THE WEEKEND IS NEARLY HERE….GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK
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WE STAYED TUNED…AND NOW WE KNOW
Last month, we reported the impending departure of Niyah Gonzalez from the anchor desk at Scripps’ KXXV in Waco-Temple-Killeen, TX, who implored us to stay tuned for the next chapter of her career. The ...
SHE SAYS A MAJOR MOVE IS NEXT
Reporter Hayley Mason wrapped up four years at Gray’s WGCL in Atlanta. She didn’t reveal whether she is leaving her hometown or sticking around….but she promises her next move will be “major”. http:// OK. ...
HEADING FOR PHOENIX
Another Texas tv newser heads for Arizona, as Austin and FOX-owned KTBC says goodbye to reporter Steven Sarabia. After four years he is headed to Phoenix and Gray’s duopoly KPHO/KTVK. http:// Sarabia arrived in ...
NOT SUSPENDED, NOT FIRED….JUST LEAVING!
No, he hasn’t been suspended. No he hasn’t been fired But popular forecaster AJ Colby has left Nexstar’s WJW. Skeevy interweb “news sites” semi-literate speculations aside (created using a bad beta version of Google ...
A TIME SHIFT IN THE TWIN CITIES
We told you a couple of weeks ago about longtime morning anchor Jason DeRusha’s plans to exit CBS-owned WCCO in Minneapolis to “take leap and try a new adventure.” New adventure, same call letters. ...
IN BRIEF…..HAPPY RETURNS AND (SORTA) FOND FAREWELLS EDITION
Sarah Glover returns to Philadelphia to be VP/News and Civic Engagement for public tv station WHYY in Philadelphia, PA. She’s currently the Managing Editor for Minnesota Public Radio’s MPR News, but earlier in her ...
A RETURN TO THE ANCHOR DESK
A familiar face and voice has reappeared to deliver the evening news at Hearst’s WMTW in Portland, ME. Jon Crisos is now part of the news team at 5, 6, 10 and 11 p.m. ...
A MAJOR DEPARTURE PENDING IN ATLANTA
Just a year after moving off the morning news program and into the early evening anchor chores…and six years after she joined the station, Shiba Russell is leaving WXIA (Tegna s/t/b Standard Media) in ...
THIS WEEK IN LITIGATION
With any luck, former KMOV (Gray) meteorologist Meghan Danahey will soon see her sex and age discrimination lawsuit against the St. Louis station being argued in a courtroom Danahey, now with Sinclair’s WLOS in ...
FROM THE BIG APPLE TO THE BIG PEACH
Come July, Candace McCowan will be on the weekend anchor desk at Cox Media’s WSB in Atlanta. McCowan is moving down from Disney flagship WABC, where she spent the past five and a half ...
A MICROCOSM OF “THE GREAT RESIGNATION”
We’ve been talking an awful lot in recent months about “The Great Resignation” -the unusually large number of exits from what used to be destination markets and the distressing number of exits from the ...
HEADING HOME VIA THE TURNPIKE
Mike Holden’s tv newsroom experience began when he interned at Scripps’ flagship WEWS in Cleveland 11 years ago. And come the end of the month, his career will have come full circle as he ...
GONE WITH A HEAVY DOSE OF SELF-PITY
Self-described “recovering journalist” Kay Recede announces her departure from Hearst’s KCRA in search of a better work-life balance. http:// 11 years in the business, the bulk of which was spent as an MMJ, can ...
EIGHT IS ENOUGH. IT ENDS FRIDAY
Her next destination….whether in or out of tv news…is still a mystery. But one thing we know is certain. After eight years, this is Melanie Michael’s last week anchoring for Nexstar’s WFLA in Tampa, ...
SOON-TO-BE STANDARD MEDIA (!) NAMES GRAND RAPIDS ND
Brooks Blanton is moving to Grand Rapids, MI from Charlotte, NC to be the new news director for Tegna’s WZZM. It is a quick return to the Grand Rapids for Blanton, who spent all ...
“I HAVE SUCH A CONNECTION WITH SO MANY OF YOU”
And well he should, since Gary Lezak has been forecasting the weather for more than 23 yeas as chief meteorologist at Scripps’ KSHB in Kansas City, MO. The comes to an end in December, ...
