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. ...
Suddenly, and without a shred of explanation, Paul Ossmann’s much-ballyhooed comeback at WGCL is over. It was just a little over a year and a half ago that Ossmann was promoted to the Meredith’s ...
Management at Gray’s WVLT in Knoxville, TN must have some folks waiting in the wings. Otherwise, how do you explain the abrupt severing of ties with chief meteorologist David Aldrich (left) and morning anchor ...
It’s two seasons and out for “Page Six TV,” yet another daily half-hour strip focused on trivial pop poop . Co-hosted by Bevy Smith, Elizabeth Wagmeister and Carlos Greer, “Page Six TV” will remain ...
In the movie “The Usual Suspects”, Verbal Kint was referring to elusive criminal Keyser Soza. The headline quote also applies to anchor Brad Johansen, suddenly and cryptically out the door at Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL ...
The Sacramento shakeup continues as weekend anchor Ali Wolf bid farewell to Tribune’s KTXL over Monday night. Her next stop is highly classified, it seems but, as she put it on her social media ...
News director Steve Koles is out as Director of News and Digital Content at Dispatch Broadcasting’s WBNS in Columbus, OH. His abrupt departure came Friday and was just 9 months after he arrived at ...
Here’s a career switch you don’t see all that often: Weeknight sports anchor Gabriel Sotelo of Telemundo’s KSTS in San Jose, CA has left the station and the business to become a pastor and ...
Mark Geragos, celebrity attorney who became famous for defending and trying high-profile cases, was fired Monday as a contributor to CNN after multiple media outlets reported he is a “co-conspirator” in a lawsuit filed ...
While a station bio remains cached in one of the Internet’s remote corners, Mark Schofield, anchor for Northwest Broadcasting’s KSWT in Yuma, AZ is evidently no longer with the station, according to a southwestern ...
After 15 years sitting at the anchor desk, Brad Hicks rather abruptly left Tribune’s WITI this week. He’d been off the air in recent weeks. We’re told it’s a family issue by the station ...
The ratings cellar is not a fun place to be and if you are the most visible component of a newscast, you’re the most vulnerable. And post-sweeps ’tis the season to be at your ...
Dallas-Ft. Worth’s first African-American tv news anchor signed off at the end of the book (and the week) John McCaa said goodbye to the WFAA audience for the last time after 35 years at ...
Reporter and fill-in anchor Emily Kinzer left Nexstar’s WISH in Indianapolis, IN last month after two years with the station. Of course it’s bittersweet but a new adventure beckons. “I have some bittersweet news ...
Chelsea Edwards is now a FORMER reporter for Disney’s KABC in LA. And it’s oh! So bittersweet… “I’ve got some bittersweet news to share! After more than 3 years with ABC7, I am moving ...
KXAS (NBC) early morning co-anchor Marc Fein made it official late last week, announcing via social media that Friday was his last day at the station. “That’s a wrap! Today was my last ...
It wasn’t even two years ago that Tribune’s KDVR excitedly trumpeted the return of long-departed Denver tv new vet Ernie Bjorkman to an anchor chair. Now, as Corey Lewandowski might say….”WOMP WOMP”. Bjorkman was ...
WRAL (CBS) chief meteorologist Greg Fishel no longer has a job, the station announced in an on-air statement Wednesday evening. The company cited a “personnel matter” as the reason for Fishel’s departure. The statement ...
Guess who appears to be out the door at Disney’s WABC after nearly thrity years? Bill Evans had been senior meteorologist at the station and a community fixture. But his social media is shut ...
You’ll just have to be patient to hear about her next move, but after ten years, CNN tech correspondent Laurie Segall has packed it in. “Some personal news… my documentary on Facebook airing this ...
No doubt with a little help from the higher ups, Andres Chaparro has exited Telemundo’s KDEN in Denver. “Andres Chaparro has decided to move on from Telemundo Denver. We wish him well in his ...
Bob Costas’ 40-year career with NBC Sports is over. “It’s all settled quietly and happily for all concerned,” Costas told the New York Post in an interview that was published Tuesday. An NBC representative confirmed with ...
We’re getting reports that Mona Kosar Abdi has left Scripps’ WEWS in Cleveland, OH after two years. She was the weekday reporter and weekend morning anchor, coming to the station from WSET in Roanoke, ...
Over the weekend, a Phoenix tipster confided that both anchor/reporter Brandon Hamilton and sports reporter Tresa Tudrick out at Tegna’s KPNX. We checked and, sure enough, an attempt to bring up their station bios ...
After 23 years of calling the weather shots at CBS-owned KDKA in Pittsburgh, chief meteorologist Jeff Verszyla had a surprising Twitter message for viewers. “FYI to all my faithful viewers for the last 23 ...
And the revolving door continues to spin at Tegna’s KARE in the Twin Cities. The latest to leave is Jeff Edmondson, one of the few meteorologists of color the market has seen, is out ...
Tribune flagship WPIX in New York, is losing a longtime member of the team. Reporter Lisa Mateo’s fitness business has grown to the point that she is leaving after 18 years on the Am ...
Jennifer Schulze is out at executive producer- new media at the “Chicago Sun-Times.” Schulze, a former news director at WGN back in the 90’s, was hired only last February by Carol Fowler, another former ...
Conservative commentator Dan Bongino will reportedly no longer be with the National Rifle Association’s media affiliate, NRATV, after the network opted not to renew his show. The Daily Beast reported Monday that NRATV declined to renew ...
She’s staying in Bismarck, but her future is evidently not in television. Marcie Bollinger, evening anchor-producer at Gray’s KFYR in this North Dakota market signed off last week after a couple of years, and ...
Say goodbye to opinionated gasbag Marc Lamont Hill, who’s been dumped by CNN after his anti-Israel comments made in a speech at the UN went viral. Hill urged countries to boycott Israel in a ...
Tight lips all around at Scripps’ WRTV in Indianapolis, IN after the sudden disappearance of reporter-anchor Ericka Flye But after 18 years at the station, Flye has flown the coop, leaving an empty slot ...
After seven years, five of them as prime-time co-anchor, at Nexstar’s KTVX in Salt Lake City, Kim Fischer signed off last week to begin another career in early childhood development. “I just want to ...
Call it a year and out for John Henry Smith, former sports director for NBC-owned WVIT in Hartford, CT. Smith’s abrupt departure comes just shy of a full 12 months at the station. He ...
Chris Turner has left Nexstar duopoly WJTV/WHLT in Jackson/Hattiesburg, MS after one year as ND. Both are CBS affiliates. Turner is a former news director in Cheyenne, WY, who also spent more than 20 years at ...
Pamela Padilla is out the door at Telemundo’s KDEN in Denver. She had been the station‘s evening news anchor for the past three years, after joining the station in February 2015 as an MMJ. ...
