Parsons to retire from WCAX, Tebbetts named news director
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TIMES ARGUS STAFF - Published: May 13, 2009
Former radio and TV reporter Anson Tebbetts will become news director at WCAX television at the end of May, succeeding Marselis Parsons, who has held that position at the Burlington station since 1984.
Parsons began as a reporter at WCAX in 1967, and has worked as news anchor, program producer and news director. He will continue to anchor the 6 p.m. news broadcast through the summer, when senior reporter Darren Perron will move into that slot.
Tebbetts, of Cabot, is Vermont's deputy secretary of agriculture, a position he has held since January 2007.
He joined WCAX News as the Rutland correspondent in 1994, moving to Montpelier in 1995 to cover state government and the Legislature.
Tebbetts was also news director of WDEV Radio in Waterbury from 1987 to 1989.
"He is a gifted reporter and storyteller with a deep love for and extraordinary knowledge of Vermont," WCAX President Peter Martin said of Tebbetts in a news release. "He was a farmer before he was a reporter, and even while he was a reporter. As our Montpelier correspondent he demonstrated an extraordinary depth and breadth of knowledge about Vermont government and politics, even while producing delightful features about aspects of Vermont life off the beaten path."
Parsons told the Times Argus and Rutland Herald in March that he planned to retire. He said that he hoped to move to his home in New Hampshire, and continue doing some stories for WCAX.
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