Randy Travis and Beth Galvin complete buyouts at WAGA in Atlanta

Investigative journalist WAGA Randy Travis and veteran medical journalist Beth Galvin have accepted buyout offers to leave the Atlanta Fox-owned station.

Media Editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Rodney Ho said WAGA reduced its workforce yesterday “amid significant financial challenges for the television news industry as more viewers turn to streaming services.”

Travis joined WAGA when it was a CBS affiliate in 1990. Galvin joined the station in 1996.

Ho said Galvin was the last local television reporter whose focus was exclusively on health.

“What a privilege it has been to be able to tell your medical stories over the past 24 years,” Galvin wrote on Facebook. “What I saw and absorbed every day was the incredible courage and grace of people facing challenges they did not choose. I’m very proud of the stories we covered and I hope you found them helpful and inspired, as I did by the people who shared their stories. What an incredible adventure this has been.

Managing Director and Managing Director of WAGA Bill Schneider sent a memo to staff regarding Randy’s retirement, saying in part: “This announcement is bittersweet for me and will be for many of you. I wanted to let you know that Randy Travis has retired from FOX 5,” Schneider wrote. “Sweet, because I know Randy will treat his retirement like he treated his job here at WAGA. No half measures. He will run more marathons, read more articles and books, write more and continue to live his life with full enthusiasm, because we will miss him, his passion and all the incredible work he has done for. our community and the station for the nearly 35 years he has been at FOX 5.”

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned from 45 years in the news business – 42 years in local TV news – it’s this: Nothing good ever lasts,” Travis wrote on Facebook. “There is always an end. And so has my career at Fox 5.”