FINALLY…..
She had to put up with several months of being billed as a “substitute,” but Dia Wall will be the permanent evening co-anchor for ...
Category: Moving Up
NEW BOSS IN INDIANAPOLIS
CJ Hoyt, News Director at WHTM (ABC) says he’s accepted a new job. Hoyt will be assuming the same role at WXIN/WTTV (FOX-CBS) in ...
BACK TO THE LONE STAR STATE
Luis Gerardo Nuñez has been named co-anchor/ reporter for the 4 and 4:30 PM newscasts on Telemundo’s KTMD in Houston, TX. He’ll sit alongside ...
FROM AUSTIN TO HOUSTON
Houston blogger Mike McGuff reports that a new face will be turning up at Disney’s KTRK Raven Ambers, who spent two years at Sinclair’s ...
MORE MIAMI MUSICAL ANCHOR CHAIRS
Layron Livingston has got a promotion to co-anchor of WPLG’S weekend morning newscasts. His move comes as he observes four years with the Graham ...
HEADIN’ NORTH
Adam Harding is heading north to join NBC O&O WNBC in New York as a General Assignment Reporter. Adam spent the last four years ...
AND THE NEW WEEKEND ANCHOR IS….
Meredith’s KMOV plucked Paige Hulsey out of the ranks to name her the weekend morning anchor at the station. Hulsey, a St. Louis area ...
GOING NETWORK
WNBC reporter Michael George is leaving the NBC flagship after six years to join CBS Newspath. He’ll be a New York-based correspondent, providing reports ...
GOING NETWORK
After two years, Andrew Dymburt waves ‘buh-bye” to Sunbeam’s WSVN and South Florida and is heading for a new job at ABC News’ Washington ...
GRAY’S GOT ITS NEW HAWAII HONCHO
We reported to you eleven days ago that longtime tv news executive Rick Blangiardi was eyeing the door to retirement and another one that ...
WGN NEW NEWS DIRECTOR
Speaking of News Nation, Chicago blogger Robert Feder had the following scoop: “On Wednesday Dominick Stasi was named to succeed Jennifer Lyons as news ...
DOERR ASCENDS THE CORPORATE LADDER
At the time of his hiring in Atlanta back in 2017 he was the station‘s 7th news director in ten years. And now WGCL ...
MOVING INTO MANAGEMENT
WMBB morning anchor Kelsey Peck has been promoted to the assistant news director slot at the Nexstar Panama City, FL station. She’s been with ...
MOVING UP IN BOSTON
Hearst’s WCVB in Boston has named Duke Castiglione the station’s new lead sports anchor. He finds it humbling. “It is truly humbling to step ...
HE’S NOT GONNA MISS HIS SHOT
When Lawson Fox hangs up his GM spurs at Reno’s KTVN after 28 years in the chair, sliding in will be longtime station employee ...
HENRY MOVING UP
Ed Henry will co-anchor “America’s Newsroom” alongside Sandra Smith starting next month when Bill Hemmer moves to afternoons, Fox News Media president and executive ...
MOVING UP AT COURT TV
Court TV said it promoted Ted Rowlands to anchor, effective immediately. Rowlands has been a field producer and reporter for the network since it ...
HEADED FOR MSNBC WEEKENDS
And still another local is headed for cable newsland. The weekend anchor abilities of Lindsey Reiser have been on display for the past 8 ...
MOVING UP IN OK CITY
Hearst’s KOCO in Oklahoma City, OK has named Jason Hackett its new weekday morning co-anchor alongside co-anchor Maggie Carlo and meteorologist Jonathan Conder. He’s ...
A NEW START IN THE NEW YEAR
It’s a significant career leap for Marcus Espinoza, who starts January 6 as a reporter for Fox-owned WFTX in the City of Brotherly Love. ...
MOVING UP IN ILLINOIS
Jeff Weinrich is ascending to the news director job for Quincy Media’s WSIL in Carterville, IL. He’s been here for eleven years, and served ...
