The two well-known news anchors announced their retirement on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at the end of a FOX 2 News segment that evening as their fellow co-anchors, FOX 2 Sports Director Dan Miller and FOX 2’s Chief Meteorologist Rich Luterman, looked on.
The duo will be on the anchor desk for several more weeks and will end their tenure officially on Friday, March 25.
“Before we go, some breaking personal news tonight, after 40-plus years in broadcasting and 32 years here at FOX 2, I’ve decided to retire at the end of March,” Perkins said during the broadcast. “I have had a wonderful career. I’ve had a wonderful career, and I thank all you for your support. I am grateful for my family, my wife Priscilla, and our sons, Jared and Vincent. And I’m also grateful to my FOX 2 family, the people you see on TV and also the people behind the scenes — who make it all possible,” according to the news article.
“And I also want to thank the woman with whom I’ve shared this anchor desk — for more than two decades, my friend, Monica Gayle, who has an announcement of her own.”
“I have been so honored and blessed to share this desk with you,” Gayle said during the show. “I could not ask for a better co-anchor, and it just feels very right that we go out together as a team. I have been so honored and blessed to share this desk with you, my friend. This year I am celebrating 40 memorable years in television news. Twenty-five of those wonderful years have been right here with you at FOX 2. I couldn’t ask for a better co-anchor and it just feels very right that we go out together as a team. We’ve had a pretty amazing run.
“I too, am forever grateful to my husband Dean and our son Tanner, for being my biggest cheerleaders. Both of our families have been our anchors at home, so we could do what we do here every night.”
Perkins and Gayle have broke numerous news stories over the past 25 years, which include six presidential elections, the 2008 recession, the COVID-19 pandemic and much more along the way, according to the report.
The dynamic news duo initially teamed up as co-anchors in 1997.
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