SOBER IN PROVIDENCE
Today began Day 1 of sobriety for me.
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TWO NEW FACES IN CHICAGO
WFLD, the Fox station in Chicago didn’t have trouble replacing Brittany Garzillo, who left the station for the network. The station hired WITI reporter Kasey Chronis. It was announced on Friday by station general ...
A SECOND ONE…
KENS just hired a new morning meteorologist, Marina Neuman, and just added another to the roster. Ryan Stoptaugh is joining KENS and a new weekend evening meteorologist. “Ryan is a terrific weather forecaster with ...
NEWS DIRECTOR COMINGS AND GOINGS
Here is the latest from Rick Gevers…. KOLR-TV, Springfield, MO…MARK PARRICK is joining this Mission Broadcasting owned but operated by Nexstar CBS affiliate. He’s been the Assistant ND for WDSU-TV (Hearst-NBC) in New Orleans ...
MORNING ANCHOR A YEAR OUT OF COLLEGE
WAPT didn’t have to look far for its new morning anchor. Reporter Cecil Hannibal graduated from USC Annenberg, went to Jackson, MS for his first reporting job in 2020 and is now a morning ...
HOME TO SAN ANTONE
KENS in San Antonio has hired a handful of new on-air journalists. The latest addition is Sarah Duran. Duran was most recently a reporter for Spectrum News, in the same market. Her first day ...
VETERAN METEOROLOGIST FORECASTS….OUTTA HERE
It’s been a long two years for this TV family. Stacey Hanrahan, the meteorlogist at WHP in Harrisburg, PA is saying goodbye to televising after 11 years at the station. This after her husband, ...
POYNTER CELEBRATES JOURNALISM
With a virtual fundraiser this week.
TV JOBS: NOVEMBER 8
Here are the latest TV job listings from our sister site MedialineTalent.com. If you want to know more about the position, log on or email us at info@reelmediagroup.com. Weekend Morning Anchor/Reporter Chattanooga, TN 2 ...
GRAY NAMES NEW GM FOR TEXAS OPERATION
Gray the stations in Lubbock, Texas have a new general manager. Greg McAlister will serve as the general manager of KCBD, the NBC station as well as KLCW, the CW station in Lubbock. McAlister ...
AFTER A HIATUS, REPORTER JOINS HOMETOWN STATION
She’ll hit the streets again.
LONGTIME FRESNO TV PERSONALITY HEADED FOR ARIZONA
It will be a return.
DROPPED PITTSBURGH ANCHOR SAYS GOODBYE VIA SOCIAL MEDIA
She confirmed the reason.
FOX NEWS SWITCHING UP D.C. LINEUP
Former Allentown reporter heads to London to fill a vacant spot.
KALB NAMES NEW METEOROLOGIST
She replaces the former chief who left after three decades.
COLUMBUS METEOROLOGIST DENIED JAIL RELEASE
The judge gave her reasons.
VETERAN JOURNALIST NAMED CO-ANCHOR
Jonathan Inoa, a veteran journalist of nearly 30 years experience, is the newly-named co-anchor of the late-night newscast at Univision’s WXTV in New York. He last worked as a reporter for Spectrum News and ...
FROM LOCAL CABLE TO THE NETWORK
After leaving Spectrum News at the beginning of last month, Em Nguyen has turned up as a “multi-platform journalist” for ABC News. At the time of her departure, she gave no hint of future ...
IN BRIEF…..CH-CH-CHANGES EDITION
Mandi Mendoza has joined USAA in San Antonio as Director of Media Production. Wikipedia can explain what USAA is better than we possibly could! (Short Version: It’s and insurance and banking outfit.) Mendoza is the ...
NEWSMAX REPORTER TAKEN OFF AIR
Several days after Newsmax White House correspondent Emerald Robinson tweeted out this lunatic conspiracy theory…. …she’s been sidelined by her bosses while the network is “currently reviewing the posts and during that period Ms. ...
POPULAR PHOENIX ANCHOR IS GONE
He’s been off the air for over a month….and Brandon Lee, anchor for Meredith’s-soon-to-be-Gray’s KTVK/KPHO duopoly in Phoenix says it’s permanent. His life experiences are taking him in a new direction. http:// Lee has ...
SMARTMATIC SICS THE LAWYERS ON NEWSMAX AND OAN
FOX News now has company in defending itself against a lawsuit by election technology company Smartmatic. Smartmatic has added Newsmax and OAN to a massive defamation lawsuit that also includes as defendants some FOX ...
HER FUTURE IS UP IN THE AIR
After two years as sports director for Nexstar’s KVEO in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, Amanda Atwell is signing off later this month. She says she’s moving closer to family and still trying to figure ...
