Jonathan hawgood biography

After a two-year absence to raise her infant daughter, Alison Montoya will return to WLWT-TV to replace Jonathan Hawgood as Saturday morning anchor.

Hawgood, the "News 5 Today Weekend" anchor for nearly 10 years, is "retiring" from  TV news to "focus full-time on his business interests," the station announcement says.

Hawgood, a Cincinnati native, joined Channel 5 as a general assignment reporter 13 years ago.

From his two stints on the weekend morning show, I'll remember him for his enthusiastic, colorful descriptions of sunrises caught by the tower camera, and his  banter with weekend meteorologist Jennifer Schack.

Montoya and Hawgood will co-anchor this weekend and May 22, the last two Saturdays in the May ratings sweeps period.

Montoya starts working solo on May 28.

The daughter of former Bengals lineman Max Montoya, Alison graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2005 and then worked three years in Jackson, Tenn., as a