VETERAN CANADIAN ANCHOR GETS NEW BROADCASTING HOME
Longtime CTV anchor finds new gig.
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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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
BAKERSFIELD REPORTER SET TO SIGN OFF AS ‘NEW CHAPTER’ AWAITS
Making the move from Bakersfield, a reporter closes out his time excited for what's to come.
MYRTLE BEACH GETS A FAMILIAR FACE AS NEW ANCHOR
A one-time Myrtle Beach anchor returns at a rival station.
CBS NEWS REPORTER NOW HAS EYE ON EAST COAST
CBS News moves correspondent across country to work out of the Northeast Bureau.
NEW YORK STATION TWEETS OUT PICTURE OF TWIN TOWERS
In a tweet about weather, many wonder how that happens.
A NEW BOSS AT THE ABC NEWS STREAMER
ABC News Live, the network’s streaming channel now has Seni Tienabaso at the helm as executive director. Tienabaso has been with the network in various capacities since 2007. Just prior to joining ABC News ...
SIGNING OFF AS THE NEXT ADVENTURE AWAITS
After three years as, first, morning anchor and then weekend anchor at Tegna’s (Standard Media’s someday) KHOU in Houston, TX, Xavier Walton is moving on. http:// He came to the station back in 2019 ...
AND YES, THE BAY AREA DEMANDS MORE NEWS KA-CHING 2
NBC-owned KNTV, in San Jose is happy to announce it is succumbing to viewer demand and firing up at 30-minute newscast at 4:30 pm weekdays starting September 12. That’s at least eight minutes of ...
A NEW MARKET FOR TELEMUNDO
Birmingham, AL is getting its first Telemundo outlet as Gray announced that the Hispanic network’s programming will be offered on a sub-channel of the company’s newly-acquired WBTM, which is operated in conjunction with WBRC. ...
KENTUCKY GETS ITS FIRST 3 PM CASH COW….UHHH…NEWSCAST KA-CHING 3
Isn’t it what Central Kentucky viewers have been demanding? Sure it is, and that’s why Morris Multimedia’s WTVQ in Lexington, KY this week launched a 3 pm newscast. We are assured that station manager ...
PHOENIX ND DROPS OFF THE RADAR
After six years in the news director’s chair at Tegna’s (Standard Media…soon, soon) KPNX in Phoenix, AZ, George Davilas sent a note to staff last Friday saying he was leaving. Quickly, his Twitter account ...
LEAVING THE BUSINESS AND THE COUNTRY
Colleagues are saying goodbye to WRC meteorologist Lauryn Ricketts as she packs up her desk and prepares to join her husband for two years aboard for his job. Prior to joining the Washington, DC ...
KEEP MILKING THAT POLITICAL CASH COW KA-CHING 1
We should tell you up front there is a recurring theme to today’s column. And we can expect the theme to pop up more frequently as the financial pressure increases on local stations and ...
HOUSE FINDS HOME IN CONNECTICUT
We’re feeling kind of warm and fuzzy this week and before we lose it, another hat tip goes out, this one to Dennis House, co-anchor and political anchor at Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford-New Haven. ...
BUH-BYE WGCL….HELLO WANF
Start saying goodbye to the CBS46 branding and the call letters WGCL (if you still acknowledge the existence of call letters). Beginning in October, the station call letters for the Gray Television flagship will ...
ON TO THE NEXT ADVENTURE
Just shy of three years at FOX-owned KDFW in Dallas, and weekend am anchor Terrance Friday is gone. And while he didn’t make a big deal of it on social media, a comment in ...
HEADED FOR PR
Nine years at NBC-owned WVIT in Hartford-New Haven, CT and a total of 15 years in the business are enough for reporter Jamie Ratliff. http:// The Texas native was at Nexstar-operated WXXA in Albany ...
TO THE MEMORY OF HER DAUGHTER
Just shy of 33 years as a reporter/anchor/investigative reporter for Nexstar’s KELO in Sioux Falls, SD, Angela Kennecke is leaving the station and tv news to devote her full time to the non-profit she ...
THE NEW GUY IN HOUSTON
Well, since Tex the Dog left Graham Media’s KPRC in Houston this week and took his owner, station general manager Jerry Martin, with him, it was important for Graham to come up with a ...
WHITHER CHUCK TODD?
Washington media watchers seem to be rubbing their hands in anticipation of what MIGHT happen to longtime “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd in the wake of an executive shakeup at the venerable (75 ...
DO YOU REALLY WANT TO COMPARE?
