Just a short year after excepting his dream job as news director at WABC, the ABC station in New York City, news director Rehan Aslam has died. Aslam was diagnosed with brain cancer less ...
Victor Hugo Rodriguez is no stranger to exiting the tv news business. After entering the newsroom environment back in 2000 with Telemundo, he took a three-year break from 2013-2016 to work in the insurance ...
Nearly a quarter century after he got back to his native Connecticut by joining (now) Gray’s WFSB in February of 1998, Kevin Hogan is getting ready to wrap up his 48-year career in tv ...
Need a beach read this summer? If you can hold off until August, Linda Hurtado, WTVT (FOX Tampa, FL) midday anchor by day and crime novelist by night, has something you might find diverting. ...
Well any day now…really…ANY. DAY. NOW we are told, expect to see Nexstar complete the deal that gives it majority control of The CW. Under the deal, Nexstar would own 75% of the network ...
Kalyn Norwood spent all of two years at Hearst’s KOAT in Albuquerque, NM in the latest stop of her 6½ year tv journey. And her next stop, courtesy of Hearst, is a beauty. From ...
She built a reputation over four decades as a tenacious reporter who was a consumer advocate and, eventually, one of the most respected…and feared…investigators in the business. And now Jayne Miller has decided it’s ...
Six years ago, Morgan Wolfe wrapped her internship at KARE (Tegna…Standard Media….yada yada yada..) and embarked on a career that eventually led to her becoming a TikTok pioneer, amassing 7 million views and 60,000 ...
Brand new to the morning show at Hubbard’s KAAL in Rochester, MN is Jessie Klinger, who popped up for the first time Wednesday morning. The Minnesota native came to the station directly from the ...
We’re guessing that St. Louis anchor Randi Naughton figured there are only so many goodbyes you can make….and because she’s been saying goodbye since she announced it back in early May, she’s leaving Nexstar’s ...
Congratulations to Jennifer Dale who advances within Gray, not to a new ND job, but to a new role as VP/Recruiting for Gray. More in this email from Gray SVP-Local Media Sandy Breland. Dale ...
At Tegna’s (someday Standard Media’s) WXIA, veteran prime-time anchor Jeff Hullinger (right) is being moved to weekends, making way for Ron Jones (left) to expand his portfolio to include his current 11 pm anchor ...
A changing of the guard is underway in Austin, TX, where veteran anchor Robert Hadlock (left) is preparing to step down from the prime-time desk at Nexstar’s KXAN in the middle of the month ...
She’ll be a familiar face to “Good Morning America” diehards. Janai Norman has been hosting GMA‘s “Pop News” over the weekend. “Janai is a versatile and talented journalist, whether she is anchoring at the ...
All of four months after she joined CBS-owned WBZ in Boston as a reporter, Katrina Kincaide is the new Miss Massachusetts. And she is the first Muslim woman to win the title. She arrived ...
Yet another staffer left high and dry by the shuttering of the Black News Channel in March has found a new home. Chloe Jones, who’d been an executive producer at BNC, is now with ...
It’s song title to song title for Kate Bieri, who’s moved from the New Mexico bureau of NPG’s KVIA in El Paso, TX to Cox Media’s WHBQ in Memphis, TN. http:// I’m so excited ...
It’s a photo worth a thousand words. WABC had its first in-person reporter morning editorial meeting since COVID shut down the newsroom more than two years ago. Longtime New York reporters Stacey Sager, Lauren ...
It took Jeff Zucker about 9 years to lead CNN’s ratings into the septic tank, including an epic run of garbage news decisions in 2015-2016. And there is a Greek chorus of reporting out ...
Gray triopoly KGMB/KHNL/KFVE in Honolulu, HI has hired Scott Duff from sister station WSFA in Montgomery, AL. Duff has been ND there for almost 16 years. He issued this note reflecting on the past ...
It’s always good to see folk landing on their feet after a blindsiding by an often-cold business. So congratulations to Marcel Clarke, late of the shuttered Black News Channel. She’s landed a new position ...
After five and a half years reporting for Fox-owned WNYW in New York (and a total of eight in the tv news grind) Kayla Mamelak is out the door and out of the business. ...
Correspondent Ruben Pereida and the Telemundo Chicago bureau he worked out of the past six years have been dropped and shuttered by the network. According to a network release… “Noticias Telemundo has decided to ...
Nate Feken spent all but six months of his 10½ year tv news career at Nexstar’s KFOR in Oklahoma City as a sports reporter. And he’s decided now is the time to head back ...
Another former news director moves up to the main job as Jeff Kiernan becomes vp and gm at Scripps’ KNTV in Las Vegas. For the past year and a half Kiernan has been the ...
Speaking of Robert Feder (and we were), the longtime Chicago media reporter has decided to retire his reporter note-pad (some folks still use them). He’s giving up his column at the “Daily Herald,” a ...
Todd Reed, who just joined Scripps’ KGTV in San Diego as news director about four months ago, has already left the station. Staff was apparently told just before the holiday weekend. Reed joined the ...
“A well-functioning democracy depends on healthy and trusted public and private institutions; an economy that provides broad-based opportunity and prosperity; tolerance and respect for one another and our differences; and a vibrant civic life.” ...
If anyone might have been considered a lifer in a tv market, it would have had to be Amy Wadas, with CBS O&O KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA. Growing up in Pittsburgh, KDKA was the ...
Almost from the time it was announced that the Black News Channel was shutting down earlier this year, Byron Allen’s name has repeatedly been mentioned as a possible savior of the cable channel. The ...