THIS ONE IS ABOUT “MY BOYS AND HUSBAND”. AND A PR CAREER
Eighteen years in tv news, the last two years and nine months at 10 pm anchor at Nexstar’s WDKY in Lexington, KY and Kristen Pflum is just….done….with the hours. But she’s not giving up ...
MOVING AROUND TEXAS
After three years covering the Texas capital city for almost-Standard Media’s(!) KVUE in Austin, reporter Bryce Newberry is moving to Graham Media’s KPRC in Austin, TX. http://
BUH-BYE MILWAUKEE
After a total of 14 years in tv news, that last 12 of them as host of “Real Milwaukee” on FOX-owned WITI in…..well, Milwaukee, WI, Angelica Duria is turning her back on tv news ...
UPDATE: SEARCH FOR FREEWAY SHOOTER IN LA CONTINUES
Police continue to search for the gunman who followed, then shot at the car of a KTLA producer yesterday morning. The public is being asked to help with any information they might have. The ...
KTLA NEWSROOM EMPLOYEE NARROWLY ESCAPES FREEWAY SHOOTER
A producer for Nexstar’s KTLA in Los Angeles had a nightmarish experience Tuesday morning when a gunman drove up alongside her car on the 101 in LA and opened fire, sources at the station ...
WUSA HAS A NEW NEWS DIRECTOR
WUSA, Tegna’s CBS affiliate in the Washington D.C. area, announced it has a new director of content. And it’s someone from the station. Caridad Hernandez will be the station’s news content director and will ...
FROM MYRTLE BEACH TO NETWORK
NBC’s newest correspondent shot to the top.
FORMER NETWORK NEWS PRESIDENT NOW HELPING THE JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE
Axios is reporting that The House Jan 6 committee has hired former ABC News exec and producer James Goldston. The plan is to present the evidence in a way that’s captiativing and engaging for ...
TEGNA NAMES A HANDFUL OF NEW GENERAL MANAGERS AND NEWS DIRECTORS
It’s happening across the country.
UNION CALLS ON BIDEN TO SHUT DOWN TEGNA MERGER
While many news directors anticipate this deal will close by the end of the year, opposition to Standard Media and Apollo buying Tegna is popping up. The latest calls to shut the deal down ...
ISIS ROMERO RETURNS TO TV IN SAN ANTONIO
She departed KSAT in July 2021.
A GOOD SPORT IN MIDLAND
She’s coming from college.
HERE COME THE BILLABLE HOURS
A reporter is being sued for defamation.
LET’S TALK ABOUT THE ETHICS OF THIS
We had to ask.
OPENING: VIDEOGRAPHER/EDITOR
This open position is located in Orlando, Florida.
TEXAS CLUSTER HAS ITS NEXT LEADER SET TO START
A cluster based in Abilene has hired its next news director.
ATLANTA REPORTER EXITS WITH ‘MAJOR MOVE’ AHEAD
An Atlanta reporter and anchor has left the station after four years and teases a "major move" about her future.
A RISING JOURNALIST IS COMING TO PHOENIX
A Phoenix reporter is set to make her debut next week.
VETERAN TEXAS ANCHOR LEAVES POST; FUTURE UNCERTAIN
A San Antonio anchor says her goodbyes to colleagues and viewers.
‘NEW ADVENTURES’ FOR NEW MEXICO METEOROLOGIST
Meteorologist exits New Mexico station and the business.
NEW MORNING ANCHOR FOR TWIN CITIES
CBS Minnesota has its new morning co-anchor set to take over later this month.
NBC NEWS STREAMING REPORTER GETS NETWORK UPGRADE
Reporter gets opportunity to move from streamer to network.
GOOD ‘LUCK’ FOR NC ANCHOR IN CANCER BATTLE
North Carolina anchor looks to return to the air after getting a good result in her cancer battle.
NEW CAREER BLOSSOMS FOR LONGTIME WATERTOWN NEWSER
Longtime member of one Watertown newsroom is leaving the TV business.
VETERAN TV REPORTER/ANCHOR GETS NEW ROLE AT NEWSY
Rob Nelson was one of the first to sign on at Nexstar’s NewsNation and one of the first to bail when its practice fell far short of its theory, landing in September of 2021 ...
