Veteran journalist Jack Kuenzie out at WIS-TV
Veteran journalist Jack Kuenzie has been let go by WIS TV, according to a website that focuses on the inner workings of TV news.
Kuenzie has been with the NBC Columbia affiliate station for 33 years.
TVSpy was the first to report that Kuenzie had been let go. A link to Kuenzie’s biography page on WIS is no longer available on their website. His WIS Facebook fan page has also been removed.
“Today has been painful, but it’s doing wonders for my Twitter numbers,” Kuenzie remarked Friday evening on social media.
He took to Twitter Friday afternoon to respond to folks lamenting his departure.
When Kuenzie’s former WIS colleague Ben Tanner, a once-popular weatherman, wrote on Twitter that he was “Always a HUGE Kuenzie @JKuenzie fan...thanks for the memories and fabulous education for so many years!” Kuenzie responded with thanks and a lighthearted “What’s it like out there?”
According to his personal Facebook account, Kuenzie is a native of Missouri who has been reporting at WIS-TV since 1984.
When the station celebrated Kuenzie’s 30th anniversary, it highlighted stories he’s covered over the decades; from the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger to criminal justice issues to then-President Ronald Reagan’s visit to the University of South Carolina.
Kuenzie issued a note to staff stating that this was “not how I envisioned the end of a 33-plus year love affair with WIS TV,” according to TVSpy.
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This story was originally published December 1, 2017 at 2:29 PM with the headline "Veteran journalist Jack Kuenzie out at WIS-TV."