Four years in Waco at KCEN, then 9 months at KVUE in Austin. Yep, Maria Aguilera is ready to start reporting in Houston at KHOU. Happy Homecoming. http:// It helps that’s she’s climbing the ...
The folks at Circle City Broadcasting, the locally-based owners of WISH in Indianapolis, IN have decided to take the bull by the horns . They are behind something called the Multicultural Media Producing Program ...
Matt Irvin has been promoted to news director for Gray’s WVVA in Bluefield, WV. A 19 year employee of the station, he’s done a little bit of everything, from master control to satellite truck ...
The hole at “Fox News @ Night” that was created when Shannon Bream was named the new permanent host of “Fox News Sunday” has been filled with a familiar face. Trace Gallagher, a charter ...
Like cold patch in a pothole, CNN boss Chris Licht is doing some temporary fixes to the cabler’s primetime schedule as the mid-term election heats up. Jake Tapper has been….uhh….tapped to fill the empty ...
Thirteen CBS O&Os will soon turn up on Sinclair’s NewsON streaming service. Among the stations jumping on the NewsON platform are outlets in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco. Thrills and ...
Relatively new to Nexstar’s KXAN in Austin, TX is Sarah Al-Shaikh, who signed on as a bureau reporter in July. She came to Texas from sister station WLNS in Lansing, MI where she worked ...
How far beyond? Judge for yourself as reporter anchor Kristin Holloway announces her move from COX-owned WSB in Atlanta to Nexstar’s WDAF in Kansas City. http:// Holloway spent three years in Atlanta. Prior to ...
It’s been a couple of weeks since reporter-anchor Xavier Walton signed off from Tegna’s (s-t-b Standard Media’s) KHOU in Houston to “spend more time with the family.” Two weeks is evidently enough “family time” ...
A week ago, Mark Mester was likely simmering with anger, resentment and sorrow as he composed what he planned to say on the Saturday morning KTLA newscast about his friend and former colleague Lynette ...
We’ve all seen local news anchors show up in movies before, usually playing some version of themselves, reporting on the action thus far in the film. So WTAE reporter Sheldon Ingram’s shot at appearing ...
We somehow missed the fact that LinkedIn, the omnipresent professional networking site offers a wide variety of original programming – all of it in the realm of advice for professionals and job-seekers. And now, ...
The moves in Los Angeles television keeps coming. The latest is weekend anchor/reporter Veronica Miracle, formerly of Disney’s KABC, who is gone after five years. http:// KABC wasted no time scrubbing her bio page ...
Cox Media’s WSOC in Charlotte, NC is losing one of its more popular anchors as Allison Latos signs off the 5:30 and 10 PM newscasts. It’s still another exit of a veteran from the ...
A couple of weeks back, we told you that Sinclair’s reach appeared to have exceeded its grasp in its acquisition of the former FOX Regional Sports Networks from Disney three years ago. The $9.6 ...
Sometimes it can take only one distrusted journalist to cause viewers to tune out an entire station. It’s one of several bullet points in a study on trust in journalism conducted by the Radio ...
After several days of radio silence, management at Nexstar’s KTVI in St. Louis, MO finally acted in the case of news anchor Vic Faust, who went on a tirade while hosting a radio show ...
http:// September 12? It’s the 22nd, and “Studio 13” has yet to show up. Oh, wait… A FOX 13 spokesperson says Studio 13 is still going to launch, but has not released a date. ...
Mark Rowlett, chief meteorologist for Sinclair’s KTXS in Abilene, TX for the past 13 years has been MIA of late. So much so that viewers began to ask questions. And Rowlett answered them. http://
The crew at Gray’s KTTC in Rochester, MN gave a rousing sendoff weekend anchor/producer and MMJ Beret Leone. After four years, she’s headed up I-35 to the Twin Cities and a morning reporting job ...
Bob Freeman is retiring from WEHT/WTVW in Evansville, IN at the end of November. He’s been an ND in the market for 21 years including time as the ND for WFIE-TV across town. GM ...
After seven years at NBC-owned WVIT in Hartford, CT. Dan Corcoran walked away from his anchor job, declaring on social media “this is the right time to move my skills and my experience in ...
The weather forecasting got a little TOO personal for two meteorologists at Nexstar’s WCIA in Champaign, IL After up to three inches of rain fell on Champaign overnight causing flash floods, one of those ...
Nobody has yet written a book on how to louse up the departure of a popular anchor who was going to the competition. Sounds like a good project for KTLA General Manager Janene Drafs ...
Telemundo has raided Univision to nab John B. Pérez as its new senior vice-president of news production. Perez’ tenure at Univision spanned four decades, serving most recently as senior vice president of production and ...
Just three years after joining CBS-owned WBBM in Chicago, Marissa Parra has ended her time as reporter and fill-in anchor for a new adventure she can’t tell you about. Yet. http://
We learned three months ago that Remeisha Shade was headed for FOX-owned KRIV in Houston, departing Scripps’ WEWS in Cleveland, OH after four years. The red carpet was rolled out for Shade in Houston ...
Elizabeth Alvarez showed up this week on the morning newscast at Nexstar’s KSWB in San Diego. It was just five days ago that she announced her departure from across the street at locally-owned KUSI ...
CBS News correspondent Jamie Yuccas will continue being just that as she also takes on morning anchor duties of a soon-to-debut AM marathon at CBS-owned independent KCAL. She’ll preside over the 7-10 portion of ...
Management changes at Tegna’s (someday Standard Media’s) WTHR in Indianapolis, IN moves up station veteran Scott Hums to director of content and brings in Nicole Block, currently the assistant ND at KDKA in Pittsburgh, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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’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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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://
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
