Michelle Hopkins retuning to TV as ‘Cincy Life-style’ co-host

Whereas taking pictures movies for Cincinnati Kids’s Hospital Medical Middle, former native information anchor-reporter Michelle Hopkins questioned if she may get one other TV gig.

And he or she did.

Hopkins, who got here to WCPO-TV in 1996 from WBNS-TV in Columbus, has been named a brand new co-host of WCPO-TV’s daytime Cincy Life-style present together with Pete Scalia and Cincinnati newcomer Mikhayla Hughes-Shaw, former host of the Quad Cities’ Residing Native program. Longtime hosts Clyde Gray and Mona Morrow left the show in April.

“Once I began internet hosting movies for the hospital — range coaching and people associated to the opening of the brand new crucial care constructing final 12 months — I began to consider getting again into TV. So when the part-time alternative introduced itself at WCPO, it appeared like an ideal match,” Hopkins says.

For the previous five-and-a-half years, Hopkins has carried out group relations and communications at Kids’s Hospital. She additionally had labored at Mercy Well being and the Hamilton County Group Motion Company after stints at WCPO-TV (1996-98) and WLWT-TV (2000-2010).

“I’m thrilled to be again doing what I really like. I stay up for connecting with viewers on the air in Cincinnati — once more!”

Scalia joined the Cincy Lifestyle team a year ago as multimedia content material reporter and producer after working 10 years at Columbus TV stations the place he was very public about his extreme rheumatoid arthritis. The Oak Hill Excessive Faculty graduate and Delhi Township native has been a full-time host since June 15.

He has labored at WXIX-TV, WRRM-FM, WSAI-AM, the Bengals Radio Community and three years as WLWT-TV’s visitors reporter. He additionally has performed keyboards round Larger Cincinnati for 30 years together with his father, Tony, of their band, Snidely Whiplash.

A former Miss Iowa, Hughes-Shaw’s media expertise contains TV reporting, journal writing, podcasting and social media administration. She received an Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in digital reporting “and has most lately labored because the host of the life-style present, Residing Native, on WHBF-TV within the Quad Cities,” based on the WCPO-TV announcement.

Hughes-Shaw earned a Bachelor of Arts in journalism and mass communication with a certificates in crucial cultural competence from the College of Iowa. She is a former Miss Iowa and advocated for psychological well being consciousness and suicide prevention throughout her tenure, the announcement stated.

“Becoming a member of the Cincy Life-style group is a dream come true. I’m excited to see all that the Queen Metropolis has to supply. I’m trying ahead to studying what makes this metropolis tick and bringing that to life by way of storytelling,” Hughes-Shaw stated within the media launch.

Linda Hudson, WCPO-TV gross sales director, stated that “Cincy Life-style is a invaluable native program for our viewers and clients. Having at the least two native hosts from Cincinnati was necessary in our search,” she stated within the launch.

WCPO-TV calls Cincy Life-style “an unique, native life-style present with informative, helpful and entertaining content material. Advertisers buy time inside the present to characteristic new and distinctive features of their enterprise,” based on the discharge.

The present at 10 a.m. weekdays “options native organizations, companies and happenings all through the world,” the discharge says. The group of Scalia, Hughes-Shaw and Hopkins debuts Aug. 22.