IS A LONGTIME ANCHOR CONSIDERING A SURPRISE UN-RETIREMENT?
There seems to be a buzz building out there
Category: Second Acts
SAFE LANDING ACHIEVED
Now-former Atlanta anchor turns into a restauranteur
BACK IN THE FAMILY
She rejoins the NBCU fold.
FORMER KC TV ANCHOR WINS US HOUSE RACE
Like Kari Lake, Mark Alford suddenly "discovered" he was working amongst bad people and got out.
A ONE-TANK TRIP TO “TEN OHIO DISASTERS”
Until he retired in 2016, Neil Zurcher traveled the blue highways of Ohio in his vintage Nash Metropolitan finding “One-Tank Trips” that Ohioans on a budget could enjoy. He did those reports for WJW ...
FROM MYRTLE BEACH TO NETWORK
NBC’s newest correspondent shot to the top.
FORMER KOCO REPORTER WHO SLAMMED STATION AS RACIST NOW DOING PR FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA GROUP
Porsha Riley is the new public information officer for the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority. OMMA oversees the state’s medical marijuana program. Riley will primarily handle media inquiries while helping to keep Oklahomans updated with ...
FORMER ANCHOR NOW INTO REHAB(BING) HER NEIGHBORHOOD
Longtime Pittsburgh, PA tv viewers are still processing the abrupt exit of anchor Kelly Frey from Hearst’s WTAE smack in the middle of last November’s sweeps. The story given out at the time – ...
A FAMILIAR FACE RETURNS TO WISN
Onetime WISN weekend sports anchor and reporter Dario Melendez is returning to the Hearst station in Milwaukee, WI. He’s replacing Dan Needles, who retired last month after 32 years at the station. “The WISN ...
FORMER RALEIGH FORECASTER NOW HAWKING FOR HVAC COMPANY
A little over two years ago, we reported to you about former longtime WRAL meteorologist Greg Fishel’s new job as an atmospheric scientist for Netherlands-based Priogen energy. Well, he has since picked up another ...
REUNITED…THIS TIME AT CITY HALL
For the past 20 years, Scott Humber held a variety of executive roles in the newsroom at Gray’s KGMB (aka Hawaii News Now) in Honolulu, eventually reaching the news director’s office in 2016. He ...
HARTFORD ANCHOR HEADING BACK TO THE STREET
Connecticut TV news veteran Rich Coppola is taking yet another career turn. Coppola is leaving the anchor desk at Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford and heading back on the street as a reporter. http:// Coppola ...
NEWS DIRECTOR MOVES!
If you click on the Sourcebook tab today to gather contacts or just browse, you’ll see change is happening. We need your help though. If you know of a news director coming or going, ...
BACK IN CHICAGO AND OUT OF THE BUSINESS
Just a of couple weeks ago, it was announced that Darlene Hill, anchor at Nexstar’s WCMH in Columbus, OH was leaving the station after just under three years in the anchor chair for the ...
MIAMI STATION HIRES CONSULTANT TO BE NEXT NEWS DIRECTOR
This move is getting eyeballs.
A CAREER RESURRECTED
Just three months after joining Sinclair flagship WBFF in Baltimore and six months after she was given the boot by WJZ following a controversial question she posed to a guest after the resignation of ...
ANOTHER (FORMER) NEWSER ENTERS POLITICS
Remember when the exit strategy of choice from tv news was public relations? Earlier this week, former Spokane anchor Nadine Woodward was elected mayor of the Washington city. Now, down in Oklahoma, former Oklahoma ...
GOING FULLTIME
Bianna Golodryga, who stepped away from her fourth chair position at “CBS This Morning” back in during yet another re-shuffle of the program, is headed for full-time status at CNN. She had been splitting ...
PITTSBURGH SHUFFLE
Two former high-profile Pittsburgh tv news personalities are getting bounced around the schedule at formerly relevant KDKA Radio, now an Entracom property Since last December, for KDKA-TV reporter Marty Griffin and ditched WTAE anchor ...
JUST WHEN I THOUGHT I WAS OUT, THEY PULL ME BACK IN!
Roxann Fisher returns to a newsroom as ND for Morgan Murphy’s KAVU in Victoria, TX. She has lots of experience in Texas newsrooms, as you’ll learn on her linkedin page. She replaces Amie Hudspeth who moved ...
RESURFACING ON RADIO
Last month we told you the story of former Detroit investigative reporter Kevin Dietz, cut loose by Graham’ Media’s WDIV following a comment he made about a black reporter at the Investigative Reporters & ...
