Former KTLA newscaster Glen Walker returns to LA TV news on KTTV and KCOP
More than three months after KTLA cut Glen Walker as the station’s midday anchor, the longtime Los Angeles newscaster returns to the airwaves on Wednesday, June 10, as a roving anchor on KTTV and KCOP, Fox TV’s two Los Angeles stations.
“They hired me as a per-diem anchor,” Walker said when reached Tuesday, June 9, at the Fox Television Center in West Los Angeles. “They’ve got a lot going on.
“Let’s see, they do the 5, 6, and a 10 on Fox 11,” he continued, ticking off the different newscasts where he’ll appear on KTTV Channel 11. “They do an 8 and a 9 o’clock on Channel 13 [KCOP].
“So I’ll be rotating between the two different channels wherever they need me.”
Walker was told on Feb. 24 that he no longer had a job at KTLA, where he had worked since 2010. His co-anchor Lu Parker and longtime KTLA meteorologist Mark Kriski also lost their jobs that day.
“Let me get someplace where I can talk,” Walker said after answering the phone on Tuesday. “This new building, I’m like all twisted around. I can’t believe how big this place is.”
On Wednesday, June 10, he’ll be introduced to viewers on the 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts. Then, on Thursday, June 11, he’ll slip back behind the anchor desk and get back to work.
“I’m going to anchor, let’s see, I think the 6 o’clock news on Fox 11, the 8 and the 9 on 13,” Walker said of his Thursday schedule. “Then Friday night, I do the 5 and the 10 on Fox 11. Actually, I’m not sure yet.”
If that kind of ever-changing schedule makes you nervous just to read it, Walker didn’t sound concerned about the calendar he’ll need to keep track of things.
“Yeah, the assistant news director does a great job of providing one,” Walker said. “I’ll just have to mark them all on a calendar. But it’s great to be back to work. I started yesterday, just a lot of paperwork and HR and all that stuff, so I’m ready to go.”
Late Monday, Walker posted a photograph taken as he left Fox 11 on Monday and posted it to social media with the caption, “Next chapter begins.” Friends, viewers, and colleagues at both KTLA and KTTV posted congratulations and best wishes.
“A lot of those comments were from my former colleagues at KTLA, which was really nice,” Walker said. Already, he’s run into a handful of people he worked with at KTLA and before that, KCBS in the Fox 11 building, making his arrival there a welcoming one.
“What’s funny is that I come in here [and] it was two people I knew really well,” he said. “Soumada Khan, does the weather on the morning show. She used to go on our assignment desk way back when I started at KTLA.
“Then Dianne Sanchez worked on the assignment desk there. Should have gotten the promotion to be the head of the assignment desk. When they brought in someone else, she came over here. She’s awesome.”
Having worked the daily rush of TV news for so many years, Walker said he was restless through the weeks and months between leaving KTLA and landing the new gig at the Fox stations.
“Let’s just put it this way: I like golf, but I don’t want to play four days a week,” he said. “I was definitely not ready to retire, you know. The other place wanted to give me, as they said, ‘the sendoff that you deserve.’
“But I’m like, I didn’t die.”
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