FOX 61 - WTIC Morning Show

The Fox 61 Morning Show team geared up for their March 3rd launch with a promo shoot on the new set Thursday. Fox 61 has put together an all star team including anchors Rebecca Stewart, five year Fox 61 veteran, and Logan Byrnes, former NBC 30 anchor, traffic expert Rachel Lutzker of Clear Channel Total Traffic Network and morning meteorologist Joe Furey of WTIC News Talk 1080.

From Left: Rachel Lutzker, Logan Byrnes and Rebecca Stewart.

Rebecca, a five year Fox 61 veteran, was previously the weekend anchor and a weekday reporter for the Fox 61 News at Ten. Before to coming to Fox 61 in 2003, Rebecca was the morning and noon anchor for WSLS-TV in Roanoke, Virginia. She started her career in journalism in Argentina as assistant news editor for The Buenos Aires Herald. After returning to the United States to pursue her Master's at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism she filed stories for KNOE-TV8 News in Monroe, Louisiana, WHO-AM Radio in Des Moines, Iowa, and NY1 News in New York City while based at the school's Washington D.C. bureau. Rebecca also teaches at Quinnipiac University in Hamden.

From Left: Rachel Lutzker, Logan Byrnesm, Rebecca Stewart and Joe Furey

Logan is a familiar face from his time as morning news anchor and most recently as evening news co-anchor at NBC 30. In addition to his time in Connecticut, Logan also worked as a west coast correspondent for Inside Edition where he covered many high-profile court cases, Arnold Schwarzenegger's run for governor of California, award shows and celebrity red carpet events. Prior to that Logan was the main evening anchor at KESQ-TV in Palm Springs, California and a weekend anchor at KGNS-TV in Laredo, Texas. Before going into television, Logan earned his jurist doctorate from Whittier Law School in California and worked as a trial lawyer in Los Angeles for four years.

Rachel will continue to provide traffic reports for Clear Channel stations WWYZ, WKSS, WPHH and WPOP and serve as evening host on Clear Channel Radio’s WHCN The River. She will also continue to contribute as an entertainment reporter on the Fox 61 News at Ten. She began her broadcasting career as a traffic reporter for several Hartford-area radio and television stations. In 2001, Rachel moved to New York City as a dedicated traffic reporter for WCBS-TV. She returned to Connecticut for the launch of TimeSaver Traffic WFSB-TV, WHCN, WPHH, WWYZ and WKSS, a collaboration with Clear Channel Communications that evolved into Pinpoint Traffic, providing precise real-time traffic data throughout the state. In addition to traffic reporting, Lutzker is the on-air host of the nightly program Acoustic AfterDark on The River (WHCN).

Joe’s 18 years of experience delivering accurate, detailed weather forecasts for Connecticut will be highlighted in his return to Fox 61. He will continue to provide weather reports for WTIC News/Talk 1080, 96.5 TIC-FM, Lite 100.5 WRCH and 97.3 WZBG. Prior to WTIC News/Talk 1080, Joes’s twenty-year career in weather included teaching at Western Connecticut State University, University of Hartford, and Talcott Mountain Science Center in Avon, and TV meteorologist for Fox 61 News at Ten, WFSB Channel 3 and News 12 Connecticut.
The same team that has made Fox 61 News at Ten a consistent market leader will produce the Fox 61 Morning Show. In 2007 Fox 61 News at Ten was honored with five Emmy Awards, more than all the other Connecticut news organizations combined and was also the recipient of two prestigious awards from the Associated Press.