CATCHING UP IN HARTFORD
The revolving door is swinging way too fast
Category: ICYMI
SOMETIMES A PROMOTION ISN’T ALL ITS CRACKED UP TO BE
A long tenure as #2 led to a short run as ND
36 YEARS AND STILL GOING STRONG
She’s a Connecticut mainstay
“IT’S TIME TO RECHARGE MY BATTERIES AND MOVE ON.”
Popular El Paso forecaster signs off before New Year
A RECENT ARRIVAL SETTLES IN
News vet makes a cross-country switch
THEY RODE OFF INTO THE SUNSET WHILE YOU WERE ENJOYING THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND…
Or were working the holiday and Black Friday beat….
FORMER HONOLULU TV ANCHOR NOW A STATE SENATOR
Defeats incumbent Democrat to win seat
FROM LOCAL NEWS TO PORN?
It's a unexpected career move.
CNN ADDS A CORRESPONDENT
CNN’s latest hire is not one of its more high-profile additions to the staff. Marc Stewart is becoming the cable network’s Asian correspondent, coming from a position as the AM host of “The Wall ...
MOVING UP IN ROCKFORD
Derek Bayne spent more than ten years covering sports as sports director of Allen Media’s WREX in Rockford, IL Starting in August, he’ll slide over into the news co-anchor chair as he takes on ...
FOX NEBRASKA HAS A NEW GENERAL MANAGER
It’s a promotion.
TAMPA ANCHOR PENS A MYSTERY
Need a beach read this summer? If you can hold off until August, Linda Hurtado, WTVT (FOX Tampa, FL) midday anchor by day and crime novelist by night, has something you might find diverting. ...
SHE SLIPPED INTO TOWN UNNOTICED
Yeah it happens. To all of us. You think you’ve got everything nailed down and nothing gets by you and then… Our friends at The Laurel in Connecticut suddenly became aware there was a ...
OH YEAH, THAT LEFT A MARK.
Colorado Rockies tv reporter Kelsey Wingert is on the mend after getting clocked by a 95 mph foul ball. The heart-stopping incident occurred during a game between the Rockies and the San Francisco Giants ...
CATCHING UP
The alarms got changed on Karla Castillo as of April 18th, when she moved to the morning anchor desk at Gray’s KBTX in Bryan, TX. She had been anchoring the evening newscasts at the ...
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO….???
Buffalo media reporter Alan Pergament offered an update on Heather Waldman, the popular Buffalo meteorologist who left Tegna-soon-to-be-Standard Media’s WGRZ last summer. After the move with her husband, she quickly landed a freelance gig. ...
MEANWHILE, A DEPARTING CBS NEWS STAFFER TAKES SHOTS AT THE BOSS
Chris Rock wasn’t the only guy getting slapped over the past week. Well, Rock actually got clocked by former nice guy Will Smith. Departing CBS News London Bureau chief Andy Clarke (left) took more ...
3 CHARGED IN MURDER OF BAY AREA NEWS CREW SECURITY GUARD
Three people have been charged in connection with the November 2021 shooting death of Kevin Nishita, a retired police officer who was working as a security guard for a KRON news crew in Oakland, ...
NEW WEEKEND ANCHOR JOINS WISN
WISN has hired Kristin Pierce as the station’s new weekend anchor. She will work alongside Dani Aswad on 5, 6 and 10 p.m. Saturday’s and Sundays on 5:30 and 10. “Kristin has a wealth ...
FORMER SAN ANTONIO INVESTIGATOR TURNS UP AT KIRO SEATTLE
He spent a long time in San Antonio.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT…
CNN had a big weekend of announcements,
CONSPIRACY-THEORIZING WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT GOES QUIET
It’s been several days since Newsmax White House Correspondent Emerald Robinson tweeted out this little picture postcard. Twitter removed the bonkers tweet replacing it with a note stating the tweet violated the social platform’s ...
NEW ADDITIONS AT WGN (LOCAL)
Veteran Chicago sportscaster Chris Boden has joined the sports lineup at Nexstar’s WGN (the local version for those of you still struggling with the whole NewsNation rebranding of the Television Station Formerly Known as ...
