KASIE HUNT TELLS VIEWERS SHE’S LEAVING DURING HER SHOW
“This is going to be my final broadcast.”
Category: Crossing the Street
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 ...
LEAPING FROM PRINT TO TV NEWS
Nexstar’s WGN in Chicago is bringing in an investigative reporter from the city’s “Sun-Times newspaper. Sam Charles spent the past 8 years at the paper. The Chicago native worked in the Twin Cities prior ...
A RETURN TO ST. LOUIS
Tegna’s KSDK in St. Louis has reached back into its personnel files to bring back two station vets to fill new roles in the newsroom Because, you know…. they are “on your side.” Tram ...
CROSSING A BUFFALO STREET
Nexstar’s WIVB in Buffalo didn’t look too far to find the replacement for the headed-for-a-bigger-market Jenna Harner. Sports anchor-reporter Heather Prusak is taking the exit at Tegna’s WGRZ. The Buffalo-area native takes up her ...
SAME FACE, DIFFERENT PLACE
After just over 9 years at the once-mighty, now-Nexstar KRON, sports/weekend anchor J.R Stone had an announcement to make. Not a long haul to his new digs at Disney’s KGO where he will be ...
ABANDONING PRINT FOR THE BRIGHT LIGHTS
Gordon Wittenmyer, Chicago Cubs beat writer for city’s “Sun-Times” since 2007, is leaving to join NBC Sports Chicago. He’s start in March as the “Cubs Insider” reporter. He’s expected to continue as a contributor ...
KSL GETS GEPHARDT
The death of non-compete agreements in the state of Utah has opened the door to allow talents to shop their abilities elsewhere and not have to take an unwelcome time-out on the bench. The ...
FORMER CNBC CORRESPONDENT JUMPS TO CNN
In something of a surprise jump, John Harwood turned up this week as the newest White House correspondent for CNN. Harwood had been CNBC’s chief Washington correspondent since 2006. His hire will likely take ...
NBC NEWS NOW NAMES MORNING EP
After 12 years with CNN, Kelly Daniel is joining NBC News Now as executive producer for the service’s forthcoming morning show. The new program will be featured on the forthcoming Peacock streaming service. At ...
CROSSING A STREET IN BOSTON
After nearly 18 years on the nightside assignment desk for Fox’s WFXT in Boston, Bill Sheerin caused a bit of tv newsworld palpitations by turning up as the new managing editor for Hearst’s WCVB. ...
NBC NEWS BAGS A PULITZER WINNER
Pulitzer-winning reporter Gretchen Morgenson is the new senior financial investigative reporter for NBC News, beginning December 2. She is expected to “lead our reporting on the intersection of money and power and will bolster ...
HELLO FROM ACROSS THE STREET
When we last heard from Mobile, AL meteorologist Alan Sealls, it was in June and the veteran forecaster had just walked out the door at Nexstar duopoly WKRG-WFNA after he and management hit a ...
SWITCHING STATIONS IN ROCHESTER
Jim Tortora returns to a newsroom as the Assistant News Director at WHEC, the Hubbard owned station in Rochester, NY. Tortora most recently was news director at WROC in Rochester, NY, a job he left ...
ANOTHER JOURNALIST JUMPS THE FOX SHIP
A charter member of the Fox News Channel team is heading for the exit door. Catherine Herridge is joining CBS News as senior investigative correspondent, after 23 years with FNC. She will be based ...
IT’S HER NEW “JAM”
Amy Rutledge, until Monday the traffic and feature reporter at Tribune-soon-to-be-Nexstar’s WGN in Chicago, appears to be headed to a new gig. Robert Feder reports that she is about to sign on as a ...
SWITCHING NETWORKS
Veteran journalist Janet Shamlian has joined CBS News as a Houston-based correspondent. Shamlian spent the past ten years at NBC News reporting for “Today,” “NBC Nightly News” and MSNBC. Back in her local news ...
A SYRACUSE SWITCH
Taking a stroll across the street in Syracuse, NY is Farah Jadran. Jadran will be performing morning and midday anchor duties at WTVH, operated by Sinclair, owned by Granite beginning later this month. She ...
