Ron Corning

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Ron Corning outside WFAA's Victory Park studios.

Ron Corning (born June 23, 1971) is an American television host most recently at the ABC affiliate WFAA in Dallas, Texas. He co-anchored the station's morning newscast, Daybreak, and was the solo anchor of Midday, the station's one-hour noon newscast.[1]

Corning was raised in Calais, Maine, and graduated from Wheaton College in Massachusetts. He began his broadcast career as a general assignment reporter for WDTV, the CBS affiliate in Bridgeport, West Virginia. After being fired from Channel 5, on July 4, 1993, Ron became a weekend anchor and reporter at one of WDTV's rivals, WBOY, the NBC affiliate in Clarksburg, West Virginia. He was next hired at WTOV in Steubenville, Ohio where he performed similar newscasting duties, before he moved to a role at KTVI, the Fox station in St. Louis, Missouri. From there, he went on to the Fox affiliate in Seattle, Washington, KCPQ.

Corning made his jump to the national stage as host and news anchor of The Daily Buzz, a syndicated American morning television show broadcast on many affiliates of UPN and The WB stations (now The CW) across the country.

From 2004 to August 2006, Corning co-anchored World News Now and ABC World News This Morning. In 2006 while at ABC News, People Magazine' named Corning one of the 'Most Beautiful People'.[2] That same year MSN named him one of 'The Best Anchors'.

Corning joined Jodi Applegate as co-anchor of Good Day New York at the flagship FOX-owned affiliate WNYW on August 28, 2006. The station opted to not renew his employment contract while he was on leave for a scheduled vacation in April 2008.[3] to make room for Fox News Channel correspondent Greg Kelly, son of NY Police Commissioner Ray Kelly

On September 17, 2008, Applegate was also released from the station. The two were reunited in November 2009 at Cablevision's News 12 Long Island as evening anchor team. Applegate left News 12 in October 2010.

In April 2011, Corning replaced Chris Flanagan as co-host of WFAA's Daybreak.[4]

Corning was let go from WFAA in April 2019, without being granted an on-air goodbye. He has since appeared on podcasts covering pop culture matters.[5] A month later, Corning launched his own video podcast series titled "Morning After", and a year later, it was then converted to a daily news and talk show hosted and executive produced by Corning on CW-affiliated station KDAF.

References[]

  1. ^ Ron Corning Heads to Dallas to Anchor Mornings at WFAA - TV Spy (released March 23, 2011)
  2. ^ "Beauties Around the Clock : People.com". Archived from the original on 2008-09-14.
  3. ^ Corning's no notice termination
  4. ^ Ron Corning will save WFAA's morning show?
  5. ^ WFAA anchor Ron Corning has left the Dallas TV station

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