NCS correspondent Stephanie Elam made her final on-air look after working on the outlet for greater than 20 years.
Elam, 52, shared some parting phrases on Friday morning’s broadcast of NCS News Central after she had introduced her exit earlier this month.
Co-anchor Sara Sidner mentioned that “everyone here is sad to see” Elam go.
“I want to say thank you for being my friend, helping me through cancer, and being a sister, really,” Sidner, 53, mentioned. “You have been a sister to me. NCS may have brought us together, but ain’t nothing gonna tear us apart.”
Elam lined the loss of life of Michael Jackson throughout her first stint on the broadcast big. / Ari Perilstein / Ari Perilstein/Getty Images for Girlboss
“You’re not getting rid of me, I love you,” Elam replied. “Tell everyone there, every stage manager, everyone there, I love you guys. It’s been a joy working with you all.”
Elam shared a press release on social media on April 10 saying that she was leaving the community, however didn’t reveal any future plans.
“For more than 20 years I’ve been in the NCS orbit developing and delivering news stories on everything from the environment and entertainment to business and breaking news of all kinds,” she wrote, based on Variety.
“I’m so proud of my NCS career,” she continued. “Live or taped, writing packages or doing a show-and-tell, I’ve done it all—and having a front row seat to document history has been a gift.”
Elam began her profession in New York City, however has lived in and reported from Los Angeles in recent times. / Ari Perilstein / Ari PerilsteinGetty Images for Girlboss
A NCS spokesperson advised the Daily Beast in a separate assertion that Elam “brought clarity, credibility, and heart to every story she touched over her two decades at NCS.”
“Her versatility and natural ability to connect with audiences made her a trusted voice and a valued colleague,” the assertion learn. “We are grateful for her many contributions and wish her continued success in her next chapter.”
Elam, a broadcast journalism graduate of Howard University, lined all kinds of subjects all through her two separate stints at NCS.
Elam’s final on-air section centered on the upcoming Michael Jackson biopic as a testomony to one of many largest tales she lined throughout her profession at NCS. / NCS News Central
She began first as a enterprise information correspondent on the community from 2003 to 2011, earlier than working for just a few years at KNBC in Los Angeles. She returned to NCS in 2013, masking occasions together with the eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano and the loss of life of the musical icon Prince.
In March, NCS early-morning anchor Rahel Solomon additionally introduced her departure from the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned community, which was acquired in February by the MAGA-friendly nepo-billionaire David Ellison’s firm, Paramount Skydance.