ATLANTA – Marcy Williams, the esteemed 95.5 WSB (WSBB-FM/WSB-AM, Atlanta) news anchor, has called it a career. After an impressive 31-year career at the station, Williams’ last day on-air was Friday April 28.
Williams is one of the longest-tenured radio news anchors in the country. She began her WSB Radio career as an overnight anchor, and she quickly rose through the ranks to become the first-ever female anchor of the top-rated, award-winning “Atlanta’s Morning News.” Williams is credited with delivering the station’s first local reaction report on 9/11. She’s demonstrated unwavering dedication to her craft, including working throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Marcy Williams won the 2023 Gracie Award for Outstanding Local Radio News Anchor, from Alliance for Women in Media Foundation. The Gracies acknowledge and honor individual achievement and programming by, for and about women. Williams received this acknowledgement from peers and industry leaders as an acknowledgement of the work she has accomplished and how her career furthered the achievements of all women in media.
“I’ve spent 30 years as the first female co-anchor of Atlanta’s Morning News. With a little back-of-the-envelope math, I calculate I’ve written more than 300,000 stories over those three decades,” Williams said. “Now it’s time for me to write a new chapter.
“It’s very unusual in this business to be part of one broadcast team for so long,” Williams continued. “I’m gratified to have been a member of this outstanding newsroom. Now I’m graduating to join our audience as a full-time 95.5 WSB news consumer.”
“Marcy is one of the very best, a great writer and a great storyteller,” said Ken Charles, Director of Branding and Programming for 95.5 WSB. “She’s been a bedrock of the morning news on WSB for 31 years and will be greatly missed by our team and our listeners.”
“Marcy has played a massive role in WSB’s success over the past 31 years,” said Jaleigh Long, Vice President and Market Manager for CMG Atlanta Radio. “We’ll miss her phenomenal talents and wish her the best of happiness and success on her new journey in life.”
“Marcy has been a leader and an example in our newsroom for more than three decades,” said Amanda Moyer, News Director for 95.5 WSB. “Her recent Gracie award win is the perfect cap to her long tenure at WSB as the first, and to this day, the only female lead news anchor on Atlanta’s Morning News. She will be deeply missed, but our loss is her granddaughter’s gain.”