Press Release from King World
New York Broadcaster Trish Bergin Joins "INSIDE EDITION" As Weekend Co-Anchor
New
York, NY…June 18, 2002…Trish Bergin, a familiar face to New
York area viewers, has been named Inside Edition's weekend co-anchor.
Bergin will begin her duties for the top-rated nationally syndicated
newsmagazine on August 12. The announcement was made today by Charles
Lachman, Executive Producer of Inside Edition.
"We're thrilled
to bring Trish to Inside Edition and share her talents with a national
audience," said Lachman.
On the weekends,
Bergin will join longtime Inside Edition weekend co-anchor Don Criqui.
She will also substitute for weekday anchor Deborah Norville when
Norville is on assignment or on vacation.
Bergin comes
to Inside Edition from News 12 Long Island, where she most recently
co-anchored the station's morning newscast. Previously, she had
anchored its weekend newscasts. Extensively reporting on issues
affecting Long Island, Bergin's work at News 12 Long Island has
garnered her two local Emmy Award nominations. In 2001, she was
nominated for uncovering uranium-tainted land in Hicksville, NY.
In 1999, she received a nomination for going undercover to expose
raves and teenage drug use in the highly regarded report "High School
Highs." In addition, along with ABC News' John Miller, she was the
first broadcaster on the scene of the TWA flight 800 crash.
In between
her tenures at News 12 Long Island, Bergin spent two years at WCBS-TV,
the CBS owned station in New York City. There, Bergin served as
a general assignment reporter and was a substitute anchor for its
morning newscast. Hired as a reporter by WLIG-TV in Long Island,
NY in 1994, Bergin was promoted to principal weeknight anchor after
only four weeks on the job. Prior to her work at WLIG, she hosted
a half-hour monthly magazine show for Cablevision's Long Island
One. After graduating from the New York Institute of Technology
in 1993, Bergin began her television career at Long Island News
Tonight.
King World Productions,
Inc. ranks among the premier production and distribution companies
in domestic television syndication. Its products include such landmark
first-run programs as Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, the two highest-rated
series in syndication, and daytime's #1 talk series, The Oprah Winfrey
Show, as well as Hollywood Squares, Inside Edition, The Ananda Lewis
Show, Martha Stewart Living, Bob Vila's Home Again and CBS Marketwatch
Weekend. Additionally, King World distributes the hit CBS network
series, Everybody Loves Raymond, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
and other primetime favorites. In September 2002, it will launch
the new, highly anticipated, daily syndicated series, Dr. Phil.
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