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Emmy Award-Winning Journalist Ron Corning Joins News 12 Long Island(PR Web Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Former ‘Good Day New York’ team, Ron Corning And Jodi Applegate reunited On News 12 Long Island. Woodbury, NY (PRWEB) November 19, 2009 –- News 12 Long Island today announced that news anchor Ron Corning will join its on-air team as co-anchor of evening newscasts with Jodi Applegate. Corning will debut on the News 12 Long Island anchor desk on Monday, November 23rd at 5:00 p.m. Corning and Applegate have worked together before; on WNYW-TV's popular morning show Good Day New York from 2006 to 2008. Said Patrick Dolan, President of News 12 Networks, “Ron Corning is a respected news anchor and we’re delighted to have him join the News 12 Long Island evening anchor team. He and Jodi Applegate have a great dynamic and I’m sure our viewers will enjoy seeing them working together again. Ron will be a tremendous addition to the News 12 Long Island team.” Corning has enjoyed a long and successful career in local news, first starting as a general assignment reporter for CBS affiliate WDTV in Bridgeport, West Virginia. He moved on to become a weekend anchor and reporter at WBOY, the NBC affiliate in Clarksburg, West Virginia, and then at WTOV in Steubenville, Ohio. Corning’s first foray into a major market was at Fox affiliate KTVI in St. Louis, Missouri, where he won an Emmy Award for Live Spot News Coverage in 1997 before joining Fox affiliate KCPQ in Seattle, Washington. Corning entered the national arena as a news anchor on the CW’s syndicated morning talk show, The Daily Buzz from 2002 to 2004. From 2004 to 2006, he co-anchored the ABC overnight news program World News Now and ABC’s World News This Morning and was a correspondent for Good Morning America. Corning graduated from Wheaton College in Massachusetts in 1993. Said Corning, “I know how much Long Islanders depend on News 12 for the kind of hyper-local news and information that is not available anywhere else, and I'm thrilled to be a part of such a well respected and valuable news operation.” News 12 Long Island (www.news12.com) is a cable exclusive service that is not available from satellite or phone company TV providers. News 12 Long Island currently reaches more than 800,000 households in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Launched in 1986, News 12 Long Island is part of News 12 Networks, the country's first, largest, and most watched 24-hour local television news network. The Network is made up of 7 individual local news channels serving the areas of Long Island, New Jersey, Southwestern Connecticut, Westchester County, the Hudson Valley, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. News 12 Networks is owned and operated by Cablevision Systems Corporation. Cablevision is one of the nation's leading entertainment and telecommunications companies. Its cable television operations serve 3 million households located in the New York metropolitan area. Cablevision owns a controlling interest and operates Madison Square Garden and its sports teams including the Knicks and Rangers. The company also operates New York's famed Radio City Music Hall and owns and operates Clearview Cinemas in the New York metropolitan area. ### Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/RonCorning/News12LongIsland/prweb3228814.htm. (c) 2009 PRWEB.COM Newswire |