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 ...
And with those words on her Facebook page, Debra Alfarone announced she is leaving Tegna’s WUSA weekend anchor slot. Alfarone spent the past six years at the District of Columbia station. If that posting ...
He’s sticking around for about two more months, but Indianapolis sports columnist Bob Kravitz is eyeing the door at Dispatch Broadcasting’s WTHR. Kravitz, who came to the tv newsroom in 2014 after a 14-year-long ...
Michael Raffaele is leaving Heartland Media’s WTVA in Tupelo, MS after almost two years as ND. Michael says he has a new job which will be announced soon. He’s also worked in West Palm Beach, ...
Fred Campagna, for the past three years the senior meteorologist at Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford-New Haven, CT is headed for the door. He posted his message on Facebook Monday, citing (very graciously, mind you) ...
Legendary Sportscaster Bob Costas is close to cutting ties with NBC. The New York Post reports Costas is under contract until at least 2021 but may end the deal three years early. 66-year-old Costas ...
Houston blogger Mike McGuff reports that today is the last day for Sherry Williams at Tegna’s KHOU. After 9 years, the anchor-reporter is headed for parts unknown. Her call, mind you. “Channel 11 is ...
Our friends over at Page Six are reporting: “Embattled NBC News Chairman Andy Lack is facing the boot from the once-prestigious news division due his mishandling of a series of #MeToo scandals and the Megyn Kelly ...
Abbott and Costello, Brangelina. Bob Costas and NBC. All natural couplings. All headed for breakups. Eventually it’s what happens. It is looking like, after 40 years, Bob Costas and NBC may be calling it ...
Another Fox News veteran – a real, live journalist and not a circus performer – is leaving the cable newser. Senior correspondent Adam Housley is leaving at the end of the month for the ...
Jon Alba, soon-to-be former sportscaster for Bangor, ME duopoly WVII-WFVX is leaving for a job in a bigger market. He just can’t tell you where. But the new job starts in mid-September and he ...
Spencer Koch spent 1/3rd of his life as general manager of Tribune’s KTVI/KPLR in St. Louis, MO. Those 23 years, and a total of 48 years in the tv business draw to a close ...
That’s what a veteran KGO staffer told Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman about rumors of morning anchor Natasha Zouves leaving the Bay Area and headed back to Southern California, possibly to San Diego, where ...
For the past five years, Joe Leadingham has been doing sports anchoring and reporting for Nexstar’s WKRN in Nashville. And he’s leaving it behind to become a medical device salesman. “But wait,” as they ...
Weekend meteorologist Ray Petelin is headed for the door at Hearst’s WTAE in Pittsburgh. His contract was not renewed. “I’m on the schedule, right now, until mid-September,” said Petelin. “I don’t have immediate plans ...
For more than 30 years, Jose Barbosa held forth as one of Chicago’s foremost Hispanic-language broadcast journalists. That comes to an end on Friday, when he steps down from his 5 and 10 pm ...
Meisha Johnson’s next act will involve, in her words, “ministry, advocacy, and philanthropy within the media space,” and will evidently keep her in Philadelphia. She’s leaving CBS O&O KYW after three-plus years as the ...
Veteran CNN journalist Isha Sesay, who worked as the newsreader on “Anderson Cooper 360,” hosted a show on HLN, and most recently served as the co-anchor of “CNN Newsroom: Los Angeles,” is out the ...
Now that it’s safe to take a job at a Tribune station with the onus of a Sinclair takeover removed, Little Rock reporter Charmaine Nero is taking an MMJ job at Sacramento’s KTXL – ...
Tegna’s WHAS in Louisville, KY is losing a familiar face. Morning anchor Renee Murphy announced this week that as of Friday she is out of the anchor chair, out of the station and out ...
Jocelyn Dorsey, the first African-American to regularly anchor an Atlanta newscast, is retiring after 45 years with Cox-owned WSB. Dorsey joined the station when she was just 23, after an eight-month stint at a ...
Ned Perme, who’s been forecasting weather for Sinclair’s KATV for the past 34 years in Little Rock, AR says it’s time to move on. Perme began his broadcast career in 1977 in Mobile, AL ...
Jeff Berardelli figures that as a meteorologist, he ought to know more about one of the more pressing science issues of the day. So Berardelli is taking a break from his job at Sinclair’s ...
Bloomberg Markets anchor Julia Chatterley is leaving the company to host a new program on CNN International beginning this fall. Chatterley hosted the daily “Bloomberg Markets” and “What’d You Miss?” shows. Chatterly began her ...
Uncle Barky reports from DFW that KXAS weekend evening anchor/reporter Cory Smith will be leaving the Fort Worth-based NBC O&O when his contract expires at the end of this year. And his replacement is ...
Another familiar face to Houston tv viewers will be disappearing and heading west. After 17 years, Rachel McNeill will be leaving her morning co-anchor slot at Graham Media’s KPRC and heading west to Arizona, ...
