Hayden Nix, weekend meteorologist at Nexstar’s KARK in Little Rock, AR is leaving the station and planning a new direction at the ends of the month. http:// Ya gotta love those little teasers about ...
After decade and a half in the sports department at Tegna’s KARE in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Dave Schwartz is headed for the other side. He wraps it up with the station on Sunday and will ...
And where he lands next is still classified, we’re told. Ted Land, an MMJ at KING in Seattle, WA for the past seven and a half years, is done with tv news. http:// Today ...
It would seem that CBS is finally putting the Peter Dunn era behind it, with one of the last execs hired by Dunn hitting the exit in the Bay Area. Kevin Walsh has retired ...
On the heels of saying farewell to longtime anchor Frank Somerville, we are hearing reports out of the Bay Area that at FOX-owned KTVU, sportscaster Mark Ibanez, a 43-year station veteran is just about ...
That’s how many years Walt Howard racked up reporting and anchoring for Gray’s KFDA in Amarillo, TX. And now, he’s decided it’s time to call it a career. Through the years, Howard reported, anchored ...
After two years at Graham Media’s KPRC in Houston, TX, sports reporter/anchor Vanessa Richardson is gone. Her colleague Keith Garvin posted a farewell. http:// She came to the station back in 2019 from WLWT ...
News Directors, General Managers and the corporate type in the tv industry need to wise up and fast. The revolving door of the business seems to be speeding up as the well of potential ...
By day, she’s been reporting for Tegna’s WHAS in Louisville, KY while at night she served as the reigning Miss Kentucky. Now, Elle Smith is trading in her state pageant title for a new ...
Jane Flasch, for the past 35 years a reporter at Sinclair-operated WHAM in Rochester, NY, is calling it a career. She wrote on her personal Facebook page that the decision to step down was ...
After four and a half years of early mornings, meteorologist Emily Kennedy at Weigel’s WBND in South Bend, IN is ready for that new adventure. http:// Her last day coincides with the last day ...
Michael Cogdill joined WYFF (when it was WFBC) way back in 1989 as a weekend anchor and reporter. 8 years later, he moved into the main anchor chair beside Carol Clarke at 6 and ...
Nexstar duopoly WHNT/WHDF in Huntsville, AL is in the market for a new chief meteorologist. Jason Simpson, who’s called the forecasts at the station since 2012, announced his impending departure (set now for October ...
Megan Abundis, for the past three years a reporter at Hubbard’s KOB in Albuquerque (there is no way to type that quickly), NM wrapped it up this week. http:// We’re on the edge of ...
Saying goodbye this week up in North Dakota is Andrea Larson, longtime anchor at several North Dakota tv station, the latest being Gray’s KVLY in Fargo. It’s her second go-round at the station, where ...
Say goodbye to another tv news veteran. After 27(!) years at the newsroom helm of Scripps KTVQ in Billings, MT, Jon Stepanek is stepping down as news director. “I feel so fortunate to have ...
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 ...
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 ...
Let the national search begin. Anthony Maisel, news director for the past five years at Lockwood’s KAKE in Wichita, KS is calling it a career following the May sweeps this year. Maisel, who joined ...
There’s one less talking head at CNN and, really, folks, how bad can that be? National security contributor Sam Vinograd announced she has left CNN and is joining the Biden Administration and the Department ...
“Can I ask our producers — can we get out of here, please? I don’t want to have to keep going over this. Newsmax has not been able to verify any of those allegations."
The pandemic, the rising cost of sports rights fees and the continued cord-cutting by consumers continues to take its toll on ESPN. And that means some familiar faces may soon find themselves on the ...
WVTM morning anchor Eunice Elliott is leaving the business to “pursue other business and creative ventures,” after six years at the station. Her call, she says. Her last day at the Hearst Birmingham, AL ...
Marissa Mitchell, an anchor and reporter for Fox-owned WAGA in Atlanta, GA, figures four years is enough. What’s next? You’ll find out when and if she’s ready to let you know. Her final day ...
Steve Sanders, a consummate professional and one of the all-time coolest guys on Chicago television, is retiring after more than 37 years as a news anchor at WGN-Channel 9. TV critic Robert Feder reports Sanders, ...
Rumors are swirling around the District of Columbia that the NBC News Washington bureau will soon be moving out of its longtime home at 4001 Nebraska Avenue and moving into the MSNBC/CNBC/SkyNews bureau located ...
WGAL (NBC) meteorologist Matt Moore announced on Twitter on Sunday that he is leaving the Lancaster television station. Moore, however, did not say where he is going after he leaves the NBC affiliate. This ...
And another media watcher decides enough is enough. Dallas’ Uncle Barkey is hanging it up. 40 years of intently watching local and national television, then writing extensively about it, is enough and “because it’s ...
