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Comings and goings edition
Category: Short Takes
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Exit interview edition
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Up and out edition
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Moving up and out edition
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Career updates edition
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TGIF Edition
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Moving up and out edition
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Ups and downs edition
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Bits and pieces around the industry edition
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Meet the new bosses edition
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ICYMI
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Sightings, shuffles and sign-offs edition
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They come….and they go….
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Beating the odds in a high turnover business
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People going places
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Up and out edition
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A couple of Sinclair exits
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Fleeing the business edition
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Comings and goings edition
IN BRIEF…UPWARD MOBILITY EDITION
Moving up the food chain
IN BRIEF…MOVING ‘N’ SHAKIN’ EDITION
Short takes on new moves
IN BRIEF….NEW JOBS, FAMILIAR FACES EDITION
A quick glance at who's doing what where.
IN BRIEF…MOVING UP….AND OUT…EDITION
A promotion and an apparent exit.
IN BRIEF…..CH-CH-CHANGES EDITION
At Birmingham’s WBRC, Angie Bierley moves to EP from her current role as digital content manager. Joey Parker, who’s been an ND a several TV stations and most recently ND for Missourinet, a statewide ...
IN BRIEF….COMING AND GOINGS EDITION
Bob Freeman is retiring from WEHT/WTVW in Evansville, IN at the end of November. He’s been an ND in the market for 21 years including time as the ND for WFIE-TV across town. GM ...
IN BRIEF…OPEN CHAIRS…OR NO CHAIRS AT ALL EDITION
News Press and Gazette’s KTVZ in Bend, OR is looking for a new news director. Nic Moye has been the news director there since 2016. Moye was also an ND for another Bend station ...
IN BRIEF…RESUME UPDATE EDITION
Tom Powell has been promoted to ND at Gray’s WPTA/WISE in Ft. Wayne, IN. He’s been the assistant ND (and an anchor). Learn more about his background here. He’s also worked in Memphis and ...
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There’s a another new ND at another Rochester station. But he’s not new to the station. Ed Buttacio returns to WHAM in Rochester, NY as the ND. Earlier in his career he was a ...
IN BRIEF….ELEVATIONS AND RETURNS EDITION
Scripps owned WTKR in Norfolk, VA has tabbed Allison Herman as its next news director. She’s been the assistant news director here for about a year but has a longer resume, which you can ...
IN BRIEF…ONWARD, UPWARD AND SIDEWAYS EDITION
Another Nexstar station fills an open ND job. Chris Babcock advances from Digital Content Director for KTSM in El Paso, TX, a job he’s held for the last year. His background, including a stint ...
IN BRIEF…LADDER CLIMBING EDITION
Another Nexstar station, (in this case, WSAV in Savannah, GA) another promotion within the company. Kathy Wideman comes from WJBF in Augusta, GA, where she was Operations Manager and Assistant ND. You’ll see in ...
EN RESUMEN… EDICIÓN MOVING UP
Pedro Andrade is the new assistant news director at Telemundo’s KULX in Salt Lake City. He’s moving up from a producer slot at the station where he’s worked for the past two years. Prior ...
IN BRIEF….IN, OUT AND UP EDITION
Cathy Shallcross is moving up at New York’s WCBS where she has been promoted to Director of Streaming and Digital Content. She’s worked there for eleven years, beginning as the 5:00 producer before advancing ...
IN BRIEF…UPS AND OUT EDITION
Scripps-owned KSTU in Salt Lake City has promoted interim news director Stacey Roberts. Here’s the note from GM Tim Ermish. Scripps sent Roberts there as an interim from her job as Assistant ND for ...
IN BRIEF…MOVING UP, OUT AND SEARCHING EDITION
Sinclair’s WEYI/WSMH in Flint/Saginaw/Bay City, MI is looking for a new news director to replace Neilie-Ann Giffune who spent almost three years of her ten years at the station as ND. Sinclair owns WSMH ...
