Renowned news anchor Carolyn Long to retire from KCTV5 in 2025

You will be missed!

28 years
29 by this time next year…

You just don't see tenures like that in this business anymore, especially and unfortunately as a woman…

I still remember waking up every morning as a first or second grader to catch "news five, bright and early" as I believe it was called at that time, and watch Carolyn and Brian Curtis anchoring together. Good times!

On a sidenote, hope you guys will one day open up your archives/vaults online. It would be nice to see programming, newscasts, commercials etc. from the past.

Carolyn, you will be missed. We’ve followed your stories since the days at KQ2 in St. Joe. We knew then and now that you have a rare gift. You have a graceful screen presence and a song in your voice that lifts the spirit. God bless

Congratulations!!