PITTSBURGH ANCHOR-REPORTER JOINS SINCLAIR INVESTIGATIVE UNIT
Leaving her home town (again) to turn a “Spotlight On America”
Category: Moving On
GOING LOCAL IN MIAMI
He's been covering Cuba issues for national news organizations.
HEADING BACK TO MAINE
And this time we’ll bet he has a contract
SHE’LL DROP HER NEXT CHAPTER WHEN SHE’S READY
Boy, oh boy! Buh-bye Boise!
NEXT MOVE….ANYBODY’S GUESS
She wraps up her MMJ gig in San Antonio this week
HOMEWARD BOUND
She’s headed for Wichita
LITTLE ROCK ANCHOR “CAN’T WAIT TO SHARE WHAT’S NEXT”
Evidently he can, because he’s not telling
WE SUSPECT SHE’S SLEEPING IN
Leaving the business for….something, anything else
CINCY LOSES A TIKTOK STAR. WHAT DOES WLWT LOSE?
Answer: A weekend morning anchor and all those followers
FROM THE GREAT LAKES TO THE CAROLINAS
He's leaving his home state….again
FROM THE WEST TEXAS TOWN OF EL PASO TO MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
It’s song title to song title for Kate Bieri, who’s moved from the New Mexico bureau of NPG’s KVIA in El Paso, TX to Cox Media’s WHBQ in Memphis, TN. http:// I’m so excited ...
JUMPING NETWORKS
After five years at CBS News, Mola Lenghi is leaping to ABC News In making the announcement, ABC News boss Kim Godwin called Lenghi “an incredibly talented journalist with a passion for investigating and ...
FROM THE BIG APPLE TO THE BIG PEACH
Come July, Candace McCowan will be on the weekend anchor desk at Cox Media’s WSB in Atlanta. McCowan is moving down from Disney flagship WABC, where she spent the past five and a half ...
GONE WITH A HEAVY DOSE OF SELF-PITY
Self-described “recovering journalist” Kay Recede announces her departure from Hearst’s KCRA in search of a better work-life balance. http:// 11 years in the business, the bulk of which was spent as an MMJ, can ...
MILWAUKEE STATION LOSES ANCHOR TO MARRIAGE
Weigel’s WDJT in Milwaukee lost out to love when morning anchor Meghan Reistad announced her departure from the station after two years to get married. And then she flew away. http:// After her marriage, ...
“AS FOR WHAT’S NEXT — STAY TUNED!”
After a shade over two years at Scripps’ KXXV in Waco, TX, nighttime anchor Niyah Gonzalez is in search of her next adventure – or maybe she just hasn’t told us yet. http:// Gonzalez ...
BUH-BYE QUAD CITIES, HELLO CEDAR RAPIDS
After 27 years of anchoring at Tegna s/t/b Standard Media’s WQAD in the Quad Cities, Jim Mertens is pulling up stakes at the end of the week and making the short hop to Gray’s ...
LONGTIME NYC REPORTER NOW RUNS A BREWERY/MUSIC VENUE
It's the next phase for a longtime New York City reporter, who headed home to oversee a live music venue.
THEY MUST REALLY LIKE THE MARKET
Brooks Blanton returns to West Michigan starting May 31st as the ND at Tegna-soon-to-be-Standard Media’s WZZM in Grand Rapids, MI. Blanton spent 7 1/2 years as ND for WXMI (now Scripps) before leaving last ...
HER NEXT CHAPTER IS TBA
Heidi Przybyla (say it “Prez-bella”) is leaving NBC News and the White House Covid beat after four years.
MOVING UP…BUT THE NEXT STOP IS CLASSIFIED
Rocco DiSangro, for the past four years the sports director at Nexstar’s WHNT in Huntsville, AL, is moving on. His last day at the station is in mid-May before he starts his next adventure ...
SAN FRANCISCO, HERE WE COME!
KSNV‘s loss is KPIX‘s gain. Darrin Reed Cowan is now part of the Bay Area, as he told his Facebook followers that he is joining the San Francisco-based KPIX 5. The versatile Cowan will ...
MARRIED ANCHOR TEAM LEAVING TEXAS AND HEADING FOR KENTUCKY
Josh and Kathleen Ninke, currently the morning anchor team at Gray’s KBTX in Bryan-College Station for the past year and a half, are heading north at the end of the month for Louisville, KY. ...
SHEP SMITH GETTING A HIGH-PROFILE REPORTER TO HELP BOLSTER HIS PROG
When Shep Smith bolted FOX News in disgust back in October 2019, and subsequently landed at CNBC about a year later, one had hopes that his new television home would benefit from his presence ...
