VETERAN NEWSMAN LANDS IN ND CHAIR AT WABC
It’s a return to local news for him.
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THIS WEEK IN LITIGATION II
Her former bosses want her lawsuit booted
CNN ANCHOR EXPECTED TO RETURN AFTER SUDDEN LEAVE OF ABSENCE
His return date is TBA.
LONGTIME NBC LOCAL EXEC RESURFACES
FOX picks up longtime NBC local exec
IN BRIEF…MOVING UP….AND OUT…EDITION
A promotion and an apparent exit.
LOUISIANA STATION PROMOTES MANAGER FOR SECOND TIME THIS YEAR
A Louisiana native gets a promotion to news director after less than a year at the station.
NEWSNATION PRIME TIMER SETTLES IN MID-MORNINGS
Former prime time anchor gets new gig on NewsNation.
EXPECT NBC TO DROP PRIME TIME FOR 10 P.M. LOCAL NEWS: MEDIA CONSULTANT
Media expert thinks NBC will ultimately drop 10 p.m. hour in favor of local news.
IT’S A ‘NEW DAY’ FOR VETERAN CNN CORRESPONDENT
CNN correspondent for a decade gets a weekend anchor position.
HOLLYWOOD HEAVYWEIGHT PURCHASES RECORD SETTING MALIBU HOME
Entertainment mogul Byron Allen has purchased a Malibu mansion for $100 million.
INDY WELCOMES NEW ANCHOR TO ‘DAYBREAK’
Florida anchor hits the Midwest for next anchor opportunity.
VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS SPOKESPERSON JOINS CBS NEWS
Biden/Harris spokesperson gets "talking head" role with CBS News.
LONGTIME DETROIT ANCHOR RETURNS TO THE AIR
A longtime Detroit anchor gets a new on-air gig at WDIV.
LYNETTE ROMERO ‘IS SO HAPPY’ MAKING HER KNBC DEBUT
Los Angeles mainstay makes her return to television news.
WABC’S MARZA, WNBC’S CHANDLER AMONG THE EMMY WINNERS
Check out some of the anchor and reporter winners at the New York Emmys.
VETERAN CA REPORTER PUTS DOWN MIC FOR FINAL TIME
A 25-year career for a California reporter ends in retirement.
MEGYN KELLY ON CUOMO ‘HUMBLED’ RETURN: ‘I DON’T BELIEVE THAT FOR ONE SECOND’
Megyn Kelly has a strong counter for Chris Cuomo's return to nightly TV.
FORMER HILLARY CLINTON AIDE JOINS MSNBC
Former Hillary Clinton campaign aide gets on-air gig with MSNBC.
CNN’S DON LEMON SAYS GOODBYE TO ‘TONIGHT’ AHEAD OF MORNING MOVE
Lemon signs off late-night broadcast, as CNN viewers await his move to mornings.
NEW YORK’S TELEMUNDO MAKES NEWS WITH WINS MAJOR EMMY WINS
Telemundo 47 was a big winner at the annual New York Emmys Awards.
DEBORAH ROBERTS EXPANDS HER ROLE WITH ABC NEWS
A longtime ABC News reporter adds anchoring to her duties.
PRODUCER GETS PRE-DAWN PROMOTION
A veteran news producer is starting her day earlier with new role in Seattle.
LONGTIME HOUSTON NEWS DIRECTOR FIRED: REPORT
A longtime Houston news director is out of a job, according to a report.
HEALTH ISSUE FORCES WAVY MET TO TAKE TIME OFF
It’s not the first time he’s undergone this kind of surgery
A NEW FACE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
And he’s hoping viewers get in touch
CROSSING FROM NEWS TO SPORTS AND ACROSS THE STREET
He had been covering news for another station
A PROMOTION IN CONNECTICUT
A desk job will take him off the street
ROMERO HOOKS UP WITH NEW COLLEAGUES. A LOVEFEST ALL AROUND!
There’s no such thing as too much hype. Right?
SO WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM?
Popular anchor’s disappearance sparked questions from viewers.
GOING FULLTIME AS AN NYC REPORTER
She moves across the street from parttime to fulltime.
PELOSI AND FELLOW DEM RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT TEGNA-STANDARD MEDIA MERGER
Standard Media begs to differ.
BUH-BYE FOR THIS REPORTER. NEW ADVENTURE PROMISED!
She’s leaving WTIC after a year and a half
FROM MADISON TO MILWAUKEE
A new meteorologist comes to WTMJ
SHAKE OFF THOSE MID-WEEK BLAHS
We all could use the laugh. Unless we show up in this.