TRADING SATX FOR SEATTLE
It’s an in-house move for reporter Erica Zucco, who wraps it up today (November 4) at Tegna’s KENS in San Antonio. After just over three years at the station, she’s moving on to sister ...
IN BRIEF…..NEW MARKETS, NEW JOBS EDITION
Sarah Zak starts November 15th as ND for Nexstar’s WAVY in Norfolk, VA. She most recently was ND for Scripps’ WFTX in Ft. Myers. She left in September after 3 1/2 years. Zak has ...
ATLANTA ANCHOR PLANS HER EXIT
Carol Sbarge joined WSB in Atlanta back in 1992, after working in tv newsrooms in Raleigh, NC, and Portland, ME. And now, she plans to leave the noon anchor desk later this month. http:// ...
AN IN-HOUSE CROSS-COUNTRY MOVE
Audrey Asistio is coming home. After just under 5 and a half years at NBC-owned WBTS in Boston where she anchored the 4, 5:30 and 7 p.m. weekday newscasts, she is taking the leap ...
WTAE STUNNER: GONE IN DA BURGH
We’ve been kind of wondering what the deal was. WTAE morning anchor Kelly Frey was notably absent at the start of the November sweeps. And justlikethat….she’s gone. On Wednesday, the Hearst station dropped the ...
INDY ANCHOR EXITING THE BUSINESS
After four years at Circle City’s WISH in Indianapolis, IN, anchor Brenna Donnelly signed off Sunday, leaving the business for a second career in the health care field. http:// Also factoring into her decision ...
CONSPIRACY-THEORIZING WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT GOES QUIET
It’s been several days since Newsmax White House Correspondent Emerald Robinson tweeted out this little picture postcard. Twitter removed the bonkers tweet replacing it with a note stating the tweet violated the social platform’s ...
KSDK CONTINUES TO SHUFFLE
Sara Machi’s status is the latest to change at Tegna’s KSDK in St. Louis. Machi, who came to the station in 2019 as the new “5 On Your Side” reporter, is moving up to ...
A NEW FACE REPORTING ON THE STREET IN DALLAS
It’s another move up the Univision ladder.
NEW SPINNER AT ABC
ABC News has hired a new person to join the corporate PR team. Alison Rudnick will join as Vice President of corporate communications. She comes from CNN, where she was Vice President of communications ...
STEPPING AWAY TO FOCUS ON HER HEALTH
Two days before Christmas on 2020, her life changed.
TWO COLLEGE KIDS ARE THE NEW INDUSTRY EXPERTS
Or at least they say they are..
WSB ANCHOR RETIRING AFTER 39 YEARS
I have loved and a big part of it is all of you..
SYRACUSE VET ANCHOR IS HEADED FOR THE DOOR
WSYR anchor Dan Cummings basically started the station. “Since 1984, the owners and local managers of NewsChannel 9 have given me the opportunity of a lifetime to grow and learn something new every day,” ...
ANOTHER HEADED FOR HOUSTON
KOCO reporter Patrina Adger is going from Oklahoma City to Houston. She’s the latest reporter to come to the market after a lot of turnover hit the station in the past year. She’ll join ...
CONSUMER REPORTER WILL DIP INTO HIS SAVINGS AFTER SAVING PEOPLE MILLIONS
Can you guess why?
GMA ANCHOR BREAKS DOWN OVER JOVITA MOORE’S PASSING
She was a Queen.
JACKSON ANCHOR’S FAMILY HELD AT GUNPOINT ON HALLOWEEN
WAPT anchor Megan West and her family were carjacked the night of Halloween. Police are now searching for at least three men who held then entire family (including her two kids) at 7:15 p.m. at ...
AXED BY GRAY, HIRED BY THE INDY STATION IN TOWN
She got so lucky. WLOX anchor Meggan Gray decided not to get vaccinated and was let go from the Gray station in Biloxi, Mississippi. Maybe it’s the great recruitment crisis, we’re not entirely sure, ...
THE KSDK SHUFFLE
Here’s what’s happening at the Tegna station in St. Louis.
LEAVING FOR MORE WORK-LIFE BALANCE
Bryan Shaw is leaving news and meteorology for more work-life balance in Cleveland. This happened recently in Rochester. A longtime journalists who came to WHAM from KVUE in Austin for a full-time anchor gig ...
REPLACING A LEGEND
She’s coming back home.
TV JOBS: NOVEMBER 1
Here are this week’s TV Job openings from our sister site, MedialineTalent.com. For more information on the job, email us at info@reelmediagroup.com MMJ Reporter Huntsville, TN 2 years Multimedia Reporter Chattanooga, ...
ONE OF THE GREATS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER
This is a blow.
NEW MORNING TEAM IN BALTIMORE
Her new title is effective immediately.
