CBS Atlanta to Soft Launch This Weekend. Assures Viewers On-Air Folk Will Know Atlanta

CBS Atlanta needs its viewers to know that it’s hiring, what it stated is a “workforce deeply linked to the town and its surrounding communities.” Starting Saturday, August 16, the change to CBS Atlanta (WUPA, channel 69) will occur and on Monday, August 18, viewers will see native climate protection throughout CBS MORNINGS, forward of the station’s full information launch in September.“We aren’t simply hiring a workforce – we’re constructing one from the neighborhood,” stated Jennifer Mitchell, president of CBS Stations. “They’re right here to hear, serve and inform tales that matter.”CBS wished to level out that one in all its key hires was Nichole Inexperienced as assistant information director. She comes from CBS New York. It additionally employed Lea-Anne Jackson as artistic companies director. Jackson is a longtime Atlanta resident with a deep storytelling background and three a long time out there. She has labored at WUPA for the previous 5 years. The station group additionally employed Alex Sanz as managing editor. Sanz is a veteran journalist and multiplatform chief with a dozen years in Atlanta, together with roles at The Atlanta Journal-Structure and The Related Press.CBS Atlanta additionally welcomes Troy Bridges as meteorologist. Bridges joins from owned station CBS Detroit. Bridges started his profession in Macon and Augusta earlier than main climate groups in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Florida. “I’m so excited to return to my dwelling state and to be a part of the launch of CBS Information Atlanta,” stated Bridges. “As a proud Georgia Bulldog, I enthusiastically look ahead to delivering climate forecasts to the town I like.”CBS transitions its community programming in Atlanta starting August 16 to WUPA, Channel 69. CBS Atlanta information operation launches in September.