MOVING UP TO #1
RICH GARCIA has been promoted to news director for locally owned WINK in Fort Myers, FL. He’s been the Assistant ND for almost 15 years. His new boss (also his old boss) Tom Doerr, ...
AUTHOR, AUTHOR!!!
Ashley Baylor, a meteorologist with Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford, CT for the past three years. wants you to know she has a new sideline. http:// Before arriving in Hartford, she staffed the weather centers ...
AND THE EXODUS CONTINUES…
Less than a decade into her career in tv news and Leanne DeRosa is done this weekend. DeRosa spent the past five years at Sinclair’s WRGB in Albany, NY and three years prior to ...
LONGTIME BAY AREA ANCHOR DROPS SHOCKER ON COLLEAGUES
Bay Area media watcher Rich Lieberman reports that while all parties still have zipped lips, Allen Martin, the longtime anchor at CBS-owned KPIX, is stepping down in July and calling it a career. He’s ...
OUSTED POPULAR FORECASTER LANDS ON HER FEET
Meteorologist Kelly Bates has resurfaced in the Providence, RI market, no doubt gladdening the hearts of viewers. Those viewers, along with Bates, were left scratching their heads last fall when she was dumped by ...
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
After the latest in the ongoing upheaval at Scripps’ KTNV in Las Vegas, Kay McCabe’s new job might have lost a bit of its glitter. http:// McCabe’s news career started right out of college ...
WHAT GIVES IN VEGAS, BABY?
A quick recap on the personnel situation in the newsroom at KTNV (Scripps) in Las, Vegas, NV: Morning anchor Todd Quinones, executive producer Micah Manalo, and “Morning Blend” co-host Shawn Tempesta are exiting the ...
BREAKING THE “BREAKING NEWS” ADDICTION
This just in….Honestly, we can’t stop smiling. Someone finally stood up and said “Enough!” Our Hero of the Week is Chris Licht, the new boss at CNN, who has added a “Breaking News” guideline ...
VEGAS, BABY!
Mar Gonzalez returned to the Las Vegas airwaves earlier this week as the 5 pm weekday anchor and reporter on Telemundo’s KBLR. She most recently had been an MMJ at sister station KUAN in ...
ON THE MOVE
Here’s a move by Mort Meisner and Associates.
AFTER TELEVISION, HE FINDS HIS MUSE IN POETRY
Jack Marschall was a familiar face to Cleveland television as a reporter and anchor for WEWS (Scripps) and WUAB (Gray). That was mainly over a 30-year period from the 1980’s well into the 2010s. ...
THE STATION ALSO FILLS A HOLE IN ITS WEATHER DEPARTMENT
Josh Nichols has been tapped to fill one of the two open weather slots at Scripps’ WKBW in Buffalo, NY, starting next week. According to News Director Aaron Mason, Nichols will work part time ...
ONE FAMILIAR FACE WILL REPLACE ANOTHER IN BUFFALO
When anchor Ashley Rowe hits the exit at Scripps’ WKBW on June 10, she will be replaced three days later by someone Buffalo viewers have been watching off and on for awhile. Lia Lando ...
A GREAT RUN ENDS AT 36 YEARS
The accolades came thick and fast for veteran Norfolk sportscaster Scott Cash, who wrapped it up at WVEC (Tegna s/t/b Standard Media). “It’s not a job to him. It’s fun, it’s his livelihood,” WVEC ...
FROM SACRAMENTO TO SAN FRANCISCO
KNTV (NBC) in the San Francisco market, has brought in Velena Jones to report on Oakland and the East Bay area. She arrived from CBS-owned KOVR in Sacramento where she’d been for the past ...
BLACK NEWS CHANNEL MAY BE RESURRECTED
We may know as early as Friday whether the Black News Channel, shuttered in March after just two troubled years in operation, will spring back to life under new ownership. Ebony Studios LLC, a ...
VETERAN BAY AREA REPORTER HEADS FOR….WHAT ELSE?….PR
Public relations and real estate have become the new refuges for tv news types either tired of the business or tossed aside by it. The latest to flee to the world of PR is ...
A FAST RISE IN MILWAUKEE
It was just last November that Alex Corradetti joined Weigel’s WDJT in Milwaukee as a reporter. And now she is set to move into the morning anchor chair recently vacated by bride-to-be Meghan Reistad ...
