Telemundo 47 has promoted from within by tapping Freddy Oldenburg as the company’s next VP of News. Oldenburg has been VIP of News at Telemundo’s O&O in Dallas since 2017. With his promotion ...
KTVX-TV in Salt Lake City has a new member of the team. Meteorologist Erika Martin is joining “Good Morning Utah.” Also on the move is Joey Lamar, who is heading from Bismarck, North Dakota ...
WTMJ-TV Milwaukee meteorologist Jesse Ritka announced on Sunday’s newscast that she’s leaving for a job at a station in Fargo, North Dakota. She broke the news at the end of the 5 p.m. newscast ...
Meredith Corp. said it promoted James (JD) Sosnoff to VP and general manager of KMOV-TV, St. Louis, effective July 1. Sosnoff, currently the station’s director of sales, will succeed Mike Murphy, who will retire ...
Gray TV, out of Atlanta, has announced the launch of Full Court Press Now across its local stations on 93 markets starting tonight, Monday. Hosted by Greta Van Susteren, Full Court Press Now is a ...
Tegna has named Jessie Kane as executive news director of KREM-TV in Spokane, effective May 26. The move marks a return to KREM for Kane, who began her career at the station and was a ...
According to the New York Times, Jason Kilar has been named as head of AT&T’s entertainment and news unit. . Kilar replaces John Stankey, who remains AT&T’s president. This comes right before the launch of ...
Nexstar is rolling out the red carpet for Scot Chastain in Sacramento. He’s been promoted to VP/GM at KTXL (FOX). Chastain, had been VP and GM of Nexstar’s operation in Lansing, Mich., succeeds Leigh ...
Kelli Raftery, a veteran CBS communications executive who has worked in many different roles over more than two decades at the company, is preparing to leave, one of several executives departing in the wake of ...
WVNS (CBS/FOX) Meteorologist Zach Guion has left the station. No word what’s in his future but from his going away post on social media, it sounds like he is happy with his decision. His ...
KVUE (ABC) advertised a few weeks back for a News Director job in Austin Texas. Apparently they have found a winner. According to a statement: “KVUE-TV is pleased to welcome Christina Ginn to lead its news team ...
TV News Check reports Fox News Channel (FNC) Wednesday named Ashley Strohmier as an overnight anchor and news correspondent. Based out of the network’s headquarters in New York City, Strohmier will begin her role on ...
Rockies fans may be sorry to see in-game TV reporter Taylor McGregor leave for Chicago’s soon-to-launch Marquee Sports Network. But if they’re going to lose someone to the Cubs, Coloradans figure at least it’s not ...
Kristi Leigh, evening news co-anchor at WTOL (CBS), and WUPW (FOX) is leaving her “childhood dream” job after three years to join Fox affiliate KMPH-TV in Fresno, Calif. Leigh’s last day on the local ...
Sharman Sacchetti has joined WCVB (ABC) Boston as political reporter. The news comes from Bill Fine, WCVB President and General Manager. A native of Lawrence, Massachusetts, Sacchetti has been a reporter in New England ...
Sacramento’s TV news scene will soon be adding another on-air personality, this one a Northern California native. Stephanie Lin, anchor and reporter for “Action News Now” in Chico, announced this week she will be ...
Stephanie Vies joined Univision’s WXTV in New York as the newest member of the station;s weather team. She’s on the “Noticias 41 A Las 6PM” and “Noticias 41 Solo a las Once” evening broadcasts ...
KBMT (NBC) has announced a new Southeast Texas Anchor duo. KJAC anchor and investigative reporter DeJonique Garrison and 12News assistant news director Jordan Williams have been named the new evening co-anchor team for 12News KMBT. “DeJonique and ...
A career journalist who once worked at the Daily News and later won a Pulitzer Prize has been named the NYPD’s top spokesman, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said Monday. Richard Esposito, newly named as ...
Univision Arizona on Wednesday named Joe Donnarumma president and general manager, effective Feb. 10. In this role, he will oversee all aspects of station operations for Univision Arizona’s television, radio, digital and social media ...
