LITTLE ROCK MET RETIRING
He was recently in the news for another reason
Category: Heading For The Door
CINCY ANCHOR SAYS “FRIENDS. IT’S TIME”
Her tour of Central and Western Ohio is drawing to a close
ALBANY REPORTER LEAVING NEXSTAR STATION
Hints he’s staying in the business
“IT’S TIME FOR A NEW ADVENTURE”
She’ll be sticking around the Beltway area, she promises
BUH-BYE TO THE BIZ
He's joining a state agency
YET ANOTHER DEPARTURE FROM THE NEWS BUSINESS
And she is ready for whatever the “next adventure” might be
THE REVOLVING DOOR IN ATLANTA
WSB weekend anchor waves goodbye
“WHAT COMES NEXT” IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS….FOR NOW
Oklahoma City anchor announces he is gone
THE VETERANS KEEP MARCHING OUT
Detroit reporter headed for the local airport
HIS FORECAST? HE’S GONE.
Looking for something new…closer to home
WELL-TRAVELED NEWS EXEC HANGING IT UP
More than four decades in a gaggle of markets
NINE YEARS IN THE FORECAST CENTER AND HE’S DONE
Another exit from tv news
THE EXIT DOOR LOOMS FOR BOSTON ANCHOR
Her lengthy….and mature….social media post explains it all.
PHILLY FORECASTER’S FAREWELL
He expects to turn up in D.C. TV. He just can't say yet.
SHE’S LEAVING…AGAIN
Destination unknown…for now
BITTERSWEET. IT’S ALWAYS BITTERSWEET
L.A. anchor now marking the calendar to retirement
REVERED NBC NEWS CORRESPONDENT FETED AS HE RETIRES
He spent 32 years reporting for the Peacock from around the globe.
MORE EXPERIENCE OUT THE DOOR AT CNN
She’s leaving the network after 20 years
LEAVING THE ANCHOR DESK FOR WEDDED BLISS
Married in August, gone in January
CENTRAL FLORIDA IS LOSING ITS CONSUMER ADVOCATE
Heading for retirement after 38 years
ANOTHER NBC LOCAL “RETIREMENT”
The Peacock’s Buyout Express hits the Bay Area.
BUH-BYE TO BIG D TV
Consider her “wider net” cast
LESS THAN ONE…AND DONE
And not just the tv station…he’s leaving the business.
INDUSTRY VET READY TO HANG IT UP
This former ND turned to the recruiting end of the business
A ”MENTAL HEALTH BREAK” WASN’T ENOUGH
He's leaving the business a year after taking time off
CNN ANCHOR SETS HER DEPARTURE DATE
Unofficially, she is expected to jump to another cable network
FINDING ANOTHER CALLING
Greensboro met calling it quits
VETERAN NORTH CAROLINA MET STEPS DOWN THIS WEEK
Bill Reh put in four decades at the weather center.
A LOT OF EXPERIENCE WALKING OUT THE CNN DOORS THESE DAYS
Her contract is up and so is her time at the network
THAT DAY IS IMMINENT
Denver anchor closes out four decades on Friday
ONE’S COMING IN, ANOTHER IS TAKING THE EXIT
Twin cities morning co-anchor announces departure as another enters
ROANOKE ICONIC ANCHOR STEPPING DOWN
He figures 40 years is enough
ANOTHER TOP CNN EXEC IS TAKING THE EXIT
Programming boss Michael Bass was a Zucker confidante
MAINE TV NEWS ICON CALLING IT QUITS NEXT MONTH
Pat Callaghan has occupied an anchor chair for 43 years
TAKING HIS CLICKER TO ANOTHER STATION
TBA at the moment
WELL-KNOWN CONNECTICUT NAME EXITING TV NEWS
But it’s not the name you think
SHE’S GONE….BUT NOT JUST YET
There’s still the rest of the November sweeps period
CAREER GOALS MET, SHE’S DONE
“My life has basically been defined by pageant titles, job titles, or accomplishments since I was 15 years old. For now, the only title I care about is being mom”
VETERAN PITTSBURGH REPORTER KISSES OFF THE BUSINESS
Moving into flackery for a local district attorney
AND ANOTHER VETERAN EXITS FROM THE BUSINESS
She exits at the end of this week
HEADED FOR THE TWIN CITIES II
Leaving New Mexico just in time for Minnesota winter
SEATTLE NEWS EXEC CALLS IT A CAREER
Colleagues pay tribute
TEXAS MORNING ANCHOR EXITING BUSINESS AFTER 20 YEARS
New chapter, next adventure.