A COMPANY TRANSFER AND A STEP UP FOR A SAN ANTONIO REPORTER
After three and a half years reporting for Graham Media’s KSAT in San Antonio, TX, Japhanie Gray packed up this week to move on and up to sister station WSLS in Roanoke, VA where ...
HEADING FOR THE MOTHERSHIP IN BRISTOL
It is a career dream coming true for Max McGee. He’s preparing to leave his anchor-reporter slot after two years at CBS-owned WJZ in Baltimore after signing a multi-year deal with ESPN. While in ...
BITTERSWEET. IT’S ALWAYS BITTERSWEET
Maybe there is a market for someone to write these social media farewell notes and maybe there isn’t. But we wish the word “bittersweet” would be retired. In any event, weekend anchor/MMJ Jackie Kent ...
DANNY DEPARTS WFLA…DESTINATION UNKNOWN…
Two years after he arrived in Tampa from Springfield, MA, Danny New is leaving his talk show host position at Nexstar’s WFLA. http:// Stay tuned because the outgoing host of the station’s syndicated “Daytime” ...
LOOKING FOR THAT “NEXT ADVENTURE”
Evidently, the next adventure for reporter Jesse Kirsch is somewhere in his home state of New Jersey, Kirsch, a reporter at Disney’s WLS in Chicago, announced this week that after four years, he’s gone. ...
NOT UNEXPECTED….
In a move that caught next to nobody by surprise, Steven Romo, the weekend morning anchor/reporter at Disney’s KTRK announced he is leaving the station. http:// Romo had earlier announced his intention to head ...
A NEW HOUSTON ARRIVAL
Check out this jump.
DC REPORTER RETURNING TO THE LEGAL WORLD
Chris Gordon spent two years as a practicing attorney back in the early 70’s before getting sidetracked into the world of tv news. He moved from New York to the Nation’s Capital to break ...
MIDWEST MOVES
KSHB-TV in Kansas City is bringing in a new anchor and investigative reporter. Caitlin Knute joins KSHB from NBC affiliate WEEK-TV in Peoria, Illinois. Knute will anchor at 4:00 and 5:00 p.m.. Her start ...
HEADING SOUTH
A little more than two and a half years in Providence, RI and it’s off to Miami for sportscaster Ruthie Polinsky. She’s leaving Nexstar’s WPRI for a still-to-be-named station in Miami, FL. She previously ...
REPORTER LAUNCHES PODCAST
New Orleans anchor and reporter Thanh Truong’s last day on air at WWL (CBS) will be Friday, but fans won’t have to go long without hearing his voice again. Later this month he and ...
A NEW FACE IN PHILLY
Isabel Sánchez has been hired at Telemundo’s WWSI in Philadelphia, PA as a general assignment reporter. She’s been working for the past two years as a bilingual reporter and anchor at family-owned WBOC in ...
FILLING THE EMPTY CHAIR
Nexstar-soon-to-be-Fox-owned KCPQ has gotten around to naming a replacement for the long-gone Erica Hill-Rodriguez Erik Breon will be the next news director for the Seattle station. He posted this on Facebook announcing the news. Breon ...
BYE APU
Hank Azaria says he has no plans to continue voicing the character of Apu on “The Simpsons,” according to an industry blog. But that isn’t to say the Indian immigrant convenience store owner Azaria ...
YES, THEY WERE “WONDERFUL YEARS”
After three years at NBC’s WRC in Washington, DC, sports anchor Sherree Burrus is going national. CBS Sports HQ is a free streaming service offering up news and sports highlights 24/7
REPORTER DEPARTS
KCRA (NBC) Reporter Max Resnik has left the building. He posted this Wednesday on Twitter. I’m proud to have worn so many different hats (and faces) as a member of @kcranews. Thanks for joining ...
FROM LOCAL TO CABLE
MMJ Blake Essig is waving goodbye to Gray’s KTUU in Anchorage, AL to take on a new overseas job. He’ll be an overseas correspondent for CNN, based in Tokyo, Japan. KTUU-TV multimedia journalist Blake ...
VICE NEWS ADDS CORRESPONDENT
After being a regular contributor to both Telemundo and MSNBC, Paola Ramos has been hired by Vice News as a correspondent for the pending relaunch of “Vice News Tonight” and “Vice,” both of which ...
NBC HIRES TECH INVESTIGATOR
April Glaser, who had been with “Slate Magazine” where she focused on labor and workplace culture, online hate groups and tech policy, has been hired away by NBC News for its tech investigative team. ...
