{"id":351314,"date":"2025-11-02T23:14:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T23:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/351314\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T23:14:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T23:14:45","slug":"paramount-lays-off-top-dallas-fort-worth-area-tv-anchor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/351314\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount lays off top Dallas-Fort Worth-area TV anchor"},"content":{"rendered":"

A beloved and established anchor in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex<\/a> announced this week that she was laid off by her parent company. Nicole Baker, who co-anchored nightly newscasts for KTVT (CBS Texas) in Fort Worth<\/a>, revealed the news of her dismissal to her social media followers Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

“After more than 12 years as an on-air journalist and more than seven years with the company, I was impacted by yesterday’s sweeping layoffs at Skydance Paramount via CBS News,” Baker wrote on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Paramount laid off 1,000 workers nationwide<\/a> on Thursday as part of a plan to cut $2 billion in expenses across the company.<\/p>\n

Baker became co-anchor of the 5\u00a0p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. CBS 11 newscasts with Doug Dunbar in 2022. CBS 11 transitioned to the new branding of CBS Texas in February 2023, and the station dropped its 6 p.m. newscast in August 2023<\/a>. A 7 p.m. newscast from sister station KTXA started in September of that year. Dunbar remains with CBS Texas as an evening co-anchor.<\/p>\n

Born and raised in Philadelphia, Baker graduated from Spellman College in Atlanta, Ga., and previously worked at WJZ in Baltimore, WJCL in Savannah, Ga., and WJFW 12 in Rhinelander, Wis.<\/p>\n

Baker said on social media that after three-and-a-half years at CBS Texas, she “is so excited because I know who is holding the pen. He can see what I cannot and I trust in that.”<\/p>\n

“I’m more than grateful for the time to recalibrate and rejuvenate myself from the inside out while I figure out what comes next,” Baker added.<\/p>\n

CBS Texas has already wiped Baker’s biography off its website’s staff page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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