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KLAS Channel 8 news anchor Dayna Roselli emcees a fashion show to benefit HELP of Southern Nevada at Fashion Show mall on Oct. 2, 2011.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 | 4:17 p.m.
Dayna Roselli, an eight-year reporter and anchor at KLAS Channel 8 and one of the city’s more prominent and popular media figures, has left the station. Her final broadcast was Monday morning.
Today, the station announced that a new morning team of Las Vegas newcomers Cale Ramaker and Shauna Khorrami would begin anchoring the 4 to 7 a.m. newscast beginning July 30. They will join weather anchor Sherry Swensk and traffic reporters Brian Loftus (who anchored this morning's newscast) and Ken Smith on the telecast. Ramaker arrives from WOFL-TV in Orlando, Fla., and also worked at KSTP-TV in St. Paul/Minneapolis; WSYM-TV, Lansing, Mich.; and WHO-TV in Des Moines, Iowa. Khorrami worked at KSTU-TV in Salt Lake City and KTLA in Los Angeles.
In the interim, KLAS News Director Ron Comings said reporters Jessica Lovell and Patranya Bhoolsuwan would fill in most of the morning newscasts.
In an e-mail message, Comings indicated that the decision was the station's and was owed to an effort to increase KLAS's morning ratings. He wrote:
"We appreciate Dayna's dedication and hard work over the past eight years. We wish her much success in the future. We are not satisfied with our position in the mornings, and that has led us to some difficult decisions. This is one of several changes we are making to better serve our morning viewers."
Reached this afternoon via text, Roselli said she could not comment at this time about her departure from Channel 8 and can't talk about the move until she speaks with her agent. Her bio on the station’s official website was no longer active as of this morning.
A native of Rochester, N.Y., Roselli started as a traffic reporter at KLAS in 2004 and gravitated toward a mix of entertainment and local news reporting when Dave McCann and she joined the station’s morning team in 2008. She signed a contract extension in September. In May, amid a highly publicized sendoff, McCann left the station for a job as lead anchor at KSL-TV in Salt Lake City. Another longtime member of the KLAS broadcast team, Calvert Collins, left this month for the Fox affiliate in Dallas.
The suddenness of Roselli's move is reflected in her tweet after signing her new deal at Channel 8, as she told her followers, "Just signed a new contract at @8NewsNow, you're stuck w/me #Vegas! I'm honored 2 work 4 such a respectable news station in the city I love."
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Well that's a real shame. Enjoyed watching her and the always unflappable Dave McCann in the early morning hours. Good luck to Dayna!
The new male anchor is Cale Ramaker, not Hamaker. This can be verified with KLAS.
Thanks for the catch, diogenes1. Story has been corrected.
WOW, Dana and Dave were the only reason to only watch Channel 8 every monring. Dave left and I still tuned in and now they dump Dana? What kind of idiots are working there? She and Sherri were all they had left.
Why did they can Dayna? Especially so soon after she'd signed a new contract. She was a breath of fresh air and will be missed.
And who are these new dorks? Why don't they give the job permanently to Jessica Lovell? She's been great the few times she's anchored and did an excellent job when she was a weekend morning anchor on Ch. 13 a few yrs ago.
When will channel 3 clean house,it is long over due? I have no idea how channel 5 10:00 p.m. news exists, not a one of these announcers can pronounce words correctly or complete two sentences without a major mistake,it actually drives one crazy to watch these fools.
Dayna and that morning team were really good, imho.
However, I do remember the piece on Dayna's husband getting the "Husband of the Year" award, from her nominating him. Then recently, I see no ring on her finger while on air. Besides the obvious, I always wondered about that. Hopefully that has nothing to do with all of this.
This is to bad that they let Dayna go. She is a fun and entertaining lady.
Hopefully she lands a good spot here in Vegas. Would hate to see her leave town.
Dayna was let go because our society is one that watches the "pretty people" of the world. Channel 3 has dominated the ratings with the pretty people fluff starting with the Wagners in the morning.
Channel 8 unfortunately has figured out that they need to fight fire with fire.
Dayna wasn't blond enough.
The title of your article makes one believe that Dayna's "leaving" was an action that SHE took. Actually it appears, she was terminated (a nice way to say fired). Apparently longevity doesn't count for much in this market. As for not being pretty, whoever thinks that must get their eyes checked.
