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His brother, cousin and father were all in news.
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TEGNA NAMES HOSTS FOR INVESTIGATIVE BRAND VERIFY
Tegna’s investigative unit Verify has a handful of hosts that be synonymous with the brand. Journalists Gabe Cohen, Ariadne Daril and Brandon Lewis will be on air hosts as well as write stories and ...
ANOTHER SPORTS ANCHOR BITES THE BUST
This time he’s staying in the news business.
ON THE MOVE
A move to Virginia from Mort Meisner and Associates.
WELCOME TO HOUSTON
A welcome party and observation...
BUFFALO TV INVESTIGATOR GOING BACK TO PRINT
He’ll be a great asset to this paper.
MEGYN KELLY GETS SIRIUS
There will be more of her soon.
CNN ATLANTA HEADQUARTERS SOLD
Employees aren’t being kicked out just yet.
DETROIT SPORTS ANCHOR SAYS IT’S TIME
He’s been with the station since 2014.
NEW CHIEF METEOROLOGIST IS A 11-YEAR VET
He’s been waiting for this for over 10 years.
FORMER JACKSONVILLE TRAFFIC ANCHOR DIES SUDDENLY
It’s unclear what happened.
DC ANCHOR SHUTS DOWN PHONE SCAMMERS ON TIKTOK
“Sure, the number is 3, 2, 1....”
PETER DUNN’S REPLACEMENT NAMED AT CBS
He’s currently overseeing WCBS.
NBC10 BOSTON ANNOUNCES NEW HIRES
NBC10 Boston announced they’ve made a meteorologist and sports hire. Tania Leal moved across the country from Los Angeles to join the team. She will be the station’s new weekend morning meteorologist. She left ...
WORKING WEEKENDS TO BE CLOSER TO HOME
From weekday anchor to weekend anchor, a choice she’s made to be just an hour from home. Dwayne Marae left South Bend and is joining WFMZ 69 News in Allentown, Pa. It’s just an ...
CREW OK AFTER MAN OPENS FIRE ON THEM
“The suspect who opened fire on the KSAT crew this morning has been shot and killed by police.”
THE FIRST THING IS TO ATONE FOR THE TV NEWS CAREER?
This met is making a career change.
FROM REPORTER TO STATION OWNER
Anything is possible.
FORMER FOX EXEC SLAMS THE MURDOCH OPERATION
In op-ed for the Daily Beast, a former Fox executive called Fox News bile and is still trying to figure out why Ruppert Murdoch won’t change course. Preston Paddon, who worked for Murdoch until ...
NASHVILLE REPORTER DEPARTS FOR PODCASTING
He’ll take his content to the entire state and beyond.
SINCLAIR EYES NBC SPORTS NET…
Here’s what we know
SINCLAIR LAUNCHES BUDGET NEWS OP IN BUFFALO
We have a look.
TV JOBS: JULY 5
Here is this week’s TV Job List from our sister site, MedialineTalent.com. For a list of hundreds of jobs each week, log on! Anchor/Reporter (weekends) WWMT Grand Rapids, MI 3 years experience Multimedia Journalist ...
TOLDEO SPORTS REPORTER: ‘THERE’S THIS WHITE MASS’
Toledo sports reporter Kristi Kopanis had a 27 pound cyst removed from her stomach. It sounds bizarre and it is. In an interview with her station, post-op, she said that one day she woke ...
HEY, IT’S STILL THE WEEKEND….CRACK OPEN A BEVERAGE AND ENJOY!
MENTOR IN SOUTH DAKOTA LEAVES
She spent a lot of timing helping young journalists.
TEARS ON-AIR TURN INTO A LESSON FOR REPORTERS
“Just had to let out the emotions I feel I was bottling up to try and get my job done.“
DISNEY NAMES A NEWS DIRECTOR IN HOUSTON
Keaton Fuchs is the newly-minted news director for Disney’s KTRK in Houston. He has been the head of content and data strategy for the station. “This is a time in our industry when we ...
A WELL-EARNED RETIREMENT
Congratulations to longtime news director Sue Stephens who has announced her retirement. She’s been the news director for Hearst’s WVTM in Birmingham for the past six years and ran the news department at Hearst’s ...
IN RENO, DIVORCES CAN BE BITTER AND UGLY
Longtime morning anchor John Potter of Sarkes Tarzian’s KTVN in Reno had his microphone abruptly cut this week when he started to share his grievances over a contract dispute with the station. Potter, who ...
HE WORKED UNTIL THE VERY END
Veteran news director Rod Jackson’s last stop was at Nexstar’s WOWK in Charleston, WV, where he spent the last two years. He died this week of esophageal cancer. http:// Jackson, whose LinkedIn page proudly ...
IN BRIEF….TGIF EDITION
Rick Bagley left Tegna’s KFSM in Ft. Smith, AR nearly two weeks ago. He had been at the stations since 2017 in his second stint as news director there. In between, he was the ...