Ex-WDIV (NBC) reporter Kevin Dietz, who was fired from the station last July, has returned to television news this week. Dietz starts his new gig today on WADL (Channel 38) in a broadcast called ...
“Surprise!” is one of the first words new KHOU 11 #HTownRush Saturday morning newscast anchor Brandi Smith says in her Facebook video announcing her new gig right before showtime last weekend. Since Smith already anchors ...
WPXI (NBC) has hired Tampa anchor/reporter Angie Moreschi for its investigations team. “WPXI is giving me an incredible opportunity to be an investigative reporter in my hometown, and I don’t take that lightly,” she ...
FOX News Channel has signed WFMZ-TV, an independent television station, reporter Alex Hogan as a general assignment reporter. She begins her new role today. Since 2017, Hogan has served as a morning news reporter ...
Mark Ronchetti, an Albuquerque meteorologist who is one of New Mexico’s most popular television figures, announced Tuesday that is joining the race for U.S. Senate in New Mexico, adding more drama to a contest ...
NBC Chicago WMAQ reporter Anayeli Ruiz has joined KHOU 11 according to blogger Mike Mcguff. “I’ve got some news, I’ve joined the CBS station in Houston,” Ruiz tweeted. “Chicago was an amazing experience & now I couldn’t be ...
WDAM (ABC) investigative reporter and anchor Mike McDaniel took to social media over the holiday to announce a move. McDaniel says he’s “coming home” to WWL (CBS) later this month. He rejoined the WDAM ...
McKenna Cieslak didn’t waste much time after graduation before landing her first job. She took to social media to announce she’ll be starting at WSAV (NBC) as a reporter starting January 6th. She’s a ...
Payton Marshall took to social media this week to announce she’s the new morning reporter for Dayton 24/7. You may remember the Miami Valley Ohio combo WRGT (FOX) and WKEF (ABC) changed names to ...
KGAN (CBS)-KFXA (Fox) Cedar Rapids, Iowa has appointed Kristen Hamilton as news director at the Sinclair owned stations. She spent the last five years as news director Sinclair’s KHQA in her hometown of Quincy, ...
Sinclair announced Wednesday that Susan Connor has been hired as Vice President/General Manager for KTVL (CBS) in Medford Oregon. “I am thrilled to be joining such a visionary and progressive company in the media ...
MacKenzie Stasko joins Nexstar’s WNCN in Raleigh, NC where she will be a reporter/MMJ. Stasko spent the past three years and 8 months as a reporter for SJL’s KITV in Honolulu. She’s also worked ...
Longtime KCRA (NBC) anchor Kellie DeMarco is leaving the station at the end of the year to start her own business, she announced this week. DeMarco, a three-time Emmy Award-winner with nearly 20 years ...
Dallas-based WFAA (ABC) is in sync with the holiday season by adding William Joy to its reporting staff. After two years with Kansas City’s KMBC-TV , he’ll be leaving the ABC affiliate later this ...
KVUE (ABC) Media Group News Director Tim Ryan has been promoted to Director of Content at KUSA (NBC) Denver. Before he became KVUE’s news director in July 2017, he was assistant news director at ...
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has appointed a former Rapid City TV journalist to fill a vacant state senate seat for the 2020 legislative session. Noem named Republican Helene Duhamel last week to the ...
Tegna has named a former Nexstar veteran to lead its WATN (ABC) and WLMT (CW) in Tennessee.Rick Rogala was named Monday President and general manager of WATN and WLMT. Rogala joins WATN from Bespoke ...
Meg Oliver has been named correspondent at CBS News. She will be based in New York and will report for all CBS News programs and platforms, including CBS This Morning, CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell and ...
Jessica Janner Castro has joined the KING (NBC) news team. Castro is the new face on the evening and night side anchor desk, joining a team of celebrated and award-winning journalists. She started last ...
Jairo Lozano has started a new job. He’s now a multi-media journalist at KUVN (Univision) in Dallas. He made his on-air debut this week. Lozano comes to DFW from Telemundo San Antonio. He started ...