THE FAST TRACK
WLS wunderkind reporter Jesse Kirsch, who was hired straight out of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism as the Disney O&O’s first digital reporter ...
WCCO WELCOMES NEW WEATHER GUESSER
After three years of doing the morning weather at Hearst’s KCCI, meteorologist Riley O’Connor has moved up I-35 to the Twin Cities and CBS-owned ...
VEGAS, BABY!
KBLR, the Telemundo O&O in Las Vegas has hired Jenniffer Guerra as its new main meteorologist. She’ll be covering weather on the “Noticiero Telemundo ...
ANOTHER NEWSPATH PROMOTION
Nikole Killion is the newest correspondent for CBS News. Killion, who joined CBS News in 2018 from Hearst’s Washington bureau, most recently served as ...
NEW SAN ANTONIO ANCHOR
Following the departure of TV veteran Jeff Brady in February, the KENS (CBS) San Antonio evening newscasts have seen revolving faces of anchors temporarily ...
“BEYOND GRATEFUL”
The veil of secrecy has been lifted and now it can be told. Kacie McDonnell, former anchor at NESN, is headed for Fox Nation, ...
CHANGES IN TULSA
Griffin Communications announced Monday that Lori Fullbright will be the new 6 and 10 p.m. KOTV (CBS) co-anchor with Craig Day starting Monday, October ...
A NEW FACE IN SAN FRANCISCO
Univision’s Bay Area O&O KDTV has a new weekend anchor for its 6 and 11 pm newscasts. Paola Virrueta most recently worked for Excélsior ...
BACK HOME IN HOUSTON
Chelsea Edwards is back in her hometown of Houston, TX as a reporter for Fox O&O KRIV after a two year stint at Gray’s ...
A FAMILIAR FACE MOVES UP
A familiar face is moving up to replace the departing Jay Shaylor as executive producer of CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.” Emily ...
HUBBA-HUBBA
Shawn Reynolds has been named Group Director of News and Content for Waypoint Media, which owns 16 TV stations and four radio stations. Reynolds ...
NEW WHO MANAGER
Nexstar Media Group Monday appointed Robert “Bobby” Totsch vice president and general manager of WHO (NBC) in Des Moines, Iowa and its associated mobile ...
FROM KNOXVILLE TO GREENVILLE
Marc Whiteman is the new sports director at Hearst’s WYFF in Greenville, SC He’s coming to the station from Nexstar’s WATE in Knoxville, TN ...
NEW DALLAS GM
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. has appointed John Trevino Vice President and General Manager of KDAF (CW33) in Dallas, Texas, the nation’s fifth largest market. ...
BUMPED TO AN ANCHOR SLOT IN SATX
KABB, half of Sinclair’s San Antonio duopoly (along with WOAI) has welcomed Camilla Rambaldi aboard as co-anchor of “Fox News at Nine.” Rambaldi replaces ...
HEADED FOR THE NETWORK
Disney’s WPVI longtime executive producer Maxine Crooks is heading to the home office. Crooks is taking on the newly created position of vice president ...
MOVING UP
Dalfred Jones has been promoted to Monday-Friday anchor at KLFY (CBS). He was an intern at the station back in 2011 and hired as ...
AN LA PROMOTION
Longtime managing editor and 11pm executive producer Marina Perelman is the new number two at KNBC in Los Angeles. Her new assignment begins immediately. ...
MOVING UP IN HOUSTON
Houston blogger Mike McGuff reported over the weekend that the Houston social media community was rocking with the news that KTRK assistant news director ...
A STEP UP THE LADDER IN CORPUS CHRISTI
Down Corpus Christi, TX way, news director Paul Alexander is moving up to become Director of Local Content Development at Scripps’ KRIS. Alexander has ...
THE KALAMAZOO SHUFFLE
Sinclairs’s WWMT is moving morning anchor Erica Mokay to evenings where she’ll anchor the 5, 6, and 11 p.m. newscasts for Kalamazoo, MI viewers ...
