VETERAN NEWS EXECUTIVE JOINS WOOD-TV
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ANOTHER DEPARTURE IN COLUMBUS; DESTINATION TBA
Growing up in Columbus, Ohio it was a dream come true. Adrienne Robbins got to work for NBC4, the station she watched before school growing up. Robbins has been doing sports reporting at the ...
GRAY NAMES LOUISVILLE NEWS DIRECTOR
Gray continues to name new management. The latest announcement comes out of WAVE in Louisville where Jenelle Shriner has been named news director. Shriner comes from KOLD in Tucson, Ariz. where she worked for ...
KIII FINALLY GETS A GENERAL MANAGER
It’s been years since KIII, the Tegna station in Corpus Christi, Texas, had a in-house general manager. Bruce Cummings, who oversees a handful of Tegna properties, is going to retire in March. This week ...
CHICAGO GETS A NEW ANCHOR PAIRING
Following the departure last month of Julie Unruh from the midday anchor desk at Nexstar’s WGN, Patrick Elwood has been named as her replacement, Elwood, who has been with WGN since 2013 after walking ...
HERE SHE COMES, BAY AREA
Morning anchor Karina Nova has less than two weeks left before she wraps up nearly 16 years at Tegna’s WBNS in Columbus, OH and heads west to San Francisco. It will be quite a ...
DC FORECASTER WILL STEP DOWN COME SPRING
District of Columbia viewers can reminisce along with WTTG’s veteran chief meteorologist Sue Palka for another couple of months. Palka plans to exit the FOX-owned station March 23rd after one final forecast and after ...
NEW FORECASTER IN COLUMBUS
McKenna King is the newest weekday meteorologist at Sinclair’s WCMH in Columbus, OH. King arrived on-air this week, after two years at Scripps’ WFTX in Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL. The Utah native has also worked ...
FROM LOCAL TO NETWORK
It was a ten-year run for veteran Los Angeles anchor León Krauze at Univision’s KMEX. And now it’s on to the network. Starting January 24, Krauze will co-anchor its late night “Noticiero Univision Edición ...
A NEW ASSIGNMENT IN HARTFORD
Another landmark for young journalist Aya Galal. Three years ago, we told you the Connecticut-born was the first reporter to wear a hijab on the air at then-Meredith-now-Gray’s WFSB in Hartford-New Haven, CT when ...
40+ YEARS IS A PRETTY GOOD RUN, DON’T YOU THINK?
That’s how many years Walt Howard racked up reporting and anchoring for Gray’s KFDA in Amarillo, TX. And now, he’s decided it’s time to call it a career. Through the years, Howard reported, anchored ...
IN BRIEF….END OF THE WEEK EDITION
Nexstar’s KIAH in Houston, TX is advertising for a new news director. Scott Fitzgerald, who’s been the Director of Operations and de facto ND, is leaving to become Regional Sales Manager Southwest for Newtek, ...
‘I’M NOT LEAVING BECAUSE I DON’T LIKE IT.’
Back in March of 1984, a young reporter named Mark Becker filed his first report for Charlotte television station WSOC. Now, almost a full 38 years later, the station is noting his approaching retirement ...
PHILLY ANCHOR LEGEND PASSES THE LATE-NIGHT TORCH
Philadelphia anchor legend Jim Gardner may be sticking around Disney’s WPVI as the 6 PM anchor until the end of the year, but last night, his late news replacement showed up, one day after ...
LEAVING THE ANCHOR DESK IN BOISE
It’s one more sweeps period (and most likely a month of tears, remembrances and commemorations) for KBOI anchor Natalie Hurst. She’s leaving the Sinclair station after 16 years….a total of 30 years in journalism. ...
CHANGING JOBS…CHANGING NAMES
When digital anchor Jon Wiener left Gray’s KKTV in Colorado Springs, CO for a similar position at Disney’s KTRK in Houston, somewhere along the way, he became Jonathan Bruce. That is how the station ...
