FORMER CONNECTICUT WEATHER INTERN RETURNS TO NUTMEG STATE AS METEOROLOGIST
A Maine weather anchor is on his way to Connecticut.
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ST. LOUIS ANCHOR LAUNCHES OFF-AIR DEMEANING ATTACK ON FEMALE RADIO CO-WORKER
A St. Louis TV anchor had a verbal exchange with a radio colleague last week.
HOMECOMING FOR MORNING REPORTER TO NEW ORLEANS
WWL hires a Lafayette, Louisiana graduate for morning duty.
NYC METEOROLOGIST FIRED, APOLOGIZES FOR SECRETLY APPEARING ON ‘ADULT WEBCAM’ SITE
New York meteorologist is terminated after secretly appearing on an adult cam site.
PITTSBURGH PROMOTION LANDS ANCHOR IN WEEKEND SLOT
After a year, an anchor gets promoted to weekends in Pittsburgh.
JAMIE YUCCAS NAMED NEW KCAL, CBS MORNING NEWS ANCHOR
CBS correspondent Jamie Yuccas has a new assignment in the city and a channel where she’s based. The national news personality will find a new home in the mornings at KCAL, the CBS affiliate ...
ANCHOR RETURNS TO ARIZONA FOR NIGHTLY BROADCASTS
An anchor's return to Phoenix is coming in a couple of weeks.
FOX NEWS REPORTER DOESN’T TRANSLATE MIGRANT COMMENTS THAT ‘WOULDN’T LOOK GOOD ON TV’
A Fox News correspondent refuses to translate a migrant's question because it "wouldn't look good."
REPORTER STAYS IN TEXAS, BUT RETURNS HOME
Texas reporter is going home for new gig in Houston.
VETERAN VIDEOGRAPHER PUT DOWN CAMERA AFTER DECADES
Long run for New Haven cameraman ends.
MAINE-BOUND ANCHOR TAKES OFF FROM RHODE ISLAND
Longtime Providence anchor takes gig in his hometown.
S.D. ANCHOR TALKS ABOUT DANGERS OF DRUG ADDICTION AFTER DAUGHTER’S FATAL OVERDOSE
One anchor addresses the perils of drug use in the wake of her daughter's deadly overdose.
NETWORKS GO ALL-IN FOR QUEEN’S FUNERAL
Media is in place for Queen Elizabeth II's funeral.
FORMER REPORTER REVEALS HER SALARY AT PREVIOUS STATIONS
Former Cincinnati reporter opens up about her past salary.
VETERAN FOX NEWS REPORTER GETS NEW DEAL, TITLE
A longtime Fox News correspondent gets a new contract.
LEMON: ‘I WAS NOT DEMOTED’ WITH MOVE TO MORNINGS
Don Lemon tells viewers moving to mornings was an opportunity he couldn't pass up.
BAY AREA VETERAN REPORTER SETS DEPARTURE AFTER 50+ YEARS!!!
For more than half a century, David Louie has been pounding the pavement, reporting for Disney’s KGO in San Francisco. 50 YEARS!!!! So of course he has earned a rich and rewarding post-tv news ...
HIS NEXT CHAPTER INCLUDES MORE FAMILY TIME
Come the end of September, veteran Norfolk, VA anchor Don Roberts will WAVY (sorry!) goodbye to the anchor desk at the Nexstar station. After an earlier brief stint at the station in 1981-82, he ...
CNN ADDS A CORRESPONDENT
CNN’s latest hire is not one of its more high-profile additions to the staff. Marc Stewart is becoming the cable network’s Asian correspondent, coming from a position as the AM host of “The Wall ...
IS THIS A NEW HEARST THING?
We couldn’t help but notice the three-anchor morning format when Hearst’s WTAE in Pittsburgh, PA introduced it earlier this year. After, all, following the abrupt departure of longtime anchor Kelly Frey last year following ...
IN BRIEF…OPEN CHAIRS…OR NO CHAIRS AT ALL EDITION
News Press and Gazette’s KTVZ in Bend, OR is looking for a new news director. Nic Moye has been the news director there since 2016. Moye was also an ND for another Bend station ...