TAKING HER TALENTS TO SOUTH BEACH (SOUND FAMILIAR?)
Former Cleveland sports reporter Lauren Brill has moved to Miami (yes…she took her talents to South Beach, emulating LeBron), and to run her own website called “The Unsealed”. She’d been at Scripps’ WEWS for ...
FIRED FORECASTER LANDS NEW JOB
Joe Crain’s 15 years with Sinclair’s WICS in Springfield, IL ended abruptly in early June when he went on the air and sharply criticized his corporate bosses for their overused and fear-mongering “Code Red,” ...
BACK TO DISNEY
Kaylee Hartung, a former ESPN reporter who seems to have disappeared since she was lured away to CNN more than two and a half year ago, might have a higher profile in her new ...
NOW IT’S PERMANENT
After months of filling in as a freelancer following the abrupt dumping of longtime chief meteorologist Jeff Verszyla last December, Ray Petelin is no longer freelance and is now a fully-vetted staffer at CBS-owned ...
A LIFE LESSON FROM “THE NAKED NEWS ANCHOR”
Yeah, we figured using “naked” in the headline would get your attention. Northwest Ohio tv viewers likely remember Catherine Bosley from her years of reporting and anchoring the news, first in Youngstown and later, ...
DEPOSED NASHVILLE ANCHOR LAUNCHES NEW PROJECT
As her discrimination lawsuit against former employer, Meredith Corporation and WSMV wends it way through the federal court labyrinth, former Nashville anchor mainstay Demetria Kalodimos is turning to what was a sideline during her ...
A MAN OF LETTERS
News Director turned General Manager (at Cox Media’s WJAX/WJXX) Bob Longo has written a novel –something many of us threatened to do during our tv news tenure. Longo has managed to avoid doing what many ...
GREGORY STEPS IN AT WILMINGTON STATION
While Wilmington, NC anchor Randy Aldridge continue his medical leave to battle cancer, moving into his chair at the anchor desk will be something of a familiar face. Donna Gregory will co-anchor evening newscasts ...
“GOING ROGUE” WITH ROBIN
She’s ba-a-ack!!! Robin Swoboda, (center) who’s had more lives than a cat when it comes to Cleveland media, is returning to Tegna’s WKYC – with a twist. This time around, instead of holding forth ...
MOONLIGHTING
By day he’s a science lecturer at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) and by night and weekends, he’s the witty, crazy sock-wearing weatherman from KPRC (NBC). That’s right Gators, Lecturer Justin Stapleton has been teaching ...
TV VETS SET TO LAUNCH PODCAST
Beginning sometime late next month, former WBBM (Chicago) sports anchor Howard Sudberry and former meteorologist Steve Baskerville, also a station vet, will launch a weekly podcast. The duo are familiar faces to Chicago viewers ...
FORMER BURGH TV NEWSERS TO SHOW UP ON RADIO
Two veteran Pittsburgh tv newsers are going to be seeing new life on the radio. Wendy Bell and Lynne Hayes-Freeland will join the daily lineup at Entercom’s KDKA afternoon host and midday host, respectively. ...
HOMETOWN GIRL RETURNS FROM THE BEACH….AND SATX
Hannah Trippett is back in her hometown of Houston, TX following a short time at the beach after leaving Sinclair San Antonio dupoly WOAI/KABB last August. As she announced on her Facebook page, Trippett ...
FROM POLITICAL REPORTER TO POLITICAL OPERATIVE
Charles Thomas, who retired as political reporter at Disney’s WLS back in 2017, is now in politics, as senior advisor to Chicago mayoral candidate Amara Enyi. “Unlike most of the other contenders, she is ...
OH, HE’S SO MUCH MORE THAN AN ANCHOR
It’s been almost six years since Steve Lacy assumed the 5 and 10 pm anchor chair at Fox flagship WNYW in New York, two years after he joined the station from Boston as early-morning ...
DEPARTING TWIN CITIES ANCHOR HEADED FOR RADIO
As we told you earlier this week, KARE weekend anchor Cory Hepola announced his impending departure from the Minneapolis Tegna station, evidently because his childhood dream of being on television was finally spent. Now ...
RAHM NEEDS A JOB
They say that opinions are like…. Well, never mind. Suffice it to say everybody has one. And some might say that with outgoing Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, you get a twofer. And now Emmanuel ...
