NEWS DIRECTOR MOVES
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CORPUS CHRISTI LEGEND IS LEAVING
There is a main anchor role opening.
FROM NYC TO ALBANY AS DIRECTOR OF NEWS
It’s a great jump for this EP.
THEY FELT THE EARTH MOVE
And stayed so freaking calm!!
DEMO REEL BOOTCAMPS RESUME IN D.C.
Here are some BTS pics from the weekend.
FROM RICK GEVERS
Here is news from Rick Gevers… IRE announced its new executive director this week. DIANA FUENTES is the Deputy Metro Editor of the San Antonio Express-News. She’s a former President of the Texas APME ...
AND SUDDENLY…
It’s a big secret.
AUSTIN WX ANCHOR GETS PICKED UP BY GQ
He got the gig from his IG account.
MORE DENVER OPENINGS
A lot of people have left.
NBC FLAGSHIP NOW OFFERING DAILY DIGITAL NEWSCAST
It’s something WCBS has been doing for a couple years now.
NEW NUMBER 2 DOWN IN THE WEST TEXAS TOWN OF EL PASO
It’s been a journey.
DETROIT ANCHOR WITH COVID SOBS FROM HOSPITAL BED
She was hospitalized after her second bout with the virus.
NEW D.C. ANCHOR QUIETLY BEGINS
And the other leaves.
TV JOB LIST: 4/2
Looking for a job??
A BIG SEND-OFF FOR A RICHMOND INSTITUTION
Gray’s WWBT in Richmond, VA bid a fond farewell to veteran meteorologist Jim Duncan, who delivered his final forecast mid-week Duncan was with the station for 40 years, an incredible run in any business ...
AN ATLANTA LANDING
Back in February we told you that well-regarded Buffalo tv journalist Madison Carter exited Scripps’ WKBW several months before the end of her contract as she dropped rather broad hints that something loomed just ...
CROSSING THE STREET IN CENTRAL CALI
Scripps’ KSBY in San Luis Obispo will soon have a new morning face as anchor/reporter Genelle Padilla joins the station’s Dawn Patrol And kids, she is beyond excited “I am beyond excited and honored ...
30 YEARS IS ENOUGH
Longtime Ft. Smith, AR Chief Meteorologist Garrett Lewis has decided that 30 years is long enough at the weather center. So come July 30th, he will sign off from Tegna’s KFSM. “I honestly don’t ...
ANOTHER LOCAL REPORTER SIGNS UP FOR NEWS NATION
Janel Forte, a reporter for the past three years at Tegna’s KHOU in Houston, TX, is leaving the station to become the Atlanta bureau reporter for NewsNation. She arrived in Houston back in 2018, ...
AN MMJ IN VEGAS, BABY
Yaimeé Bell starts Monday as the newest MMJ at Telemundo’s KBLR in Sin City. She’s coming across the country from Univision in Miami, where, for the past year, she worked as a digital journalist. ...
MOVING UP IN MILWAUKEE
Laura Matovina is the new broadcast director at WTMJ, the Scripps station in Milwaukee, WI. She will be reporting to news director Tim Vetscher. Vetscher sent this note to the staff outlining Laura’s new ...
ABC O&Os SET UP RACE AND CULTURE CONTENT GROUP
ABC’s Owned and Operated Group is ramping up its initiative aimed at emphasizing more diversity and inclusiveness in its storytelling at the eight stations in the group. Left to right executive producers Nzinga Blake, ...
THIS WEEK IN LITIGATION
Scripps-owned WTVR in Richmond, VA and reporter Jon Burkett are the targets of a defamation suit filed by Virginia Parole Board chair Tonya Chapman. In the $7 million lawsuit, Chapman contends two stories Burkett ...
TEGNA TURNOVER
Daniel Brown will leave Tegna owned KBMT in Beaumont, TX in a few months and, in the process, will leave television news, as least for a bit. He’s been the news director at the ...