A CHANGE OF SCENERY IN BOSTON
Why did the traffic reporter cross the street? Olessa Stepanova had been reporting on the morning rush hour traffic for more than five years at Hearst’s WCVB in Boston when she reportedly, and rather ...
ANOTHER REPORTER AT CNN
CNN has added “HuffPost” editor at large Vicky Ward as a New York-based senior reporter. Ward is the best-selling author of (take a deep breath) “Kushner, Inc: Greed Power, Corruption, The Extraordinary Story of ...
CHANGING NETWORKS
Former Univision anchor María Elena Salinas is joining the CBS News team as a contributor. An award-winning journalist, author and the longest running female network anchor in the United States, she will contribute reports ...
“HEY, I’M OVER HERE!!!”
After 7 years at Graham Media’s WPLG in Miami, Carlos Suarez is up on the Dade-Broward County line at NBC-owned WTVJ. He’s the new weekend anchor at the station, as he jubilantly announced on ...
SWITCHING STATIONS?
Well now, what would you make of this announcement? “I have decided not to renew my contract when it is up this month,” she wrote. But, “I am not leaving TV and I am ...
SAME FACE, DIFFERENT STATION
Valeria Barriga moved across the street from KVDA, the San Antonio Telemundo station to KWEX, the local Univision outlet. She’d been anchoring the weather segments for KVDA for two years after arriving from sister ...
RIGHT BACK WHERE SHE STARTED FROM
After two decades away, Mahelda Rodríguez is back at Telemundo’s KVEA in Los Angeles – this time as managing editor. She crossed the street, in effect, from Univision’s KMEX in LA where she EP’ed ...
NBC NEW DIGITAL CHIEF
NBC News announced on Monday the hiring of CNN’s longtime video executive Chris Berend to run its digital operation. According to Axios, Berend will replace Nick Ascheim, who is currently senior vice president of digital ...
FROM TELEMUNDO TO WBBM
The newest face on WBBM in Chicago is (sort of) crossing the street from Telemundo’s WSNS. So, for some Chicago viewers, César Rodríguez won’t be a new face at all. He was a general-assignment ...
FAMILIAR FACE, NEW PLACE
Gray’s WIS in Columbia, S.C., has brought back Alicia Barnes, a year after she left competitor WOLO, a Bahakel property. She will be the weekend evening anchor and weekday reporter. She’d been at WOLO ...
FORMER FUSION REPORTER JOINS ABC NEWS
Kimberly Brooks has joined ABC News Live, the 24/7 breaking news and events streaming service. She’s an anchor/reporter who previously worked for Fusion TV. Brooks will host the streaming channel’s daily morning show, “The ...
FROM BEHIND THE MIC TO IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA
Tegna’s WKYC in Cleveland is lifting sportscaster Nick Camino from local radio station WTAM to be Channel 3’s new weekend sports anchor. He replaces Dave Chudowsky, whose move to Channel 3′s morning show last ...
CROSSING ONE OF THOSE MIAMI STREETS
Following a 9-year stint as a reporter and anchor with WJAN, a Spanish-language indie tv station in Miami, FL, Yvette Lewis is moving into a weekday reporter slot with Telemundo’s WSCV, across the street. ...
FROM BEHIND THE MIKE TO IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA
After 34 years in radio, Eileen Buckley feels she is ready for television. She’s leaving Buffalo public radio station WBFO, one of ten radio stations around New York State for 3+ decades, to become ...
A STROLL ACROSS TOWN
Yara Lasanta is the new chief meteorologist for Univision’s KMEX in Los Angeles and no change of home address forms are necessary. She is moving from Telemundo’s West Coast LA flagship KVEA where she ...
IT’S HER NEW “JAM”
Afua Owusu, supervising producer of “WGN Morning News” at the Tribune Chicago station, is the new executive producer of “The Jam,” WCIU’s weekday morning news, talk and entertainment program. It’s a cross-town move to ...