DOMINION HAS HAD IT WITH THE LIES
They’re suing.
TEARS ON-AIR TURN INTO A LESSON FOR REPORTERS
“Just had to let out the emotions I feel I was bottling up to try and get my job done.“
WORTH THE TIME
We ran across an article in “The Washington Post” about the beginnings of cable noise wanna-be powerhouse Newsmax and its exceedingly self-appreciating CEO Chris Ruddy and it is quite the read. We had, quite ...
PHOENIX’S NEW FACE
Fox-owned KSAZ-KUTP in Phoenix, AZ has officially put the Kari Lake era behind it with the hiring of Christina Carilla as the station’s new 4 p.m., 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. co-anchor. Carilla arrived ...
FORMER WAVY REPORTER SERIOUSLY INJURED
A Virginia Beach Fire Department employee was involved in an auto-pedestrian crash Tuesday afternoon. Police spokesperson Linda Kuehn confirmed that Virginia Beach Fire Department’s Public Information Officer Art Kohn sustained serious injuries following the ...
REPORTING FROM HOME = BLOOPERS
We love ourselves some good news bloopers. If there’s any bright side to the age of the self-quarantine, maybe it’s the amount of reporters being caught off guard when on the air:
MASTER OF ‘MAD’ DEAD AT 91
Mort Drucker, an artist best known for his decades of work in MAD Magazine, is dead at 91, according to the New York Times. Chances are, if you ever had a MAD phase, ...
THAT’S SOME COLDHEARTED S*** WSB-TV!
WSB-TV in Atlanta let their true colors show by CELEBRATING the positive coronavirus test results of a World War II veteran. On their Facebook page, right above a photo of a G3 (gentleman of ...
WEATHERMAN LOSES IN COURT
You’ll recall we told you last year about former WHEC (NBC) meteorologist Jeremy Kappell. Kappell was fired by WHEC management in January 2019 after saying what the station said was a racial slur about ...
FOOTBALL GAME RERUNS
Nothing like watching an old rerun of a show from days gone by, perhaps “Happy Days” or “Gomer Pyle” but Football and Basketball games? Now, the National Football League and the National Basketball Association ...
TRUMP FAMILY VS. ACOSTA
Well, last night the President took a few steps to calm markets and increasing fears of U.S. citizens, as more coronavirus cases rise and the economy craters. President Trump said that the U.S. will suspend all ...
MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS VS CORONAVIRUS
The NHL, NBA, and MLS have closed all teams’ locker rooms to media due to coronavirus concerns. As the virus, officially known as COVID-19, continues to spread, the leagues sent out a memo instructing ...
FOX HOST BRAIN TUMOR
Britt McHenry, a host for the streaming news network Fox Nation, will undergo surgery to treat a brain tumor, Deadline reports. McHenry, who also was a rising star during a controversial stint at ESPN, will ...
CORD CUTTING CONTINUES
More than five million U.S. households cut the pay-television cord in 2019 in search of cheaper and more flexible entertainment. Tuesday, AT&T released its answer to that trend: AT&T TV, a Google assistant-equipped set-top ...
FACE FILTER
A TV news reporter in North Carolina is going viral this week after he did a serious live report with wacky face filters accidentally turned on. WLOS ABC 13 anchor Justin Hinton was doing an ...
ANCHOR ON A STAMP
The U.S. Postal Service has put the late Gwen Ifill on a stamp, honoring a journalist whose face and voice were known to millions. Gwen Ifill was the first African American woman to host ...
ANCHOR GOES ALL OUT FOR V-DAY
If the traditional candlelight dinner and roses won’t make your Valentine’s heart go pitter-patter, this date-night surely will! It’s the ‘Love Bites’ event at House of Torment, and Trevor Scott got to go behind the scenes in ...
THIS IS WORTH MENTIONING
Gray TV’s DC crew worked hard during this weeks State of the Union for it’s affiliates. There is a ton of planning, scheduling, and some luck to make it all happen, especially as news ...
BAD NEWS FOR NEWS WEB AD’S
You gotta admit, there is nothing more aggravating to click on a stations website, see a story you want to read and then have to sit through 30 seconds of a guy with a ...
