The Morning Exchange - Former Staffs

Former Staffs

• Fred Griffith moved to rival station WKYC in 2000 to become a commentator on a daily segment, "15 minutes with Fred." Eventually, he became the co-host of two successive MX style shows: 30-minute long Studio 3, which then became the hour-long Good Company. Fred retired from the television business in 2012. (Good Company was later reformatted into Live on Lakeside, incorporating the station's existing noon newscast.)

• Robin Swoboda became anchor of the 6 p.m. newscasts on WEWS in 1999, was a morning host on Cleveland Christian music station WFHM FM 95.5 from 2002-2005, and hosted a MX style show on Fox affiliate WJW called The Robin Swoboda Show (originally That's Life) from 2007-2011. She's now co-anchor of the 7 p.m. newscasts on WKYC.

• Joel Rose died in 2000 after committing suicide.

• Lee Jordan has been a news anchor at WEWS since 1994 (currently co-anchoring the 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts).

• David Moss and Lou Maglio remain with WJW to this day as both the station's entertainment reporter and lead 6 p.m. anchor, respectively. Since 2011, David has also served as co-host of New Day Cleveland, an MX style show that replaced The Robin Swoboda Show.

• Jon Loufman would join WKYC as their morning meteorologist, joined WJW in 1999 for weekend duty, and moved to WOIO/WUAB in 2004 for mornings, and eventually, weekends.

• Mark Johnson worked his way up to chief meteorologist (scoring the AMS Certified and NWA seals of approval along the way) at WEWS, and appears on all weeknight newscasts.

• Connie Dieken, for a time, was an anchor on WEWS' noon newscasts before going into freelance work.

• Liz Richards and Jan Jones have both retired from the broadcasting business.