Cheryl McHenry has introduced her retirement from Dayton, Ohio CBS affiliate WHIO, efficient Might 21, 2025.
McHenry joined WHIO in 1981.
“The choice to retire was not a straightforward one. There’s part of me that might keep at WHIO as a result of I benefit from the work a lot,” McHenry stated. “I really like my coworkers, and I really feel a duty to our viewers. Nonetheless, I understand time is our most treasured commodity and I’d like to make use of extra of my time to do different issues. I sit up for spending extra time with household and associates, studying a zillion books, and spending extra time in nature—strolling and mountain climbing.”
The station stated she has reported on each essential Miami Valley story to occur within the final 4 many years. Two of McHenry’s private highlights have been touring from Wright Patterson Airforce Base with the 445th Airlift Wing on a 12,000-mile mission to Afghanistan, and to Los Angeles to report on the Cincinnati Bengals 2022 Tremendous Bowl look.
“Cheryl is a part of the material of WHIO-TV and the Miami Valley,” stated Joe Cowan, WHIO information director. “Her beneficiant spirit is mirrored every day in our newsroom and in the neighborhood she serves. It’s a privilege to name her a colleague. We sit up for celebrating her many years of dedication to WHIO-TV and our group as she prepares for her well-earned retirement.”
The station has named Gabrielle Enright as McHenry’s successor. Enright has been with WHIO since 1997.
“It’s very comforting to go away our viewers in one of the best of fingers. My colleagues are so succesful and caring, they usually work onerous each day to cowl the information and points that have an effect on the folks of our group,” McHenry stated. “Gabby isn’t solely a tough employee, she’s sensible, energetic, and so variety. She doesn’t think about any sort of work beneath her. She at all times gamely pitches in to assist in any manner she will be able to to provide our viewers the easiest content material. She typically stops to shoot video as a result of it’s on her solution to work. She has greater than earned her anchor spot.”
Enright will be part of co-anchor James Brown for Information Heart 7′s 90-minute newscast on weekdays starting at 5 and once more at 11 pm, the place she has co-anchored since 2023.
“We’re so lucky to have the extent of proficient journalists that now we have right here at WHIO,” stated Darren Moore, VP and normal supervisor of WHIO-TV and WHIO Radio. “Cheryl McHenry helped lay the journalistic basis upon which Information Heart 7 was constructed. She is the consummate skilled and beloved in our group. Gabrielle Enright will keep it up the custom of excellence and excessive normal anticipated by our viewers within the Miami Valley.”