Travis Cummings reporter/weekend at KEVN (FOX) took to social media Monday announcing a move. He arrived at the Gray owned station in 2017 from Louisiana.
Kenny Lawrence has been promoted to Vice President and General Manager for WSPA (CBS) and WCYW (CW) in the Carolinas. Lawrence will be moving from his current role as Vice President and General Manager ...
NBC executive Jim Bell, who has produced the last four Olympics for the network and been in charge backstage at Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight” show for the past year, says he’s leaving NBC. Bell said ...
Dallas news stations generally don’t publicly announce departures, unless they’re giving a longtime contributor a big sendoff. So this one fell through the cracks, even for Blogger Uncle Barky until a follower on Twitter ...
We mentioned Wednesday that Tashara Parker is the newly-named “Daybreak” traffic anchor for Tegna’s WFAA in Dallas. She’s coming to the Big D just before sweeps from sister station KYTX in Tyler, TX where ...
Josh French, Digital Sales Manager at Cox Local Solutions in Tulsa Oklahoma says he’s headed South. He took to social media Wednesday with the following: “It’s been real Tulsa but after much deliberation, I ...
KPRC (NBC) gets a new temporary reporter according to Houston Blogger Mike McGuff, MaryAnn Martinez, formerly of KTVT (CBS) in Dallas-Fort Worth Texas. She left the CBS owned station in March of 2019 mysteriously after ...
Houston Blogger Mike McGuff has a nice recap of moves in Texas last month. Many were mentioned here, but check out this recap. DALLAS – FORT WORTH Jeff Jamison, the longest standing meteorologist at ...
Former KDKA (CBS) news anchor Jennifer Antkowiak will be the new face of community relations for the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese as it works to move forward from last year’s scathing grand jury report on ...
Madison Bess has been named Production Assistant at CBS Sports. Bess graduated Ithaca College in May 2018 with a B.A. in Journalism and a minor in Sports Studies. She has worked as a Sports ...
The new assignment manager at Univision’s WXTV in Paterson, NJ is a familiar face. Alba Eduardo-Castillo is moving up from chief assignment editor in the newsroom. Before her current station, she worked as assignment ...
Zoltan Csanyi-Salcedo is the new News Director for KRGV (ABC) and Somos Noticias, digital channel 5.2. Csanyi-Salcedo is a 30-plus year news veteran in television and radio in both English and Spanish language broadcasting. ...
The E.W. Scripps Company has appointed Kathleen Choal as vice president and general manager for KSHB, 41 Action News, and KMCI, 38 the Spot, in Kansas City, Missouri. Choal is currently general manager of ...
Mike Lewis today was appointed vice president and general manager of the Fox duopoly in Charlotte, N.C. Wednesday. He’ll be running WJZY (Fox) and WMYT (MNT). Lewis succeeds Mike McClain, who became GM of ...
Lauren Petterson has been named President of FOX Business Network (FBN), announced Suzanne Scott, CEO of FOX News Media. In a related move, Brian Jones, who currently holds this position, will depart. Petterson will ...
Nexstar Media Group said that William “Bill” Sally has been promoted to executive VP of sales at Nexstar Broadcasting. The new position is effective with the closing of Nexstar’s acquisition of Tribune Media and ...
Meteorologist Ed Bloodsworth, had his big debut Monday as Chief Meteorologist of WKRG (CBS). “After an exhaustive nation-wide search, we are fortunate to have Ed join WKRG and lead our team of meteorologists, “said ...
Jamie McGlinchy has been promoted to Senior Broadcast Producer, Special Events at CBS News. He’s worked at CBS for the past 13-years in various roles from Producer at CBS Evening News to working stints ...
Ashley Godwin joins KTHV (CBS) Little Rock Arkansas as a reporter. Godwin took to Social Media to announce the move saying, “this has been the hardest secret to keep, because I just wanted to shout ...
Denise Killian returns to the ND chair as she will be the next ND for Gray’s WJRT in Flint/Saginaw, MI. Her last job was at KDAF-TV CW 33 in Dallas, where she was lead Producer. She’s been ...