HE’LL HAVE TO ANSWER FOR ”DAYS OF OUR LIVES”
So what is former WTIC news producer Marcus Harun up to since he left the FOX-owned Hartford, CT station 3½ years ago? Well he moved on to NBC News and most recently…. http://
MOVING UP TO THE NETWORK
Reporter Cristian Benavides is jumping from local tv news to a network position and he didn’t even have to pack a suitcase. Benavides left NBC-owned WTVJ in Miami, FL. where he spent just about ...
SUCCEEDING IN THE BIG EASY
She starts on Monday.
CNN TO OVERHAUL MORNING PROGRAM
Sometime “later this year” (your guess as to the exact date is as good as ours), CNN plans to present us with a new, “reimagined” morning show featuring Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlin ...
PUTTING A CAP ON 40 YEARS IN TV NEWS
We will miss her.
AN ANCHOR MAKES AN ABRUPT EXIT
This was a shock.
MORE SUPPORT FOR THE TEGNA-STANDARD MEDIA DEAL
We're waiting to see what happens.
MAYBE SHE’S CROSSING THE STREET
Or maybe not...
A NEW FACE IN TULSA
Three years after joining Tegna (Standard Media yadayadayada) station KWES in Midland, TX, anchor Tatum Guinn has taken her talents to locally owned KOTV in Tulsa OK. And just to make her debut interesting, ...
A HAT TIP TO A HOUSTON STALWART
Back in 1982, Melanie Lawson had a law degree and three years of experience at a Wall Street law firm. And it wasn’t enough. So, in a reversal of today’s trends, she switched her ...
RETURN TO THE BAYOU STATE.
Jonathan Shelley has just been named the next news director for Manship’s WBRZ in Baton Rouge. Here’s the news release from the station. Jonathan replaces Trey Schmaltz, who is being promoted to general manager, ...
FROM THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY TO THE ALAMO CITY
Allysa Cole is the newest reporter at Graham Media’s KSAT in San Antonio, TX, coming from family-owned KRGV in the Rio Grande Valley. Cole spent two years as an anchor-reporter at KRGV before making ...
COURT TV ANCHOR TAKES ON SCRIPPS AFTERNOON PROGRAM
Scripps is trying out a new afternoon “feel-good” information hour at three of its stations. “Afternoon Focus” is hosted by Newsy’s Rob Nelson, late of NewsNation and ABC News and Court TV anchor, attorney ...
GREEN BAY ANCHOR CONTINUES TO RECOVER FROM CONCUSSION
“It’s been a long four months. A long four months. Longer than I thought it was going to be."
HE’LL BE A FINE FELLOW
Discarded CNN media beat reporter Brian Stelter has made a soft landing post-cable. Stelter has joined (deep breath now) the Walter Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School as ...
WE HAVE TO GIVE THEM CREDIT FOR CANDOR. THE KA-CHING CHRONICLES CONTD.
We can’t kick a whole lot about the latest 3 PM newscast to pop up on a local television station. Instead of a lot of hot air about “viewer demand,” “public service” and “the ...
MORE BITTERSWEETNESS
It’s buh-bye to weekends at the KTTV weather desk for forecaster Mary Yoon. She’s out the door at the Los Angeles FOX station. http:// ️ Personal Update ️ Bittersweet news to share but, 9/24 ...
A NEW BABY, AND A NEW ADVENTURE
After her new baby was born in June, it seems that WKYC anchor Sara Shookman’s priorities MAY have shifted a bit. So she’s leaving the Tegna (s-t-b Standard Media) station in Cleveland after ten ...
ANOTHER EXIT TO THE PR SPHERE
The TV newser formerly known as Erin Edwards of Gray’s WFSB in Hartford, CT is now Erin Henry (her married name), the first public relations specialist for Danbury, CT. Edwards/Henry left WFSB earlier this ...
IN CASE YOU’RE INTERESTED…
Lucky Nexstar news directors across the country couldn’t be more pleased to be running promos for any of the latest NewsNation program offerings, some of which compete directly with their newscasts. Like this one ...
