Molly Turner

Molly Turner (1923 – 21 July 2016) was an American television news anchor and Emmy Award-winning television reporter in Florida.

Career Turner's television career began in 1951, when her mother encouraged her to audition for a Saturday morning show on Florida's WTVJ Channel 4. Turner was given the comedic role of country music singer Cousin Effie in the station's "Uncle Martin Show". She later went on to producing, working on both commercials and a three-hour morning show. In 1960 she became the midday anchor at rival station WLBW Channel 10.

In 1969 WLBW was bought by Post-Newsweek and became WPLG. The focus of its broadcasting shifted to hard news. Turner became a television reporter, the first woman to hold such a position in South Florida.

In 1988 she retired from news reporting. In 2001 she won the Imprint Award from the Miami International Press Club.

In 2003, WPLG television station invited her back to the station to celebrate her 80th birthday. In 2007, she was visited in her retirement home by U.S. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Turner's former colleague Dwight Lauderdale for a presentation to acknowledge her services to local television news.