It's a first for TV news in this area as far as I know. Alan Pergament notes in the Buffalo News that WKBW-TV has been experimenting with an Artificial Intelligence version of an employee's actual voice to read headlines on its local afternoon show. 

Management is careful to stress the test has not displaced any employees, nor do they expect it to, that they were transparent about it on screen, and that it ended last week, as the results are being "evaluated."

“We are exploring emerging technology in a limited capacity to find the most efficient ways to allow our teams to focus on reporting local news in their communities," [explains the owners' V.P. of local media.]  "When we do use AI for voice overs, we are transparent with our viewers with a bug on the top left of the screen that lets them know the voice – which is a real person’s voice – is AI generated.”

Almost certainly a taste of things to come, unless there's a huge viewer backlash. 

WKBW owner evaluating artificial intelligence test