RALEIGH STATION FINDS NEW ANCHOR WITH 20-YEAR STATION VETERAN
A longtime WRAL anchor is named to succeed David Crabtree on the 6 p.m. broadcast.
Category: Moving Up
VETERAN ANCHOR LEAVES STATION AND A FUN FACT EMERGES
Mark Hall is spending his last days at Nexstar’s WHTM in Harrisburg, PA before heading off to a sister operation in Washington, DC. Or is it Hagerstown, MD? Well, let’s let Mark say his ...
SAN ANTONIO’S NEWEST FACE COMES WITH A GOOD PEDIGREE
Jordan Elder has spent the past few weeks settling as a reporter at Sinclair’s WOAI in San Antonio, TX. And she figured it was time to do one of those “Get to know me” ...
MOVING OFF THE STREET AND INTO AN ANCHOR CHAIR
After ten years on the street reporting for Nexstar’s KTXL, Eric Rucker has ascended to the weekend evening anchor desk at the Sacramento, CA station. “We’re proud to now have Eric on the FOX40 ...
A BALTIMORE ANCHOR SHUFFLE
They wasted no time at Hearst’s WBAL in Baltimore in announcing the replacement for Mindy Basara at the morning anchor desk. Lacee Griffith will slide into the co-anchor chair May 30. She’s moving over ...
SINCLAIR’S CINCY STATION BRINGING ON A NEW MORNING ANCHOR
Extensive search or not, it didn’t take long for Sinclair to find the successor to John Lomax, who retired from WKRC just last month after 32 years. Starting July 5, Aleah Hordges will join ...
SHE’S LEAVING THE ANCHOR DESK FOR A COMMUNITY JOB
It’s been in the works for a year.
LEAVING THE GULF COAST FOR DALLAS
After three years at family-owned WINK in Ft. Myers, FL. reporter Sydney Persing is heading west this summer toward the Big D, where she will join Tegna s/t/b Standard Media’s WFAA. http:// WINK was ...
HEADING BACK TO HER ROOTS
After just under three years of reporting and weekend morning anchoring at Sinclair’s WWMT in Kalamazoo, MI, Hannah Knowles is moving west and closer to her Pacific Northwest roots. The “Legendary” KOMO is a ...
FROM LUBBOCK TO SAN ANTONIO
The new weekend forecaster at Telemundo’s KVDA is Yahaira Hernandez. She shared the news will still at her former station, Telemundo’s KXTQ in Lubbock where she produced and anchored, as well as forecasting the ...
FROM UPSTATE NEW YORK TO MILWAUKEE
Come June, a new face will grace the morning airwaves at Weigel’s WDJT in Milwaukee, WI. Frankie Jupiter is coming from Sinclair’s WSTM in Syracuse, NY, where he’s anchored mornings for the past three ...
MOVING INTO THE TOP SPOT
Amanda Post becomes ND at Sinclair’s WGME in Portland, ME. She’s a Maine native and a ten-year veteran of WGME. Post has been the Assistant ND and also worked for Spectrum News in Syracuse ...
PEACOCK PROMOTION FOR VETERAN PRODUCER
MSNBC producer gets promotion at the streaming service.
HEADING NORTH: SAN DIEGO GM TAKES OVER KNBC AND KVEA
A San Diego general manager gets the call to take over a pair of TV stations in Los Angeles.
A NEW NUMBER TWO IN MISSOURI
There’s a new Assistant News Director to tell you about at KOLR-TV in Springfield, MO. Dan Romito returns to TV news after a five-year absence He is the new assistant news director at Nexstar’s ...
WEATHERS FORECAST: HE’S NOW THE CHIEF MET
Nexstar’s WATE in Knoxville, TN has named longtime forecaster Ken Weathers (yup, his real name) as the station’s new chief meteorologist. Weather has been with the station since December of 2005. His boss is ...
BIG PROMOTION: FROM WEEKENDS TO WEEKNIGHT FOR ABILENE ANCHOR
Weekend anchor gets promoted to weeknights in Abilene. Texas.
PHOENIX SEES A NEW MMJ ARRIVE
Former NBC News intern Jonathan Sarabia has joined Telemundo’s KTAZ in Phoenix, AZ as an MMJ. For the past year he’s been a bilingual MMJ at News Press and Gazette’s KION in Monterey, CA. ...
A NEWCOMER TO WACO WEEKENDS
After a year and a half toiling as an MMJ at Scripps’ KXXV in Waco, TX, Jarell Baker has moved up to the weekend anchor desk. http:// Baker previously worked for at two Florida ...
