After a tenure that spanned the 1980’s until now, veteran Albany anchor Benita Zahn is kissing tv news goodbye and headed for another career. She’s leaving the chair at Hubbard’s WNYT at the end ...
A quarter of a century at the same television station is becoming as rare a smart politician these days. So kudos to Kurtis Gertz, a fixture at Hearst’s KCCI in Des Moines. He’ll deliver ...
For more than two decades, Dave Furst was the familiar face covering sports for Scripps WRTV in Indianapolis. He’s giving that up to become vice-president of communications (aka, Pee-Yar Guy) for IndyCar, the sports ...
Joseph W. Heston, a broadcast industry leader who has served since 1999 as president and general manager of KSBW-TV, Central Coast ABC (CCABC) and Estrella Costa Central–Hearst Television’s NBC, digital ABC and Estrella TV ...
After five years with WXYZ (ABC), reporter Ann Marie LaFlamme is leaving. LaFlamme announced her departure on Monday afternoon on Facebook and Twitter, saying she may not understand the station’s decision, but respects it. ...
After 21 years at WTAJ in Altoona, PA as a reporter, anchor, editor and mentor anchor and managing editor John Clay is changing careers. He wraps up his time at the Nexstar station tomorrow ...
After nine years at 10/11 News, most of them as evening anchor at KOLN(CBS), Bridget Fargen is saying goodbye. Bridget and her family are returning to their home state of Wisconsin, where she is ...
Bert Rudman is leaving KVAL/KMTR in Eugene, OR after the May book. Rudman tells Rick Gevers he’s had a good run here but is leaving ‘to enjoy some new opportunities that have come my ...
After 15 years, Justine Stewart, morning anchor at Scripps’ KPAX in Missoula, MT is signing off the station and the business. She’s moving to a job as a PR person with a local school ...
Gray’s WITN in Greenville, NC is looking for a new news director. Melissa Abrahamsen Cashwell has been the ND here since October, 2017, when she replaced the late Stephanie Shoop. Cashwell first joined WITN ...
It is one last book and out for Detroit street reporter Anu Prakash after 18 years with Scripps’ WXYZ. She came to the station in 2002 from Cincinnati. She indicates she’ll be going after ...
A contract stalemate means that longtime Albany morning meteorologist Jess Briganti is heading for the exit at WTEN next month. She’s been with the Nexstar station for the past two years after spending the ...
Today is the last day for veteran Richmond, VA reporter “Good Morning Richmond” co-anchor Morgan Dean at Nexstar’s WRIC. He’s been hitting the streets for the station since 1993 – four days after he ...
George Cheeks, a top executive at Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal, is headed to ViacomCBS Inc. in a senior role at CBS, where he could ultimately succeed Joe Ianniello as head of the network, reports The Wall Street ...
Friday is exit interview day for Abby Huntsman, one of the gaggle of co-hosts on ABC’s “The View.” Huntsman, who’s been with the program since September 2018, says she is leaving to work on ...
Cleveland reporter Paul Orlousky has made the rounds of the markets tv stations over the course of a career that started back when he was still in high school in Elmira, NY. We first ...
After more than 20 years on the South Dakota airwaves, KSFY morning host Shawn Cable is packing it in. Cable, a meteorologist, has been a mainstay with the Gray station for the past 11 ...
It was back in January of 2018 that one-time tv news wunderkind Joel Cheatwood showed up at Tegna as the group’s corporate vice president of content development. This after a past that included executive ...
The staff of the Scripps owned and operated stations (KRIS/KZTV/KAJA/KDF) in Corpus Christi learned Tuesday a new boss is in their future. President and GM Greg McAlister left the building just shy of seven ...
There is no surer sign that new owners are ready to take charge than seeing key people heading for the exit. And there is no better example that Cox Media-soon-to-be-Apollo’s WFTV in Orlando, FL ...
Cox-soon-to-be-Apollo’s WPXI here in Da Burgh is getting a new anchor. Ryan Houston, morning and noon anchor at Scripps’ flagship WCPO in Cincinnati, will leave the station Monday, take a couple of weeks off ...
Deborah Collura, a former news director and news manager turned General Manager will leave Tegna’s WCNC in Charlotte at the end of the year. “…I am ready for my next chapter in life. It’s ...
Val Thompson has resigned as news director for Lockwood Broadcast Group’s WCAV in Charlottesville, VA. He’s been the ND there since December, 2014, and first joined the station in 2012. Thompson has also worked ...
Gray’s KGMB/KHNL aka Hawaii News Now anchor Shawn Ching is abandoning the anchor desk to….spend more time with his family. We know, you’ve heard that one before, ad nauseam. But this time, it’s a ...
The search is on for a new news director at KTVE/KARD in Monroe, LA. KARD is owned by Nexstar, which operates Mission Broadcasting owned KTVE. Andy Pederson has decided not to renew his contract ...
