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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - On June 28, 2024, Stefani Boorojian volition motion disconnected for the past clip astatine KSEE24.
As she takes her adjacent steps, YourCentralValley.com sat down with Stefani Booroojian to bespeak connected her 42 years successful beforehand of the cameras.
"42 years went by truthful quickly. It surely doesn't look to person been a agelong time," Stefani said.
In fact, Stefani Booroojian seemed to retrieve each measurement on the mode arsenic though they happened yesterday.
Stefani says being a TV anchor was ne'er adjacent a thought successful her caput arsenic a student, though she was ne'er camera shy.
"When I was successful precocious school, I loved participating successful schoolhouse plays and that benignant of performance."
She says erstwhile she made her mode to Fresno State she had enactment performing connected signifier down her arsenic she recovered her ain mode successful college.
"I changed my large a fewer times. I was really a horticulture large successful the works subject section - and hated it."
While astatine Fresno State, Stefani Booroojian says she ran into an aged high-school person who was taking a broadcast class. "So I took an entry-level radio, tv broadcasting class."
From past on, Stefani says she caught the broadcasting bug and changed her major, yet earning a grade successful Radio and Television Broadcasting from Fresno State.
Booroojian says she started moving astatine a vigor presumption successful Fresno aft she graduated. About a twelvemonth aboriginal she heard astir an opening arsenic a newsman trainee and started astatine KSEE24 connected March 31, 1982. Stefani started penning astatine the station, producing, and processing skills that would pb her to reporting connected air.
"I started disconnected moving during the Today show. It wasn't doing similar a afloat newscast with a co-anchor." Stefani produced, wrote, and starred successful her aboriginal segments, which she says was a cleanable segway into being on-air.
Stefani says she was fortunate capable to enactment with trustworthy mentors who helped her go the writer she is today.
"They were precise decidedly tolerant of maine and my deficiency of experience. They allowed maine to marque mistakes and astir apt helped screen a batch of them up arsenic well."
Once Stefani brushed the proverbial particulate disconnected her shoulders she recovered herself thriving arsenic a storyteller, genuinely embodying the KSEE24 tagline "local quality that matters."
"I deliberation immoderate truly immoderate communicative is simply a section communicative that matters," Stefani said. "It's an grant to beryllium capable to stock to stock successful peculiar stories similar that."
Stories similar BuddyCheck, an inaugural she says archetypal began successful the mid-90s successful Florida, rapidly became a invaluable assemblage communicative reminding women successful the Central Valley to cheque connected 1 different to ticker for signs of bosom cancer.
"It has been by acold conscionable 1 of the astir gratifying projects I've ever been progressive in, chiefly due to the fact that of the accidental I've had to talk to truthful galore brave women who've travel guardant to archer their stories and animate different people."
Stefani says audiences whitethorn ne'er recognize conscionable however overmuch she valued the accidental to person a affirmative interaction connected their lives done the BuddyCheck reminder.
"Maria from Atwater, she and her hubby inactive enactment successful interaction with maine done societal media to this time - she recovered her bosom crab due to the fact that of our BuddyCheck reminder."
Stefani has besides had the accidental to dispersed consciousness and link to her Armenian roots done her trips to Armenia with KSEE24.
"To person been a portion of the 100th day of the Armenian Genocide and to witnesser the value of that successful Armenia was truly thing I volition ne'er forget. To beryllium capable to stock that locally has been precise peculiar to me."
After countless stories, Stefani Booroojian yet took to societal media to bid farewell to viewers, announcing her last week astatine KSEE24 connected Monday. She says aft 42 years successful the manufacture it yet felt similar the close clip to determination connected to the adjacent section of her life.
"It's hard to accidental goodbye," Stefani said. "I cognize bully things are coming for KSEE24 and I'll conscionable beryllium watching from location - it'll beryllium different, but it's going to beryllium conscionable fine."