ATLANTA REPORTER TAKING KNOXVILLE ND JOB
After six years as an investigative reporter with Tegna’s WXIA in Atlanta, Jeremy Campbell wants to see what it’s like on the other side of the desk. He’s moving to sister station WBIR in ...
HEADED FOR THE APPLE
NBCU flagship WNBC has hired bi-lingual anchor Gilma Avalos from CBS-owned KTVT in Dallas, TX. She will be weekend evening news co-anchor with Adam Kuperstein starting on November 4. This is a return to ...
HEADING FOR THE SHOW
It was just last year that meteorologist Mary Ours had several encounters with social media boneheads who tried the idiotic body shaming route because her impending motherhood offended their pathetic sensibilities. Revenge is a ...
SLINGING SOME BULL IN CHICAGO
NBC Sports Chicago has hired away K.C. Johnson, longtime Chicago Bulls beat reporter from the Chicago Tribune. Because for Johnson, it’s an exciting place to be. “With the network delivering exclusive, local coverage of ...
A MOVE TO THE WINDY CITY
After two years as a Washington, DC-based freelance producer for ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Marissa Parra is returning to reporting, at CBS-owned WBBM in Chicago. And she’s kinda pumped. Parra previously worked as reporter ...
CNN HIRES TWO
Elle Reeve is the newest New York-based correspondent for CNN, moving over from Vice News. Vice News correspondent Elle Reeve heads to CNN as a correspondent, and will be based in New York. Reeve ...
A NOTE FROM THE BOSS – SHE’S MOVING ON
After two years of covering sports on the Gulf Coast of Florida for Nexstar’s WFLA, the next step is now being taken by Annie Sabo. Here’s the boss’s note: Although things have been pretty ...
GONE
Cayman 27 will come off the air on Friday, after its owner Hurley’s TV Ltd. announced it is ceasing operations. Hurley’s TV Ltd. released a statement Wednesday saying the station, which has been on ...
A DISNEY TRANSFER
Brianna Ruffalo is leaving Fresno’s KFSN, the Disney station in that city, to work at the Los Angeles sister station, KABC. And yes, it is, oh, so bittersweet. Ruffalo who is from Los Angeles, ...
LEAVING DA BURGH
Cox-owned WPXI in Pittsburgh is losing news anchor Damany Lewis to its sister station in Charlotte, N.C. Lewis announced over the weekend via Facebook that he will be joining WSOC. He’s been doing quite ...
FROM FRESNO TO PHOENIX
Over the weekend, Fresno sports anchor Nick King wrapped up six years at Sinclair’s KMPH and started packing for Phoenix, AZ. He’s headed for Meredith duopoly KTVK-KPHO there, where he’ll hold down a similar ...
THE NEWEST CABLE GUY
Down in Tampa, Tegna’s WTSP waved goodbye to reporter Grady Trimble. He’s now at Fox Business as a general assignment business reporter. Trimble, who started a little over a week ago, is based out ...
BUH-BYE TO THE CHESAPEAKE BAY
Baltimore anchor Karen Campbell is westbound, leaving Hearst’s WBAL to take a job as reporter-anchor for Dispatch-soon-to-be Tegna’s WTHR in Indianapolis, IN. Campbell spent five years working in both radio and tv in Maryland. ...
THE OTHER SHOE DROPS
We reported last week that Alanna Martella was the new morning traffic anchor for Hearst’s WLWT in Cincinnati, OH, replacing Vanessa Richardson. And now we know where Richardson is headed. She’s headed for Graham ...
HEADED FOR THE APPLE
Reporter/anchor Ryan Kristafer is headed for Fox-owned WNYW in New York City, where he will be the station’s entertainment anchor/reporter. For the past four years, he’s been host of “CT Style” on WTNH, the ...
THE EVER-REVOLVING DOOR AT WGCL
The goodbyes will be said a week from today for reporter Vince Sims, a five-year veteran at Meredith’s turnover-plagued WGCL in Atlanta. He’s leaving the station to slide into a weekend anchor chair at ...
HOME TO BEER CITY
It’s a return to his hometown as Milwaukee, WI as reporter Tony Atkins says farewell to Cox-owned WHBQ in Memphis, TN and hello to Scripps’ WTMJ. He spent three years in Memphis. He’s also ...
KCSO-KSNO NEW VP
The former news director of Telemundo’s KVDA San Antonio, Texas, will oversee news operations at the company’s Sacramento and Fresno stations beginning July 22. Aldofo Segura will be responsible for overseeing the stations’ newsrooms, ...