IN BRIEF…BETTER LATE THAN NEVER EDITION
The ball kinda got away from everybody on THREE news director hires over the past few months, all at Cowles stations: KHQ-TV, Spokane, WA…hired PAUL BERGEN, formerly GM and before that news director at ...
IN BRIEF…MOVING UP AND NEW VENTURES EDITION
Longtime news director Mark Neerman has launched a new venture, Indarra Media. He sent along this note which explains the new company, his first two partners, including a former network o-and-o GM, and news ...
IN BRIEF…MOVING UP AND OUT EDITION
Nexstar reached into its ranks to fill a new position, Director of News Training. Kelly Hicks, currently the morning EP for WDAF in Kansas City, will implement a training program for newscast producers. She’s ...
IN BRIEF….CAREER SHIFTS EDITION
Congratulations to Jennifer Dale who advances within Gray, not to a new ND job, but to a new role as VP/Recruiting for Gray. More in this email from Gray SVP-Local Media Sandy Breland. Dale ...
IN BRIEF….BIG MOVES EDITION
Gray triopoly KGMB/KHNL/KFVE in Honolulu, HI has hired Scott Duff from sister station WSFA in Montgomery, AL. Duff has been ND there for almost 16 years. He issued this note reflecting on the past ...
IN BRIEF…NEW HORIZONS EDITION
Nexstar’s WJBF in Augusta, GA has posted an opening for news director to replace Scott Elledge, who has been the ND here for a long time. He reportedly has a new job lined up….but ...
IN BRIEF…SHUFFLING THE DECK IN ROCHESTER EDITION
In the first of TWO new ND openings in the market, Serena Romero has left Sinclair operated WHAM in Rochester, NY for personal reasons. She’d been the ND here for about a year, and ...
IN BRIEF….MANAGEMENT SHUFFLE EDITION
Rick Boone is being promoted within Nexstar to become ND for WHNT in Huntsville, AL. He’s been the news director for KARD-KTVE in Monroe, LA (more below) and has worked in a variety of ...
IN BRIEF….MOVING THE CHESS PIECES EDITION
In an inter-Scripps move, Andy Delancey heads north to WCPO in Cincinnati as its next Assistant ND. He had been an EP at WPTV in W. Palm Beach. After a long search, Hayden Elliott has ...
IN BRIEF…UPWARD MOBILITY EDITION
Stephanie Smith joins Graham Media’s KPRC in Houston as Managing Editor. She’s been working at KXAS (NBC owned) in Dallas. The new Assistant ND at Chattanooga’s WTVC (Sinclair) is Jonathan Brines who’s had a ...
IN BRIEF…..HAPPY RETURNS AND (SORTA) FOND FAREWELLS EDITION
Sarah Glover returns to Philadelphia to be VP/News and Civic Engagement for public tv station WHYY in Philadelphia, PA. She’s currently the Managing Editor for Minnesota Public Radio’s MPR News, but earlier in her ...
IN BRIEF….COMINGS AND GOINGS EDITION
Jeremy Settle is leaving this Altice USA’s News 12 New Jersey in Edison, NJ. Here’s the staff note from Altice’s SVP/GM Jacques Natz. Settle’s worked here for nine years, first as Assistant ND and, ...
IN BRIEF…UP, DOWN AND OUT EDITION
Astrid Ressler has been promoted to ND for Gray’s WBNG in Binghamton, NY. Here’s her bio page from the station website. She joined the station as the producer for the 6:00, 10:00 and 11:00 ...
IN BRIEF…THE MIDWEST EDITION
Christian Piekos gets back to his home area, joining Disney’s WLS in Chicago as a general assignment reporter. He’s coming from reporting and substitute anchoring duties at Gray’s KSLA in Shreveport and KPLC in ...
IN BRIEF…MANAGEMENT MOVES EDITION
Jim Wilson has left Fox-owned WITI in Milwaukee, WI after more than 30 years of service, the last three as news director. Wilson started at the station of as photographer, was promoted to chief ...