MOVING UP
Ashley Talley is headed to WRAL in Raleigh as Enterprise Executive Producer. She’s been ND for Gray’s WMBF in Myrtle Beach, SC since May 2015. We have the notes from WMBF GM Sarah ...
SCRIPPS HIRES A NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT
Ash-har Quraishi starts September 16 as a national news correspondent for Scripps. For the past three years, he’s been a reporter for NBC’s WMAQ ...
UP HIGH IN THE MILE HIGH
Megan Jurgemeyer has been promoted to news director at Tegna’s KUSA in Denver, CO. She’s been the managing editor for the last four years and ...
TELEMUNDO SAN DIEGO BUMPS UP NEWSER
The new weekday anchor at Telemundo’s KUAN in San Diego comes from inside the building. Rigo Villalobos was one of the charter members of ...
A CHICAGO EP MOVES UP
Matt Knutson, executive producer of “Windy City Live,” has been promoted to director of content innovation at Disney’s WLS. He’ll supervise all local programming ...
TWO NEW IN TULSA
Two new anchors have joined Scripps KJRH in Tulsa. For Mike Brooks, it is a return to where it all started Brooks, who will ...
ABC NEWS UPS BUREAU REPORTER
Stephanie Ramos is taking her reporting talents from D.C. to New York in a full-time correspondent role for ABC News. Ramos, with ABC News ...
PROMOTED IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
Dave Davis has been moved up to weekday morning anchor at Quincy Media’s WSIL in Harrisburg, IL. Davis joined the station five years ago ...
NOW IT’S PERMANENT
Down in San Antonio, TX, Max Massey has been doing fill-in anchoring on weekend mornings at Graham Media’s KSAT for the past few months. ...
NEW BOSS LADY AT KTRK HOUSTON
Wendy Granato has been named the president and general manager of KTRK (ABC), announced Wendy McMahon, president, ABC Owned Television Stations Group. In this ...
GOIN’ SOUTH
Lane Kimble is leaving Rockfleet Broadcasting’s WJFW in Rhinelander, WI to be the Assistant News director for Gray’s KYTV in Springfield, MO. Lane’s been ...
A NEW NUMBER TWO
Starting Monday, Alexa Rodríguez takes over as assistant news director at Telemundo’s WNJU in New Jerysey. Rodriguez takes over from Delinés Batlle-Alonso, who left ...
MOVING UP IN TALLY
Vicki Bradley becomes the ND for Scripps’ WTXL in Tallahassee, FL. Here’s the memo from GM Matt Brown. She joined the station five months ...
NO MORE “ACTING”
Now he’s on your side and looking out for you as the fulltime chief meteorologist. Scott Connell finally got the nod at Tegna’s KSDK ...
A BIG BREAK IN DENVER
Sports anchor Alejandra Ochoa has landed her first tv job in the United States. She is the new sports anchor at Telemundo’s KDEN in ...
GOING MILE-HIGH
Tribune-soon-to-be-Nexstar-or-maybe-even-Fox’s KDVR in Denver has lured away Brooks Garner from Tegna’s KHOU in Houston to be the station’s new morning meteorologist. He’ll come on ...
COMING HOME TO TUCSON
Shea Sorenson is the newly-named meteorologist/weather anchor for the weekday early morning block “Tucson Today” on Quincy’s KVOA in Tucson, AZ. The Arizona native ...
WTSP GETS A NEW GM
TEGNA Monday promoted Kari Jacobs, president and general manager of WVEC (ABC) in Norfolk, Virginia, to president-GM of its CBS affiliate WTSP in Tampa-St. Petersburg ...
NEW SPORTS GUY IN HOUSTON
After three and a half years of reporting sports at Quincy Media’s KVOA in Tucson, AZ, Ari Alexander debuted on Graham Media’s KPRC in ...