FORMER CLEVELAND AM ANCHOR HEADS FOR PEE-YAR
We told you last month that John Anderson was out the door at Tegna’s WKYC in Cleveland. Now we can tell you that is also out of Cleveland and headed for the Twin Cities ...
BEACHED BURGH WEATHER GUESSER LANDS AT KDKA
Meteorologist Ray Petelin, recently dropped by Hearst’s WTAE when the station declined to renew his contract, has landed in Gateway Center. Petelin is now freelancing for CBS-owned KDKA. His first on-air appearances came Friday ...
MEMOIRS OF A FORMER NEWS DIRECTOR
We’re betting that “50 Years After Vietnam: Lessons and Letters from the War I Hated Fighting” doesn’t chronicle the budget battles, personnel headaches and corporate BS that news directors traditionally have to deal with ...
THE EXIT LEADS RIGHT INTO THE NEXT JOB
Morning anchor Jasmine Bailey has exited Nexstar’s KSNF in Joplin, MO. She’s also left Joplin and the business for a new job as spokesperson for the Springfield, MO police department. Bailey, who came to ...
ROKER PREPS FOR BROADWAY
Chalk up another first for Al Roker, “Today Show” weatherman, talk and gameshow host, author and now, Broadway actor. Roker is making his Broadway debut October 5th. He started rehearsals for the role of ...
POPULAR MOTOR CITY NEWSIE IS NOW A FOODIE
Two years after she wrapped a 23+-year tv news career as the popular anchor for Fox O&O WJBK in Detroit, MI, Kam Carman resurfaced this week as creator, host and driving force behind “Dine ...
SECOND LIFE BEHIND A MIC
Former Kansas City traffic reporter/anchor Nikki Vivas is evidently finding life behind a mic with no camera staring at her more comfortable. Vivas, who called the traffic shots at Hearst duopoly KMBC-KCWE for just ...
NFL VET CRUZ SIGNS ON WITH THE WORLDWIDE LEADER©
ESPN’s got themselves another retired NFL vet to sit in the analyst’s chair. Victor Cruz, the former New York Giants wide receiver debuts today. Cruz will appear on “NFL Live,” “Get Up!,” “SportsCenter,” ESPN ...
“JUST WHEN I THOUGHT I WAS OUT, THEY PULL ME BACK IN!”
Fifty years just wasn’t enough for Dave Ward. The former KTRK news anchor who retired last year is coming back to the Disney-owned Houston station to launch a new weekly feature, “Dave Ward’s Houston.” ...
OLD ANCHORS NEVER DIE…
They just often turn to commentary. Cleveland hasn’t really had one since the late Dick Feagler, so Tegna’s WKYC is bringing Leon Bibb back to the station, where he was a fixture in the ...
GUILFOYLE EYES RADIO CAREER?
Over the past couple of days, it has become clear that Kimberly Guilfoyle’s exit from Fox News did not trigger a lot of tears at the network…and more than a few smiles. Guilfoyle’s exit ...
SAINTS HALL OF FAMER NOW A BIG EASY SPORTSCASTER
Former New Orleans Saints running back and Hall of Famer Deuce McAllister is joining Raycom’s WVUE in New Orleans, as the replacement for longtime sportscaster Jim Henderson. “When Jim let us know he would ...
FORMER TV REPORTER ENTERS POLITICS
Pat Boone (no, not that one) liked Palo Alto, CA so much after moving there two years ago, he wants to run for city council. “It just feels like I’ve lived here all my ...
BALTO TV HOST IS OUT THE DOOR
Just a year after he took over hosting duties of “Midday Maryland”, another of those execrable “pay to play” program, this one on Scripps’ WMAR in Baltimore, MD Wyatt Everhart is turning his back ...
FORMER REPORTER TAKES TO A ST. LOUIS STAGE
Former KSDK and KMOV reporter Ruth Ezell is going Wilde in St. Louis this week. She’s one of the cast members in a local theater production of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” ...
ANOTHER VETERAN EXITS THE BUSINESS
Victoria Warren, who spent 12 years as a field reporter at Sunbeam’s WHDH in Boston, MA has taken leave of the tv news business. Warren, who was a morning street reporter for the station, ...
FORMER HOUSTON METEOROLOGIST GOES ACADEMIC
Lisa Vaughn said her goodbyes to Fox O&O KRIV in Houston and her audience back in April two years after she arrived at the station from West Palm Beach, FL. And while most of ...
SNEAKY BIG MOVE
It appears that veteran broadcaster Bob Sullivan has exited Tegna, where he was the Senior Vice President/Programming for a little over three years.. His Linkedin page says, as of June, 2018, he is the GM ...