FORMER MUSIC CITY TV SPORTS ANCHOR OPTS FOR RADIO
She’s the latest to depart Nexstar’s WKRN
ONE LAST BOOK AND HE’S GONE
Veteran anchor sets his final day at WLS
DES MOINES TV REPORTER COMES OUT AS TRANSGENDER
She plans to continue her career in Des Moines
TELEMUNDO’S ‘NOTICIAS TELEMUNDO TEXAS’ MORNING SHOW GETS PICKED UP BY GRAY
Gray more than doubles stations carrying the new newscast
REALLY, THE POOR GUY NEEDS THE MONEY
Chances of lawsuit's success appear slim
AND HIS END DATE FINALLY ARRIVES…
His next adventure starts at home
IN BRIEF…..CH-CH-CHANGES EDITION
At Birmingham’s WBRC, Angie Bierley moves to EP from her current role as digital content manager. Joey Parker, who’s been an ND a several TV stations and most recently ND for Missourinet, a statewide ...
FORMER RUSSIAN TV NEWS PRODUCER APPARENTLY FLEES HOUSE ARREST
Remember this picture from back in March? As we reported then, there was a feeling that perhaps Marina Ovsyannikova got off lightly with a fine, a brief detention and, ultimately, house arrest. Ovsyannikova made ...
THE SOLUTION WAS STARING THEM IN THE FACE
When Erika Lopez opted to become a stay-at-home and abandoned the chief met job at Tegna (Someday Standard Media) owned KVUE in Austin, TX, the station when on the hunt (wait for it) for ...
MIXING POLITICS WITH JOURNALISM LEADS TO ND FIRING
You’d think that by now, people who work journalism would know where the very firm line exists between reporting and advocacy. And how that line bleeds over into private lives. Evidently not for Melanie ...
A PITTSBURGH AND PHILLY DÉTENTE: SHARING A CAPITAL REPORTER
Well two of Pennsylvania’s biggest and most popular tv stations solved a long-standing problem. In what may be a pivotal election year, CBS-owned sister stations KYW in Philadelphia and KDKA in Pittsburgh have pooled ...
“NIGHTLINE” GOES STREAMING
“Impact X Nightline” debuts tomorrow on Hulu. ABC News’ late-night franchise “Nightline” is taking its first dip into the stream. The half-hour weekly version plans to directly target the interests and habits of people ...
A FAMILIAR FACE PROMOTES ATLANTA STATION REINVENTING ITSELF
She may not be part of the newly-rechristened WANF news team but Atlanta tv news legend Monica Pearson figures prominently in the Gray-owned station’s new promo campaign. Pearson actually works for WANF ...
IS CUOMO GOING TO CHANGE THE GAME?
Well is he “attempting to appease everyone,” “sounding more like a coach of a failing minor league team than a news anchor” or “hardly splitting the difference between partisan sides?” These are just a ...
CAROLINA ANCHOR TRADES ANCHOR DESK FOR TEACHER’S DESK
Hannah Jeffries has been reporting for Gray’s WITN in Wilmington, NC for the past seven years and only recently found herself the station’s morning anchor. Now, she’s given it up and left the business. ...
LET’S HOPE THEY CATCH THE BONEHEAD
They’re looking for the jackass who pointed a laser at KTRK‘s helicopter as it flew over the city during the morning newscast last Thursday. “Leeland and Sidney. It’s illegal to laser a helicopter,” SkyEye ...
MIAMI SPORTS REPORTER SOUNDS OFF ON TUA INJURY
"We need to take care of our brains."
‘CUOMO’ RETURNS TO THE AIR AS HIS NEWSNATION SHOW DEBUTS
Chris Cuomo's new NewsNation show debuts this week.
EARLY RETIREMENT FOR KC METEOROLOGIST TO FOCUS ON HIS WEATHER COMPANY
Kansas City meteorologist plans his retirement in the coming weeks after decades on the air.
FORMER ATLANTA ANCHOR TURNS AUTHOR FOR HISTORICAL FICTION FROM HIS PAST
Retired Atlanta anchor has a new assignment: Author
RYAN NOBLES EXITS CNN FOR NBC NEWS
Same gig, different network for one D.C. veteran journalist.
FROM UKRAINE TO HUNGARY, REPORTER GETS NEW OVERSEAS ROLE
Veteran reporter is hired as a network's Budapest correspondent.
ALBANY ICON DELIVERS FINAL FORECAST
Albany meteorologist heads into retirement after a half-century career.
SPORTSCASTER SHUFFLES OFF TO GIG IN BUFFALO
A former Illinois sportscaster finds a new home in Western New York.
NATALIE MORALES MOVES TO CBS NEXT MONTH
Veteran NBC journalist is joining CBS News next month.
LEGENDARY CA ANCHOR UNCLIPS MIC FOR FINAL TIME
A career comes to close after decades on the air in California.
