Category: On the Move

SINCLAIR NAMES A GM IN VEGAS, BABY

Larry Strumwasser is the newly-named general manager of Sinclair duopoly KSNV/KVCW in Las Vegas, NV. Strumwasser joined Sinclair in 2016 as GM of WCGV-WVTV Milwaukee. He’s held a variety of executive sales positions over ...

MOVIN’ ON UP

Alyx Dote is moving up to weekday morning news anchor for “News 4 Tucson Today” at Cordillera’s KVOA in Tucson, the station announced Tuesday. She will co-anchor with Sean Mooney. Dote currently co-anchors News ...

CBS NEWS ADDS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT

Ed O’Keefe, a contributor since last year, is joining CBS News fulltime as a political correspondent based in the Nation’s Capital. He’s coming from “The Washington Post” where he covered congressional and presidential politics. ...

PROMOTIONS AT FOX NEWS

Two veteran Fox News staffers are headed for new positions within the company. Nancy Harmeyer has been named vp of domestic bureaus, while Greg Headen becomes director of FNC’s foreign desk. While continuing her ...

TRADING PLACES AT TELEMUNDO

Two Telemundo correspondents are trading jobs and locations. Edgar Muñoz (left) has left Los Angeles, where he has been Telemundo news correspondent since May 2016, and is now the network’s new Texas-based correspondent, covering ...

FT. WAYNE ANCHOR HEADED WEST

After three and a half years, anchor Krista Miller is pulling up her Indiana roots at Quincy Media’s WPTA in Ft. Wayne and heading for Wichita. She’s accepted a weekend anchor-reporter job at Lockwood ...

LEAVING LAS VEGAS

David Schuman moves to Weigel’s WDJT in Milwaukee WI. as a general assignment reporter. Schuman most recently worked at Scripps’ KTNV in Las Vegas, NV as a reporter. Schuman, who, believe it or not ...

FROM HUNTSVILLE TO ATLANTA

After six and a half years, morning anchor Meredith Wood said goodbye Friday to Heartland Media’s WAAY in Huntsville, AL. “It’s going to be hard to say goodbye to this place…almost 7 years is ...

CANTÚ LANDS IN HARLINGEN

Brenda Cantú has been named weather anchor at Telemundo’s KTLM in Harlingen, TX. Previously she did the weather for two years at KNVO McAllen, Texas. She got her certificate at Mississippi State.

KTMD NAMES NEW ASSISTANT ND

Noel Ramos has been promoted to the assistant news director position at Telemundo’s KTMD in Houston. His promotion came on the same day the station launched it’s 11 AM newscast. Ramos started out as ...

A RETURN TO HARTFORD

Meredith’s WFSB in Hartford, CT has brought Samaia Hernandez back to the market from sister station WNEM in Saginaw, MI. Hernandez previously worked at WNPR and the “Hartford Courant” in the market.

DOTHAN GETS A NEWS DIRECTOR

Ben Stanfield is the newly-minted news director for Nexstar’s WDHN in Dothan, AL. He’s been the station’s 6 &10 PM anchor for the past three years and nine months. Going forward, he’ll solo anchor ...

BACK IN THE LONESTAR STATE

SHELLEY CHILDERS returns to Texas and joins Disney’s KTRK in Houston as a General Assignment Reporter. Shelley who is a Houston Native and Graduate of Michigan State University, most recently worked for just over ...

STEPPING UP IN MILWAUKEE

Weekender Amanda Porterfield moves to weekdays at Weigel Broadcasting’s WDJT in Milwaukee. Porterfield, who’s been with the station for two years, will begin co-anchoring the noon and 4 PM newscasts on January 29th. Before ...

“BOOM!!!” SHE SAID

Ten months after a 1,300 mile hike along the Appalachian Trail, Chrissy Funk is the newly-named creative services director of Sinclair’s WPEC in West Palm Beach. “I am honored and excited to take on ...

MMJ HEADS WEST

Ginna Roe heads to Sinclair’s KUTV in Salt Lake City, UT as their first multimedia journalist. Most recently Roe was a multimedia journalist at Tegna’s WBIR in Knoxville, TN, where she started in December ...

KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY

Hearst is moving reporter Steve King from its WJCL in Savannah, GA to WXII in Winston-Salem, NC He spread the news on Facebook. “It’s been a pleasure to tell the stories that matter most ...

