Telemundo 49 Tampa makes an addition and a promotion for its new weeknight anchor team.
Norma Ribeiro will anchor the 5 and 6 pm newscasts. She’ll join Samantha Diaz Roberts, who was upped to 5 pm anchor.
Ribeiro arrives to the Tampa station from KVEA Telemundo 52 Los Angeles, where she was a reporter and content creator since 2017. She previously spent 12 years as a reporter writer and content creator at Univision in Los Angeles. Prior to her move to the U.S., she also worked for Venevision in her native Venezuela.
Ribeiro has yet to make her anchor on-air debut.
Diaz Roberts has been a multimedia journalist for Telemundo 49 and regional streaming news channel Telemundo Noticias Florida since November 2021. She joined the station from Telemundo Las Vegas. She has also worked as an MMJ for Univision Atlanta and El Nuevo Día in her native Puerto Rico.
She and Ramón Díaz are currently anchoring all station newscasts.
The Tampa station opted for this new anchor team following Cristina Puig’s retirement.