PREGAME INCLUDES TRUMP
FOX News Channel’s (FNC) Sean Hannity will conduct a sit-down interview with President Donald J. Trump which will air during the FOX SUPER BOWL PREGAME SHOW on Sunday, February 2nd beginning at approximately 3:30 ...
MISSING HOUSTON ANCHOR
KTRK (ABC) morning anchor Samica Knight has not been on air in weeks, nor has she posted to social media since January 7, 2020. “Unfortunately that is about all I can tell you about ...
GET US OUTTA HERE
Some of us have worked in a few stations that we’ll just say didn’t have a lot of money for operating expenses, so random things like no microwave in the break room to limited ...
THE GOAT
Ken Jennings defeated legendary champs James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter in the storied game show’s first-ever Greatest of All Time — or GOAT — tournament on Tuesday night. “It has taken 15 years for ...
AUSSIE PRANK
Raging wildfires haven’t doused the Aussies’ sense of humor. A Scottish TV reporter was duped into donning full body armor over the weekend so she could safely hold what locals told her is one ...
HOUSTON REPORTER FACES LONG RECOVERY
KPRC reporter Brandon Walker shared on social media last week that he was hospitalized, and thankful to be alive, following being hit by a truck while crossing a street. He’s been with the station ...
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
What should have been a normal day at work took a turn for the surreal for one TV journalist, when he was relentlessly pursued by a pig — live on air. Lazos Mantikos was ...
FIRED DUE TO BECK
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker fired the director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in September after a state watchdog found he violated procedures by lending an “irreplaceable and priceless” handwritten copy of ...
GIVING THANKS
When you think of November, your brain automatically goes to THANKSGIVING or if you are athletically inclined, the local turkey trot. Regardless it’s always nice to see a Journalist give thanks to the community ...
BACK IN THE SADDLE
You know how it goes in the news business. You are hired for one shift, someone takes maternity leave or is fired and you are ‘volunteered’ for another shift. You just hope the news ...
FIRE LEVELS ANCHOR’S HOME
Oklahoma City news anchor Abigail Ogle lost her home to a massive fire last week. Fortunately, all escaped the blaze, pets included, and no one was injured. Ogle is the evening news anchor ...
TRUMP VIDEO
After a violent video depicting President Donald Trump on a murder rampage against members of the media and political opponents was shown during a conference at a Trump resort, the people “killed” in the video have called on ...
CRICKET INVASION
For the past several days, the stations in Austin Texas have been reporting about swarms of crickets appearing just about everywhere. From downtown restaurant walls to the State Capitol, the grass has come alive ...
AND THEN THIS POPPED UP
Former NBC Today Show Host Matt Lauer is back, this time on social media. A tipster spotted him on his daughter Romy‘s TikToc channel. Looks like he was having some Father-Daughter fun. Romy posted ...
NEWS CHOPPER TARGETED
Speaking of being shot, KSAT (ABC) helicopter pilot, William “Dusty” Brittain, was targeted by laser pointer Monday. Brittain was flying some 1500 feet in the air over downtown San Antonio, getting beauty shots of ...
ANCHOR SHARES PSA
After months of covering up her painful skin rash, one Miami news anchor is opening up and revealing her makeup-free face. Frances Wang decided to share her experience and her bare face as a ...
IN RECOVERY
Looking none the worse for wear –except for that godawful hospital gown, “Today Show” host, weatherman and raconteur Al Roker appears to be well on the road to recovery from hip replacement surgery. Pre–surgery, ...
VALIDATION, THY NAME IS “RETWEET”
The new endorsement of one’s career is evidently the relative fame of whoever retweets your stuff. Down in Augusta Georgia, reporter Autumn Johnson of Nexstar’s WJBF caught the attention of a former president with ...
JUMPING NETWORKS
The new NBC News second-in-command Washington D.C. bureau chief strolled across the street for the job. Chloe Arensberg was the Washington-based “CBS This Morning” senior producer and had been with the network for the ...
SPEAKING OF SAN ANTONIO
San Antonio lifestyle co-host and reporter Roma Villavicencio is celebrating 10 years of being cancer free. In April 2009, Villavicencio was diagnosed with stage 1 ovarian cancer. “The KENS (CBS) Morning co-host was 21 ...
