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Beloved CT TV Personality Makes New Career Decision
The former NBC Connecticut morning news anchor is scratching the news itch at another station.
Heidi Voight, the popular former morning news anchor at NBC Connecticut, has landed at a new Connecticut station.
Voight is now pulling some shifts at WTIC 1080 AM as a weekend and fill-in news anchor.
"Lazy Sunday? Not today!" Voight wrote over the weekend on Facebook. "Wrapping up another busy news day at @wtic1080. It’s a privilege to get to scratch the news itch at this Connecticut institution as I work on some other exciting projects for 2026!"
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She did not disclose what those other projects are, but her legion of fans are thrilled at the update.
"Good to hear you on the air waves again Heidi Voight," one fan wrote.
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"Well this is AWESOME!" another fan wrote. "What time are you on the air? I'll definitely tune in to WTIC News/Talk 1080! I grew up listening to Bob Steele."
Voight's fans have been there for her for years, from health scares, to dealing with grief over the murder of her mother, to the birth of her twins in 2018, Apolonia "Polly" Rose and Violet Concetta.
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The Milford native spent more than 10 years at NBC Connecticut, and she is a former Miss Connecticut, who represented the state in the 2006 Miss America pageant.
Voight graduated from Southern Connecticut State University, and has been inducted into the Gertrude O. Lewis Humanitarian Society.
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