Ron Corning

Ron Corning (born June 23 1971) is an American television host who most recently worked as an anchor of "Good Day New York" on WNYW-TV, alongside Jodi Applegate. He made his debut on the station on August 28 2006. Corning hails from Calais, Maine. He graduated from Wheaton College in Massachusetts. He began his broadcasting career as a general assignment reporter for WDTV, Bridgeport, WV's CBS affiliate and then as weekend anchor and reporter at that station's competitor, WBOY, the NBC affiliate in Clarksburg, West Virginia. He next spent some time performing the same duties at WTOV in Steubenville, Ohio, before moving on to his first major market job at KTVI, the Fox station in St. Louis, Missouri. From there he went on to the Fox affiliate in Seattle, Washington, KCPQ. Corning made his jump to the national stage as a news anchor on the syndicated morning talk show, "The Daily Buzz", which is an American breakfast television show syndicated to UPN and The WB (now joined as the The CW) affiliates across the United States. Corning co-anchored "World News Now" and "ABC World News This Morning" from 2004 through August 2006. Corning was released from "Good Day New York" while on vacation in April 2008, [ [http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2008/04/29/2008-04-29_ron_corning_i_got_no_warning.html Corning's no notice termination] ] and replaced by Fox News Channel correspondent Greg Kelly, son of NY Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.

On September 17th 2008, the same thing that had happened to Corning, happened to his former co-host, Jodi Applegate. She was replaced with former 10PM anchor Rosanna Scotto.

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