IN BRIEF…NEW YEAR, NEW ASSIGNMENTS EDITION
Craig Hume joins Nexstar’s WBRE/WYOU in Wilkes-Barre, PA as the next ND. Hume most recently was ND for Hubbard’s KAAL in Rochester, MN, a job he left last November after two years, the latest ...
GOING HOME TO RALEIGH
Not everybody gets to write their own bylined farewell to the market they are leaving, and share a personal story of their own health struggle. Siobhan Riley, for three and a half years an ...
HEADING FOR THE MOTHERSHIP IN BRISTOL
It is a career dream coming true for Max McGee. He’s preparing to leave his anchor-reporter slot after two years at CBS-owned WJZ in Baltimore after signing a multi-year deal with ESPN. While in ...
COMING HOME TO DA BURGH
In a couple of weeks, Pittsburgh viewers will be seeing a new face on the night-time streets as Tori Yorgey joins Hearst’s WTAE as the new late-shift reporter. She’s coming from Gray’s WSAZ in ...
A SHOUT-OUT TO A BUFFALO REPORTER
We are never not gonna love tv newsers who aren’t afraid to come back at viewers who offensively offer their unsolicited advice in regard to 1) dress, 2) hair/makeup, 3) state of pregnancy, and ...
AN IN-COMPANY MOVE FOR VETERAN NEW ENGLAND REPORTER
After six years at Nexstar’s WWLP in western Massachusetts, reporter Mike Masciadrelli is now hitting the street for sister station WTNH in Hartford-New Haven, CT. http:// While in Massachusetts, Masciadrelli proved himself a reliable ...
ON THE MOVE
The NWT Group is very proud to congratulate the following journalists on their moves within the industry: Marissa Torres joins FOX Weather Network as an Evening Anchor and Meteorologist. Marissa was the Early Morning ...
SPEAKING OF NEWS 12
This Connecticut reporter is heading there.
REASON BEHIND WKBW’S 11PM SHIFT
It has to do with kids.
VETERAN NEWS DIRECTOR EXITS FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING
It’s not a resignation. He calls it a realignment and we’re into the phrase. Longtime news director Geoffrey Roth is going to leave local news in Omaha, Neb at KMTV and head to Washington ...
CBS CREATES INNOVATION LAB
CBS has hired another team (not just one person) to lead a new sector of CBS news called the News Innovation Lab. And leading it will be KXAN Austin news Director Chad Cross and ...
THE POLICE ARE UPSET ABOUT THE NEWS 12 CUTS
This is how respected this crew of reporters were.
SPOKANE ANCHOR/CHIEF MET EYES A MARCH EXIT
A Spokane weather legend is retiring. KREM anchor and chief meteorologist Tom Sherry said on Monday that at the beginning of March he’ll say goodbye to TV. He did agree to say on to ...
WLS CHICAGO REPORTER JOINS NBC NEWS
He’ll start on weekends.
NEWS 12 INSIDER: ‘IT WAS A CORPORATE AND TOXIC WORK CULTURE’
The cuts were one thing…
MOVING TO CINCY
She started in Beaumont, Texas and has quickly moved up to a top market as a full-time anchor. Jasmine Styles will join the WCPO, the Scripps station in Cincinnati, Ohio. She starts on January ...
MASSIVE CUTS HIT NEWS 12 LONG ISLAND
A local news institution is breaking down.
WRAL LEGEND DAVID CRABTREE IS SCALING BACK
WRAL evening anchor David Crabtree is going to scale back ad just do the 6 p.m. shows each night in Raleigh, N.C. For 28 years, he was doing the 5 and the 6. He ...
A NEW DC BUREAU CHIEF FOR CBS NEWS
And some other moves.
WPIX MAKES A BUNCH OF HIRES
Some are original, others aren’t.
FROM FILL-IN TO A PERMANENT SLOT
She’s been in the position after the main anchor went on medical leave.
GEORGE WILL TURNS UP AS NEWSNATION’S NEWEST BIG NAME
NewsNation made a significant hire on Monday. Political commentator and columnist George Will is joining the network as a commentator. The Washington Post and Pulitzer Price winner was called “perhaps the most powerful journalist ...
