Following is courtesty of the Vancouver Sun: "Mike Killeen and Tamara Taggart will be taking over the anchor seats for CTV's 6 o'clock newscast being vacated by Bill Good and Pamela Martin, effective Jan. 3. CTV announced the new anchors Wednesday. Both Taggart, 42, and Killeen, 48, said it was a dream come true for both of the native Vancouverites. CTV BC's evening newscast has 72,000 viewers, according to the Bureau of Broadcast Measurement ratings as of Dec. 5, down eight per cent from the same time last year, and Global B.C.'s News Hour averages 303,000 viewers (35 per cent audience share), up one per cent from same time last year. Both the new CTV anchors are grads of the broadcast communications school at the B.C. Institute of Technology.. Killeen was CTV's Olympics reporter since 2006 and has often filled in as an anchor for weekend newscasts. He won a Webster award in 1996 for School Colours, a five-part series on the impact of immigration on BC's education system, and was a co-finalist for a Webster in 2000 for The Clark Warrants. Taggart graduated in 1991 from the BCIT broadcasting program and worked in radio and concert promotion before landing a community calendar spot 13 years ago with Vancouver Television, the forerunner of CTV. She went on to host the breakfast television show and doing entertainment coverage for the evening news. In 2001, she moved to CTV's weather desk, where she has developed a popular following because of her bubbly personality, frequently hosting events around Vancouver.Taggart, who describes herself as a third-generation Vancouverite, is married to guitarist and record producer Dave Genn of the band 54-40. They have a son and two daughters, the most recent born last August."
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