On Sunday, the news broke that Extra correspondent and former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst jumped off the 29th floor of her NYC building and died. It hit hard, especially for anchors and reporters who ...
You really can reinvent yourself after TV. Former (and longtime) WRAL meteorologist Greg Fisher left Raleigh three years ago in 2019. He moved around, worked as a senior atmospheric scientist, lived in Florida, Myrtle ...
Johana Suárez has made a move from local to national news at Telemundo. She made her debut this past weekend on the weekend shows. Suárez will definitely anchor but it’s unclear what else she’ll ...
WOAI has hired a new weather person. Joe DeCarlo is going to start in San Antonio. “I am excited to announce that I’ve accepted a position with @KABBFOX29 @News4SA. I will be starting my ...
NBCUniversal has named its new streaming boss. Last week, four NBC stations (Philly, Chicago, Boston and South Florida) launched on Peacock, NBC’s streaming network. Now the 24/7 streaming channel will be run by Angie ...
After three years at the weather center of Morris Multimedia’s WXXV in Gulfport, MI, meteorologist Brantly Keiek has found a new home with Nexstar in N’Awlins. http://
Emily Thompson is the new news director at Hearst’s WPBF in West Palm Beach, FL. She knows her way around, having been in the newsroom since 1998, and for the past three years, been ...
We will never get tired of celebrating when a news director is picked to move into a station’s GM slot. We’re old enough to remember when that path was reserved exclusively for the sales ...
It appears that an approaching cold front caused some gastric distress to meteorologist Marc Weinberg of Block’s WDRB in Louisville, KY. http://https://twitter.com/i/status/1483914405020585992 We report. You decide.
Ever since CNN’s unceremonious dumping of Chris Cuomo last November, the anchor chair in the cable network’s 9 PM slots has been occupied by a revolving cast of guest hosts…all of whom are more ...
It’s never a good sign when your bio disappears from your station’s website. Then again…. Stefania Okolie joined Disney’s KTRK back in 2018 as a reporter after having worked at stations in Phoenix, Norfolk, ...
On the heels of saying farewell to longtime anchor Frank Somerville, we are hearing reports out of the Bay Area that at FOX-owned KTVU, sportscaster Mark Ibanez, a 43-year station veteran is just about ...
Michael “Mace” Maciejewski returns to Orlando as an Executive Producer for “Live Now on Fox.” He’s been the Assistant ND at Nexstar’s WNCN in Raleigh for the last two years, but spent five years ...
Stephanie Ruhle, a six-year veteran of NBC News, has been named the new anchor for the 11 PM program that was hosted by Brian Williams until his departure in December. Ruhle, who is also ...
Meteorologist Avery Tomasco is getting weekends off (beginning this weekend!) as he moves to weekday mornings at Sinclair’s KEYE in Austin TX. Tomasco has been calling the forecasts at the station for the past ...
Darren Moore, who started his Cox Media journey 26 years ago at WPXI in Pittsburgh, is the new vice president/general manager of CMG Ohio. In case you didn’t get that memo, CMG Ohio is ...
Pat Peterson gets a new job but stays in Mississippi as he’ll be the next ND for Allen Media’s WTVA in Tupelo, MS. He’s spent the last five years as ND for WTOK in ...
Media watchers in Connecticut were gobsmacked last week when they found out that Rick Green, who had been a stalwart at the “Hartford Courant” for the better part of 35 years, was leaving the ...
It was last May that Wendy McMahon pulled up stakes at ABC News, where she had been president of the network’s station group for just under 3 ½ years and head for CBS News ...
Deborah Collura, whose resume as a news and station executive reads like a tv version of Johnny Cash’s “I’ve Been Everywhere,” is adding to her CV. She’s been named vice president and general manager ...
Much has been made in recent days about DirecTV’s decision to drop OAN from its lineup in April. When that happens, OAN, a far-right operation with a tenuous connection to news will drop from ...