18 months was the tenure of meteorologist Greg Pollak at Hubbard’s WNYT in Albany, NY after he crossed the street from Nexstar’s WTEN back in early 2018. He signs off November 29th and he’s ...
Jennifer Gilbert is retiring from Baltimore Sinclair flagship WBFF at the end of the November sweeps. Gilbert has been with the station since 1993 and recently got married in Florida to a local developer. ...
Jay Hildebrandt has been a staple on News-Press & Gazette’s KIFI in Idaho Falls, ID for the past 35 years. That career is coming to a close. Hildrebrandt is leaving at the end of ...
Dennis Carter has been the face of sports on Sinclair’s WSET in Lynchburg, VA for the past 37 years. At the end of the year, get ready for a new face. “I come to ...
The GM of Nexstar’s Indianapolis duopoly WXIN/WTTV in Indianapolis is the latest new Nexstar GM to leave. Jamie Aiken said it was his decision to “spend more time with family,” and came just 2 ...
Lontime Orlando Anchor Martie Salt announced Wednesday morning that she will retire from WFTV (ABC) on Dec. 13 after a combined 29 years at the station, completing a 40-year career in broadcast journalism. “Today, 40 ...
A fixture since 1989, Houston reporter turned tv executive Cynthia Cisneros of Disney’s KTRK is hanging it up. And rather quickly at that. Cisneros started out as a reporter when she joined KTRK back ...
You know the tv news business can be a little tough when a part-time job outside of it looks pretty damned good. Mitch McCoy, a reporter for Nexstar’s KARK in Little Rock, AR for ...
After eight years of delivering the morning weather forecast, KYW morning meteorologist Katie Fehlinger wants to reset her alarm. Fehlinger is leaving the CBS-owned Philadelphia station a week from tomorrow to….all together now….spend more ...
Longtime and long-respected Chicago court reporter Larry Yellen is bringing his quarter-century career at Fox-owned WFLD to a close. When September ends, so will Yellen’s run at the station. Yellen, who studied law and ...
Today, KWCH morning anchor Scott Evans is leaving the Gray-owned station in Wichita, KS after five years. Evans arrived in 2014 from Boise, ID. He plans to stay in the Wichita area and pursue ...
And another one bites the dust. It was just last Friday when we reported to you that veteran morning anchor Norma Holland was leaving Deerfield-owned, Sinclair-operated *winkwink* WHAM in Rochester, NY after 23 years. ...
And with that dramatic opening, longtime New York morning anchor Sukanya Krishnan opened her Friday Facebook post announcing that, for her, it’s time to leave Fox-owned WNYW. And, like Keysar Soza….she was gone. Krishnan ...
David Crabtree, anchor at Capitol Broadcasting‘s WRAL in Raleigh, NC WAS going to retire. But now he’s staying at least through 2021, to extend his 25-year tenure with the station. It’s a gift. “Having ...
For more than 30 years, Sally Severson has been delivering the wake-up weather to Milwaukee tv news viewers of Hearst’s WISN. Late in August, she’ll step away from the weekday mornings, but will continue ...
It’s lucky number 7 for WJW reporter Allison Brown. The Cleveland-area native joined the Tribune-soon-to-be-Nexstar-or-maybe-Fox station back in 2012, coming from Toledo. And now she’s headed for the door as she explains below. Indeed, ...
Cedar Rapids news viewers can mark March 6th, 2020 on their calendars. That’s the date that anchor Bruce Aune signs off for the last time at Gray’s KCRG in Cedar Rapid, IA, closing out ...
After a 41-year run in local television, Frank Colletta, anchor of the morning news at Sinclair’s WJAR in Providence, RI is hanging it up in two weeks. We can just say “Wow!” He made ...
Veteran Madison, WI sportscaster Jay Wilson is starting to mark off the days on his calendar. He’s leaving Morgan Murphy Media’s WISC this coming December 6th. Thus will come to an end 39 years ...
After 24 years, WNBC meteorologist Chris Cimino is turning in his weather computer remote and pursuing a dream. Cimino, who is a fill-in on “Today” as well as the local morning weather guesser, is ...
CNBC’s reality-focused prime time boss is headed for the door. Jim Ackerman, evp of prime time alternative programming, is leaving after seven years. He’s the guy responsible for shows like “The Profit,” “Jay Leno‘s ...
Soon-to-be-former Cincinnati anchor Rob Braun wants to clear up a few misconceptions regarding his pending departure at the end of the month from Sinclair’s WKRC. “I don’t feel I fit well with the Sinclair ...
After 7 years in Indianapolis television, Larra Overton is leaving her job as a sports anchor and reporter for Tribune–soon-to-be-Nexstar duopoly WXIN/WTTV to become a producer and sideline reporter for the Indianapolis Colts. She ...
