Toni Yates
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Toni Yates (born November 1962) is an American news reporter and anchorwoman who currently works for WABC-TV as their New Jersey reporter.
Career
Yates—a graduate of Bishop Kenny High School in Jacksonville, and Florida State University—started her career in news in Savannah, Georgia, first at WTOC-TV and then at WSAV-TV.Template:R In 1986,Template:R she joined the staff of WTLV in Jacksonville as weekend anchor; she departed WTLV in 1987 when she got married and moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia.[1] While in Virginia, she was the communications director for the local chapter of the March of Dimes. After three years in Virginia, she returned to Jacksonville in 1990 to be a weekend anchor at WJXT.[2] She departed a year later in order to be closer to her husband, Arthur Fennell, then an anchor at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia.[3]
After a year as a night news reporter for WGAL-TV in nearby Lancaster,[4] she was hired as reporter for the startup Inquirer News Tonight newscast aired by WPHL-TV in Philadelphia.[5] Yates also served as weekend anchor until 1995, when she was promoted to the weeknight newscasts.[6] When WPHL-TV assumed control of the newscast at the end of 1996, it went to a single-anchor format and moved Yates back to weekends.[7]
Yates and Fennell amicably divorced in 1998 after having two daughters.[8] Yates later had a third child[9] after marrying Philadelphia firefighter Chuck Harvey.[10]
Yates worked for WPHL-TV until December 31, 2004, after which she exited when contract renewal talks failed.[10] In July 2006, she was hired as New Jersey reporter for WABC-TV;[11] she had been living in New Jersey since her time at WGAL.[12]
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