Category: MIA

MIA IN SATX

Texas media blogger Mike McGuff reports on the sudden and quiet disappearance of weekend meteorologist Marina Neuman from Tegna (someday Standard Media) tv station KENS in San Antonio, TX. McGuff evidently got a heads-up ...

NOT LIKELY TO RETURN?

The mystery of KPIX sports director Dennis O’Donnell’s unexplained eight-month absence from the station’s newscasts may have a solution. According to Bay Area blogger Rich Lieberman, sources indicate that O’Donnell’s MIA status is due ...

HMMMM…..

In Chicago, Robert Feder reports that questions are being raised about the status of  Zoraida Sambolin. The WMAQ weekday morning anchor has been MIA since May. The station says she is on an extended ...

GONE….SUDDENLY

Weekend meteorologist Brooks Tomlin is evidently out the door at Fox-owned WOFL in Orlando, we hear from a NewsBlueser. While his station bio remains up on the WOFL website, both of his station social ...

OUT OF SIGHT

A Newsblueser alerts us that John Carroll, probably the longest tenured reporter in the Waco, TX market, has suddenly disappeared. His station website bio link and station Facebook page have been scrubbed from existence. ...

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?

Missing in action in Memphis, TN. is longtime meteorologist Austin Onek, a 20+ year veteran of Nexstar’s WREG. At least his bio is no longer on the station’s website – never a positive sign ...

GONE MISSING

It’s been nearly two weeks since KVII morning anchor and reporter Anthony Pittman was arrested on prostitution charges, and the Sinclair-owned Amarillo, TX station solemnly pledged transparency in its coverage of the story. Not ...

AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE

Chicago news anchor Rafer Weigel remains under suspension from Fox-owned WFLD over a revenge-porn case involving him, his ex fiancée and another woman. But that case has now been dismissed for lack of evidence. ...

WHERE IS SHE?

Dunia Elvir, the longtime anchor at Telemundo’s west coast flagship KVEA in Los Angeles, has been MIA since last Friday, January 10. Media Moves reports that inside sources say she is sitting out a ...

REMAIN CALM….ALL IS WELL

Yes LA folks, Courtney Friel will return to her anchor chair. Certain nerves got frayed when, just after the release of a memoir excerpt in which former the former Fox Newser  related the time ...

TILTING AT WINDMILLS

Apollo Cox-owned WPXI in Pittsburgh continues to implore views to bombard Comcast with demands that the cable behemoth restore the station’s news and weather-centric PCNC cable channel to the Comcast lineup. Comcast dropped the ...

A LONG-TERM VACANCY

A NewsBlueser reminds us that it has been seven months since Steve Koles was shown the door at then-Dispatch Broadcasting’s WBNS after a scant 9 months. Koles quickly landed on his feet at Nexstar’s ...

A PITTSBURGH MYSTERY

Lots of Pittsburgh news viewers are asking about the evident disappearance of Joe Arena from the morning anchor desk at Cox-owned WPXI. It’s only been a week, but news viewers, especially the morning ones, ...

MIA: ONE CHIEF METEOROLOGIST

Nobody’s talking about the recent extended absence of Ed Hanna, chief meteorologist at locally-owned WFMZ in Allentown, PA. But his weeks-long absence appears to be something more permanent. He is off the station website ...

ANDY LEVY MIA AT CNN

It was with a fair amount of fanfare that former Fox newser Andy Levy moved over to CNN a little more than a year ago to become sidekick to S.E. Cupp on her newly-launched ...

GONE MISSING IN EL PASO

Patricia Maese, weekday anchor at Sinclair’s KDBC in El Paso for the past four years, seems to have up and gone –voluntarily or otherwise. Her bio has been wiped from the station’s website. This ...