ON THE MEND
Toledo, OH sports anchor Kristi Kopanis is recovering from a health scare that came out of nowhere early last month. Kopanis, who works at Tegna’s WTOL woke up on June 10th with lower back ...
MORE RE-RACKS, MORE REPETITION…..MORE COMMERCIAL AVAILS
Hearst’s WTAE in Pittsburgh is the latest station to launch a 4 p.m. newscast starting Tuesday. And of course, you know what that means, don’t you? “The addition of this newscast means Pittsburgh’s Action ...
CONTINUING TO MOVE UP AT TEGNA
She’s heading West to lead KING.
DISGRACED HOST WANTS LAWSUIT TOSSED
“Claiming her allegations are “petty slights and trivial inconveniences.”
FIRST A FAN, THEN A BROADCASTER, NOW RETIRED.
This NBA voice says he’s reached his 4th quarter.
TURNING UP ACROSS STREET IN ROCHESTER
He got laid off as part of budget cuts.
VIDEO: NBC BAY AREA COVERS NEWS CREW HOLD UP
“This isn’t supposed to happen.”
YOUNG AND INTERESTED IN SPORTS BROADCASTING?
Read this.
FROM SALT LAKE TO DENVER
She was in Utah for eight years.
REPORTER KNOWN FOR HIS SPACE REPORTING RETIRES
His last day in Orlando is today.
FORMER KUTV NEWS DIRECTOR DIES IN DUI CRASH
It happened on Sunday.
MOVIN’ AND GROOVIN’
Moves in the management world.
ANCHOR FINDS HER HOME RANSACKED
Someone had been inside.
WE SUPPORT AUTHENTIC JOURNALISTS
Here’s why.
YOUNG REPORTER LEAVES BIZ FOR PIO JOB
He wasn’t too far into his reporting career when he decided to leave the business. Kolby Crossley started working as a reporter in 2016. He left his last station in Colorado Springs, CO., to ...
ORLANDO MORNING ANCHOR GONE WITHOUT EXPLANATION
Now his co-anchor is talking about it.
NEW ANCHOR IN L.A.
She’s new to the market.
ON THE MOVE
A job right out of college.
REBOUNDING FROM CHICAGO TRIBUNE LAYOFFS
Some are bad in the business.
TAKE TIME WHEN PICKING YOUR NEXT MARKET
Speaking of market jumps … We wanted to share some good direction from one of the top TV agents in the business. Ken Lindner represents heavy hitters including Lester Holt, Mario Lopez, Robin Meade ...
MOVING UP JUST TWO MARKETS
For good reasons!
A NEW UTILITY MAN IN ST. LOUIS
He really does do it all.
WSVN METEOROLOGIST OPENS UP ABOUT LOSING FAMILY IN COLLAPSE
WSVN meteorologist Phil Ferro spoke candidly about losing his uncle and godmother in the Surfside building collapse. Antonio and Gladys Lozano lived in the South tower that fell. “In the blink of an eye, ...
DIGITAL ANCHORS ARE HERE TO STAY AND HERE IS THE LATEST PROOF
KHOU morning reporter Brandi Smith, who went viral when she helped someone get rescued from a flooded car during a storm live shot, is leaving the morning show for a digital role. Smith is ...
IN A RARE MOVE, THIS STATION BROUGHT BACK SPORTS
They dissembled the department four years ago.
DETROIT METEOROLOGIST GETS SHADOW BANNED FROM INSTAGRAM
It happened after her live hit.
AUSTIN ANCHOR LOSES SISTER TO COVID
She’s returning to work today.
TV JOBS: JUNE 28
Here is this week’s TV Job List from our sister site, MedialineTalent.com. For a list of hundreds of jobs each week, log on! KTUU Crime Reporter/Court Reporter Anchorage, Alaska Executive Producer KOBI-TV NBC 5 ...
STATION LOSES BOTH MORNING ANCHORS AT THE SAME TIME
Viewers who watch Fox 17 in West Michigan won’t recognize either of the two people waking them up soon. It’s not typical that both morning anchor contracts would expire at the same time but ...
SINCLAIR STATIONS BRING HOME 42 REGION EMMYS
The most in the region combined.
HOMETOWN RETURN
She left for a breaking news anchor job.
TAMPA REPORTER’S SORORITY SISTER MISSING IN MIAMI
She was living in the tower that collapsed.
MOVING UP IN EAST TEXAS
Nexstar duopoly KETK/KFXK has promoted Sarah Alegre to the morning anchor position at the stations’ AM newscasts. She’s been with the stations for just about a year. http://
FOUR YEARS AND OUT FOR THIS FORECASTER
After four years at the weather center of Tegna’s WGRZ in Buffalo, meteorologist Heather Waldman is saying goodbye in August. Although her next step has yet to be confirmed, she does happen to be ...
