Boston TV News Anchor Heather Unruh '89 Signs Off After More Than 15 Years at WCVB

October 14, 2016

Heather Unruh, a 1989 DePauw University who is 4:30 & 6 p.m. anchor and medical reporter at Boston's WCVB-TV, is leaving the station after more than 15 years.  Tonight's evening newscast will be her farewell, reports the Boston Herald.

Earlier today she tweeted, "Friends... tonight I sign off for the last time on Ch. 5. I am warmed by the kindness you have shown me. C U at 6pm," ending the message with a heart emoji.

In a memo to the station's staff, general manager Bill Fine and news director Andrew Vrees said, "All, after 15 years at WCVB, Heather Unruh has decided to leave us today. Andrew and I want to sincerely thank Heather for her many contributions to WCVB, and the Boston community where she often offered her talents as an MC to raise money for some great nonprofits. We wish her all the best."

Read more here.

A communication major and philosophy minor at DePauw, Heather K. Unruh interned at WCVB as a DePauw senior and joined the station in June 2001. The winner of multiple Emmy Awards, she previously worked as early evening anchor and medical reporter at KFOR-TV, the NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City, and also worked as a weekend anchor and medical reporter at WVTM-TV in Birmingham, Alabama. She was also an anchor, reporter, host and producer of public affairs programs at WBNG-TV and WMGC-TV in Binghamton, New York, and hosted and produced a public affairs series at WVEU-TV in Atlanta.

Unruh has also received multiple Edward R. Murrow Awards, the American Cancer Society’s Sword of Hope Award, the Clarion Award from Women in Communications, Inc., and the top national recognition from the American Women in Radio and Television, the "Grand Gracie," for excellence in reporting.

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