WE KNOW WHERE NPR HOST AUDIE CORNISH IS GOING…
They’re scooping up some excellent talent.
A NEW RACE AND CULTURE JOURNALIST IN SACRAMENTO
Yesterday we told you about a new race and culture reporter hire in Houston. Today, it’s the latest race and culture producer hire. Katie Kim is leaving WBIR in Knoxville and heading to its ...
NEWSY REBRANDS SHOW, AGAIN
It’s been constantly changing since 2017.
A FAMILIAR STORY: FORMER ANCHOR FINDS A NEW BLISS IN REAL ESTATE
WGAL legend Ron Martin stepped away from anchoring in Lancaster, Pa. after 37 years in November. Danielle Woods took over on the desk and the station moved on. It turns out though, Martin didn’t ...
BOSTON REPORTER GETS SLAMMED BY SNOW SLOP
This is weather coverage gold.
NEW SPORTS REPORTER IN GRAND RAPIDS
The Nexstar station in Grand Rapids, Mich. has a new sports reporter with local ties. Marlee Wierda joined WOOD-TV this week. She’ll cover sports in the market alongside sports director Jack Doles. Wierda comes ...
CNN PLANS TO REOPEN OFFICES IN JANUARY 18
Omicron shut it down.
A NEW WEEKEND ANCHOR NAMED IN SAN ANTONIO
He’s been moving up at the station since 2018.
BIRMINGHAM STATION FINALLY REPLACES ANCHOR WHO DIED SUDDENLY
When TV anchor Christopher Sign died by suicide, the Birmingham station and many journalists across the country were devastated and shocked. Sign was never replaced on ABC33-40 in the evenings. The station had fill-ins ...
ABC13 ADDS A RACE AND CULTURE REPORTER
KTRK, the ABC station in Houston, Texas, has added a race and culture reporter. Rosie Nguyen comes from KTVX in Salt Lake City. She says if it weren’t for this job, she would have ...
MORE CHANGES COMING TO THIS ORLANDO MORNING SHOW…
The entire OG team is gone.
FORMER REPORTER GOES VIRAL ON TIKTOK
The former news reporter didn’t forget how to turn on her reporter voice. Kayla Sullivan, who once worked at Fox 59 Indianapolis, is now a PR professional and creator of TikTok videos that are ...
HERE’S WHAT IT’S LIKE FOR NATIONAL COX CORRESPONDENT BLAIR MILLER AND HIS FAMILY…
They adopted a boy and now his older sister is at the center of a national missing person's search.
NEXSTAR LOOKING TO BUY A NETWORK?
When it comes to paying the people who actually do the work, Nexstar is a bit like that annoying guy you had lunch with who always seems to have misplaced his wallet. But when ...
THE NON-COMPETE ENDED TUESDAY. RASCON’S NEW ASSIGNMENT
When retiring Houston anchor legend Art Rascon passed the torch on to his son Jacob during their joint appearance on Rascon pere’s last midday newscast for Disney‘s KTRK, it marked the official end of ...
THEY KEEP FALLING UP
Ten months ago we reported the exit of Deborah Turness from NBC News to become CEO of ITN, the news provider for Britain’s ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 News. Barely seven months later, ...
VETERAN INDY ANCHOR MOVING ON TO THE GRAND STRAND
Rachel Bogle, a hometowner who’s been morning traffic reporter for Nexstar duopoly WTTV/WXIN for the past 4 years is off on a new assignment. http:// At Gray’s WMBF, she will be the evening news ...
THIS WILL RUIN YOUR LUNCH HOUR
“Birds Aren’t Real” is a social activist group founded by Gen-Zers. Or is it? The group pushes a conspiracy theory, which posits that birds do not exist and are really drone replicas installed by ...
IN BRIEF…UP AND OUT OF TV NEWS EDITION
Kelly Boan is being promoted out of WLNE in Providence, RI to the corporate level to work on a new project. It’s a quick rise to corporate for Boan, who joined this Standard Media ...