LONGTIME ABC NEWSER GETS PROMOTION TO VP
A 25-year veteran of ABC News gets a promotion to vice president.
FROM WEEKEND TO WEEKDAY ANCHOR ‘KING’
After a year of weekend anchoring, KING5 in Seattle promotes Steve Soliz to weeknight anchor.
ANCHOR PROMOTION TO MANAGEMENT AT KRCG
Longtime on-air talent at KRCG in Columbia, SC gets a promotion.
SAN FRAN ANCHOR GETS SHOT AT NETWORK
San Francisco anchor to spend the week on ABC's overnight and early morning newscasts.
HEADED FOR THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
It’s a return to the Pacific Northwest as sports reporter Jake Garcia embarks for Tegna-soon-to-be-Standard Media’s KING in Seattle, WA from sister station KVUE in Austin, TX after a touch under three years. The ...
THIS MAKES IT OFFICIAL!!
Over a month ago, it was announced in Huntsville, AL that anchor-reporter Shevaun Bryan was leaving Nexstar duopoly WHNT-WHDF after eight years And on Monday, things get real at her new gig with Gray’s ...
HEADED FOR “ALMOST HEAVEN”
Two years after joining Nexstar’s WPRI in Providence, RI as a consumer reporter and anchor, Gina Marini is headed for the hills. The hills of West Virginia and WCHS, a Sinclair property, that is. ...
SPORTS DEPARTMENT CHANGES IN WPSD
A Kentucky station gives a pair of promotions in the sports department.
SCRIPPS NAMES NEW GM OF WSFL IN MIAMI
A TV executive gets named GM at WSFL in Miami.
A NEW WEEKENDER JOINS WESH
It’s a return to her Florida home area for Christina Watkins, who is the new weekend morning anchor at Hearst’s WESH in Orlando. Watkins spent the past four years anchoring the midday news and ...
“MORNING JOE” TAKES ON FOURTH HOUR; PROMOTES REPORTER
The new senior contributor to help fill the fourth hour of an expanded “Morning Joe” at MSNBC is Eugene Daniels. He’s been a contributor at MSNBC since last year and is also White House ...
CLEVELAND REPORTER MOVING UP TO NBC NEWS
After ten years with Tegna-soon-to-be-Standard Media’s WKYC in Cleveland OH, anchor/reporter Will Ujek bid farewell to the station to move on to NBC News and a new job as a Cleveland-based field producer. http:// ...
NEWSNATION PROMOTES CORRESPONDENT WHO GAINED RECOGNITION FOR PETITO COVERAGE
National cable news channel gives a promotion to one of its correspondents.
4 STATIONS + 2 MARKETS= 1 GENERAL MANAGER AT SINCLAIR
Sinclair names new VP/GM for two stations and gets an executive role at two other stations.
BOSTON NEWS PRODUCER GETS PROMOTION
A veteran Boston journalist gets a promotion.
DOWN IN THE WEST TEXAS TOWN OF EL PASO….A NEW WEEKENDER
Lianna Golden is headed for the weekend anchor desk at Sinclair duopoly KFOX/KDBC in El Paso, TX She joined the station in June of last year in her first fulltime tv news job. http:// ...
MOVING UP AT DISNEY CHICAGO
The newest senior producer at Disney’s WLS in the Windy City is Justyna Syska. Syska joined the station back in 2012 for the launch of the now extinct “Windy City Live.” Justyna has continued ...
MORNING PROMOTION ARRIVES FOR BOSTON ANCHOR
Former Boston sportscaster gets news promotion
PROMOTION FOR MISSISSIPPI TV NEWS MANAGER
Promotion for news manager from Mississippi
COUPLE OF REPORTERS GO NATIONAL
A pair of reporters are joining NBC News.
BUT LIFE WILL GO ON IN THE WEATHER CENTER
Now on Monday, when Sue Palka uses her key card to get into the station and head to the newsroom to work on feature ideas, there will be someone manning the newly-christened Sue Palka ...
BACK HOME IN WISCONSIN
A new face will soon be back in familiar surroundings as Symone Woolridge joins Scripps’ WTMJ in Milwaukee, WI as the station’s noon and 4 PM anchor. The Evanston, IL native is coming back ...
REPORTER’S ‘DREAM’ BECOMES REALITY
A Rochester, NY reporter finds her "dream job" in Connecticut.
TURNING THE ‘PAIGE’ ON THE FUTURE
An investigative producer from Chicago joins CNBC.
NEW HIRE FOR NETWORK’S NEWS DIVISION
Promotion at CBS News leads to new executive hire.
