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RALEIGH ANCHOR ANNOUNCES DEPARTURE
WRAL is losing its morning anchor who was once the station’s youngest reporter. Mikaya Thurmond will leave the Raleigh, North Carolina station and head to a place unknown. Thurmond announced her departure on social ...
LEAVING THE STATION BUT NOT THE BUSINESS
Whenever we can report a move but it’s a move within the business, we’re happy. A young anchor-reporter at KRDO in Colorado Springs, Colorado is making her next move. Sydnee Scofield graduated from Arizona ...
SINCLAIR NAMES NEW VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE
Sinclair Broadcast Group as new Vice President of finance. Stephen Clare has been named to oversee the company’s financial planning and analysis as well as business development departments. Clare comes from Audacy, where he ...
NEBRASKA SALES MANAGER GETS MAJOR PROMOTION
Sinclair promotes a general sales manager at its Lincoln, Nebraska duopoly.
ANCHOR ADMITS ABSENCE FROM MEDICAL LEAVE
Tampa morning anchor reveals his absence is due to a chronic medical condition.
METEOROLOGIST EXITS DUE TO MENTAL HEALTH CONCERNS
Iowa meteorologist leaves after more than six years to address mental health concerns.
NBC NEWS MAKES CHANGES IN WASHINGTON WITH WILLIAMS RETIREMENT
NBC News names reporters to succeed the retiring Pete Williams.
CUOMO ADDRESSES CNN ON NEW PODCAST: ‘SORRY DIDN’T GET TO SAY GOODBYE’
Chris Cuomo returns with a podcast and discusses his departure from CNN.
‘NEW CHALLENGE’ AWAITS VETERAN DALLAS REPORTER
Veteran Dallas reporter moves on to 'next adventure."
TASTY ANNIVERSARY! LONGTIME HOUSTON ANCHOR GETS BURGER NAMING FOR 40TH ANNIVERSARY
Veteran anchor reaches milestone and gets a burger in his honor.
JOURNALIST MOVES FROM ILLINOIS TO NEW MEXICO
A multimedia journalist makes the move to Albuquerque.
LIVING THE DREAM
It took 10 years and work experience at four television stations for meteorologist Dani Beckstrom to fulfill her dream. http://
TAKE A TIMEOUT
Now that we appear to have put COVID in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to take a look back at the flubs of the past two years as we worked from .
TAKING ON HIS FIRST JOB
A’Darius McCormick starts his first tv news job next month at Morgan Murphy’s KAVU in Victoria, TX. http:// “A’Darius is coming into his first newsroom job with all the skills needed,” said KAVU news ...
A-A-AND CBS KEEPS ROLLING OUT NEW LOCAL NEWSCASTS
Earlier this week, ten stations in the CBS group, all independents and CW affiliates, launched nightly newscasts. To go along with the expanded newscasts, airing on WLNY New York, WPSG Philadelphia, KTXA Dallas-Fort Worth, ...
LONGTIME CONNECTICUT REPORTER TAKING THE EXIT
It was back in 2011 that Matthew Campbell brought his investigative reporting skills to Gray’s WFSB in Hartford-New Haven from sister station WGGB in Western Massachusetts. Now he is packing them up and preparing ...
BOWING TO THE INEVITABLE
Suzanne Phan is counting down the days to her departure from Sinclair’s KOMO in Seattle, WA. It’s not an unexpected move. Her husband, Ryan Yamamoto, left KOMO back in December to take on 5 ...
A DECADE OF TV NEWS WAS ENOUGH
Angela Brauer spent 10 years in tv news, the last five of them as morning anchor at Nexstar’s WTTV in Indianapolis. And now, her next adventure is working in the nonprofit world in Cleveland, ...
LOG-ROLLING IN OUR TIME
Log-rolling: [from a former American custom of neighbors assisting one another in rolling logs into a pile for burning] : the exchanging of assistance or favors specifically : the trading of votes by legislators ...
CROSSING THE STREET IN DC
Four years after he moved up at Telemundo’s WZDC to become an MMJ and weather anchor, Daniel Rivera has crossed the street, to Univision’s WFDC, where he will be the station’s principal forecaster, weekdays ...
ANOTHER ONE IN THE REAL ESTATE GAME
Back in February we noted that Mark Wright wrapped up his 11-year anchoring career at Seattle’s KING without giving a clue as to his next step. Now we know that next step is into ...