NEW YORK WEATHER VET POPS BACK UP ACROSS THE STREET
Nearly three years after an inadvertant F-bomb on the air derailed his 24-year-career at NBC flagship WNBC, Chris Cimino is returning to the Manhattan airwaves. He’s joined Nexstar-operated WPIX as a meteorologist and lifestyle ...
LONGTIME SATX SPORTS ANCHOR HAS NEXT GIG LINED UP
Joe Reinagel has been a fixture on San Antonio tv screens for a quarter of a century. That is about to end. Reinagel says he is giving up his gig at Tegna’s KENS. “It ...
IN BRIEF….NEW ASSIGNMENTS EDITION
Carlos Armando Cabrera is the newest MMJ at Telemundo’s KSTS in the Bay Area. He is coming from Miami online newser Periódico Cubano. Cabrera has also worked at Univision’s WVEN in Orlando and sister ...
WE SAW IT ON FOX NEWS…SORTA
Yesterday marked a year since a mob stormed the US Capitol in a vain effort to overturn the results of the November 2020 election. By and large, broadcast and cable news outlets spent quite ...
BACK TO THE CLOSET
One of KENS 5’s newest MMJs showed off her new digs… Sarah Duran is tracking in the closet again. Tegna has told its reporters if you don’t need to come into the office, it’s ...
COX WASHINGTON NEWS ANCHOR IN THE MIDDLE OF A NATIONAL STORY
He’s helping authorities find a missing 7 year old her who happens to be the sister of his adopted son.
BACK TO PACKERLAND
Julie Moravchik has returned to Green Bay and started this week as the new ND for Gray’s WBAY. Earlier in her career journey, she spent 2 1/2 years as ND for WGBA, before heading ...
A FAMILIAR FACE CROSSES BACK OVER THE STREET IN SCRANTON
For the past couple of year, meteorologist Kevin Derk has been a fill-in forecaster at Tegna’s WNEP in Scranton-Wilkes Barre, PA. Before that, he spent 12 years at Nexstar’s WBRE/WYOU in the same market. ...
FROM GREEN BAY TO HOUSTON
Just over two years after joining Scripps’s WGBA in Green Bay, WI, sports anchor/reporter Chancellor Johnson is headed back to the hometown city where he interned back in his college days. Johnson is joining ...
2022 CLAIMS ITS FIRST ND
Didn’t take long did it? The year was barely 5 days old when word came that Mark Neerman had been abruptly shown the door at KPIX in San Francisco. Neerman had been vice-president and news ...
TRADING COASTS AND CLIMATES
Kennedy Dendy spent two years at Allen Media’s KEZI in Eugene, OR, quickly rising from reporter to weekend anchor at the station. And now comes the next move. http:// Road trip coming up.
“IN THE TV NEWS BUSINESS, THEY CALL IT ‘ON THE BEACH”
For the past three years, Chris Gothner has been a reliable reporter for Hearst’s KCCI in Des Moines, IA. But family matters, including the recent death of his father, have forced Gothner to put ...
LEAVING HER HOME STATE FOR A BIGGER OPPORTUNITY
After a year and a half, anchor/reporter Macklailyn Johnson is departing Nexstar-operated KSAN in San Angelo for Tegna’s KTHV in Little Rock, AR http://
THE NEXT ADVENTURE BECKONS…BUT WHAT IS IT?
It’s 22 years and done for meteorologist Craig Setzer as CBS-owned WFOR in Miami, FL. But he doesn’t get away without a farewell. And that “next adventure” is still under wraps….
ON THE MOVE
Mort Meisner edition…
THIS GUY TROLLED THE WRONG SPORTS ANCHOR
The troll who decided to write EPSN’s Mina Kimes a nasty email saying she wasn’t suited for sports journalism is regretting it about now. Sir this is a Wendy’s pic.twitter.com/Wg5gZamL1N — Mina Kimes (@minakimes) ...
