Fox 26 sports anchor Will Kunkel said he was told yesterday was his last day at the station.

“Wednesday was my last day at FOX 26 Houston,” Kunkel posted on X . “The station made the decision to cut the sports department—something I never saw coming. It was a shock, to say the least.”

“I was shocked. Truly,” Kunkel told the Houston Chronicle . “As far as I know, it was an internal decision to ‘restructure the newsroom.'”

“We did not eliminate the sports department — we eliminated the sports anchor position,” said Erica Keane , the senior vice president of media relations for Fox Television Stations. “We’re still going to cover sports extensively both with a reporter in the mornings and we’re going to gather and distribute sports content across all sports whenever there’s breaki

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