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Veteran New England reporter now with WTNH
Category: On The Rebound
IN RECOVERY
Veteran Toledo anchor on the mend after surgery
MIA IN SEATTLE
Reporter removed from station website with no explanation
LONGTIME NBC LOCAL EXEC RESURFACES
FOX picks up longtime NBC local exec
SHE LEFT “ARIZONA’S FAMILY” FOR PR. A SHORT CAREER ENSUED
Back in June, Monica Garcia vacated her weekend anchor duties at Gray’s KTVK-KPHO in Phoenix, AZ after three years, saying she was done with tv news and was headed for PR. “I would say ...
VAN SUSTEREN TO LEAD NEWSMAX PRIMETIME SCHEDULE
We reported last month that all indications pointed to Greta Van Susteren ending up in some fulltime role at ratings-challenged Newsmax. Ta-Da!!! Van Susteren has officially landed a spot on the cable channel’s schedule. ...
REBOUNDING AFTER FIOS1
The death of Verizon FiOS1 News New York last month has led to new life for one former staffer. It’s a quick rebound for meteorologist Addison Green and a career feather to land at ...
TAKE THAT SINCLAIR!
We are pleased to report to you that Alex George, who was unceremoniously dumped by Sinclair’s WTVC last December while she was on medical leave battling cancer, has herself a new job and it’s ...
RESURFACING IN LOUISVILLE
Nine months after being shown the door at Meredith’s WSMV in Nashville, Dale Woods is the newly-appointed president and general manager of Block Communications’ Louisville, Ky. duopoly WDRB and WBKI. He’ll show up for ...
MEMPHIS REPORTER UPDATE
Back in May of this year we reported: “When we last heard from Memphis, TN investigative reporter Scott Madaus, he had been cleared of domestic abuse charges stemming from a December 15th incident at ...
FORMER FOX FACE TURNS UP ON CNN
Conor Powell, who had been a foreign correspondent for Fox News Channel for nine years until he abruptly and angrily quit last year, is now freelancing for CNN Newsource, the cable network’s affiliate news ...
THEY ARE BAACK
A lot of broadcasters are taking their walking papers and rather than go the P-R route, are stepping right back into the spotlight with on-air podcasting these days. Former WFAA (ABC) anchors Ron Corning ...
“IT WAS ALWAYS MY GOAL TO ONE DAY WORK IN THE CLEVELAND MARKET”
Ohio natives feel that way. And some of us who once worked in Cleveland can understand that feeling. So Jay Crawford, former ESPN reporter and anchor, is joining Tegna’s WKYC later this year to ...
VETERAN TV NEWS EXEC RESURFACES
When we last heard from Elden Hale, Jr. he was the GM at Meredith’s WSMV in Nashville, TN as well as the guy who oversaw operations at the rest of the Meredith group.. That ...
DIRECTING CONTENT IN CHI-TOWN
Tiffani Lupenski is headed to Chicago’s WBBM as Director of Content. She’ll report to VP/News Director Jeff Harris at the CBS O&O. Lupenski will be responsible for leading the newsroom’s multi-platform content operation on a daily basis. She ...
“LOVE YOU, MISSED YOU…MEAN IT”
The radio (and social media) silence of former WCAU traffic reporter Jessica Boyington is over. Back in February, she stopped giving traffic reports for the NBC-owned Philadelphia station. Naturally, the station wouldn’t tell anybody ...
FAMILIAR FACE, NEW PLACE
Freelancer Karla Amezola is now reportedly a full-time staffer based out of Miami for Telemundo’s network news operation. Media Moves reports that multiple sources have confirmed she is already on the job, although official ...
MOVING FROM SPORTS TO NEWS
For the past nearly 2 and one-half years, former NBC Sports and ESPN NASCAR analyst Mike Massaro has taken the freelance route. That’s coming to a close. Massaro is joining WVIT, the NBC-owned station ...
A FAMILIAR FACE RESURFACES IN HARTFORD
Lisa Carberg, gone from Hartford tv news for the past four years, has resurfaced at Nexstar’s WTNH. Carberg left NBC’s WVIT back in 2015 after 17 years to “pursue other opportunities”. Her departure at ...
SHE’S BAACK
Former Fox News host Greta Van Susteren will return to television with a new syndicated show on local news giant Gray Television, the company announced on Monday. The program, “Full Court Press with Greta Van ...
