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Bonita Vista Middle School grad is popular TV morning anchor

Following her five-month maternity leave, following the birth of her second son on Feb. 1st, TV personality and graduate of Bonita Vista Middle School Heather Myers has returned to co-host San Diego 6’s “Wake Up San Diego,” Channel 6’s morning news and interview program. Heather is the show’s co-anchor with Marc Bailey. Both Heather and Marc were born in San Diego, making “Wake Up San Diego” the only local news program featuring two San Diego natives at the anchor desk.

 

Heather was born in Fallbrook and grew up in various areas in San Diego County. She attended Ella B. Allen Elementary School in Bonita and Bonita Vista Middle School. She then graduated from Poway High School (class of 1997), and San Diego State University in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She worked as a weekend TV anchor and reporter in Yuma in 2002 and 2003, before returning to San Diego to work as a reporter and fill-in anchor at KFMB-TV in October 2003. She then joined Channel 6 in November 2007 as a weekend co-anchor. In 2011, she joined Marc as co-anchor of the morning show.

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“This job allows me to work in the morning as a news anchor and then rush home to be a mom with our two boys,” said Heather. Heather and her husband also have a lab-mix named Capone.

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Lynda Martin, who filled-in as co-host during Heather’s absence, will remain with the morning show as a reporter at large, the station said.

 

XETV-TV/Channel 6 is celebrating its 60th anniversary throughout this year. Channel 6 first appeared on the local airways on April 29, 1953. Growing up in San Diego in the 1980s and 1990s, Heather recalls watching children’s programming on Channel 6, including Uncle Murph, an on-air personality who wore a Hawaiian shirt and greeted viewers with a popular “Channel 6 A-Roonie” hello.

 

Heather is the winner of eight Emmy Awards and two Associated Press awards. She volunteers her time with the Salvation Army and also partners to help raise money for the Escondido Humane Society. 

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