Category: Moving On

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...