BACK TO THE UPPER MIDWEST
After quick cup of coffee and some Buffalo wings straight from the source, Justin Wulf is returning to the assistant news director job at Red River’s KDLT in Sioux Falls, SD. He’d been KDLT’s ...
A QUICK RETURN IN COLUMBIA
As meteorologist Sharon Ray makes her move to Corpus Christi’s soon-to-be Scripps-owned KRIS, former KMIZ meteorologist Jessica Quick announces she is returning to fill the void left behind at the News-Press & Gazette station. ...
KEEPING HER HAND (AND FACE) IN
As she waits to see if the rumors of her possible hiring by a rebuilding CBS News have any weight to them, Ashleigh Banfield, who left HLN following its programming shakeup last October, has ...
BACK IN HARNESS
Scott Levy is headed back to a newsroom as the Assistant News Director for Sinclair duopoly WSYX/WTTE in Columbus, OH. News Director Jamie Justice sent this email to her staff. Levy’s a former ND in Kansas ...
NEWS VET SURFACES IN RENO
Greg Schieferstein started Friday as the news director for this owned by Cunningham but operated by Sinclair KRNV-KRXI in Reno, NV. Here’s the email from GM Amie Chapman. Schieferstein most recently was the ND for ...
EX-NETWORK CORRESPONDENT LANDS IN DC
Fox-owned WTTG in Washington DC has hired former NBC News Correspondent Blake McCoy. “Blake is an exceptional journalist, who brings a wealth of experience and success from both the local and national news levels. ...
FINDING A LIFESTYLE AFTER SPORTS
One-time sports reporter Abby Hornacek has signed up as a travel and lifestyle host on its subscription-based streaming service, Fox Nation. Eh, some folks have a lifestyle, some have a life. She’ll first pop up on ...
VETERAN SPORTSCASTER LANDS NEW GIG
A familiar face to Erie, PA television viewers will soon be popping up at a new location. Sportscaster Jay Puskar is joining the Nexstar WJET-WFXP duopoly as sports director and weekday anchor. He’s been ...
O’REILLY SURVIVOR TAKES A RADIO GIG
Lis Wiehl made headlines two years ago this month when she accepted a $32 million sexual harassment lawsuit settlement with former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly. She has spent 15 years at Fox News ...
RESURFACING IN CHICAGO
David Parrish, who was forced out as executive producer of WBBM’s 10 p.m. newscast after 15 years at the CBS-owned station, is making a move across the Windy City. He’s landed as a content ...
BACK TO THE TV STUDIO
Longtime Atlanta education reporter Donna Lowry, who’s been running her own communications company since leaving WXIA in 2016 has landed a reporter-correspondent job with Georgia Public Broadcasting’s seasonal series “Lawmakers,” Lowry, who was director ...
REPORTER WHO LEFT FOX NEWS UNDER A CLOUD JOINS SINCLAIR
A little over a year after he abruptly left Fox News amid a swirl of sexual harassment allegations, James Rosen is soon to be a colleague of Ginther’s (see above) at Sinclair. While his ...
DUMPED BY NBC SPORTS PHILLY, PICKED UP BY CBS SACTO
Marshall Harris, who’s been a fixture in Philadelphia sports broadcasting for pretty much a decade, is headed to the west coast. And he’s beyond excited about it. Being KOVR sports director three time ...
RECOVERING FROM RAYCOM
Susana Schuler stays in Alabama but moves 90 miles north to become general manager for Hearst’s WVTM in Birmingham. All the details in this news release. She’ll replace veteran broadcaster Hank Price who is retiring. Many ...
AND AFTER A SHORT BREAK…
Also back from the beach is Sandra Salazar, who starts this week at assistant news director at Univision’s KMEX in Los Angeles. She resigned last October across the street at Telemundo’s KVEA after a ...
BACK ON THE JOB
Former Univision anchor/reporter Natalia Cruz is off the beach after six months and back on the job. She’s joined SBS-owned MegaTV in Miami as an anchor/reporter for the station’s 5:30 pm weekday newscast. Cruz ...
FROM CLEVELAND TO MILWAUKEE
A couple of married Cleveland expatriates are now gracing the airwaves at the recently launched Spectrum News 1 in Milwaukee, WI. JD Rudd, who left Scripps’ WEWS in Cleveland on October at the end ...
