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 “ across all platforms at both NBC News and MSNBC. ...
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 was last summer that McNeill announced her departure from the ...
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 station’s food chain. Let’s go indeed. Hrapsky’s previous employers are ...
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. He’s been with the station since 2016, starting as an ...
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 several stations already on her resume. Kirchhaine previously worked at ...
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 for the station. This is her second job in the ...
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 past 10 years. She joined the station in 2008 after ...
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 tour in Little Rock. He was a reporter at KARK ...
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 in Dallas. He earlier spent time in Detroit, Kansas City, Oklahoma ...
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 content on all platforms for the past three years. Hatmaker’s ...
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 thrilled “Rachel Frank is one of the top meteorologists in ...
Vickie Nguyen, for the past 12 years an investigative reporter with the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit at KNTV in San Jose, CA is network-bound. She’ll be an investigative and consumer correspondent with NBC ...
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 reporter for Nexstar’s WISH, in Indianapolis. He previously worked for ...
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 City. Buganski has also worked in Tucson. He’s originally from ...
Stephen Morgan has been promoted to KRIV (FOX) weekend morning weather anchor, announced station Vice President and News Director, Susan Schiller. He assumes this role immediately, and will continue to report on various station ...
Gabrielle Franklin has signed on with Nexstar’s WCIA in Champaign, Ill. as the station’s new Capitol Bureau reporter. She moved to Illinois from Columbia, SC and Bahakel’s WOLO where she also specialized in statewide ...
In February of 2018, we told you how KRIV reporter Stephen Morgan picked up the clicker and did the Sunday evening weathercast for the station. A true utility player Fox-owned station. Now it’s becoming ...
A-a-and the new visual producer for the Yahoo Sports is….Paul Rosales It’s a return to the company for Rosales, who spent his first four years in the news business at Yahoo. Rosales left Yahoo ...
The newsroom at WXIX in Cincinnati has a new executive producer. Nick Helton, who’s been a producer for this Gray TV station for nearly five years, got a bump up. He’s a product of ...
Sacramento reporter Macy Jenkins is joining Fox-owned KDFW in Dallas, as the newest Fort Worth bureau nightside reporter. Everybody is excited and eager. “We’re excited for Macy to join FOX 4. She has a wealth ...
Anybody in the Dallas area care to help a new reporter find a Cowboys jersey? Alex Rozier would like one as he moves from Tegna’s KING in Seattle to sister station WFAA in Dallas. ...
Reporter Lauren Victory finally gets to sign on to the health plan at CBS-owned WBBM in Chicago. After three years as a per-diem reporter she’s been promoted to full-time staff reporting. “Lauren has proven ...
And here’s a change that viewers figured had already taken place. Chris Gegg, news director of Sinclair’s WRGB in Albany, NY spreads the word that Emily DeFeciani is the new weekend anchor. She’s been ...
Call it an in-house move as Garry Frank, morning forecaster at Tribune’s WXMI in Grand Rapids, MI prepares to move south to sister station WDAF in Kansas City, MO WDAF has had a hole ...
Stephanie Himonidis is leaving LA to join the Telemundo Network. She’s moving to Miami and co-hosting chores for “Un Nuevo Día” from her most recent job as co-host of KVEA’s weekday AM entertainment news ...
Jodi Long, weekend anchor at WHOTV (NBC) started this week as co-host of “Today in Iowa” Long started with the station in 2011 as a college intern. “I am so honored and humbled to ...
Jeff Rosetti has been promoted to the top job at Dispatch Broadcast Group’s WTHR, in Indianapolis, IN. He’s been the assistant ND since 2011, and has been the interim ND since Kathy Hostetter left last ...
Samantha Gannon is joining Fox-owned KDFW in Dallas, TX later this month as co-host and producer for “Free4All”, the live weeknight sports/entertainment show hosted by longtime sports anchor Mike Doocy. She’s coming from KOKH, ...
Scripps’ WEWS in Cleveland tapped Josh Voight as the newsroom’s new executive producer. He’s been working for Tribune’s Indianapolis duopoly WTTV/WXIN for the past four years as a producer and EP. He’s also worked in ...
Heartland Media’s WTVA in Columbus-Tupelo, MS, named veteran newser Liz Zamora as its new news director Zamora boasts more than 20 years of television news experience. She began her career as a shooter at ...
Meteorologist Albert Martínez is moving up to the Univision program “Despierta América” as chief meteorologist and weather anchor starting March 4th. He’s coming from the Univision Weather Center in Houston where’s he’s been doing ...
