WELL-KNOWN CONNECTICUT NAME EXITING TV NEWS
But it’s not the name you think
Category: Heading For The Door
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 ...
SEE WHAT HE DID THERE?
On 2/22/2022 at 2:22 PM, Jim Toellner, general manager of Tegna’s WGRZ (Channel 2!!) sent out a memo to staff to tell them that he is retiring from the station in…wait for it…..2 months. ...
AND ANOTHER ONE TAKES THE EXIT
We swear that some days, we could create a newsletter that consists of nothing but veteran TV newsers who are done with it and exiting for what they hope will be greener pastures – ...
NOT COMING BACK
After just under four years of anchoring and reporter at Hubbard’s WNYT in Albany, NY, Jacquie Slater is saying goodbye to tv news http:// She amplified her thoughts in another social media post: Having ...
DC FORECASTER WILL STEP DOWN COME SPRING
District of Columbia viewers can reminisce along with WTTG’s veteran chief meteorologist Sue Palka for another couple of months. Palka plans to exit the FOX-owned station March 23rd after one final forecast and after ...
LEAVING THE ANCHOR DESK IN BOISE
It’s one more sweeps period (and most likely a month of tears, remembrances and commemorations) for KBOI anchor Natalie Hurst. She’s leaving the Sinclair station after 16 years….a total of 30 years in journalism. ...
LONGTIME SATX SPORTS ANCHOR HAS NEXT GIG LINED UP
Joe Reinagel has been a fixture on San Antonio tv screens for a quarter of a century. That is about to end. Reinagel says he is giving up his gig at Tegna’s KENS. “It ...
THE NEXT ADVENTURE BECKONS…BUT WHAT IS IT?
It’s 22 years and done for meteorologist Craig Setzer as CBS-owned WFOR in Miami, FL. But he doesn’t get away without a farewell. And that “next adventure” is still under wraps….
DETROIT REPORTER DEPARTING FOR NEXT CHAPTER
Four year ago, a polar vortex was Larry Spruill’s introduction to Detroit when he arrived at Graham Media’s WDIV from WJAX in Jacksonville, FL. Today (Friday), the reporter files his last story for the ...
LEAVING NEWS FOR COIN COLLECTIONS
There’s still storytelling skills needed …
AND ANOTHER ONE SEEKING THAT “NEXT ADVENTURE”
Also signing off at KNXV is anchor/reporter Danielle Lerner after just under 7 ½ years. She’ll stick around for the February sweeps after her maternity leave but then….PFFFT! http://
THE OLD “MORE TIME WITH THE FAMILY” DODGE
Twenty years of tv news experience is walking out the door at Tegna’s KTVB in Boise, ID, as anchor Kim Fields exits. “After spending 22 years of my life in a newsroom, 12 of ...
LARGER TEGNA TAPS REPORTER FROM SMALLER TEXAS MARKET STATION
That state has a huge talent pool for the network.
BUFFALO REPORTER PLANS DEPARTURE
George Richert’s two tours at Buffalo’s WIVB totaled almost 20 years. With the exception of a two-year hiatus when he worked for the Buffalo Roman Catholic Diocese, he’s been a fixture at the station. ...
VETERAN DETROIT SPORTSCASTER STEPS AWAY THIS WEEKEND
It began in Lansing Michigan back in 1977 and ended up in Detroit…. And Steve Garagiola’s run in the tv news business ends this weekend, 27 years after he joined Graham Media’s WDIV. http:// ...
ANOTHER EXIT AT WTAE
Veteran reporter Katelyn Sykes is headed for the door at Hearst’s WTAE in Pittsburgh after more than six years. And the Western Pennsylvania native is leaving with some degree of uncertainty http:// We are ...
“I’M TELLING KEN!” THAT AMARO IS LEAVING
WJXX/WTLV consumer reporter Ken Amaro has spent most of his 40+ years at the station signing off “Don’t get mad, just say ‘I’m telling Ken!’.” Those days are drawing to a close as Amaro ...
IT SEEMS TO BE A YEAR OF DEPARTURES
Across the country, decades of tv newsroom experience will be walking out the door by the end of the year. The latest to announce her departure is longtime Maine anchor Cindy Williams, who is ...
