ANOTHER DC FIXTURE READY TO RETIRE
District native Pat Collins to retire from WRC after 49 years
Category: Going Going…
CNN’S EXIT DOOR IS BUSY THESE DAYS
More executive exits
32 HURRICANE SEASONS ARE ENOUGH
West Palm Beach says goodbye to Mike Lyons
“THE HOURS ARE LONG AND HARD, PEOPLE CAN BE UNKIND AND THE STORIES CAN TAKE A TOLL ON YOUR MENTAL HEALTH”
All that aside, how did you like working in tv news?
ATLANTA INVESTIGATIVE LEGEND TO HANG IT UP AFTER 50 YEARS
He set a high bar, first at WAGA and then with WSB
HOUSTON LEAVING PITTSBURGH
He cites a family issue in his home state
WHY YES, HE WAS STILL ON TELEVISION
But now, Shepard Smith has been dropped by CNBC
ANOTHER CONTRACT DECLINED, ANOTHER ABRUPT EXIT
Buffalo sports anchor is heading for the door.
BIG SHUFFLE IN HOUSTON 2
Almost treated as an afterthought is the impending departure of KPRC’s noon and 4 PM anchor Christine Noel just shy of four years after her arrival. “We want to thank Christine Noël for her ...
33 YEARS IS ENOUGH
Veteran DC anchor announces it’s ending
HITTING THE EXIT IN CINCINNATI
Her plans are her own business….for now
WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE THAT (ALMOST) YEAR IN AUSTIN
Not quite one and done for this reporter
ONE LAST BOOK AND HE’S GONE
Veteran anchor sets his final day at WLS
EARLY RETIREMENT FOR KC METEOROLOGIST TO FOCUS ON HIS WEATHER COMPANY
Kansas City meteorologist plans his retirement in the coming weeks after decades on the air.
BAY AREA VETERAN REPORTER SETS DEPARTURE AFTER 50+ YEARS!!!
For more than half a century, David Louie has been pounding the pavement, reporting for Disney’s KGO in San Francisco. 50 YEARS!!!! So of course he has earned a rich and rewarding post-tv news ...
TO THE MEMORY OF HER DAUGHTER
Just shy of 33 years as a reporter/anchor/investigative reporter for Nexstar’s KELO in Sioux Falls, SD, Angela Kennecke is leaving the station and tv news to devote her full time to the non-profit she ...
TAKING THE EXIT IN BOSTON
About 20 years in the tv news business is evidently the limit for Boston traffic anchor Olessa Stepanova. She’s leaving NBC-owned WBTS and NECN after three years and is on to her next adventure….which ...
“IT IS TIME FOR SOMETHING NEW”
And so, after 11 years anchoring weekends at Nexstar’s WHTM in Harrisburg, PA, Janel Knight signs off tomorrow (Saturday). http:// The Boston native previously worked at WJAC in Johnstown prior to arriving in Harrisburg.
THE BUFFALO EXODUS CONTINUES
Just as the fall sports season heats up, sports anchor/reporter Ashley Holder announced her departure from Tegna’s (Standard Media, yadayadayada) WGRZ in Buffalo, NY. She’s headed for Charlotte, NC “to be closer to family” ...
LEAVING THE RGV
After three years in the Rio Grande Valley, weekend anchor/MMJ Karina Vargas is waving goodbye and departing Nexstar’s KVEO As she put it on Instagram: “What a journey it’s been. It’s my last few ...
VETERAN CNBC BOSS IS OUT THE DOOR
After 28 years with CNBC, the last seven as chairman of the financial news network, Mark Hoffman bids adieu. “During his tenure, CNBC became a world leader and every year it has grown better ...
HE’S TIRED OF BEING “GRUMPY DAD AT HOME”
So said Omaha morning news anchor John Oakey of Hearst’s KETV as he announced that after 21 years at the dawn patrol anchor desk, he’s done. http:// Mark the calendar and order the cake.
A LONG RUN IS DOWN TO ITS FINAL WEEKS IN DALLAS-FT. WORTH
Anyway you cut it, 33 years is one HELL of a long run in any business – never mind the fickle and transient nature of tv news. So it’s news when Tim Ryan plans ...
LONGTIME CONNECTICUT REPORTER TAKING THE EXIT
It was back in 2011 that Matthew Campbell brought his investigative reporting skills to Gray’s WFSB in Hartford-New Haven from sister station WGGB in Western Massachusetts. Now he is packing them up and preparing ...
BOWING TO THE INEVITABLE
Suzanne Phan is counting down the days to her departure from Sinclair’s KOMO in Seattle, WA. It’s not an unexpected move. Her husband, Ryan Yamamoto, left KOMO back in December to take on 5 ...
