Category: Gone

HEADING FOR OK CITY

MMJ Hank Cavagnaro is saying “so long” to KVUE (Tegna…someday Standard Media) in Austin, TX and up north on I-35 to locally-owned KWTV in Oklahoma City, OK The opportunity to move up the ladder ...

IT DOESN’T GET MUCH COLDER

One of the crappiest excuses we’ve ever heard management utter while kicking someone to the curb is “we’re going in a different direction.” And that is what 21-year employee Tom Kenny heard when he ...

AN ABRUPT EXIT

Jeff Rosetti has left Tegna (soon Standard Media’s) WTHR in Indianapolis after three-plus years as news director and eleven years at the station. GM Michael Brouder sent this terse memo to the staff today. ...

SHE SAYS A MAJOR MOVE IS NEXT

Reporter Hayley Mason wrapped up four years at Gray’s WGCL in Atlanta. She didn’t reveal whether she is leaving her hometown or sticking around….but she promises her next move will be “major”. http:// OK. ...

BUH-BYE MILWAUKEE

After a total of 14 years in tv news, that last 12 of them as host of “Real Milwaukee” on FOX-owned WITI in…..well, Milwaukee, WI, Angelica Duria is turning her back on tv news ...

WHAT GIVES IN VEGAS, BABY?

A quick recap on the personnel situation in the newsroom at KTNV (Scripps) in Las, Vegas, NV: Morning anchor Todd Quinones, executive producer Micah Manalo, and “Morning Blend” co-host Shawn Tempesta are exiting the ...

GONE…WITH THE NEXT ADVENTURE TBA

After three years, morning reporter Samaia Hernandez is out the door at Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford-New Haven, CT. Her past experience that includes public radio and as a legislative staffer makes her projected landing ...

GONE FOR MORE FAMILY TIME

After two decades on Rochester, MN tv airwaves, the last 13 of them at the anchor desk of Hubbard’s KAAL, Betsy Singer signed off and hit the exit. http:// She plans to stick around ...

THAT DIDN’T LAST LONG

Just shy of two years, sports reporter Taylor Brooks is hitting the revolving exit door at Nexstar duopoly KWGN/KDVR in Denver, CO. “Home” appears to be the Quad Cities area of Illinois/Iowa where she ...

THE EXODUS FROM TV NEWS CONTINUES

Reporter Angelica Morrison has hit the exit at Nexstar’s WIVB in Buffalo, NY (and the tv news business) after three years. Morrison, who had ten years of broadcast journalism experience, is going to work ...

“A BRUTAL PART OF THE BUSINESS”

That’s a fairly succinct way to sum up the end of Kris Pickel’s 7-year run at Gray Phoenix, AZ duopoly KPHO/KTVK. Ironic as well, since the stations collectively brand themselves as Arizona’s Family. “It ...

TV NEWS IS NOW BEHIND HIM

After 3 and a half years doing general assignment reporting for Cox-owned WFXT in Boston, Evan White has opted for a career change…and tv news isn’t part of it.           ...

SIGNING OFF TODAY

A change in her husband’s job status is taking meteorologist Abby Dyer away from Gray’s KYTV in Springfield, MO after 11 years. She explains his exciting new career prospect and her own exit from ...

A QUICK EXIT IN HOUSTON

If viewers need a little time to say goodbye to their tv news favorites, Dr. Jim Siebert of FOX-owned KRIV in Houston gave them little to no notice. “Today is my last day here ...

EXITING THE ANCHOR SLOT IN DFW

Just shy of 2 years into his second go-round of tv news in Houston, TX, Kris Gutierrez has left the building. Gutierrez has left the main anchor desk at Graham Media’s KPRC, a job ...

THE ZUCKER ERA ENDS….BADLY

It was a stunning end to Jeff Zucker’s 9-year run at CNN…and perhaps an end to his days as a high-profile media player. Zucker abruptly stepped down Wednesday morning, citing his failure to disclose ...

GONE IN HOUSTON?

It’s never a good sign when your bio disappears from your station’s website. Then again…. Stefania Okolie joined Disney’s KTRK back in 2018 as a reporter after having worked at stations in Phoenix, Norfolk, ...

2022 CLAIMS ITS FIRST ND

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 ...

SUDDENLY GONE IN BUFFALO

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 ...

POPULAR PHOENIX ANCHOR IS GONE

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 ...

WTAE STUNNER: GONE IN DA BURGH

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 ...

TIME TO TURN THE PAGE

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 ...

A QUIET DEPARTURE IN HOUSTON

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 ...

THAT DIDN’T LAST LONG….

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 ...

OUT THE DOOR IN ROCKFORD

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 ...

AN ABRUPT DEPARTURE IN RALEIGH-DURHAM

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 ...

WONDERING OUT LOUD

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 ...

LOUISIANA ND OUT AFTER 20 YEARS

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 ...

FIRED!! CBS BOUNCES LA, CHICAGO GMS

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 ...

TRADING IN REPORTING FOR DAD-HOOD

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 ...

FOUR YEARS AND….POOF!!!…GONE!

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 ...

AND STILL ANOTHER ABRUPT EXIT AT ABC NEWS

“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 ...

IT AIN’T THEIR JAM

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 ...

NASHVILLE TRAFFIC REPORTER PINK-SLIPPED

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 ...

SIX YEARS AND DONE

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 ...

BUH-BYE TRISH

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 ...

THAT DIDN’T LAST LONG

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 ...

MATTHEWS RESIGNS

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 ...

THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG

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 ...

HEADED FOR A NEW MEDIA VENTURE

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 ...

THE OTHER SHOE DROPS

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 ...

WHERE’D HE GO?

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 ...

OUT THE DOOR

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.

THE RAFER WEIGEL SAGA ENDS

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 ...

SO LONG UNCLE BARKY

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 ...

ON THE OTHER HAND….

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 ...

GONE IN THE CORN BELT

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 ...

WITHOUT A TRACE

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 ...

THE COST OUTWEIGHED THE BENEFIT

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 ...

CHICAGO SIGN-OFF

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 ...

WHAT SHE DID FOR LOVE

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 ...

OUT IN LA (LOWER ALABAMA)

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, ...

KICKED TO THE CURB IN DA BURGH

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 ...

ANOTHER VET EXITS THE BUSINESS

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 ...

AN UNCEREMONIOUS, BUT EXPECTED, DUMPING

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 ...

NEVER A GOOD SIGN

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 ...

A MESSY BREAK-UP

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 ...

OUT THE DOOR IN CHICAGO

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 ...

SHE’S SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT

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 ...

CALLING A CAREER TIME-OUT

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 ...

OUT IN THE WINDY CITY

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 ...

STARNES OUT AT FOX

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 ...

BECOMING AN UNPERSON

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 ...

SAYING GOODBYE

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. ...

GONE IN OKLAHOMA

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 ...

GONE

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 ...

GONE IN CHICAGO

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 ...