Firstcoastnews.com
First Coast News is the newsroom of television stations WTLV (channel 12) and WJXX (channel 25), the NBC and American Broadcasting Company, ABC affiliates in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It is owned with the stations by Tegna Inc. The First Coast News brand was first used by the stations on April 27, 2000, in the wake of Gannett's acquisition of WJXX the month before and consequent expansion of what had primarily been WTLV's news department. Immediately upon taking control, WTLV newscasts were simulcast on WJXX. Since the consolidation, First Coast News has generally remained in second place in the market behind WJXT (channel 4), the market news leader. History Pre-FCN When WTLV started as WFGA-TV in 1957, the station's first news director was Harold Baker, who had served in the same position at WSM WSM (AM), radio and WSMV-TV, television in Nashville, Tennessee. Baker would anchor the station's 6 p.m. news for 17 years and direct the nascent channel 12 newsroom for ...
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Donna Deegan
Donna Elizabeth Deegan (born February 28, 1961) is an American author, breast cancer awareness advocate, and former weekday television anchor on ''First Coast News'' in Jacksonville, Florida. She is a Democratic candidate in the 2023 Jacksonville mayoral election. Deegan previously co-anchored the weeknight 5:30 and 11 p.m. newscasts of ''First Coast News''. Deegan was raised on the southside of Jacksonville and graduated from Bishop Kenny High School in 1979. She holds a BS '84 in Communications from Florida State University. She is the cousin of former Jacksonville mayor Tommy Hazouri Thomas Lester Hazouri Sr. (October 11, 1944 – September 11, 2021) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1974 to 1986, as Mayor of Jacksonville from 1987 to 1991, an .... Deegan started her career in 1984 as the morning anchor for WTXL-TV, WTXL in Tallahassee, Florida, Tallahassee. In 1985, she became the West Pal ...
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