SHE’S GRATEFUL FOR PAID TIME OFF
But she’s leaving earlier than expected.
Category: Graceful Exit
TIME TO KICK BACK
Henry Chu is retiring after 14 years as news director for this Gray’s WBKO in Bowling Green, KY. He’s also been an ND in Oklahoma City, Austin,TX, and Harlingen, TX and has worked in ...
A BIG SEND-OFF FOR A RICHMOND INSTITUTION
Gray’s WWBT in Richmond, VA bid a fond farewell to veteran meteorologist Jim Duncan, who delivered his final forecast mid-week Duncan was with the station for 40 years, an incredible run in any business ...
VETERAN HOUSTON REPORTER COUNTING DOWN TO RETIREMENT
A 44-year career of reporting tv news comes to a close nest Thursday when Graham Media’s KPRC legendary Phil Archer files his last story. He’s the longest-serving on Houston airwaves. He arrived at the ...
VETERAN PITTSBURGH REPORTER SIGNS OFF
Twenty years of covering news in the Tri-State area came to a close last week for veteran reporter Bob Allen of CBS-owned KDKA in Pittsburgh. That’s just half of the time his four-decade career ...
AND FINALLY…
You’ll likely see some changes on Newsblues in the coming weeks. I’m not at liberty to discuss the details as they will be released in due time. However, for the past two years, every ...
RETIRING IN GEORGIA
The countdown has begun for folks in Augusta Georgia as Chief Meteorologist George Myers has announced he is retiring after more than 3 decades with WJBF (ABC) George’s last day is March 27th. He ...
ON THE MOVE
WCBD (NBC) Meteorologist Arielle Whooley is on the move. She took to social media to announce a life change. The Tweet above didn’t say where she was going exactly. She’s been at WCBD since ...
OHIO J-SCHOOL CHANGE
A long time fixture at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism in Ohio is stepping down. Bob Stewart sent out the following letter last week. There will be a lot of folks sad to ...
38 YEARS IN HARNESS TO END
Close to four decades with one company is a rare achievement these days so kudos to Chuck Poduska. For the past two and a half years, he’s been the GM at Meredith Corporation’s Kansas ...
SAN FRANCISCO BOUND
CBS 17’s weekday morning weatherman is leaving WNCN for the chief meteorologist spot at KPIX 5, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco. Paul Heggen, who came to the Raleigh station in November 2017, made ...
LEAVING TAMPA TV
After years of struggling with vocal cord issues, morning anchor Gayle Guyardo said she is leaving WFLA (NBC). Her last day will be Feb. 28. “After 33 years in the television news industry, my ...
DONE AFTER A HALF CENTURY
After a half century in the news business, 40 of them on Cleveland television, WOIO reporter Paul Orlousky put away the mic flag last week for the final time. We competed against Orlo in ...
A GOOD RUN ENDS
Our friends at “The Laurel” pay tribute to longtime WTNH shooter RJ Tattersall. After 30 years, he’s calling it a career. The longtime familiar face out in the Connecticut news locations is going to ...
PHOENIX SPORTS CHANGES
The Phoenix market is losing a second longtime television sports anchor in 2020. KPNX (NBC) Bruce Cooper already has announced that he will retire in August after the Summer Olympics, but it turns out ...
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 called working there “a great honor.” Gordon joined the FOX ...
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 at News 12 Long Island. She signed off for the ...
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 was hired at the Greenville, SC station. Brown began his ...
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 in Tampa at WFTS. She returned to Central Florida in ...
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 she left a message on Instagram to her fans: “What ...
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 female journalists and the first in the Syracuse market when ...
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. He takes over today. The person he is succeeding, Jenny ...
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 was signoff night. But instead of the usual teary eyes ...
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 2008. It’s a planned retirement, a rarity these days among ...
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 battling some ongoing health issues , including a baseball-size benign ...
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 close last week as he signed off for the last ...
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 the last time tonight. Back in 1982, when he joined ...
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 more than 45 years in television altogether. Teller joined what ...
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 about 12,000 stories in those 40 years. Thomas grew up ...
“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, the viewers of News 3,” Hunsperger said in an on-air ...
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, for 36 years. “I know she’s put in a lot ...
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 been the station’s chief met since 1999 His final Friday ...
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 Whitney tell them the traffic or the weather since 1976 ...
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 he wants to be free to “marry and have a ...
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 adventure. Late Saturday night, after many hours of bar-hopping, we ...
“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 director Carrie Hoffman. She’s gone from the Scripps Kansas City, ...
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 “Good Evening, Friends: A Broadcaster Shares His Life” begins with ...
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 years. 5-0 And to think he did it all in ...
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 last official day. He has almost 50 years total in ...
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 tv newsrooms in the course of her 45 year career. ...
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 and stage credits, has died. She was 70. Engel died ...
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 email with details. Before Charlotte, he worked in San Francisco, ...
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 means the station has TWO, count ‘em TWO ratings books ...
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 am so grateful to all of the loyal viewers who ...
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 as SVP of Revenue. Dave has had a long and ...
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 and women of the Murfreesboro Police Department who put their ...
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 hours of original content it acquired from Turner Broadcasting. Among ...
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 magazine cover piece of the city’s leading lights (male division) ...
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 to become communications director for the Lauderdale County (MS.) School ...
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 the job at will be January 25. “Tom has witnessed ...
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 illness. She was 80. KRON (MyNetworkTV) hired Chase away from ...
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. His retirement came Friday, on his 40th anniversary date. “It’s ...
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, he put a bow on his career – at the ...