Her station bio page is already gone in Phoenix and it’s on to a new phase in her career for Jessica De Nova. For the past two years, she reported for Tegna’s KPNX but ...
Dan Colarusso, executive editor at Reuters Digital for the past 7+ years, is moving on to CNBC, where he’ll be senior VP of business news, overseeing television news content, coverage and production. He starts ...
Brittany Falkers heads to the Pacific Northwest and Tegna’s KGW in Portland, OR as the station’s new weekend anchor. She leaves Nexstar’s WFRV in Green Bay where she has been morning anchor and reporter ...
Kaleigh Emery wraps up her three-year tenure as sports anchor/reporter at Gray’s KFYR in Bismarck, ND later today. She’s taking the six and a half hour trip along I-94 to land at FOX O&O ...
Multimedia journalist Romy Cabral has been tapped by Univision to head up the first full-time Spanish-language news bureau in Albany, NY. She spent that past three years as an associate producer and video coordinator ...
Philadelphia’s newest anchor is coming from the heartland. Shaina Humphries will join Fox-owned WXTF as the station’s newest 6 and 11 p.m. co anchor. “We are so impressed by Shaina’s ability to connect to ...
Ro Coppola is the new Director of Digital and Enterprise Content at Graham Media’s WDIV in Detroit, MI. For the past 14 years, she’s been the station’s Executive Producer of Special Projects. Coppola has ...
Kathy Reynolds is leaving Sinclair owned WGME in Portland, ME to become Story Telling Team Leader, in charge of MSJs and anchors, at Tegna’s WUSA in Washington, DC. She’s been Portland almost six years, and ...
Max McGee is the latest addition to the newsroom at CBS-owned WJZ in Baltimore MD. He just left his anchor post at Gray’s WMBF in Myrtle Beach, S.C. after two years there. “After reporting ...
Priscilla Alvarez is the newest addition to CNN, joining the political beat reporting on immigration policy and politics. She’’ll continue to be based in Washington, DC, where she has reported for the past three ...
Anndrea Anderson has been promoted to ND for Red River Broadcasting’s KDLT in Sioux Falls, SD. She’s currently the weekend anchor/producer there and joined KDLT in 2015 as a reporter. She replaces Jessica Brovold who ...
Scripps’ WKBW in Buffalo kicked off the New Year with a realignment of its noon newscast. After only six months at the station, Madison Carter has taken the helm of the program. She had ...
Kristen Chapman is the new weekend anchor/reporter at Sinclair’s WPEC in West Palm Beach, FL. She joined the station in 2016 as a general assignment reporter. Chapman is a graduate of The University of ...
Nexstar’s WDTN in Dayton, OH has signed up Carly Smith as the station’s new weekend meteorologist and MMJ. She starts Jan. 21. And hey….she’s thrilled. “I’m thrilled to join the 2 NEWS team and ...
Elizabeth Turner will be joining the “The CBS Evening News” as a senior producer, effective Jan. 14. Her new role puts her in the control room during the nightly newscast. Turner joined CBS News ...
Weigel’s WDJT in Milwaukee, WI has promoted Mark McPherson to weekend co-anchor. He’ll share the anchor desk with current co-anchor Pauleen Le, with whom he earlier worked at a station in Lacrosse, WI. “I’ve ...
Tammy Blumhagen is the newly-named VP/GM at Nexstar’s North Dakota quadopoly KXMB/KXMC/KXMD/KXMA. The stations serve one of the more hyphenated markets in the country, Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson-Williston. She’s already on the job. Blumhagen most recently was ...
Caryn Golden has been promoted to news director at Cox Media owned (for now) WHIO in Dayton, OH. She’ll replace Dave Bennalack when he retires at the end of the year, after 11 years as ND ...
Alison Coe removes the ‘interim’ tag and is now the news director for Nexstar owned WATE in Knoxville, TN. She’s been running the shop since Jamie Foster left in September after 12 years as news director. ...
Monica Cortez got the nod and is now the new chief meteorologist for KTSM, the Nexstar station in El Paso, TX. She’s been with the station for the past five years and is an ...
WXTV, Univision’s New York station has named José Pagliery as its investigative reporter. He started this week but no date has been set for his on-air debut. Pagliery will conduct special reports and contribute ...
Nicole Griffin joins Spectrum News in Orlando, Fla. as a bureau reporter. She worked for the past two years at Sinclair’s WCTI in New Bern, N.C. The Syracuse grad previously worked as an associate ...
