His LinkedIn page says he’s “open to work.” But now-former WKOW evening anchor George Smith is NOT open to talking about the circumstances that led to his abrupt and unannounced departure from Allen Media’s ...
Today is the last day on the job at Hearst’s WLWT for Cincinnati, OH weekend co-anchor Mollie Lair. She told the social media world over the weekend that she was signing off after five ...
“Our viewers want trusted news and weather earlier in the day. We see a great opportunity at 11 a.m. to deliver even more breaking, local, state and national news stories that impact families in ...
Come October 3rd, a new chief meteorologist takes center stage at Scripps’ WTMJ in Milwaukee, WI. But the face will be familiar. Brian Niznansky will re-adjust his alarm clock and come off the dawn ...
Pedro Andrade is the new assistant news director at Telemundo’s KULX in Salt Lake City. He’s moving up from a producer slot at the station where he’s worked for the past two years. Prior ...
Or as permanent as anything might be in tv news. While Hearst’s WTMJ scours the nation looking for a new morning meteorologist to replace the just-promoted Brian Niznansky, Tom Durian and Symone Woolridge have ...
When the commercials you run are deemed more trustworthy than the newscasts you produce, it’s safe to say you have a significant problem. Brand researcher Brand Keys released a survey this week that noted ...
As “The View” heads into Season 26, CNN/Telemundo contributor Ana Navarro (left) and former Trump Administration member and CNN contributor Alyssa Farah Griffin (right) will join the show as permanent co-hosts. Longtime co-host Whoopi Goldberg ...
Cathy Shallcross is moving up at New York’s WCBS where she has been promoted to Director of Streaming and Digital Content. She’s worked there for eleven years, beginning as the 5:00 producer before advancing ...
UPDATE: In its second quarter Gray Television booked $90 million in political ad revenue. Nary a fact check was conducted. Over the years we have done a number of stories about the addiction tv ...
Come September 19, Brandice Bailey will take over as news director at FOX-owned WITI in Milwaukee, WI She’s coming from Gray’s WIS in Columbia, SC. Her behind-the-scenes career started back in 2007 as a ...
Mark Alford, who for 23 years worked as a reporter/morning anchor for Nexstar’s WDAF in Kansas City, MO before deciding tv news was bad…really bad….prevailed with 35% of the vote in a crowded field ...
Back at the beginning of June, we reported that meteorologist Kelly Franson was leaving Hearst’s KOAT in Albuquerque, NM because, as she put it, “It’s time for new adventures away from the world of ...
Former GMA executive producer Shelley Ross is going after Nexstar’s NewsNation over its decision to hire disgraced former CNN program host Chris Cuomo for a fall primetime slot being carved out for him, calling ...
David Williams will be staffing the weekend weather center at Hearst’s WCVB in Boston, MA. The suits are delighted. “We’re delighted to welcome David to WCVB’s talented and expert team of meteorologists,” said WCVB ...
Thirty one years in tv news. 28 of them in the Erie, PA market, the last 11 at Nexstar’s WJET. And now, Jill McCormick is vacating the anchor chair. http:// She says she will ...
Kalyn Norwood is now a full-fledged White House Correspondent. After three years at Hearst’s KOAT in Albuquerque, NM, the company has moved her across the country to become the White House Correspondent for the ...
Gray Television’s massive reorganization or its station management structure, with the appointment of six new senior vice-presidents, each with multiple station responsibilities, dominated the news earlier this week. Lost in the shuffle was Gray’s ...
Back in March, we told you about the exit of WNEP anchor Tom Williams after 30 years at the station….26 of them at the morning anchor desk. At the time, he was a tad ...
Anyway you cut it, 33 years is one HELL of a long run in any business – never mind the fickle and transient nature of tv news. So it’s news when Tim Ryan plans ...
It’s none of your damned business what Perry Sook will be paid under the terms of his brand-spankin’ new contract extension at Nexstar. Just accept that he’ll be sticking around at least through 2026, ...
Following the resignation of Gray Television’s Senior Vice President-Local Media Tim Ingram to “pursue other opportunities” (*wink, wink*) the management landscape inside the company underwent an upheaval. Effective August 1st, Gray has streamlined the ...
Just shy of three years after joining Sunbeam’s WHDH in Boston, tv investigative news vet Sam Smink is happily headed south on I-90 to Gray’s WFSB in Hartford-New Haven. http:// The move gets her ...
NBC’s WVIT in Hartford-New Haven, CT. has rolled out its new consumer watchdog team of Caitlin Burchill and Steve Pancione. http:// Burchill returned to New England three and a half years ago after a ...
Scripps-owned KSTU in Salt Lake City has promoted interim news director Stacey Roberts. Here’s the note from GM Tim Ermish. Scripps sent Roberts there as an interim from her job as Assistant ND for ...
Mel Orlins was fairly tight-lipped about her future back in May when she exited Nexstart’s WIVB back in May, advising her social media followers to keep following on Facebook to find out her next ...
Nearly four years after moving to Nashville from Knoxville on the eastern side of Tennessee, sports anchor/reporter Emily Proud is packing up and about to leave Nexstar’s WKRN. http:// And so the next stop ...