NEW YORK ANCHOR GRABS NATIONAL GIG
She’s not the only one. Another NY1 anchor moved to CNN recently.
A PROMOTION IN CHICAGO
After an eight-year run as a per diem reporter at Nexstar’s WGN in Chicago, Dana Rebik finally got promoted to full-time general assignment reporter. Rebik replaces Patrick Elwood, now the station’s midday news co-anchor. ...
JOB ELEVATION IN FLINT
Rebecka Butcher has been named VP/General Manager of WSMH (Fox) in Flint, MI. She’ll also be responsible for overnight of providing services to WEYI (NBC) and WBSF (CW), Sinclair Broadcast Group said in a ...
MORNING SHOW ADDS NYC REPORTER
Maria Vargas-Pion is joining Telemundo Network’s reconfigured weekday morning program, Media Moves reports. Vargas-Pion will be a New York-based news correspondent for “hoy Día.” Her first day is Monday, March 14, according to Media ...
BELOVED JOURNALIST HEADS FOR GREENER PASTURES
After eight years in two stints, Shevaun Bryan is leaving WHNT/News 19 in Huntsville, Alabama. Shevaun is taking her skills to WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina as an anchor/reporter. Her last day at News ...
HEADING UP I-71
For the past decade, Tara Morgan has plied her trade as an investigative reporter at Sinclair’s WSYX in Columbus, OH. Soon, she will be moving to base of operations nearer to Lake Erie, at ...
“TO WORK IN NEW YORK IS MY DREAM”
When March (hopefully) goes out like a lamb, Atlanta reporter Chris Jose will say good bye to the city and head north. After five years at COX-owned WSB, Jose is going to work for ...
A COUPLE OF SPORTS GUYS TAKE TEXAS JOBS
Houston blogger Mike McGuff reports on a couple of news sports faces on Texas television. Owen Simpson is joining Sinclair’s KTXS in Abilene and he is excited. (See “Moving Up to Austin in today’s ...
GRAY ASSIGNS DOUBLE DUTY TO SPRINGFIELD NEWS DIRECTOR
It’s always nice to report that a news director is moving into station management, so we are happy to report that Patience Hettrick is the newly-named station manager of Gray’s WGGB/WSHM duopoly in Springfield, ...
AUSTIN GETS A NEW INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER
Tani Varma is moving up from the Rio Grande Valley and KRGV to Tegna’s KVUE in Austin, TX as the station’s newest investigative reporter. And she is excited “I’m excited to share that I’ve ...
HEADED FOR THE NETWORK
Locally-owned WBBH in Ft. Myers, FL will be waving farewell to weekday and weekend anchor Nate Foy later this month, as he heads to Manhattan and FOX News. Foy has been with the station ...
HER NEW ADVENTURE BEGINS
After three years of doing jobs from MMJ to anchor and everything in between at Gray’s WGGB in Springfield, MA, Lindsey Kane is excited to be back in her adopted hometown of Hartford, CT ...
EL PASO NEWS DIRECTOR SET TO MOVE INTO THE CORNER OFFICE
We will never get tired of celebrating when a news director is picked to move into a station’s GM slot. We’re old enough to remember when that path was reserved exclusively for the sales ...
A NEW NETWORK ANCHOR IS NAMED
Maity Interiano is the newly-named co-anchor of the weekend evening edition of Univision’s national newscast, “Noticiero Univision.” She takes over the slot left vacant by Paulina Sodi when Sodi moved on to host a ...
CNN PROMOTES
Moving up the ranks as one of CNN’s newest national correspondents is Camila Bernal. The former KRON reporter has been with the cable network for just under four years, starting out at CNN Newsource ...
FROM LOCAL TO NETWORK
It was a ten-year run for veteran Los Angeles anchor León Krauze at Univision’s KMEX. And now it’s on to the network. Starting January 24, Krauze will co-anchor its late night “Noticiero Univision Edición ...
COMING HOME TO DA BURGH
In a couple of weeks, Pittsburgh viewers will be seeing a new face on the night-time streets as Tori Yorgey joins Hearst’s WTAE as the new late-shift reporter. She’s coming from Gray’s WSAZ in ...
LEAVING HER HOME STATE FOR A BIGGER OPPORTUNITY
After a year and a half, anchor/reporter Macklailyn Johnson is departing Nexstar-operated KSAN in San Angelo for Tegna’s KTHV in Little Rock, AR http://
MOVING TO THE ANCHOR DESK….
