Curt Menefee Stretches Fox Duties to New York News From Sunday Sports
variety.comBrian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Curt Menefee is dipping into Fox Sports colleague Michael Strahan’s playbook. Fox’s lead NFL host will expand his role with the company, and will hold down a co-anchor slot with Rosanna Scotto on “Good Day New York” at Fox’s WNYW in New York.
Menefee will keep his Sunday football role, and during the NFL season, will co-anchor at WNYW Tuesday through Friday. Bianca Peters,.
who has been Scott’s co-anchor, will co-host WNYW’s “The Noon” and “The Fox 5 News at 6 p.m.” “There’s no place like New York.
No place,” said Menefee, who worked at WNYW as a sportscaster in 1995. “I can’t wait to get back to the energy of the city, the culture, the restaurants, the people, everything that makes it the greatest city in the world.” Fox’s cross-media maneuver for Menefee marks the latest attempt by some of the nation’s entertainment conglomerates to prop up their news programs with sports-TV personnel.
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