December 1, 2025 • 5 mins
What does it really take to go from local news to the national spotlight?In this episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive into the fascinating world of media moves, celebrity gossip, and the quirks of TV news culture—with plenty of laughs along the way.Hanna Battah’s meteoric rise: The Fox 4 anchor is leaving Dallas for ABC News to co-anchor World News Now and Good Morning America First Look. The crew breaks down why some personalities seem destined for national stardom and shares hilarious observations about the industry.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you excited?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Featuring veteran news anchor Kat fun tweets.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
About two or three weeks ago. I guess this has
been last month.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Technically, h Fox four had the retirement of weatherman Evan Andrews.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
All right, he does the morning show.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
And he does sidelines for Fox on their football.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Now that's Aaron Andrews. Different, different, This is Evan Andrews.
So he retired. Seeing you get a note on a
website here and there, dast Morning News might have gave
him a little story there. Now, when Fox four zon
Hannah Batta or Hannah Battah said that she was leaving
the station, you would have thought that she died. They
(00:47):
gave her a John Madden like tribute.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
She actually cut into Little John's time during the Raven's
Bengals game on Thursday night.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Thank you, Hannah for your time on the Fox four website.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I mean it was like a huge deal.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
And there how long in like fifty years. Yeah, she
was there just for a short time, but she was.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
There for a cup of coffee, moved moved around. Maybe
she did the show with Steve Noviello at ten am
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I don't even think she ever had to do that.
I think she was immediately just on old their all
of Fox's primetime shows.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
She was suddenly on the Simpsons because she's good to
look at.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I was gonna say, it's just proof that being young
and pretty is advantageous.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
And she was good at her job too. Every time
I watched she was really good and likable, and it
did not help it.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
She's very attractive.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
There are certain people that show up in the market
and you see them and you're watching them for three
minutes and you go, now, when are they national? Yeah,
there was a girl and she was actually friends with
Hannah because they all they're old buddies now put it
out there on Instagram all the time, where oh look
at us, we're at a high rise drinking Cosmopolitans. Oh
(01:54):
she spilled a drink on me before Hannah Bata has yes.
Oh wow, Okay, And now I'm blanking on Katie's last
name that was worked at Fidy Ingleson. Katie Ingleson. Katie
Ingleson was here and she appeared on mAbs Insider and
I saw her for about thirty seconds as like, well,
(02:14):
I wonder how long until she's national? Yeah, Because certain
people just look a certain way, and you're like, the
national media will, you know, scoop them up and they'll
be there in short order.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Well, today we've learned ABC News announced that award winning
journalist Tanabata will join the network to co ancher World
News Now and Good Morning America First Look.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Dude, alongside Now.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I'm assuming the sister of celebrity chef Bobby Flay, because
it'll be alongside ABC News Sophie Flay.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I don't know her.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
She joins America's number one news network after more than
twelve years as an acre and reported at various local
stations across the country.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, it's huge, it's huge. It kind of reminds me of.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Golly, what was her name that went from the local
news to CNN? Uh no, no, no no, And she
was she when she Ashley Banfield, Ashley Banfield, who then
went to News Nation.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Is that where she is now?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
But she I remember when she was local news and
she went to CNN, and when she went she was
real pretty. And when she went to CNN, suddenly she
showed up on CNN with glasses. It was like, all right, boy,
we're serious, we're serious news people now. But yeah, there's
certain people where, like you said, Christina, they're good at
their job, but when they look the way they look,
you're like, all right, the national Yeah you're good.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And that's cool. Because I follow her on Instagram and
I saw that she had moved to New York and
I was like, Okay, when are you going to tell
us why you moved to New York?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And here we go? What do we think is happening here? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
And I don't I've never met the guy, but you
know because I see him on social media, her shockingly
handsome husband who looks like, I don't know, private equity guy.
Oh yeah, I mean they just you people look.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Rich and famous, right.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
They're always near a boat or a helicopter.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Definitely, there's always some type of body of water nearby.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
My question is when does this air?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Because good Morning America first look is not good Morning America?
Who this morning? Weirdly, don't ask me how I know
it's Oh, I'll tell you. It's because I went to
the gym. Yeah, what, I flipped the channels as I'm
on my on my recumbent bike. Hell yeah, can you
say that recumb it's a recover bikecumber bike?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
What you made it worse.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Joe Buckle was hosting Good Morning America with Troy Aitman.
The Dallas Cowboys cheer everywhere, it's so crazy. I saw
that our friend Avianna was in the Good Morning Now
one thing that was confusing to me. And I only
know this because I tracked the affair from many years
ago at Good Morning America. Because Good Morning America three
(04:48):
had the anchor and the co anchor who were porking. Yeah,
the wife was married to Billy from Melrose Place back
in the day.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
That's right. I forgot about that.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And then the.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Guy in the the anchor and the anchors, why don't
they call them anchriases?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
They need to call it an anchrias.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
They had to quit their job, and I was like, oh,
they're ifing. They quit Good Morning America three. What's that one?