BUH-BYE FOR THIS REPORTER. NEW ADVENTURE PROMISED!
She’s leaving WTIC after a year and a half
EXITING THE BUSINESS
And yet another tv veteran is exiting the business to move into the nonprofit world. Brian Gotter, chief meteorologist for Scripps’s WTMJ in Milwaukee has hit the exit to join the MACC (Midwest Athletes ...
“THE SUNSHINE KID” HEADS OFF INTO THE SUNSET
Just six month shy of what would have been his 50th anniversary as a meteorologist for CBS-owned WJXZ in Baltimore, Bob Turk, aka “The Sunshine Kid,” announced his retirement from the station. http:// Thank ...
HIS NEXT CHAPTER INCLUDES MORE FAMILY TIME
Come the end of September, veteran Norfolk, VA anchor Don Roberts will WAVY (sorry!) goodbye to the anchor desk at the Nexstar station. After an earlier brief stint at the station in 1981-82, he ...
A NEW BABY, AND A NEW ADVENTURE
After her new baby was born in June, it seems that WKYC anchor Sara Shookman’s priorities MAY have shifted a bit. So she’s leaving the Tegna (s-t-b Standard Media) station in Cleveland after ten ...
THE ALBANY EXODUS CONTINUES
And we are now up to 22 departures from Albany, NY tv stations so far this year. Meteorologist Craig Gold still has three months to go at Sinclair’s WRGB, which means that when he ...
WALKING AWAY AFTER TWO DECADES
For KTLA weekend anchor Courtney Friel, family time evidently trumps a 20-year tv career. The former FOX Newser who’s been with LA FOX outlet since 2013, is leaving at the end of the month, ...
LEAVING THE BUSINESS AND THE COUNTRY
Colleagues are saying goodbye to WRC meteorologist Lauryn Ricketts as she packs up her desk and prepares to join her husband for two years aboard for his job. Prior to joining the Washington, DC ...
HEADED FOR PR
Nine years at NBC-owned WVIT in Hartford-New Haven, CT and a total of 15 years in the business are enough for reporter Jamie Ratliff. http:// The Texas native was at Nexstar-operated WXXA in Albany ...
LEAVING THE BUSINESS…FOR GOOD
After being a fixture on KPRC’s “Houston Life” for a number of years, Tex the Dog is leaving the business. Not in search of a new adventure. Tex is leaving the Graham Media station ...
NEXT STEP? HE’LL GET BACK TO US.
He’s got another job, still in the journalism field, but all Tampa political reporter/weekend anchor Evan Donovan will divulge right now is that he is leaving Nexstar’s WFLA after a five-year run. He has ...
LA ANCHOR OFF TO FIND A NEW ADVENTURE
Former CNN anchor Michaela Periera has been anchoring “Good Day LA” on FOX-owned KTTV in Los Angeles for close to two years. That ends September 9th. Periera has made the decision to step down ...
“IT IS SOMETHING THAT IS A DREAM OF MINE”
And that is all Indianapolis sports reporter Taylor Tannenbaum has to say about the job that is causing her to leave Tegna’s (someday Standard Media’s) WTHR after four years. “Yeah, so you know in ...
WELL OF COURSE, ‘TIS BITTERSWEET
Sinclair’s WGME in Portland has its eye out for a new evening news anchor with the announcement by Jennifer Long that today is her swan song doing the 5, 5:30, 6, 7, 10 & ...
ANOTHER ONE JOINS “THE GREAT RESIGNATION”
Thirty one years in tv news. 28 of them in the Erie, PA market, the last 11 at Nexstar’s WJET. And now, Jill McCormick is vacating the anchor chair. http:// She says she will ...
40 YEARS IN BROADCASTING IS COMING TO A CLOSE
For the past 11 years, Jerry Martin has presided over Graham Media’s KPRC in Houston, TX as vice-president and general manager. His tenure was the capstone of a career that, beginning in 1980, saw ...
IT ENDS ON LABOR DAY
48 years of toiling in tv newsrooms, beginning in Jacksonville, FL in his home state back in the early 1970s, more than 30 of them at WIBW in Topeka, KS comes to an end ...
LEAVING EARLIER THAN EXPECTED
We’re guessing that St. Louis anchor Randi Naughton figured there are only so many goodbyes you can make….and because she’s been saying goodbye since she announced it back in early May, she’s leaving Nexstar’s ...
AND ANOTHER ONE LEAVES THE BUSINESS
After five and a half years reporting for Fox-owned WNYW in New York (and a total of eight in the tv news grind) Kayla Mamelak is out the door and out of the business. ...