Samuel Burke, one of CNN’s rare reporters who appeared across all of the network’s channels: CNN/US, CNN International, HLN, and CNN en Español, is leaving the network`. His Instagram post noted that “after almost ...
Back in February, the folks at Gray’s WMTV in Madison, WI went to all that expense for a big ol’ slab of processed sugar to celebrate weekend weather anchor Amy Carlson’s 30 years with ...
After more than 40 years at Scripps’ WRTV, reporter Derrik Thomas is leaving the Indianapolis TV station on June 28 after delivering his distinctive sign-off one last time. “It was time,” Thomas said. “The ...
Bill Shory is leaving Gray’ s WAVE in Louisville, KY after six years as ND. Destination: TBA We have the memos from both Bill and from GM Ken Selvaggi. Shory’s been the ND here for six years, ...
Disney flagship WABC is losing veteran anchor Diana Williams come September, short of a full 30 years with the station. She’s been doing the 5 pm newscast in recent years. Before arriving in New ...
It’s seven years and out at Tegna’s KVUE for sports multimedia journalist Shawn Clynch. And when he leaves the Austin, TX station, it looks like he’s leaving the tv business as well. Before Austin, ...
Another exit from the tv business as meteorologist Molly Matott announced her departure from Sinclair’s WSTM and the business altogether to “chase a new dream.” “I’ve been living out my dream giving out forecasts ...
Veteran ND MIKE RAUSCH is leaving News Press and Gazette’s KRDO in Colorado Springs, CO, but says he is NOT retiring. His note to the staff explains his next career move. Mike’s been ND here for ...
Joe Buscaglia, the sports director for Scripps’ WKBW in Buffalo, NY is out the door when his contract runs out in August. He’s been with the station for four years, coming over from WGR ...
He’s been a Boston tv news staple for 37 years and now it’s coming to an end. Mike Lynch is stepping down from his prominent, principal role and will step into a special correspondent ...
The clock is ticking for longtime KMSP (Fox) news anchor Jeff Passolt who is retiring. His last day on the air will be May 5. “Earlier this year I realized I’d never catch Mark ...
Morning news anchor Irene O’Connor announced bright and early on Monday that she is leaving the AM anchor desk at Meredith’s WFSB in Hartford, CT. Watch her announcement here. She’s been with the station ...
At the beginning of the book, announce you’re leaving at the end of the book. That is what is happening in Atlanta at Meredith’s revolving-door WGCL. Surprisingly, the departee is anchor Sharon Reed, who’s ...
From many accounts, the announced departure of Steve Mauldin as president and general manager of KCBS-KCAL Los Angeles as of May 31st is more blessing than curse. Mauldin, a 20-year man with the CBS ...
A 28-year Comcast/NBC veteran is calling it a day. Susan Tully is stepping down as vice-president and general manager at WVIT in Hartford, CT. When she walks out for the last time on May ...
40 years just seems like an impossible amount of time to spend in one place. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. It’s all too rare in this business and we applaud anyone who ...
Laurie Jennings is stepping away from the WPLG anchor desk after close to 20 years. But not before the news and promo departments of the Graham Media station in Miami get to exploit it ...
Julian Grace has signed off from Nexstar’s WISH in Indianapolis, IN after 8 years. Grace, who joined the station in 2011 after working at KMOV in St.Louis, was an anchor and reporter at WISH. ...
After a little more than 17 years, reporter-anchor Denise Zarrella mentioned on her Facebook page she’s leaving Gray’s Cleveland, OH duopoly WOIO-WUAB. She worked her last weekend anchoring assignments just over the past few ...
Alessandra Martinez and David McKay, reporters at, respectively, NBC-owned WVIT and Meredith’s WFSB happen to be married to each other, are heading west on a new marital adventure: job-hunting While David is from Connecticut, ...
Another 30+ tv news vet who’s had enough is Steve Krafft, the longtime reporter for Fox-owned KSAZ in Phoenix, AZ. “I’m not sure what my next move is,” Krafft said. “But I’m not trying ...
This is the last week on the air for New Orleans chief meteorologist Carl Arredondo. He’s leaving Tegna’s WWL after 28 years due to medical reasons. Arredondo is dealing with retinitis pigmentosa which is ...
NBC-owned KNSD is ordering up the cake and ice cream for its longtime sports director Jim Laslavic. After more than 3 decades at the station, Laslavic is calling it a career. Make that SECOND ...
After 8 years on the Bay, Julie Watts, longtime weather/consumer anchor at CBS O&O KPIX is headed out the door. She’ll be landing at sister station KOVR in Sacramento. Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman ...
Now that the Newseum has sold off its prime piece of Washington, DC real estate and prepares to close early next year, where might it land – it, indeed, it lands at all? The ...