George Colli has quietly walked out the door at Nexstar’s WTNH in New Haven, CT. The Lead Investigative reporter posted on Facebook recently that he is moving on after his contract expired at the ...
And that, in a nutshell, sums up the reason Cammy Dierking is leaving the anchor desk at Sinclair’s WKRC in Cincinnati, OH at the end of the year, a story we first reported last ...
Say your goodbyes, Chicago. After three years as weekend meteorologist at NBC-owned WMAQ, Kalee Dionne is heading to Dallas as a weekday weather forecaster for Tegna’s WFAA. “We’ll miss her spunk, her humor and ...
David Hughes is leaving Gray’s WDBJ in Roanoke, VA. His next job is still TBA. Hughes has been the ND here for three plus years, coming from WFLA in Tampa where he was an ...
There’s been no official announcement and his station bio is still up, but reporter out of Kansas City, MO indicate that sportscaster Dee Jackson is no longer with Scripps’ KSHB. Jackson, a K.C. native, ...
It wasn’t that long ago (two years to be exact) that Michelle Beadle was one of ESPN’s rising stars. After being lured back to the mothership from NBC Sports, she was a co-host on ...
Tonight will see the final broadcast of “ABC 7 Eyewitness News on The U,” the 7 p.m. Monday-through-Friday newscast produced by Disney’s WLS for Weigel’s WCIU in Chicago as the independent prepares to become ...
Fios1 News will go dark on Nov. 16 after Verizon declined to renew a 10-year contract with Rye Brook, NY-based Regional News Network (RNN), which produced the content for Verizon and FIOS. Peter Kramer, ...
First you hire them. Then use them for a while. Then, when you feel they have outlived their usefulness, bench them. It’s a far lower profile action than outright firing them – just keep ...
After a three-year stay at KXAS (NBC) consumer reporter Samantha Chatman is heading north. Her next stop will be Chicago’s WLS-TV, where she’ll likewise be reporting on consumer issues. Chatman, who graduated from that ...
For the past 30 years, Rich Coppola steered the sports department at Tribune-soon-to-be-Nexstar-no-Tegna’s WTIC in Hartford, CT. No more. Coppola posted this on Facebook Tuesday: “We wanted Rich to stay on our team but ...
Mention the name Jody Dean and a lot of people across North Texas will remember him for his radio years, his TV years at KTVT (CBS) and even as a DJ and the famous ...
Demetria Obilor’s tenure as traffic reporter for WFAA’s (ABC) Daybreak will be ending after October, according to a memo from station manager Carolyn Mungo that has been obtained by unclebarky.com. Her surprise decision apparently is ...
After a little more than a year on the job, Michael Clemente is out as CEO of Newsmax TV. Clemente, a former Fox News and longtime ABC News executive and producer who became Newsmax ...
A 40-year run in tv news is drawing to a close as Houston consumer reporter Emily Akin announced her plans to step down at Fox-owned KRIV But she is leaving behind some advice for ...
After 17 years at the morning anchor desk, Sherry Christian is saying goodbye to Sinclair’s WHP in Harrisburg, PA and preparing to move back to her native Baltimore, MD. Her last day is July ...
Jayne Hodak has decided to leave Gray’s WJRT in Flint, MI after 16 years at the station, the last eight as news director. She joined the station in 2003 as Assistant News Director and ...
The echo of sarcastic “thoughts and prayers” are resounding throughout the twitterverse with the shakeup at NRA TV. According to a New York Times report, the NRA has shut down operations at the controversial ...
CNET en Español is losing its technology reporter with the pending departure of Claudia Cruz at the end of the month. She’s headed for the Reynolds School of Journalism of the University of Nevada, ...
That old devil “family time” has once again reared its ugly head, being cited as the reason veteran Honolulu news anchor Kathy Muneno is leaving the anchor desk at Nexstar’s KHON after 12 years. ...
Scripps’ owned KPAX in Missoula, MT is looking for a new news director. Our records show that veteran broadcaster Jerry Giesler had been the ND here since July, 2015. He’s a former news manager and ...
WZZM (ABC) President and General Manager, Janet Mason, has announced her plans to retire this summer after 22 years at the station and 44 years in the broadcasting industry. Mason was named President and ...
37 years at Gateway Center comes to a close a week from tomorrow when weekend AM forecaster Jon Burnett signs off from CBS-owned KDKA in Pittsburgh. A day earlier, he’ll say “Goodbye” to the ...
Hearst’s WESH in Orlando, FL is showing the door to popular sports guy Pat Clarke after 16 years – according to him. Clarke said he learned two weeks ago he is being replaced. He ...
After 15 years of delivering the biggest stories at WPLG (ABC) in South Florida, Laurie Jennings is leaving this week. Her last broadcast is Wednesday. “After a year and a half of real soul ...
