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 ...
Category: Moving On
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
HEADING WEST FROM ATLANTA
Kim Passoth signed off from her weekend anchor slot at Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta and is headed home to Los Angeles. Passoth, who spent ...
SAYING BYE-BYE TO THE ROCKIES
Longtime KUSA anchor TaRhonda Thomas is Philadelphia-bound. She’s been a fixture on Tegna’s KUSA in Denver for the past 11 years, but the upside ...