Just under two years after joining Nexstar’s KXAN in Austin, TX as the Capitol correspondent, Maggie Glyn has a new assignment. She takes over the weekend anchor seat from Erin Cargile who left last ...
FROM LITTLE ROCK TO THE BIG D
Another one who is excited is reporter Alexis Wainwright, who is moving from Nexstar’s KARK in Little Rock, AR to CBS-owned KTVT in Dallas, TX. http:// Wainwright spent two years in Little Rock after ...
IT PLAYS IN PEORIA
Nexstar’s Peoria, IL duopoly WMBD/WYZZ has done some personnel shuffling in the wake of last month’s departure of Janie Bohlmann for WSPA in Spartanburg, NC. Darronte Matthews, who has been with the station for ...
UNIVISION NAMES TWO NEWS DIRECTORS
Univision is elevating two company veterans to news director status. After toiling in the Univision trenches for a combined 22 years, Ilia García (left)and Dacelys Martínez Ortega (right) are now in the big chair(s) ...
CAROLINA BOUND
Janie Bohlmann is set to start up her new duties at Nexstar’s WSPA in Spartanburg, NC. For the past two years, Bohlmann has been a reporter and anchor at sister stations WMBD/WYZZ in Peoria, ...
BACK HOME IN SEATTLE
After two years at Nexstar’s KRQE, reporter Brady Wakayama is happy to announce his homecoming to Tegna’s KING in Seattle. http:// “Heyy Seattle, we got a deal.” – @DangeRussWilson So thrilled to announce I’m ...
HE’S MOVING CLOSER TO HOME
Yes, the proverbial “nationwide search” is underway at Apollo Cox-owned WHIO in Dayton, OH as it prepares to say goodbye to meteorologist Dontae Jones. Jones, an Akron, OH native, is moving across the state ...
FROM PHOENIX TO SAN DIEGO
Come December 12, Mike Gaytán will take the reins as VP of News at Telemundo’s KUAN in San Diego. CA. For the past five years, Gaytán led the newsroom at sister station KTAZ in ...
FROM LOCAL CABLE TO THE NETWORK
After leaving Spectrum News at the beginning of last month, Em Nguyen has turned up as a “multi-platform journalist” for ABC News. At the time of her departure, she gave no hint of future ...
KSDK CONTINUES TO SHUFFLE
Sara Machi’s status is the latest to change at Tegna’s KSDK in St. Louis. Machi, who came to the station in 2019 as the new “5 On Your Side” reporter, is moving up to ...
MISSISSIPPI STATION TAPS NEW EVENING ANCHOR
Lori Buhring is getting closer to home as the new evening anchor at Morris Multimedia’s WXXV in Gulfport, MS. The Alabama native comes to the station after 2 and a half years as weekend ...
HE’LL SOON BE ON “ROCKY TOP”
News Director Matt Kummer is sticking with Gray as he moves south after 10 years (8 of them as news director) at WBAY in Green Bay, WI to the company’s Knoxville duopoly WVLT-WBXX http:// ...
BUMPED UP IN CHICAGO
Virginia Matos has been with Disney’s WLS in Chicago since her internship there back in 2000. 21 years later, the Chicago native is the newly-designated executive producer of the station’s 11 AM and 5 ...
HEADED HOME FROM BALTIMORE
Multimedia journalist Trenier Ward is coming back to sweet home Chicago and Disney’s WLS. He seems pretty happy about it. http:// The Chicago native was with Hearst’s WBAL in Baltimore. Before that he put ...
A NEW WEEKENDER TURNS UP IN SATX
Marina Neuman is the new weekend morning meteorologist at Tegna’s KENS in San Antonio, TX. The Ohio native began her career at Block’s WLIO in Lima, OH before moving on to Sinclair’s WACH in ...
ANOTHER WINDY CITY REPORTER HEADED FOR THE CABLE WORLD
Alexis McAdams, who’s been working on a per diem basis for Disney’s WLS in Chicago is the latest Chicago reporter to be beckoned by the bright lights of cable news. We reported to you ...
REPLACEMENT FOR DEPARTED BUFFALO FORECASTER NAMED
Barely six months after earning her AMS Seal, Elyse Smith is moving up at Tegna’s WGRZ in Buffalo, NY. Smith, who joined the station in January of last year, is coming off weekends to ...
MOVING TO WEEKDAYS IN AUSTIN
Starting next Monday, Jenni Lee, a familiar face to Austin, TX tv news viewers, will be found on the anchor desk middays on Tegna’s KVUE. She’s moving off the weekend evening newscasts, and is ...
