Friends, family, and co-workers present and past are saying goodbye this week to anchor Tom Britt, who is wrapping up 30 years at Bahakel’s WBBJ in Jackson, TN. Britt had 20 years of radio ...
Eyeing “new opportunites” and being a fulltime mom are the reasons given by chief meteorologist Elaina Rusk, who exited Scripps’ KERO in Bakersfield, CA. Her exit ended a 13-year run at the station where ...
Since 1984, reporter Patrick Healy has covered such major local stories as the Rodney King beating and the officers’ subsequent trial, the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the O.J. Simpson chase and aftermath, the Night ...
His career started back in 1974 when he landed an internship at KCRA in Sacramento, CA. Over the years, Jim Stimson worked his way through a variety of jobs – producing (both radio and ...
Last night, veteran Portland anchor Dan Kleckner signed off his final newscast at Cowles’ KHQ, ending a 21-year run alongside his co-anchor Stephanie Vigil. That first newscast was a memorable one. “Our first night, ...
28 years is a long time to be in one place and it is the rare person who can survive that period of time in one tv newsroom and come out of it with ...
As longtime Charleston, SC anchor Dean Stephens put it….”It is time to kick your feet up.” And he did just that this week, putting a cap on a 31-year broadcast career with Sinclair’s WCIV ...
After more than 30 years forecasting the weather for Knoxville, meteorologist Matt Hinkin is stepping away from his duties at Nexstar’s WATE. He’s been battling Parkinson’s Disease for the past three years, something’s he’s ...
After 20 years on the Cleveland airwaves spread over two television stations, meteorologist Beth McLeod is saying goodbye. McLeod, currently with Nexstar’s WJW, is not yet talking about her next act – or even ...
It all started way back in his native Windsor, Ontario when he was a cameraman on the local “Bozo the Clown” show. It ends in just a few days when Keith Radford steps down ...
Saying it’s time to move closer to his east coast-based family, veteran St. Louis reporter Roche Madden plans to sign off from Nexstar’s KTVI one last time on July 1. We like the “Now ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“…[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) ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
