A SEASONED ANCHOR VET IS COMING TO MIAMI MORNINGS
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Category: Movers and Shakers
THIS MORNING ANCHOR IS EXPLODING ON SOCIAL
It’s worth a post for a few reasons … 1) Social media is something all news anchors want to master but find it hard to do it right 2) The Fresno anchor isn’t just ...
KOMO FINDS NEWS DIRECTOR REPLACEMENT
He’s staying in the compnay.
BEEFING UP AT “PBS NEWS HOUR”
Stephanie Sy, a veteran at the anchor desks of CNN, ABC News, Al Jazeera America and CBSN will become a member of the NewsHour West bureau that “PBS NewsHour” plans to launched earlier this ...
KTTV/KCOP NEW GM
Bill Lamb has been named VP and general manager of the Fox-owned duopoly in Los Angeles, KTTV and KCOP. He takes over from Bob Cook, who will head up distribution at parent Fox Television Stations. ...
REPORTER TO COURT TV
Chanley Painter, a lawyer, former Miss Arkansas, fashion model, black belt in taekwondo, champion fiddler and Clinton School of Public Service graduate, packs a resume so impressive that KARK (NBC) News Director Austin Kellerman ...
VETERAN PRODUCER JOINS TAMRON HALL TALKER
Legendary tv producer Bill Geddie is on board for the new Tamron Hall syndicated talk show that is slated to debut this fall. Yeah, he bears responsibility for “The View” but we won’t hold ...
DAILY BLAST ADDITIONS
Tegna’s Daily Blast Live Team is adding three additional hosts as the show heads into season number two. Beau Davidson, Stefanie Jones and Brandon London are coming on board. The three join existing hosts ...
FROM SPECIAL OPS TO TV
Name something social-media star Vincent Rocco Vargas hasn’t done. Vargas is a decorated Army Ranger, an Army Reserve drill sergeant, a former prison guard, a former member of the Border Patrol, an entrepreneur, a ...
THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY
Ever since Dallas KTVT (CBS) let Reporter/Anchor Jane Slater slip away back in 2014, she’s done nothing but rocket skyward, first going to the ESPN-owned Longhorn Network, then in 2016 joining the NFL Network. ...
FORMER TELEMUNDO EXEC TO HEAD UNIVISION
Vincent Sadusky, former Media General CEO and at one time a suit at Telemundo, is getting the challenging assignment of breathing new life into Univision. The once-dominant Hispanic network has found itself under siege ...
JAMES MURDOCH SEEKING HIS OWN PATH
Forget about James Murdoch moving to Disney along with most of the Fox tv and film properties should the $52+ billion deal ever consummate. Murdoch is planning to strike out on his own should ...
SUNBEAM NAMES CORPORATE VP AND GM
Paul Magnes, vp and general manager of Sunbeam’s WHDH and WLVI since 2015, will become executive VP and general manager of Sunbeam Television Corp., effective July 1. He’ll succeed Bob Leider, who will stay ...
CBS EVENING NEWS SHAKES UP THE TEAM
The “CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor” continues to struggle in the numbers, now down about 5% from a year ago and mired in third place. So there’s been a bit of a shakeup ...
DISNEY NAMES NEW KGO GM
Staffers at Disney’s KGO in San Francisco are said to be breathing easier because of who the new GM is NOT going to be. It’s NOT going to be Tracey Watkowski-Silva, vp of news ...
SHINE RECUSES HIMSELF FROM WH CONSIDERATION
Well there’s at least one teevee guy who’s not angling for a White House job. Bill Shine, former co-president of the Fox News Channel, has taken himself out of the running for the White ...
SKIPPER WAS COKE DEALER’S EXTORTION VICTIM
This was either an old “Law and Order” plot or something that turned up on “Luke Cage.” The reason John Skipper beat a hasty exit from his chairmanship of ESPN last December is one ...
WNBC NAMES NEW NEWS DIRECTOR
Amy Morris is heading from Philadelphia to Manhattan to become the new news director at NBC flagship WNBC. She’ll replace the departed Susan Sullivan, who moved upstairs at 30 Rock into the network’s Standards ...
HEARST NEWS VET IS STEPPING DOWN
Long after she is gone, Candy Altman’s mark on Hearst’s teevee news operations will be a legacy for others to live up to. Altman is calling it quits after 35 years at Hearst Television. ...
TALENT AGENT JOINS MEREDITH AS MARKETING VEEP
Gary Brown, for the past five years the vice president of talent development for the Napoli Management Group, is the new vice president of news and marketing for Meredith Corp.’s Local Media Group. This ...
SINCLAIR PROMOTES ITS LONGTIME NEWS EXEC
Scott Livingston is now SENIOR vice-president of news for Sinclair Broadcast Group, not just a merely-mortal veep, the position he held since 2012. Livingston has been with Sinclair since 1991, when he was chief ...
VETERAN OMAHA ND SETS RETIREMENT DATE
We told you last month that, after 45 years covering news in Omaha, 31 of them leading the newsroom at Hearst’s KETV, Rose Ann Shannon was planning to retire. Now we know that she ...
PBSer MOVING TO ABC NEWS
Beth Hoppe starts next month as the new senior VP of long form for ABC News. She’s moving over from PBS where she has been chief programming executive and general manager for the past ...
RODRIGUEZ PROMOTED AT UNIVISION
Jessica Rodríguez has been named to the newly-created role of President and Chief Operating Officer of UCI Networks, effective immediately. The corporate-speak for the move goes thus “…setting up a new organizational structure under ...