And even anchor icons eventually decide enough is enough. Dave Courvoisier returned to Las Vegas airwaves as evening anchor at Scripps’ KTNV just under two years ago. Back in 2017, Courvoisier left Nexstar’s KLAS ...
Nexstar’s WJBF in Augusta, GA has posted an opening for news director to replace Scott Elledge, who has been the ND here for a long time. He reportedly has a new job lined up….but ...
It’s back to Orlando for KPIX anchor Len Kiese, who signed off from CBS-owned KPIX in San Francisco mid-week. http:// Kiese came to the Bay Area from WFTV in Orlando in April of 2020. ...
The news got out long after the departure of Andy McDonnell as weekend sportscaster at Tegna-someday Standard Media’s – KARE in Minneapolis. After a little over two and a half years with the station, ...
Just days after his news director left Nexstar’s WROC in Rochester, NY, morning/midday anchor Mark Gruba signed off after ten years with the station to…..spend more time with his family? Gruba’s career in tv ...
Stephen Watson signed off last week as the main sports guy at Hearst’s WISN in Milwaukee, WI without giving a hint of the next step in his career. Now we know. Watson is joining ...
Laurie Passman, who’s been VP/News for CBS owned KTVT in Dallas for the last four years, is moving to a new…and yet to be revealed…role at the station. She sent this very detailed and ...
The $5.4 billion buyout of Tegna by Standard Media (with a financial assist from hedge fund Apollo Global) has come under fire from both unions and at least one competing media company. And that ...
Until he retired in 2016, Neil Zurcher traveled the blue highways of Ohio in his vintage Nash Metropolitan finding “One-Tank Trips” that Ohioans on a budget could enjoy. He did those reports for WJW ...
In the first of TWO new ND openings in the market, Serena Romero has left Sinclair operated WHAM in Rochester, NY for personal reasons. She’d been the ND here for about a year, and ...
How do you replace Ellen DeGeneres, who for years had been the reliable lead-in to your 3½ hour news block? If you’re KNBC in Los Angeles, you serve up yet another newsblock. Think of ...
Amanda Dugan, the news and traffic reporter at Nexstar’s KXAN in Austin TX has decided it’s time for a change. Per her Facebook page: “This Friday will be my last on KXAN Today, Nonstop ...
Erica Francis is vacating the 4 PM anchor desk at Nexstar’s WKRN in Nashville to get closer to her home area in Michigan. Friday is her last day fighting Nashville traffic before she heads ...
It has been done to varying degrees before. But the just-underway collaboration between CBS News, CBS News Streaming and the CBS O&Os is on an unprecedented scale and may point toward the future of ...
It looks like a trip into the world of PR….excuse us….corporate communications…for longtime Orlando morning anchor Christian Bruey. He is leaving Cox-owned WFTV. http://
Fox-owned WJBK in Detroit will welcome back veteran morning anchor Amy Andrews when she returns to the newsroom Friday morning. Back in May, Andrews announced on Twitter she was taking a “few weeks off ...
It’s a return to the Glass City for Brad Moses, who was named general manager of WTVG, Gray’s Toledo, OH station. In fact, it is return to WTVG for Moses, who was operations manager ...
Friday marks the end of sports director Brenna Greene’s 4-year run at Tegna (someday, Standard Media’s) KREM in Spokane, WA. “This was, genuinely, the most difficult decision I’ve made in my life. I’ve always ...
Starting Tuesday, viewers across the country are able to watch the news offerings of eight NBC O&Os through The Roku Channel. It is the first time local stations will be on the Roku Channel, ...
Six months after she was welcomed back from maternity leave and 5½ years after joining the station, reporter Candace McCowan is saying goodbye to Disney’s WABC in New York City. McCowan came to WABC, ...
So what’s next for Hobie Artigue, the abruptly-departed sportscaster at Fox-owned KMSP in Minneapolis? Not to worry, we’re sure we’ll find out soon enough what the new chapter is. His quick exit leaves Jim ...
(see what we did there?) After 16 years on the streets of Raleigh-Durham and environs for Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL, Bryan Mims is ready to hit the road, Jack (we’ll stop now). Mims is packing ...
After nine years of manning the anchor chair and reporting for KETV in Omaha, NE, David Earl is leaving the Hearst station and going back to school. Law school at the University of Nebraska. ...
Dani Welniak signed off from her sports director job at Gray’s KCTV in Kansas City, MO just last Friday. A couple days later and here she is, the newly-minted executive director of communications for ...
Ian Cassette wants you to know he’s out the door after five year at Gray’s WDBJ in Roanoke, VA. He even wants you to know that the “next adventure” is right around the corner. ...
Even as the objections mount against the proposed Standard Media/Tegna merger, (mainly due to the looming presence of bankroller Apollo Global) there are some voices being raised in support of the move. Soo Kim, ...
He appears to have gotten out of News 12 New Jersey before things really hit the fan….and now Jeremy Settle has landed in Buffalo, NY as the new news director of Tegna (someday Standard ...
Pity poor Rupert Murdoch. Unlucky in love now that his fourth marriage to former model Jerry Hall (26 years his junior) is apparently over. And unlucky in the courts, where the 91-year-old media baron ...
Her replacement at WKBW in Buffalo has already been named and we did know that Jenna Callari was out the door after just under 5 years on the sports beat at the station. But ...
Evidently the memo penned last week by Standard Media CEO Deb McDermott reassuring the Tegna news staff that jobs won’t be cut post-merger is not holding much water with the Tegna unions. On the ...