We ran across an item recently that described how Tegna (someday Standard Media) station WNEP in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, PA was offering up daily doses of the station’s newscasts from the 1980’s. Twice daily, the archived ...
THE NEW NEWS IS THAT THERE IS MORE NEW NEWS
Buh-bye Drew Barrymore. Sayonara Dr. Phil. At least that’s the case in Denver, CO where, starting September 12, CBS-owned KCNC will dump the two programs and replace them with….news. The new news hours will ...
IN BRIEF…RESUME UPDATE EDITION
Tom Powell has been promoted to ND at Gray’s WPTA/WISE in Ft. Wayne, IN. He’s been the assistant ND (and an anchor). Learn more about his background here. He’s also worked in Memphis and ...
CONGRATULATIONS ON THE LONG RUN!!
You’ve got to tip your cap to anyone who manages to make it to a quarter century at the same television station – especially in an age where too many people are hanging up ...
GRAY SET TO LAUNCH FIRST CLASS OF INTERNS
Gray Television, working through its WLBT in Jackson, MS is on the verge of launching its first session of the company’s brand-new Gray Media Training Center internship program. The diversity-oriented program, first announced last ...
TAKING THE EXIT IN BOSTON
About 20 years in the tv news business is evidently the limit for Boston traffic anchor Olessa Stepanova. She’s leaving NBC-owned WBTS and NECN after three years and is on to her next adventure….which ...
LEAVING THE BUSINESS…FOR GOOD
After being a fixture on KPRC’s “Houston Life” for a number of years, Tex the Dog is leaving the business. Not in search of a new adventure. Tex is leaving the Graham Media station ...
PRINT PEOPLE TRANSITIONING TO…VIDEO? SCRIPPS IS HERE TO HELP
With a background in both print and broadcast news, Jim Iovino has been named head of the Scripps Journalism Journey Initiative. Google is funding the program, with the goal of helping print journalists make ...
BACK HOME IN UTAH
Her two-month hiatus ends next week when Katija Stjepovic starts her new job at Bonneville’s KSL in Salt Lake City. http:// Stjepovic left Tegna’s (Standard Media yadayadayada) back in June when she had been ...
CANCEL IN HASTE, REPENT AT LEISURE
Did anyone really think through the cancellation of CNN’s “Reliable Sources” or was Chris Licht in such a hurry to please major Warner Discovery stockholder John Malone that he preferred to leave a gaping ...
NEXSTAR OPTS FOR “THE BEAST” IN MOBILE
There’s always money for gadgets, isn’t there? In this case, Nexstar’s WKRG in Mobile AL, dropped a chunk of dough on “The Beast.” Just in time for hurricane season (where the first thing on ...
ANOTHER LOCAL STATION GETS INTO 24/7 STREAMING NEWS
This time around it’s NOT a network O&O launching a streaming service. Capitol Broadcasting in Raleigh-Durham, NC last week launched WRAL News+, a 24/7 multi-platform local news network. There’s a bit of a twist ...
AND….HE’S WON EMMYS WE’RE TOLD
After six years at Nexstar-operated KOLR in Springfield, MO, meteorologist TJ Springer has come home, after a fashion, to Hearst’s WGAL in Lancaster, PA http:// The Baltimore native (it’s just a hop, skip and ...
FRESNO REPORTER TAKES GIG CLOSER TO HOME
A reporter from Fresno is heading across the country to be closer to family in Florida.
NO ‘GRAY’ AREA: GRAY TV INCREASES MINIMUM WAGE COMPANY WIDE
Gray Television will increase the minimum wage for hundreds of employees starting in October.
ATLANTA NATIVE JOINS CHARLOTTE NEWS TEAM
Staying in the south as a Atlanta native makes the move to Charlotte.
METEOROLOGIST UPDATES CANCER PROGRESS ON SOCIAL MEDIA
A Columbus, Ohio meteorologist has been keeping viewers in the loop with his cancer battle that started earlier this year.
THIS JOURNALIST ISN’T ‘BUFFALOED’: FROM MMJ TO WEEKEND ANCHOR
Promotion for Buffalo reporter, who is named a weekend anchor after more than three years at the station.
WISCONSIN MORNING ANCHOR DIES SUDDENLY
Family and friends talk about her last days.
FIRST ANCHOR ROLE FOR HOUSTON NATIVE
New anchor makes her debut at a Texas station.
JACKSONVILLE STATION HAS FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN METEROLOGIST
The first African American woman meteorologist took to the air at WJXT in Jacksonville.
