In May 2023, some 36 years after starting her career, Kelley Dunn departed The E.W. Scripps Co.’s NBC affiliate serving West Palm Beach. This left Michael Williams, her co-anchor, in the role of Dean of local news in the market. Now, Williams has decided to conclude his own storied career in TV.Author (when available): Adam Jacobson
In May 2023, some 36 years after starting her career, Kelley Dunn departed The E.W. Scripps Co.’s NBC affiliate serving West Palm Beach. This left Michael Williams, her co-anchor, in the role of Dean of local news in the market. Now, Williams has decided to conclude his own storied career in TV.
In recent times, longtime news anchors at television stations across the U.S. have decided to conclude their career in broadcasting. In May 2023, some 36 years after starting her career, Kelley Dunn departed The E.W. Scripps Co.’s NBC affiliate serving West Palm Beach, Boca Raton and the Treasure Coast. This left Michael Williams, her co-anchor, in the role of Dean of local news in the market.
Now, Williams has decided to conclude his own storied career in TV.
After 44 years, Williams will be stepping aside, WPTV-5 announced on Monday. He won’t be fully retired, however. “I have conservation work I’m going to do, some advocacy. Preserving all of this for all of us,” Williams said. He is also working part-time as an instructor at the private Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla.
Williams began his career at WTVX-34, then a lowly CBS affiliate in the shadow of WTVJ-4 in Miami, and would spend late 1981 through 1983 at WCPO-9 in Cincinnati. He then returned to South Florida to work for Ed Ansin. At the time, his Sunbeam Television was the owner of the NBC affiliate in Miami, WSVN-7. This was in May 1984, at a time when radio stations Y-100 and WSHE ruled the airwaves and WTVJ challenged WPLG-10 for viewers and Dan Marino was reinvigorating the Miami Dolphins football club. Miami Vice hadn’t yet debuted; the University of Miami Hurricanes were just creating a national championship football team.
At WSVN, at the age of 25, Williams was put on the “Nightside” newscast. And, Williams met his wife Leisa at the station. In January 1993, Williams shifted to WTVJ-6, serving as an anchor and weekend reporter before earning the co-anchor slot on the 5:30pm newscast in 2000. In 2002, he would depart for a job at the now-defunct NBC NewsChannel, serving as a Washington, D.C., correspondent. In April 2004, he’d return to South Florida for a position at NBC-owned WTVJ, now at Channel 6 and the NBC affiliate (WSVN is the FOX affiliate).
A RETURN, AFTER A FIRST ‘RETIREMENT’
With the anchor desk and field reporting a 22-year career, Williams exited WTVJ at the end of 2006. He became the Senior Manager of Media Relations at Florida Power & Light. But, after 10 months, he went back to broadcast TV by taking a role as a Political Reporter for CBS News & Stations’ WFOR-4 in Miami. That role, which began at the start of 2008, ended with his hiring at WPTV in March 2011.
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In May 2023, some 36 years after starting her career, Kelley Dunn departed The E.W. Scripps Co.’s NBC affiliate serving West Palm Beach. This left Michael Williams, her co-anchor, in the role of Dean of local news in the market. Now, Williams has decided to conclude his own storied career in TV.In May 2023, some 36 years after starting her career, Kelley Dunn departed The E.W. Scripps Co.’s NBC affiliate serving West Palm Beach. This left Michael Williams, her co-anchor, in the role of Dean of local news in the market. Now, Williams has decided to conclude his own storied career in TV.In May 2023, some 36 years after starting her career, Kelley Dunn departed The E.W. Scripps Co.’s NBC affiliate serving West Palm Beach. This left Michael Williams, her co-anchor, in the role of Dean of local news in the market. Now, Williams has decided to conclude his own storied career in TV.In May 2023, some 36 years after starting her career, Kelley Dunn departed The E.W. Scripps Co.’s NBC affiliate serving West Palm Beach. This left Michael Williams, her co-anchor, in the role of Dean of local news in the market. Now, Williams has decided to conclude his own storied career in TV.