LONGTIME CBS NEWSER LANDS HIS FIRST LOCAL ND GIG
A veteran CBS employee returns to his former station for his first news director’s job. Scott Keenan, a 28 year employee of CBS, has been named Vice President/News Director for KTVT/KTXA the network’s duopoly ...
HE’S NOT RETIRING…JUST LEAVING TV NEWS
We told you Monday of the pending retirement of the Rochester, NY anchor team of Ginny Ryan and Doug Emblidge from Sinclair-operated WHAM after 30 years. As it turns out, when Emblidge steps down ...
COLUMBUS ANCHOR MOVES INTO MANAGEMENT
News anchor, investigative reporter, and weekend managing editor. You name it, Rodney Dunigan has done it in his six years at Sinclair’s WSYX in Columbus, OH. And now he’s moved into the management ranks ...
THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS ARE COMING BACK TO TV
This is a collaboration between Hearst Entertainment and NBC
ILLINOIS MORNING ANCHOR DOING COMMUNITY SERVICE BY COVERING THE COMMUNITY
If this is true...
METEOROLOGIST VENTURES NORTH TO SEATTLE
West Coast-based meteorologist finds a new home in Seattle.
INDIANAPOLIS METEOROLOGIST RECOVERS FROM OPEN HEART SURGERY
An Indianapolis meteorologist opens up about his medical leave.
NEWSNATION GETS FAMILIAR FACE BRIEFLY
A former ABC News anchor is getting week-long guest stint on NewsNation.
CNN PRODUCER MOURNS LOSS OF HIS COUSIN WHO DIED IN TRAGIC MIAMI BOAT CRASH
"She was in the first days of her senior year."
PUTTING ‘PAUSE BUTTON’ ON CAREER FOR DALLAS WEATHER ANCHOR
Texas meteorologist moves on to full-time family life.
‘SURREAL DREAM’ AS AUSTIN MULTIMEDIA JOURNALIST BECOMES ANCHOR
Austin reporter lives out her "dream" to become anchor
NEW SPORTS ANCHOR SET TO JOIN TWIN CITIES
A St. Louis native is making the move to the Twin Cities as a sports anchor.
HARTFORD STATION EXPANDS NEWS PROGRAMMING
Hartford's WTIC to add new nightly evening newscast.
CHARLOTTE NIGHTLY NEWSMAGAZINE EXPANDS
Charlotte station expands its newsmagazine starting next week.
VETERAN PA JOURNALISTS NAMED MORNING ANCHOR TEAM
A new anchor team begins in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
NEWSEUM FINDS NEW LIFE AS BUSINESS SCHOOL
Space where the Newseum building stood is being renovated for a business school.
JUDGE RULES ON FORMER MICHIGAN REPORTER’S TERMINATION LAWSUIT
A judge dismisses the lawsuit of a former Grand Rapids reporter.
NEW ANCHOR, REPORTER AS PART OF INDIANAPOLIS CHANGES
New hires in place at WISH in Indianapolis.
AUSTIN REPORTER/ANCHOR HAS ‘EXCITING THINGS’ AHEAD
An Austin reporter exits with "exciting things to come."
ROCHESTER ANCHOR TEAM PLAN RETIREMENT AFTER THREE DECADES TOGETHER
Longtime Rochester anchors are calling it a career together next month.
VETERAN CANADIAN ANCHOR GETS NEW BROADCASTING HOME
Longtime CTV anchor finds new gig.
LEGENDARY BUFFALO ANCHOR CONTEMPLATES RETIREMENT: REPORT
A longtime Buffalo anchor is reportedly thinking about life after television.
THIS WILL SHOW UP IN NEXT MONTH’S BLOOPER COMPILATION
Next time you hear someone saying something was met with “crickets” think of this: A cricket staged something of a takeover of KDFW’s “Good Day” morning newscast from the confines of the news set’s ...
MORE GOOD NEWS FOR GABBY
We told you last week that Gabrielle Mediak was leaving Nexstar’s WIVB in Buffalo, NY after four years for another job in a slightly larger market. But she was coy about her destination at ...