FORMER LOUISVILLE ND LANDS IN CINCINNATI
WLWT, the Hearst owned Cincinnati OH station, has hired David Seals as its new morning executive producer. He’s been doing some freelance producing for Spectrum News Kentucky since leaving his job as ND for Tegna’s WHAS in ...
BACK IN HARNESS
It was last May that Rick Folbaum had agents shopping him around in search of a change of scenery He’d spent five years as principal anchor at WFOR in Miami and was looking for ...
FORMER HOUSTON REPORTER LANDS IN PALM SPRINGS ANCHOR CHAIR
Angela Chen, who we last saw waving goodbye to KRIV and Houston, TX two summers ago, is getting back in front of the camera. She’s joining NP&G’s KESQ in Palm Springs as co-anchor of ...
YEP, SHE’S BACK
To bring you up to speed on a story we first reported to you Friday, Carolyn Bruck did indeed return to the airwaves of Tegna’s WCNC in Charlotte, NC. But the newly-returned morning anchor ...
SECOND TIME AROUND – THIS TIME AS THE BOSS
Ángel Sepúlveda is coming back to Entravision’s Orlando and Tampa Bay news operations to lead them. Sepúlveda previously worked at Entravision as a producer for “Noticias Univision Florida Central” from April 2017 to March ...
SINCLAIR MAKES A MILWAUKEE MOVE
Pete Monfre is the new GM at Sinclair’s WVTV in Milwaukee. Monfre is leaving his role as executive vice president for Lammi Sports Management to return to Milwaukee television. He previously spent 24 years ...
DALLAS TRIBUNE STATION UPDATE
You’ll recall we were the first to report Tribune-owned stations in Dallas and Houston Texas were being gutted last month. We have an exclusive update on where some of the staffers have landed since ...
WHAT GOES AROUND…..EVENTUALLY COMES HOME
It took him eight years, but sportscaster Bryan Salmond seems to have finally found the perfect gig – back in Las Vegas and on television – this time at Sinclair’s KSNV. This time around, ...
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN
The new news director at Chicago’s WGN is Jennifer Lyons, who replaces…herself as news director for this Tribune station. That’s right…Jennifer, who left her job in August after four years as ND and 25 ...
VETERAN CT. SPORTSCASTER SIGNS ON TO WTIC
Joe D’Ambrosio, until last year the long-running (1990-2017) sports anchor-reporter at NBC-owned WVIT is joining the sports department at Tribune’s WTIC in Hartford. And, boy he is thrilled. “I am thrilled and honored to ...
STEELE YOURSELVES, SACRAMENTO
Ty Steele, who pulled a disappearing act last spring at Tribune’s KTXL in Sacramento, where he had been evening anchor for the past three years, is turning up across the street….in the morning. He’ll ...
SACKED SACTO ANCHOR BACK BEHIND THE MIC
Sacramento news viewers were less than pleased when Tegna’s KXTV gave the unceremonious boot to anchors Cristina Mendonsa and Dale Schornack in the middle of the May 2017 sweeps after 21 years (Mendonsa) and ...
BRIAN ROSS AND INVESTIGATIVE PARTNER LAND NEW JOBS
It was a rough ride, but it looks like a reasonably soft landing for former ABC News chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross and his longtime colleague Rhonda Schwartz. The two have landed squarely on ...
PAPA MOVES TO THE NINERS
If you don’t get along with the boss, you get replaced. If you’re lucky, you kind of land on your feet in the same market and don’t have to move. So it is with ...
JUST HANG AROUND – WE’LL GET TO YOU
After being passed over once for the top job, Laurie Passman was named vice-president and news director at CBS O&O KTVT. Passman was interim news director back in January 2017 when Andrea Parquet-Taylor got ...
“WE KNOW OUR FUTURE WILL BE BRIGHTER WITH HIS PRESENCE”
Eric Harryman, who was unceremoniously shown the door back in March after three years as morning co-anchor at NBC-O& WTVJ in Miami, is back home in Sacramento. Tribune’s KTXL, where Harryman worked for four ...
MUSTIN RESURFACES ACROSS THE STREET IN DENVER
Last December, after 15 years as an anchor and reporter at CBS O&O KCNC, Denver news veteran Tom Mustin was kicked to the curb. He got up, dusted himself off and is joining Scripps’ ...