FORMER UNIVISION STALWART SHOWS UP ON TELEMUNDO
Telemundo kept it under wraps as long as it could, but just days before she showed up on the air, news leaked that former Univision anchor legend María Elena Salinas would be a part ...
YOU SAY YOU WANTED AN INTERACTIVE LIVE-STREAMING GAME SHOW???
Jared Hoffa, a former producer of WLS’s “Windy City Live,” has jumped into new media with two feet, creating “Gaming Under the Influence,” which we are told is the first interactive live-streaming game show ...
SPORTSCASTER LEAVING INDY FOR BIG D
After nearly four years at the sports anchor desk for Dispatch Broadcasting’s WTHR in Indianapolis, IN, Jason Spells is saying his goodbyes and is Texas-bound. He did his last weekend sportscast Sunday and will ...
FORMER TV REPORTER ATLANTA’S NEW SPOKESMAN
It was only a little over a year ago that reporter/anchor Keith Whitney landed at Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta after taking a buyout from Tegna’s WXIA. He’s already moved on. Whitney starts Wednesday as ...
TIME TO ENTER THE FAMILY BUSINESS
A newly-rekindled passion for his father and grandfather’s profession is prompting Houston tv reporter Jake Reiner to plan his exit from Graham Media’s KPRC later this summer and plot his entry into the family ...
FORMER MIAMI REPORTER NOW WRITING FOR RHODE ISLAND NEWSPAPER
Patricia Andreu reported for NBC O&O WTVJ over a span of 13 years back in the 90’s and the early aughts. Now that she is a recent Rhode Island transplant, she is turning her ...
FORMER NBC CONNECTICUT ANCHOR LANDS AT NEWS 12 WESTCHESTER
After just over four years as an anchor and reporter at NBC’s WVIT in Hartford-New Haven, Tara Joyce has turned up at the AM anchor desk of News 12 Westchester. She let us know ...
“A NEW ADVENTURE” LOOMS
It looks like another exit from the tv news grind, this time in New Orleans. After eight years anchoring at Hearst’s WDSU, Scott Walker is leaving July 27th to pursue a new adventure and ...
VETERAN SATX AM ANCHOR SIGNING OFF
These farewells are getting more elaborate. San Antonio morning anchor Leslie Bohl took to Facebook Live Monday to drop the news that after 21 years, she’s done with the morning desk at Sinclair’s WOAI. ...
FORMER PITTSBURGH FORECASTER BACK ON-AIR IN SCRANTON
Last March we reported to you that longtime WPXI forecaster Valerie Smock was leaving the Pittsburgh Cox station to spend more time with her family up in Pennsylvania’s northeast corner in Scranton. She’s resurfaced ...
A RETURN TO TV NEWS AFTER A LONG LAYOFF
Semone Doughton returns to TV news after a nearly two-year hiatus from the business. She’s been hired by Quincy Media’s WEEK in Peoria, IL to co-anchor the station’s morning shows. Doughton left Raycom’s WTVM/WXTX ...
STILL ANOTHER OLBERMANN CAREER RESURRECTION
Keith Olbermann must have some feline DNA because the guy’s got at least as many lives as a cat. In his latest comeback (after comebacks at Fox Sports, MSNBC, NBC, Current TV…..the list goes ...
HOUSTON NUMBER TWO MOVING ON
Houston blogger Mike McGuff reports that just as May sweeps wrap up and Graham Media’s KPRC claims victory, the station is losing its assistant news director Although he’s not saying just yet what his ...
VETERAN BLOOMBERG ANCHOR SIGNING OFF
Bloomberg anchor Betty Liu is calling it quits after ten years and will leave the business channel. She’s evidently got something else in the offing – something else that is none of your damned ...
VARGAS GETS 20/20 SENDOFF TO A&E
Diane Sawyer and David Muir were among a crowd of co-workers and friends who showed up for the farewell party “20/20” Executive Producer David Sloan threw earlier this week for departing anchor Elizabeth Vargas. ...
BACK TO TV NEWS AFTER EXTENDED ABSENCE
Alex Apple moves to Nashville and joins Sinclair’s WZTV, as a reporter. For the past five and a half years, he worked for a couple of firms that specialized in helping clients define and ...
SALINAS RETURNS ON INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY
Was it only six months ago that María Elena Salinas signed off the nightly newscast at Univision after a 36-year run? And now, she’s back in front of the camera with an English-language news ...