‘A breath of fresh air’: Jamie Apody’s role at Fox 29 expands following difficult 6abc departure
"I’m so thrilled to be doing what I love again." Apody said of her new role, which will include sports reporting and anchoring.
Ahead of anchoring her first Philly sportscast in more than two years (947 days for those counting), Jamie Apody’s focus was squarely on her feet.
“I’m mostly rusty with high heels. Oh God, it’s a disaster,” Apody said Monday night before making her debut as a sports anchor on Fox 29.
Apody, who spent 18 years as part of 6abc’s Action News team, is getting an expanded role at Fox 29. In addition to her regular appearances on The Phantastic Sports Show, which began in 2024, Apody will anchor the station’s Saturday night newscast at 10 p.m. and pop in elsewhere as needed.
“It’s not a full-time thing, but who knows? Maybe it’ll become that. That’d be awesome,” Apody said. “But I’m so thrilled to be doing what I love again.”
The expanded role will also include reporting, which will put her back into the stadiums during a busy year for Philly sports, featuring the World Cup, the MLB All-Star Game, and the Eagles heading to London.
“I’m more than ready,” Apody said. “I do think it’s going to be a little weird ... not to mention starting with a different station’s name on the microphone after all this time.”
She certainly has plenty of experience. For the bulk of her tenure at 6abc. Apody anchored the 5:30 p.m. edition of Action News five days a week and was a regular at the city’s stadiums covering the teams.
All that ended when she lost her job in 2023, a gut-wrenching experience Apody wasn’t even able to talk about publicly until almost a year later. Her unexplained departure and lengthy absence was the talk of the town, and some viewers launched a change.org petition asking 6abc to bring her back.
It was even difficult for Apody to return to Citizens Bank Park and Lincoln Financial Field as a fan, something she avoided for about a year. Ultimately, she was forced back to the stands by her three young sons, all of whom are diehard Philly sports fans.
“It was really hard. Harder than I thought,” Apody said. “For a while there, those stadiums and ballparks really reminded me that I wasn’t able to do what I love more than anything, so it was hard for me to face. I actually made the choice not to face it.”
After leaving 6abc, Apody reached out to most of the stations around town and had meetings with both NBC10 and CBS3. But she really hit it off with Fox 29 executives Jim Driscoll and Dennis Bianchi, and said working for the station has been “a breath of fresh air,” recalling the words of former 6abc sports director Gary Papa, who hired her in 2006.
“He once told me, ‘You don’t know what you don’t know. You don’t even know what you know,’” Apody recalled. “The first time I walked in the door [at Fox 29] two years ago, I couldn’t believe what I’d been missing.”
She’s not the only Action News alum at the station. Former 6abc sports anchor Jeff Skversky, who also sparked speculation by his sudden TV exit in 2021, joined Fox 29 as a freelance reporter in 2025 after first contributing to The Phantastic Sports Show.
“I think it’s such an amazing fit,” Apody said of Fox 29. “I almost wonder what things would have been like if our paths crossed earlier.”