NEWS VET MOVES TO VOICE OF AMERICA
Former Telemundo and Univision news exec Sandra Thomas is now the new Spanish Service chief at the Voice of America. Last year, she exited as Mexico City bureau chief for Telemundo, a job she ...
ESPN’S BOB LEY RETIREMENT
He’s been on ESPN for 40 years and now is calling time out for good. Bob Ley, announced his retirement from the network Wednesday. Ley, who had taken a leave of absence in October, ...
THE ROAD TO A NEW JOB
Dean Travinski will take I-40 from Dallas to Little Rock to become the new Assistant News Director for KARK/KLRT, the Nexstar duopoly. Travinski has served as executive producer for KXAS in Dallas for the last five years. He ...
KAVU NEWS DIRECTOR LEAVING
Amy Hudspeth is leaving as news director of KAVU (ABC) in Victoria Texas. Hudspeth took her first ND job at this Saga Communications owned station back in 2014. It was a return to her native ...
NOW REPORTING FROM THE SUN COAST…
Emily Kinzer is now comfortably perched at Gray’s WWSB in Sarasota, Fla as the morning anchor. Kinzer had been a reporter and a fill-in anchor at Nexstar’s WISH in Indianapolis, IN for just over ...
DESTINATION: PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Meteorologist Grace Lim is headed to the weekend shift at Tribune-soon-to-be-Nexstar’s KCPQ in Seattle, WA. For the past 3+ years, she’s been calling the weather shots at Bayou City’s KLAF-KADN in Lafayette, LA. It’s ...
WHAT HE DID FOR LOVE
Eric Feldman, an MMJ at WISH in Indiainpolis, IN, announced over the weekend that he has left the local station to move to St. Louis and a job to be named later….or something.
TIME TO “TRY NEW THINGS”
WPXI anchor/reporter Courtney Brennan has left the station after nine years. Her last day was Friday. Although she’s tight-lipped about her future, the Pittsburgh native shared a Facebook post last week that read in ...
OUTTA THE BIZ….WELL, MOSTLY
After two decades in broadcasting, more than 12 of them at Tribune’s KTLA in Los Angeles, reporter/host Elizabeth Espinosa has left most of it behind to become executive director of communications for the Los ...
GOIN’ TO MEMPHIS
Adam Henning will be the next ND for Cox owned WHBQ in Memphis, TN. Details in this official news release. We told you last month that Henning was leaving Sinclair’s WPECin West Palm Beach after ...
A THUNDEROUS CHANGE IN OKC
Lesley McCaslin has become a staple of Thunder broadcasts as a reporter for Fox Sports for seven years. She’ll be taking on a new challenge next season. McCaslin announced on social media Tuesday that this ...
BIDDING FAREWELL TO THE HOMETOWN
It’s home but not for long as Don Shipman weighs his anchor gig at Heartland Media’s WKTV in Utica, NY and heads for Springfield, MA. He spent 15 years at the station, starting out ...
PICKING UP A NEW VICE
Elizabeth Landers is now a political correspondent for “Vice News Tonight”, the Vice News HBO program. For the past five years, she’s been an embed and DC producer for CNN’s political unit. Vice says ...
HE’LL PLAY IN PEORIA
Former WHOI anchor Donnie Tillman is returning to the Peoria, IL airwaves. Next Monday, he’ll show up as the new co-host on “Good Morning Illinois,” on Comet’s WHOI, joining Jessica Cook and meteorologist Joe ...
CHANGES AT WWL
Speaking of stepping down, changes in New Orleans this week. WWL (CBS) chief meteorologist Carl Arredondo steps down Friday. He’s battling a disease that is taking his eyesight. A key factor in Arredondo’s decision ...
“NEWSHOUR” NAMES NEW PRODUCER
“PBS NewsHour” has tapped Ali Rogin as its new foreign affairs producer. Delightful news. “I am delighted to welcome Ali to the NewsHour, where she’ll join our intrepid and award-winning foreign affairs and defense ...
FORECAST: GONE BY THE END OF THE MONTH
Ah…the tug of those home fires is strong. Nexstar’s WTEN in Albany, NY will wave buh-bye to meteorologist Christina Erne at the end of the month (and sweeps) as she heads back into the ...
MOVING INTO NEW MEDIA
Jessica Smith is the newest DC-based reporter for Yahoo Finance. She’ll focus on the ever-popular (and lucrative for investors and legislators alike) intersection between business and government. She moved over from Nexstar’s DC Bureau ...
