KIRO Seattle's Ming Laven Anchors ‘CBS Weekend News’ May 2-3

KIRO Seattle anchor Monique Ming Laven will anchor CBS Weekend News May 2 and 3 from the station’s studio in Seattle. Affiliates and owned stations have been pitching in with the network’s weekend news with the CBS Broadcast Center in New York closed due to the pandemic.

A number of KIRO 7 staffers, including producers, directors and engineers, will work on the network’s evening newscast May 2-3.

Ming Laven co-anchors the news weekdays at 5, 6, 7 and 11 p.m. She joined KIRO 7 in 2006.

WGCL Atlanta’s anchors delivered CBS Evening News April 18-19.

Norah O’Donnell anchors CBS Evening News from Washington, D.C. weeknights.

Apollo Global Management owns CBS affiliate KIRO.

Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.