NEW FACES IN A HOUSTON WEATHER CENTER
Houston’s Telemundo O&O KTMD is bringing on two new faces to its weather center. Pablo Sánchez is coming from sister station KXTX in Dallas/Fort Worth where he’s been for the past three years. He’s ...
GRAY’S BIG DREAMS
Some of the bigger tv station groups dream of things like launching a new (and unnecessary, in our opinion, national newscast). Others accumulate debt by snapping up regional sports networks during a year in ...
ANOTHER FORMER TV NEWSER DECIDES TO TRY OUT POLITICS
Former Illinois news director Nora Baldner is running for mayor of Quincy, IL. She spent four years as news director for KHQA in Quincy (leaving in 2014 at about the time Sinclair Broadcast took ...
A NEW EP IN TOWN
Phil Landeros has moved south from Meredith’s WGCL (where the revolving door turns) to become the new Executive Producer at Graham Media’s WKMG. It is a return to the Orlando market for Landeros, who ...
IN BRIEF…THE GEVERS EDITION
Sydny Boyd is now the newly-anointed EP at Scripps’ KMTV in Omaha, NE. She’s been a producer there for the past two years and if her social media is any indication she is THRILLED! ...
LA PHOTOJOURNALIST SUCCUMBS TO COVID
You hope to hear less of these stories.
HE’S LIVING HIS DREAM AND IS ONLY 22
This is worth a read and a share.
THIS ISN’T A SURPRISE…
And so predictable.
STARTING A NEW CHAPTER (THANKS COVID)
It’s a familiar story.
10 YEARS IS ENOUGH
But what’s next?
YOU NEED A BREAK
Who doesn’t!
ATLANTA HAS AN OPENING
Another unexpected goodbye.
NEWS DIRECTOR SHUFFLE
There’s a lot going down in Texas.
NEW YORK REPORTER GETS COVID AFTER FIRST SHOT
She’s sharing her story because it could happen to you.
EXCELLENT PROGRAMMING DECISION
This is the only place in the country to watch the George Floyd trial in its entirety.
SCRIPPS FORMING A NATIONAL INVESTIGATIVE UNIT
No word on how many reporters, producers and photographers they’ll hire.
CRYPTIC EXIT IN AUSTIN
KVUE morning anchor Mike Rush is no longer at the station and there was no formal goodbye. The anchor-reporter, who moved to a morning role over the Summer from a nightside position with Quita ...
BUFFALO FOX STATION TO LAUNCH IT’S OWN NEWSCAST
It’s been years of airing news from other affiliates.
DETROIT TV NEWSER BATTLES COVID
Calls it the worst illness she’s ever experienced.
SHOOTER WON’T BE NAMED AT THIS STATION
It’s a policy that was in place in 2019.
FINAL STOP ON THE PRODUCER TRAIN, AUSTIN NEWS DIRECTOR?
It seems he’s been waiting for this role.
WHEN YOUR HOUSE IS THE CENTER OF THE STORM
“It’s bad.”
FORMER TV NEWSER PLEADS FOR HELP FOR LOCAL NEWS
“I know how important it is to have access to truly local news.”
LEAVING CBS FOR CNN TO MAKE A DREAM COME TRUE
This is a great story about someone who started behind-the-scenes and worked her way up.
PIO LIFE JUST AIN’T THE SAME AS NEWS LIFE
After leaving TV news for a few years, Ozarks anchor Mike Landis is returning to news at a different station. He left KY3 in 2018 to take a job as the city of Republic’s ...
KNOXVILLE ANCHOR GIVES VIEWER MINIMAL NOTICE THAT HE’S OUT
He’s been there since 1999.
WITH A $15K PAYCHECK, THIS ANCHOR KNEW SHE WAS ON THE RIGHT PATH
Why (and how) this Vegas anchor stayed in news...
AND YOU MIGHT ASK YOURSELF…
Why Sinclair Broadcast Group Chair David Smith unloaded over 585,000 shares of Sinclair stock in two transactions last Friday and this past Monday? Smith pocketed in the neighborhood of $20,000,000 in the two transactions. ...
