ABC30 anchor stepping away after more than decade on air. Clovis native leaving television
Television anchor Amanda Venegas is stepping away from ABC30’s Action News in Fresno to spend more time with her family.
Venegas announced her departure in a short segment Monday morning.
“This is a big one, you guys,” she said.
“I am stepping away from the anchor desk.”
The segment was short on specifics about future plans, but Venegas said she had been offered an opportunity “outside of news” that she believed would be good for her family and allow her more time with her three young children, including one with disabilities.
“It feels like this is the right time to kind of work a different schedule.”
Venegas graduated from Clovis High School and spent time as an intern with ABC30 while studying journalism at San Diego State. She worked in Billings, Montana, before returning to ABC30 as the AM Live reporter and the morning show’s current anchor.
Her final shift will be Friday, May 12, and Venegas promised a look back at some of her “crazy reporting back in the day and some of the good times we’ve had on the anchor desk, too.”
Latest departure at ABC30
This is the third such announcement to come from ABC30 in as many weeks.
AM Live’s meteorologist Madeline Evans left the station at the end of April to follow the deployment of her husband, a Navy pilot who had been stationed at Naval Air Station Lemoore.
Days later, reporter Alyssa Flores Johansen announced she would be leaving the station to become a public information officer with UC Merced.
Another on-air personality leaving ABC30 in Fresno. This reporter is getting out of TV news
