GRAY HIRES SIOUXLAND NEWS VET TO LEAD ITS NEWCAST
Her new colleague is excited. She’s thrilled
Category: Crossing the Street
NBCLX’S LOSS IS CBS O&O’S GAIN
The news director for the shuttering streaming service is moving on to KTVT
OUT IN LA, A FAMILIAR FACE IS THE NEW #1 ACROSS THE STREET
A return to the newsroom after a short hiatus
AFTER DITCHING THE STATION A 2ND TIME, SHE’S HEADED ACROSS THE STREET
She’ll anchor mornings at KPNX
THE OTHER SHOE DROPS
New leadership in Denverf
CROSSING THE STREET IN CHICAGO
She debuted on her new station this weekend
L.A. ANCHOR JUMPS FROM UNIVISION TO KNBC
Set to co-anchor the 3 and 5 pm newscasts
NBC NEWS DIGITAL RAMPING UP FOR 2024
With DeSantis looming, he’s perfectly placed
GRAY HIRES CBS CORRESPONDENT FOR ITS LOCAL NEWS LIVE OPERATION
She’ll also serve as a national correspondent for Gray’s local stations.
THE JOB IS “NEW AND INNOVATIVE” HE TELLS US
So he had to cross the street to take it
CNN ANCHOR EXPECTED TO JUMP TO NBC NEWS
Cabrera is the latest to defect
THE NEXT ADVENTURE IS RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET
The guessing game is over for this Hartford reporter
SEEKING A LARGER AUDIENCE
MMJ goes crosstown in Seattle
GOING FULLTIME AS AN NYC REPORTER
She moves across the street from parttime to fulltime.
A CROSSED STREET IN SAN DIEGO
Elizabeth Alvarez showed up this week on the morning newscast at Nexstar’s KSWB in San Diego. It was just five days ago that she announced her departure from across the street at locally-owned KUSI ...
STORIED BOSTON REPORTER LANDS AT HER THIRD STATION
Two month after departing Hearst’s WCVB in Beantown, investigative reporter Kathy Curran is adding NBC-owned WBTS to her resume…starting Monday. http:// Curran spent ten years at WCVB and before that, well over 15 years ...
A FOLLOWUP: VETERAN ATLANTA REPORTER TO CROSS THE STREET
Just last Thursday, as he announced his departure after eight years from Tegna’s (Standard Media yada yada yada) WXIA in Atlanta, GA, Brendan Keefe promised an announcement of his next step this week. True ...
CNN PRODUCER JUMPS TO CBS NEWS
Allison Sandza is now executive producer for streaming Washington coverage at CBS News. The job is a new one that combines working with bureau correspondents, producers and off-air journalists to sharply focus efforts across ...
CROSSING THE STREET IN DC
Four years after he moved up at Telemundo’s WZDC to become an MMJ and weather anchor, Daniel Rivera has crossed the street, to Univision’s WFDC, where he will be the station’s principal forecaster, weekdays ...
FAMILIAR FACE RETURNS TO BAY AREA…BUT ON A NEW CHANNEL
Kyla Grogan left FOX-owned Oakland, CA-based KTVU last fall At the time she didn’t share what her plans were. Eight months later, we know. She’s moving across the Bay and the weather center at ...
A CAPITOL IDEA IN SACRAMENTO
Ashley Zavala is moving across a Sacramento, CA street from Nexstar’s State Capitol team to join Hearst’s KCRA/KQCA as its new Capitol correspondent. And thrills abound. “We’re thrilled to welcome Ashley to the KCRA ...
LONGTIME LONG ISLAND TV NEWSER TURNS UP ACROSS THE STREET
Elisa DiStefano, the veteran lifestyle and entertainment reporter for News 12 Long Island wasted no time in crossing the street. Seventeen years after she started at News 12, and just days after she left, ...
“I AM THRILLED TO BE PART OF A STATION THAT VALUES COMMUNITY-CHANGING JOURNALISM.”
And let’s share the thrill as Javier Soto crosses the Phoenix street from Gray’s self-styled “Arizona’s Family” duopoly KTVK-KPHO to join Scripps KNXV. Soto abandoned the “Family’ last month after more than 17 ½ ...
MOVING TO AN ON-CAMERA POSITION
From the printed to the spoken word is the move being made by Laura Barrón-López, who departs Politico to become the new White House correspondent for “PBS NewsHour.” She starts Monday. She will likely ...
WHEN HE SAID “I’M NOT GOING ANYWHERE,” HE WASN’T KIDDING
Last month, when reporter Hunter Saenz announced his departure from Tegna s/t/b Standard Media’s WCNC, he assured his social media following he wasn’t intending to leave town. He just walked across the street. http://
HER NEXT ADVENTURE IS ACROSS THE STREET
When Amanda Raus announced last December that she was leaving Tegna-soon-to-be-blahblahblah’s WTIC in Hartford, CT and on to her next adventure, it was generally assumed she would be making a jump into the New ...
A DRAMATIC RETURN SET FOR POPULAR SAN ANTONIO ANCHOR
San Antonio tv news viewers were gobsmacked…and more than a little upset…last July when anchor Isis Romero was dumped by Graham Media’s KSAT. Those viewers will be pleased to know that Romero will soon ...
CROSSING THE STREET IN HARTFORD
Over the weekend, popular Connecticut news anchor Stephanie Simoni announced that she had exited Nexstar’s WTNH after ten years, promising she would announce her next career move soon. http:// Her news came at the ...
ANOTHER WTNH-ER CROSSED THE STREET THIS WEEK
Continuing the exodus from Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford, CT., Amber Diaz showed up this week as the new 5:30 pm co-anchor on NBC-owned WVIT She had earlier teased that a move might be in ...
CROSSING THE STREET IN ST. LOUIS
Gregg Palermo is moving on to a new adventure and he didn’t have to leave St. Louis to do it. Palermo has joined Spectrum’s new St. Louis operation as a digital journalist., focusing on ...
JUMPING NETWORKS
Two years after she covered the presidential elections and did documentaries for CBS News, Maria Elena Salinas is jumping to ABC News as a contributor. At ABC News, she will be a contributor and ...
TUCKER MADE HIM LEAVE FOX….NOW HE’S WITH NBC NEWS
Former FOX News analyst Stephen Hayes debuted over the weekend in his new role as a contributor and analyst for NBC News, sitting down with Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press.”. Hayes and fellow ...
A SURPRISE MOVE IN CONNECTICUT
Media watchers in Connecticut were gobsmacked last week when they found out that Rick Green, who had been a stalwart at the “Hartford Courant” for the better part of 35 years, was leaving the ...
A FAMILIAR FACE CROSSES BACK OVER THE STREET IN SCRANTON
For the past couple of year, meteorologist Kevin Derk has been a fill-in forecaster at Tegna’s WNEP in Scranton-Wilkes Barre, PA. Before that, he spent 12 years at Nexstar’s WBRE/WYOU in the same market. ...
THE GRAY GM SHUFFLE CONTINUES…
This time, the nation’s third largest group owner went across the streets of Tucson, AZ to hire Michael Hornbeck away from Allen Media’s KVOA to become GM of KOLD. It’s a step up for ...
FAST-MOVING MILWAUKEE NEWS EXEC JUMPS STATIONS
It was just last March that we told you Jessie Garcia became editorial director for Scripps’s WTMJ in Milwaukee, WI…a mere year after she moved from sports to become broadcast director. Her journey up ...
KASIE HUNT TELLS VIEWERS SHE’S LEAVING DURING HER SHOW
“This is going to be my final broadcast.”
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 ...