Category: On the Move

KC GETS A NEW WEEKENDER

Carolina Cruz has moved west to step into an anchor role. She has joined KCTV as weekend morning anchor and will also be reporting on three days a week. Born in Colombia and raised ...

MOVING UP IN MYRTLE

News anchor Meghan Miller has been promoted to co-anchor of “News 13 at 5” and “News 13 at 6” beginning in November. Meghan will continue anchoring “News 13 at 5:30” and co-anchor both additional ...

SAME FACE, NEW PLACE

There will be a new, yet familiar face at the anchor desk for WXOW News 19 evening news viewers. Dustin Luecke will be filling the role as Evening News Anchor/Producer in La Crosse, Wisconsin. ...

STL TO SC

No more part-time anchoring for departing KTVI (Channel 2) reporter Derrion Henderson. The St. Louis native will be moving to South Carolina to take over as the full-time morning anchor at WMBF (Channel 32), ...

HEADING FOR THE EXIT

The talent is moving in the wrong direction at Cincinnati’s WKRC-TV. Angela Ingram, a 14-year veteran, delivered her final newscast this week, only three weeks after 10-year veteran Angenette Levy exited. Ingram, who joined ...

MOVING ON….

Leon Hendrix signed off of the WOOD TV8 anchor desk in Grand Rapids, following more than 13 years at the station Sunday evening. Leon has accepted a new role at Spectrum Health, where he ...

TRAFFIC IN COLUMBUS

Andrea Henderson, NBC4’s newest Traffic Reporter, is no stranger to the Buckeye State. Andrea grew up in Northeast Ohio and graduated from The Ohio State University with a degree in Journalism. Prior to joining ...

NEW FACE IN MILWAUKEE

Darius Joshua will join Milwaukee’s WDJT-TV (Channel 58) as a sports reporter/anchor in December – according to the Milwaukee Journal Constitution. Joshua comes to the CBS affiliate from WSYR-TV in Syracuse, New York; he’s ...

COMING HOME TO DA BURGH

Alyssa Raymond, a weekend anchor and weekday reporter at Indianapolis’ WTHR-TV Channel 13 for the past three years, is leaving the station to take a job in her hometown of Pittsburgh. Raymond said goodbye ...

BACK HOME IN THE WINDY CITY

Growing up in suburban Chicago, Ray Cortopassi fondly remembers another Ray — the legendary children’s show performer Ray Rayner — who was a fixture on WGN-Channel 9 for 20 years. According to Everything-Chicago-Maven Robert ...

NEW CALI FACE

KSBY will have a new evening news co-anchor starting in mid-October. Nina Lozano will take Carina Corral’s place on KSBY’s 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts with co-anchor Richard Gearheart, ...

GOODBYE COLUMBUS

Pete Scalia said his departure from a morning anchor job at WBNS-TV was a “mutual decision” and, “good timing in a lot of ways.” Scalia’s final broadcast was Friday. He had been with WBNS ...

MEET THE NEW BOSS, ERIE

Nexstar Media Group announced that it has appointed Julie Zoumbaris as Vice President and General Manager of its broadcast and digital operations in Erie, PA (DMA #152), overseeing WJET-TV (ABC), www.yourerie.com, and their related ...

WELCOME BACK MAT GETS LAID OUT

Vice President and General Manager Eric Duncan announced Tuesday, KOLD News 13 has hired Erin Christiansen as the station’s new chief meteorologist. “I’m thrilled to return! My heart is in Tucson,” Erin said. “I ...

GIVE A HAND TO CLAPPERTON

There’s a new VP of News at NBC’s WTVJ in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale market. Dawn Clapperton, who joined “NBC 6” in September 2015 as the executive producer of investigations and was the Asst. News ...

NEW TOP GUN IN MILWAUKEE

Morgan Murphy Media has appointed veteran broadcasting executive Lyle Banks as vice president and general manager of WISC-TV. Banks will oversee television, digital and magazine operations at the company flagship in Madison. Banks was ...

HEADING FOR THE DOOR

Wake Up Wisconsin‘s show hit a bittersweet moment, when Anchor Josh Gregory announced he’s leaving WAOW. Josh joined the News 9 family in May 2018 after graduating from Ohio University’s Scripps College of Communication. ...

TAKE KARE

A year of change at KARE 11 continued over the weekend as the station bid farewell to reporter Ellery McCardle according to BringMEtheNews.com. McCardle has been with Twin Cities NBC affiliate since 2016, having ...

THE PRODIGAL ANCHOR

Jessob Reisbeck, who left WITI-TV (Channel 6) in 2018 for an anchor-reporter job in Washington, D.C., is coming back to Milwaukee — as evening news anchor at WDJT-TV (Channel 58) – according to the Milwaukee ...

COX TULSA MOVE

Cox Media Group‘s Tulsa cluster of radio and TV stations has “strengthened its local integrated broadcast team” with the addition of two multimedia professionals – according to RBR.com One will be focused on the ...

NBC NEWS TAPS NEW EXEC

NBCU News Group has tapped Emma Carrasco to take over as the company’s SVP of Corporate Affairs – according to MediaMoves.com According to an internal memo NBC News Group chairman Cesar Conde wrote to ...

NEW ADDITION TO GMA

Rumor has it, T.J. Holmes has signed on to be co-anchor of the third hour of “Good Morning America,” according to TheWrap. He will join ABC News’ Amy Robach on the early afternoon program, ...

KARE INTRODUCES NEW METEOROLOGIST

Guy Brown has made the move up Interstate 94 from Madison to Minneapolis, where he’s now a meteorologist on KARE 11’s Monday-Friday “Sunrise” newscast – according to BringMEtheNEws. “I’m very thrilled to now be ...