CONNECTICUT TV NEWSER COUNTS DOWN TO RETIREMENT
Nearly a quarter century after he got back to his native Connecticut by joining (now) Gray’s WFSB in February of 1998, Kevin Hogan is getting ready to wrap up his 48-year career in tv ...
AND ANOTHER ONE GONE IN ROCHESTER
Just days after his news director left Nexstar’s WROC in Rochester, NY, morning/midday anchor Mark Gruba signed off after ten years with the station to…..spend more time with his family? Gruba’s career in tv ...
LONGTIME PITTSBURGH ANCHOR DEPARTS FOR LONG ISLAND….AND HOME
New York City native Joe Arena is headed home. After nearly a decade at COX-owned WPXI in Pittsburgh, Arena is taking an anchor job at News 12 Long Island. He will be an afternoon/evening ...
EIGHT IS ENOUGH. IT ENDS FRIDAY
Her next destination….whether in or out of tv news…is still a mystery. But one thing we know is certain. After eight years, this is Melanie Michael’s last week anchoring for Nexstar’s WFLA in Tampa, ...
HE’S NOT LEAVING. HE’S TRANSITIONING. UH-HUH
Morning anchor Jason DeRusha has decided that 19 years of early wake-up calls is enough. He announced his last morning at CBS-owned WCCO in Minneapolis will be June 23. But wait….is he really leaving? ...
WE’RE BETTING THE NEXT ADVENTURE IS NOT IN TV NEWS
Dan Amarante, the morning meteorologist at Tegna (s/t/b Standard Media’s) WTIC in Hartford, CT will probably find his next adventure outside of tv news. That’s our guess, anyway. He’s leaving the station this Friday ...
PETE WILLIAMS TO RETIRE FROM NBC NEWS
After nearly three decades at NBC News, Pete Williams has decided to retire at the end of July. Williams, who joined the network in 1993 straight off a stint as a Pentagon spokesman, covered ...
ANOTHER TV NEWS VET OPTS OUT
Patty Pan has been a broadcast news veteran for 24 years, the last 17 of them with FOX-owned WAGA in Atlanta, GA. And now she is one of the latest (it feels like a ...
A-A-AND THE OTHER SHOE INEVITABLY DROPS
She wanted more family time after returning from her maternity leave in January, so in February, management at Scripps’ WKBW in Buffalo pulled anchor Ashley Rowe off the 11 pm news. Four months later, ...
THE “GODFATHER OF PHILLY SPORTS” IS RETIRING
After 53 years of covering the Eagles and all of the rest of Philadelphia sports, Ray Didinger is hanging up his IFB at NBC Sports Philadelphia and his weekend radio show. “I loved the ...
SHE’S COOKING UP PLANS POST CNNI
It’s been 20 years.
VETERAN CHARLOTTE ANCHOR SAYS SHE IS STEPPING DOWN
It’s been 18 years on the anchor desk at Gray’s WBTV in Charlotte, NC for anchor Maureen O’Boyle. And it’s not going to go much beyond that. She announced during the 6 pm newscast ...
“WHAT’S NEXT?” PROBABLY SLEEPING IN
Randi Naughton has been a familiar face to television viewers in St. Louis, MO, the last 23 of them as morning co-anchor on Nexstar’s KTVI. A change is coming. http:// She joined the station ...
ANOTHER SEATTLE EXIT
Nowhere is the sound of feet marching out the doors of local television newsrooms more insistent than in Seattle. And at Cox-owned KIRO, the latest to be heading for the door is longtime (25 ...
THAT DIDN’T LAST LONG….
Unlike a colleague’s happy news about his decision to part ways with WOAI (see today’s “He’s Headed Ringside), reporter Mike Jimenez’ decision to depart the station was considerably more downbeat. http:// His tenure with ...
NBC CONNECTICUT LOSES ITS FULLTIME POLITICAL REPORTER
After two years of specializing in political coverage at NBC-owned WVIT in Hartford, CT, it’s off to the world of print for Christine Stuart. Stuart, who is also editor-in-chief of her own political news ...
LONGTIME TWIN CITIES ANCHOR DEPARTS; IT’S A FAMILY THING
A month shy of 19 years at the station and anchor/reporter Jessica Miles has decided to spend more time with her family. So she’s leaving Hubbard’s KSTP in St. Paul, and tv news, to ...
AND YET ANOTHER VET HEADED FOR THE EXIT
A 45 year career in tv news is coming to an end in June as Manchester NH anchorman Tom Griffith steps down from the anchor chair at Hearst’s WMUR. Just about 35 of those ...
