Curt Menefee, “Fox NFL Sunday” host and co-anchor of WNYW\/ 5’s “Good Day New York,” announced Tuesday he’ll drop the Ch.\u00a05 role on Dec. 19.<\/p>\n
“Wanted to make a little personal news,” Menefee said on the show just before 7:30 Tuesday morning. “January will be two years since I’ve been doing ‘Good Day New York’, but I’m not coming back in 2026,” he said.<\/p>\n
A surprise, indeed, just as his original appointment was. Menefee, 60, joined Ch. 5’s long-running morning franchise in 2024 as a replacement for Bianca Peters, who went off to anchor other Ch. 5 programs. Menefee, an Atlanta native who lived in California where he’d hosted Fox’s pregame show since 2007, had once co-anchored the station’s 10 p.m. broadcast, also alongside Rosanna Scotto. But still … six days a week, and constant cross country travel as a bonus?<\/p>\n
At the time, Menefee shrugged off the travel issue, saying in a statement), “This full circle moment is a dream come true. There\u2019s no place like New York. No place. I can\u2019t wait to get back to the energy of the city, the culture, the restaurants, the people, everything that makes it the greatest city in the world.”<\/p>\n
In fact, his transition to daily anchoring appeared seamless. But Tuesday morning, he acknowledged the reality \u2014 that cross-country travel is indeed brutal week after week, especially when you’ve also got a much bigger Sunday job to attend to.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday’s edition, he said “this is the life I’ve chosen \u2014 I’m not complaining \u2014 but at some point you’ve got to make an adjustment.”<\/p>\n
“It’s been a great time. The staff has been wonderful. You have been welcoming. It’s just the back and forth. I think a lot of people know, I’ve stayed on the west coast, [and] go out and do ‘Fox NFL Sunday’ which I’ll continue to do. You’ll just catch me on Fox Sports on the weekends and not Monday through Friday.”<\/p>\n
Victoria Gurrieri, Ch. 5.’s spokesperson, said an “internal and external search is underway” to find his replacement.<\/p>\n
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\n\tVerne Gay is Newsday’s TV writer and critic. He has covered the media business for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Curt Menefee, “Fox NFL Sunday” host and co-anchor of WNYW\/ 5’s “Good Day New York,” announced Tuesday he’ll…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,11776],"class_list":["post-66074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-tv-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}