EXITING THE BUSINESS
And yet another tv veteran is exiting the business to move into the nonprofit world. Brian Gotter, chief meteorologist for Scripps’s WTMJ in Milwaukee has hit the exit to join the MACC (Midwest Athletes ...
THIS WEEK IN LITIGATION: DISGRACED FORMER FOX ANCHOR CAN’T ESCAPE COURT DATE
A federal judge in New York brushed aside the motion by disgraced former FOX News anchor/reporter Ed Henry to dismiss allegations that he violated New York’s so-called “revenge porn” statute. The judge also ruled ...
WINK BACK ON THE AIR IN FT. MYERS
Recovery from Hurricane Ian will be coming in slow increments as Florida looks to restore a sense of normalcy in the wake of last week’s brutal storm that swept across the state. One sign ...
LUBBOCK SAYS GOODBYE TO A LOCAL LEGEND
After 27 years, Sharon Maines said goodbye to the “Daybreak Today” anchor desk at Gray’s WCBD in Lubbock, TX. She holds the distinction of being Lubbock’s first female news anchor. That was back in ...
EIGHT YEARS AND OUT?
Whatever the next adventure is that awaits Alexandra Stone, late of Hearst’s KETV in Omaha, NE is anybody’s guess. After eight years in the 5 pm anchor desk, Stone and her husband have flown ...
CROSSING THE COUNTRY
Brian Jackson joins FOX-owned KCPQ in Seattle, WA this month as a 4 and 9 p.m. anchor. He’s crossing all of the mainland time zones, coming from Scripps’ WTXL in Tallahassee FL, after three ...
A NEW BOSS IN SATX
Graham Media has bumped up station veteran Ashley Parker to the general manager’s office at KSAT in San Antonio, TX. She’s been with the station for 19 years, the last nine of them as ...
PULLING DOUBLE DUTY IN HIS NEW JOB
Freddy Serrano is wearing two hats in his new job at Univision’s WUVP in Philadelphia, PA. He’s both and anchor and executive producer, anchoring the 11 pm newscast and EP’ing both the 6 and ...
AL PRIMO: HE CHANGED TV NEWS
You’ve seen stations around the country branded “Eyewitness News” That was Al Primo’s idea. The revolutionary idea he came up with was to have reporters interact with anchors to try to bring more light ...
LEAVING DA BURGH FOR CONNECTICUT
It’s 21 months and out for reporter Bryant Reed, who is leaving CBS-owned KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA to move to New England and Gray;s WFSB in Hartford-New Haven. http:// It’s been a ride, PA ...
ONETIME DENVER TV REPORTER WILL NOW HOST NPR’S “CODE SWITCH”
We last heard from reporter Lori Lizarraga shortly after she was bounced from KUSA in Denver. Lizagarra caused a bit of a storm shortly after the end of her two year stint at the ...
DITCHING THE ANCHOR DESK FOR THE ND OFFICE
Adriana Ruggiero has anchored her final newscast at Entravision’s KHAX in San Diego Now she’s in charge of the station’s newsroom….and the newsrooms of Entravision stations in Palm Springs, El Centro and several smaller ...
FORMER DALLAS REPORTER IS MOVING UP AT ABC NEWS
Marcus Moore, who’s been a Dallas-based correspondent since 2017 for ABC News, is moving up in the organization. He gets an overseas posting as a London-based correspondent for the network. ABC News president Kim ...
HOW DO WE KNOW NOVEMBER IS COMING?
We don’t rely on calendars. We rely on press releases about longtime tv newsers setting their retirement for somewhere around November 30-December 1. And pictures of newly-constructed or under-construction news sets just waiting to ...
HEADING BACK TO CENTRAL NEW YORK
Three years after exiting Hubbard’s WNYT in Albany, NY for San Antonio, TX and Sinclair’s WOAI, meteorologist Greg Pollak is returning to CNY and Spectrum News Pollak left WOAI in January of this year ...
VETERAN NAWLINS REPORTER SIGNS OFF TODAY
From assignment editor, to anchor, and to news director and, finally, to morning news reporter, Heath Allen has done it all in his 28 years at Hearst’s WDSU in the Big Easy. And today, ...
BUH-BYE NEWSY….HELLO SCRIPPS NEWS
The latest form of brand consolidation will be unveiled January 1st when the E.W. Scripps Company rolls out Scripps News. The preciously-named Newsy will disappear, its bones providing the structure of the new enterprise ...
BILL PLANTE
Four U.S Presidents, the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement. Over the course of more than half a century, Bill Plante covered them all as a correspondent for CBS News. He joined the network ...
WHY DO WE KEEP SAYING LIVE SHOTS DURING HURRICANES ARE DUMB?
Here’s why: http:// Does someone have to die doing these stunts before this stops? Oh wait….a death could be a real ratings grabber.