THE CABLE NEWS WORLD BECKONS
Brittany Garzillo, a general assignment reporter and fill-in news anchor at Fox-owned WFLD in Chicago, IL is moving up to Fox News Channel as a New York-based reporter. This after just over a year ...
AN UPWARD CAREER ARC
Kelsie Cairns joins Gray’s WWSB in Sarasota, FL as Monday through Friday Morning Anchor. Cairns, who is a graduate of Penn State University (Ed. Note: WE ARE…!!!) most recently worked at the Tegna’s WATN ...
SEATTLE-BOUND
Brian MacMillan, meteorologist at Meredith’s KPTV in Portland, OR has some bittersweet news to share (it’s ALWAYS bittersweet, isn’t it?) http:// MacMillan also runs a video production company….evidently a boutique operation that he is ...
VEGAS BABY!!
Maria Perez showed up this week as the new principal weather anchor at Telemundo’s Las Vegas operation, KBLR She moved to Sin City from sister station KTLM McAllen, TX, for the past three years.. ...
OFF THE WEEKENDS IN AUSTIN
Weekend anchor….make that FORMER weekend anchor…Hannah Rucker is pulling up stakes on the Saturday-Sunday dawn patrol at Tegna’s KVUE for the weekday slot. http:// She came to the station last year from Nexstar’s WBTW ...
FBN PICKS UP TWO NEW CORRESPONDENTS
FOX Business Network has reached down into St. Petersburg, FL and Los Angeles to bring in two new correspondents Madison Alworth, for the past three years a reporter/anchor for Tegna’s WTSP in Tampa-St. Pete, ...
NEXSTAR NAMES MONTANA EXEC
Stephen Eaton is the new VP/GM of Nexstar’s KSVI, yourbigsky.com and their related mobile and social media channels in Billings, MT Eaton took over immediately and also took on oversight of Mission Broadcasting’s KHMT, ...
MOVING UP IN DAYTON
After 7 years of co-anchoring the Dawn Patrol (aka “2 News Today”) on Nexstar’s WDTN in Dayton, OH, John Seibel is moving up to evenings beginning September 6th. Seibel, who came back to his ...
KARE NAMES ITS NEW SPORTS GUY
Where do you find the guy who might be ab le to fill the shoes of a sportscaster who sat in that main char for a quarter century? In the case of Tegna’s KARE ...
MOVING UP AT SINCLAIR
Sinclair’s CNY Central…its branded combo of WSTM, WTVH and CW6 in Syracuse, NY, has promoted Tommy Sladek as the new sports director. Sladek joined the station back in 2018 as an MMJ. The Philadelphia ...
THE CAREER MOVES FORWARD – HE STAYS IN PLACE
In his 9-year television career, Hayden Bulgavy has worked for only one television station – Tegna’s KTHV in Little Rock, AR. And he is making the most of it, moving up from interning while ...
FROM DENVER MORNINGS TO NATIONAL EVENINGS
Morning anchor Meagan O’Halloran is waving goodbye to the morning anchor desk at Nexstar’s KDVR in the Mile High City and is slipping into the evening anchor chair at Sinclair’s still-to-be-launched evening edition of ...
THE BENCH GETS DEEPER IN CINCY
Come the middle of next month, Katie Donovan will become the FIFTH meteorologist at Hearst’s WLWT in Cincinnati She’s moving to her home town on the western side of Ohio from the capitol Columbus, ...
MOVING UP IN EAST TEXAS
Nexstar duopoly KETK/KFXK has promoted Sarah Alegre to the morning anchor position at the stations’ AM newscasts. She’s been with the stations for just about a year. http://
ANOTHER NEWS DIRECTOR MOVES TO THE GM SUITE
Lockwood Broadcasting announced that Mark Kurtz, for the past six years the news director at WAVY in Norfolk, VA will move out and up to the GM chair it’s the group’s WCAV in Charlottesville, ...
MEMPHIS REPORTER HEADED FOR MICHIGAN AND THE ANCHOR DESK
Amicia Ramsey joins the morning newscast at Gray’s WILX in Lansing, MI Monday morning. Ramsey will pair with Mallory Anderson at the anchor desk. She was most recently a reporter at Apollo Cox-owned WHBQ ...
FINDING THE RIGHT JOB. HOW?
Here's some good guidance from TV agent Ken Lindner and his book Career Choreography.
BOUNCING AROUND THE FRINGE
Alex Salvi is now an international correspondent for Newsmax, based in Rome. The Chicago-area native has been a nightly news anchor for One America “News” Network for the past two years, hosting “After Hours ...
