VETERAN BOSTON SPORTS ANCHOR SETS DEPARTURE
He's got a family business to run
Category: Eyeing the Exit
MILWAUKEE INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER EXITS TOMORROW
Her next step is TBA
43 YEARS IS ENOUGH
Houston sports director exits next month
THIRTY YEARS IS ENOUGH
North Carolina anchor to step down post-sweeps
SAYING GOODBYE
Closing out over two decades at the anchor desk
THIS WEEK IN BITTERSWEET ANNOUNCEMENTS
JAX station losing two vets after 30 years
FINDING HIS “WHAT’S NEXT?” STARTS BY LEAVING
Getting out just before the next exhausting election cycle
HOME AT LAST
Longtime Minnesota met gets a job closer to his roots
LONGTIME NEW JERSEY-BASED TV REPORTER TO RETIRE
He’s been covering the Garden State since 1996
LONGTIME BOSTON SPORTSCASTER SETS MAY RETIREMENT
20 of his 38 years in the business were at this station
SIGNING OFF IN GREENVILLE
And now….on to the next adventure.
WHEN SUMMER COMES, HE’S GONE
25 years is enough for Raleigh investigator
SHE’S EARNED IT
Heading for the shore from her native Colorado
CALLING IT A CAREER AFTER 40 YEARS
He will become the first ever Meteorologist Emeritus in station history
CINCY SPORTSCASTER HAS ONE MORE SWEEPS PERIOD IN HIM
He’ll leave the only station he’s ever worked for at the end of February
FAREWELL, AUF WIEDERSEHEN, AU REVOIR, SAYONARA…..
How do you like that….he didn’t even say “Goodbye”
CHICAGO ANCHOR CALLS IT QUITS DECEMBER 23RD
Rob Stafford famously covered his own medical crisis back in 2017.
VETERAN CHICAGO NEWS EXEC PLANS HIS EXIT
Frank Whittaker spent 24+ years at WMAQ.
ROUNDING OUT A THREE+-DECADE TV NEWS JOURNEY
But you’ll have the February sweeps to say your goodbyes
ANOTHER FOUR-DECADE+ VET PREPARES RETIREMENT PLANS
He spent 33 years out of 46 at one station
BIRMINGHAM FORECASTER SETS END TO MARATHON RUN
He made market history
PUTTING A CAP ON 40 YEARS IN TV NEWS
We will miss her.
LA GM HEADING FOR THE DOOR
After three years at the helm, Bill Lamb has announced his retirement as vp/gm at FOX-owned duopoly KTTV-KCOP in Los Angeles, CA. Lamb came to the station from Block Communications’ WDRB-WBKI in Louisville, KY ...
VETERAN ATLANTA INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST ANNOUNCES DEPARTURE
Brendan Keefe, the veteran investigative reporter for Tegna’s (Standard Media yada yada yada) WXIA in Atlanta announced Thursday he is leaving the station after eight years. Today is his last day. He says he ...
LONGTIME DENVER ANCHOR SIGNS OFF IN DECEMBER
Gary Shapiro moved into the morning anchor chair at Tegna’s (someday Standard Media’s) KUSA back in 1989, six years after he joined the station as a reporter. And now he is marking the calendar ...
PROUD TO LEAVE NASHVILLE BEHIND
Nearly four years after moving to Nashville from Knoxville on the eastern side of Tennessee, sports anchor/reporter Emily Proud is packing up and about to leave Nexstar’s WKRN. http:// And so the next stop ...
LEAVING THE STATION BUT NOT THE BUSINESS
Whenever we can report a move but it’s a move within the business, we’re happy. A young anchor-reporter at KRDO in Colorado Springs, Colorado is making her next move. Sydnee Scofield graduated from Arizona ...
HEADING FOR THE DOOR IN BUFFALO
Buffalo viewers will be waving buh-bye next week to morning “Wake Up” staffer Jhas Williams. After two years, she is moving on from Nexstar’s WIVB In her departure notice on Twitter, she managed to ...
OKC LOSES KEY POLITICAL REPORTER FOR NON-NEWS JOB
Plus, he’s doing his own thing.
LONGTIME BAY AREA ANCHOR READY TO STEP DOWN?
California blogger Rich Lieberman reported this week that veteran anchor Pam Moore is ready to retire from Nexstar’s KRON in San Francisco. The speculation has evidently already begun on a successor, with Lieberman relaying ...