NEW #1 IN PORTLAND

Nexstar Broadcasting has appointed Tom Keeler vice president and general manager of its broadcast and digital operations in Portland, OR (DMA 22), overseeing KOIN (CBS), KRCW (CW), KOIN.com, and their related social media channels. ...

REVOLVING DOOR IN INDY

Carlos Diaz, who grew up in Greenwood, IN before landing high-profile jobs at news network HLN and celebrity interview show “Extra,” now has an anchor job in Indianapolis. Diaz will succeed WTHR-13 “Sunrise” anchor ...

STEPPING DOWN IN SAVANNAH

At Savannah, Georgia’s WJCL, a Hearst Television ABC affiliate, Timothy J. Morrissey, its president and general manager since 2014, will retire from Hearst Television this fall. Morrissey’s successor will be announced at a later ...

NEW HOUSTON WEATHER GUESSER

Meteorologist Adam Krueger will join CW39 KIAH Houston from Spectrum News Austin and Spectrum News San Antonio. Krueger will take over for Maria Sotolongo who recently announced her departure Here is what Krueger posted ...

ONE-MAN BANDING IT IN YAKIMA

Yes, you’ll have the jobs of on-air talent, photog and editor, but we’re only gonna pay you one salary, so it evens out. Morgan Murphy Media-owned ABC affiliates KAPP-KVEW Yakima/Tri-Cities, Wash. (DMA 118) has ...

MEET THE NEW BOSS… AT KELOLAND

Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc., has promoted South Dakota native, Mari Ossenfort to Vice President and General Manager of the company’s broadcast and digital operations in Sioux Falls, SD and Rapid City, SD. In her new ...

DOUBLE DUTY IN HARRISONBURG

Gray Television has promoted Jay Webb to general manager of WHSV (ABC) and WSVF (CBS/Fox) in Harrisonburg, Va. (DMA 175). He succeeds Sacha Purciful, who recently became general manager of Gray’s KSLA in Shreveport, LA. ...

MOVING UP IN THE WINDY CITY

Colin Evans, weekend morning news producer at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, has been promoted to the newly created position of weekend daypart executive producer – according to Chicago icon Robert Feder. A Chicago native and ...

ALOHA HAWAII NEWS

After 20 years in the broadcast journalism industry, Hawaii News Now’s Lisa Kubota is saying aloha to the world of television news. She’s been with the Hawaii News Now team since its inception. She’s ...

MOVING UP IN ALBANY

Mary Wilson has been named weekday morning anchor at NEWS10 ABC/FOX 23, filling the spot vacated by Nicol Lally. Lally left WTEN earlier this summer after more than a decade with the station – ...

MARISSA MITCHELL JOINS FOX 5 DC

Marissa Mitchell has joined FOX 5 DC, announced station Vice President and News Director, Paul McGonagle. Effective September 2020, she will serve as an anchor for “FOX 5 Mornings,” alongside Wisdom Martin, Holly Morris, Erin ...

MOVING UP TO THE NETWORK

According to Robert Feder, Meagan Fitzgerald, weekend morning news anchor at the NBC-owned station in Washington, D.C., has been named Chicago-based correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. “A heartfelt and sincere honor,” Fitzgerald tweeted today ...

NOT JUST LESTER’S SON

After four years at WNBC in New York, Stefan Holt is moving back home to Chicago and returning to WMAQ-Channel 5 as a Monday-through-Friday main news anchor, the NBC-owned station announced today according to ...

SC’s NEW ND

Sharranda Neal has been promoted to news director at Columbia TV station WLTX, a CBS affiliate of broadcasting company TEGNA. Neal has been the station’s content manager for the past 10 years. She will ...

FROM TWIN CITIES TO CNN

Minneapolis’ KARE reporterAdrienne Broaddus announced she is joining CNN as a Chicago bureau correspondent. “In a world that tells people like me I can’t, I hope I have been a visual of what is possible,”she said in her ...

SARA HAINES RETURNS

Sara Haines will be returning to “The View” in September as a co-host for Season 24 of the ABC daytime talk show according to Variety. Haines, 42, is no stranger to the Hot Topics ...

RESURRECTION OF THOMAS ROBERTS

Award winning journalist Thomas Roberts has today been announced as the host of season four of DailyMailTV. Roberts most recently was the evening news anchor at WGCL-TV (CBS46) in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to CBS46, ...

MOVING UP IN BUFFALO

Buffalo’s WIVB-TV (Channel 4) didn’t have to look too far to replace meteorologist Stevie Daniels. Jonathan Cubit, who has been a digital meteorologist at Channel 4 since December and has occasionally been allowed to ...

BIG CHANGES IN SAN ANTONE

KSAT 12 viewers will notice big changes to the San Antonio TV station’s morning newscasts. On Thursday, KSAT announced Stephanie Serna as the new “Good Morning San Antonio” anchor. Serna will join fellow anchor Mark ...

VICE EXPANSION

According to Deadline, Vice has hired and promoted 20 people to help strengthen its ever-expanding global news and audio operation. This includes Arielle Duhaime-Ross who is set return to Vice News as an on-air ...

NEWS FROM OVER THE TRANSOM

NewsBlues  has learned that long-time Dallas Newsman Brett Shipp has been named Anchor of the Spectrum Cable News Dallas venture which is scheduled to sign on September 1st. Brett was at WFAA (ABC) from ...

FRESH BREW IN PORTLAND

Sinclair Broadcast Group today appointed Cortlandt Cuffee vice president and general manager of its Portland, OR, duopoly of KATU (ABC) and KUNP (Univision). Cuffee’s career spans almost 20 years in sales and marketing positions in ...