Hearst’s management school, like the Energizer bunny, just keeps going and going. Derek Schnell is the new news director at KCRA/KQCA, the Hearst duopoly in Sacramento, CA. Schnell is being bumped up from co-assistant ...
Anchor Sydney Cameron and investigative reporter Curtis McCloud turned up in Orlando, FL this month after saying their goodbyes at Nexstar’s WJHL in Johnson City, TN, in October. McCloud is now the newest investigative ...
Vanessa Croix joins Tegna’s KENS in San Antonio, TX as a reporter. She’s coming from sister station KAGS in Bryan/College Station where she spent the past two years. Before starting her broadcast news career, ...
Chris Pantaleo joins Nexstar’s WLNS in Lansing, MI as its next assistant news director. News Director Jam Sardar fills in the blanks in this email, which also contains news of the retirement of veteran newsman Norm ...
After six years at Cox-owned WHIO in Dayton, OH, McCall Vrydaghs is the newly-named chief meteorologist at the station. “I’m very excited to start this next chapter of my life,” Vrydaghs said. “The Miami ...
Connecticut’s newest TV morning news anchor comes with one heck of an impressive bio. She’s an Olympic medalist in swimming, was recently inducted into her high school’s sports hall of fame, and is a ...
When longtime news director Dave Busiek finally hangs it up at Hearst’s KCCI in Des Moines, IA in December, his replacement will be Allison Smith, currently the number two at sister station WLWT in ...
Robb Ellis spent more than a year filling in as a freelancer on Chicago CBS O&O WBBM. Now, he has finally gotten a full-time meteorologist job. Ellis will be seen on weekend evening newscasts ...
Mark Davenport is the new Digital Content Manager for WBTV in Charlotte, NC. Davenport has been a multi-platform content manager and morning reporter for that Raycom owned affiliate during his five years with the station.
KXAS (NBC) announced on Monday that John Stone has been named Vice President of News for the Dallas-Fort Worth station. Stone joined NBC 5 as Assistant News Director in 2017 and has led the ...
Chrystal Blair is promoted to weekend anchor at Mission Broadcasting’s KOLR in Springfield, MO where she has been a general assignment reporter. Blair, a graduate of Eastern Michigan University, has a highly decorated career ...
Jenn Suozzo, previously senior broadcast producer at NBC’s “Nightly News With Lester Holt,” is the new executive producer on the network’s nightly newscast. She’s been filling in on that position since Sam Singal left ...
Jasmine Haynes, for the past four years the morning anchor and producer at Morgan Murphy’s KAVU in Victoria, TX, is heading north. She’s headed for Nexstar’s KSNW in Wichita, KS where she’ll be an MMJ ...
Come October 22nd, Melanie Townsend, currently the morning and midday anchor at Nexstar’s KFDX in Wichita Falls, TX will make a radical switch to her sleeping pattern and her alarm clock. She’s taking over ...
Meteorologist Alex Alecci is the new weekend forecaster at Hearst’s WTAE in Pittsburgh. He’s coming from Red River’s (and soon-to-be Gray’s) KDLT in Sioux Falls, SD, where he was chief meteorologist since December of ...
Of course you want to be as certain as possible when making critical personnel changes – especially one in which you are coming up with the successor to an icon. But really, it took ...
In Seattle Washington, the city-run news channel has a new General Manager. Shannon Gee has been appointed General Manager of Seattle Channel. She’s an Award-winning television producer and documentary filmmaker who joined the outlet ...
Chicago Univision WGBO has promoted Enrique Rodriguez to 5 and 10 p.m. weekday anchor. Rodriguez most recently helmed “Edición Digital” (“Digital Edition”) at 11:30 a.m. weekdays. Rodriguez, as main news anchor alongside Erika Maldonado, ...
“CBS This Morning” is getting a new line producer (They call them “senior producers” at the network level.) Megan Walsh, a CBS News vet who’s done a previous stint at CTM as well as ...
Jesse Hamilton is headed east after four years as executive producer of Disney’s WLS morning news. He’s leaving for NBC-owned WNBC in New York where he will be dayside executive producer. “Jesse’s led the ...
Tegna’s KTHV in Little Rock, AR liked officer Adam Bledsoe’s Friday feature “Operation Safe Speed” so much, they decided to bring him on fulltime. Bledsoe will be a feature reporter with the station after ...
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, who might be actor Bill Hader’s lost brother, is joining Fox News….FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY!!! That’s what it says here…. “The Ben Shapiro Election Special” is a limited-run series ...
