Longtime TV reporter and anchor Norm Karkos is no longer working at WMTW, Channel 8, where he spent 25 years of his career.

WMTW assignment editor Tyler Cadorette, contacted Thursday night, confirmed that Karkos no longer works at the station, but said he was not authorized to discuss the issue further. WMTW President and General Manager Dave Abel was not available for comment.

Karkos did not immediately return a Facebook message Thursday night requesting comment. His name does not appear on the station’s news team web page and his official Twitter and Facebook accounts appeared to be taken offline.

Karkos was a weekend morning anchor and a weekday reporter for the station. According to his online Linkedin profile, Karkos started at the station in 1991 and was the sports director before becoming a news anchor.

Karkos is the most recent of a number of news anchors to leave WMTW, a Hearst Television affiliate, in the past several years. In 2013, longtime morning news anchor Shannon Moss was fired from the station after management told her she was not connecting with her audience. Erin Ovalle, who anchored the morning show with Moss, left in 2015 to pursue other professional goals.


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