IN BRIEF….SHORT AND SWEET EDITION
Jason Walker started this week as the new Assistant ND for KBTX Gray’s station in Bryan, TX. He’s been the news operations manager and chief photographer at Sinclair’s KEYE in Austin, TX. Coventry Adrian ...
IN BRIEF….ICYMI EDITION
Kevin Hodge returned to locally-owned WBKB in Alpena, MI as news director and 6 p.m. anchor last month. Back in 2019, he was a reporter at the station before leaving to spend a year ...
IN BRIEF….RETURNS AND IN-HOUSE MOVES EDITION
Leisha Beard moves from one Nexstar station to another as she takes over at WHTM in Harrisburg, PA. We told you last week…in reporting her departure from KSNF/KODE in Joplin, MO…that her next job ...
IN BRIEF….MOVING UP EDITION
Chrissy Mazzone has been promoted to assistant news director from executive producer at Nexstar’s KXAN in Austin, TX. She moved over to the station from Tegna-soon-to-be-Standard Media’s KVUE a little over a year ago ...
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Mike Lopez returns to Indianapolis where he’ll be the Assistant News Director for Nexstar’s WTTV/WXIN. Here’s the staff email from ND CJ Hoyt. Lopez is currently the Managing Editor for Graham Media’s KPRC in ...
IN BRIEF….”EXITING HERE” EDITION
Greg Schieferstein is leaving KRNV/KRXI in Reno, NV after three years as ND for the proverbial job to be announced soon. Schieferstein is a former ND in Pocatello, Peoria, Augusta, GA, and Missoula, MT. ...
IN BRIEF….OVER, UP AND BACK EDITION
Joe Radske will be the next news director for Gray’s WEAU in Eau Claire, WI. For the last six years, he’s been the ND for KVRR in Fargo, ND, owned for the moment by ...
IN BRIEF…RETURNS AND DEPARTURES EDITION
Letitia Walker returns to the news director’s office as she takes over at Gray’s KPLC in Lake Charles, LA. She’s been working at WWL in New Orleans as a morning EP, but earlier had ...
IN BRIEF….FAMILY TRADITIONS AND MORE CAREER STOPS EDITION
Second generation newsman Andrew Altenbern returns to Allen Media’s KWWL in Waterloo, IA as ND. Details from GM John Huff. Altenburn has been the Assistant ND for KFSM in Ft. Smith, AR, has worked ...
IN BRIEF…HUMP DAY EDITION
Jeremy Spearman has been promoted to Streaming EP for Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL in Raleigh. He had been the 7:00 producer there and has also worked at WNCN in Raleigh. Sam Wood is the ...
IN BRIEF…MOVING UP AND OVER EDITION
Chris Cerbo has been promoted to news director at Scripps’ KIVI in Boise, ID. He’s been the Assistant ND here for the past year, coming from Charlottesville, VA. This note from GM Merri Hanson ...
IN BRIEF….MOVING AROUND, UP AND OUT EDITION
Miranda Combs completes the Lexington hat trick as she’ll be the next ND for Morris Multimedia’s WTVQ in Lexington, KY. She joined Nexstar’s WDKY last fall as its Assistant ND after a year+ working ...
IN BRIEF…MOVING THE CHESS PIECES EDITION
Clayton Bauman is being promoted to news director for Gray’s WITN in Washington, NC. He’s worked here since 2008, first on air and then in to management. He’s replacing Jessica Bobula, who spread the ...
IN BRIEF….LONE STAR MOVES
After a mere year at Nexstar duopoly KETK/KFXK in Tyler, TX, Perry Elyaderani is headed for sister TRIopoly KNWA-KFTS-KXNW in Rogers, AR. He was morning anchor in Tyler and he will perform the same ...