VETERAN PHILLY ANCHOR SETS RETIREMENT DATE, DIALS BACK WORK LOAD
Jim Gardner has been holding down the main anchor slot at Disney’s WPVI in Philadelpia, PA longer than a lot of today’s tv newsers have been alive. That comes to an end in 2022 ...
HER FUTURE IS UP IN THE AIR
After two years as sports director for Nexstar’s KVEO in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, Amanda Atwell is signing off later this month. She says she’s moving closer to family and still trying to figure ...
ATLANTA ANCHOR PLANS HER EXIT
Carol Sbarge joined WSB in Atlanta back in 1992, after working in tv newsrooms in Raleigh, NC, and Portland, ME. And now, she plans to leave the noon anchor desk later this month. http:// ...
PINK SLIPS AT TELEMUNDO
Last February, the suits at Telemundo rebranded and launched the Hispanic network’s morning show as “Hoy Dia.” This week, pink slips were handed to six members of its network morning show production team. Those ...
ANOTHER HOUSTON DEPARTURE
It’s three years and out for reporter T.J. Parker at Disney’s KTRK in Houston, TX He came to the station in 2018 from Scripps’ WCPO in Cincinnati. He also worked at stations in Evansville, ...
ANOTHER MEREDITH EXEC HITS THE EXIT
Yesterday we told you that Todd Brown was hired as the new VP/GM for Cox Media Group’s WFXT in Boston, ending his 20-year-long tenure, most recently as senior vice-president and chief revenue officer, with ...
VETERAN BAY AREA ANCHOR CALLING IT A CAREER
31 years is enough for KPIX anchor and reporter Ken Bastida. He announced he is leaving the San Francisco CBS O&O at the end of the month. “I started Aug. 1, 1990,” he said ...
RASCON THE ELDER HANGING IT UP IN HOUSTON
Longtime Houston tv fixture Art Rascon has announced that after 26 years, he is done with tv news. He plans to exit the anchor desk at Disney’s KTRK at the end of the year ...
ON TO THE INEVITABLE “NEXT ADVENTURE”
Houston, say goodbye to Marla Carter. A reporter for the past six years at Disney’s KTRK, she signs off Friday. “I’m so excited about my new adventure!!” Carter came to the station from KJRH ...
“AFTER 45 YEARS, IT’S TIME.”
And with those words, written on Jefferson-Pilot stationery, reporter Steve Ohnesorge let his bosses at Gray’s WBTV in Charlotte, NC know he was leaving. Not retiring, mind you….just….leaving. (FYI, Jefferson Pilot owned WBTV from ...
BUH-BYE TO NEWS AFTER 30 YEARS
After 30 years in tv news, the last three of them as morning anchor on Gray’s WEEK in Peoria, IL, Semone Doughton figured it was time for a change. So she is shutting off ...
CALLING IT A CAREER IN GEORGIA
After 37 years in the trenches at Gray’s WCTV in Thomasville, GA, anchor Art Myers has set his retirement date – December 17of this year. His first goal is to learn to sleep in ...
BRESLOW MAKES IT OFFICIAL IN NASHVILLE….BUH-BYE
Rumors have been swirling for months, particularly since he removed the “WKRN” from his social media handle just days after he became a real estate agent. Now Nashville anchor/reporter Josh Breslow is making his ...
22 YEARS IS ENOUGH
After more than two decades in the anchor chair, Juan Conde is poised to exit Nexstar’s WRIC in Richmond. “Juan is the consummate news professional, and it has been my good pleasure to work ...
TODAY’S “NEXT BIG ADVENTURE” COMES FROM BUFFALO
After seven years in the weather center at Nexstar’s WIVB in Buffalo, meteorologist Andrew Baglini is moving on. “I don’t know what is next for me, but I look forward to finding out, and ...
A WELL-EARNED RETIREMENT
Congratulations to longtime news director Sue Stephens who has announced her retirement. She’s been the news director for Hearst’s WVTM in Birmingham for the past six years and ran the news department at Hearst’s ...
ANCHOR LEAVES BECAUSE NEW DEAL WON’T HELP HER CAREER ADVANCE
We’re guessing it was missing a digital component.
ANOTHER VET HAS HAD IT WITH TV NEWS
After 17 years at family-owned WBBH in Ft. Myers, FL, 15 of them as morning anchor at the station, Clay Myers is heading for the door and away from television. “I have truly been ...
