By Paul Greeley The morning news on WGN, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Chicago, has a reputation of being irreverent, self-deprecating, outrageous, real and hilarious. Two of the morning news anchors, Paul Konrad and Robin ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WBAL, Hearst’s NBC affiliate in Baltimore, announced that longtime sports anchor Pete Gilbert has been named Sports Director, succeeding Gerry Sandusky, who retired after an extraordinary 37-year career with ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Paris Schutz, two-time Emmy Award-winning journalist and veteran Chicago news personality, will join WMAQ, the NBC-owned station in Chicago, as a general assignment reporter, with a primary focus on ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) has announced its 2026 Hall of Fame class, and NBC 5 Chicago (WMAQ-TV) / Telemundo Chicago (WSNS-TV) Senior Vice President of News ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com After more than 35 years at WFMY, Nexstar’s CBS affiliate in Greensboro, North Carolina, Ed Matthews will deliver his final forecast on Sunday, May 24. WFMY will honor his ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Debbie Roberson started working at WLKY, Hearst’s CBS affiliate in Louisville, when she was just 18 years old. What started as a temporary assignment through Manpower Employment Agency turned ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com It is a big day at WWLP, as Adam Strzempko is celebrating his 30th anniversary. Adam Strzempko, a meteorologist at WWLP, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Springfield, Massachusetts, became ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Juliana Alford, a news anchor on KOTA, Gray’s ABC affiliate in Rapid City, South Dakota, is leaving the station to join a TV station in Myrtle Beach. In ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Marty Snyder marks his 20th anniversary as the morning meteorologist at WHAM, Deerfield Media’s ABC and CW affiliate in Rochester. After working in Richmond, Virginia for seven years, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Mike Monsell, the VP of Marketing at WPVI, the ABC-owned affiliate in Philadelphia, is now part of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Hall of Fame. Monsell, a ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Sarah Bloomquist celebrated a milestone on Friday at WPVI, the ABC-owned affiliate in Philadelphia: 30 years of service with ABC. The Action News newsroom gathered to help ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Keith Carson, a meteorologist at WCHS, branded at News Center Maine, Tegna’s NBC affiliate in Portland, Maine, is leaving the station to work for Maine Conservation Voters, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Yes, you read that right. In 1955, the minimum wage was 75 cents an hour. A gallon of gas was a quarter. Automobile seat belts were required ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Brooks Blanton has been named Vice President and News Director at WJBK FOX 2, the Fox-owned affiliate in Detroit, announced Paul McGonagle, station Senior Vice President and General ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Cheryl Duncan has been promoted to General Sales Manager at WCAV, Lockwood Broadcast Group’s CBS and Fox affiliated stations in Charlottesville, Virginia. Duncan will oversee television sales ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com It’s a local TV love story. Two TV journalists, Jacob Seus and Julia Gorman, fresh out of college, meet at a local TV station and start dating. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WTAE, Hearst’s ABC affiliate in Pittsburgh, announced that Ed DiOrio has joined Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 as the Westmoreland County Bureau reporter. “Ed is a passionate storyteller ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Hearst Television has established a fellowship honoring Suzanne Grethen, a Hearst Television executive who led the company’s promotion and marketing efforts for more than a dozen years ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com FOX Television Stations (FTS) announces leadership promotions across multiple markets. Paul McGonagle, currently Vice President and News Director of WTTG FOX 5 Washington, D.C., has been named ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Danielle Calcara, long time veteran of local TV marketing, is assuming the newly created role of Senior Vice President of Marketing for NewGround, a St. Louis based international ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Natalie Cabieses is being promoted from assistant news director to news director at KCCI, Hearst’s CBS affiliate in Des Moines. Cabieses is the fifth news director in the ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com David Johnson, who spent 40 years at Pittsburgh’s WPXI-TV, Cox Media’s NBC affiliate, will be inducted into the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame at an event ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jim Parker adds additional duties as Vice President / General Manager for Allen Media’s KADN / KLAF-TV (FOX/NBC/MyNetwork) in Lafayette, LA. He’ll continue to serve as Executive ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Rick Boone is trading his view of the Gulf of Mexico for the Pacific Ocean. Boone is moving from Gulfport, Mississippi where he was the news director at ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Matt Gray steps up to full-time meteorologist on KXLK’s Good Morning Northwest on March 3. Gray joined the KXLK 4 News Now team in 2021 as a weekend ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Claudine Wong has been named weekday evening anchor for KTVU, the Fox-owned affiliate in San Francisco. Effective February 3rd, she will co-anchor the station’s 5 ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Bill Martin has been with KTVU, the Fox-owned affiliate in San Francisco, for 33 years. But Martin made the announcement that next month, he will retire. Martin ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Christine Noёl has been announced as the co-anchor for KDVR/KWGN, Nexstar’s Fox and CW affiliates in Denver. “I’m excited to be joining the great team at FOX31 and ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Tina Castano has been promoted to VP/GM for Nexstar’s Fox affiliate in Burlington, Vermont, WFFF, Fox 