IT HAPPENS EVERYWHERE
Seems like we are seeing more and more, incidents involving Journalist’s being pushed around for simply doing their job, and it’s not only happening here but abroad. Last week, TV news channel Aaj Tak’s ...
OUCH
A television reporter was recovering from surgery Tuesday after a man punched him on camera during a protest last week in Mexico City. Reporter Juan Manuel Jiménez was covering a protest over violence against ...
VERY INTERESTING
Chicago media watchdog Robert Feder reports after 16 years as a high-profile sports anchor in Chicago, is Ryan Baker switching to news? No one will say for sure, but Baker has been spending the week alongside Erin ...
BACK IN THE RING FOLLOWING A KISS
The California State Athletic Commission, which met Monday in San Diego, lifted a suspension on a boxer who had been barred from fights in California since forcing a kiss on a television reporter during ...
CHICAGO REPORTER TACKLES RACISM
WGN TV reporter Courtney Gousman is “sick to her stomach” after seeing racially-insensitive imagery in traffic recently. On her Facebook page, she posted a picture of a “noose” sticker attached to a gas tank. She wrote: “Saw this on ...
KFSM GETS NEW DIGS
KFSM (CBS) is now broadcasting from their new Studio in Fayetteville, AR. 23,500 sq/ft of goodness assembled by hard working crews. Some employees began moving into the $10 million building in late May. A ...
PHOTOGRAPHERS VS. REPORTERS
Ah, the Ying-Yang of TV Newsrooms. Photographers and Reporters go together like Donny & Marie Osmond. One is a little bit country, the other rock and roll. While we are joking, and everyone knows ...
AH SO TRUE
If you chase storms for your station, how many times have you seen Joe Six-Pack pulled to the side of the road, holding their cellphone up, hoping to get a shot of the impending ...
AH, THE LIVE SHOT TAG
It’s been said the tag to a live shot is just as important as the intro and you’ll see why below. Perhaps if this WGN (Antenna TV) reporter had worded his tag a bit ...
OUSTED METEOROLOGIST WANTS TO STICK AROUND MOBILE
Former WKRG Chief Meteorologist Alan Sealls says he’d like to stick around Mobile – it just all depends on what career choices open up. (Note to other Mobile tv stations: *hint hint*) Sealls exited ...
HOUSTON REPORTER ANNOUNCES BIG NEWS
If you live in Texas, you’ve probably seen reporter Brittany Jeffers either in Dallas or Houston. That’s because she has worked in both places and now resides in the Bayou City. This week she ...
BAYER SAYS ITS HAD ENOUGH OF LAURA
Has Bayer reached a breaking point with Fox opinion shows? A report says the pharma and agricultural giant will stop advertising on TV shows hosted by Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson. The latest reported move, attributed to anonymous ...
BUT WHY…???
As you likely know by now, the sudden and unexpected death of Miami reporter-anchor Todd Tongen was the result of suicide. The popular WPLG journalist was found dead in his home Monday. He was ...
DID YOU SEE THIS?
A Chinese state TV anchor and a host from Fox Business, whose sparring over the U.S.-China trade war has been avidly followed on Chinese social media, brought their duel to the American cable network ...
FINALLY AN APOLOGY
We’ve been following this story for weeks now. San Francisco Police raided a freelance journalist’s home May 10th. The raid at the home and office of stringer journalist Bryan Carmody on May 10 was in connection ...
THE OTHER SHOE DROPS
We told you last Wednesday that John LaPorte was leaving Tribune’s WITI in Milwaukee after more than eight years there and hinted he was headed west. LaPorte is going to Cox Media’s KIRO in ...
NEW ORLEANS LEGEND DIES
A familiar voice to many in New Orleans has gone silent. On paper, Ronnie Virgets wrote the way he spoke, and on TV and radio he spoke like the dyed-in-the-wool New Orleanian he was, ...
KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY
Houston Texas Media Blogger Mike Mcguff reports KSAT (ABC) San Antonio’s Bill Barajas is joining Houston sister-station KPRC (NBC). Barajas an anchor/reporter took to social media to announce his move to the Bayou City. “In what ...
