And another one is gone from the business, 17 years of experience, the last five at NBC-owned KXAS in Dallas-Ft. Worth, and weekend morning meteorologist Keisha Burns has apparently put tv news in her ...
Back in March of 1984, a young reporter named Mark Becker filed his first report for Charlotte television station WSOC. Now, almost a full 38 years later, the station is noting his approaching retirement ...
Didn’t take long did it? The year was barely 5 days old when word came that Mark Neerman had been abruptly shown the door at KPIX in San Francisco. Neerman had been vice-president and news ...
Liliana Soto, for the past two and a half years an investigative reporter at Scripps’s KNXV in Phoenix, AZ, is headed back to her alma mater, Arizona State University, as a faculty member. http://
Azenith Smith spent the past 15 years in tv news as a reporter….the last seven of them with FOX-owned KTVU in Oakland, CA. She left the station Monday. http:// According to Bay Area blogger ...
After six years on the job, Ali Touhey has suddenly disappeared from Scripps’ WKBW in Buffalo, NY. And the reasons behind the anchor-reporter’s abrupt disappearance is none of your damned business, according to station ...
In Little Rock, Ark., a longtime anchor and host is going to leave the station to help her mother full time. TVH11’er Theba Lilly is going to host her last show on December 18. ...
After a decade and a half at FOX-owned KDFW in Big D, weekend anchor Natalie Solis opted for more of a work-life balance. http:// Before Dallas, Solis spent three years reporting for Sunbeam’s WSVN ...
He’s been off the air for over a month….and Brandon Lee, anchor for Meredith’s-soon-to-be-Gray’s KTVK/KPHO duopoly in Phoenix says it’s permanent. His life experiences are taking him in a new direction. http:// Lee has ...
We’ve been kind of wondering what the deal was. WTAE morning anchor Kelly Frey was notably absent at the start of the November sweeps. And justlikethat….she’s gone. On Wednesday, the Hearst station dropped the ...
In a move first announced early last month, Lisette Hernandez bid farewell to the evening anchor desk at Nexstar’s KLST/KSAN in San Angelo, TX. http:// Hernandez was with the station for three years, her ...
After 3 years as news director and THIRTY years as assistant news director (!) Lissa Hamblen has stepped down at Nexstar’s KOLR in St. Louis, MO We are hearing that he number two also ...
One might never have noticed that former KHOU “HTownRush” morning feature reporter Ruben Galvan was no longer with the Tegna station if one hadn’t run across his recent Facebook posting: http:// He’d been with ...
It was just last January that, amid no small amount of hoopla, Cory McGinniss joined Disney’s KTRK in Houston as the station’s Race and Culture reporter. He was touted as being part of ABC ...
After three years in the Quad Cities, meteorologist Justin Ballard has exited Allen Media’s WREX in Rockford, IL. http:// Ballard’s new job in the Sunshine State is at WUFT, the University of Florida’s public ...
He announced his retirement after 3 decades reporting for Disney’s KGO in San Francisco. Before that, he had been starting in 1981 and worked for CBS News. For the record, Wayne Freedman says it ...
Sports reporter Bridget Condon is suddenly gone from Disney’s WTVD in Durham http:// She’d been with the station since 2017, coming from WCAV in Charlottesville, VA. Next stop is anybody’s guess. The station’s main ...
Hmmmm……. Veteran newswoman Jennifer Hardy is out the door at Standard Media’s KLKN in Lincoln, NE after 13 months as ND. Standard Media has owned the station for two years and Hardy’s replacement will ...
Ben Dobson is out at NBCU’s WBTS (known to branding fans as NBC Boston) after more than three years as VP/News. The staff got the word Wednesday afternoon. Dobson spent nearly a decade with ...
She’s still on radio in the market so Rachel Lutzker fans won’t be at a total loss without her. Lutzker is giving up her traffic reporter job with Tegna’s WTIC in Hartford, CT> http:// ...
Letitia Walker is no longer with Scripps KATC in Lafayette, LA. GM Sean Trcalek provided no other details on Walker’s departure. The long-time news director said in a statement, “I’ve spent almost two decades ...
It didn’t end well for Derek Dalton (left) and Jay Howell (right) “After six months of an extremely thorough and exhaustive review of our organization and culture, I am writing to let you know the ...
Danamarie McNicholl signed off from the morning show at Tegna’s KREM in Spokane, WA. http:// Evidently her next big adventure lies south in her home town of San Diego, CA
Aaron Martin’s next big investigation is about conquering the mysteries and challenges of fatherhood. The veteran investigative reporter signed off this week from Cox/Apollo’s WPXI after six years at the station and a total ...