Mark the calendar, Seattle, After 36 years, veteran anchor Lori Matsukawa is calling it a career and leaving Tegna’s KING. “When I graduated from college, I told everyone I wanted a job where I’d ...
Tune in tonight for your last shot at watching the “CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor.” Glor is signing off after the events of earlier this week which included the announcement that he is ...
It’s one last Chicago book and then back to Kentucky for WFLD anchor Kristen Nicole aka Pflum. The Chicago anchor announced she’s expected her third child this summer and after maternity leave she’ll head ...
Bill Harris, anchor at WEYI (NBC) & WSHM (FOX), announced last week he plans to step down from daily newscast anchoring at the end of May. After 47 years as a full time news ...
Jim Doty is the newly-installed vice president, general manager and director of sales at Scripps’ KERO, in Bakersfield, Calif. Doty’s rather sudden move leaves his old station, Sinclair’s WJAC in Johnstown, PA in a ...
Congratulations to Jeff Passolt, as he wraps up a 23-year run at the anchor desk of Fox-owned KMSP in Minneapolis. “Earlier this year I realized I’d never catch Mark Rosen’s 50 years in the ...
22 years was enough for James Rose, veteran KDFW reporter. He’s done as of Saturday, April 20th. Rose’s years in tv news are actually closer to 30. But he’s ready to try something else. ...
OK, what prompts this right before a sweeps period? Longtime KGW executive news director Rick Jacobs is leaving his position at the Tegna Portland, OR station later this month. Really? At the end of ...
After 15 years, anchor Marisa Yamane is dropping out of the tv news grind. Yamane has been a mainstay at Nexstar’s KHON since 2004, but after she signs off at the beginning of the ...
Last week we started seeing Facebook postings about the retirement of longtime KTRK (ABC) general manager Henry Florsheim. He came on board in the mid ’90’s while KTRK was blowing and going with a ...
On her 11th anniversary of her tenure as co-host the fourth-hour “Today Show” winefest, Kathie Lee Gifford said her last goodbye on Friday. The endless farewell tour that began back in December came to ...
Susan Zirinsky is busy reshaping CBS News and the rumors have been flying about Gayle King, Jeff Glor and John Dickerson. But her first overt move was not addition – it was subtraction. A ...
Newsbluesers tell us that a couple of exits are in the offing at Cox-owned KIRO in Seattle, WA. David Solano, weekend news/sports anchor at the station for just under two years is reportedly out. ...
Longtime WYFF reporter Tim Waller thinks 25 years on the streets of Greenville, SC is enough and he’s calling it quits He announced on his Facebook page that he plans to start a public ...
Jaime Peluffo walked away from 20 years in the tv news business, saying goodbye to Univision-owned KDTV in San Francisco for a Bay Area government communications job. He decided to take it easy for ...
The Lost Ogle Blog says it has learned (via the vaunted Ogle Mole Network) that OKC media personality and news mommy, Meg Alexander, was let go as the host for Sinclair’s KOKH pay-to-play morning show “Living ...
Kirk Varner has announced that he is stepping down as news director of Nexstar’s WSPA/WYCW in the multi-hyphenated Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville/Anderson market. Kirk has been with the stations since August, 2015, arriving there after a four and ...
Ten years after taking his seat at the morning anchor desk of Morris Multimedia’s WTVQ, Doug High is saying goodbye to “Good Morning Kentucky” but not making a clean break with the Lexington KY. ...
Corning’s pending exit somewhat overshadowed the movement at two other Dallas tv stations. After 5 and a half years, sports reporter/weekend sport anchor Edward Egros will leave Fox-owned KDFW at the end of the ...
After nearly 4 and a half years, KING anchor-reporter Amanda Grace bid farewell to the Seattle Tegna station – and it evidently putting the tv news business in her rear-view mirror.. “[I]t’s time for ...
KPNX (maybe, maybe not) reporter Bryan West was supposed to be released from jail Thursday following his recent conviction and sentencing for some alcohol-fueled hijinks last August in Phoenix. Charges of extreme DUI and ...
Veteran Indianapolis anchor John Stehr puts a cap on one phase of his long career this Friday, when he anchors his final newscast in Dispatch’s WTHR in Indianapolis after 23 years. Stehr first announced ...
At a staff meeting Thursday, Anne Wittenborg announced she was leaving her job as news director for KSTP-TV. That’s the Hubbard Broadcasting owned ABC affiliate in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Wittenborg’s been the ND there since ...
Carlton Houston, who’s run the day-to-day operation at WUSA in Washington for the past 2 1/2 years, is joining Blue Cross Blue Shield in Chicago as Director of Storytelling. He explains: I’ll be working closely with the ...
Rachel Platt, of Tegna’s WHAS in Louisville, KY wraps up just under 30 years with the station come December 21. Platt will exit the television business after her last newscast to become director of ...
