“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“Mass shootings have become America’s copy and paste tragedy,” Politico’s Tyler Weyant wrote. “We change the place, the town, the number of dead and injured. But the constant is lives lost, people who cannot ...
Reporter Cory Smith is making a move within the NBC-Owned Stations Division. Smith, who’s been with WRC for a bit more than four and a half years, wrapped things up at the station Friday ...
After two decades on Rochester, MN tv airwaves, the last 13 of them at the anchor desk of Hubbard’s KAAL, Betsy Singer signed off and hit the exit. http:// She plans to stick around ...
Just shy of two years, sports reporter Taylor Brooks is hitting the revolving exit door at Nexstar duopoly KWGN/KDVR in Denver, CO. “Home” appears to be the Quad Cities area of Illinois/Iowa where she ...
After three years covering the news in Hartford-New Haven, CT., reporter Dominique Moody is moving within the NBCU stations division from WVIT to WRC in the Nation’s Capital. He’ll start his new assignment June ...
When news about the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas broke, local news stations from San Antonio and Austin rushed to the scene. Stations positioned reporters at Robb Elementary School where the shooting occurred, at the ...
Jim Benemann’s been occupying the co-anchor chair at CBS-owned KCNC for the past 22 years. That changes at the end of the year, when Benemann steps down and walks away from a broadcast news ...
We reported last month that all indications pointed to Greta Van Susteren ending up in some fulltime role at ratings-challenged Newsmax. Ta-Da!!! Van Susteren has officially landed a spot on the cable channel’s schedule. ...
Dan Clouse returns to Allen Media’s KIMT in Mason City, IA, this time as ND. He passed along this note which has more details and covers his background. He replaces Jaime Copley who left ...
We have to give Nexstar some credit. They keep trying to get people to pay attention to ratings-starved NewsNation with high-profile hires. So far it hasn’t worked, but adding Dan Abrams to the mix ...
Dog bites man, the sun comes up in the east and former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki has been hired by MSNBC. The preceding list comes from “most” to “least” surprising. She ...
Kerry Cooper debuted as the newest member of the storm team at Tegna s/t/b Standard Media’s KBMT in Beaumont, TX. Cooper is coming to the station’s weekend newscasts after a long trek across the ...
Following the retirement of longtime Pittsburgh weekend sports anchor Guy Junker last month, Hearst’s WTAE in Da Burgh wasted no time finding his replacement. Emily Giangreco will sign off this weekend from Tegna s/t/b ...
Back in 2011, Trill Gates traded in the newsroom for the classroom when she left the anchor desk to become a librarian and teacher for the Anchorage School District. She’s making a return trip ...
After a couple month shy of four years producing the 10 pm newscast at Disney’s WLS in Chicago, Alexandria Jud is being rewarded for the success of the program by being promoted to late-evening ...
It’s not, who’s posting on Facebook in TV news, it’s who isn’t? Nieman Lab reports on Facebook as important social media platform for stations to use, in an effort to bring younger viewers on ...
Back in 2016, it was then-CBS CEO Les Moonves who declared the high-stakes presidential election “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” Now Chris Ripley, CEO of Sinclair ...
“The Hill” is that online publication that Nexstar bought in the past year and has plans to build a NewsNation panel show around. It appears that most of the publication’s 80 employees have signed ...
Astrid Ressler has been promoted to ND for Gray’s WBNG in Binghamton, NY. Here’s her bio page from the station website. She joined the station as the producer for the 6:00, 10:00 and 11:00 ...
Jordan Elder has spent the past few weeks settling as a reporter at Sinclair’s WOAI in San Antonio, TX. And she figured it was time to do one of those “Get to know me” ...
Mark Hall is spending his last days at Nexstar’s WHTM in Harrisburg, PA before heading off to a sister operation in Washington, DC. Or is it Hagerstown, MD? Well, let’s let Mark say his ...
Colorado Rockies tv reporter Kelsey Wingert is on the mend after getting clocked by a 95 mph foul ball. The heart-stopping incident occurred during a game between the Rockies and the San Francisco Giants ...
Cover sports for more than 40 years and you’re likely to find yourself wanting to get more involved in it. That is certainly the case with Alan Harwell, currently on the sports desk as ...
After nearly three decades at NBC News, Pete Williams has decided to retire at the end of July. Williams, who joined the network in 1993 straight off a stint as a Pentagon spokesman, covered ...
After ten years on the street reporting for Nexstar’s KTXL, Eric Rucker has ascended to the weekend evening anchor desk at the Sacramento, CA station. “We’re proud to now have Eric on the FOX40 ...
Rachel Skytta has been an MMJ with Nexstar’s KDVR in Denver , CO for the past two and a half years. Before that she was an MMJ at Gray’s KWCH in Wichita, KS for ...
Brandi Hitt has been holding forth on the morning anchor desk at Disney’s KABC for the past six years. Before that, she was an ABC News correspondent The California native has spent her entire ...
Dan Delgado is the new news director at Scripps’ KXXV/KRHD in the Waco/Temple/Bryan, Texas, markets. Delgado, a Texas native, recently left Nexstar’s KCAU in Sioux City IA to take this new job. He’s a ...
Management keeps moving around the chess pieces in the CBS Stations Group newsrooms. The latest is the promotion of Mary Baynes to vice president and news director at KOVR/ KMAX in Sacramento, CA – ...