SHE’S GONE
When MSNBC announced last month that it was yanking streaming shows from Zerlina Maxwell and Ayman Mohyeldin from the news brand’s Peacock hub, it also reassured Maxwell’s following that she would continue to serve ...
A RETURN TO FAMILIAR TERRITORY
Karin Movesian returns to her former market, this time as ND for Sinclair’s WEYI in Flint/Saginaw/Bay City, MI. Earlier in her career she was the ND for WNEM there. Movesian has also been ND ...
SHUFFLING THE MORNINGS IN DA BURGH
Heather Abraham, after 12 years of working the dawn patrol at CBS-owned KDKA In Pittsburgh, first as a reporter and, by 2016, as co-anchor, is stepping away from the anchor desk….but not the station. ...
THE ALBANY EXODUS CONTINUES
And we are now up to 22 departures from Albany, NY tv stations so far this year. Meteorologist Craig Gold still has three months to go at Sinclair’s WRGB, which means that when he ...
CONNECTICUT BOUND
Dave Peck wraps it up today after just over two years in the sports department of tiny Rockfleet’s WVII in Bangor, ME. He’s headed for the bright lights of Hartford, CT and NBC-owned WVIT ...
AND HER SPECIALTY BEAT IS….???
Thrilled and excited they are at Scripps’ WTMJ in Milwaukee as Stephanie Brown joins the station’s 4 pm newscast as a…specialty reporter? “I’m extremely excited to be able to connect closely with the community, ...
MOVING UP TO KENTUCKY
She’s still working on her meteorology accreditation, but Bayne Froney is moving on from her job as morning forecaster at Scripps’ KXXV in Waco, TX to sister station WLEX in Lexington, KY. http:// She’s ...
AN ON-AIR FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN ROBIN ROBERTS AND NEW ABC7 METEOROLOGIST DANI BECKSTROM IS ADORABLE
This is what happens when you show up as yourself on TV.
IN BRIEF….THE MORT MEISNER EDITION
Amanda Gilbert joins CBS Affiliate KUTV in Salt Lake City as a Reporter/MSJ. Amanda comes from the FOX Affiliate in Tulsa where she has been a Reporter/MMJ since 2019. Amanda is a graduate of the Medill ...
ALBANY’S REVOLVING DOOR KEEPS TURNING
Call it 21 exits from Albany, NY tv stations this year as morning news reporter Jenn Seelig hits the out door at Nexstar’s WTEN after just two years. http:// Seelig, who hasn’t announced her ...
HEADED BACK TO SOUTHERN CAL
Two years after arriving at Nexstar KFXK/KETK in Tyler, TX, Sarah Alegre is packing up and heading back home to Southern California – specifically San Diego. She’s giving up an evening anchor slot to ...
THEY’RE INTERESTED IN NEWS – THEY JUST DON’T LIKE WHAT THEY’RE SEEING
Well in the latest of those studies trying to figure out what young people want out of news consumption, we find that while 79% of young Americans – that is to say those between ...
OUTTA THE BUSINESS…FOR NOW
Former WIVB news director Lisa Polizzi has put the tv news business in her rearview mirror. Polizzi, who was fired by the Nexstar station in May, is the new executive communications manager and board ...
STORIED BOSTON REPORTER LANDS AT HER THIRD STATION
Two month after departing Hearst’s WCVB in Beantown, investigative reporter Kathy Curran is adding NBC-owned WBTS to her resume…starting Monday. http:// Curran spent ten years at WCVB and before that, well over 15 years ...
SO THAT’S HOW IT’S GONNA WORK…
We initially heard that Chris Wallace would be returning from CNN limbo with a weekly program, Sunday evenings on the cable network. New details now reveal that the Sunday program will be a “Best ...
ANCHOR TEAM NAMED FOR STATEWIDE NEWSCAST
Left to right, Analia Fiestas and Carlos Zapata have been named news anchors and Karuska Matos will serve as meteorologist for a new statewide morning newscast that will air on all of Telemundo’s Texas ...