A MOVE TO THE BEEHIVE STATE
Noe González is the new news director at Telemundo’s KULX in Salt Lake City, UT, a station recently bought from Serestar Communications. He’s coming ...
HEADED FOR SIN CITY
Paulo Alvarado is moving from Sinclair’s Telemundo Austin/KEYE to KBLR, the Telemundo O&O in Las Vegas, NV. He wraps up in Austin today after ...
A BIG JUMP TO CNN
Amie Hudspeth is moving from KAVU in Victoria, TX to CNN Headline News in Atlanta as Script Supervisor for “Weekend Morning Express.” She’s been ...
NEW NEXSTAR DC BUREAU BOSS
Don Kauffman will be the next Executive Producer for Nexstar’s Washington Bureau. He previously worked for all of 10 months at WJLA in Washington. Oh wait…Sinclair. ...
KCBS NEW GM
Veteran TV stations executive Jay Howell has been named president and General Manager of CBS Los Angeles properties, KCBS-TV, KCAL-TV, CBSLA.com and the newly launched streaming service CBSN ...
ANOTHER WEATHER GUESSER IN ST. LOUIS
Meteorologist Brigit Mahoney is already in place as the newest member of the weather team at Tribune’s St. Louis outlet, KTVI. She’s currently a ...
HEADING WEST
Staci-Lyn Onofre has been hired as the next ND for News Press and Gazette’s KRDO in Colorado Springs CO. Onofre is currently the Asst. ND ...
COMING HOME TO CONNECTICUT
Ashley Afonso, a Connecticut native is the newest addition to the news team at Tribune’s-soon-to-be-Tegna’s WTIC in Hartford, CT. Prior to WTIC Afonso was ...
AN ANCHOR DEBUTS IN HARRISBURG
Tribune’s-soon-to-be-Tegna’s WPMT in Harrisburg, PA debuted Rachel Yonkunas last week as the station’s newest anchor-reporter She’ll be featured on the station’s 4 p.m. newscast ...
BACK TO THE LAND O’LAKES
Marielle Mohs heads to her hometown market as a multimedia journalist at CBS-owned WCCO in Minneapolis, MN. Mohs spent just over two years as ...
A MILWAUKEE MOVE
He’s a fill-in no more. Ben Handelman is permanently moving to the Monday through Friday weekday anchor desk at Tribune-soon-to-be-Nexstar’s WITI in Milwaukee He’s ...
MEET THE NEW CHIEF MET
After 7 years at the weather desk for Entravision’s KCEC in Denver, CO, Gaston Heredia has gone network. He’s moved to Houston, TX and ...
MEREDITH MOVE-UP
Chris Passon moves from Assistant News Director to News Director for this Meredith’s KPTV in Portland, OR. GM Adrienne Roark shared the news with her staff. ...
NEW ND NAMED IN CORPUS CHRISTI
Tegna’s KIII in Corpus Christi has brought in Nia Towne to take charge of the newsroom. Towne is moving to the South Texas Gulf ...
ANOTHER NEWSER MAKES THE LEAP
Another longtime news director moving up the food chain at her station. Corey Hanson is now the station manager at Meredith duopoly KPTV/KPDX in ...
MOVING UP IN ARIZONA
Patty Talahongva has been selected as the executive producer for Indian Country Today’s new television news program. Talahongva is a multimedia journalist who has ...
TELEMUNDO CONTINUES TO BEEF UP ELECTION COVERAGE
Guadalupe Venegas is leaving the anchor desk at Telemundo’s KUAN in San Diego to become network correspondent, covering the California region. He’ll be based ...
FOX MEMPHIS NEW NEWS DIRECTOR
Emmy Award-Winner Adam Henning has been named News Director at WHBQ (FOX). He’ll start next month. Cox Media sent out the following News Release: Fox13 ...
A FAST RISER
It’s been barely six months since Lacey Crisp exited then-Raycom’s-now-Gray’s WOIO in Cleveland and traveled down the interstate to Columbus and Dispatch Broadcasting’s WBNS ...