WCCO anchor and reporter Liz Collins was in a high-stress position in 2020. The journalist in Minneapolis was under scrutiny for her marriage to Bob Kroll, the former head of Police Officers Federation of ...
The meteorologist at WCMH in Columbus, Ohio is going to take some time off to get treatment for cancer. The longtime weather man Bob Nunnally made the announced on Tuesday. He had been missing ...
One of North Carolina’s most popular consumer reporter is leaving. WRAL’s Monica Laliberte is going to work for the company’s parent company Capitol Broadcasting Company. She’ll be the director of communications and engagement. She’s ...
For years, maybe decades, WFTX, the Scripps station in Fort Myers, Fla. has been dead last behind WBBH, WZVN and WINK. In 2017, the station hired a reputable general manager, Darryll Green. He made ...
We swear that some days, we could create a newsletter that consists of nothing but veteran TV newsers who are done with it and exiting for what they hope will be greener pastures – ...
Maity Interiano is the newly-named co-anchor of the weekend evening edition of Univision’s national newscast, “Noticiero Univision.” She takes over the slot left vacant by Paulina Sodi when Sodi moved on to host a ...
Alarms evidently went up in Buffalo, NY when popular morning anchor Kelsey Anderson’s absence from the news set on Nexstar’s WIVB went on longer than what viewers thought was reasonable. But Anderson’s finally is ...
Dick Williams in journalism writing copy for the likes of Harry Reasoner and Pat Summerall under the watchful eye of then-CBS News President Fred Friendly. Not a bad start to a career that led ...
Eyeing “new opportunites” and being a fulltime mom are the reasons given by chief meteorologist Elaina Rusk, who exited Scripps’ KERO in Bakersfield, CA. Her exit ended a 13-year run at the station where ...
Anne Hughes is returning to the Quad Cities where she was at WQAD for two decades. While at WQAD, she served as producer, executive producer, assignment editor and assistant news director. (Not all at ...
Sonya Heithusen is hoping that her 17 years as an anchor-reporter on Nexstar’s WHO (plus ten years before that at WOI) in Des Moines, IA translates into votes for her state house candidacy. Heithusen ...
Back in November we told you that veteran WTAE reporter Katelyn Sykes opted not to renew her contract after six-plus years and was exiting the station with no job evidently lined up. “Pittsburgh Tribune-Review” ...
Moving up the ranks as one of CNN’s newest national correspondents is Camila Bernal. The former KRON reporter has been with the cable network for just under four years, starting out at CNN Newsource ...
It’s been official for a day. Mike Shields has taken the traffic center reins at Cox flagship WSB in Atlanta. Shields, who joined WSB back in 2018, takes over for Heather Catlin, who is ...
Abby Llorico and Casey Nolen are two reporters for Tegna’s (soon-to-be Standard General’s?) KSDK in St. Louis, MO. They also happen to be engaged….to each other. And evidently, their big wedding presents are new ...
Sabrina Franza is the newest face on the street for CBS-owned WBBM in Chicago, IL. The general assignment reporter spent 3½ years at News 12 The Bronx. “We’re excited to have an accomplished multi-skilled ...
After just under four years of anchoring and reporter at Hubbard’s WNYT in Albany, NY, Jacquie Slater is saying goodbye to tv news http:// She amplified her thoughts in another social media post: Having ...
The CBS News PR Department has been quite busy of late churning out press releases about new executives and division reorganization. In the latest move, Joel Goldberg is the new GM of CBS Newspath ...
You have to give Standard Media points for persistence. And Apollo as well. Both companies have been pursuing Tegna for several years now, with Standard Media making most of the noise through its largely ...
After just under a year on the street for Nexstar’s KFOR in Oklahoma City, OK, Brya Berry finds herself on the dawn patrol http:// She’s also worked in Columbus, GA and Birmingham, AL
Robert Costa recently collaborated with the legendary Bob Woodward on a book about the last few months of the 2020 presidential campaign and former President Trump‘s final weeks in office, called “Peril.” That was ...
