95.5 WSB morning news anchor Marcy Williams has announced she’ll retire from the Atlanta news/talk station later this week.
After 31 years with the station, Williams — a 2023 Gracie Award winner for best local news anchor — will exit the station on Friday, April 28th.
“I’ve spent 30 years as the first female co-anchor of Atlanta’s Morning News,” Williams said. “With a little back-of-the-envelope math, I calculate I’ve written more than 300,000 stories over those three decades. Now it’s time for me to write a new chapter.
“It’s very unusual in this business to be part of one broadcast team for so long. I’m gratified to have been a member of this outstanding newsroom. Now I’m graduating to join our audience as a full-time 95.5 WSB news consumer.”
Williams joined the station originally as an overnight news anchor before joining Scott Slade on Atlanta’s Morning News. The program recently announced Chris Chandler will helm the show after Slade’s departure.
“Marcy is one of the very best, a great writer and a great storyteller,” said 95.5 WSB Director of Branding and Programming Ken Charles. “She’s been a bedrock of the morning news on WSB for 31 years and will be greatly missed by our team and our listeners.”
“Marcy has been a leader and an example in our newsroom for more than three decades,” added 95.5 WSB News Director Amanda Moyer. “Her recent Gracie Award win is the perfect cap to her long tenure at WSB as the first, and to this day, the only female lead news anchor on Atlanta’s Morning News. She will be deeply missed, but our loss is her granddaughter’s gain.”
