The TV Zone

Big BIG news, local TV fans....Greg Kelly has JUST been named co-anchor of "Good Day New York." He starts July 14, and will be Jodi Applegate's new helpmate from here on out.

Greg Kelly? Surely you don't need to ask. He's the son of the Commish, and a good guy, to boot. Long Island-native Kelly did exemplary - and courageous - work during the Iraq invasion when he was an embed with some forward units of the Army. I do believe he was hurt by shrapnel too, when a bomb shattered nearby and and the blast cut his face. He did all this for Fox News, came back to the states, and was ultimately sent down to Washington, where I sort of lost track of him...[He's also, BTW, a Lieutenant colonel in the Marine Reserves; and flew dozens of missions over Iraq in the early '90s.]

His Long Island connection? He was raised in Baldwin and later lived in Garden City...

Here's the backgrounder from the press release: "Most recently, Kelly was an anchor and correspondent for the Fox News Channel (FNC) based in New York. Kelly joined FNC in 2002 and went on to serve as a White House correspondent from 2005-2007. He has also covered the war in Iraq extensively, including four long-term assignments in Baghdad. During the 2003 invasion, he was embedded with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division, 2nd Brigade. He was the first television reporter to deliver live pictures of U.S. forces infiltrating Baghdad, as well as exclusive reports of the storming of Saddam Hussein’s Presidential palace."

Said Kelly, “I am excited to join Fox 5 and to be a part of a New York institution like ‘Good Day’ – the city’s original local morning news program.”