Cristina puig tv anchor tampa
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Telemundo's Tampa anchor hits her stride after hiatus
TAMPA
In her decadeslong career in television news, Cristina Puig has done it all.
As a reporter, Puig, 52, has sat in the BankUnited Center at the Billboard Latin Music Awards, drove through the wreckage of Hurricane Ike in Galveston, Texas, and served as a producer for one of the most watched Spanish-language news shows in the country, Enfoque with Jose Diaz-Balart.
Now, after a 14-year hiatus to raise her children, Puig has transitioned to the anchor chair for Telemundo Tampa's new local news broadcast Telenoticias.
"I never fathomed that I would start anchoring at this point in my life," she said.
Telenoticias has only been on the air for a little over a year, but Puig and her team have already built the nightly news program into Tampa Bay's most-watched Spanish news program, according to recent Nielsen ratings.
Puig jokes that she is the "senior journalist" among a news team that has many young reporters.
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Anchor Cristina Puig retires from Telemundo Tampa
Cristina Puig has anchored her last newscast at Telemundo Tampa.
She made an emotional on-air farewell, sharing she was retiring to start a new chapter in her life.
“I decided not to renew my contract as I am getting married and moving to Jupiter, FL and spending more time with my family. In the future I have plans to work on some causes that are near and dear to me,” she tells Media Moves.
But she’s not entirely calling it quits.
“I will remain active on the Advisory Board at the Zimmerman School of Communications for the University of South Florida.”
Her last day on the anchor desk was April 18.
Puig had been at Telemundo Tampa for a decade, initially joining the station when it was owned by ZGS.
She previously spent seven years as a freelance reporter for Univision, Telefutura, CNN en Espanol, WFOR and WPBF, among other news outlets.
Puig embarked on her journalism journey as a reporter at WL
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Telemundo Tampa has new anchor team
Telemundo 49 Tampa makes an addition and a promotion for its new weeknight anchor team.
Norma Ribeiro will anchor the 5 and 6 pm newscasts. She’ll join Samantha Diaz Roberts, who was upped to 5 pm anchor.
Ribeiro arrives to the Tampa station from KVEA Telemundo 52 Los Angeles, where she was a reporter and content creator since 2017. She previously spent 12 years as a reporter writer and content creator at Univision in Los Angeles. Prior to her move to the U.S., she also worked for Venevision in her native Venezuela.
Ribeiro has yet to make her anchor on-air debut.
Diaz robert has been a multimedia journalist for Telemundo 49 and regional streaming news channel Telemundo Noticias Florida since November 2021. She joined the station from Telemundo Las Vegas. She has also worked as an MMJ for Univision Atlanta and El Nuevo Día in her native Puerto Rico.
She and Ramón Díaz are currently anchoring all hållplats newscasts.
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