Weekends will never be the same.
When you do what I do for a living, the people who deliver the news get to almost like family. For more than three decades, my news highlights every Saturday and Sunday were delivered by the same face.
That would be the perpetually congenial Rob Jennings.
Not anymore. After 36 years, Jennings is hanging up his mike. His last shows were Sunday night.
Jennings had a soothing delivery that could make even the worst story seem comfortable, and of course he had perfected the Channel 6 trademark - delivering the "Big Story," very often an update on the weather.
There was something reassuring on the weekends, when lots of people are off, in seeing Jennings week after week on the job getting us through another Saturday and Sunday. And to think that he did it for more than three decades in a business that chews up talen and spits it out one ratings period at a time, is special.
The really big story on Action News this weekend? A very familiar part of our lives is gone.
All the best, Rob.
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