Fresno's ABC30 morning meteorologist Christina Gregory is leaving the station after nearly three years, becoming the fourth on-air personality to exit KFSN-TV in three months. Gregory announced she would depart the Disney-owned station and relocate to Buffalo, New York, to settle into a new home with her boyfriend.
Gregory, who joined Fresno's ABC30 in 2023, said the decision was incredibly difficult, choosing home over her career, according to the New York Post. She started her broadcast career in Rochester, New York, and was born and raised in Syracuse. “I love my work,” Gregory said, even as she prepares to step away from the anchor desk for a while.
A colleague, Jessica Harrington, described Gregory as sunshine in human form, per the same report. Gregory's departure follows three others at the station this summer: sports director Stephen Hicks, city hall and courts reporter Gabe Ferris, and weather anchor Tiffany Olin all left within a matter of weeks.
A Summer of Sign-Offs at Channel 30
Hicks announced on June 19 that his final sign-off would come a week later, ending an eight-year run leading “Bulldog Breakdown” and Friday Night Football coverage, according to The Business Journal. Hicks relocated to Southern California and married Hunter Sowards, also a television journalist, per the New York Post's reporting.
Ferris left ABC30 in mid-July, joining sister station WLS-TV, ABC7 in Chicago, as a general assignment reporter. He had joined KFSN from ABC News' Washington bureau in 2023 and was recognized as an American University 30 Under 30 journalism honoree, according to the same Business Journal report. The move took him from the nation's 55th-largest television market to its third-largest.
Weather anchor Tiffany Olin departed the station in August 2026 for a weekday weather position at Fox affiliate KVVU FOX5 in Las Vegas, according to NewsBlues, where she now anchors the 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. newscasts. Las Vegas represents Market #40, another step up from Fresno.
Why Fresno Is a Launching Pad, Not Just a Newsroom
KFSN-TV is owned and operated by Disney Entertainment Television through ABC Owned Television Stations, making Fresno the smallest television market in the country with a Big Four network owned-and-operated station, according to background compiled from Wikipedia. The Fresno-Visalia designated market area ranks 55th nationally for the 2024-2025 broadcast season, reaching 636,260 TV households across six Central California counties, per the ratings tracker USTVDB.
That combination makes Fresno a rare feeder market: talent can move directly from a mid-size Disney-owned station into the company's largest-market operations. Disney appointed Martin Ortiz as president and general manager of KFSN-TV ABC30 in October 2024, promoting him from news director to oversee all linear and multiplatform operations for the station, according to ABC Owned Television Stations press materials.
Local observer Cory James said the back-to-back departures amounted to a double whammy for the newsroom, per the New York Post. One social media user went further, comparing the wave of exits to the break-up of the Beatles, the Post reported.
Turnover Isn't New to Fresno Television
The New York Post's reporting notes that TV news contracts typically run two to three years, a cycle that tends to concentrate departures. Fresno experienced similar clusters of turnover in 2019 and again in 2022-2023, according to the same report, suggesting the current exodus fits a recurring pattern rather than a singular crisis at one station.
The shakeup isn't confined to ABC30. Across town at KMPH Fox 26, longtime anchor Kim Stephens left after 23 years on air, stepping away from the morning show “Great Day,” which she helped launch in 2003 alongside weatherman Kopi Sotiropulos, according to TV Shows Ace. Sotiropulos retired in March 2026, leaving the program without either of its founding anchors.
Stephens accepted a full-time tenure-track assistant professor position with Fresno State University's Media, Communications and Journalism Department, where she had served as an adjunct lecturer since 2015, per the same outlet. The parallel exits at a competing station point to a broader generational shift underway across Fresno's local news scene, even as KMPH's parent company, Sinclair Broadcast Group, has separately explored selling off dozens of stations nationwide, according to the Business Journal.
For now, KFSN has not detailed replacement plans for Gregory, Ferris, Olin or Hicks. A union job listing for a weather anchor position at the station specified SAG-AFTRA pay rates between $36.06 and $50.48 per hour plus shift differential pay, according to Zippia, offering a rare glimpse into what it might take to fill the newly emptied chairs.
