Alan Pergament: Emily Lampa won’t shift to ‘7Life’; Chelsea Lovell runner-up to Miss New York State

“AM Buffalo” co-host Emily Lampa won’t be involved when the program becomes “7Life” and is moved online this September.

Lampa, a former WGRZ-TV (Channel 2) reporter, confirmed her last day on “AM Buffalo” will be on the program’s final day, June 23.

The station announcement of “7Life” mentioned Mercedes Wilson as the program host and notably didn’t include Lampa as she was in contract negotiations. Lampa wrote in an email that the negotiations ended.

Lampa replaced longtime “AM Buffalo” host Linda Pellegrino in February of 2021.

At the time, Lampa praised the “impressive” legacy of “AM Buffalo” and thanked Pellegrino “for setting the TV show hosting bar high over the past three decades. It will be an honor, and a challenge to fill those beautiful shoes!”

Wilson replaced Melanie Camp as Lampa’s co-host almost a year ago after appearing on “AM Buffalo” for more than a year in a Monday segment titled “Recipes for Life” in which a guest joined her with a recipe that enabled viewers to learn a story about the dish.

Congratulations to Chelsea Lovell, the host of WIVB-TV’s (Channel 4) “Daytime Buffalo” for being named first runner-up in the Miss New York State competition. She had to take some time off her 3 p.m. weekday program to compete. Kate Glaser, who worked in TV news before going into public relations, did an impressive job substituting for Lovell. Full disclosure: She took a course with me at Buffalo State University.

Amelia Collins, the 2022 Miss Manhattan, was named Miss New York State. She is from Arkansas, but according to her hometown TV station was eligible to become Miss New York State because she attends New York University (NYU).

There was some drama Sunday at WECK when some listeners went to social media to protest what they believed was the removal of Ronnie Dombrowski’s polka show in favor of a national polka show.

WECK owner Buddy Shula said…