“I HAVE SUCH A CONNECTION WITH SO MANY OF YOU”
And well he should, since Gary Lezak has been forecasting the weather for more than 23 yeas as chief meteorologist at Scripps’ KSHB in Kansas City, MO. The comes to an end in December, ...
LONGTIME BAY AREA ANCHOR DROPS SHOCKER ON COLLEAGUES
Bay Area media watcher Rich Lieberman reports that while all parties still have zipped lips, Allen Martin, the longtime anchor at CBS-owned KPIX, is stepping down in July and calling it a career. He’s ...
DENVER ANCHOR ANNOUNCES HIS END DATE
Jim Benemann’s been occupying the co-anchor chair at CBS-owned KCNC for the past 22 years. That changes at the end of the year, when Benemann steps down and walks away from a broadcast news ...
INSTEAD OF COVERING SPORTS, HE’LL BE SUPERVISING THEM
Cover sports for more than 40 years and you’re likely to find yourself wanting to get more involved in it. That is certainly the case with Alan Harwell, currently on the sports desk as ...
DUAL EXIT IMMINENT IN BUFFALO?
Buffalo media watcher Alan Pergament reports that there might be a dual exit from the morning news program at Scripps’ WKBW. Pergament has gotten indications that both “AM Buffalo” co-host Melanie Camp and meteorologist ...
EYEING THE EXIT
This is a longtime news director who’s leaving the biz.
“WHAT A SHAME,” INDEED
50 years, in excess of 1,000 stories and a ton of Emmy hardware, all in service to his “dream job.” And now Arnold Diaz is calling it a career, bringing to a close his ...
COUNTDOWN TO FINAL PITCH FOR LEGENDARY SPORTS ANCHOR
That’s a wonderful life! Guy Junker has been a fixture in Western Pennsylvania for generations. The longtime WTAE sports anchor is retiring at the end of April, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. During his 44-year ...
ANOTHER VETERAN IS CALLING IT A CAREER
For the past 31 years, Tom Messner has been calling the weather shots at Hearst’s WPTZ in Plattsburgh, NY/Burlington, VT. There won’t be a 32nd year. Messner is calling it a career and will ...
FOUR YEARS AND OUT FOR THIS FORECASTER
After four years at the weather center of Tegna’s WGRZ in Buffalo, meteorologist Heather Waldman is saying goodbye in August. Although her next step has yet to be confirmed, she does happen to be ...
“MORE TIME WITH FAMILY”
She will share more about what’s next for her in the coming weeks.
HE RUNS A TV STATION, WHY NOT A CITY?
Longtime tv news executive Rick Blangiardi is thinking of going into politics. Blangiardi, a Hawaii native who is currently the president and general manager of Hawaii News Now, is contemplating retirement after a 42 ...
LEAVING TULSA
After 9 years, Tulsa Weather Anchor Mike Grogan signed off Christmas Day. He says he has no immediate plans for his future but thanked his coworkers at KOTV (CBS) for their help over the ...
NEXSTAR CUTS
The IndyStar.com reported Wednesday as many as a dozen employees at Fox affiliate WXIN-59 and WTTV-4, including one on-air reporter, were laid off Wednesday, roughly three months after Nexstar Media Group acquired the stations ...
SIGNING OFF AFTER 25 YEARS
A quarter century after he first appeared on KING 5’s airwaves, Evening host Michael King is moving on to a new chapter. King started at KING 5 as an anchor for Northwest Cable News and eventually moved ...
MORE WORK-LIFE BALANCE
Traffic anchor and substitute news anchor Jade DeGood is leaving Scripps KSHB in Kansas City, MO after three-plus years. She explained her departure on Facebook: Sometimes the work-life balance means just checking out of ...
FROM TV TO SOCIAL MEDIA
Folks in Las Vegas may not be able to see Beth Fisher on KTNV (ABC) anymore but they can find her online. Fisher, the popular morning anchor for seven years at Las Vegas’ ABC ...
ANOTHER NEWLY ACQUIRED NEXSTAR GM TO RETIRE
Don Corsini, the general manager at Nexstar KTLA in Los Angeles, the corporate Goliath’s biggest television station, will be leaving his job as general manager of the station by the end of the year. ...
NEWSEUM TO SHUTTER DECEMBER 31
11 years and just under 10 million visitors after it opened its doors to much fanfare and celebration, the Newseum is quietly going away at the end of the year – the victim of ...
BUH-BYE TO THE BUSINESS (DRAFT)
KING anchor/reporter Jenna Hanchard is leaving the Tegna Seattle station and the business after 4 years in the news dept. She explained why in on air and in this Facebook post.