HOUSTON METEOROLOGIST DEPARTS
Some buzz surrounding the departure of KHOU (CBS) meteorologist Brooks Garner. Not a lot of talk about it either on social media but his bio has been deleted from the KHOU website. One supporter made ...
STILL ANOTHER HOMECOMING
On the heels of its sports director being arrested for solicitation, we learn that Tegna’s KBMT in Beaumont, TX also recently said goodbye to another sports reporter – the improbably-named J Russell. Russell has ...
THE END IS NEAR
April is going to be a big month for Lisa Cooney and WLWT (NBC). That’s when Cooney and her home away from home part ways. Just last month she celebrated her 30th anniversary at the ...
NUMBER TWO EXITS KDLT
Justin Wulf came back to his native South Dakota in 2007 after growing up in Georgia and joined Red River Broadcasting’s KDLT seven years later as a producer and assistant news director. In the ...
LONGTIME NEWS EXEC GETS FIRST GM JOB
Staring looming Nexstar ownership in the face evidently prompted longtime station manager and news director Denise Vickers to take her leave of Tribune’s WHNT in Huntsville, AL to become GM of Lockwood’s WFXG in ...
TV SPORTS ANCHOR ON THE MOVE
Television sports anchor Tricia Whitaker announced in an Instagram post she has left the Indianapolis WXIN(Fox) and (WTTV) CBS affiliates. The 2012 Indiana University alumnus was raised in Bloomington and has worked as an Indiana ...
METEOROLOGIST FIRED
A television news meteorologist who lost his job for saying what sounds like a racial slur on the air said he has “never uttered those words” and suggested that he misspoke. WHEC (NBC) in Rochester fired Jeremy Kappell after ...
LEAVING HOME FOR BRIGHTER LIGHTS
Our sources whisper that Kate Chappell, the 5 and 10 pm co-anchor at Weigel’s WDJT in Milwaukee for the past three years is pulling up stakes in her home state and heading for the ...
ARIZONA CHANGES
Fans of Arizona’s “Family stations” may have noticed some big changes: KTVK (Independent) evening anchor Brandon Lee has exited the station, and Preston Phillips, who anchors mornings and afternoons for KPHO (CBS) is soon to ...
HEADING FOR HOME
Hubbard’s WNYT in Albany, NY has lured New York native Jill Konopka back to her home state from NBC-owned WVIT in Hartford. She’d been at the station for three years and had spent the ...
REPORTER CROSSES OVER
We hope this becomes more of a trend in the business. Alicia Barrera is leaving Telemundo’s KTLM in McAllen, TX to join Graham Media’s KSAT in San Antonio. She’s been an MMJ for the ...
BACK TO CINCY
Brad Maushart, weekend weather guesser for Nexstar’s WISH in Indianapolis, IN is headed back to Cincinnati after spending just under two years in Indy. Maushart spent six months as a freelance meteorologist for Scripps’ ...
FORMER FOX NEWSER TURNS UP ON HLN
Sometime in the past couple of months, Elizabeth Prann quietly left Fox News by a side door, ending a long association that began with her in a production assistant role in 2006 and ending ...
PHILLY REPORTER RETIRES
WTXF (FOX) reporter Dave Schratwieser has retired after nearly 25 years at the station. Schratwieser announced his retirement from the station earlier this month, writing that he “tried to ‘Go Boldly’ into each day and ...
RIP FELLOW BROADCASTERS
Some passing’s from Rick Gevers to mention: DON BRADLEY (real name: DON BURIAN) died Tuesday, October 16th. He was 73. Don was a news director in many markets, including New Haven/Hartford, Ft. Wayne, Waco, and Victoria, ...
GEORGIA ON HER MIND
Candace McHan returns to her native Georgia as assistant news director for Raycom-soon-to-be-Gray’s WALB in Albany, GA. She grew up watching WALB. McHan has been the Morning EP for Scripps’ WFTX in Ft. Myers, and ...
TEXAS GM OUT
Mike Wright, the general manager of KBTX (CBS) has resigned. The Eagle.Com reports his last day at the station was Thursday. He joined KBTX, in 1991 as national sales manager and soon became co-anchor ...
FROM THE UPPER PENINSULA TO THE TWIN CITIES
Morning anchor Alex Jokich has become a familiar face over the past nine years to Yoopers who watch WWTV/WWUP, based in Cadillac, Michigan. That is coming to an end. From her Facebook page Tuesday ...
HOMEWARD BOUND
Kelly Dobeck, the weekend meteorologist at Nexstar-operated KLRT in Little Rock, Ar for the past 15 months will soon be back on the North Coast. Dobeck, a Cleveland, OH native excitedly tweeted out her ...