BUH-BYE
Meteorologist Jeff Matthews, who joined Cordillera’s (soon-to-be-Scripps) KOAA in 2017, is no longer employed by the station. And that’s all you’re going to get from the Pueblo, CO station’s management. But, his abrupt departure ...
IT’S LACHLAN’S DILEMMA
Remember back when everyone thought there would be a moderation of the Fox News primetime fire and brimstone approach when Lachlan Murdoch became CEO? Ah, the stuff that dreams are made of. Gabriel Sherman, ...
ABC’S NEW TRICKS TO CAPTURE MILLENNIAL VIEWERS
If you have an ABC O&O in your city you may have noticed a few sweeps looking segments that run during the newscasts but it’s not sweeps. The ABC named ‘Localish Brand‘ is aimed ...
THE WEATHER CHANNEL BUMPS UP VETERAN EXEC
Nora Zimmett is the newly-minted chief content officer and evp of The Weather Channel. In her new role, Zimmett will oversee live and original programming for TWC, as well as its storm coverage. Zimmett ...
MAYBE IT WAS THE GUMBO?
Weekend news anchor Brandi B Harris said Monday she was feeling much better after having to abruptly leave her newscast Sunday evening. WBRZ (ABC) reports Viewers were worried after seeing Brandi struggle through some stories and ...
FORMER ANCHOR RUNS FOR MAYOR
Former television anchorwoman Nadine Woodward is running for mayor of Spokane Washington. Woodward announced her run on last week. Woodward spent nearly 30 years as an anchor at KXLY and KREM (CBS) in Spokane. ...
TURNING THE TABLES
We’ve either experienced or seen rowdy folk during a live shot or while shooting a stand up. It takes nerves of steel to ignore someone mouthing off just out of camera range as you ...
THINGS ARE SLIGHTLY BETTER IN RADIO
Forbes reports the broadcasting and entertainment company iHeartMedia is preparing for a return to the stock market that could allow it to exit bankruptcy. The corporate parent of about 850 American radio stations filed for ...
APRIL FOOLS RECAP
Monday was April Fools Day and Newsrooms across the country pranked each other with boxes marked donuts full of veggies instead or fake announcements. Advertisers are cashing in on the fun and some reputable ...
IS TV VIEWERSHIP DYING?
This is a question many of us talk about daily. To the unemployed who can’t seem to land a job due to shrinking newsrooms, sure it is. Or is it? Forbes has an interesting ...
TV TO PUBLIC RADIO
A new energy’s jazzing up Minnesota Public Radio airwaves. Angela Davis, an Emmy winner who spent more than two decades anchoring and reporting television news for WCCO (CBS) and KSTP (ABC), joined the station ...
LIFE AFTER CNN
You may remember Bill Tush, he was the guy 16 years ago who was at all the red carpets for CNN, talking with the stars and giving the dirt before it was hip to ...
WFLA ANCHOR ARREST
The Tampa Bay Times is reporting WFLA (NBC) Morning Anchor Marco Villarreal has been arrested. It happened Sunday night, according to jail records and the TV station. 37-tear-old Villarreal,was arrested on a charge of ...
DIVERSITY IN DENVER
You may recall this past August, when Denver longtime KUSA (NBC) anchor and reporter TaRhonda Thomas left the station to move with her family to Philadelphia. She landed at WPVI (ABC) in Philly earlier this year ...
AND ON THE UNDERCARD….WITH A NEW NAME
“Fightin’ Anchor” Chelsea Ambriz, she of the infamous West Virginia bar fight from last September, is trying to rehabilitate the career that ran aground as the result of the brawl. As we reported last ...
NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE
A little something called the Heimlich maneuver saved the life of KING‘s (NBC) Alex Rozier. The reporter took to social media praising the life saving procedure saying he choked while at a party. Folks ...
REPORTER VS. SNOWPLOW
Speaking of weather, we are in the middle of the winter and we thought we’d show you every reporters nightmare captured on cam a few weeks back. Laura Perrot — a reporter for WCAV ...
MONTANA SAYS PLEASE ID
A bill being considered by Montana lawmakers would require media outlets owned by out-of-state corporations to prominently identify their owners and their headquarters in large print on the front of their publications and on ...
