Iconic NY PIX11 news anchor Kaity Tong announces retirement

Signing off.New York PIX11 news icon Kaity Tong announced her retirement on Tuesday night, closing out an illustrious, award-filled career that spanned over six decades.The Emmy-winning broadcast journalist, who has been with PIX11 since 1992, will anchor her final show on Aug.30, the station announced.“Journalist, anchor, icon, legend, friend, mentor.

A few of the words that describe our beloved Kaity Tong,” PIX11 Managing Editor Patrick Mason said, according to the outlet.“After more than 34 years at WPIX, Kaity has opted to move into a much-deserved retirement at the end of August.You would be hard-pressed to find anyone in the New York City area who doesn’t immediately associate PIX11 with Kaity.

A powerhouse name in an industry that can change in a New York minute.”Born in China before moving to the US at 4 years old, Tong says she never wanted to be an on-air reporter, accidentally getting into the industry while she was a doctoral candidate at Stanford University.“I never aspired to be a broadcast journalist.No, I wanted to be a college professor,” Tong said during her induction into the New York State Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in October 2025.Following in the footsteps of her mother and uncle, both acclaimed journalists, Tong secured a summer position as morning editor and producer for San Francisco’s KCBS All-News Radio in the 1970s.The seasonal job turned into a year-long employment at the station as she pushed aside graduate work, never finishing her doctoral dissertation in Chinese and Japanese studies, according to her online biography.Tong quickly moved into television reporting, joining San Francisco’s KPIX-TV as a writer before being turned into a reporter “on the spot” in 1976.Following a stint at Sacramento’s KCRA, Tong moved to New York, where she became a correspondent and weekend co-anchor for WABC in 1981.

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