NO WONDER HE’S SO CONFIDENT DESPITE BAD RATINGS
Speculation was rampant last week about the future of Chuck Todd at NBC News’ venerable-but-lately-ratings-challenged “Meet the Press.” With viewership of the Sunday morning program down 21% in the past year, his longtime producer ...
LA GM HEADING FOR THE DOOR
After three years at the helm, Bill Lamb has announced his retirement as vp/gm at FOX-owned duopoly KTTV-KCOP in Los Angeles, CA. Lamb came to the station from Block Communications’ WDRB-WBKI in Louisville, KY ...
TULSA ANCHOR JULIE CHIN: ‘I FELT GREAT THAT MORNING’
KJRH morning anchor Julie Chin spoke out exclusively to the TODAY show. Chin was seen across the internet having what doctors are now calling “the beginnings of a stroke” on live television. In an ...
FROM ANCHOR TO “INFLUENCER”
Lauren Healy is fond of saying that ever since she was in high school student in her communication class, she wanted to work in television news. Seven years into that dream, she’s decided enough ...
A NEWS QUIZ FOR HIGH SCHOOLERS? LET’S EXPAND THAT IDEA
Charter Communications’ Spectrum News Networks thinks what is needed is a quiz show to test high schools students’ news literacy. So today (September 7), “Spectrum News Challenge” will debut, hosted by Spectrum News 1 ...
MOVING ACROSS WASHINGTON STATE
After three years as an evening anchor and investigative reporter at Morgan Murphy’s KXLY Spokane, WA, Nia Wong has moved west to FOX-owned KCPQ in Seattle, WA as a weekend evening anchor/ reporter. http://
WALKING AWAY AFTER TWO DECADES
For KTLA weekend anchor Courtney Friel, family time evidently trumps a 20-year tv career. The former FOX Newser who’s been with LA FOX outlet since 2013, is leaving at the end of the month, ...
“I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT MY NEXT BIG MOVE”
But that doesn’t mean that Meagan O’Halloran, soon to be the FORMER anchor of “The National Desk” is ready to tell you what it is. But she did drop that she is leaving the ...
SUMMER’S OVER, FALL IS COMING. TIME TO GET OVER IT
The end of summer means you probably need a few laughs. Try these.
AN IDEA THAT DIDN’T WORK OUT AS EXPECTED
It must have seemed like a good idea at the time to SOMEBODY in Hunt Valley, MD. Or maybe it was an attempt to ease the sting of losing out on the Tribune station ...
DO WE CONSIDER THIS THE START OF THE CHRIS LICHT ERA?
Stelter gone, Toobin gone, Harwood gone. So it was about time that CNN CEO Chris Licht started ADDING to the on-air staff. He landed some significant names. Onetime CBS and ABC News journalist John ...
NEWSNATION PLANS MIDDAY NEWSBLOCK
After being pushed out of primetime by the pending October addition of Chris Cuomo to the NewsNation prime-time lineup, Marni Hughes, a charter member of the Nexstar station’s news effort is experiencing something of ...
JOHN DICKERSON WILL HOST NEW STREAMING SHOW FOR CBS
CBS news chief political analyst and senior correspondent John Dickerson is the new host of the network’s primetime streaming show. CBS News Prime Time with John Dickerson will stream Monday-Thursday at 7pm starting tonight. Dickerson, ...
A STROKE ON LIVE TV
Some very scary moments for KJRH anchor Julie Chin over the weekend when the Tulsa anchor began to stumble and falter over her words while delivering the Saturday morning newscast for the Scripps station. ...
‘BITTERSWEET’ DECISION FOR AUSTIN REPORTER, FOCUSING ON FAMILY
Reporter says goodbye to the TV news grind and hello to her family.
NEW REPORTER JOINS KSAT NEWS TEAM
Allysa Cole is joining KSAT in San Antonio this month.
HARWOOD IS LATEST CNN CASUALTY
Another talent was sent home from CNN. White House correspondent John Harwood tweeted on Friday that it was his last day at the cable newser. Harwood said he was “proud of his work” and ...
