Jean Enersen ending 42 years as KING 5 news anchor
Jean Enersen, nicknamed Franchise inpatagonia men's hogtie local television news circles, is retiring from the anchor desk Friday after 46 years at KING 5.
Enersen, who will turn 70 on Monday, certainly can claim to be the most popular TV news personality in the Northwest.
Enersen began working at KING 5 in 1968, and became an anchor in 1972. After 42 years leading the newscast, she is the first and longest standing local female anchor in the country.
could go on doing this forever. I suppose there no perfect time to leave, Enersen said. every one of our shows is No. 1. The team is really strong. Maybe that the best time to leave. I happy, I healthy, I lucky. station says she still be a presence at KING 5, including doing her coverage, specials on Newsmakers, political coverage and major news events.
On her Facebook page, Enersen fans poured out their emotions:
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And Seattle has been losing the anchors who had been the audience companions through the decades.
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certainly a generational change, or the beginning of one, says Lewis.
As for what it like to retire from the action, Lewis says that, yes, when the news of the shootings at Seattle Pacific University broke last week, went into my news mode mentality, I got kinda anxious, paying attention to what gopatagonia men's hogtie3ing on. then, he says, was able to turn off tpatagonia discount code partyhe story and walk away. in the online publication Crosscut in 2007, O. She was and is the brand at KING. The franchise. No one at any other station or in any other newsroom in our city can claim that status. station listed the many for Enersen, besides being the first female local TV anchor: She was the first local TV reporter in China, back in 1979, as this country and China re established diplomatic relations.
She was the first local American TV host to anchor a TV news program in the Soviet Union.
She was the first local reporter to travel with the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation to Africa, in which the station produced a documentary.
Enersen seemed to flourish in the local celebrityhood.
patagonia guide jacket quiltingGinther says she come early in the morning to make a public appearance on behalf of a nonprofit, or on weekends to help with a food drive.
Enersen says that Seattleites not very celebrity fazed, and would talk to her about a story suggestion, or perhaps something she covered on her health segment.
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