News Anchors Leave Bay Area Station In Abrupt Network Shakeup

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Two Bay Area news anchors announced their departure from a San Francisco-based station within days of each other this week.

Anchors Julian Glover and Reggie Aqui both left KGO, an ABC station based in San Francisco, this week.

Glover, who was also a race and culture reporter for the station, announced on his Instagram that he'd be leaving the Bay Area and returning home to Washington D.C. for a "new challenge."

"The honor of a lifetime has been creating change: settlements for families, regulatory reform, mandated anti-bias trainings, and seeing the work used as a teaching tool," Glover said Monday in an Instagram post. "I’m humbled this work has been recognized with four Emmy Awards & multiple Murrow Awards."

"Change is exciting. Change is scary. Change is necessary," Glover said.

Aqui, meanwhile, announced his departure during a live broadcast on Tuesday. He said he was most proud of the relationships he had built during his 10-year career at the station.

"What am I proudest of in 10 years? My Murrow Award — if I had one. I don’t,” Aqui said on the broadcast. "It’s not industry accolades. And I really can’t pick a particular story or on-air moment because I’ve been on something like 8,500 hours of news shows in those 10 years.”

He said on Instagram that he wasn't sure what would come next, but he knew he needed a "much-deserved nap."