Whilst capturing movies for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Health care Center, former area information anchor-reporter Michelle Hopkins wondered if she could get another Television set gig.

And she did.

Hopkins, who arrived to WCPO-Tv set in 1996 from WBNS-Tv set in Columbus, has been named a new co-host of WCPO-TV’s daytime Cincy Way of life present alongside with Pete Scalia and Cincinnati newcomer Mikhayla Hughes-Shaw, previous host of the Quad Cities’ Living Local method. Longtime hosts Clyde Gray and Mona Morrow still left the display in April.

“When I commenced hosting videos for the hospital — variety schooling and these relevant to the opening of the new important treatment setting up previous calendar year — I begun to assume about obtaining again into Television. So when the element-time possibility offered by itself at WCPO, it seemed like a great suit,” Hopkins claims.

For the previous 5-and-a-half yrs, Hopkins has completed community relations and communications at Kid’s Clinic. She also had worked at Mercy Health and fitness and the Hamilton County Group Motion Company following stints at WCPO-Television set (1996-98) and WLWT-Tv (2000-2010).

“I’m thrilled to be again accomplishing what I love. I look forward to connecting with viewers on the air in Cincinnati — all over again!”

Scalia joined the Cincy Way of life workforce a yr in the past as multimedia articles reporter and producer right after doing the job 10 many years at Columbus Television stations exactly where he was quite public about his critical rheumatoid arthritis. The Oak Hill Substantial Faculty graduate and Delhi Township indigenous has been a total-time host given that June 15.