A Longtime KABC-7 News Team Member Is Retiring

She’s been a familiar pre-dawn face for those who chose to start their mornings with KABC-7 in Los Angeles for years, and first joined the ABC Owned Stations property in 1994. Now, she’s saying farewell to local TV news after more than three decades behind the anchor desk and out in the field.

Leslie Sykes has “decided to retire,” the station said of its veteran pre-Good Morning America news anchor on Wednesday (8/27).

She first joined KABC-TV as a reporter, before taking a key role delivering Eyewitness News at 4am, 5am and 6am in one of the nation’s most competitive local TV news marketplaces for an early-morning information injection…

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