LEAVING HER HOMETOWN FOR A BIG OPPORTUNITY
If anyone might have been considered a lifer in a tv market, it would have had to be Amy Wadas, with CBS O&O KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA. Growing up in Pittsburgh, KDKA was the ...
AFTER 11 YEARS, SHE’S DONE
Amanda Dugan, the news and traffic reporter at Nexstar’s KXAN in Austin TX has decided it’s time for a change. Per her Facebook page: “This Friday will be my last on KXAN Today, Nonstop ...
LOOKIN’ FOR ADVENTURE AND WHATEVER COMES HIS WAY
(see what we did there?) After 16 years on the streets of Raleigh-Durham and environs for Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL, Bryan Mims is ready to hit the road, Jack (we’ll stop now). Mims is packing ...
BUT HE CANT SAY WHAT IT IS JUST YET
Come Monday, Kenton Gewecke signs off after 9 ½ years as chief meteorologist at KOMU in Columbia, MO for what he says is the “opportunity of a lifetime.” But it’s still a secret. http:// ...
“I JUST FELT THE TIME WAS RIGHT FOR ME TO MAKE THIS DECISION”
And so, after 16 years at Gray’s WHNS in Greenville, SC, nighttime anchor Cody Alcorn is headed for that proverbial “next adventure” down I-85 to Atlanta, GA. He maintains he’s got nothing lined up ...
A MAJOR DEPARTURE PENDING IN ATLANTA
Just a year after moving off the morning news program and into the early evening anchor chores…and six years after she joined the station, Shiba Russell is leaving WXIA (Tegna s/t/b Standard Media) in ...
MOVING AROUND TEXAS
After three years covering the Texas capital city for almost-Standard Media’s(!) KVUE in Austin, reporter Bryce Newberry is moving to Graham Media’s KPRC in Austin, TX. http://
AND THE EXODUS CONTINUES…
Less than a decade into her career in tv news and Leanne DeRosa is done this weekend. DeRosa spent the past five years at Sinclair’s WRGB in Albany, NY and three years prior to ...
VETERAN BAY AREA REPORTER HEADS FOR….WHAT ELSE?….PR
Public relations and real estate have become the new refuges for tv news types either tired of the business or tossed aside by it. The latest to flee to the world of PR is ...
“THIS IS THE END OF A CHAPTER AND THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER”
He spent more than three decades covering local, national and international news for Disney’s WPVI in Philadelphia. And now veteran reporter Dann Cuellar is ready to write the next chapter of his life. http://
AN ENTIRE LIFE IN THREE YEARS?
There was more than a little drama in the departure tweet of reporter Julie Martin, late of Gray’s KKTV in Colorado Springs, CO. Martin spent a year in Colorado Springs and before that was ...
AND ANOTHER ONE TURNS HER BACK ON TV NEWS AND LOOKS TO PR
“Maybe,” we thought, “we ought to just note the people who are STAYING in tv news.” NAAAAAH! So we bring you news that after just over two years at Disney’s KTRK in Houston, TX ...
ANOTHER ONE HEADED FOR THE EXIT
Brandi Hitt has been holding forth on the morning anchor desk at Disney’s KABC for the past six years. Before that, she was an ABC News correspondent The California native has spent her entire ...
SHE’S DONE AFTER 18 YEARS IN TV NEWS
Courtney Zieller, for the past 9 and a half years a reporter with Gray’s WFSB in Hartford-New Haven, CT, has decided its time to wrap it up. Zieller, an 18-year tv news veteran who ...
TWO YEARS IN RICHMOND IS ENOUGH
It’s “next adventure” time for Sophia Armata, meteorologist at Gray’s WWBT in Richmond, VA for the past two years. She’s going home, http://
BUH-BYE IN DENVER
A dozen years in the tv news trenches including time in Oklahoma City, Seattle and for the past 5 years and 10 months, Nexstar’s KDVR in Denver is sending Michael Konopasek fleeing into the ...
GOING…GOING….GONE IN CINCY
After four years as an anchor and health and wellness-focused reporter at Scripps’ flagship WCPO in Cincinnati, Kristyn Hartman is leaving the station….and tv news….to (join me on the chorus) “spend more time with ...
THE NEXT CHAPTER IS YET TO BE WRITTEN
Less than a month to go before Cynthia Fodor closes the tv news chapter of her life by signing off for the final time, June 1 at Hearst’s KCCI in Des Moines, IA. It’s ...
WALKING AWAY FROM HIS DREAM JOB
It’s on to his next adventure, hopefully one with saner hours as longtime Des Moines, IA anchor Dan Winters prepares to exit the anchor desk at Nexstar’s WHO at the end of the sweeps ...
