ZUCKER BACK IN DEALMAKING MODE
Former CNN boss now runs a media investment firm
Category: Back in the Saddle
AND YES, THE CIRCLE IS UNBROKEN
Former NewsNation reporter winds up back in Texas…and back with Tegna
BACK ON THE ANCHOR DESK
Cincy weekender returns after a four-month absence
FORECASTER WHO SUFFERED ON-AIR STROKE BACK ON THE JOB
He explained to viewers what happened
AS GOOD AS HER WORD
She’s won her nine-month cancer battle
ATLANTA REPORTER BACK ON AIR AFTER CANCER BATTLE
Her stomach cancer was diagnosed more than a year ago
WHERE HAS SHE BEEN?
Recovering from the hip replacement surgery she’s been telling you about.
HOUSTON ANCHOR RETURNS TO THE ANCHOR DESK
He's been gone since last November.
MIA HOUSTON ANCHOR RESURFACES
Back after a four-month medical leave
“LISTEN, IT’S BEEN A TOUGH SLOG. I’M NOT GOING TO DENY THIS.”
He's home but Al Roker is still recuperating from his health scare
ROKER WATCH
He's back home
FORMER ANCHOR IS NO LONGER AN “INTERIM” CEO
It took David Crabtree a couple of tries to actually retire from Capitol Broadcast’s WRAL in Raleigh-Durham, NC – once in 2017, a half-hearted try in 2020 and finally, this year back in March ...
FROM TV TO TIK-TOK STARDOM AND BACK AGAIN
Once upon a time, Kayla Sullivan reported on the events happening in Indiana’s state legislature for Nexstar’s WXIN in Indianapolis. Then she left the political tantrums behind and became almost an instant social media ...
FORMER MEREDITH EXECS FIND THEIR NEXT LIFE
Two former Meredith executives have a formed a new firm to invest in companies in the broadcast field, and their first acquisition may surprise you. The new entity is called Glass City Talent, and ...
A WELCOME TO THE NEW WEEKENDER IN HONOLULU
Veteran journalist Annalisa Burgos has joined Gray duopoly KGMB/KHNL in Honolulu, branded as “Hawaii News Now.” She’s the new weekend anchor and will report during the week. Burgos left competitor KITV last fall after ...
AFTER LEAVING TV FOR MARRIAGE, JAPAN, BROADCASTER RETURNS TO SEATTLE
After leaving the industry for Japan and her new husband, a broadcaster is back on TV.
VETERAN FORECASTER HAS NEW HOME IN VEGAS
Longtime Chicago forecaster finds a new home.
BACK ON A REGULAR WEATHER BEAT
After laboring as a freelancer for the past eight months, veteran Windy City meteorologist Tim McGill has moved up to full-time status at Fox-owned WFLD in Chicago. In addition to working the station’s Sunday ...
SHE’S BA-ACK IN BUFFALO
Alarms evidently went up in Buffalo, NY when popular morning anchor Kelsey Anderson’s absence from the news set on Nexstar’s WIVB went on longer than what viewers thought was reasonable. But Anderson’s finally is ...
FORMER TWIN CITIES ANCHOR IS BACK….BEHIND THE MIC
For almost 18 years, Vineeta Sawkar was a fixture on Hubbard’s KSTP in Minneapolis-St. Paul. She left the station 8 years ago, eventually ending doing public relations for the University of St. Thomas in ...
FINDING A NEW ROLE
Much-honored documentary producer Jonathan Towers is the new vice president, development for Fox News Media. In his new role Towers will be working on developing programs for Fox Nation, the subscription video streaming service. ...
CNN ANCHOR FIGHTS OVARIAN CANCER
She got surgery and is back for now...
FROM THE CLASSROOM TO THE NEWSROOM
After three years out of the tv news business, Jesse Schroeder has left a teaching job to get back in the anchor chair at Gray’s KTRE in Lufkin, TX. He’s on the 6 and ...
FORMER NETWORK ANCHOR HEADED FOR A LOCAL DESK
After ten years as a fulltime mom, Maggie Rodriguez is ready for the peace and quiet of a tv newsroom. Rodriquez, who we last saw on television as co-anchor on CBS’ “The Early Show” ...
BACK ON THE JOB
Houston reporter Brandon Walker is back on the job at KPRC, two months after he was severely injured after being hit by a truck while he was crossing the street. And he wasted no ...
FROM THE CLASSROOM TO THE NEWSROOM
David Baxley has been named news director for Nexstar owned WDHN in Dothan, AL. He’s currently teaching at Francis Marion University in Florence, SC. But he’s worked in TV markets both large and small, ...
RETURNING TO THE UNBALANCED LIFE
The “work-life balance” evidently wasn’t all it was cracked up to be for Jaime Peluffo. He’s just returned to tv news as an MMJ at KWEX, Univision’s San Antonio, TX O&O. When he left ...
A COMEBACK
In August 2019, Allyson Meyers completed a nearly seven-year run as VP/GM of FOX’s WOFL/WRBW serving Gainesville and Orlando, Fla., plus the company’s WOGX serving Central Florida. Now, she has resurfaced as the new ...
QUIBI OR NOT QUIBI?
In another new media development, former CNNer Laurie Segall, best remembered for her tenure as the network’s senior tech correspondent over a ten-year run, has resurfaced as still another correspondent for the new “60 ...
