By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, February 2013
In mid-February 2013, FishbowlLA covered entertainment reporter Courtney Friel’s farewell to FOX 11 (KTTV) after six years with the LA station and its sister network. Friel told FBLA her first priority was some quiet weekend time at home with husband Carter Evans, the CBS News correspondent.
Then
Courtney Friel had spent six years at FOX 11 / KTTV across the late-2000s-and-early-2010s period, working as an entertainment reporter. The February 2013 departure was the kind of LA-local-TV on-air-talent transition that FBLA routinely tracked.
Carter Evans — Friel’s husband — was a CBS News correspondent. The broader two-journalist-household framing was the kind of LA-media-couple detail that FBLA’s lighter editorial register periodically captured.
Now
Courtney Friel’s subsequent career took her to KTLA, where she joined as an anchor and reporter. Her broader public profile expanded through her 2019 memoir Tonight at 10: Kicking Booze and Breaking News, which addressed her recovery journey.
Carter Evans has continued at CBS News as a Los Angeles-based correspondent — including substantial coverage of major California wildfire seasons.
The 2013 piece reads now as a small documented moment of LA-local-TV career transition — captured before Friel’s KTLA tenure and her subsequent memoir had each substantially expanded her public profile.
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