Former 6ABC sports anchor Jeff Skversky is coming back to Philly TV news
He'll be working as a freelance news and sports reporter, a station spokesperson said.
Former Philly TV news anchor Jeff Skversky is former no more.
Skversky is heading back to local screens with a new gig at Fox 29, which he announced via social media Wednesday. The move, he said, is something of a “full-circle moment,” as he started his career in Philly TV at the station covering the Phillies’ successful 2008 World Series run.
A station spokesperson confirmed Skeversky joined Fox 29, and would work as a freelance news and sports reporter for the station. He has been contributing regularly to the station’s The Phantastic Sports Show for about a year.
Skversky essentially disappeared from 6ABC broadcasts in 2021. He had been appearing for about 13 years as a sports anchor on the station, and his sudden withdrawal from the airwaves prompted speculation from viewers about where he went. That remained something of a mystery for months.
In the meantime, he continued posting online about Philly sports and appearing on telecasts for area college and high school games. And in September 2022, he officially announced he had left 6ABC, and was moving on to parts that were then unknown.
“It was always my dream to be a sportscaster in my hometown of Philadelphia & cover teams I grew up rooting for,” Skversky wrote in 2022. “While it’s hard to say goodbye, happy to share my next career move soon.”
That move, it turned out, took him to Motown, where had taken up a job as an anchor for CBS News Detroit in early 2023. Then a new venture for WWJ-TV, the program was reportedly the station’s first full-service local news effort since CBS took ownership of it in 1995.
Philly’s lure, however, appears to have been too strong from Skversky, a Bensalem native, to resist.
“Can’t wait to be back on-air, telling stories in my hometown,” he wrote Wednesday.