MOVING UP TO THE BIG CHAIR IN WILMINGTON
Brad Myers has been promoted to news director for Gray’s WECT in Wilmington, NC. Here’s the news release from GM Mark Mendenhall. Myers has been ...
FOX TWIN CITIES INTRODUCES NEW ANCHOR
Fox-owned KMSP in suburban Minneapolis is moving reporter Bisi Onile-Ere to early evening anchor duties. Onlie-Ere has been with the station since 2017. She’s ...
ATLANTA WEATHER STAPLE MOVES UP
After 11 years of weather segments for the WGCL morning newscast, meteorologist Jennifer Valdez is stepping into the chief met role and taking over ...
“IT’S LIKE A HOMECOMING FOR ME.”
Back in 2016, reporter Ruben Galvan left Graham Media’s KPRC in Houston and wound up in California, from whence he came. He’s in Houston ...
MOVING UP THE NBC NEWS FOOD CHAIN
Blayne Alexander is getting her shot at “The Show”, moving up to NBC News as an Atlanta-based correspondent. As such, she’ll work the obligatory ...
AFTER LEAVING HOUSTON, IT’S A NEW MORNING IN PHOENIX
They might be taking their sweet old time finding a replacement for the long-departed anchor Rachel McNeill at Graham Media’s KPRC in Houston. It ...
TWIN CITIES REPORTER GETS HIS SHOT
After four years in the field for Tegna’s KARE in Minneapolis, Chris Hrapsky is happy to let you know he’s moving up in the ...
TELEMUNDO NAMES NEW INVESTIGATOR
Telemundo’s KDEN in Denver, CO has bumped up Yesmani Gómez to be the face and principal reporter for the station’s “Telemundo Responde” investigative unit. ...
NBC CHICAGO ADDS WEATHER GUESSER
Meteorologist Kristen Kirchhaine has officially joined the weather center at NBC-owned WMAQ in Chicago. She’s been filling in on weekends since December. She has ...
CUCKOO FOR COCO IN CHATTANOOGA
Claudia Coco is the newest addition to the news team at Sarkes Tarzian’s WRCB in Chattanooga, TN. Coco will be a general assignment reporter ...
GRAY BUMPS UP KNOXVILLE WEATHERCASTER
Knoxville native Heather Haley is the new chief meteorologist at Gray’s WVLT, right there in her hometown.. Haley’s been with the station for the ...
KARK/KLRT NEW NEWS DIRECTOR
KARK (NBC)/KLRT (FOX) names Ernie Paulson News Director. Ernie served as Assistant News Director there before taking the big chair. This is Ernie’s second ...
HEADED FOR UTAH
Mark Shepherd is the new Assistant ND for Fox affiliate KSTU in Salt Lake City, starting April 15.. Shepherd most recently worked at Tribune’s KDAF ...
MOVING UP IN SPOKANE
KHQ in Spokane, WA…Kelly Hatmaker gets to move into the big office for Cowles’ KHQ in Spokane, WA. He’s been the manager of coverage and ...
A PROMOTION IN HARTFORD
After a decade in the Hartford, CT. station’s weather trenches, WTIC meteorologist Rachel Frank has been promoted to the chief position. All involved are ...
BAY AREA NEWS VET IS HEADED FOR THE NETWORK
Vickie Nguyen, for the past 12 years an investigative reporter with the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit at KNTV in San Jose, CA is ...
WE USED TO CALL THEM DAILY HIRES
Tim McNicholas is the newest per diem addition to the reporting corps at CBS-owned WBBM in Chicago. The Chicago native most recently was a ...
SOMEONE NEW TO WAKE UP TO IN WICHITA
Nextar’s KSNW in Wichita, KS has hired Brett Buganski as the new morning anchor. Buganski is currently a weekend anchor at KOCO in Oklahoma ...