Fountain leaving WTVT…
(from TampaBay.com) – Some might say a local TV anchor-turned-mental health counselor wouldn’t have to leave the business to find plenty of clients. But longtime WTVT-Ch. 13 anchor Kathy Fountain has decided to depart the station on Dec. 31 for full-time work as a counselor, capping a 30-year TV journalism career and 24 years at Tampa’s Fox affiliate. And she makes one thing plain, while discussing her departure from co-anchoring WTVT’s 5 p.m. newscast and hosting the noontime talk segment “Your Turn.” In a media world filled with cutbacks forcing involuntary departures, this exit was entirely her idea. After earning a master’s degree in mental health counseling and running a support group for women with fertility problems on the side, the 59-year-old anchor decided the time had come to move into counseling work full time. “I’ve always had an eye toward being in the mental health field…this year seemed like the right time to do it,” she said, acknowledging that husband Frank Robertson’s decision to retire from anchoring at WTVT in June after 20 years may have helped inspire her….Cont….