GONE…WITH THE NEXT ADVENTURE TBA
After three years, morning reporter Samaia Hernandez is out the door at Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford-New Haven, CT. Her past experience that includes public radio and as a legislative staffer makes her projected landing ...
NEXSTAR MAKES A FLURRY OF GM APPOINTMENTS
It’s a full-time job keeping the executive suites at Nexstar’s stations occupied. One-time news director Joe Abouzeid moves within Nexstar to helm WIVB in Buffalo. His appointment puts the kibosh on rumors that the ...
IT WAS A GREAT RUN…..36 YEARS’ WORTH
36 years to the day after she started at Scripps’ WPTV in West Palm Beach, Kelley Dunn announced her pending resignation as the station as 5, 6 and 11 pm co-anchor. That was back ...
A PROMOTION IN CHICAGO
Last fall Jewell Hillery joined Chicago’s WGN (Nexstar) as a per diem reporter. She’s now been moved up to full-time status on general assignments. She previously worked at Hearst’s WAPT in Jackson, MS and ...
WHO’S NUMBER ONE?
Following the retirement of veteran sportscaster Dan Roan from Chicago’s WGN (Nexstar) after 38 years, the new guessing game is who of TWO…count ’em TWO…successors to the local sports legend is the top dog. ...
ANOTHER HOMECOMING….IN DA BURGH
Rich Pierce is coming home. Not that he was all that far away. Pierce, a Pittsburgh, PA area native, has spent the past nine years reporting and anchoring the main newscasts at Sinclair’s WTOV ...
“THIS IS THE END OF A CHAPTER AND THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER”
He spent more than three decades covering local, national and international news for Disney’s WPVI in Philadelphia. And now veteran reporter Dann Cuellar is ready to write the next chapter of his life. http://
MILWAUKEE STATION LOSES ANCHOR TO MARRIAGE
Weigel’s WDJT in Milwaukee lost out to love when morning anchor Meghan Reistad announced her departure from the station after two years to get married. And then she flew away. http:// After her marriage, ...
ABC PICKS STATION VET TO HEAD UP ITS FLAGSHIP STATION
Marilu Galvez will be the new president and general manager of Disney’s WABC in New York, replacing Chad Matthews who was named president of ABC Owned Television Stations earlier this year. Galvez has been ...
…AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT….
We’ve more than our share of departures from tv news into such tried-and-tested fields as public relations and real estate. So we were a bit gob-smacked to find the next destination for Alison Morris, ...
MOVING ON TO GRAY’S INVESTIGATIVE UNIT
Gray’s Investigate TV just got beefed up with the addition of two reporters, Joce Sterman (left), moving over from lead investigative correspondent for the “Spotlight on America” segment on Sinclair Broadcast Group’s The National ...
FORMER CNN ANCHOR BROOKE BALDWIN: ‘DON’T LET THE CAMERAS TURN AWAY’
“Bosses at the networks treat the news as ratings-generating revenue sources.”
ANCHOR LEAVES NEWS BUSINESS, FUTURE ‘UNWRITTEN’
Anchor makes a career change leaving the Pennsylvania station and the TV news business.
PA METEOROLOGIST HITS THE ROAD FOR HUSBAND, FAMILY
Pennsylvania meteorologist is heading to Florida for her husband's job and to spend more time with the children.
EXPLORING ‘NEXT CHAPTER’ AFTER TWO YEARS REPORTING IN GREEN BAY
Green Bay reporter finds new career path after two years of reporting,
ANCHOR SHUFFLING AWAY FROM BUFFALO
A morning anchor in Buffalo announces she's ready to exit the station.
TIME FOR VETERAN BOISE PERSONALITY TO ‘WAKE UP’ EARLY
Longtime Idaho on-air personality moves to mornings next month.
HOUSTON, WE HAVE A NEW REPORTER, ANCHOR COMING
Anchor/reporter jumps from New Orleans to Houston for next opportunity.
HOMECOMING IN FORECAST FOR LONGTIME TEXAS METEOROLOGIST
A Texas meteorologist exits with next opportunity waiting in the wings.
LONGTIME BAY AREA ANCHOR PLANS TO RETIRE THIS SUMMER: REPORT
A longtime Bay Area anchor reportedly is leaving his post this summer.