Longtime morning anchor John Potter of Sarkes Tarzian’s KTVN in Reno had his microphone abruptly cut this week when he started to share his grievances over a contract dispute with the station. Potter, who ...
Mitch Jacob made it to 28 months, give or take, as news director at Meredith’s (soon-to-be Gray’s) WSMV in Nashville, TN. That’s considerably more than his processor, Denise Eck, who held the job for ...
Quincy’s (soon-to-be Gray’s) WEEK in Peoria, IL has parted ways with morning meteorologist Jesse Guinn (right). Guinn, a part of the morning team for the past four years, announced his departure in a Facebook ...
“Good Morning America’s” top producer hit the door running Thursday, leaving mouths agape and heads being scratched. “Michael Corn no longer works for ABC News,” a spokesperson for the network said. They provided no ...
KCTV is once again looking for a news director. Scott Flannigan is gone from the Kansas City, MO, station after less than a year. Flannigan was an in-house move last July after 6½ years ...
Weigel Broadcasting’s WCIU is dropping “The Jam”, the talk show it launched as a two-hour morning block back in 2017. About ten jobs will be eliminated with the demise of the program, now a ...
Houston traffic reporter Katherine Whaley officially signed off from the traffic center at Disney’s KTRK this week after almost seven years with the station. For the record, she says it is to spend more ...
The Sinclair wave of cuts reached Nashville this week with the axing of WZTV‘s traffic reporter Samantha Russell, aka “Traffic Jam Sam.” The hardest news to share… 💔 pic.twitter.com/yCKt00iNjR — Samantha Russell (@TrafficJamSam) March ...
Has it been six years already? The national search is on for a replacement for Blake Sabatinelli, the recently-departed CEO of Scripps-owned Newsy. Sabatinelli, a Scripps veteran since 2007, took the reins of the ...
Up in Canada, folks are not immune to fallout from the idiocy of blackface jokes. A day after VICE News published an investigation on allegations of systemic racism at Global News, Jill Krop, a ...
Well, that audition for The Show didn’t work out so well, did it? We call it an audition because Trish Regan’s “impeachment rant” of a few weeks back sure seemed like she was trying ...
Page Six is reporting that legendary producer Bill Geddie is out as EP of Tamron Hall’s relatively-new talk show. And could Bill O’Reilly be to blame? Geddie, who we can either credit or blame ...
Matt King is apparently leaving WCNC in Charlotte, NC since the job is posted on the Tegna website. His departure comes as a new GM, Joan Barrett, is on the way. King has been ...
Chris Matthews, the veteran political anchor and voluble host of the long-running MSNBC talk show “Hardball,” resigned on Monday night, an abrupt departure from a television perch that made him a fixture of politics ...
It was just last September that Scripps’ news director Paul Alexander took on double duties at KRIS. In addition to his news director job at the Corpus Christi station, Alexander added the title “Director ...
After 17 years in the trenches for Tegna’s WWL, New Orleans, reporter Thanh Truong signed off Friday, headed for the world of podcasting. Truong and his wife will fire up a “true crime” podcast ...
We reported earlier this week that something was up at WINK in Ft. Myers, FL with the recent abrupt exit of anchor Bob Irzyk and the rumored exit of meteorologist Scott Zedeker. The other ...
Now it can be told. After days of speculating down in Victoria, TX, viewers now know that KAVU chief meteorologist Bill Alexander is gone, out the door, finished, phhhfffft. Brian Burns, station owner Morgan ...
KSHB sports reporter and anchor Ryan Marshall announced he is leaving the station. Marshall did not indicate where he was going next. He’d been at the station for nearly five years.
That shudder-inducing scandal involving sexting and allegations of revenge porn has cost Rafer Weigel his job at Fox-owned WFLD in Chicago, IL Less than a year after he was moved off weekends to take ...
Longtime blogger Ed Bark has retired his media column in DFW. Bark writes: “It’s time for me to go. Not from the mortal coil just yet. After 40 years of covering local and national ...
KSHB kicked off the new year by knocking off “Kansas City Live,” the pay-to-play lifestyle show that ran at 10:00 AM. It’s unclear if hosts like Crystle Lampitt will remain with the station. This ...
He was an iconic radio DJ who successfully took his format to cable television, only to see it all fall apart because of his uncontrollable habit of saying the wrong thing in the most ...
Tegna’s WOI in Ames, IA is looking for a new news director after showing April Samp the door. Samp served more than five years as news director at the station. She’s also been an ...
