Longtime broadcaster Meeghan Black of Renton is the new host of Evening Magazine on KING TV in Seattle.

Channel 5 is moving Black from the traffic desk on the KING 5 Morning News to 7 p.m. five nights a week. She started her new job on Wednesday night.

Mayor Denis Law will declare next week as Meeghan Black Week at Monday’s City Council meeting. She emceed the benefit auction for Vision House in October 2008.

John Curley stepped down last spring after 14 years as the show’s host.

“We’re excited to have a Western Washington native hosting Evening Magazine,” said Pat Costello, vice president and KING 5 station manager, in a press release. “Meeghan is passionate about the Northwest and she’s a wonderful storyteller – and that’s what Evening Magazine is all about.”

Black started with KING 5 in 2000 as a weekend weather anchor, moving to weekday mornings as the traffic anchor in 2006. She will continue to co-host gardening segments and the weekly half-hour show “Gardening with Ciscoe” with Ciscoe Morris. Prior broadcast jobs include reporting, anchoring and weather forecasting at stations in Spokane and Wichita. Black received an Emmy from the Northwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for her work on the KING 5 special “Echoes of the Eruption.”

Evening Magazine is the longest-running local magazine TV show of its kind, airing weekday nights at 7 p.m.