Byline: Deborah Caulfield Rybak; Staff Writer
After limping along with low ratings for more than three years, WFTC, Channel 29, will pull the plug on its 10 p.m. news June 30, the Fox-owned station confirmed Thursday.
Instead, sister station KMSP, Channel 9, will add a 10 p.m. newscast after its hour-long 9 p.m. news later this summer.
Anchors have not been announced, but Fox general manager Carol Rueppel said the show will not feature 9 p.m. anchors Robyne Robinson and Jeff Passolt, nor will it include WFTC's anchor team, Chris Conangla and Jordana Green, who will leave the station June 30.
"I can read the numbers as well as the next guy," said Conangla, who went through this before when he was demoted by KSTP, Channel 5, in 1999. …
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