BACK TO HER NEW ENGLAND ROOTS
After just under two years in Augusta, GA, where she was hired as a reporter and quickly took on weekend anchoring duties, Eliza Kruczynski has bid goodbye to Lockwood’s WFXG (and Augusta National Golf ...
IN BRIEF…MOVING UP AND NEW VENTURES EDITION
Longtime news director Mark Neerman has launched a new venture, Indarra Media. He sent along this note which explains the new company, his first two partners, including a former network o-and-o GM, and news ...
HEADING FOR THE DOOR IN BUFFALO
Buffalo viewers will be waving buh-bye next week to morning “Wake Up” staffer Jhas Williams. After two years, she is moving on from Nexstar’s WIVB In her departure notice on Twitter, she managed to ...
HER RETURN STIRS SOME EXCITEMENT
Five years after she forsook KMIZ and Columbia, MO for the bright lights of St. Louis and a morning anchor slot at Gray’s KMOV, Marissa Hollowed is returning to the NPG station and the ...
A NEW WEEKEND SPORTS ANCHOR AT KHBS-KHOG FT.SMITH
She’s leaving Gray’s WTVY in Dothan AL, to join Scripps in Ft. Smith, AR. No more “Roll Tide” for Meridith Mulkey…it’s “Woooooooooo, Pig! Sooie! Woooooooooo, Pig! Sooie! Woooooooooo, Pig! Sooie! Razorbacks!” Complete with choreography. ...
NEWS 12 GENERAL MANAGER OUT AFTER DOZENS SPEAK OUT ABOUT WORK CONDITIONS
But conditions continue to push people out in the NJ and LI newsrooms.
IT ENDS ON LABOR DAY
48 years of toiling in tv newsrooms, beginning in Jacksonville, FL in his home state back in the early 1970s, more than 30 of them at WIBW in Topeka, KS comes to an end ...
IT’S OFFICIAL. ALLEN MEDIA WINS THE BLACK NEWS CHANNEL SWEEPSTAKES
Now we get to see just how entrepreneur Byron Allen intends to revive the moribund Black News Channel As we have reported, Allen and his Allen Media group have been the most-mentioned and most ...
LICHT KEEPS IT MOSTLY INSIDE FOR HIS CNN LEADERSHIP TEAM
CNN chairman Chris Licht kept it mostly in the house as he named his new leadership team for the network’s news and business sides. CNN’s 4,000 employees were told yesterday that Virginia Moseley would ...
FAMILIAR FACE RETURNS TO BAY AREA…BUT ON A NEW CHANNEL
Kyla Grogan left FOX-owned Oakland, CA-based KTVU last fall At the time she didn’t share what her plans were. Eight months later, we know. She’s moving across the Bay and the weather center at ...
BOSTON BOUND
Gerardo Lopez is headed to Boston, where he’ll be the next vice president and news director for CBS owned WBZ/WSBK. He’ll replace JESSI MILLER BRADLEY who left the station in late May after about ...
BONEHEAD SHOWS HIS IGNORANCE IN INSULTING EMAIL TO FORECASTER
Some yokel named Stephen LaFrance was upset about the weather forecast delivered by veteran New Orleans forecaster and WVUE chief meteorologist David Bernard. So he did what anyone who’s taken too many blows to ...
FROM MMJ TO CNN CORRESPONDENT
Ivan Rodriguez spent a little more than three years at Scripps’ KMGH in Denver as an MMJ. And now a long-held dream of his is about to happen. Later this month he will make ...
LONGTIME ARIZONA TV NEWSER TAKES THE EXIT INTO REAL ESTATE
No, she won’t be flogging open houses, but Destry Jetton, late of Tegna (s-t-b Standard Media) station KPNX in Phoenix, AZ is now in the real estate business. She’s the new vice-president of communications ...
POLITICAL REPORTER MOVES FROM MONTANA TO CONNECTICUT
There’s a new face covering Connecticut politics at Tegna’s (s-t-b Standard Media’s) WTIC in Hartford-New Haven, CT. Emma Wulfurst joined the station after just under two years at Sinclair’s triopoly of stations based in ...
SCRIPPS BUMPS UP A DETROIT NEWS EXEC
Scripps owned WXYZ in Detroit, MI has promoted Kennan Oliphant to news director. He’s been minding the store since Jeff Kiernan left to become GM for sister-Scripps KTNV in Las Vegas earlier this year. ...
