{"id":2045091,"date":"2025-09-24T00:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2045091"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:39:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:39:00","slug":"leslie-sykes-signs-off-as-abc-eyewitness-news-morning-anchor-after-3-decades-in-los-angeles-media-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/leslie-sykes-signs-off-as-abc-eyewitness-news-morning-anchor-after-3-decades-in-los-angeles-media-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Sykes Signs Off as ABC \u2018Eyewitness News\u2019 Morning Anchor After 3 Decades in Los Angeles Media | Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ABC Eyewitness News anchor Leslie Sykes<\/a> signed off from the desk on Tuesday, surrounded by longtime co-workers who celebrated the Compton, California, native\u2019s long run as Kabc morning<\/a> anchor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is so hard to believe that this is my last day on this set,\u201d Sykes<\/a> said. \u201cIt\u2019s been the privilege of my life to wake up with you and to share your stories and to be welcomed into your homes every morning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sykes began her broadcast career in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, joining the Channel 7<\/a> news crew in Los Angeles as a reporter in 1994. She was later promoted to morning anchor, and announced her plans to retire last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABC Eyewitness News anchor Leslie Sykes signed off from the desk on Tuesday, surrounded by longtime co-workers who celebrated the Compton, California, native\u2019s long run as Kabc morning anchor. \u201cIt is so hard to believe that this is my last day on this set,\u201d Sykes said. \u201cIt\u2019s been the privilege of my life to wake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2045092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2045091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Leslie-Sykes-Signs-Off-as-ABC-\u2018Eyewitness-News-Morning-Anchor.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2045092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}