The last general manager KOLD hired didn’t work out. Michael Hornbeck was hired from across the street at KVOA, the Allen Media owned station. At KOLD, he lasted only three months despite have years ...
Katie Hasty, who is the director of editorial strategy at HBO, has some good advice if you’re thinking about getting out of the business (or have). And it’s not just advice for journalists looking ...
Fox Virginia is changing its lineup. Weekend anchor and reporter Carly Haynes is taking over the weekday duties at 4 p.m. That leaves a weekend anchor spot and weekday reporter spot open. Sarah Robinson ...
Four years into the business and this reporter is jumping from the Sarasota market (just outside of Tampa) to Houston. Daniela Hurtado is leaving WWSB and heading to KTRK – MARKET 8. “I’m blessed ...
KDKA is beefing up its weather team. For the first time in a long time, we are reporting on a hire but its not to replace anyone who’s left. The CBS station in Pittsburgh ...
After going back and forth to news (like a bad girlfriend) Jerry Gretzinger says he’s finally done. He spent that past four years at WNYT and last week he said he’s going to leave ...
In Connecticut, NBC Connecticut anchor Dan Corcoran is going to leave the station after 2015. The announcement came on social media. He doesn’t have a specific plan for his future but he is definitely ...
The same week as the sale was announced, this station announced they’d be filling the vacant news director spot with one of the station’s old new directors… This is good news because Jeff Woodward, ...
WSLS is losing its main weekday anchor Lindsey Ward and is replacing her with someone in the building. Starting next week, Rachel Lucas will become the new weekday evening anchor at WSLS in Roanoke. ...
Less than a week after announcing its sale to Standard general, Tegna has made a general manager hire at one of its bigger stations. WTIC-WCCT has hired Humberto Hormaza as president and general manager ...
Biden administration’s White House press secretary Jen Psaki might be heading for the anchor chair. Psaki is planning to leave the White House this year and sources say she’s talking to various networks. Right ...
Another mid-market metrologist has made a network jump to Fox weather. Kelly Reardon is leaving WWLP in Springfield, Ma., (ranked Market 11) in two weeks and is going to start giving national forecasts as ...
This guys is legend. And he’s retiring. NBC10 Philadelphia meteorologist Glenn “Hurricane” Schwartz has been forecasting weather in the Philadelphia market and the Tri-State for 27 years. Anyone who knows Philly news, knows Hurricane ...
It’s always nice to report that a news director is moving into station management, so we are happy to report that Patience Hettrick is the newly-named station manager of Gray’s WGGB/WSHM duopoly in Springfield, ...
Telemundo has completed the lineup and is ready to launch its new weekday afternoon entertainment talk show “La Mesa Caliente.” Myrka Dellanos and Giselle Blondet, last seen in various roles on Univision network program ...
And there is nothing like making your mom go viral. Which is exactly what WSYX reporter Myles Harris did this week when his mom drove up to greet him while he was out on ...
After three and a half years reporting for Graham Media’s KSAT in San Antonio, TX, Japhanie Gray packed up this week to move on and up to sister station WSLS in Roanoke, VA where ...
Andy Parker, who recently announced a run for Congress on a strong anti-gun platform, is now turning his attention to something far more personal. Parker, whose daughter Alison Parker and her photographer Adam Ward ...
For the past six years, Anita Blanton has held down the anchor desk at 5, 6 and 11 pm on Nexstar’s WAVY in Norfolk, VA. She’s weighing anchor (ahem…) in Norfolk and is headed ...
Starting March 9, Gabriela Garza will be the face of weekend mornings at Hearst’s WISN in Milwaukee, WI. It’s a return to her home region after a sojourn to Texas and she is excited. ...
After three years in the assistant slot, Veronika Placencia is now the brand-new news director at Scripps’ KERO in Bakersfield, CA. She’s been the interim since way back in September when Suzanne Rodriguez departed ...
Jessica Bobula continues her tour through Gray TV as she returns to KOLD in Tucson, AZ as ND. She was an EP here earlier. She’s currently ND for WITN in Greenville, NC and also ...
Chelsea Torres is back in tv news after a five-year hiatus. Torres has joined Sinclair’s WOAI in San Antonio, TX as an MMJ or as she put it, “New year. New job. Same SA ...
Just two years after he landed in Buffalo after an unceremonious dumping at CBS-owned KYW in Philadelphia, Brien Kennedy is leaving Nexstar’s WIVB He’s the fourth GM in eight months to exit Buffalo television. ...
