RETIRED
WTXF (FOX) reporter Bruce Gordon has retired after 23 years at the station. During a segment last week on the station morning show, he ...
Category: Graceful Exit
A LONG ISLAND ICON SIGNS OFF FOR THE LAST TIME
It’s been nearly 50 years since Carol Silva began her tv news journey. Just under 33 of those years was spent as an anchor ...
CALLING IT A CAREER
WYFF Assistant News Director Lee Brown has announced he will retire from the Hearst station in January, 44 years to the day after he ...
MARTI SALT COUNTS DOWN THE DAYS
Marti Salt had two tours of duty at Cox-soon-to-be-Apollo’s WFTV. The first ran from 1981 to 1994, when she left for an anchor job ...
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
Former KPRC (NBC) morning traffic anchor Jennifer Reyna who left the Houston Texas station last week is breaking her silence. Blogger Mike McGuff reports ...
47 YEARS OF WORK HONORED
“Weekend Today” anchor Laura Hand signed off for the final time at Sinclair’s WSTM over the weekend. She was one of the nation’s first ...
ABILENE NEWS VET STEPS AWAY
We reported last week that Zoltan Csanyi-Salcedo was returning to the Rio Grande Valley as the ND for Manship owned KRGV in Weslaco, TX. ...
THE LONG FAREWELL IS OVER
Back in May, Diana Williams announced she was nearing the end of the road of her 29-year tenure at Disney flagship WABC. Last night ...
A NEWS VET PLANS A GRACEUL EXIT
Longtime news executive Noel Sederstrom is retiring as news director for Quincy Media duopoly KTTC-KXLT in Rochester, MN. He’s led the newsroom since February ...
SAN ANTONIO ANCHOR DEPARTS
A San Antonio TV news anchor who’s been battling health issues is stepping down. Jessica Headley has left KABB (FOX). ” I have been ...
SIGNING OFF IN SPARTANBURG
Since 1993, anchor Tom Crabtree delivered the news to viewers of Nexstar’s WSPA in Spartanburg, NC. A career spanning five decades drew to a ...
37 YEARS AND OUT FOR PITTSBURGH TV VET
After 37 years and somewhere in the neighborhood of 11,000 stories, veteran KDKA reporter Ralph Iannotti signs off after one last assignment and for ...
SIGNING OFF IN WICHITA
Yesterday marked the last day on air for KWCH meteorologist Merril Teller. He is retiring after 38 years at the Wichita, KS station, and ...
40 YEARS HAS FLOWN BY
WRTV (ABC) reporter Derrik Thomas signs off today after 40 years on air. He celebrated his 40th anniversary in April. Thomas calculates he’s done ...
“SEE YOU LATER”
Morning anchor Kevin Hunsperger celebrated his final day at Quincy Media’s WSIL in Harrisburg, Ill. last week. Complete with cake, even “Finally, thank you, ...
ST. JOE VET HANGING IT UP
Heather Shearin is retiring after 20 years as GM of KQTV in St. Joseph, MO. She’s worked for this ABC affiliate, now owned by Heartland Media, ...
GANDY’S GOODBYE
45 years in broadcasting drew to a close Friday night as Tegna’s WLTX in Columbia, SC waved goodbye to chief meteorologist Jim Gandy. He’d ...
SAN DIEGO VET RETIRES
KNSB (NBC) Newsman Whitney Southwick has retired, 43 years after he got his first paying gig in broadcast television. Folks in San Diego have been watching ...
FOX CATHOLIC CONTRIBUTOR LEAVING PRIESTHOOD
You’ve probably seen Catholic Priest Father Jonathan Morris as a contributor to Fox News. He’s asked to be dismissed from the clerical state, indicating ...
KROFT SIGNS OFF
Back in 1980, my wife and I along with another couple were taking a long weekend from our jobs in Miami for a Manhattan ...
“I AM READY FOR A NEW CHALLENGE AND A NEW ADVENTURE”
The end of the May sweeps will be especially sweet for one news director. The outcome of the book doesn’t matter to KSHB news ...
HOUSTON ANCHOR BOOK
If you have paid attention to the Houston Texas market, say since 1964, then you’ve heard the name Dave Ward. Dave Ward’s new book ...
PASSING THE HALF-CENTURY MARK
Just one more book to go (of course) and Mobile, AL anchor mainstay Mel Showers will be hanging it up at WKRG after 50 ...
GOODBYE AFTER 36 YEARS
We mentioned awhile back that KDFW (FOX) reporter RICHARD RAY was hanging up his spurs and riding off into the sunset. Wednesday was his ...
A NEWSROOM “HEART AND SOUL” YOU NEVER KNEW
Buffalo media watcher Alan Permagent recently spent some time with a former Buffalo tv news vet who made the circuit of all three city ...
SHE PLAYED ONE ON TV
Well, kinda. Georgia Engel, who played the charmingly innocent, small-voiced Georgette on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and amassed a string of other TV ...
HANGING IT UP IN CHARLOTTE
After 18 years as news director for Gray’s WBTV in Charlotte, NC, Dennis Milligan will retire after the May rating period. GM Scott Dempsey sent this ...
WICHITA FORECASTER PREPARES HIS EXIT
38 years of calling the weather is enough for Wichita’s most senior meteorologist, Merril Teller of Gray’s KWCH. Come July 26th, he’s gone. Which ...
NM ANCHOR CALLS IT QUITS
KOAT (ABC) News anchor Marisa Maez has announced she is leaving the station in Albuquerque NM to spend more time with her family. “I ...
LIFE AFTER NEWS
Retirement for some only means opening another door. Take for example Dave Gwizdowski who “retired” last month after 20 years with the AP, working ...
NEWS REPORTER NOW PIO
Nashville TV News reporter Larry Flowers is Murfreesboro’s new police public information officer, city leaders have announced. “I look forward to telling positive stories about the men ...
SCRIPPS REVS UP COURT TV RE-LAUNCH
As we reported yesterday, the E.W. Scripps-owned broadcast company Katz Networks is re-launching Court TV in 2019, including the brand’s trademark, website and 100,000 ...
CELEBRATING A HOUSTON ICON
“…[T]he inspiring stories of diverse men who share their journey through life…” is how the story begins. And the top story in a Houston ...
VACATING THE ANCHOR CHAIR
After near 20 years of waking up viewers in Meridian, MS at Gray’s WTOK, Andrea Williams signed off last week. She’s leaving the business ...
VETERAN CHICAGO PRODUCER RETIRING
Veteran WLS producer Tom Robison is retiring in a week and a half, capping 38 years at the Disney station. His last day on ...
RIP SYLVIA CHASE
Sylvia Chase, an award-winning television journalist who spent five years as a Bay Area news anchor, died Thursday in Marin County after a short ...
CAPPING A LONG CAREER
The 40-year-long broadcast career of Bruce Carter, 26 of them as news director of Cordillera’s WLEX in Lexington, KY, has come to a close. ...
BUSIEK….A SALUTE
It was nearly 40 years ago that Dave Busiek walked into the newsroom at KCCI in Des Moines, IA as a newly-hired reporter. Yesterday, ...