
Somebody find R.B. maybe they're calling Ronnie back.
Mike Cairns would be a decent replacement?
Ronnie Slam Duncan 1 2 3 I m done. No way are they going to hire him.
Memo to ACTION NEWS...please don't hire the poor man's Wayne Brady aka Ronnie Duncan.
Wouldn't it be a typical 19 Action News move to bring in Bruce Drennan to do sports on the weekends?
Think of it...all on one channel you could have:
A stripper (Sharon Reed)
A flasher (Catherine Bosley)
A degenerate gambler (Bruce Drennan)
An overstuffed blowhard (Mike Trivisonno)
And a guy who likes to go to libraries and watch other guys look at kiddie porn (Carl "C.M." Monday)
It seems as if Roger Brown would have fit well with that cast of characters.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Now is the chance to bring back Ronnie Duncan. He hasn't been fired in at least 6 mos. He's long overdue for another trial & error.
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