“CBS EVENING NEWS” TO LOSE ITS INTERIM BOSS
There’s an opening at the top of the “CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell.” Al Ortiz, a 43-year veteran of CBS News and the program’s interim executive producer since last summer, is stepping down ...
THE DREAM TURNS TO DUST FOR FAR TOO MANY IN TV NEWS
After 4½ years of working at what she said was her dream job, anchor reporter Emily DeVito announced her departure this week from Hubbard’s WNYT in Albany, NY and tv news. http:// She’s going ...
EXITING THE BUSINESS AND STRIKING OUT ON HER OWN
After nearly a dozen years at the anchor desk for Nexstar’s WXIN, Fanchon Stinger, announced Wednesday that she will leave the Indianapolis station next month. “I’m retiring from broadcast news after nearly 30 years,” ...
45 YEARS AND OUT FOR CHICAGO TV VETERAN
Yesterday we reported to you the pending departure of Lauren Magiera from Nexstar’s WGN in Chicago -a departure not of her choice. Today it is the long talked-about and finally happening retirement of Dan ...
ABANDONING THE ANCHOR CHAIR TO BE A STAGE MOM
To be fair, the early morning hours probably got old at some point for Alyson Courtney, morning anchor for the past 14 years at Sinclair’s KATV in Little rock, AR. But we did find ...
“THE BEYONCE OF WEATHER” IS LEAVING HOUSTON
It seems like it was only yesterday that Star Harvey showed up as the “NO WAIT WEATHER+TRAFFIC” morning meteorologist and lifestyle show “Houston Happens” co-host at Nexstar’s KIAH in Houston. But it was a ...
SHE’LL BE LIVIN’ THE DREAM
Almost exactly two years after she was plucked off the main anchor desk to become general manager, Becky Hillier is putting Cowles KULR in Billings, MT and the TV news business behind her because ...
AND ANOTHER ONE LEAVES THE BUSINESS…
It’s 25 years and out at Nexstar’s WGN in Chicago for Andy Gavrilos, lately the supervising producer of weekend morning newscasts. He’s taking the exit to go to work for Cook County Treasurer Maria ...
WELL….THAT WAS QUICK….
A mere six months after showing up in the weather center at CBS-owned KTVT in Dallas, Blake Mathews is headed for the door and looking for his next adventure. He says it was planned ...
TWIN CITIES MAINSTAY IS TAKING THE EXIT
Morning anchor Dawn Stevens had an important….and rather startling….message for viewers of FOX-owned KMSP this week. http:// After 15 years on Twin Cities airwaves, she’s leaving tv news behind to pursue a new passion ...
17 YEARS WAS ENOUGH. NOW KONTJI ANTHONY PONDERS HER FUTURE
Memphis anchor Kontji Anthony has decided that change is in her future. So she’s leaving Gray’s WMC anchor desk when her contract ends next month to try and figure out what that future is. ...
BAY AREA REPORTER ANNOUNCES HER DEPARTURE
Melissa Colorado, a reporter at NBC-owned KNTV (and sister Telemundo station KSTS) in the Bay Area for the past four years, this week is wrapping up her tenure at the station(s). Next destination: TBA ...
HER NEXT ADVENTURE….TBA
Well, you’re just gonna have to sit on the edge of your chair until she’s ready to share, but after seven years, reporter Maggie Vespa has passed the baton on her signature “The Story” ...
ICONIC DETROIT ANCHORS TO EXIT TOGETHER NEXT MONTH
It’s bad enough when a newsroom loses one of its popular veteran anchors. It’s heartburn time when both members of the anchor team decide they’re leaving together. Such is the case with Huel Perkins ...
ICONIC TAMPA ANCHOR READY TO LEAVE AFTER 37 YEARS
Back in 1985, Kelly Ring walked into the WTVT newsroom to start her third job in the tv news business. She was a reporter who quickly earned a reputation around Tampa-St. Petersburg for her ...
‘I’VE BEEN A PART OF PEOPLE’S LIVES FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIVES’
Bruce Cunningham was hoping to put the sometimes nomadic life of a tv news person behind him when he joined a fledgling WBFF in Baltimore back in 1991. As the sports anchor, and now ...
ICONIC TAMPA ANCHOR READY TO LEAVE AFTER 37 YEARS
Back in 1985, Kelly Ring walked into the WTVT newsroom to start her third job in the tv news business. She was a reporter who quickly earned a reputation around Tampa-St. Petersburg for her ...