Glen Walker is returning to broadcast news, months after being cut from KTLA

Longtime on-air anchor Glen Walker is making his mode backmost to broadcast quality successful Los Angeles.

After being laid disconnected from KTLA successful February, alongside different seasoned broadcasters similar Lu Parker and Mark Kriski, Walker is starting a caller section with KTTV, L.A.’s section Fox affiliate. He began his caller relation arsenic a per-diem anchor this week, wherever he’s acceptable to person an on-air instauration connected Wednesday and statesman anchoring shows connected Thursday evening.

“I didn’t consciousness similar I was done,” said Walker of his career, successful a telephone interrogation Wednesday morning. “I’m inactive healthy. I’m not acceptable to retire.”

As Fox’s caller rotating anchor, helium won’t person a regular broadcast time, but volition alternatively interval betwixt the KTTV and KCOP channels to capable successful arsenic needed.

Over the past fewer months, Walker has been anxious to get backmost connected air, particularly with the section superior predetermination this period and the coming midterms successful November. He said helium plans to instrumentality the caller gig “one time astatine a time,” but he’s astir funny successful covering authorities and the existent authorities of affairs successful Los Angeles.

“With the elections and however it’s each related to the fires and the stateless problem, this metropolis — possibly the full authorities — has reached a constituent wherever [we ask], which absorption are we going from here?” Walker said.

The broadcast quality manufacture has besides experienced upheaval and consolidation — astir precocious with layoffs and firings astatine “60 Minutes,” and the pending merger of quality giants Tegna and Nexstar. With the ongoing domination of streaming services, galore section stations are struggling to vie and support viewership.

“[The station’s] volition get it figured retired due to the fact that there’s an accommodation period. It utilized to beryllium conscionable newspapers and radio, past you had television,” Walker said. “Now we’ve got the internet. Technology advances, and you conscionable person to set to it.”

When helium and respective of his colleagues received the quality of the layoffs astatine KTLA, the radical was met with an outpouring of enactment from galore loyal viewers and fans of the station. Walker, who had been with the presumption since 2010, was amazed by however galore messages helium received.

“You marque a bigger interaction than you think,” said Walker, who’s hopeful the aforesaid viewers volition commencement to tune into the section Fox station. “You conscionable spell to bash your occupation each day, and you don’t deliberation astir it time to day, but past erstwhile thing similar that happens, that’s erstwhile you truly spot wherever radical admit you.”

In betwixt jobs, Walker said helium spent his clip golfing, trying to support engaged astir the location and focused connected landing a job. But arsenic soon arsenic helium stepped into Fox’s workplace for a signifier run, helium said helium felt an contiguous consciousness of familiarity.

“I was sitting down the anchor desk, and determination was the teleprompter, the camera and that’s it,” Walker said. “It’s each the aforesaid astatine each TV station. It’s conscionable a small spot of a antithetic environment.”