Challenger returns to WFLA…

(from TampaBay.com) - If you’ve seen retired reporter Rod Challenger popping up in stories on WFLA-Ch. 8, it’s not a rerun; like a few other folks who left the NBC affiliate this year, he’s agreed to return on a freelance basis to help the channel get through a period of short staffing. Challenger, 66, said he’s working four days each week at WFLA through the month of November, filling a general assignment role which sees him preparing a story on St. Petersburg mayoral race one moment and a hearing connected to the Walker Middle School rape case the next….Cont….