FORMER BUFFALO METEOROLOGIST LANDS FREELANCE GIG IN CALI
She was well-liked in WNY.
PROMOTED IN NEW YORK CITY
WNYW, the Fox station in New York City, is promoting three of it’s employees into anchor roles. First off, is the replacement for Rosanna Scotto in the coveted Good Day New York spot. The ...
MONTANA NEWS NETWORK HAS A NEW LEADER
The Scripps operation brought someone up the ladder.
A LEGEND RETIRES IN CHARLESTON
And he’s pumped.
COMING TO A STATION IN DENVER
She’ll show up in January.
BREAKING: JOVITA MOORE PASSES AWAY
It caught us by surprise. WSB’s Jovita Moore passed away Thursday night after a short battle with brain cancer. In April, doctors discovered two tumors on her brain. After surgery, the most common type ...
PINK SLIPS AT TELEMUNDO
Last February, the suits at Telemundo rebranded and launched the Hispanic network’s morning show as “Hoy Dia.” This week, pink slips were handed to six members of its network morning show production team. Those ...
MISSISSIPPI STATION TAPS NEW EVENING ANCHOR
Lori Buhring is getting closer to home as the new evening anchor at Morris Multimedia’s WXXV in Gulfport, MS. The Alabama native comes to the station after 2 and a half years as weekend ...
HE’LL SOON BE ON “ROCKY TOP”
News Director Matt Kummer is sticking with Gray as he moves south after 10 years (8 of them as news director) at WBAY in Green Bay, WI to the company’s Knoxville duopoly WVLT-WBXX http:// ...
SHAKEUP IN SATX
She was once Miss San Antonio. Now Alanna Sarabia is set to be the evening traffic anchor at Tegna’s KENS in San Antonio. Earlier in her career she hosted “San Antonio Live” on WOAI ...
BITING THE HAND THAT FED HIM FOR 23 YEARS
We reported to you a couple weeks back that Kansas City morning anchorman Mark Alford headed for the exit at Nexstar’s WDAF after 23 years at the station. Alford, who already had a real ...
BUMPED UP IN CHICAGO
Virginia Matos has been with Disney’s WLS in Chicago since her internship there back in 2000. 21 years later, the Chicago native is the newly-designated executive producer of the station’s 11 AM and 5 ...
IN BRIEF…MOVING UP AND ON EDITION
Gerron Jordan is the new morning “live desk” anchor at Hearst’s WISN in Milwaukee, WI He comes to the station from locally-owned WVLA/WGMB in Bon Rouge, LA. The Chicago native has also worked in ...
BOSTON O&O NAMES NEW ANCHOR
Most recently, Glenn Jones has been interim CEO and Chief Experience Officer for the Bermuda Tourism Authority, where he held a variety of leadership roles since 2015. But now he is headed back to ...
BIDEN’S FCC CHAIR NOMINEE ACTUALLY SEEMS CONSUMER-FRIENDLY
The Biden Administration finally turned its attention toward the Federal Communications Commission, nominating a former FCC Chair’s assistant to a long-empty seat and moving to take the “acting” off Jessica Rosenworcel’s acting FCC Chair ...
IN BRIEF….CH-CH-CHANGES EDITION
Stan Kowalski adds oversight of Altice’s News 12 in Westchester/Hudson Valley, New York. He’s been running the Bronx/Brooklyn newsroom for this hyper local cable channel. Here’s the note from SVP/GM Jacques Natz. Autumn Jones ...
YEAH….SHE LEFT AWHILE BACK
After a month or so, St. Louis, MO tv viewers suddenly noticed that they were no longer seeing anchor/reporter Savannah Louie on Tegna’s KSDK. Well, she did tell them, didn’t she? http:// Louis is ...
HEADED BACK TO HER TWIN CITIES HOME
Kirsten Mitchell, for the past 2+ years a reporter at Nexstar’s KSEE in Fresno, CA, is headed home and CBS-owned WCCO. http://
HIGH-PROFILE CHANGES IN CHICAGO
Sports (and weekend morning news) anchor Siafa Lewis is headed to his hometown of Philadelphia, PA after seven years at NBC-owned WMAQ in Chicago. In making the move, he is also moving into news ...
EL TIEMPO FOX26 CON LENA MARIA
Lena Maria Arango, the newest meteorologist at FOX-owned KRIV in Houston, TX recently announced that she is also doing Spanish-language forecasts, available on social media. The bilingual Arango has been doing this for a ...
WELL AT LEAST HE CONFESSED….
Every once in a while you run across a story that induces some serious head-scratching. Is this a story? Why is it a story? Is it funny? Sad? Ridiculous? A crime? A vendetta? Such ...
CONGRATULATIONS….
