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THIS ONE TOO…

Longtime Fox 5 Atlanta anchor and native Ken Rodriguez will retire after nearly 30 years at the station. And his Twitter post making the announcement got insane action! Dear friends! I want to thank ...

SLOW NEWS DAY?

If you didn’t know this was a sweeps month, you will shortly. Country superstar Garth Brooks was getting some free airtime on the KSL morning newscast to promote his upcoming Salt Lake City concert ...

FOUR YEARS AND….POOF!!!…GONE!

Quincy’s (soon-to-be Gray’s) WEEK in Peoria, IL has parted ways with morning meteorologist Jesse Guinn (right). Guinn, a part of the morning team for the past four years, announced his departure in a Facebook ...

WORTH THE TIME

We ran across an article in “The Washington Post” about the beginnings of cable noise wanna-be powerhouse Newsmax and its exceedingly self-appreciating CEO Chris Ruddy and it is quite the read. We had, quite ...

27 YEARS IS ENOUGH

Say goodbye to another tv news veteran. After 27(!) years at the newsroom helm of Scripps KTVQ in Billings, MT, Jon Stepanek is stepping down as news director. “I feel so fortunate to have ...

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

A Tallahassee news director is coming clean about what it’s like to be a Black female news director. In a personal memo she posted to RTDNA’s website, WXTL ABC27 news director Vicki Bradley talked ...

ON THE MOVE

News Director moves from Rick Gevers… KTVQ-TV, Billings, MT…after almost 28 years as news director here, JON STEPANEK is leaving this Scripps owned CBS affiliate. Jon told me tonight that he’ll be joining a ...

FOX NEWS ANCHOR GONE

Fox News and its weekend anchor Leland Vittert have gone separate ways. Fox confirmed the news to various outlets on Friday. “We have mutually and amicably parted ways with Leland Vittert,” a Fox News ...

TIPS FOR TIK TOK JOURNALISTS

Cronkite Journalism School students did an experiment with TikTok. Students wanted to see if they could reach a different news audience through the social app. They spent 30 days producing 65 videos. The idea ...

ONE TV JOB AND DONE

KENS 5 investigative reporter Mariah Medina is leaving for her first non-news job. She’s going to be the San Antonio police department’s public affairs manager. “It’s my understanding it’s a newly created position. While ...

THIS WEEK IN LITIGATION

It was almost a year ago, in May 2020, that Michael Dunston was cut loose by Meredith’s WGCL, it’s Atlanta revolving door. Dunston is coming back at the station, filing a lawsuit this week ...

SIGNING THE FORECAST

Salt Lake City’s KSTU meteorologist Brek Bolton doesn’t think closed captioning is enough. And it turns out, he knows sign language. So for the past five years he’s been doing a Sunday evening “sign” ...

SOUTH BEND HAS A NEW FACE

The ABC station in South Bend, Ind. is welcoming a new face from Charlotte, N.C. Tim Spears was at the Spectrum station there as an anchor-reporter. Originally from the Midwest, Spears recently moved in ...

ON THE MOVE

Isaiah “IKE” McKinnon joins CNBC as a commentator/ contributor primarily for the Shepard Smith Show. Ike is the former Detroit Police Chief, Detroit Deputy Mayor and Associate Professor at The University of Detroit. McKinnon, ...

NEWS DIRECTOR NEWS

KAKE-TV, Wichita, KS… DAVID WILLIAMS moves within Lockwood Broadcasting to take over the news director job at this ABC affiliate. He’s been the ND as sister Lockwood station WFXG-TV in Augusta, GA for the ...

ANOTHER HOMETOWN DEPARTURE

CBS 4 Denver anchor Britt Moreno is leaving the station after eight years. She made the announcement on air Friday at the end of the newscast. It was Moreno’s last day. Moreno started by ...