44. Castano was the GM for Nexstar’s stations in Elmira, WETM, an NBA ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Annie Szatkowski is promoted to Weekday Morning Anchor at FOX Affiliate WJZY in Charlotte. Szatkowski most recently served as the station’s Monday through Friday Noon and 4pm Anchor/Reporter. Szatkowski, who is ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Chancelor Winn’s moving south to the Fox-owned affiliate in Orlando, WOF as reporter. Winn going to WOFL from Cincinnati, but he’s a Floridian at heart, growing up and going ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Kristen Joyal is joining KCCI-TV, Iowa’s TV news leader, as creative services director, effective February 10th. She succeeds Nathan White, who left the station in December 2024. Joyal ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jacque Harms is the next General Manager of KKTV, Gray’s CBS affiliate in Colorado Springs, Colorado. “I am honored and excited to join the Colorado Springs community and ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jon Kramer has been named Vice President/General Manager of Sinclair’s WMSN, the Fox affiliate in Madison. Kramer previously served as the station’s General Sales Manager, a position ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Bailey Brautigan joins Nexstar’s ABC and Fox affiliates WJET and WFXP in Erie as news director after serving as Assistant News Director at WOWK, Nexstar’s CBS affiliate ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Ryan Brooker has been named chief photographer, a new position at WZTV, Sinclair’s Fox affiliate in Nashville. Brooker has worked as a photojournalist at WZTV since 2011. Prior ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Elizabeth Garcia is the new Assistant News Director at WJZ, the CBS affiliate in Baltimore branded as CBS Baltimore. Garcia was most recently the morning news director ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Gray Media announced that Derek Rogers will join the company as the next General Manager and Director of Sales for KXII 12 Media (CBS) and FXII (FOX) ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jan Wade, since 2007 the president and general manager of WISN-TV, Hearst’s ABC affiliate in Milwaukee, will retire at the end of this year, capping a career of ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KRON, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in San Francisco, marked its 75th anniversary on November 15, 2024, by unveiling a revitalized sonic and visual brand identity that honors its ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Stephen Stock is the new Chief Investigative Reporter.at WVUE, Gray’s Fox affiliate in New Orleans. Stock has spent his career developing high-quality journalism across the country that exposes ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Teresa Morgan has been promoted to vice-president and general manager at WFTS, the Scripps ABC affiliate in Tampa, effective Jan. 1. Morgan has been with WFTS ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com You must admire Donna Bell and Jessica Foster at WJHG. Bell is the news director, and Foster is the assistant news director at Gray’s NBC affiliate in Panama ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com John Christianson is the new Chief Executive Officer at Lilly Broadcasting effective immediately. Christianson was previously Chief Operating Officer. He will oversee all operations including the company’s television and ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com On October 16, 1949, Kansas City welcomed its first television station. WDAF-TV hit the airwaves with four hours of programming, including a live report from the American Royal, a ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Gray Media is promoting Lee Zurik to Senior Vice President of News Strategy and Innovation. Zurik’s promotion means he will step away as WVUE Anchor and Chief Investigative Reporter ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In 1949 at the 21st Academy Awards in Los Angeles, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was one of the pictures up for Best Picture. The names of ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Chicago’s Very Own WGN Morning News is celebrating 30 years on the air throughout September as only WGN Morning News can. WGN is Nexstar’s independent TV station in ...
We’re feeling kind of warm and fuzzy this week and before we lose it, another hat tip goes out, this one to Dennis House, co-anchor and political anchor at Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford-New Haven. ...
You’ve got to tip your cap to anyone who manages to make it to a quarter century at the same television station – especially in an age where too many people are hanging up ...
Looks who’s an anchor team again! For the first time in seven years, Doug Dunbar is sharing the KTVT CBS 11 desk with Karen Borta. The on-air duo spent the previous seven years together ...
To Sara Diamond, evening anchor at Nexstar’s WJHL in Johnson, City, TN/ She is marking 20 years at the station, a tenure that began after she worked at stations in Texas and Oklahoma in ...
“When they say you’re the first, that puts a lot of responsibility on your shoulders automatically. I gotta be good. Unless you just don’t give a damn”
If you’ve ever set foot in the Dallas TV market chances are, you rubbed shoulders with Allen Manning. Manning was a long time Assignment Editor at KTVT (CBS) and moved down the road to ...
Chicago Reporter and anchor Bob Petty passed away Tuesday from lung cancer. He was 79. Bob started reporting in 1971 and retired 32 years later in 2002. He was 79. Bob started back in ...
We remember the day when a young sportscaster showed up in the 3rd floor newsroom at WKYC back in 1985. And we remembered thinking “This guy’s got something” when we saw his first ...
A former Dyess Air Force Base airman in Abilene Texas is one of two Air Force pilots killed in a plane crash in Afghanistan. Capt. Ryan S. Phaneuf, 30, of Hudson, New Hampshire, and ...
Edward Aschoff, an ESPN college football reporter known for his lively blog posts and thoughtfully reported features, died on Tuesday after a brief illness, The NY Times reported. It was his 34th birthday. Aschoff had ...
Congratulations to Omaha sports director Ross Jernstrom, who just marked 40 years at Gray’s WOWT. The vast majority of us never got to spend our career at one tv station, let alone one in ...