REPORTER TAKES FLIGHT, LANDS IN ORLANDO
Reporter's new gig takes him to Orlando
OREGON SPORTS REPORTER AWAITS ‘NEW ADVENTURE’
Sports reporter exits Oregon station with next gig not revealed yet.
DALLAS BROADCASTING ICON SAYS FAREWELL
Saying so long after more than three decades on air in Dallas.
FORECAST IS BRIGHT FOR MILWAUKEE’S NEW MORNING METEOROLOGIST
Milwaukee forecaster gets promoted to full-time morning slot.
ROANOKE STATION ADDS ANOTHER HOUR OF NEWS
One Virginia station is bringing another hour of afternoon news to viewers.
KANSAS ANCHOR IS RETURNING TO HIS FORMER STATION
After more than two decades, a Kansas native is returning to first station.
HOUSTON REPORTER EXITS FOR TECH COMPANY
Reporter turns her attention to the public relations world.
NEXT STEP? HE’LL GET BACK TO US.
He’s got another job, still in the journalism field, but all Tampa political reporter/weekend anchor Evan Donovan will divulge right now is that he is leaving Nexstar’s WFLA after a five-year run. He has ...
CUOMO HIRE REPORTEDLY SPURS MINI-REBELLION AT NEWSNATION
We’ve seen several reports now that the internal reaction at Nexstar’s NewsNation to the hiring/rescue of disgraced anchor Chris Cuomo is less-than-enthusiastic. In fact, staffers are said to be resisting, if not outright refusing, ...
ABILENE ANCHOR SHUFFLE
Mission Broadcasting’s KRBC in Abilene, TX just completed a reassigning of anchors as Abby Green was moved off weekends after a year and a half and moved into the co-anchor chair of the weekday ...
IN BRIEF….
There’s a another new ND at another Rochester station. But he’s not new to the station. Ed Buttacio returns to WHAM in Rochester, NY as the ND. Earlier in his career he was a ...
“IT IS TIME FOR SOMETHING NEW”
And so, after 11 years anchoring weekends at Nexstar’s WHTM in Harrisburg, PA, Janel Knight signs off tomorrow (Saturday). http:// The Boston native previously worked at WJAC in Johnstown prior to arriving in Harrisburg.
A NEW LOOK IN OMAHA
It is readily apparent that Gray Television believes in investing in infrastructure at their properties. The latest upgrade comes at WOWT in Omaha, NE, where the company exited its home of 70+ years to ...
A NEW ROLE FOR A TV VETERAN
Lourdes Stephen held forth on morning at Univision’s “Despierta América” for 15 years before being axed by the network in a cost-cutting move back in 2018. This week she resurfaced as Jessica Carrillo’s co-anchor ...
RE-UPPING IN BUFFALO
After 24 years as the 5, 6, 10 & 11 o’clock news anchor at Tegna’s (s-t-b Standard Media’s) WGRZ in Buffalo, NY, Scott Levin wants you to know he ain’t going anywhere. http:// We’re ...
THINGS WE WISH WE’D SAID
In the early part of this century if someone told you they were “a consultant” there was a good chance it meant they were out of work. Today, “I have a podcast” seems to ...
A NEW DEPUTY SHERIFF AT SCRIPPS PHOENIX
The newly-named number two in the newsroom at Scripps’s KNXV is Shawn Martin, the newsroom’s longtime and heavily-decorated executive producer of its investigative unit. His appointment is immediate “Shawn is a leader in the ...
AFTERNOON IS THE NEWLY-FERTILE GROUND FOR NETWORK NEWS
When NBC announced that its long-running soap opera “Days of Our Lives” was to be bumped in favor of a newly-created “NBC News Daily,” an hour produced by its NBC News Now streaming hub, ...
LA ANCHOR OFF TO FIND A NEW ADVENTURE
Former CNN anchor Michaela Periera has been anchoring “Good Day LA” on FOX-owned KTTV in Los Angeles for close to two years. That ends September 9th. Periera has made the decision to step down ...
A NEW ROLE FOR AN ABC NEWS ANCHOR
The story earlier this month when Rhiannon Ally was named a co-anchor of ABC News’ “World News Now” and “America This Morning” was that the network intended to go with a three-anchor format on ...
COMING TO THE NIGHT BEAT
Time to change the alarm clocks for Allison Wise, who is moving off the dawn patrol, anchoring the morning news for the past three and a half years at Hearst’s KHBS-KHOG in Ft. Smith ...