Hopefully Dayna will get a great position elsewhere soon. Channel 3 isn't the place to go though. With all the rotations at that station over the years it's quite apparent that Jim Rogers isn't a favorite for those whom have worked there. I've never heard a positive thing about J.R. from anyone I knew that worked there.
Good Luck Dayna, you'll be missed.
Looks like it's time for me to change channels.
They should keep Jessica and Brian as a team or Jessica and Ken. Dayna wasn't a very personable person but I would love to know why they signed her to a new contract then canned her. Does this mean she can not appear on the air in LV for 1 year or 2.
Homer, your comment was dead on. This is a town of personalities not journalists. I have talked/worked withpeople who worked at Channel 3 and not one nice thing to say about Jim. When I watch channel 5 it's like watching a college tv station. All that is missing is the KEG.
I am glad Channel 8 is making a change to their morning news. It is way overdue. There is a huge difference between reading the news off a teleprompter and reporting the news. I felt like the news was being read to me when I watched Channel 8. I felt like Dayna thought of herself too much as a celebrity and she just showed up to read the teleprompter every morning. Now if they get rid of Sherry Swensk, then I will stop watching. Looking forward to the changes.
You people still watch TV? You are so pre-historic.
Welcome to the Information Age.
I vote for Marie Mortera at channel 3
Channel 8 is wack! They are letting all the good people go. The Wagners on channel 3 make me sick! Kim Wagner's winey voice is disgusting, and channel 13 is too prissy.
Time to stop watching the news. It's all bad anyway. Letting go of Dayna is a huge mistake. You will lose a lot of viewers.The only good anchor they have left is Chris Saldana.
Working for Jim Rogers would make the best journalist throw in the towel. Demanding owner, strange obsession with car cleanliness and moved doors all over the place by just a few inches. Really weird about allowing people to have drinks in the newsroom. Absolutely miserable place to work. Dayna will get a better paying, more respectable job in PR or for the city...we all did
I thought KLAS was different in the way they treat departing workers after the HUGE send off for Roselli's co-host, but apparently not. I would suggest Ms. Roselli takes this time to work on her voice and delivery. She has a VERY strong nasal vocal tone that would unnerve me whenever she was on air, and there were instances of split-ting tele prompter words (although I've noticed this in several Las Vegas reporters as they struggle with the same problem.) As for letting Ms. Roselli go, there are several other KLAS staffers that should have been "retired" from their duties years ago. Maybe Ms. Roselli's departure is a path to providing Las Vegas with better talent on air at all stations......
unlv702 is right. who really watches tv anymore especially local?
Dayna was the ONLY reason I watched news in the morning. Congrats to whoever at channel 8 let her go. I won't watch any more. I hope you are happy.
Oh, and to TeamSG1, you either have a poor signal to your TV or you need to get your eyes checked buddy.
Dayna seemed to be full of herself, she definetly needed to learn how to dress. some of those outfits hurts the eyes. And yes, Jessica Lovell should be promoted and take the spot. She is good looking and delivers the news in a welcoming manor.
Sorry to see Dana leave. She was great and I wish her much success in her new endeavor. Lets hope it is in Las Vegas.
I retired about a year and a half ago but, even when I was working and had to be at work at 5:30AM, I turned on ch8 to watch Dave and Dana. Adding Sheri to the mix and Ken and now Brian, I thought you guys had the perfect team. Now each day I don't know what to expect but there hasn't been the same chemistry since.
I understand Dave's leaving made a change but Dayna was still a great fit. Since I turn to Ch3 at 7AM, I guess I may have to start earlier with Wake Up with the Wagners!
I wish Dayna good luck and hopefully she will find a station here in Las Vegas so I can find a new station to watch. I have been very disappointed in the early morning news casters, they try to be interactive but it just doesn't work.
Rudeness and ignorance are inevitably combined when I read mean and hurtful comments that are made about someone who the writer does not know, and more than likely has spent little or no time trying to discover. It is so much easier to accept comments or insults directed at me, but when the target is a friend, I feel compelled to respond. You may quite well have advanced Degrees in Broadcast Journalism,and differ as to who should or should not be on the Morning programming on Channel 8. This gives you no license to engage in cruel,hurtful and disparaging comments. You disgrace yourself as you engage in such activity. If you knew Dayna, you might see the serious mistake you have made.
Michael P. Whelan