23-04-2025
22News announces new morning show anchors
CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – New changes have been announced to the 22News morning news team.
22News announces new morning anchor
On Wednesday morning, 22News Anchor Taylor Knight announced she was leaving the station after nearly seven years. Kaelee Collins was introduced as her replacement starting Thursday, April 24.
Taylor has been with 22News since July of 2018. She started as the weekday morning reporter before being promoted to weekday morning anchor in 2019.
Next, longtime 22News Anchor Rich Tettemer will be retiring on June 6 after 37 years at WWLP-22News. Rich's career in broadcasting began back in January 1984 as a videotape editor at WFLA in Tampa, Florida. He then went on to become a Weekend Sports Anchor at KODE-TV in Joplin, Missouri.
Rich joined the 22News team on April 18, 1988, which was Patriot's Day with both the Boston Marathon and the Red Sox morning game, and handled the busy day smoothly. He was then moved to anchor the morning newscast on October 16, 2006, after 18 and a half years on the sports desk. He has been the morning news Anchor for another 18 and a half years.
Rich will be replaced by current 22News Reporter Julia O'Keefe. Starting on Monday, June 9, Julia and Kaelee will be the new morning anchor team.
WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on
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