Denver TV Standout Michael Konopasek Leaving Fox31 for Frontier Airlines

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Another Denver TV news personality is leaving. Here's Michael Konopasek's story.

in late 2021, as well as its aftermath. But those stories stick out for Konopasek for reasons beyond the tremendous losses they share."What I feel most is the resilience we see in communities after tragedy," he says.

And then there was the onslaught of COVID-19, which led to an enormous pivot in the way Konopasek and his colleagues did their work. "As reporters, we are so used to being together in a newsroom, and also being out in the community," he points out."So when things closed down in March of 2020, everything just got flipped on its head, so to speak. We started doing our editorial meetings on Zoom — I didn't even know what Zoom was before the pandemic — and I did more interviews on Zoom than in-person," he recalls.

These experiences gave Konopasek a new perspective on what he refers to as"the work-life balance," and he's not the only one: He's at least the eighth high-profile Denver television pro to leave TV news since early 2021. The departures include four broadcast journos from Fox31/Channel 2 (

 

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