Dallas native Jay Wallis, who’s spent the last three years at ABC affiliate KVUE-TV in Austin, is returning home to be a reporter for WFAA (ABC). Both are owned by TEGNA. Wallis, a University ...
A new face will appear soon on Corpus Christi Texas TV screens. But the Coastal Bend isn’t new to her. KIII (ABC) announced that Leslie Adami will be the co-anchor of 3 News at ...
KHOU (CBS) has hired WCNC (NBC) Charlotte, North Carolina, weekend anchor Xavier Walton as its new #HTownRush morning anchor. “We are excited to have him on board,” KHOU president and general manager, Robert Springer, told ...
Terrance Friday will be working on Saturdays and Sundays as KDFW (FOX) Dallas new weekend morning news anchor. His hiring was announced Wednesday according to Dallas blogger Ed Bark, with Friday scheduled to join ...
You may recall, Mike Barnes left KVUE (ABC) this past March after more than 29 years of covering sports in central Texas. Mike started as a sports reporter at KVUE in 1989. Since sports ...
Greg Dutra, a meteorologist at KDVR, the Fox affiliate in Denver, is joining the weather front at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7. Starting September 23, Dutra will appear on ABC 7’s weekend morning newscasts. A graduate of Lyndon ...
Next Monday, Brian Jackson takes a bow as the new morning co-anchor at Scripps WTXL in Tallahassee, FL He’ll join Angela Green at 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. Everyone is excited. “We’re excited to ...
Longtime Colorado Springs KOAA (NBC) weekend reporter/anchor Zach Thaxton is no longer with the station. Thaxton, who had been with KOAA since 2010, departed the station to commit his priorities to matters outside the ...
Rogers Communications has announced the appointment of Jordan Banks as President of Rogers Media, effective September 9, 2019. Rick Brace, who has served as President of Rogers Media since 2015, will retire from the ...
Charisse Gibson has become the newest anchor at WWL (CBS), joining Karen Swensen at the desk at 6 p.m. and Katie Moore in the 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. time slots. “I cannot believe ...
KXII (CBS) has welcomed new Morning Co-Anchor and Noon Show anchor Christy Waite. Waite has worked in Wyoming, where she was an MMJ and sports anchor at KGWN (CBS) She is also a former ...
KXAS (NBC) weekend PM anchor and weekday reporter Kristin Dickerson has decided to let Jesus take the wheel. According to Dallas based Blogger Uncle Barkey, she is leaving the Fort Worth-based station and with ...
TV Talent Agents Inc. reports Courtney Hicks has joined WFXG (FOX) in Augusta GA. as an anchor. Hicks has been a contributor at WJZY in Charlotte. WFXG is transitioning to a fully local newscast ...
After 6 and a half years, David Culver left NBC-owned WRC in Washington, DC last May, promising he would resurface in the near future: “Storytelling is my passion, and I will continue to do ...
Long-time WWMT (CBS) news anchor Kate Tillotson announced on Facebook Wednesday she will be leaving Channel 3 at the end of September. Here’s the text of her Facebook post: “For 12 years, I’ve had the privilege ...
Congratulations to Marcus Stroud of WIAT (CBS). Marcus has been named Assistant News Director after more than five years as Ops Manager. He joined the station in 2015 from WAKA (CBS) in Montgomery Alabama. and TEGNA has ...
Brian Neal joins WLEX in Lexington, KY, owned by Scripps, as its next news director. He’s been the Assistant ND for Hearst’s WXII in Winston-Salem, NC, for the past eight years. Brian’s also worked ...
“Extra” has hired “Good Day Wake Up” host Jennifer Lahmers as a correspondent for its big revamped show starting on Fox this fall. Lahmers’ last day on Fox’s “Wake Up” — which she hosts ...
Chris Henao returns to Tegna’s KHOU in Houston as the Assistant News Director. GM Robert Springer shared the news in this email. Chris worked at this CBS affiliate for almost ten years about eleven years ago ...