With little fanfare, anchor Nilda Rosario disappeared from the set of Telemundo’s New York flagship WNJU. Her last day on the air was Wednesday, December 11. There are currently no details about the reasons ...
Today is the last day that Sinclair news directors and producers have to deal with the marble-mouthed ‘must-run” commentaries of Administration publicist/Sinclair’s soon-to-be-former chief political analyst Boris Epshteyn and his faint liberal shadow Ameshia ...
After six years behind the weekend morning anchor desk, Susan Carlson signed off this weekend at NBCU’s WMAQ. She told viewers on social media she’s going part-time to reporting three days a week. Frank ...
After nearly two decades, anchor Blanca Garza has his the exit door at Telemundo’s KSTS in San Jose, CA, and the business, for very personal reasons. Garza married earlier this year and told Media ...
Lena Sadiwskyj has left Gray’s WTVY in Dothan, AL as her two year contract expired. She told Rick Gevers she’s hoping to announce her next move soon. Sadiwskyj’s also been an ND in Knoxville, ...
Mark Haggar has left Standard Media’s KLKN in Lincoln, NE after a remarkable 22 year run as news director. Standard Media acquired the station this summer and installed a new GM, which brings to ...
It’s official. Pittsburgh meteorologist Kevin Benson‘s September bust for DUI, during which police testing found an “inactive cocaine metabolite in his blood” has led to his termination by Cox-owned WPXI. “Kevin Benson is no ...
For 20 of his 26 years as a reporter for Sinclair’s KATV in Little Rock, AR, Jason Pederson fielded, and tried to solve, consumer problems as the station’s “Seven On Your Side” advocate. What ...
You might remember that back in mid-August, we told you that FIOS1 News would be pulling the plug in mid-November. It’s mid-November. FIOS1 News went dark Wednesday….a few days before RNN’s contract with Verizon ...
That sinking feeling when you check out a news director’s social media and this is what you get: Scripps’ KJRH is going through news directors like tv news people go through a buffet. The ...
Cris Carter’s run at FOX Sports has ended in an acrimonious fashion. FOX Sports has issued a statement confirming that Carter no longer is employed by the company. The Hall of Fame receiver, who ...
Kelly Crull is gone at NBC Sports Chicago after six years. The usual corporate template was used to send her out the door. “We appreciate everything Kelly has delivered to our network over the ...
The sudden exit of NY1 traffic reporter Adelle Caballero last week was evidently explained away to her shocked colleagues as Caballero seeking that ever-elusive “work-life balance.” She didn’t care for the front office’s explanation ...
It’s two years and out for KRIV reporter Lindsey Henry. Henry is leaving the Houston Fox O&O to take a break from her career and do some traveling with her significant other, a chap ...
Three years is starting to look like a long time in the turnover-prone world of tv news, but when youthink about it, it’s pretty much the life of the average contract. So one cycle ...
Fox News has been flirting with an InfoWars-type approach with the recent launch of its Fox Nation subscription streamer, but it may be having some second thoughts. Radio host and sometime tv panelist Todd ...
Judgement may sometimes come tardy in the tv news business, but when it arrives, it is swift and ruthless. Dray Clark, a reporter and anchor with NBC-owned WCAU in Philadelphia for the past two ...
Palmira Pérez has left her anchor job at the Bay Area’s KDTV. Her departure from the Univision station had been announced earlier in the year but her final farewell didn’t occur until September 19th. ...
Long-time investigative/consumer reporter Scott Hines has left KFOR (NBC) after 15-years. The station featured a nice goodbye pkg on him. Hines took to Facebook himself to say farewell to those who followed him and ...
Houston Texas Blogger Mike McGuff reports David Loving who served as President and General Manager of Univision 45 Houston KXLN is gone according to multiple sources. In his time at Univision, KLXN became the ...
An unceremonious “buh-bye” to Derrick Young, out after eight years as morning traffic reporter at CBS-owned WBBM. His swan song was on Tuesday, after a long run that began in 2011. Young won an ...
Barely a year after taking on the main anchor duties at Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta, GA, Thomas Roberts is going, going….gone. He won’t be returning from the two-week vacation that began August 17th. “Sometimes ...
Mike Snuffer has left Quincy Media’s WSIL in Harrisburg, IL during the same month in which he celebrated his 16th anniversary as ND here. He left about eight months after an ownership change. Snuffer is a ...
From a Left Coast Newsblueser: Kris Knutsen, the still-popular KTTV news director (and one of few stabilizing forces in a newsroom that has been racked by cuts that led to rating crashes) has been ...
