Andrea McMaster says she is leaving WOWT with mixed feelings.The station's weekend morning anchor, weekday reporter and host of "Heartland Focus" anchors her final newscast Sunday morning. Her last day at the station will be Friday. After nearly four years at the NBC affiliate, she is taking a part-time position with the office of public affairs at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. There, she joins two other former TV personalities: Theresa Cassiday (KPTM) and Margaret Bumann (KETV).
"I will miss my wonderful co-workers here," McMaster said. "I always have enjoyed telling people's stories and that's why I chose the news business in the first place. So I will miss that as well."
But McMaster said her new job will afford her more time to spend with her husband, Steve, and their five-month-old daughter, Erin.
Replacing McMaster on WOWT's weekend morning newscast will be former KOLN/KGIN-Lincoln weekend anchor Mike Cronemeyer and Rachel Pierce, who comes to Omaha from WQOW-ABC in Eau Claire, Wisc. (Nielsen DMA No. 123), where she is anchoring mornings. Her first day at WOWT will be April 24.
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Sean: A few corrections.
Andrea McMaster is not employed in UNMC Public Affairs. She is employed in the Marketing Department of the Nebrasak Medical Center.
Margaret Bumann no longer is employed in UNMC Public Affairs. Her last day was Friday, March 23.
I am not the Theresa Cassaday who used to work for KPTM. (Note the different spelling of her name.) She now works for the Great Plains Council of the Girl Scouts. I am the campus webmaster and have never worked in television.
Theresa Cassiday
Web/Online Communications Coordinator
UNMC Public Affairs
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