From News 13/Asheville, NC., anchor Patrick Hussion joins the team at KOMO News (mornings). Hussion spent two years at WLOS News 13.
Hussion’s broadcasting journey began in 1999 as a high school football sidelines reporter in Georgia, where he earned an award from the Georgia Associated Press Broadcast Association. He grew up around newsrooms, influenced by his father’s work in radio and TV.
He graduated from Piedmont College (now Piedmont University) in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts in History. Hussion served as a White House correspondent and anchor for One America News Network (OANN), covering political stories and events like CPAC. He has also worked as a national commercial spokesperson (e.g., for Sears Craftsman tools) and has experience in field reporting, prime-time anchoring, and media/film projects. He has secured exclusive interviews with presidential candidates, U.S. Senators, and members of Congress.
Hussion joined WYFF News 4/Greenville, SC., (an NBC affiliate) around 2015, initially as a weekend anchor alongside Ashley Swann for the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts. He later became the morning anchor, leading the #1-rated, Emmy-nominated morning news program. There, he developed enterprise stories such as the “4 Our History” series and became a familiar on-air personality in the Upstate South Carolina region.
Next stop was WLOS News 13 in June 2024, a Sinclair-owned station, as an evening anchor for the 5:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 10 p.m., and 11 p.m. newscasts.
Bringing back echoes of his pre-political era, Stephen Colbert ditched the venom this week to host a spoof of a Michigan public access TV show—and it was funny. Believe it or not.
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Making No Mention
Reader Submission • May 28, 2026
The ending of Stephen Colbert’s late-night CBS show was a big deal. Everyone covered it.
Well, almost everyone.
Colbert’s series finale last Thursday night was not mentioned during Friday morning’s “CBS Mornings.”
Think about that. Colbert’s own network didn’t mention his finale, or the end of a traditional late-night talk show on CBS.
And apparently the absence was not an oversight.
Puck’s Matthew Belloni: “I’m told the ghosting was a specific directive from CBS News president Tom Cibrowski, who hated Colbert’s recent bit mocking their failure to secure a China visa for anchor Tony Dokoupil.”
“NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Llamas and “ABC World News Tonight” anchor David Muir hosted their newscasts from inside China, but CBS was unable to secure a Chinese visa for Dokoupil. So instead of covering the story from inside the country, Dokoupil was forced to broadcast from Taiwan.
Colbert poked fun at that during a bit on his show, angering CBS News’ executives. During the bit, Colbert said, “Well, that is disappointing, but it does fit in with their slogan. ‘CBS News: when events happen, we’re at most one country away.’”
— Puck
if Belloni’s reporting is accurate (and there’s no reason to believe it isn’t), then it feels awfully petty for “CBS Mornings” to ignore Colbert’s final show after 11 years on the air because of a gag — especially on a show known for poking everyone.
Say Nothing
Reader Submission • May 28, 2026
Colbert took shots at CBS and CBS execs every night. The show lost millions. The ratings sucked (source: Donald Trump)
By their silence, the network seemed to say, good riddance to bad rubbish.
Cone of Silence
Duke Stern • May 28, 2026
It does come across as petty. Late-night comedy shows like Colbert’s have always roasted their own networks, hosts, and executives—that’s part of the genre’s DNA (see Johnny Carson, David Letterman, etc.). Ignoring the end of an 11-year run on the same network, over a standard-issue network-roast gag, looks like thin-skinned score-settling rather than professional news judgment.
That said, network TV is a business with real tensions—late-night shows are expensive and struggling, news divisions have their own pressures (visa logistics in China aren’t trivial), and internal grudges happen. Gayle King (a CBS Mornings co-host) did post personally about the finale and attended the afterparty, so it wasn’t a total blackout.
This episode highlights ongoing friction between CBS’s news and entertainment sides, especially amid ownership changes and cost-cutting. Belloni framed it as “CBS News’s final middle finger to Colbert.” Whether that’s fair or just another layer of media drama, the optics aren’t great for a network that prides itself on journalism.