FINALLY….SOMEONE ON STANDARD MEDIA’S SIDE
It was probably beginning to feel a little lonely at Standard Media’s and Tegna’s respective HQs as opposition to the proposed acquisition of the latter by the former grew. Now civil rights group “Arc ...
POPULAR CLEVELAND MET RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL AFTER SEVERE BEATING
We told you last week the shocking story of how WOIO meteorologist Jon Loufman was attacked and severely beaten over the weekend at his home. Today there is good news to report. He was ...
DENVER METEOROLOGIST SHOWS OFF NEW FACE AFTER CANCER DIAGNOSIS
She’s slowly recovering but it’s been a ride.
SATX TV PERSONALITY PENS A CHILDREN’S BOOK
She brought in personal experience.
WSDU HIRES THIS NETWORK ANCHOR TO DO THE NOON AND 4PM SHOWS
Everyone wants to go home. Even if it means going from a network gig to a local gig. Former CNN newssource correspondent Darryl Forges is the latest anchor to leave the around the clock ...
CBS6 NAMES HEATHER KOVAR’S REPLACEMENT
For now, at least…
FORMER PHILLY TV EXEC TO NEXSTAR TO OVERSEE NUMEROUS STATIONS
Last week, we told you KYW in Philly got a new GM. The GM she replaced is heading to Nexstar to oversee a handle of stations. Brandin Stewart is now the senior Vice President ...
THIS NORTH CAROLINA SPORTS ANCHOR TIED THE KNOT AT TACO BELL
It’s pretty intense.
MORT MEISNER ADDS NEW AGENT
The new hire was most recently a news director.
IN ALL TRUTH, IT’S NONE OF YOUR DAMNED BUSINESS
Yesterday, a familiar news anchor returned to the morning news in San Antonio, Texas. For a while there, people were wondering about KENS 5 morning anchor Sarah Forgany, who had been visually absent from ...
AFTER 11 YEARS, SHE’S SAYING GOODBYE TO KTLA
Longtime reporter, anchor and entrepreneurial journalist Christina Pascucci is leaving KTLA, the Nexstar station in Los Angeles. Pascucci posted a compilation video along with a goodbye note on her social media accounts. She started ...
NEW BUFFALO GM IS ‘LUCKIEST GUY’
Veteran news manager brings his expertise to Buffalo.
TIME ‘NOW’ FOR CBS STATIONS TO REBRAND, ADD NEWSCASTS
CBS stations make adjust to nightly newscasts with rebranding.
NEBRASKA ANCHOR VOWS TO FIGHT CANCER WITH ‘POSITIVE ATTITUDE’
Omaha, Nebraska anchor spends a week in hospital with cancer diagnosis.
ALOHA TO VETERAN ALABAMA NEWS DIRECTOR
After more than 15 years, an Alabama-based news director is heading west to Hawaii.
MONTANA SPORTSCASTER MOVES INTO NEW ROLE
Veteran Montana sportscaster exits for the sales world.
METEOROLOGIST RETURNS TO TV AND BIRMINGHAM
An Alabama weather forecaster gets a homecoming next month.
NEW BEGINNINGS FOR FORMER IOWA ANCHOR
From anchoring to public relations, a former Iowa broadcaster begins new career.
ALBANY ANCHOR HOPES TO ‘MOVE FORWARD’ FROM ON-AIR SLURRING INCIDENT
Albany anchor, leaving the station this month, hopes her on-air confusion is now in the past.
OK…OK….OUR GUESS WAS OFF
Maybe it was a plague of exits from the tv news business this spring. Or perhaps we were distracted by the pending name change of Heinz Field in Da Burgh (we knew SOMETHING was ...
A CAPITOL IDEA IN SACRAMENTO
Ashley Zavala is moving across a Sacramento, CA street from Nexstar’s State Capitol team to join Hearst’s KCRA/KQCA as its new Capitol correspondent. And thrills abound. “We’re thrilled to welcome Ashley to the KCRA ...
LONGTIME LONG ISLAND TV NEWSER TURNS UP ACROSS THE STREET
Elisa DiStefano, the veteran lifestyle and entertainment reporter for News 12 Long Island wasted no time in crossing the street. Seventeen years after she started at News 12, and just days after she left, ...