To Sara Diamond, evening anchor at Nexstar’s WJHL in Johnson, City, TN/ She is marking 20 years at the station, a tenure that began after she worked at stations in Texas and Oklahoma in ...
CBS STATIONS ARE LOOKING FOR THIS KIND OF EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Newsblues has obtained an internal memo from CBS stations co-president Wendy McMahon . The note is about recruitment (yes, everyone is feeling the pinch) and an effort to find innovative, creative executive producers. See ...
NEW AUSTIN REPORTER SETTLES IN
She drove from Alabama to Texas.
COX’S NEW NUMBER ONE IN DAYTON
WHIO, the Cox station in Dayton, Ohio, has a new boss. Laura Evans has been named news director effective November 8. Evans will lead the news operations for the brand. She comes from KING ...
A NEW NEWSBOSS IN BOWLING GREEN
It’s her second stint.
FOUR YEARS AND OUT IN ATLANTA
This jump could be huge.
HEADED BACK TO HER TWIN CITIES HOME
This station puts out network talent like crazy.
THE LOCAL AND NATIONAL NEWS RECRUITMENT CRISIS BY THE NUMBERS
Here’s what we found out about the openings.
SINCLAIR STILL IN RECOVERY MODE
Sinclair is still working to recover from last weeks’ cyber attack. Some systems are still disrupted and while all of the company’s local stations and regional sports networks are back on-line and on the ...
KC PAY-TO-PLAY DOWN AN ANCHOR A MONTH AFTER LAUNCH
It’s not a lot of time.
VIEWERS STILL GET ANGRY OVER CUTINS
It’s crazy to think this still happens. KMOV was getting it from viewers who missed television shows during severe weather coverage. The storms that passed through St. Louis and caused significant damage. Anchor Paige ...
FOX WEATHER MOST DOWNLOADED APP IN COUNTRY
And on the debut day.
HER $8 MILLION A YEAR DEAL COULD GO AWAY
The ratings just aren’t good.
WAY TOO EARLY GETS ITS NEW HOST
Hint: he’s a print guy.
KASA BUILDS TEAM A WEEK AFTER PURCHASE
They are making some quick progress
BACK ON THE JOB AFTER MEDICALLY ENFORCED ABSENCE
WPXI reporter Mike Holden has been out on medical leave since early September. He was fighting a potential case of popliteal artery entrapment syndrome. It didn’t allow him to walk, run or put weight ...
MOVING UP IN GREENVILLE
He’s been at the station since 1999.
ANOTHER REPORTER ON THE STREET IN PHOENIX
She worked in Denver for a year.
FROM TV TO TEACHING
It’s been 14 years.
A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE GET FIRED FOR NOT GETTING VAXXED
But will more continue to opt out?
MOVING TO WEEKDAYS IN TULSA
KOKI in Tulsa, Okla. has named a very longtime reporter and weekend anchor to weekday evening anchor. Sara Whaley will be co-anchoring 5, 6, 9 and 10 p.m. shows alongside Shae Rozzi. It will ...
FOX WEATHER LAUNCHES TODAY
There has been a lot of practice.
THE WORLD AWAITS FOR YOUTUBE TO TAKE ACTION
We’re still waiting to see if YouTube once again drops the hammer on Steven Crowder, who this week launched a viciously racist attack on San Francisco tv reporter Betty Yu. We already have a ...
IN BRIEF…COMINGS AND GOINGS EDITION
Jeff Lenk left Sinclair duopoly KBAK/KFBX in Bakersfield, CA in early September. He was news director for the last five years. Lenk was with the station for 14 years, first as a producer and ...
THE WEEKEND IS HERE
And yeah, we figured some Halloween laughs should come early. Enjoy.
NEXSTAR’S NEW #1 IN BIG D
Marc Hefner, a 14-year veteran of Nexstar management, is the new Vice-President and General Manager of the company’s KDAF in Dallas, TX…not far from company HQ in Irving. Hefner is coming to Dallas from ...
LEAVING THE HOMETOWN FOR A BIGGER MARKET
It took her 12 years, with stops in Steubenville and Columbus, OH and a side trip to Burlington Coat Factory, to finally make it to Pittsburgh television in 2018. But now Michele Newell is ...
ANOTHER HOUSTON DEPARTURE
It’s three years and out for reporter T.J. Parker at Disney’s KTRK in Houston, TX He came to the station in 2018 from Scripps’ WCPO in Cincinnati. He also worked at stations in Evansville, ...
HEADED HOME FROM BALTIMORE
Multimedia journalist Trenier Ward is coming back to sweet home Chicago and Disney’s WLS. He seems pretty happy about it. http:// The Chicago native was with Hearst’s WBAL in Baltimore. Before that he put ...