CNNI HIRES ANCHOR

Stephanie Sy, a former journalist with Al-Jazeera America, recently joined up with CNN International on a freelance basis. She’ll be based in the New York bureau and will primarily anchor. She has been primarily ...

KHOU ADDS A REPORTER

Janel Forte is the newest addition to the news team at Tegna’s KHOU in Houston. She came to Houston from Raycom’s WLOX in Biloxi, MS, where she was a weekend anchor. She’s expected to ...

INTO THE VALLEY OF THE SUN

Adam Bagni is moving across the continent, from Boston to Phoenix, to become the new weekend anchor/reporter at Tegna’s KPNX. He starts January 29th. Bagni had been freelancing at Sunbeam’s WHDH in Boston until ...

EXCITEMENT REIGNS AT WLKY

Stephon Dingle is the new morning reporter at Hearst’s WLKY and…well,  dammit, they are excited. “WLKY is excited to add another experienced journalist to our morning anchor team. Stephon’s love of news and energetic ...

KENS HIRES NEW ANCHOR

Tegna’s KENS is starting to fill all the holes left by a recent rash of exits at the San Antonio, TX station. Starting Tuesday, Aaron Wright, fresh off an anchor post at sister station ...

GRAY NAMES NEW TOLEDO GM

Broadcast veteran Chris Fedele is the new general manager of Gray Broadcasting’s WTVG in Toledo, OH. The most recent assignment of Fedele’s 25 year career has been director of sales and marketing for Cordillera ...

CBS ADDS TO LONDON CONTINGENT

North Dakota native Roxana Saberi is the newest London-based correspondent for CBS News. She’s been a freelance correspondent for the network, and CBS Newspath, since 2016. Saberi spent six years living and reporting in ...

THAT DIDN’T LAST LONG

The broadcasting career of former Oregon coach Mark Helfrich lasted all of five months, as he leaves the Fox Sports booth for the Chicago Bears. This will be his first NFL coaching job – ...

SEND ‘EM OFF IN STYLE

Saying goodbye to a colleague in a newsroom is often a perfunctory affair. People comes and go and, while the cake and refreshments are a nice break (or distraction if you are a grumpy ...

NBC SPORTS WASHINGTON HIRES GM

Damon Phillips has been lured away from ESPN to become General Manager of NBC Sports Washington. Phillips spent 10 years at ESPN overseeing streaming services ESPN3 and WatchESPN. Most recently, he was ESPN VP/Technical ...

ACROSS A CHICAGO STREET

Robert Feder reports that Brittany Payton is crossing the street from co-host of WGN’s “Chicago’s Best” to co-host of “Good Day Chicago” on Fox-owned WFLD. She’s leaving the Tribune station to start January 15 ...

FRESH FACES IN ST. LOUIS

Two new staffers join Tegna’s KSDK in the coming weeks. Next Monday, Michigan native Brittney Verner will join the news staff after having worked at a Waco, Texas, television station. On January 22, Chris ...

A CROSS-COUNTRY MOVE FOR GRAF

After five years at Tegna’s KING in Seattle, Heather Graf is moving to Sinclair’s WJLA in Washington DC as a reporter. The Charleston, SC native previously worked at WTVF in Nashville, Tennessee, WLOS in ...

SINCLAIR NAMES THREE NEW GMS

Sinclair Broadcast Group on Tuesday named three new general managers, the appointments being announced by Steve Marks, EVP-COO of Sinclair’s television group. Robert Truman was promoted to GM of KATU-KUNP Portland, Ore. Marks said: ...

WTMJ ADDS ANOTHER GUESSER

Over the holiday, Elissia Wilson debuted as the newest member of the weather team at Scripps’ WTMJ in Milwaukee, WI. She came from Montgomery, Alabama where she did the weather for the Alabama News ...

GRACE ANKLES KENS

After 12 years, and a mysterious extended absence this past fall, weekend anchor Karen Grace says she is gone from Nexstar’s KENS in San Antonio, TX. “KENS accepted my resignation as of December 23,” ...

WEEKEND FORECASTER JOINS WLWT

Allison Rogers is the new weekend morning meteorologist at Hearst’s WLWT in Cincinnati. She comes from Gray’s WYMT in Hazard, Ky., where she not only handled daily forecasting duties but served as a reporter. ...