On WSAZ’s 6pm show Thursday, reporter Tori Yorgery told her side of the story. She talked to her anchor Tim Irr about getting hit by a car, live on TV. Irr started the segment ...
Jonathan Mejía has been hired by Sinclair as a bilingual multimedia journalist in El Paso at the duopoly KFOX and KDBC. He’ll be reporting weekdays for both stations. Prior to joining KFOX, Mejía was ...
Insiders tell us CNN can’t make up their mind about the direction for talent for CNN+. And after some decent hires (most without real TV experience), the network announced that they’ll bring Wolf Blitzer ...
KSAT’s morning traffic anchor gave TV a try for a hot minute. In little under a year, Samuel King is leaving San Antonio to go back to public radio, this time in Minnesota. He’ll ...
Yes, it happens. And this time it is Kendis Gibson, who most recently sat on the anchor desk at MSNBC for the past two+ years.. Gibson will show up next Monday sitting at the ...
Mark Lima settled in this week as the new Washington Bureau chief for CBS News. He crossed the country, leaving his job as the network’s West Coast Bureau chief – a job he held ...
New Telemundo News division boss Patsy Loris is building her own senior management team at the network, and let us note that all three are women with deep experience. Veteran news executive Gabriela Tristán ...
Consolidation of resources and product continues apace in smaller markets across the country. A recent example comes from Humboldt-Redding CA where Sinclair is consolidating its morning newscast to broadcast both on KRCR in Redding ...
TV news industry stalwart Rick Gevers reports he’s been told that there is a new news director for locally owned WOAY in Oak Hill, WV. But, shhh it’s still a secret. Tyler Barker was ...
Caroline Collins, the morning anchor at Nexstar’s KSEE in Fresno, CA has been sidelined for nearly a week dealing with her SECOND bout of COVID-19 http:// Collins, who’s been with the station just over ...
One would think that a history of pitching conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory might make you toxic in the largely cautious media world today. Especially after your outlandish claims resulted in being dumped by ...
And another one is gone from the business, 17 years of experience, the last five at NBC-owned KXAS in Dallas-Ft. Worth, and weekend morning meteorologist Keisha Burns has apparently put tv news in her ...
CBS News is ramping up to launch its proposed streaming news service with the naming of three senior executives to run the operation. “The Wall Street Journal’s” Anthony Galloway (left) will oversee day-to-day programming ...
The newest face on Philadelphia television would be Frances Wang, newly arrived at NBC-owned WCAU from CBS-owned WFOR in Miami, FL. She will eventually sit on the weekend anchor desk, but made her on-air ...
Telemundo Houston has a new weekend news anchor. She comes from its sister station in San Antonio. Zalome Briceno is going to anchor and MMJ. It’s a good market jump, she started this weekend: ...
WNCN is moving a Soap Oprah to add a 4 p.m. show. The Raleigh station will add Angela Taylor and Rod Carter to the 4 p.m. roster. Young and the Restless will go to ...
Telemundo Arizona, which consists of two Telemundo properties KTAZ and Phoenix and KHRR in Tucson, appointed Noe Gonzalez Vice President of news. Gonzalez will oversee performance of the station’s newsrooms and the news production ...
We’re back to this. Thankfully anyone who commented on KWCH meteorologist Cassie Wilson’s post was kind about it. People who were either exposed to Omicron, have it or can’t be in the studio due ...
Rebecca Stevenson has officially been at every major station in Seattle. The meteorologist joined KOMO, the ABC station in the market. Prior to this stint, which just started this month, she was at KING ...
KING 5 has hired a new weekend segment producer. Taylor Pomasl is coming from Madison, Wisc and says this is her dream job. “I’m so excited to announce I’m joining the team at KING ...
Twitter is one of the best places to find comings and goings … Here is a roundup of what we saw this weekend. KENS 5 longtime assistant news director James Keith is moving on. ...
ABC’s chief medical correspondent Jennifer Ashton has Covid. She’s vaxxed and boosted. Ashton said it felt like a bad cold. Ashton had been out in LA when it happened last week. Amy Robach made ...
