TAKING OVER THE SPORTS DIRECTOR CHAIR
After 22 years at WAFB, he’s hit the peak
Category: Good Guys Win
BIG DEAL RETIRED HOUSTON ANCHOR ICON IS NOW EVEN BIGGER
Dave Ward now has his own street
TEGNA NAMES A GM FOR ITS TEXAS TRIOPOLY
She is a former news director and producer with an extensive background
“FAMILY FIRST” FOR THIS METEOROLOGIST
Kudos to NBC, which understood his situation and responded.
VETERAN TV NEWSER ASSUMES CEO POST OF NONPROFIT NEWS ORGANIZATION
He's the first CEO in the group’s history
A HAT TIP TO A HOUSTON STALWART
Back in 1982, Melanie Lawson had a law degree and three years of experience at a Wall Street law firm. And it wasn’t enough. So, in a reversal of today’s trends, she switched her ...
CLEVELAND ANCHOR GETS STREET NAMED IN HIS HONOR
Yesterday we brought you the story of the effort to name an Atlanta street after late WSB anchor Jovita Moore. That honor has already been bestowed on longtime Cleveland anchor and commentator Leon Bibb. ...
FORMER TV NEWSERS PENNING BOOKS ABOUT THEIR LIFE AND TIMES
45 years is a hell of a long time to spend at anything – let alone a tv newsroom. That’s how much time Bruce Johnson spent reporting at WUSA in Washington DC. During that ...
SWITCHING STATIONS IN TEXAS
It’s closer to home.
COMING SOON TO SACRAMENTO
KCRA in Sacramento has hired Andrea Flores as the station’s new 10pm anchor. Flores is familiar with the area. She studied at the University of California, Davis. She graduated with a degree in communications ...
CBS BUMPS VETERAN DENVER ND UP TO GM
Tim Wieland has been news director at CBS-owned KCNC since 2004. Make that “was”. The award-winning journalist is now the vice-president and general manager of the station where he’s been almost continuously for the ...
A CHICAGO TV NEWS ICON IS NOW WITH CBS NEWS
For 27 years, she was a key member of the highly-acclaimed WGN news department, the last six of them (2014-2020) as news director. She helped in the planning and development of Nexstar’s NewsNation and ...
AFTER 41 YEARS, IT’S TIME TO STEP BACK…BUT NOT ALL THE WAY
For the past 17 years, Lou Baxter has run the day-to-day news operation of Nexstar’s WJET/WFXP in Erie, PA. That’s on top of the 24 years he had already put in as a reporter ...
GOOD CITIZEN AWARD
What are you doing with some of your spare time as you work from home? Cleaning out a closet or painting a room on the down time? WCPO (ABC) Meteorologist Jennifer Ketchmark used her ...
DON’T FORGET THE KIDS
WMUR‘s (ABC) Hayley LaPoint is offering up something a lot of parents won’t pass up: online weather presentations for kids stuck at home for a few more weeks. She took to social media earlier ...
REPORTER TACKLES ADDICTION
He has a voice many Coloradans have come to know on the radio. The cheerful voice giving the latest news Saturday and Sunday mornings on Colorado Public Radio (CPR) belongs to Vic Vela. He ...
INTERESTING POST
We all have those moments in our TV career that we remember. Maybe it was a new News Director addressing the staff saying, “Look to the left and right, those folks won’t be here ...
THOSE TRAFFIC BLUES
KDFW (FOX) Dallas had some visitors help with the Traffic report. The Blue Man Group stopped by the station to lend a hand. You can see the full report here. Looks like they have ...
BUT THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE….MAYBE
The preceding two stories show the lengths some stations are going in a desperate effort to hang on to existing viewers and try to build on that. On the other hand…. When Charter Communications ...
COLUMBUS STATION NAMES CHIEF MET
In the wake of the Mike Davis mess (see next story), Tegna’s WBNS in Columbus, OH is trying to move on with the naming of Ashlee Baracy as the station’s new chief meteorologist. The ...