When the folks at Sinclair Broadcast Group delivered their 4th quarter financial results Wednesday morning, one tidbit stood out among the rest for us. Even though the company never paid out on a ransomware ...
After laboring as a freelancer for the past eight months, veteran Windy City meteorologist Tim McGill has moved up to full-time status at Fox-owned WFLD in Chicago. In addition to working the station’s Sunday ...
Dana Melancon, a former meteorologist for Sinclair’s KFDM in Beaumont, TX, is suing the station and parent company Sinclair Broadcast Group, claiming he was fired due to the color of his skin. Melancon worked ...
Well, you’re just gonna have to sit on the edge of your chair until she’s ready to share, but after seven years, reporter Maggie Vespa has passed the baton on her signature “The Story” ...
It’s bad enough when a newsroom loses one of its popular veteran anchors. It’s heartburn time when both members of the anchor team decide they’re leaving together. Such is the case with Huel Perkins ...
Bay Area blogger Rich Lieberman says it is looking more and more like Mark Ibanez will do his final sportscast for FOX-owned KTVU on March 31st. Ibanez, who’s been with the station since 1979 ...
Liz Collin, who left CBS-owned WCCO in January after 14 years with the station, has landed a new job reporting for the conservative news website Alpha News. Collin’s job at WCCO was complicated by ...
VNL, The Valley News, in Fargo, N.D., has hired a new anchor. Current anchor Jordan Schroeer will have a new co-anchor Phoenix O’Connor. O’Connor made her debut on Monday. She’ll anchor weekday mornings from ...
Todd Bernstein has been named the station manager for WJLA. Bernstein is the current director of sales for the Sinclair station in Washington, D.C. “As Director of Sales, Todd has done an outstanding job ...
VETERAN ALBUQUERQUE REPORTER PLANS SPRING EXITKOB4 reporter Chris Ramirez is leaving after more than 10 years in Albuquerque, NM. Here’s his announcement:
Talent Blvd. founder Mike McNamara says to stay in the business as an MMJ, you need to think about your purpose. Your purpose in the newsroom and what makes you special. This can be ...
Hi Subscribers, This is Dave, the editor of Newsblues. I’m writing today to give you an update on our Sourcebook function. Sourcebook has long been the ‘news director Rolodex’ and over the years the ...
A lot is happening this morning. Tegna is being sold for $5.5 billion to Standard General and Apollo Global Management. This means that Tegna will no longer exist and as part of the deal, ...
WDRB has promoted its assistant news director Jennifer Keeney to the news director role. Keeney will lead news operations at the Louisville, Ky station. She’s worked in journalism for 27 years in newsrooms in ...
Edgar Carrillo started a new job as anchor WVEA Noticias Univision Tampa Bay. He’ll be anchoring, writing and co-producing the station’s weekday newscasts at 6 and 11 pm. Carrillo was most recently weekend weather ...
Sources in New York first broke the news. WPIX has hired radio personality Marc Malusis to be the lead sports anchor at the Nexstar station. Sports media birdies tell @NewsdaySports that @MarcMalusis has a ...
Springfield, Ill reporter Matt Royis moving closer to home. Roy is going to WOAI in San Antonio, Texas as a reporter. The MMJ posted about his move on social (like they all do) but ...
This could be one of the most embarrassing moments for editors at the News-Press, at the Gannett owned newspaper in SouthWest Florida. The News-Press is Fort Myers, Fla. largest paper. And on Monday morning, ...
WXMI has just hired a new weekend sports anchor from KTEN in Sherman, Texas. Remi Monaghan is making the jump after two years in Texoma. It’s a return to her home state and graduated from ...
This is bizarre and scary. In less than 24 hours, KSNV morning meteorologist Chloe Koast and Fox5Vegas reporter Kristen DeSilva were hit by reckless drivers and almost died. Early Saturday morning, Koast and her ...
In Oklahoma, KOKH has a new Capitol reporter. Check out my new office for the next few months! 😁I’m beyond excited to share that I’ll be @OKCFOX’s Capitol reporter for this legislative session. It’s ...
NBC10 Boston is losing a reporter to a new industry. Kathryn Sotnik got her start 18 years ago in Atlantic City, New Jersey as a small town general assignment reporter. She’s worked her way ...
KBMT general manager Paul Bergen has stepped down. Bergen, who was the longtime general manager at Beaumont, Texas, is no longer at the station. There was no formal announcement but his Twitter page does ...