BACK TO ERIE TO ANCHOR
She started her career at JET24 as a reporter, left for eight years and is now back as a main anchor. Starting on Monday, Jennifer Mobilia started anchoring FOX66 News First at 10. She’ll co-anchor ...
KTRK ANCHOR DOES LAST SHOW WITH HIS SON AS HIS CO-ANCHOR
KTRK anchor Art Rascon had a memorable last newscast. He anchored it with his son, Jacob Rascon, who is also an anchor at the station. It was Jacob’s first day on the job, he ...
SCOTT MACFARLANE JOINS CBS NEWS
He’ll stay in the same city.
FIVE (NOT SO SERIOUS) TIPS FOR SURVIVING YOUR FIRST SPORTS GIG
And more about the great sportscasters who started in small market, like you.
A WORD ABOUT THE GREAT RESIGNATION…
TV Talent mentor, manager and founder of Talent Blvd Mike McNamara is constantly giving advice to talent who want to leave to business… or are at least thinking of it. But before they take ...
THE GREAT RESIGNATION CONTINUES: NPR EDITION
“I am joining you in the Great Resignation this week…”
HIS REASON FOR LEAVING
It’s a combination of things…
ON THE MEND
This met missed snow coverage after a major crash.
IT’S NOT APRIL 1ST… SO WHAT IS THIS?
It was reported locally in December but we’re just catching this. Former Miami police cheif Art Acevedo has joined CNN as an analyst. His first appearance was on the The Situation Room December 15. ...
GONE FROM LA>>>READY FOR HOUSTON
She’s such a pro. Now there’s a big anchor opening in the City of Angels.
CH-CH-CHANGES IN BUFFALO
WKBW, which has been the long standing ‘Eyewitness’ news station in the market, is dropping it’s branding. In fact, they dropped it on New Year’s Eve. It’s now 7 News. The number three station ...
SHE’S BA-ACK…
Not for long.
THE GREAT RESIGNATION….2022 EDITION
She is leaving this Sinclair station less than two years in.
BONEHEAD VIEWER GETS SCHOOLED BY ST. LOUIS ANCHOR
She had an issue with her saying she eats dumplings.
BOSTON LEGEND LOSES BATTLE WITH ALZHEIMER’S
Legendary WCVB anchor Mary Richardson died over the weekend. She was 76. She lost a long battle with Alzheimer’s. Richardson was the anchor of Chronicle. She is survived by her husband Stan Leven, who ...
WILL SOMERVILLE GET FIRED?
Let’s break it down…
NEW YORK CITY REPORTER LEAVES FOR A SMALLER MARKET
You do it for the anchor gig.
LAS VEGAS CHIEF QUITS BEFORE THE NEW YEAR
The day before New Year’s Eve, KSNV chief meteorologist told viewers he wouldn’t be starting the new year off forecasting for the Sinclair station in Las Vegas as he had for almost 40 years… ...
ANCHOR RESURFACES ACROSS THE STREET AFTER SOCIAL MEDIA CONTROVERSY
It seems like it was a good get for this station.
THE FUTURE OF WORK FROM HOME
Omicron might have changed this…
MONTGOMERY SPORTS DIRECTOR EXITING
He’s starting the New Year out of news.
THIS MOM IS HERE FOR IT.
Just watch this video of a reporter breaking news to her family that she’s moving on…
THANK YOU, 2021. LET’S GO 2022!
It’s been 18 months since Reel Media took over NewsBlues and Medialine Talent. We want to say THANK YOU for not only sticking with us but helping Newsblues grow again as a leader in ...
TEN YEARS AND OUT FOR THIS BILLINGS ANCHOR
It’s been a rocky road for the station.
FORMER SALT LAKE CITY ANCHOR GET SCAMMED OUT OF THOUSANDS ON INSTAGRAM
Here’s a story about a former TV reporter who got scammed on Instagram and taken for $13,000. Nicole Vowell, who was most recently a reporter at KSL in Salt Lake City, told Fox2 in ...
