• About Us
  • Advertising
  • Contact Us
  • Legal Notices
  • Newsletter Signup
Lagniappe Mobile
  • News
    • Cover Story
    • Latest
    • Bay Briefs
    • Sports
    • Community News
    • Open Documents
    • e-Edition
  • Baldwin Edition
  • Commentary
    • Damn the Torpedoes
    • Hidden Agenda
    • Beltway Beat
    • The Real Deal
    • Sports commentary
    • Weather Things
    • The Gadfly
    • Letters to the Editor
  • Cuisine
    • The Dish
    • Word of Mouth
    • Beer and Loathing
    • Cuisine Directory
  • Arts
    • Artifice
    • Art Gallery
    • The Reel World
    • Calendar
  • Music
    • Music Feature
    • Music Briefs
    • Music Listings
    • Submissions
  • Style
    • Media Frenzy
    • Mobile Magnified
    • Horoscopes
    • Master Gardeners
    • Style Feature
  • Lagniappe HD

Select Page

Lombard returns to Mobile

Posted by Rob Holbert | Mar 27, 2019 | Media Frenzy | 0 |

A familiar face is coming back to the Mobile airwaves. Cherish Lombard is headed back to Mobile after more than four years as an anchor and reporter for WKRN in Nashville.

Lombard, who is best known locally for her work on FOX10-TV’s “Studio 10” morning show, will return to a new station. According to a press release, Lombard will start her new gig with WKRG-TV April 15. She will be working as an anchor and reporter as well.

Lombard and her husband Glenn Johnson made up something of a media power couple when they were here, as he was also the popular radio host “Q-Tip” on WABD-FM. In an interview on her Facebook page Lombard said Johnson is currently executive producer for the Cumulus-based “The Ty Bentli Show.” She said he plans to stay in Nashville for a short period before joining Lombard in Mobile. The couple has a 7-month-old son.

“We are thrilled to add Cherish to the WKRG News 5 team,” Jesse Grear, WKRG vice president and general manager said in a press release. “She is an outstanding journalist who has covered stories that made headlines nationwide and has interviewed some of the biggest names in country music in Nashville. We know local viewers will be glad to see her back on the air on the Gulf Coast.”

Lombard also expressed excitement to be returning to her hometown.

“I am so happy to be joining WKRG News 5,” said Lombard. “Being back in the community where I grew up and worked for so many years and getting to raise my family here is an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. WKRG News 5 will be a great fit.”

Lombard got her start in broadcast on the popular “Matt, Jay and Cherish” morning show on WABB-FM, and joined WALA-TV as a general assignment reporter in 2008. She is a graduate of the University of South Alabama.

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access.

It looks like you are opening this page from the Facebook App. This article needs to be opened in the browser.

iOS: Tap the three dots in the top right, then tap on "Open in Safari".

Android: Tap the Settings icon (it looks like three horizontal lines), then tap App Settings, then toggle the "Open links externally" setting to On (it should turn from gray to blue).

Share:

Rate:

PreviousGulf Coast Children’s Book Festival aims to spark love of reading
NextApril brings special gardening opportunities in coastal Alabama

About The Author

Rob Holbert

Rob Holbert

Rob Holbert is co-publisher and managing editor of Lagniappe, Mobile’s independent newspaper. Rob helped found the newspaper after a career that started as a police reporter and columnist at the Mississippi Press in Pascagoula. He followed that with a stint as a deputy press secretary for then-U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott in Washington, D.C. After leaving Capitol Hill, Rob worked ghost-writing opinion articles for publication in some of the nation’s largest newspapers. From 1999 through Aug. 2010 he was the faculty adviser for the University of South Alabama student newspaper, The Vanguard, and in 2002 started Lagniappe with his business partner Ashley Trice. The paper now prints 30,000 copies every week and is distributed at more than 1,300 locations around Mobile and Baldwin Counties. According to Scarborough Research, Lagniappe now has more than 80,000 readers each week, with close to a quarter of that coming online. The paper began publishing weekly at the beginning of April 2014.

    Related Posts

    Merger puts WALA and WKRG back under same corporate roof

    Merger puts WALA and WKRG back under same corporate roof

    September 16, 2015

    Call News publisher running for public office

    Call News publisher running for public office

    June 14, 2017

    Thank you for 16 years!

    Thank you for 16 years!

    July 18, 2018

    Poor hits airwaves as talk show host

    Poor hits airwaves as talk show host

    January 9, 2019

    Recommended Stories

    Let the holiday madness begin

    By Rob Holbert

    Something in the turkey

    By Ashley Trice

    This Thanksgiving, arm yourself with knowledge

    By Ashley Trice

    These (annexation) leftovers are best served cold

    By Rob Holbert

    Unloading the un-thankfulness

    By Ashley Trice

    • Advertising
    • Newsletter Signup
    • About Us
    • Jobs
    • Contact Us

    Search This Site

    Browse the Archives

    © Lagniappe Mobile 2019 | Designed by Optera Creative