Bob Gregory died last week of natural causes. Public Radio Tulsa reports he was 88. A longtime presence on Tulsa radio and television, Gregory started at KTUL Radio in 1960, after working at stations ...
The life of longtime Cleveland Cavaliers announcer Fred McLeod was celebrated on Saturday afternoon in a funeral service at Bay Presbyterian Church in Bay Village, according to WKYC (NBC) Cleveland. A Northeast Ohio native, ...
Gene Crane, a legendary Philadelphia broadcaster with a career spanning half a century, has died. He was 99-years-of-age according to WCAU (NBC). Crane’s career in broadcasting began in 1941 when he worked as an announcer ...
Jet-car speed racer Jessi Combs died Tuesday in a crash in Oregon’s Alvord Desert while trying to break a speed record. The Harney County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Wednesday that Combs died in a crash ...
Nevada lost one of its hardest working and most distinguished and versatile journalists this weekend. Former KOLO (ABC) reporter Dennis Myers suffered a fatal stroke at his home in Sparks. Myers was a long-time ...
Another great reporter from the Golden Age is gone. NBC Correspondent Jack Perkins. Dead at 85. Television viewers across the country remember Perkins from his work on “NBC Nightly News” and “The Today Show,” ...
Bob Watson, a veteran reporter for the Jefferson City News Tribune, has died. The News Tribune reports that Watson died Sunday after a brief illness. He was 68. Watson began his career in radio ...
St. Joseph Missouri television anchor Bob Heater died suddenly on Saturday. For the past 12 years, Heater has been the face of news at News-Press Now as the lead anchor since the company entered ...
These days it seems like many of the folks in the tv news business live out of suitcases, such is the peripatetic nature of things as they move from station to station, as well ...
Last week’s 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing was especially poignant for Devin Scillian, anchor at Graham Media’s WDIV. Back in 2003, Scillian, who dabbles in music quite extensively, juggling it with his ...
Bob Fouts, who spent much of his broadcasting career calling NFL 49ers games, died Sunday in San Francisco, the Chronicle reports. He was 97. According to Media Confidential, Fouts is the father of Pro Football Hall ...
Jim Taricani, an award-winning TV reporter who exposed corruption and served a federal sentence for refusing to disclose a source, has died. He was 69. Taricani died last Friday at his home in North ...
Bob Welti, the smiling weatherman at Salt Lake City’s KSL (NBC) from 1965 to 1991, has died at the age of 94. The station said his family had confirmed Welti died Tuesday afternoon. Welti began his ...
Longtime Miami reporter and anchor Todd Tongen’s family, friends and colleagues are grieving over his unexpected death. Tongen, who worked at ABC affiliate WPLG for 30 years, was recently found dead, People reported Monday. The ...
A familiar figure to generations of Ohio TV news viewers has died. Former Cleveland and Columbus news anchor Doug Adair died Monday in Pleasanton, Calif., of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. Adair was 89. Born ...
We’re so old we remember when Kelly O’Donnell was a relatively soft-spoken second-level anchor and reporter on what was then WJKW in Cleveland, OH. If we’d known then… She was on the air this ...
40 years ago, C-SPAN was sprung upon the world as one of those cable channels down at the end of the listings. While heralded at the time, its eventual impact was not, and could ...
KABC (ABC) 5 pm and 11 pm Anchor Marc Brown is celebrating 30 years with Eyewitness News. Marc grew up in L.A. and has reported every major story here since 1989. The station staff ...
Markedly more subdued than the Gifford send-off was the observance of Natalie Morales’ 20th anniversary with NBC News. Morales, now relocated to Los Angeles as “Today’s” “West Coast” correspondent, got a shout-out from her ...
CBS News was mourning the loss of Ana Real, an award-winning international journalist who passed away Tuesday at age 60 after a long fight against leukemia. Ana, Foreign Editor for Prime Time, joined CBS ...
Conservative TV and radio host Michael “Doc” Thompson was struck and killed by a passenger train while jogging in Texas, his colleagues said Wednesday. Thompson’s death was reported by Mojo 5.0, a digital radio platform ...
AnEta Sewell-Spence, the first Black TV News Anchor in Palm Beach has died at the age of 68. 🕊 #NEWS 🕊 AnEta Sewell-Spence, 1st Black TV News Anchor in Palm Beach, Dies at 68 #TVInColour #RIP #AnEtaSewellSpence 🕊 ...
Lee Leonard, of of the first host of sports and entertainment programs who introduced ESPN to a small audience on the day of its debut in 1979, died on Sunday at his home in ...
Carlos Rosales, who worked as photographer, assignment editor and assistant news director at KVIA (ABC) suffered a fatal heart attack on Saturday. His daughter Carla who has received messages from from journalists across the ...
Allan White of WCPO (ABC), the station’s first reporter who mentored the newsroom for decades died Saturday at the age of 94, according to his family. White worked for the Cincinnati Post and WCPO Radio, both ...
“Squawk on the Street’s” David Faber just marked a milestone with business network CNBC His 25th anniversary with the network. Never heard of him? Well, he was the guy to first report that Disney ...
