![https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=46W5P4_0riAaj7x00](https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&url=46W5P4_0riAaj7x00)
A Metamora native and 2016 graduate of Bradley University has assumed the role of evening anchor for Peoria's NBC affiliate.
Jenise Rebholz started Monday as WEEK-TV's new anchor for their 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts, moving over from her role as the station's breaking news reporter for their late news and anchoring their hour-long 4 p.m. newscast, along with HOI ABC's 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. newscasts.
She replaces Amber Krycka, who had been with the station since 2020, when she joined veteran anchor Tyler Lopez for their evening newscasts. Krycka's last broadcast was on Feb. 16, leaving to return to her home state of Michigan.
Rebholz has been with WEEK/HOI since 2016, right after she graduated from Bradley, beginning as a producer and reporter before taking on more duties as an anchor beginning in 2020. She won a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for best social media presence in 2019 and helped the station win a Crystal Mic award for best newscast from the Illinois News Broadcasters Association in 2021.
Rebholz also serves as a small business owner, running Copilot Clothing Co., which specializes in providing unique clothes for young children and their families.
The station's news director, Leon Hendricks, said that Rebholz's local ties played a big role in her elevation to evening anchor.
"She understands the viewers and the area, and the area understands her," Hendricks said. "That makes her the most valuable asset we have here (with) her ability to understand the area and she's from the area."
Hendricks noted that she brings a unique expertise from her days as a producer and a reporter on the station's newscasts. In addition, he said that she works as a mentor for the station's young multimedia journalists.
"We're really lucky to have her here in our newsroom to make sure that the integrity and our future is safe here in central Illinois," Hendricks said.
Lopez will serve as her co-anchor, having joined the station in 2015 after the retirement of venerable anchor Tom McIntyre. The two have worked together on HOI's 6:30 p.m. newscast.
The station's longtime chief meteorologist, Chuck Collins, and sports anchor, Jim Mattson, will continue in their current roles.
WEEK has been the area's primary NBC affiliate since they first came on the air in 1953. They took over operations of ABC-affiliated WHOI in 2009, with the network's programming moving onto a digital substation of WEEK in 2016.
Comments / 0