ALL’S REALLY WELL THAT ENDS WELL
It was a day shy of a year ago that we brought you the story of Deion Broxton, a reporter with Sinclair’s KTVM who was reporting at Yellowstone National Park when he noticed a ...
KDKA HIRES A NEW WEEKENDER
It was last November that Lisa Washington left the storied Gateway Center in downtown Pittsburgh for a prime anchor gig at Tegna’s WNEP in Scranton. It took a while but CBS-owned KDKA has come ...
“NEWSNATION” TAPS ST. LOUIS RADIO TEAM FOR REGULAR SLOT
For an outfit that promised to leave political bloviation in the dust, Nexstar’s NewsNation seems to be getting itself even deeper into political chat. It’s latest move is to pick up “Hancock and Kelley,” ...
OFF TO A GOOD START
When University of Oklahoma senior Taylor Stevenson walks across the stage to pick up her broadcast meteorology in May, she’ll keep walking, right into her first job, forecasting on weekends at Tegna’s WMAZ in ...
TEMPORARY TURNS INTO PERMANENT
Meredith’s KCTV in Kansas City Missouri has made Greg Payne its permanent weekend anchor. Payne joined KCTV back in 2019 as a one-man band after working in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. He replaces Amy ...
FAMILY COMES FIRST FOR HOUSTON TRAFFIC ANCHOR
Houston traffic reporter Katherine Whaley officially signed off from the traffic center at Disney’s KTRK this week after almost seven years with the station. For the record, she says it is to spend more ...
UNIVISION EXPANDS COVERAGE
The Hispanic network Univision is expanding its morning franchise, “Despierta America” to Sundays. The new program will debut in the 4th quarter of 2021. The program is the top-rated Spanish-language program in the country ...
SURPRISE! ELLEN PULLS A FAST ONE ON THESE ANCHORS
The reaction is worth a click.
BAKERSFIELD ARSONST CAPTURED
40-year Amber Hernandez has been arrested for lighting a car on fire outside of KGET, the NBC affiliate in Bakersfield, Calif. It happened on Sunday night at 11:00 p.m. and we now know the ...
ON THE MOVE
Here’s a move from Mort Meisner and Associates: Annie Szatkowski joins FOX Affiliate WJZY in Charlotte as Anchor/Reporter. Annie most recently worked as 5pm and 11pm Anchor at the FOX Affiliate in Grand Rapids ...
UH-OH….WE’RE SENSING THE NEXT BIG SWEEPS STUNT ON LOCAL NEWS…
This isn’t our piece but we HAD TO SHARE. My San Antonio went ahead and found celebrity doubles for all the local SA anchors. The matches are spot on. Maisie Williams as KSAT-12 meteorologist ...
THAT’S ONE WAY AROUND IT
Sports guys are used to getting clever.
TWICE FIRED BUT RADIO HIRED HER…
People bounce back.
OHIO ANCHORS WHO DO KEG STANDS TOGETHER, STAY TOGETHER
It’s rare but admirable.
AUSTIN GENERAL MANAGER TAKES ON TWO MORE JOBS
She’s expanding her reach within Tegna.
LONGTIME SACRAMENTO REPORTER GETS PROMOTION
It’s effective immediately.
ARSONIST FORCES BAKERSFIELD STATION TO EVACUATE DURING NEWSCAST
Staffers discovered something super creepy.
HER DAD WAS KILLED IN BOULDER MONDAY
“I am heartbroken to announce that my Dad, my hero, Kevin Mahoney, was killed in the King Soopers shooting in my hometown of Boulder.”
SCRIPPS FIND REPLACEMENT GM AT WFTX
“Evan has a record of leading high-performing teams and building stations.”
DOES A NEW HAIRSTYLE NEED AN ANNOUNCEMENT?
We don’t think so.
THIS DENVER MANAGER EXPLORES WAYS TO COVER THE INEXPLICABLE
KUSA’s director of reporting Chris Vanderveen almost hit a breaking point in 2012 as a journalist. He was covering the Aurora mass shooting. Vanderveen started his career during Columbine. And on Monday, he was ...