NOW NEXSTAR IS EYEING A PRINT PROPERTY?
We heard this week that the ratings for Nexstar’s “NewsNation Now” took still another dive this month, to their lowest level all year. The sad results: The “unbiased news” *wink wink* experiment delivered 28,000 ...
UPPER PLAINS TV NEWS VET OPTS FOR P.R.
Saying goodbye this week up in North Dakota is Andrea Larson, longtime anchor at several North Dakota tv station, the latest being Gray’s KVLY in Fargo. It’s her second go-round at the station, where ...
FOX WEATHER A STEP CLOSER TO LAUNCH
Later this year, we can expect FOX Weather to offer itself as a streaming alternative to…well….you know who. And they trotted out six meteorologists/presenters to show they aren’t kidding around. The six will front ...
LOOKING BACK ON HALF A CENTURY IN BROADCAST NEWS
It all started way back in his native Windsor, Ontario when he was a cameraman on the local “Bozo the Clown” show. It ends in just a few days when Keith Radford steps down ...
OH PLEASE….
Reporter Paige Hulsey of Meredith’s KMOV in St. Louis would have us believe this is a typical teen’s bedroom. Really? Her goal in having us suspend our grip on reality was to deliver one ...
IN BRIEF….THE GEVERS EDITION
Gavin Maliska has left Quincy owned WEEK in Peoria, IL after not quite a year as news director. WEEK does separate newscasts on a digital sub channel called HOI-ABC Krystal Swann has been promoted ...
ON THE MOVE
The news we knew about was just confirmed.
CHANGES ALREADY HAPPENING IN HARTFORD
He just started...
BUFFALO GETTING A NEW NEWSCAST….NOT BASED IN BUFFALO
Well, three people will be here.
ST. LOUIS ANCHOR TAKES ON MORE THAN MOST
Anne Alfred spent most of the pandemic on dialysis and in her basement anchoring.
THE HOT NEW POSITION IN TV
There’s been a new hire in Seattle.
FROM PHILLY TO HOUSTON FOR AN ANCHOR GIG
Even the news director congratulated her on social.
NEED AN AGENT? HERE IS A NEW SITE THAT WILL HELP YOU
It’s important but the client and agency find the right fit.
ON THE MOVE
She’s heading to her hometown.
APRIL MOSS’ PROJECT VERITAS INTERVIEW DROPPED
Moss explains why she
ATLANTA REPORTER LEAVES HIS CALLING TO BE A JOURNALIST FOR MORE TIME TO BE A DAD
The most important titles I’ve ever held are ‘husband’ and ‘father.'
DETROIT TV EXEC HEADS FOR THE EXIT
A longtime news manager in Detroit is stepping away after almost four decades. Marla Drutz is retiring from the top job at Detroit’s NBC affiliate WDIV later this year. “I’ve loved every day of ...
SMALL TOWN STATION GETS THE HBO TREATMENT
This is what all small-town stations dream of. Hollywood! e
SHE WENT MISSING BECAUSE OF LONG-HAULERS
No one. Literally, almost no one knew what happened.
THE LAKE IS A SWAMP
She's out of the news but advocating for more journalists to do what Moss and Hecker did.
BREAKING: CBS DETROIT RELEASES METEOROLOGIST APRIL MOSS
We have the statement.
FOX NEWS’ LONGEST-STANDING CORRESPONDENT LEAVES NETWORK
He’s living his best life with former Housewife.
LOCAL METEOROLOGISTS MAKE IT TO TODAY
There will be 50.
NEWS DIRECTOR MOVES
Here’s the latest from Rick Gevers… WBFF-TV, Baltimore, MD…DAVID JOHNS stays at Sinclair as he becomes news director for this FOX affiliate. Here’s the note the company’s SCOTT LIVINGSTON sent to the other NDs. ...
FORMER HOUSTON METEOROLOGIST RESURFACES IN HOUSTON
His exit was just as surprising as his return.
NEWSNATION NAMES NEW VICE PRESIDENT OF NEWS
She’s a Fox News veteran.
DETROIT METEOROLOGIST TEASES PROJECT VERITAS SITDOWN
We spoke with April Moss today. Here’s the latest.
THE BROADCASTER PODCASTER
If at this point you do not have a podcast of your own, one of two things hasn’t happened yet: your station has not asked you to do one or you have not asked ...
UNEXPECTED NYC EXIT
It’s been a long time since talent resigned from a city station.
RIGHT, THAT’S GONNA WORK.
Here’s how one station’s trying to get better ratings.
DOING WEATHER FROM A HOTEL ROOM WHILE HE TREATS HIS CANCER
We’re so glad we can tell this story.
2020 WAS TOO MUCH, THEY’RE OUT
They both took personal leaves first.
