After 20 years, WXYZ noon anchor JoAnne Purtan is leaving the station later this month after learning her contract will not be renewed. She put out the word on Facebook “I learned recently that ...
Former WDJT reporter/anchor Michele McCormack wasted no time diving into her “life after” job. Just a few weeks after leaving her job at the Milwaukee teevee station owned by Weigel Broadcasting, she assumed her ...
So who’s got more Facebook followers – Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Megyn Kelly or Anderson Cooper? If you put your money on Dan Rather, you win. Rather has more than two and a half ...
Life on the outside must seem rosier to Eugene Ramirez. Just over a year after joining the morning team at CBS-owned WFOR, Ramirez left to become the city of Miami’s new communications director. His ...
Former teevee anchor Christina Muñoz Madsen has raised some eyebrows among co-workers at the University of Central Arkansas over her appearances in television and online commercials for private businesses – so much so that ...
John Moody, the longtime Roger Ailes buddy and Fox News executive vice president who wrote a boneheaded op-ed piece railing against diversity on the US Olympic team, has taken retirement. Moody made headlines last ...
After more than three decades, sports director Glenn Carver signed off this week at Tribune’s WREG in Memphis. He started at the station in 1984 as an intern, worked his way up and became ...
Sometimes life after teevee news isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Less than a year after waving goodbye to the weather set after 9 years at Hearst’s KMBC in Kansas City, MO and ...
When he signs off the 11 o’clock news tonight, he’s signing off for good. Stephen Clark, for the past 16 years a mainstay at the anchor desk of Scripps’ WXYZ in Detroit, is exiting, ...
Shelley Walcott, 11 PM anchor for the past five years on Hearst’s WMUR in Manchester, NH, wraps it up after tonight’s newscast. She posted the following on Facebook: “After 5 years at WMUR, this ...
The end of another sweeps period, and another departure from the teevee news business. Joe Kopecek, chief meteorologist for Tribune’s WXMI in Grand Rapids, MI is shutting down a 27 year career forecasting weather ...
As chief meteorologist for Jacksonville’s WJXT for nearly half a century, George Winterling was at the forefront in the development of modern weather forecasting. Give him the credit for the infamous “heat index” we ...
After more than seven years as a general assignment reporter, Susanna Song will exit Chicago CBS O&O WBBM Friday at the end of her shift. She chose not to renew her contract and instead, ...
A 39-year broadcast career, 24 of them at Lockwood Broadcasting’s KAKE in Wichita, KS, came to a close Friday, as Ben Pringle signed off for the final time. He penned a Facebook farewell. “Working ...
Onetime CNBC and MSNBC anchor Dylan Ratigan is the latest former newsperson to consider a run for political office. Ratigan, whose eponymous program ended on MSNBC in 2012, is now living in Lake Placid ...
Michelle Lee, who retired from the anchor desk at Quincy Media’s KBJR in Duluth, MN back in 2016 is “99.9%” certain she’s ready to re-enter the public eye – in a different role. Lee ...
Reporter Donna Rossi, an on-air fixture for over two decades at Meredith duopoly KPHO/KTVK in Phoenix, AZ, called her career a wrap last week. “The industry has changed more in the past eight years ...
After eight years and the conclusion of one last February book, anchor-reporter Nalina Shapiro is out the door at Nexstar’s WIVB in Buffalo. She’s been doing the station’s 5:30 and 10 PM newscasts. Channel ...
Another teevee newser is deciding to part ways with the business. This time it’s Austin Bowling, chief meteorologist at Raycom’s KSWO in Lawton, OK, where he’s been since 2010. His Facebook announcement evidenced some ...
Alexa Conomos wasted no time jumping into her new vocation. Just a month after waving goodbye to the anchor desk at Tegna’s WFAA in Dallas, she took her Facebook following on a guided tour ...