RESURFACING IN GRAND RAPIDS
Faran Fronczak joins Tegna’s WZZM in Grand Rapids, MI as weekday AM anchor. Fronczak previously worked at Nexstar’s KTSM in El Paso TX where she was the weekday afternoon and evening anchor for a ...
BACK TO PRINT FOR CONSUMER INVESTIGATOR
Four months after she left ABC News as a producer/reporter for the investigative unit, Stephanie Zimmerman is returning to the Chicago Sun-Times next month. Zimmerman left the Sun-Times back in 2012 to join ABC ...
NO, TULSA ISN’T ALL THAT FAR FROM OK. CITY
We agree with the Lost Ogle blog – there is only so much time you can spend with “family and friends” before it becomes, first, distracting; second, enervating and finally, somewhat maddening. Especially if ...
BACK TO THE NEWSROOM
After spending the past three years working on building his own business specializing in marketing, advertising and consulting, Javier Castro has returned to tv news. He’s now an MMJ with WUVP, Univision 65 in ...
A SOFT LANDING IN HOUSTON
There’s another Houston management hire, as Oscar Garcia becomes the new nightside executive producer for KRIV, the FOX owned station there. Earlier this month we reported his departure from Tegna’s KIII in Corpus Christi after two ...
BACK TO DFW
It’s a homecoming for Angelina Armendáriz, who is starting a new position as an MMJ for Univision 23 (WLTV) in Dallas after 3 and a half years at Telemundo 40 (KTLM) in McAllen, TX. ...
WELL-TRAVELED NEWS EXEC TURNS UP SOUTHERN W. VA
Sources tell us that Dennis Lortz recently seems to have resurfaced as news director at family-owned WOAY in Oak Hill, VA. Lortz most recently was news director at Nexstar’s WOWK in Huntington-Charleston, W VA, ...
INDIANA’S EMBATTLED A-G TURNS TO FORMER ANCHOR FOR HELP
Indiana’s Attorney-General Curtis Hill is in a lot of hot water over allegations that he inappropriately touched four women at a bar in March. So who does he turn to? Hill announced Wednesday that ...
JOSH ELLIOTT RESURFACES
Back in February 2017, Josh Elliott, once a rising star at ABC and ESPN, then an underused asset at NBC News, made a controversial departure from CBS News just 11 months after arriving at ...
FORMER HOUSTON MMJ TAKES NC CO-ANCHOR JOB
Tracy Clemons will debut next Monday as the new morning co-anchor at Tribune’s WGHP in Greensboro-High Point, NC. He’s coming to North Carolina from Houston, TX where most recently he was Press Secretary for ...
SHE MUST HAVE MISSED THE BUSINESS
Former morning anchor Maggie Slysz is making a return to Tribune’s WTIC in Hartford-New Haven, this time around as a reporter. She’s slated to replace Rachel Lutzker who, we told you yesterday, is moving ...
FORMER UNIVISION ANCHOR RETURNS TO TV AND KHOU
Four years after she left Univision’s KXLN in Houston, Miriam Pineda is returning to television news with Tribune’s KIAH. The former reporter and anchor will be an assignment editor for the news department. After ...
FLORES RESURFACES IN MIDLAND
Nine months after he disappeared from Sinclair’s KGBT in Harlingen, TX, Eddie Flores is, as they say, back in the anchoring game. He’s now the new primary anchor at Nexstar’s KMID in Midland, TX. ...
ANOTHER UNIVISION CASTOFF LANDS ON HIS FEET
Raúl Striker, Jr., until April a sports anchor for WLTV Univision in Miami, has joined Telemundo’s KSTS in San Jose as its new weekend sports anchor. Striker was one of the victims of the ...
ENTRAVISION REFUGEE FINDS A NEW HOME
Another victim of the nationwide Entravision layoffs, cutbacks and elimination of news operations has landed on her feet. Jasmina González debuted this week as a video journalist at KTLM, Telemundo 40 Río Grande Valley. ...
BACK ON THE BEAT
It’s a return to the tv news routine for former Univision anchor and reporter Mariana Pineda. She’s the new social media specialist and assignment editor for “NewsFix,” an anchorless newscast geared towards millennials on ...
SKIPPER BACK AT THE HELM
Former ESPN President John Skipper, who suddenly and unexpectedly left the Disney-owned sports broadcaster last year as a result of a drug problem, has joined UK sports media firm Perform Group. Skipper will serve ...