In the wake of Allison Gollust’s not-unexpected “resignation” as chief marketing officer for CNN, James Anderson of current corporate parent Warner Media is taking on additional duties. The word “interim” is attached to Gollust’s ...
While MSNBC continues to wrestle with the notion of how to conduct business in the post-Rachel Maddow world (we know she’s still with the network but, c’mon man – her substitutes’ numbers are down ...
WDJT in Milwaukee has hired Tony Capriolo as its new assistant news director. Here’s the memo from WDJT news director Jessie Garcia. Capriolo joins the Weigel owned station from NBC’s WMAQ in Chicago, where ...
Last November, Pittsburgh morning tv viewers were stunned to learn of the abrupt departure of morning co-anchor Kelly Frey from Hearst’s WTAE after 21 years with the station. Both Frey and the station issued ...
News 12 Long Island named Robert Rivas its news senior news director. Here’s the memo from News 12’s SVP and GM Jacques Natz. Rivas is an 18 year veteran of NBC News, where he ...
After four years at the helm of CBS-owned WJZ in Baltimore, Audra Swain is out as general manager. Before arriving at WJZ, Swain spent 17 years with Sinclair Broadcast Group, working her way up ...
For the past 7 years, Maria Cid Medina has been reporting for CBS-owned KPIX in San Francisco, the latest stop in a career that stretches back to 2006 through 4 television. And she has ...
Following the news that Sinclair’s Reporter Workshop is returning, we learn that Gray Television is planning a similar venture, albeit on a somewhat smaller scale, for now. The Gray Media Training Center, with a ...
Tani Varma is moving up from the Rio Grande Valley and KRGV to Tegna’s KVUE in Austin, TX as the station’s newest investigative reporter. And she is excited “I’m excited to share that I’ve ...
Cory Hepola, who manned the weekend anchor desk at KARE in Minneapolis from 2015 to 2018 and won a couple of Emmys during his tenure, is now considering a run to be the next ...
Two anchors at KENS5 in San Antonio are celebrating engagements. Sharon Ko, who has been doing the 10pm show and also morning traffic anchor Holly Stouffer. The station announced Stouffer’s engagement on the air ...
This is the time of year when television stations around the country devote a portion of their morning newscasts to checking on the cameras monitoring the nesting habits of their local bald eagles – ...
After four decades shared among the weather departments of four Indianapolis television stations, David James signed off locally-owned WISH after a 10-month run. His longest run at any one of the stations was at ...
Zach Wheeler is adding additional duties as news director at Nexstar’s WETM in Elmira, NY. He’s been at WETM 15 years, and has been the main anchor and managing editor for the last 3 ...
Back in 1985, Kelly Ring walked into the WTVT newsroom to start her third job in the tv news business. She was a reporter who quickly earned a reputation around Tampa-St. Petersburg for her ...
Adriana Sanchez joined Hearst’s WMTW in Portland, ME as a reporter just last October. Now the community is getting behind her family who lost their home in back in Bristol, CT to a fire ...
Hayden Nix, weekend meteorologist at Nexstar’s KARK in Little Rock, AR is leaving the station and planning a new direction at the ends of the month. http:// Ya gotta love those little teasers about ...
After decade and a half in the sports department at Tegna’s KARE in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Dave Schwartz is headed for the other side. He wraps it up with the station on Sunday and will ...
KHOU has a new meteorlogist and KIAH has a new news director. KIAH, the Nexstar owned CW station, has a new news director. The station launched a morning show during the pandemic. This could ...
Iris Delgado is leaving Philadelphia for a new job in Orlando. She’s going to Telemundo Orlando as a news anchor weekday for the 5, 6 and 11pm shows. Delgado will replace Andrea Marcial, who ...
Longtime general manager Lisa Howfield retired from her post as general manager at KLAS-TV in Las Vegas in January. She led the CBS affiliate and Nexstar station for six years. Nexstar just announced who ...
A former Panama City sports anchor is OK after getting a puck to the face during an interview on the ice rink. Joel Sebastianelli, who used to work at WJHG, is now in Toledo. ...
While NBC executives have gone on record saying the ratings for the Beijing Winter Olympics are significantly down, it’s worth talking about what it’s been like for some of the reporters at the games. ...
WISN has hired Kristin Pierce as the station’s new weekend anchor. She will work alongside Dani Aswad on 5, 6 and 10 p.m. Saturday’s and Sundays on 5:30 and 10. “Kristin has a wealth ...