Nexstar continues to add to the roster of its WDVM/WDCW duopoly as it plans its push of the Hagerstown, MD stations into the Washington, DC market. Brandy Flores, a sports anchor/reporter with Entravision’s KMIR ...
We’re going to take a leap here and guess that Kaitlin Monte’s exit from the anchor chair at FOX-owned KRIV in Houston, TX was not the happiest of events. http:// Emotionally depleted. Sorry for ...
It really is a question of “When?” not “If?” Standard Media takes control of Tegna, but when it happens, KXTV in Sacramento, CA will be able to show off its refurbished studio. It’s been ...
Chris Cuomo heading to Nexstar’s NewsNation was very likely a sealed deal the day it was announced that Dan Abrams would devote an hour of his nightly program on the cable outlet to an ...
We’re guessing the guy whose execution she came to witness had a worse night than she did. http:// In other news… pic.twitter.com/hoSlZJTCys — Ivana Hrynkiw Shatara (@IvanaSuzette) July 29, 2022
Derek Bayne spent more than ten years covering sports as sports director of Allen Media’s WREX in Rockford, IL Starting in August, he’ll slide over into the news co-anchor chair as he takes on ...
It was a roll of the dice when Hena Doba left CBS News five years ago to take a job with something called Cheddar, a financial news streaming service now owned by Altice. Today ...
Up ‘til now, Caitrin Assaf has been a general assignment reporter at Nexstar’s KARK in Little Rock, AR. Her new assignment, after nearly two years at the station, is taking over the 4 pm ...
WXTV, the Univision affiliate in New York, has named Fernando Cardenas its new executive producer of Multimedia Content. As such, Cardenas will work weekdays, picking and choosing material from the AM and midday newscasts ...
Two years after arriving in the Rio Grande Valley and progressing from being an MMJ to weekend anchor, Tylisa Hampton has left Nexstar’s KVEO and is now with sister station KARK in Little Rock, ...
Sinclair’s WEYI/WSMH in Flint/Saginaw/Bay City, MI is looking for a new news director to replace Neilie-Ann Giffune who spent almost three years of her ten years at the station as ND. Sinclair owns WSMH ...
Bob Slovak found himself one of many victims of pandemic-related tv news cuts back in September 2020 when he was dropped at Disney’s KTRK in Houston. Now, Texas blogger Mike McGuff reports he’s back ...
It was a scary moment for two KSDK reporters out covering extreme flooding in the suburbs of St. Louis, MO. Reporters Sidney Stallworth (pictured right) and Mercedes Mackay (left) were on their way to ...
Lost in the shuffle of yesterday’s news heralding the arrival of former DFW reporter David Schechter’s coming on board CBS News (as many expected), was news that the network’s Stations Division had hired an ...
For the past 11 years, Jerry Martin has presided over Graham Media’s KPRC in Houston, TX as vice-president and general manager. His tenure was the capstone of a career that, beginning in 1980, saw ...
Does Gray Television have a “thing” against downtown facilities? Last month, we told you that the company’s KMOV was leaving its downtown St. Louis building in favor of a planned facility in the suburb ...
Reporter Ayanna Likens has skipped across several states, departing Cowles’ KHQ in Spokane, WA to land at Bonneville’s KSL in Salt Lake City, UT. http:// She must have a thing for three-letter call signs.
Nexstar’s WETM in Elmira, NY has hired Jim Turpin as its news director. Turpin is a veteran news director with stops in Fresno, Memphis, Norfolk and Wichita. More here. At WETM, he replaces Zach ...
A photojournalist for Tegna’s (someday Standard Media’s) KGW in Portland suffered cuts and a bruised eye on Monday when he was allegedly attacked and sucker-punched by Joshua David Spears. Spears, who was arrested twice ...
It’s “new opportunities” time for Detroit meteorologist Andrew Humphrey. He signed off from Graham Media’s WDIV for the last time yesterday, bringing to a close a two-decade run. “During the past 20 years, Andrew ...
The ball kinda got away from everybody on THREE news director hires over the past few months, all at Cowles stations: KHQ-TV, Spokane, WA…hired PAUL BERGEN, formerly GM and before that news director at ...
Back in December, Las Vegas meteorologist Kevin Janison left Sinclair’s KSNV saying he was in search of a better work-life balance after his contract talks with the station collapsed. That ended a wildly popular ...
In the latest grab for a chunk of the massive political dollars that will be flung around this mid-term, Cox Media’s KIRO in Seattle will launch a 4 pm news hour with all of ...
Gray Television’s WEEK in Peoria, IL is planning a whopping expansion of local news offerings in time for election season. No specific launch date has been announced but as part of its expansion, WEEK ...
Texas media blogger Mike McGuff reports on the sudden and quiet disappearance of weekend meteorologist Marina Neuman from Tegna (someday Standard Media) tv station KENS in San Antonio, TX. McGuff evidently got a heads-up ...
When Christi Paul exited CNN last month after a nine year run, we reported that Paul said at the time “I just could not be who I needed to be for my family.” We ...
Pete Williams’ exit this week as the justice correspondent for NBC News has triggered a number of moves in the network’s Washington bureau. Six-year network veteran Ken Dilanian takes over Williams’ slot at Justice. ...
