Pat Murphy Retires From WPEC

    Longtime WPEC-TV Channel 12 sports director and sports anchor Pat Murphy will retire next week. His final broadcast will be on March 11. He has been the lead sports anchor at the West Palm Beach station since 1995. Murphy was set to retire from the station last summer but he put that off. It is another blow to that news operation because sports anchor and sports reporter Josh Samuels recently left the station back in late January.
    Prior to WPEC-TV, Murphy was the sports director and sports anchor at crosstown rival WPTV-TV Channel 5 from 1983 to 1995. While others have come and gone from the local market like Craig Minervini and Larry Smith, Murphy's reign of 30 years as a West Palm Beach sportscaster is right up there with Jim Gallagher, Buck Kinnaird and Marc Goldberg.