ZUCKER TO ESPN? IS THIS APRIL 1?
OK, so it’s Jeff Zucker’s people who are floating this idea. And CNN is moving quickly to shoot it down. According to those “people”, Zucker has already had some conversations with Disney about replacing ...
NEWS DIRECTOR STEPS INTO GM ROLE
Always nice to report on someone brave enough to move from the News Chair into the GM’s suite. Today it’s Kate Morris, who’s been named president and general manager of Tegna’s Idaho duopoly, KTVB ...
FINESTONE PROMOTED AT KCBS-KCAL
There’s a new Number One in the KCBS-KCAL news department out in LA. Assistant News Director Tara Finestone got the nod to replace Bill Dallman, who was shown the door last month. “Since joining ...
SILVERMAN UPPED AT FOX SPORTS
Big Ten Network Chief Mark Silverman is getting a new job added to his portfolio – president of Fox Sports national networks. Silverman’s been the BTN boss since its launch in 2007. BTN is ...
MEREDITH SPINS THE DOOR AT CBS46
The revolving door that is Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta has claimed its latest exit…and entrance. Out is Mark Pimentel (right), GM for the past three years. In is Lyle Banks (left), a self-described turnaround ...
DICKERSON GETS THE NOD FOR “CBS THIS MORNING”
CBS tapped John Dickerson to fill the “CBS This Morning” vacancy left by the firing of Charlie Rose over sexual misconduct allegations starting this morning. He’ll join Norah O’Donnell and Oprah Winfrey political advisor ...
SINCLAIR APPOINTS GROUP MANAGER
Kent Crawford has been named Group Manager for three Sinclair Broadcast Group stations, providing oversight to Sinclair operations in Seattle WA, Portland OR, Salt Lake City UT and Medford OR. At the same time, ...
MSNBC PROMOTES TWO VETERAN PRODUCERS
Colleen King and Tina Urbanski, two longtime producers at MSNBC, are becoming executive producers for the cabler. King is moving from senior producer of “The 11th Hour” to executive producer with former 11th Hour ...
NEWSMAX BRINGS ON TWO FORMER FOX EXECS
Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy has hired Jason Kopp as executive producer and David Winstrom as broadcast news manager for his cable/online news operation. Both are former Fox News executives, Winstrom as director of Fox ...
SKIPPER: SHOCK RESIGNATION AT ESPN
The mothership listed badly in Bristol, CT yesterday and is likely still rocking, following the bombshell resignation of ESPN president John Skipper. Skipper, one of the most powerful people in both the media and ...
POWER AGENT LEAVES POWER AGENCY
Television agent Olivia Metzger, who reps, among others, newly appointed “CBS Evening News” anchor Jeff Glor, “Today” show co-host Hoda Kotb, CNN’s Poppy Harlow, NBC White House correspondent Kristen Welker, NBC host Jenna Bush ...
MAJOR GARRETT ON LIFE IN THE TRUMP PRESS ROOM
CBS News White House correspondent Major Garrett has been on the presidential beat since the Bill Clinton years. And while none of the other Administrations he’s covered were big fans, this is a different ...
RAMSEY WILL QUIETLY EXIT WGN AT YEAR’S END
A 42-year broadcasting career comes to an end December 30 when veteran Chicago forecaster Jim Ramsey finishes his final weekend weather forecast for Tribune’s WGN. He’s been with WGN since 1987 after stints in ...
AMANPOUR TAKES OVER ROSE PBS PROGRAM
It gets real, Charlie. CNN’s Christiane Amanpour is stepping in to fill at least part of the PBS void left with the cancellation of Charlie Rose’s talk show that many affiliates carried, Amanpour’s offering ...
UNIVISION CELEBRATES SALINAS
You can call this “María Elena Salinas Week” at Univision, as the network plans a weeklong goodbye to the veteran reporter-anchor. “As journalists our job is to report the news not be the ...
“HALA GORANI TONIGHT” DEBUTS
A new contract between anchor Hala Gorani and CNN International resulted in a branding change for the London-based program. “The world has changed almost beyond recognition in the past three years, and the ...
GWEN IFILL HONORED BY HER COLLEGE ALMA MATER
Tuesday, Simmons College in Boston announced the establishing of the Gwen Ifill College of Media, Arts and Humanities. “For over 100 years, our mission at Simmons has been to prepare our students to lead ...
DISNEY EXTENDS SKIPPER AS ESPN BOSS
We can hear it now: “Pending layoffs be damned! Let’s give Skipper a new deal!” And so Disney awarded ESPN president John Skipper a contract extension through 2021. The 20-year veteran of the WorldWideLeader© ...
“TODAY SHOW” MEN GET UNDRESSED FOR A PSA
We all know how much fun prostate exams can be. Well, maybe not all of us, but enough to know it will never make a guy’s top 10 list of Fun Things To Do ...
CALDERON HAS BIG SHOES TO FILL
Ilia Calderón has her work cut out for her on her next assignment – co-anchor of Univision's flagship evening newscast, “Noticiero Univision” alongside Jorge Ramos. Univision has chosen her to fill the spot currently ...
GAZIN MARKS 40 YEARS IN CORPUS CHRISTI
40 years is a long time to spend in any place. 40 years in the same anchor chair is nothing short of a Herculean feat of endurance and survival in the tv news business. ...
VETERAN UNIVISION REPORTER CALLS IT QUITS
Univision D.C. correspondent Lourdes Meluzá signed off for good last week, retiring from the network after 30 years. Meluzá became the network’s D.C. correspondent in 1993, covering the White House and Congress. Meluzá spent ...