A NEW WEATHER GUESSER IN NEW YORK
Meteorologist Florencia Giménez has been added to the weather team at Telemundo’s WNJU in New York. When she starts later this month, she will be weekend weather anchor for “Noticiero Telemundo 47 Fin de Semana” at ...
REPORTING ON POSSIBLE POWER OUTAGES WHEN…THE POWER WENT OUT
Chief meteorologist Travis Herzog was updating viewers on Disney’s KTRK in Houston on how the region’s extreme heat MIGHT trigger power outages when…. This happened. Ah, but the show must go on, as he ...
WAGA PLANS A TALK SHOW
FOX-owned WAGA in Atlanta, GA recently found itself with a programming hole with the cancellation of the syndicated yakker “The Real.” So the station turned to noon anchor and reporter Portia Bruner to helm ...
CLEVELAND STATION ALMOST OVER-WELCOMES A NEW METEOROLOGIST
Mackenzie Bart is the newest forecaster to grace Dick Goddard Way, home of Nexstar’s WJW in Cleveland, OH She came to the station from down I-71 at Tegna’s WBNS in Columbus, OH where she ...
NY1 ANCHOR IN CANCER BATTLE
Ruschell Boone has been a mainstay at Spectrum’s NY1 since she joined the newsroom in 2002. Starting out as a reporter, she worked her way up to an anchor assignment, collecting Emmys and other ...
SOURCE: MEGYN KELLY NOT GOING TO NEWSNATION
Rumors about the former TV anchor’s return surfaced on Thursday
MAKING THE JUMP FROM THE DIGITAL TEAM
Gray’s WAVE in Louisville, KY has taken Maira Ansari from its digital and streaming platform (she also doubled as evening reporter) and put her on the solo anchor desk for the station’s 3 pm ...
SPEAKING OF TEGNA (STB STANDARD MEDIA)…WHAT’S THE STALL?
If you got accustomed to the FCC’s lightning-quick rubber-stamping of group mergers during the Ajit Pai years, the pace of progress in the Tegna-Standard Media deal seems glacially slow. And it just got a ...
PHILLY STATION BRINGS ON TWO NEW METS
Joining the NBC-owned WCAU/WWSI weather center this week are two Accu-Weather alums – meteorologists Marvin Gómez and Michelle Rotella. Everybody is on cloud 9. “We are delighted to have Marvin and Michelle join the ...
IN BRIEF…MOVING UP AND OUT EDITION
Nexstar reached into its ranks to fill a new position, Director of News Training. Kelly Hicks, currently the morning EP for WDAF in Kansas City, will implement a training program for newscast producers. She’s ...
WHY ALL THE NEWS EXPANSION? HERE’S A GOOD REASON
Yesterday we reported on two tv stations that are launching 4 pm newscasts to “better serve you the public…blahblahblah” and the plans to debut a marathon 7-hour morning newscast starting this fall on the ...
CHANGES TO A BOSTON ANCHOR DESK
NBC’s WBTS in Boston, MA (aka NBC10) is a station in search of ratings And to that end, the station has paired the newly-hired Priscilla Casper with station vet Colton Bradford on the 4 ...
MOVING UP TO MILWAUKEE
Cyreia Sandlin joins Hearst’s WISN in Milwaukee, WI as an anchor/reporter. Sandlin most recently worked for the Gray’s WTOC in Savannah, GA where she was also an anchor/reporter. Cyreia is a graduate of The ...
“WHAT MORE COULD A GIRL ASK FOR?”
Apparently not much, if you’re Daisy Caballero, a recent addition to the staff at Tegna’s (someday Standard Media’s) KGW in Portland, OR. From her Facebook posting: “Excited to announce I have officially started my ...
FROM THE BAY AREA TO BISCAYNE BAY
It’s a cross-country move for Tayhana García, who moves within Univision from KDTV in San Francisco to WLTV in Miami. She’ll be a nightside reporter for the station. She’d been at KDTV for the ...
OF COURSE YOU RELEASE THE VIDEO. IT’S WHAT HAPPENED.
Tuesday at 3pm CT, KVUE, the Tegna station in Austin, Texas broke into programming. The breaking news – lead reporter Tony Plohetski in conjunction with the daily paper, The Austin Statesmen – had obtained ...
CBS DETROIT ANNOUNCES NEW PERSONNEL HIRES
Building a news operation from scratch is a daunting task and in Detroit, WWJ/WKBD VP/GM Brian Watson and news director Paul Pytlowany are doing just that at the CBS O&O. Anchors Shaina Humphries and ...
