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NOW WE WANT TO KNOW

Whether it is the impending takeover of parent company Tegna by Standard General or burnout or a sincere desire to do something else, Nicole Vap, director of investigative journalism at KUSA in Denver is ...

NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME?

How do you launch a multi-million dollar, mega-hyped and promoted streaming news channel and not have deals in place with tv platforms like Google TV, Android TV and the biggest of them all, Roku ...

STRANDED IN TALLY

Today there is a huge unemployed TV talent and TV producer pool living in Florida. Probably too many to fill the current vacant positions in local news and other network bureaus located across the ...

GONE…..BUT NOT GONE

After months of preparing viewers for the inevitable, the day finally came when meteorologist Sue Palka did her last forecast for FOX-owned WTTG in Washington, DC. One might have thought that, after 36 years ...

NEXT ADVENTURE TBA

After a mere two and a half years, reporter/anchor Janice Yu is bidding the always tearful bittersweet farewell to Atlanta and FOX-owned WAGA http:// Yu came to Atlanta from KOLD in Tucson, AZ and ...

DOUBLE DUTY IN SACRAMENTO

Viviana Paez, a 15-year veteran anchor at Univision’s KUVS in Sacramento, is adding a second hat at the station. She’s now executive producer in the newsroom, overseeing all editorial aspects of the news department’s ...

NOT LIKELY TO RETURN?

The mystery of KPIX sports director Dennis O’Donnell’s unexplained eight-month absence from the station’s newscasts may have a solution. According to Bay Area blogger Rich Lieberman, sources indicate that O’Donnell’s MIA status is due ...

BACK HOME IN WISCONSIN

A new face will soon be back in familiar surroundings as Symone Woolridge joins Scripps’ WTMJ in Milwaukee, WI as the station’s noon and 4 PM anchor. The Evanston, IL native is coming back ...

SPORTS SHORTS….REALLY!

We don’t often do sports here outside of moves inside local sports departments, but there are a couple of items we just can’t pass by. Al Michaels is forsaking NBC and “Sunday Night Football” ...

ON THE MOVE

Here are the latest moves from Mort Meisner and Associates… Jonathan Carlson joins CBS affiliate and Audacy Owned WWJ NEWS RADIO 950 in Detroit AS Monday through Friday Morning Drive News Anchor. Jonathan comes ...

PINK SLIPS IN MIAMI

The investigative unit at Univision’s WLTV in Miami, FL is no more, the apparent victim of budget slashing following Univision’s merger with Televisa. Gone are (left to right) anchor and investigative reporter Ivan Taylor, ...

A PROMOTION IN CHICAGO

After an eight-year run as a per diem reporter at Nexstar’s WGN in Chicago, Dana Rebik finally got promoted to full-time general assignment reporter. Rebik replaces Patrick Elwood, now the station’s midday news co-anchor. ...

IN BRIEF….LONE STAR MOVES

After a mere year at Nexstar duopoly KETK/KFXK in Tyler, TX, Perry Elyaderani is headed for sister TRIopoly KNWA-KFTS-KXNW in Rogers, AR. He was morning anchor in Tyler and he will perform the same ...

HE LANDED IN HARTFORD

MMJ Tony Black, who wrapped it up at Sinclair’s WSTM in Syracuse, NY last month, has gone east and joined Tegna-soon-to-be-Standard General’s WTIC in Hartford-New Haven, CT. “Hello, Connecticut!” Black wrote on Twitter. “Looking ...