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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Dawn Stensland to leave Fox29

Dawn Stensland will end her eight-year run at Fox29 by the end of the year when her contract expires, a station spokeswoman said today.

Stensland's last day has not been determined.

In a Twitter message, she tweeted: "Fox is not renewing my contract. I wanted you to hear that directly from me. Thank you for all your love and support over the years."

Kerri-Lee Halkett will take the femme seat on the 10 p.m. show with Thomas Drayton.

Stensland's nearly 20 years in news includes two years as co-host of CBS News Saturday Morning, and four years at KYW (Channel 3).

She moved here in 1997 to join her then-fiance, Larry Mendte, whom she had met in Chicago. The couple married in 2000.

The station wouldn't provide further detail on the impending departure.
Posted by Michael Klein @ 4:49 PM  Permalink | 35 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:35 PM, 10/21/2009
    Good Luck, Dawn. Always thought you were a class act.
    — AuntieEm
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:42 PM, 10/21/2009
    Will miss Dawn. Hope that she lands another local gig!
    — Irish Frank
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:52 PM, 10/21/2009
    Like no one saw that coming! Dawn has to have known this was happening since they brought in that pretty, vapid, young robot.
    — EGillCVI
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:03 PM, 10/21/2009
    congrats to kerri-lee. sorry about dawn thought she was great. times change and the news media is starting to get on my nerves with all of the changes happening.
    — SPIRITED
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:04 PM, 10/21/2009
    Class act Dawn, good luck enough said.
    — crow-towes
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:09 PM, 10/21/2009
    Stay classy, Dawn. We enjoyed you here in Philly.
    — Jeff
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:39 PM, 10/21/2009
    Can any body say "Larry Mendte baggage"?
    — georgel
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 7:03 PM, 10/21/2009
    I wish Dawn the best. The first comment was correct, she was (and is) a class act. What I liked about her best was that she was a real person, not made of plastic like many of her colleagues in the business.
    — Ruffian
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 7:06 PM, 10/21/2009
    maybe bennifurhrhshr frebbrderirick?
    — lukebonbon
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Michael Klein, the editor/producer of philly.com/Food, writes about the local restaurant scene in his Inquirer column "Table Talk." Have a question? Email it! See his Inquirer work here.
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