Say it ain’t so, Glo!
Gloria Neal, a fixture in Denver radio and television, is leaving our fair city to take a job as the morning news anchor at CBS-affiliate WGCL in Atlanta.
On Tuesday, Neal posted on her Facebook page: “Where do I begin? I have always said that time brings change and to go against time … is like going against life. There are no words Colorado. With ears full of tears, a heavy heart and a strong spirit, I fly….”
Honey, hush.
After making her mark on local radio, Neal was hired “temporarily” in 2008 as a morning news correspondent on CBS4.
In a message to the staff, CBS4 News Director Tim Wieland said: “Back in 2008, I asked Gloria Neal if she might be interested in doing a daily segment for CBS4 Morning News on some of the stories surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Three or four weeks only. An ‘experiment’ to see how she liked working on morning television. Three or four weeks turned into eight years at CBS4 – a wonderful ‘experiment’ that led to so many memorable interviews, stories and news segments.”
According to her boss here, it’s an opportunity she “couldn’t pass up.”
By phone from Atlanta, Glo said, “Man plans and God laughs.” She was “stunned when they called me. I love Colorado, it’s going to be so hard … (leaving) but it’s also a great opportunity. (Atlanta) is a huge market. I’ve been here many times.” Her husband has clients there.
She sounds amazed that the Atlanta CBS folks want her as “a morning show anchor in the way that I want to anchor news, which is not the traditional way.” She calls it “the opportunity of a lifetime.”
Neal credits CBS4 management for trusting her with a break 10 years ago, and has no anger toward the radio business which kicked her around: “I am the better for it,” she said. “I grew a lot in Colorado.”
Her last day on the air in Denver will be mid-late May.
A veteran of Clear Channel radio in Denver (she did afternoons on KOA), and of progressive talk radio KKZN, as well as entertainment shows on the FM side, the multimedia journalist Neal landed well in TV, making appearances on national panels as well as the local CBS station. She has been active in local community organizations for years, among them the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce, The Women’s Foundation, The Association for Women in Communications and The Mile High United Way, as well as national groups including the National Association of Black Journalists.
Hate to see you go, Glo, but best of luck in Hotlanta.
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