Chris Wallace, who fled FOX News for CNN only to find that the company’s woefully miscalculated CNN+ would collapse in less than a month, is getting a new lease on life from the company ...
7 million views and 60,000 followers on TikTok. Morgan Wolfe has been a reporter for Bonneville’s KSL in Salt Lake City, UT who has amassed quite a following on the oft-controversial social media site. ...
In an effort to both staff up and, presumably, improve the quality of broadcast journalism, Scripps is teaming up with…wait for it…Google to recruit and transition print journalists with experience into broadcast news. You ...
Patty Pan has been a broadcast news veteran for 24 years, the last 17 of them with FOX-owned WAGA in Atlanta, GA. And now she is one of the latest (it feels like a ...
Trying to make a point, Houston forecaster Lena Maria Arango, went on set recently to do the forecast without…..makeup! Arango, who joined FOX-owned KRIV last September as weekend morning meteorologist, was pivoting off Instagram’s ...
Courtney Zieller, for the past 9 and a half years a reporter with Gray’s WFSB in Hartford-New Haven, CT, has decided its time to wrap it up. Zieller, an 18-year tv news veteran who ...
Come the second half of the year, the word “Tegna,” a mostly-failed anagram for Gannett, will be tossed onto the scrap heap of brand names like “New Coke,” “Windows Vista” and “Flooz” (don’t ask). ...
They wasted no time at Hearst’s WBAL in Baltimore in announcing the replacement for Mindy Basara at the morning anchor desk. Lacee Griffith will slide into the co-anchor chair May 30. She’s moving over ...
A week ago on the left coast, Lisa White finally ascended to the news director slot at CBS O&O KPIX after 22 years as assistant news director. It goes without saying that the water ...
Christian Piekos gets back to his home area, joining Disney’s WLS in Chicago as a general assignment reporter. He’s coming from reporting and substitute anchoring duties at Gray’s KSLA in Shreveport and KPLC in ...
Pittsburgh’s latest news anchor shuffle was left one move short when Janelle Hall was moved off the evening news at Hearst’s WTAE to return to mornings – at her request, we’re told. The suits ...
Extensive search or not, it didn’t take long for Sinclair to find the successor to John Lomax, who retired from WKRC just last month after 32 years. Starting July 5, Aleah Hordges will join ...
Last month, when reporter Hunter Saenz announced his departure from Tegna s/t/b Standard Media’s WCNC, he assured his social media following he wasn’t intending to leave town. He just walked across the street. http://
When Rachel Lutzker let FOX61 as a traffic anchor to spend more time with the family, the local news community in the Hartford market was shocked. But now she’s back but on a different ...
When the shooting broke out at the Tops Friendly Supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., stations got on air as quickly as possible and started wall to wall coverage. WGRZ, WKBW, WIVB are the heavy hitters ...
The suits are the CBS News stations group MAY have conducted a nationwide search for a successor to Mark Neerman at KPIX, but in the end, they found their new news director right under ...
Porsha Riley is the new public information officer for the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority. OMMA oversees the state’s medical marijuana program. Riley will primarily handle media inquiries while helping to keep Oklahomans updated with ...
The alarms got changed on Karla Castillo as of April 18th, when she moved to the morning anchor desk at Gray’s KBTX in Bryan, TX. She had been anchoring the evening newscasts at the ...
After three years at family-owned WINK in Ft. Myers, FL. reporter Sydney Persing is heading west this summer toward the Big D, where she will join Tegna s/t/b Standard Media’s WFAA. http:// WINK was ...
Two years after being unceremoniously dumped by CBS O&O WBBM in Chicago in a corporate-wide cost-cutting move that also claimed legendary investigative reporter Pam Zekman, Mike Puccinelli has found himself the new director of ...
Former FOX News reporter/host Ed Henry has evidently decided to focus his litigation energies at his former employers. Henry, (who, to us, always looked like the kid in class who felt compelled to remind ...
She wanted more family time after returning from her maternity leave in January, so in February, management at Scripps’ WKBW in Buffalo pulled anchor Ashley Rowe off the 11 pm news. Four months later, ...
Jim Wilson has left Fox-owned WITI in Milwaukee, WI after more than 30 years of service, the last three as news director. Wilson started at the station of as photographer, was promoted to chief ...
A dozen years in the tv news trenches including time in Oklahoma City, Seattle and for the past 5 years and 10 months, Nexstar’s KDVR in Denver is sending Michael Konopasek fleeing into the ...
There’s a new sheriff in West Palm Beach. Scripps-owned WPTV has brought on Kathy Reynolds as news director, effective May 31. Reynolds has been news content director at Tegna s/t/b Standard Media’s WUSA and ...
50 years of forecasting, 45 of them in New England and 20 at Hearst’s WCVB. It’s been quite a run for Harvey Leonard and now the station’s chief meteorologist is stepping back. This fall, ...
Drawing its first four hires from local stations around the country, CBS News announced the launch of a locally-oriented investigative unit to be based at its local news innovation lab in Dallas. Stephen Stock ...
After four years as an anchor and health and wellness-focused reporter at Scripps’ flagship WCPO in Cincinnati, Kristyn Hartman is leaving the station….and tv news….to (join me on the chorus) “spend more time with ...
