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Longtime Orlando anchor to retire

By The MixDex Wire

After 40 years in broadcasting, WFTV anchor and personality Martie Salt has announced she will retire Dec. 13, 2019.

  • Salt first joined in 1981 as a reporter after working briefly at the market’s affiliate, WESH.
  • In 1984 she was promoted to anchor alongside Bob Opsahl, creating a powerhouse team that dominated local ratings.
  • Salt left WFTV in 1994 for WFTS in Tampa, where she anchored under her married name, Martie Tucker.
  • In 2003 she returned to WFTV and was reunited with Opsahl at the anchor desk.
  • In 2015, former crosstown anchor Martha Sugalski joined the station in a high profile move, which displaced Salt.
  • WFTV reassigned her to the noon as well making her the station’s community ambassador under its “9 Family Connection” banner.
  • Sugalski anchored the station’s 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts, as well as its 10 p.m. on sister station WRDQ alongside Opsahl.
  • Opsahl retired in May 2015, with morning anchor Greg Warmoth replacing him.

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