KDKA traffic reporter Sarah Arbogast leaves the fast lane

Sarah Arbogast has left KDKA-TV and next week begins working part-time as director of communications for Serra Catholic High School in McKeesport.

“And that’s a wrap! Thanks for the memories @CBSPittsburgh,” she tweeted Friday. VersaillesMs. Arbogast, nativea North and California University of Pennsylvania graduate, joined KDKA in 2011. She was a morning traffic/general assignment reporter who filled in on the anchor desk for mornings, evenings and weekends, and, for six years, was a substitute host on “Pittsburgh Today Live.” “News is definitely a passion of mine, so I’m not saying I’ll never be back, but for now, I’m going to focus on family,” Ms. Arbogast said. She is mother to a 2year-old and 10-month-old: “I just wanted to spend more time with them,” she said. “That was probably the biggest thing. I honestly never thought I’d be leaving KDKA, but I’d seen the job opening, and applied.”

Freelance reporter Celina Pompeani began working the traffic beat Monday morning. Ms. Pompeani, who works for the Pittsburgh Penguins as an in-game arena host, is a 2013 Point Park University graduate. She’s also the daughter of longtime KDKA-TV sports director Bob Pompeani and a former station intern.

KDKA, of course, became the first news station in the country to have fatherdaughter anchors Bill Burns and Patti Burns sit at the desk together in 1976. While the new situation is hardly “Patti and Daddy,” as it was called back then, it does harken to days gone by.

Maria Sciullo: msciullo@post-gazette.com or @MariaSciulloPG.