WE SHOULD BE CALLING IT THE GREAT TV NEWS EXODUS
There’s no time like an anniversary to announce you’re breaking up. And that is exactly the approach taken by meteorologist Metinka Slater, who took the occasion of her 16th anniversary at Hearst’s KCCI weather ...
NOW WE WANT TO KNOW
Whether it is the impending takeover of parent company Tegna by Standard General or burnout or a sincere desire to do something else, Nicole Vap, director of investigative journalism at KUSA in Denver is ...
NEXT ADVENTURE TBA
After a mere two and a half years, reporter/anchor Janice Yu is bidding the always tearful bittersweet farewell to Atlanta and FOX-owned WAGA http:// Yu came to Atlanta from KOLD in Tucson, AZ and ...
“THIS IS JUST A GREAT OPPORTUNITY”
David Crabtree is leaving the anchor desk at Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL in Raleigh, NC. No, really, he is. This time he means it. Back in 2017, Crabtree announced he was leaving the station in ...
FOR THIS NORFOLK SPORTS VET 45 YEARS IS ENOUGH
Bruce Rader made his mark in 45 years as the primary sports anchor at Nexstar’s WAVY in Norfolk, VA. And he figures 45 years is enough….and he’s wrapping it up. Rader was working for ...
THE END TIMES COMING FOR BAY AREA SPORTSCASTER
Bay Area blogger Rich Lieberman says it is looking more and more like Mark Ibanez will do his final sportscast for FOX-owned KTVU on March 31st. Ibanez, who’s been with the station since 1979 ...
“NEW ADVENTURE” COMING UP FOR LITTLE ROCK FORECASTER
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 ...
JUMPING TO THE OTHER SIDE
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 ...
PUTTING NEWS IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR
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 ...
DUNN’S MANAGERS ARE PRETTY MUCH DONE
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 ...
IS AN ERA COMING TO AN END IN THE BAY AREA?
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 ...
40+ YEARS IS A PRETTY GOOD RUN, DON’T YOU THINK?
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 ...
NEXT ADVENTURE TBA
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 ...
AFTER THREE YEARS, SHE’S DONE WITH TV NEWS
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 ...
MEET THE NEW MISS USA…REPORTING LIVE FROM LOUISVILLE
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 ...
ANOTHER VET TURNS HER BACK ON TV NEWS
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 ...
“WHAT A WILD RIDE IT HAS BEEN…”
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 ...
33 YEARS IS ENOUGH
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 ...
HUNTSVILLE METEOROLOGIST LEAVING TV NEWS
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 ...
“THE NEXT ADVENTURE CHRONICLES” CONTINUE
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 ...
MOVING UP TO PHILLY
“Next month, I’ll be joining the dynamic @FOX29philly team as their newest Reporter/Anchor!“
UPPER PLAINS TV NEWS VET OPTS FOR P.R.
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 ...
27 YEARS IS ENOUGH
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 ...
30 YEARS IS ENOUGH
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 ...
TEGNA TURNOVER
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 ...
40 YEARS IS ENOUGH
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 ...
CNN TALKING HEAD HEADS FOR HOMELAND SECURITY
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 ...
THE ‘MY PILLOW’ GUY IS EVEN TOO CRAZY FOR NEWSMAX
“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."
ESPN WHACKING ANOTHER 500 JOBS
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 ...
OUT AND IN
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 ...
OH, SO BITTERSWEET!
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 ...
MEANWHILE IN CHICAGO
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, ...
MAKING A MOVE?
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 ...
GRACEFUL EXIT
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 ...
HANGING IT UP…
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 ...
GONE IN NEW HAVEN
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 ...
“THE BUSINESS IS CHANGING”
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 ...
HEADED TO BIG D
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 ...
THE EXIT DOOR BECKONS
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 ...
GONE IN KC?
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, ...
BEADLE-MANIA OFFICIALLY OVER AT ESPN
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 ...
CHICAGO SIGN-OFF
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 SHOWS EMPLOYEES THE DOOR
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, ...
CNN BENCHES TWO PRO-TRUMPERS
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 ...
LEAVING DALLAS
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 ...
“THE TIME IS RIGHT TO BECOME (A FREE AGENT) MYSELF”
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 ...
DALLAS TV & RADIO VET OUT
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 ...
WFAA MORNING SHOW CHANGES
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 ...
A QUICK EXIT
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 ...
HOUSTON CONSUMER REPORTER CALLING IT QUITS
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 ...
SAYING GOODBYE IN HARRISBURG
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 ...
FLINT ND CLEARING OUT THE DESK
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 ...
NRA PULLS THE PLUG ON TV OPERATION
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 ...
HEADING FOR ACADEMIA
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, ...
“I WANTED…WEEKENDS WITH MY CHILDREN”
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. ...