FLORIDA TV STATION OFF-AIR AND EVACUATED AFTER WATER RUSHES IN
It’s unclear if the building is a total loss.
NEWSNATION BUMPS ENTERTAINMENT TO ZERO IN ON HURRICANE IAN
Somehow it finally got through to the folks at Nexstar’s NewsNation that if they want to be taken seriously as a news channel, they should try doing news. So, dumping the usual daytime schedule ...
FROM HOUSTON TO DALLAS
Adrienne Vonn is the new weekend morning meteorologist at NBC’s KXAS in Dallas-Ft. Worth. She moved up after serving as a fill-in forecaster over the spring and summer at FOX-owned KRIV in Houston. http:// ...
HIS PHILLY DEBUT
Three weeks after departing Spectrum News in Columbus, OH, Andrew Kozak (looking rather pensive at the left) debuted this week as the newest member of the weather team at CBS-owned KYW in Philadelphia, PA ...
ANOTHER ERA ENDS. ANOTHER ABRUPT DEPARTURE
So far it has not turned into another Lynette Romero scenario. Julie O’Neill, who anchored WCPO’s “Good Morning Tri-State” morning program for 27 years is no longer with the Scripps flagship. No goodbyes. No ...
TRADING VIRGINIA FOR NEW ENGLAND.
Reporter/MMJ Tim Harfman joined Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford-New Haven this week and hit the ground running. Day 2️⃣ at News 8️⃣ and I’m already on the air! Excited to share that I’ve accepted a ...
A FAMILIAR FACE RETURNS IN MEMPHIS
It’s a return to Memphis television for Marcus “Doc” Holliday, who will become the sports director of Gray’s WMC on the retirement of Jarvis Greer, who retires at the end of the year. http:// ...
GRAY CONSOLIDATES NEWSROOMS…AGAIN
A couple years back, Gray Television created “Dakota News Now” in Sioux Falls, South Dakota when it consolidated the newsrooms of KDLT and KSFY back in January 2020. Now they’ve done it again, in ...
UMMMMM…WHERE DID YOU GET THIS BRANDIING?
A sense of déjà vu came over us as we read of NewsNation’s latest stab at trying to become a national force in cable news. Touting a series of three upcoming candidate debates in ...
CNN+ FADES INTO HISTORY
Not that it was ever a bright light to begin with, but the last of CNN+ is out the door, as the company handed out pink slips to the remaining 20 staffers. Many, many ...
HURRICANE FORCE WINDS SWEAPS WEATHER CHANNEL’S JIM CANTORE OFF HIS FEET
He’s a beast in the field but Ian’s winds gave him a run for his money.
KTLA’S PROBLEMS ARE MORE THAN JUST TWO DEPARTED ANCHORS
Nexstar’s KTLA is still trying to defend its botched handling of two weekend anchors, but the Los Angeles station has more than the Lynette Romer-Mark Mester drama on its list of “Things We Really ...
A BAPTISM OF FIRE IN HIS NEW JOB
Michael Valente has only been on the job at Hearst’s WTAE for two weeks, but they’ve been a couple of very busy weeks. Since joining the Pittsburgh, PA station, he’s done an interview with ...
“THE SUNSHINE KID” HEADS OFF INTO THE SUNSET
Just six month shy of what would have been his 50th anniversary as a meteorologist for CBS-owned WJXZ in Baltimore, Bob Turk, aka “The Sunshine Kid,” announced his retirement from the station. http:// Thank ...
THE LATEST MONEY GRAB IS IN HOUSTON
Houston be warned!! The folks at Telemundo’s KTMD have dragged out the shopworn “we are doubling down on our commitment to inform our audiences with our best-in-class journalism and hyper local weather forecasts,” to ...
THE END OF A DREAM JOB
Jeff Skversky spent 13 years as a sportscaster with Disney’s WPVI, a run that far outstripped the total amount of time he spent in his five previous tv jobs – including a brief run ...
AN EXPLANATION STRAIGHT FROM THE MOST RELIABLE OF SOURCES
Salt Lake City viewers of Bonneville’s KSL have been scratching their heads over the prolonged absence of anchor/investigative reporter Mike Headrick from the airwaves. Haven’t they? In any event, Headrick, last seen on-air in ...
FORMER ANCHOR IS NO LONGER AN “INTERIM” CEO
It took David Crabtree a couple of tries to actually retire from Capitol Broadcast’s WRAL in Raleigh-Durham, NC – once in 2017, a half-hearted try in 2020 and finally, this year back in March ...
A-A-AND THE OTHER SHOE DROPS
It’s official. As we reported yesterday, Lynette Romero, who was hustled out of the studios of Nexstar’s KTLA a few weeks back, is soon to turn up on KNBC And it’s a pretty big ...