In Buffalo, Tegna’s WGRZ finally got around to replacing the long-departed Jonah Javad, who is practically an old hand in Dallas by now. After six months, J.T. Messinger has been anointed the station’s newest ...
Mia O’Brien is the newest sports anchor/reporter for Tegna duopoly WTLV/WJXX in Jacksonville, Fla. For the past three years, she’s been working as sports anchor/reporter at Sinclair’s KGAN in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Ithaca ...
Sometimes the headlines write themselves. That’s the case as we report the news that Destiny Chance is the new weekend PM anchor on Fox O&O KTBC in Austin, TX. Chance has only been with ...
Alyssa Meisner moves to morning and noon anchor at Sinclair’s KDBC in El Paso, TX. She comes from Nexstar’s WOWK in Charleston, W.Va., where she was a weekend anchor for the past three years. ...
The Today Show has a new anchor but he didn’t travel too far for his new digs. Craig Melvin left his job as co-host of Saturday Today last month. The Today Show crew announced ...
Dallas-Ft. Worth Fox O&O KDFW is promoting weekend morning anchor Hanna Battah to the weekday pre-dawn patrol at the station. Battah, who’s been with the station for all of four months, will move from ...
We wonder who she pulls for in the annual Red River Showdown? Olivia Martínez is headed to Texas from Oklahoma. She moves up two markets in Nielsen’s Hispanic DMA ranks – from 41 to ...
The NFL Network’s newest reporter is MJ Acosta, who left NBC-Telemundo duopoly KNSD-KUAN in San Diego to take the job. She’ll be based in the Bay Area, and contribute to shows such as “NFL ...
Romina Rosado is switching executive roles and divisions inside NBCUniversal. After six years, she’s moving from E!, where she was SVP of global content, to become SVP of digital news for Telemundo, developing new ...
Grecia Medina is now occupying the newly created position of production and editorial director of “Al Rojo Vivo con María Celeste” at Telemundo News. Medina, who came over to Telemundo a year ago as ...
After 29 years at the station, and the last ten months serving in an interim capacity, Matt Garrett finally got the nod as the permanent general manager at the University of Missouri’s KOMU. Well, ...
Jessi Schultz is the newest reporter at Scripps’ WEWS. She’s on the “Good Morning Cleveland” beat. Schultz is a Cleveland native who came home after two years at Sinclair’s WSBT in South Bend, IN. ...
Crandall Sims has been promoted to Executive Producer for WBTV, Raycom’s Charlotte station. She moves up from line producing. Sims has also worked in Columbia, SC, and Myrtle Beach. ———- Janna Smithson joins Raycom’s WMC in ...
Still another promotion at WTEN/WXXA in Albany, NY finds Ryan Mott upped to the top job for this Nexstar duopoly. He’s been the executive producer here since August, 2010 and previously worked a producer in ...
Louisville sports anchor Katie George is moving up to The Show. She’s leaving Block Communications’ WDRB to become the sideline reporter for the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks. She starts Thursday. She was hired at WDRB ...
Porter Berry is the newly-named VP and editor in chief of Fox News Digital. He succeeds Noah Kotch who took a position with “The Daily Mail’s” digital operation. Berry will oversee all Fox News ...
Disney’s WABC in New York has a new assistant news director. Elizabeth Flores makes the trip north from Miami where she’s been the Assistant ND at NBC O&O WTVJ. In a remarkable coincidence, she once ...
A former local sportscaster for Tegna’s WLTX in Columbia, SC and sister station WTLV in Jacksonville, FL has been hired by the SEC Network as a host and anchor for its studio show programming ...
News director Dave Busiek has named Scott Reister the new sports director at Hearst’s KCCI in Des Moines, IA Reister replaces Andy Garman, who signed off last week to enter the wild world of ...
A new anchor showed up this morning on Baltimore’s WJZ, a CBS O&O. Nicole Baker came to the station after three years with Hearst’s WJCL in Savannah, GA. Baker previously worked in Rhinelander, WI. ...
Fox News already has Conor Powell’s replacement on board. Trey Yingst, who has served as One America News Network’s chief White House correspondent since June 2016 is headed for the Jerusalem bureau and, most ...
Julie Gargotta is now an anchor/reporter at Spectrum’s CENTRAL FLORIDA NEWS 13. Gargotta was an MMJ when she first arrived at CENTRAL FLORIDA NEWS 13 late in 2014. She previously worked in both print ...
Awhile back, Elizabeth Pace was hired as an MMJ at Nexstar’s KLBK in Lubbock, TX and soon found herself promoted to weekend evening anchor/reporter at the station in March of last year. Now she’s ...