WTAE (ABC) Executive Producer Jamie Bittner has left the station. She writes on social media: “In June, I officially departed as the Executive Producer at WTAE. There were beautiful speeches. There was a lovely ...
Clarissa Allen moves to weekend sports reporter/anchor at WBBJ (ABC) in Jackson Tennessee. Local Good News: I’ve accepted my first on-air position at WBBJ-TV in Jackson, TN as a Weekend Sports Reporter/Anchor. Thank you ...
Univision’s former President and Chief Revenue Officer Tonia O’Connor has landed a new job as CEO of Deepak Chopra’s health and well-being company Chopra Global. According to Media Moves, she’ll oversee the company’s portfolio, ...
Brooke Leonard has been hired as a sports reporter by WSLS (NBC) . She began her new job earlier this month. Leonard, who graduated from Virginia Tech last year, had been working since last summer ...
KJRH (NBC) Tulsa, Oklahoma reporter/fill-in anchor Mycah Hatfield joins KTRK (ABC) as reporter/MMJ. This is a return for Hatfield since she is originally from Houston. As blogger Mike Mcguff reports, she interned at KPRC ...
Matt Fortin joins WBTW (CBS) as the stations first Digital MMJ/Digital Producer. His reporting will be exclusively on WBTW’s digital platforms focusing on local stories that impact viewers daily lives. News Director Eric Walters ...
Leslie Rangel spent her first week learning the ropes before starting Thursday as “Good Day Austin’s” newest co-host on Austin, TX Fox O&O KTBC. She started her career as an intern at the station ...
A few new faces are joining WBTW (CBS) in the coming weeks. Newest reporter Elisia Alonso began reporting across the Eastern Carolinas this week. She comes from Nexstar‘s sister-station WOOD (NBC). And, Ashley Afonso took to social media ...
KING (NBC) has a new News Director. Peter Saiers has been named to the post by TEGNA. Saiers spent nearly a dozen years at KPIX (CBS) and has been doing some freelance work at ...
Steven Dial is joining Dallas-based KDFW (FOX) news staff as a general assignment reporter, effective on July 1st. Blogger Ed Bark reports he’ll be arriving from Kansas City’s NBC affiliate, KSHB (NBC), where Dial ...
Stacey Spivey is newly-installed at Tegna’s WFMY in Greensboro, N.C. as an anchor-multi-skilled journalist. For the past two years, Spivey was an anchor-reporter at Nexstar’s WFXR in Roanoke, Va. She previously at stations in ...
Richard Borjas has left Telemundo network and its Miami headquarters for a bigger executive role in the English-language side of NBC Universal family. Media Moves reports, he is now VP of Programming and Development, ...
Vegas PBS has hired Allison P. Monette as the public service television station’s director of communications and brand management. Monette will be responsible for the accurate and timely dissemination of information pertaining to Vegas ...
Courtney DeJesus joins Nexstar’s WPRI in Providence, RI where she will be a reporter/MMJ. DeJesus most recently worked at Spectrum News in Syracuse as a reporter. She is a graduate of Syracuse University and ...
After 30 years at Univision, Patsy Loris is leaving the network to join rival Telemundo. She’ll be the svp, “Elections 2020” and special projects starting July 29th. The new job is Miami-based and Loris ...
Sydney Sullivan has been hired as a weather forecaster for WTVH (CBS). Sullivan most recently worked as a weather intern for WESH (NBC) News in Orlando; she received her meteorology degree from the Florida ...
Charisse Gibson is returning to Tegna’s WWL in N’Awlins to take on her dream job as the station’s 10 p.m. anchor. She’s coming from Gray’s WXIX in Cincinnati where her job was to break ...
Veteran agent Mike Isenberg has joined Napoli Management Group as a talent representative. His 30 years of broadcasting experience includes 10 years at ESPN and 10 years at Fox Sports. Isenberg most recently worked ...
Elizabeth Wiley is headed to Dallas from Phoenix. She mentioned the move on social media Monday. “So excited to share my next big adventure. In June I’m headed to WFAA to be director of digital ...