AND IN CHICAGO…THIS HAPPENED
You’re out doing a live shot, just trying to be professional….and even the wildlife decides to photo-bomb you. In this case, the victim was reporter Lisa Chavarria of WMAQ in Chicago. The offender…..a robin ...
IN BRIEF…MEET THE NEW BOSSES EDITION
A couple of new GMs tagged by the corporate suits. Scripps named Lisa Volenec as the new vice president and general manager for KMTV, in Omaha, NE, effective Monday, Aug. 22. That means she will ...
RESPECTED MANAGING EDITOR IN CINCY PASSES AWAY
WLWT is moving forward without their managing editor. 51 year old Bill Hager passed away suddenly on Sunday during a bike ride. He suffered a heart attack, according to the station. Hager was responsible ...
GET OUT THE WD-40 FOR THAT REVOLVING DOOR
Three years and ten months after joining CBS flagship WCBS in New York, reporter Aundrea Cline-Thomas is gone o to her next adventure – which she will tell you about when she gets around ...
CBS PLANS A BIG CASH HAUL IN LOS ANGELES
KCAL, the CBS-owned independent in Los Angeles, CA, is going for the gold. For the first time in the station’s history, it is planning a morning news presences – and that presence is going ...
THIS WON’T DO HER CAREER A BIT OF GOOD
Erie, PA tv news reporter Haley Potter finds herself in a career-killing mess. The 24-year-old who’s been with Lilly’s WICU for the past two years, was arrested and charged with fabricating false reports of ...
ABC NEWS NAMES A NY BUREAU CHIEF
Josh Hoyos has been promoted from his assignment manager position at ABC News to be the network’s new New York bureau chief. He’s been with the network for a decade, beginning as an intern ...
POISED TO CASH IN ON THAT ELECTION $$$$
Forget about the press releases that loudly proclaim “we’re seeing an increased demand for local news” and “smart reporting that keeps you safe and saving money” The reason tv stations are the country are ...
STORYTELLING WORKSHOP COMING TO AUSTIN
Hosted by one of our sponsors, Sound of Life Media.
POPULAR CLEVELAND FORECASTER RECOVERING FROM VICIOUS ATTACK
From his son…
CLEAN ‘SLATE’ FOR MONTANA STATION
A former Montana reporter returns to the station as news director.
FOX NEBRASKA HAS A NEW GENERAL MANAGER
It’s a promotion.
A TRIBUTE TO ABC7NY NEWS DIRECTOR REHAN ASLAM
ABC7NY main anchor Bill Ritter posted about the recent death of the station’s news director. Rehan Aslam got his dream job at the ABC station in Manhattan, New York and three months later he ...
TRUST IN TV NEWS AT ALL-TIME LOW: SURVEY
Trust for the TV news industry falls to lowest levels, a new survey reveals.
CONNECTICUT SPORTSCASTER ‘LOOKS FORWARD TO FUTURE’
Sportscaster moves on to next opportunity after leaving position in Hartford.
‘SLEEP-DEPRIVED’ ALBANY ANCHOR SUSPENDED FOR SLURRING
Albany anchor blames sleep deprivation on her stammering weekend performance but our sources say it could be something else.
NEW NEWS DIRECTOR SURFACES AT CBS PHILADELPHIA
Kathleen Gerrow has been named VP/news director for KYW–WPSG in Philadelphia, Broadcasting & Cable reported. Gerrow has a long history at KYW, working as a producer from 1983 to 1996. She spent the last ...
OKC LOSES KEY POLITICAL REPORTER FOR NON-NEWS JOB
Plus, he’s doing his own thing.
LONGTIME COLOR ANALYST IN KENTUCKY RETURNS TO ANCHOR DESK
"A lot of people may not remember that I started my broadcasting career at ABC 36.”
UPDATE: ALBANY ANCHOR SUSPENDED AFTER SLURRING THROUGH NEWSCAST
Newsblues has learned that WRGB anchor Heather Kovar was suspended by CBS6 in Albany, the Sinclair station. She was suspended on Sunday after stumbling and bumbling through her newscast on Saturday at 6pm. Here ...
LONGTIME EL PASO REPORTER HEADS STATION’S CONSUMER UNIT
El Paso reporter to head the station's consumer watchdog unit.