ARKANSAS ANCHOR EXITS TO BECOME ‘FULL-TIME MOM’
Anchor leaves Arkansas station after 15 years to spend more time with her family, at least in the short term.
TELEMUNDO NAMES DIGITAL NEWS GURU
Marta Planells is the new director of digital news at Telemundo. She’s moved up the ranks in digital news since she arrived in the US in 2016, first with Univision as a digital producer ...
HE’S NOT LEAVING. HE’S TRANSITIONING. UH-HUH
Morning anchor Jason DeRusha has decided that 19 years of early wake-up calls is enough. He announced his last morning at CBS-owned WCCO in Minneapolis will be June 23. But wait….is he really leaving? ...
“AS FOR WHAT’S NEXT — STAY TUNED!”
After a shade over two years at Scripps’ KXXV in Waco, TX, nighttime anchor Niyah Gonzalez is in search of her next adventure – or maybe she just hasn’t told us yet. http:// Gonzalez ...
ONE FAMILIAR FACE MAKES WAY FOR ANOTHER
Darren Kramer has been a late night news fixture at the anchor desk of Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford-New Haven for more than two decades. That is about to change. Kramer is stepping down from ...
THIS IS ANOTHER TRAGEDY WAITING TO HAPPEN
Viewers of the morning news on Chicago’s WFLD (FOX) were stunned this week to see some clown waving around a gun behind a reporter doing a live shot. A live shot about gun violence!!! ...
A NEW NUMBER ONE AT KDKA
Shawn Hoder starts July 6 as VP/news director at KDKA-WPCW (CBS) Pittsburgh. For the past three years, he’s been senior executive producer at WTSP (Tegna s/t/b Standard Media) in Tampa, FL Back in the ...
SHE’S MOVING UP AND NOT OUT!!!
After five years in the weather center at Tegna’s s/t/b Standard Media’s WMAZ in Macon, GA, Courteney Jacobazzi is headed up I-75 to Atlanta and her new job at The Weather Channel http:// We ...
IN BRIEF….COMINGS AND GOINGS EDITION
Jeremy Settle is leaving this Altice USA’s News 12 New Jersey in Edison, NJ. Here’s the staff note from Altice’s SVP/GM Jacques Natz. Settle’s worked here for nine years, first as Assistant ND and, ...
SCRIPPS MOVES A GM – FAST
No sooner had Dave German learned the shortcuts to the airport and where I-80 intersected with I-29 than Scripps hustled him out of KMTV and Omaha, NE to their duopoly KXXV/KHRD in Waco, TX. ...
AN ENTIRE LIFE IN THREE YEARS?
There was more than a little drama in the departure tweet of reporter Julie Martin, late of Gray’s KKTV in Colorado Springs, CO. Martin spent a year in Colorado Springs and before that was ...
DID WFAA CENSOR JIMMY KIMMEL’S MONOLOGUE ON UVALDE SHOOTING?
The late night show’s monologue cut short on the Dallas affiliate.
ON THE MOVE
Mort Meisner Edition.
ON THE MOVE
A Mort Meisner Move.
AND ANOTHER ONE TURNS HER BACK ON TV NEWS AND LOOKS TO PR
“Maybe,” we thought, “we ought to just note the people who are STAYING in tv news.” NAAAAAH! So we bring you news that after just over two years at Disney’s KTRK in Houston, TX ...
WE’RE BETTING THE NEXT ADVENTURE IS NOT IN TV NEWS
Dan Amarante, the morning meteorologist at Tegna (s/t/b Standard Media’s) WTIC in Hartford, CT will probably find his next adventure outside of tv news. That’s our guess, anyway. He’s leaving the station this Friday ...
NEXSTAR PLANS PUSH INTO DC MARKET
Up to this point, Nexstar’s WDVM/WDCW in the hyphenated Hagerstown, MD-Washington, DC market has been sitting on the sidelines while the bigger, more established stations in the market duked it out. That’s about to ...
FORMER BUFFALO REPORTERS RETURN TO HELP COVER HORRIFIC TRAGEDY
Nationally, the monstrous racist mass shooting at the Tops supermarket in Buffalo, NY now commands less attention than “The Slap” at the Oscars and its trivial aftermath. But in Buffalo, a number of reporters ...