A longtime Dayton, OH reporter is ready to find out what life is like after tv news and in an unplugged social media world. Rhonda Moore left Sinclair’s WKEF-WRGT at the end of last ...
KSBY anchor Scott Daniels is asking Twitter to help him find a new job that, maybe, doesn’t have such punishing hours. He’s leaving the Cordillera station in San Luis Obispo, CA station at the ...
Legends come and legends go. This one is going. Lisa Cooney has been a fixture at Hearst’s WLWT in the Queen City since before a lot of tv newsers were born. So in April, ...
For the past eight years, Courtney Collen has been a familiar face to viewers of Gray’s KSFY in Sioux Falls SD, the past four+ of them as 6 & 10 PM anchor. She signs ...
Fil Alvarado, a reporter at Fox-owned KDFW in Dallas-Ft. Worth has decided that 33 years is enough. Uncle Barkey reports that the 70-year-old Alvarado sent a memo to his colleagues, marking January 3rd as ...
The revolving door keeps spinning at Tegna’s KENS in San Antonio, TX. The latest to eye the exit is nighttime anchor Jeff Brady, who says he’s gone as of March 1 of next year. ...
Kathie Lee Gifford is leaving NBC’s “Today Show” in April 2019 after 11 years. It’s a year later than she planned. Matt Lauer saw to that when his off-screen, in-office escapades became too much ...
Pat Curry, planning manager at WGN in Chicago, is leaving the station after 21 years He’ll work through December and then….gone. He joined WGN as news assignment editor in 1997 after 13 years in ...
That’s one reaction, coming from WDAF chief meteorologist Mike Thompson (right), just one of a trio of familiar faces at the Kansas City station taking buyouts from the Tribune station, as the way is ...
Longtime WCVB reporter Jorge Quiroga announced last week that he will retire from the station where he has worked for more than four decades at the end of the year. Quiroga, a general assignment ...
Morning anchor Paul Robins has been a mainstay at Tribune’s KTXL in Sacramento, CA for the past ten years. That ends at the end of 2018. Robins announced on Facebook that he is leaving ...
A half-century spent in tv news wraps up at the end of the week in Green Bay at Sinclair’s WLUK. Anchor Tom Milbourn is retiring from the station where he’s held forth since 1994. ...
Hearst’s WVTM in Birmingham, AL is in the market for a vp/general manager. Hank Price is leaving the company after 18 years and WVTM after four in its lead chair. Price’s tv career stretches ...
The dusty trench coast is going back in the closet and Carl Monday is off to new adventures. Cleveland’s longtime tv investigative reporter is parting ways with Raycom’s WOIO sometime in the next couple ...
Dan Robbins, president and general manager of KIII, Tegna’s Corpus Christi, TX is emptying out his office and leaving the station at year’s end. He’s held the job for the past six years. Robbins ...
A pending change in ownership has led to the imminent departure of Rick Karle, for the past 30 years, a reliable icon at Raycom-soon-to-be-Gray’ WBRC in Birmingham, AL. Karle’s position of sports director is ...
14 years of reporting, and then doing the weather for Waterman Broadcasting’s WBBH-WZVN in Ft. Myers was enough for Chad Oliver. Come the end of the sweeps, he’s moving into the worl of public ...
Carlton Houston will be leaving his gig as Assistant News Director for Tegna’s WUSA at the end of the November book. Houston told Rick Gevers he’s looking for a great new challenge. He’s a former ...
Say goodbye to “Across America With Carol Costello”, “Michaela” (Pereira) and “Crime & Justice With Ashleigh Banfield.” All three programs were cancelled by HLN, the junior sibling of CNN and the three veteran hosts ...
We’ve learned EXCLUSIVELY that NRATV quietly had a layoff last week at its studios in Dallas, Texas. Most people are shocked to learn the NRA has it’s own broadcast quality operation, manned by talented ...
It’s two years and gone for anchor-reporter Bethany Crouch, who is out the door at CBS-owned KOVR in Sacramento. If you place any stock in social media posts, her Instagram announcement indicated her recent ...
There is still the round of goodbyes, retrospectives, tributes and mounds of archival footage, but at the end of November, WISN anchor Kathy Mykelby is retiring after 38 years. Her career began in 1976, ...
A little more than a year after overseeing the launch of “The Jam”, the AM news, talk and entertainment offering from Weigel Broadcasting’s WCIU, ep David Plummer is heading for the door. “We are ...
50 years at the same television station. Now that is a person who has earned the title “dean” of whatever the hell it was he/she has been/is doing at that station. In the case ...
Today, Keith Porter, chief photographer and operations manager at Nexstar’s WTNH in New Haven, CT puts away his gear for the last time at the end of today. After 34 years, he’s off for ...