MISSING ANCHOR UPDATE
Houston TV blogger Mike McGruff mentioned last week that Samica Knight was MIA. Well, Knight will be returning to anchor the KTRK (ABC) morning newscast alongside Tom Koch later this week. She posted the ...
BACK ON THE JOB
Lena Sadiwskyj joins Sinclair’s WACH in Columbia, SC, as its next Assistant News Director. She most recently had been the news director for Gray’s WTVY in Dothan, AL. In addition to Dothan, she’s been ...
BACK ON THE SET
Former Fox News correspondent and WNYW “Good Day New York” host Greg Kelly has been MIA since abruptly leaving the latter program in September of 2018, replaced by Lori Stokes. Last night he returned ...
BACK TO HER ROOTS
Jodi Latina, current chief of staff for New Britain CT Mayor Erin Stewart, will return as a news reporter for WTNH (ABC) , The Hartford Courant reports. Her last day with the city will ...
ROLLING OUT THE RED CARPET IN ROCKFORD
Former WREX (Quincy Media) morning news anchor Elliot Grandia returned to the Quad Cities to Rockford to co-anchor “Eyewitness News in the Morning” on Mission Broadcasting’s WTVO. His welcome back Monday morning was effusive ...
FAMILIAR FACE, NEW PLACE
After a year-long absence from the airwaves, per his Facebook page, and the Facebook pages of his new colleagues, former WBRC sports director Rick Karle has resurfaced across the street at Hearst’s WVTM in ...
TRAFFIC REPORTER RETURNS
KHOU traffic anchor/reporter Stephanie Simmons is back. She returned Monday to the Houston airwaves. Simmons was off the air for about a month. In November, Simmons told mikemcguff.com that she was dealing with a medical ...
A WELCOME RETURN
Good news for fans of longtime News 12 anchor Carol Silva. She’s returning to the anchor desk tonight as she exuberantly announced on Facebook. Silva took leave of the Long Island-based Altice cable news ...
REBUILDING JOB AHEAD
She was the “dean” of Seattle area new directors when she exited Nexstar’s KCPQ-KZJO and KRCW in Portland, Ore. back in September after six years in the big chair. Erica Hill-Rodriguez now turns her ...
COMING OFF THE BENCH
Jerry Giesler is coming out of retirement to become the next ND for Rockfleet Broadcasing’s WJFW in Rhinelander, WI. He was encouraged to take the job by his former Magid colleague John Quarderer. John ...
A MOVE NORTH
A little more than a year after he exited Univision’s KMEX in LA, Guillermo Quiroz is back on the air calling weather shots….in the Bay area. He’s the nightly forecaster at Telemundo’s KSTS, a ...
RETURNING ON-AIR
Two months after opening up about her skin condition, WFOR (CBS) Miami’s Frances Wang is ready to return to the air. The reporter and anchor said she is thankful for the support she’s received as ...
VEGAS ANCHOR GETS SHOW
The woman known as MOJ is bringing her show to KLAS (CBS). Longtime KVVU (Fox) anchor and personality Monica Jackson returns to affiliate TV with “The Monica Jackson Show,” premiering in December on KLAS. ...
“…AS I WAS SAYING…”
After a five-year break from tv news, Angélica Atondo is back on air, this time at Telemundo’s KTAZ in Phoenix, AZ. She’s already done some anchor fill-in work, but her ultimate schedule has yet ...
VETERAN GM TURNS IN UP DAYTON
Less than two months after being shown the door at Scripps’ WKBW in Buffalo, Michael Nurse has found a new home in Dayton, OH Sinclair Broadcast Group named Nurse general manager of its WKEF ...
VIEWERS APPLAUD THE RETURN OF BALTIMORE ANCHOR
Months after asking a question on the air that many decried as racist, and subsequently being fired from CBS O&O WJZ news anchor Mary Bubala has landed at Sinclair flagship WBFF. We brought you ...
AN EMOTIONAL RETURN
A little more than three years ago, reporter Marie Coronel and her photographer Mike Gold were out preparing a live report on storm damage for Scripps’ KGTV in San Diego, when heavy branches snapped ...
S.C. STATION HIRES PACIFIC NORTHWEST VET
Hearst’s WYFF brought in veteran weather guesser Parella Lewis from the other side of the country to do weekend morning forecasts. She’s also doing several weekday mornings at the Greenville, SC station. During her ...
HOME TO BIG SKY COUNTRY
Former Oklahoma City News Director Rebecca Gaylord has been named ND for Scripps’ KBZK/KXLF in Butte/Bozeman, MT. She has family in the area. Gaylord most recently spent six years as ND for Hearst’s KOCO, ...
MEREDITH FILLS ATLANTA SLOT
Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta, GA didn’t have to look too far to find someone to fill the empty Thomas Roberts anchor chair. Rick Folbaum, who’s been freelance anchoring at CNN International crosstown since shortly ...
FORMER NEWS BOSS HEADS TO STREAMING
Another former news exec is heading a somewhat different direction. David Rhodes, former president of CBS News who left back in January to seek “other opportunities,” has signed on with music streaming service Spotify ...
VETERAN CHICAGO NEWS EXEC TURNS UP IN ST. LOUIS
Three time Chicago news director Carol Fowler is leaving the Windy City to become news director for Tegna’s KSDK in St. Louis. Fowler spent eleven years as a news director in Chicago at three ...