NBC NEWS VET REPORTED HEADING FOR CBS NEWS
A NewsBlues tipster tells us that CBS News has lured away veteran correspondent Janet Shamlian from NBC News. Shamlian is an NBC veteran, reporting for “The Today Show,” “NBC Nightly News” and MSNBC. Shamlian ...
ANOTHER GROUND-BREAKER IN LOCAL NEWS
Ayah Galal may be the first local news reporter in Connecticut to wear a hijab when she starts he new position as a producer/MMJ at Meredith’s WFSB in Hartford, CT. Galal, a Connecticut native ...
ACROSS THE BOSTON STREETS
TVSpy is reporting that former WHDH anchor Nicole Oliverio is heading across the street to WFXT, the Cox owned Boston station. Starting today, Oliverio will join the Fox station as a weekend co-anchor at ...
CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC….UMMM….WEATHER
Starting tomorrow, Boston viewers will see a familiar face in a different setting. Pamela Gardener takes over forecasting duties at noon 4 and 5 pm on WBTS, NBC 10. She’ll also be a weekday ...
CROSSING THE STREET IN COLUMBUS, GA
Veteran newsman Gene Kirkconnell is the new ND for Nexstar owned WRBL in Columbus, GA. He need not move, as he’s been the ND for cross town WLTZ for the past 2 1/2 years. This detailed ...
TELEMUNDO NEW YORK ADDS TWO REPORTERS
Rosarina Bretón and Eliecer Marte are the two newest street reporters at Telemundo’s WNJU in New York. Bretón worked for nearly ten years as a breaking news reporter, traffic reporter and weekend anchor at ...
A UNIVISION-TELEMUNDO CROSSOVER IN DALLAS
Manuel Moreno, who’d been executive producer at Univision’s KUVN in Dallas, where he worked for 14 years, has moved across the street to KXTX, the Telemundo outlet. In making the move, he got bumped ...
MAKING THE CHICAGO SWITCH
Megan Hickey joins CBS-owned WBBM in Chicago as a general assignment reporter. Hickey signed a three-year deal. She most recently most recently worked as a freelance reporter at Disney’s WLS in Chicago and prior ...
BACK TO BZ
Meteorologist Sarah Wroblewski is returning to where it all began for her. Starting today, she’ll be seen weekday afternoons and evening on CBS-owned WBZ in Boston. Wroblewski spent the past eight years covering weather ...
NOW SHOWING ACROSS THE STREET
Siera Santos, who recently wrapped up a three-year run reporting for NBC Sports Chicago, has found another job right there in town. She’s landed at Fox-owned WFLD as a freelance sports anchor and reporter. ...
TEAMING WITH THE RIVALS
After five years as a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor at Sunbeam’s WHDH in Boston, Jennifer Eagan is taking a walk across the street to Hearst’s WCVB. “Jennifer’s outstanding reporting skills coupled with ...
FBN VET LEAVING FOR AN ANCHOR CHAIR AT YAHOO FINANCE
Adam Shapiro, a charter staff member at Fox Business Network, is leaving the building. The financial news correspondent is entering the digital world and will become an anchor at the streaming service of Yahoo ...
CROSSING THE KANSAS CITY STREETS
Former KSHB reporter Belinda Post is crossing the street to Meredith’s KCTV. Post will be the new anchor of “Better Kansas City,” the station’s pay-to-play weekday revenue producer. She replaces Alexis Del Cid, who ...
NBC NEWS LIFTS CNN MEDIA REPORTER FOR NEW BEAT
CNN’s Dylan Byers is leaving the network to become senior media reporter for NBC News and MSNBC. Byers, who’s been with CNN since 2015, will cover Silicon Valley and Hollywood, with focus on Amazon, ...
HUNTSMAN SET FOR A NEW “VIEW”
Abby Huntsman, evidently weary of being on the second string of the Three Dumbest People On Television©, is leaving “Fox and Friends Weekend.” She’s headed for ABC’s “The View.” Huntsman will replace the departing ...
CROSSING THE STREET IN FT. WAYNE
Dirk Rowley evidently decided that four years of hosting one of those headache-inducing pay-to-play “lifestyle” programs was enough and he’s taking a walk across the street to take a job as news anchor. He’s ...