FOX D.C. ANCHOR GIVES TEARFUL GOODBYE
She has been with the station since 2006.
JUST WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS
So many of us know too well that anchoring from a studio or home while your producers are in an entirely different venue. What happened today though on Fox News is a learning lesson. ...
FORMER TV NEWS ANCHOR RUNNING FOR MAYOR
The announcement is today.
AUSTIN ANCHOR: “I AM SCARED …”
She’s Asian-American.
WE NEEDED THIS…
You will too.
BIRMINGHAM SPORTS ANCHOR PICKS REAL ESTATE
There’s an opening.
DENVER TV STATION CAPTURES POSSIBLE SHOOTING SUSPECT ON CAMERA
Live helicopter footage showed cops cuffing someone.
PIECES OF THE NEWSEUM HEAD TO PHILADELPHIA
The museum closed in D.C.
KTLA HAS A NEW NEWS DIRECTOR
He’s coming from a Tegna station... hint, hint.
COVID STOPS AZ ANCHOR IN HIS TRACKS
And when he got better, he found out his co-anchor quit.
PHX ND LEAVES SAYS BUSINESS IS EXHILARATING AND EXHAUSTING
A search is underway for a new news director.
MET STARTS AND ENDS IN GEORGIA
He’ll get started this week.
WEST VIRGINIA REPORTER ASSAULTED WHILE SHOOTING B-ROLL
The man arrested has been charged with battery.
DRUNK DRIVER SLAMS INTO FOX11 CREW
They were both sent to the hospital.
KARE ANCHOR IS OFFERING TO PAY FOR AAJA MEMBERSHIPS
And her family fell victim to Anti-Asian hate speech.
TV JOB LIST: 3/18
For more jobs, log onto our Job Bank, MedialineTalent.com. If you want help finding a job, email our Job Coordinators at Reel Media info@reelmediagroup.com. GOOD LUCK! News Reporter WDIV Detroit, MI 2 years experience ...
SPECTRUM CUTS AT NY1
And justlikethat, about a dozen jobs vanished at NY1 on Wednesday when the Spectrum bosses of NY1 eliminated the news assistant’s job classification in the newsroom. It shouldn’t have come as a complete surprise. ...
NASHVILLE TRAFFIC REPORTER PINK-SLIPPED
The Sinclair wave of cuts reached Nashville this week with the axing of WZTV‘s traffic reporter Samantha Russell, aka “Traffic Jam Sam.” The hardest news to share… 💔 pic.twitter.com/yCKt00iNjR — Samantha Russell (@TrafficJamSam) March ...
DC REPORTER RETURNING TO THE LEGAL WORLD
Chris Gordon spent two years as a practicing attorney back in the early 70’s before getting sidetracked into the world of tv news. He moved from New York to the Nation’s Capital to break ...
HOME TO TEXAS AND DFW
We’re told that Peyton Yager has been an Oklahoma City favorite virtually from the day she showed up on camera at Nexstar’s KFOR, but now she is headed back to her home state of ...
TEGNA CEO’S SEAT IS UNCOMFORTABLY WARM
Tegna CEO Dave Lougee apologized to a former board candidate, and it has been accepted – but Lougee is not off the hot seat yet. The incident, which occurred back in 2014, involved Lougee ...
SCRIPPS TAPS VET FOR ITS NATIONAL NEWS EFFORT
Starting April 12, veteran news exec Kate O’Brian will take on responsibility for the news and programming strategy for Scripps Networks’ news brands Newsy and Court TV. It’s a new title within the Cincinnati-based ...
COMINGS AND GOINGS
Calling it a career after 40 years on the street for Sinclair’s WSBT in South Bend, IN is Ed Ernstes. He signed off for the final time midweek. You don’t work in the biz ...
AAJA PUTS OUT GUIDELINES FOR COVERING ATLANTA SHOOTINGS
This is worth a read.
WE NOW KNOW WHERE THIS NASHVILLE METEOROLOGIST IS GOING
It’s a Top 10 market and HOME.
