Mark Zinni debuted as the new 5:30PM co-anchor on WFSB the CBS affiliate in Hartford Connecticut last week. Zinni is a former anchor at WPRI here in Providence.
Zinni and meteorologist Michelle Muscatello launched channel 12's weekend morning show back in the early 2000's. The pair was promoted to anchoring the weekday morning show with Pamela Watts later that decade.
Zinni left WPRI in 2009 to return home to Cleveland where he started another weekend morning show for FOX8 news. Zinni made national headlines at WJW when Today Show anchor Matt Lauer tweeted at him after hearing Zinni may not have found him friendly during Zinni's internship with the Today Show.
Zinni also battled Thyroid Cancer while working at FOX8. WFSB welcomed Zinni last week with a packaged story highlighting Zinni's career, charity work, and his personal life. FLTV reported that it was a history making story because it introduced Zinni as gay. However many chastised the article pointing out that several stations have openly discussed gay anchors personal lives including WFSB.
Click here to see a weekend evening newscast Zinni anchored in 2003, it is a pretty cool look back and even uses video from WPRI's old helicopter.
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