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KITV Island News Director Mike Darrah has announced a new lineup of news anchor teams.
“We are very proud of our current staff who have stepped up to new positions, and we welcome some new talent,” Darrah said Friday.
New to the KITV news team is Priscilla Luong, who anchors KITV Island News weekends at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. Luong was an anchor/reporter in Oklahoma City and Milwaukee.
Starting late July, Lindsey (Adams) Fukano will co-anchor “Good Morning Hawaii.” Fukano is an anchor at ABC affiliate KERO in Bakersfield, Calif.
KITV reporter Maleko McDonnell, who hosts “Maleko’s Room” on iHeart radio station Star 101.9 in the afternoon, will lead “Good Morning Hawaii” every weekday starting Tuesday. McDonnell is a graduate of Saint Louis School in Honolulu and Northwest Missouri State University.
KITV’s Mike Cherry moves from morning news to evenings. Cherry, an Emmy-winning journalist, graduated from Maui High School and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He begins his new position Monday as co-anchor with veteran journalist Yunji de Nies.
Cherry, de Nies, sports director Robert Kekaula and meteorologist Pete Caggiano take the reins of Hawaii’s only one-hour evening newscasts at 6 and 10 p.m. Paula Akana and de Nies will anchor the
5 p.m. news with Caggiano.