It was the literally the third Good Morning America that
comes on in the morning. Okay, you she's on Good
Morning America first looks that comes on before Good Morning America.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
She's on the early one.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Uh did you see those two people you're talking about
now do a podcast where they get drunk all the
time and then they got married and they start doing it.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah, like They.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Were seriously just getting drunk on their podcast, going, oh
my god, we ruined our marriages.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I guess we need to get married now. We don't
have a job anymore. Now there's a podcast. Uh, congrats Hannah.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Congrats Hannah. You never knew me, but I know you
enjoyed your time here
Are you excited?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Featuring veteran news anchor Kat fun tweets.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
About two or three weeks ago. I guess this has
been last month.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Technically, h Fox four had the retirement of weatherman Evan Andrews.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
All right, he does the morning show.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
And he does sidelines for Fox on their football.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Now that's Aaron Andrews. Different, different, This is Evan Andrews.
So he retired. Seeing you get a note on a
website here and there, dast Morning News might have gave
him a little story there. Now, when Fox four zon
Hannah Batta or Hannah Battah said that she was leaving
the station, you would have thought that she died. They
(00:47):
gave her a John Madden like tribute.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
She actually cut into Little John's time during the Raven's
Bengals game on Thursday night.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Thank you, Hannah for your time on the Fox four website.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I mean it was like a huge deal.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
And there how long in like fifty years. Yeah, she
was there just for a short time, but she was.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
There for a cup of coffee, moved moved around. Maybe
she did the show with Steve Noviello at ten am
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I don't even think she ever had to do that.
I think she was immediately just on old their all
of Fox's primetime shows.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
She was suddenly on the Simpsons because she's good to
look at.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I was gonna say, it's just proof that being young
and pretty is advantageous.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
And she was good at her job too. Every time
I watched she was really good and likable, and it
did not help it.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
She's very attractive.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
There are certain people that show up in the market
and you see them and you're watching them for three
minutes and you go, now, when are they national? Yeah,
there was a girl and she was actually friends with
Hannah because they all they're old buddies now put it
out there on Instagram all the time, where oh look
at us, we're at a high rise drinking Cosmopolitans. Oh
(01:54):
she spilled a drink on me before Hannah Bata has yes.
Oh wow, Okay, And now I'm blanking on Katie's last
name that was worked at Fidy Ingleson. Katie Ingleson. Katie
Ingleson was here and she appeared on mAbs Insider and
I saw her for about thirty seconds as like, well,
(02:14):
I wonder how long until she's national? Yeah, Because certain
people just look a certain way, and you're like, the
national media will, you know, scoop them up and they'll
be there in short order.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Well, today we've learned ABC News announced that award winning
journalist Tanabata will join the network to co ancher World
News Now and Good Morning America First Look.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Dude, alongside Now.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I'm assuming the sister of celebrity chef Bobby Flay, because
it'll be alongside ABC News Sophie Flay.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I don't know her.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
She joins America's number one news network after more than
twelve years as an acre and reported at various local
stations across the country.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, it's huge, it's huge. It kind of reminds me of.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Golly, what was her name that went from the local
news to CNN? Uh no, no, no no, And she
was she when she Ashley Banfield, Ashley Banfield, who then
went to News Nation.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Is that where she is now?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
But she I remember when she was local news and
she went to CNN, and when she went she was
real pretty. And when she went to CNN, suddenly she
showed up on CNN with glasses. It was like, all right, boy,
we're serious, we're serious news people now. But yeah, there's
certain people where, like you said, Christina, they're good at
their job, but when they look the way they look,
you're like, all right, the national Yeah you're good.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And that's cool. Because I follow her on Instagram and
I saw that she had moved to New York and
I was like, Okay, when are you going to tell
us why you moved to New York?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And here we go? What do we think is happening here? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
And I don't I've never met the guy, but you
know because I see him on social media, her shockingly
handsome husband who looks like, I don't know, private equity guy.
Oh yeah, I mean they just you people look.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Rich and famous, right.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
They're always near a boat or a helicopter.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Definitely, there's always some type of body of water nearby.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
My question is when does this air?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Because good Morning America first look is not good Morning America?
Who this morning? Weirdly, don't ask me how I know
it's Oh, I'll tell you. It's because I went to
the gym. Yeah, what, I flipped the channels as I'm
on my on my recumbent bike. Hell yeah, can you
say that recumb it's a recover bikecumber bike?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
What you made it worse.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Joe Buckle was hosting Good Morning America with Troy Aitman.
The Dallas Cowboys cheer everywhere, it's so crazy. I saw
that our friend Avianna was in the Good Morning Now
one thing that was confusing to me. And I only
know this because I tracked the affair from many years
ago at Good Morning America. Because Good Morning America three
(04:48):
had the anchor and the co anchor who were porking. Yeah,
the wife was married to Billy from Melrose Place back
in the day.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
That's right. I forgot about that.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And then the.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Guy in the the anchor and the anchors, why don't
they call them anchriases?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
They need to call it an anchrias.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
They had to quit their job, and I was like, oh,
they're ifing. They quit Good Morning America three. What's that one?
It was the literally the third Good Morning America that
comes on in the morning. Okay, you she's on Good
Morning America first looks that comes on before Good Morning America.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
She's on the early one.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Uh did you see those two people you're talking about
now do a podcast where they get drunk all the
time and then they got married and they start doing it.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah, like They.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Were seriously just getting drunk on their podcast, going, oh
my god, we ruined our marriages.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I guess we need to get married now. We don't
have a job anymore. Now there's a podcast. Uh, congrats Hannah.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Congrats Hannah. You never knew me, but I know you
enjoyed your time here
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