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After 19 years, Jennifer Blome and Art Holliday have their co-anchoring routine down pat. In August, they started their 20th year as anchors of KSDK-TV's "Today in St. Louis" morning news show.
"I was well into a sportscasting career that I thought was going quite well at the time," says Holliday, who came to KSDK in August 1979. "I really felt like I was starting to reach my potential, and I got called in to the general manager's office. He said we were going to make some changes in our morning newscast, and he wanted me to sit on the news desk with Jennifer Blome. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but it's probably one of the best things that's happened in my career."
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Blome, who had joined KSDK in December 1979, had been anchoring the show alone, from its inception in 1983, with two years off in the early years to anchor the noon and 5 p.m. newscasts. Before joining KSDK, she covered weather at WTVG-TV in Toledo.
After arriving in St. Louis to do weekend weather, she kept asking to anchor and the bosses kept saying no. After she hitchhiked to work during a blizzard, she got to anchor by virtue of being the only person there. "Blizzards have been good to me," Blome says.
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