He abruptly left the newsroom on Thursday. On Friday, he was designated “former” news director. Jeff Zeller led the newsroom at Fox-owned WOFL in Orlando for nearly ten years after being moved up from ...
News anchor Nick VinZant said goodbye over the weekend after three-plus years at Quincy Media’s KVOA in Tucson AZ. Someone’s gonna miss him And he heads off into the sunset for parts unknown.
WKBW (ABC) Buffalo General Manager Michael Nurse and two prominent members of the station’s sales department were released from their duties last week by a representative of E.W. Scripps Company, the station’s owner, reports ...
After just four months on the job, Adam Wilhelm has left Quincy Media’s WBNG in Binghamton, NY. He most recently worked for WOFL in Orlando, and has also worked at stations in Atlanta, Miami, Milwaukee, ...
A.J. Calloway has been dropped as the co-host of the syndicated “Extra” following multiple allegations of sexual assault. Calloway fronted the showbiz news show for 14 years until he was suspended by Warner Bros. ...
Brien Kennedy, who’d been the general manager for CBS O&O KYW in Philadelphia, has left the station after four years. During that time, as you’ll learn in this story from the Philadelphia Business Journal, he employed ...
After 6 ½ years at the helm of Fox-owned dupoly WOFL/WRBW in Orlando, FL and WOGX in Gainesville, Allyson Meyers cleared out her desk last week and apparently left the business for unspecified “family ...
The forecast for WFAA meteorologist Colleen Coyle is clear sailing and no on-air shifts ahead. After 9 years, she’s signed off from the Tegna Dallas station and headed in the opposite direction from the ...
After just a year at the station, sports reporter and anchor Nicole Feyh signed off at Gray’s WIBW in Topeka, KS. Smiling through the tears, Feyh said she was choosing a different career path, ...
Yes, it was definitely something veteran Detroit investigative reporter Kevin Dietz said. Dietz, who is now a FORMER reporter for Graham Media’s WDIV, was terminated following a comment he made about a black reporter ...
A Blogger for Salt Lake City’s BarStool Sports is out of a job after making light of a missing girls plight. That girl, Mackenzie Lueck was later found dead and a suspect arrested. KSTU ...
There’s an abrupt ND change at Meredith’s Phoenix duopoly, KTVK/KPHO. Dan Wilson is gone, effective immediately, after 3 ½ years. Jamie Ioos is serving as the interim ND there. Wilson previously was an ND in West ...
Jenny Toste worked for nearly a decade as a TV reporter and news anchor for KSEE and KGPE in Fresno, CA before ascending to the CEO position of Fresno public television station KVPT last ...
It is the dreaded “404/Page Not Found” for the online bio of weekend anchor Lydia Esparra, formerly of Gray’s WOIO in Cleveland, OH. Sunday she was anchoring, Monday she was gone and her station ...
We mentioned his departure a few weeks back, with some grumbling of concerns, but Steve Mauldin, president and general manager of KCBS-KCAL Los Angeles, retired May 31, wrapping up 40-plus years in television. He’s ...
Another tv news vet has decided to kiss the business to pursue other goals in life. Beau Berman, a Pittsburgh native and Penn State grad has signed off from Hearst’s WTAE in Pittsburgh after ...
WDSU (NBC) weekend news anchor and reporter Juliana Mazza has packed her bags and headed North. The native New Englander has left the New Orleans NBC television network affiliate, where she has worked for the ...
David Lee has left Scripps’ WTXL in Tallahassee, FL after more than five years as ND. He’s a former Assistant ND for KCOY in Santa Maria, CA, and earlier worked at KION in Salinas-Monterey, CA. During his career, ...
And still another member of the “Three Decades + Club” departs. Veteran reporter David MacAnally called it a career at Dispatch Broadcasting’s WTHR Ah…the bittersweetness of it all. “It’s a very bittersweet day for ...
“After careful consideration, Scripps’ WLEX has decided to part ways with Lee Cruse. WLEX is committed to reflecting our diverse audiences through our coverage and to upholding equitable, diverse and inclusive practices in our ...
Longtime Baltimore tv news staple Mary Bubala’s station bio and her picture on the WJZ website were the first to go missing. Now she’s gone. “Mary Bubala is no longer a WJZ-TV employee,” vice ...
Babbel, an online language learning platform is profusely apologizing this morning after an ad turned up on Tucker Carlson‘s Fox “News” whinefest. The Fox News PR department, of course, had a response. “We will ...
To absolutely no one’s surprise – well almost no one – Natalie Morales made it official. In a Good Friday news dump, no less. She’s leaving “Access Hollywood” after three years with the program. ...