IN BRIEF…THE WEEKENDER
Jacklynn Boatman gets her first news director job at Block Communications WAND in Decatur, IL. She’s been the Assistant ND there since 2019, and the interim ND since Morgan Schaab left in October to ...
IN BRIEF….THE MOVING UP EDITION
Morning anchor Gray Hall at Disney’s WPVI will be changing his wakeup time on his alarm clock- and not because he’s springing ahead this weekend. Beginning Monday, he will join the anchor team for ...
IN BRIEF…MANY HAPPY RETURNS EDITION
Nicole Hogensen returns to her native Ohio as she will be the next news director for Sinclair’s WSYX-WTTE in Columbus, OH. She left WPTV in West Palm Beach after eleven years, six as ND. ...
IN BRIEF…MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE NETWORK EDITION…
With incoming president Chris Licht signaling a cease-fire with FOX News (however will they fill the time!), CNN may be ready for life to get settled, especially now that former president Jeff Zucker has ...
IN BRIEF….END OF THE WEEK EDITION
KTAB/KRBC in Abilene, TX Travis Ruiz is joining the Nexstar recruiting team and thus leaving this sister Nexstar operation (Nexstar owns KTAB/CBS and operates KRBC-NBC). He’s been ND here for five years, worked for ...
IN BRIEF…..COMINGS AND GOINGS EDITION
Jamie Burch returns to the news director chair as he takes over at Sinclair’s KVII in Amarillo, TX. Burch spent the last year or so as the Assistant ND at Scripps’ KXXV in Waco. ...
IN BRIEF….COMINGS AND GOINGS EDITION
Jessica Bobula continues her tour through Gray TV as she returns to KOLD in Tucson, AZ as ND. She was an EP here earlier. She’s currently ND for WITN in Greenville, NC and also ...
IN BRIEF…GOING UP EDITION
Chelsea Torres is back in tv news after a five-year hiatus. Torres has joined Sinclair’s WOAI in San Antonio, TX as an MMJ or as she put it, “New year. New job. Same SA ...
IN BRIEF….END OF THE WEEK EDITION
WDJT in Milwaukee has hired Tony Capriolo as its new assistant news director. Here’s the memo from WDJT news director Jessie Garcia. Capriolo joins the Weigel owned station from NBC’s WMAQ in Chicago, where ...
IN BRIEF….MOVING AROUND AND UP EDITION
Zach Wheeler is adding additional duties as news director at Nexstar’s WETM in Elmira, NY. He’s been at WETM 15 years, and has been the main anchor and managing editor for the last 3 ...
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Todd Reed is leaving Nexstar’s KTVX in Salt Lake City, UT to become the new news director for Scripps’ KGTV in San Diego, CA. He’s been the ND at KTVX for 2 1/2 years ...
IN BRIEF….END OF THE WEEK EDITION
Michael “Mace” Maciejewski returns to Orlando as an Executive Producer for “Live Now on Fox.” He’s been the Assistant ND at Nexstar’s WNCN in Raleigh for the last two years, but spent five years ...
IN BRIEF….LONE STAR STATE EDITION
Meteorologist Avery Tomasco is getting weekends off (beginning this weekend!) as he moves to weekday mornings at Sinclair’s KEYE in Austin TX. Tomasco has been calling the forecasts at the station for the past ...
IN BRIEF REDUX…..COMINGS, GOINGS AND STAYINGS EDITION
Pat Peterson gets a new job but stays in Mississippi as he’ll be the next ND for Allen Media’s WTVA in Tupelo, MS. He’s spent the last five years as ND for WTOK in ...
IN BRIEF….END OF THE WEEK EDITION
Nexstar’s KIAH in Houston, TX is advertising for a new news director. Scott Fitzgerald, who’s been the Director of Operations and de facto ND, is leaving to become Regional Sales Manager Southwest for Newtek, ...
IN BRIEF…NEW YEAR, NEW ASSIGNMENTS EDITION
Craig Hume joins Nexstar’s WBRE/WYOU in Wilkes-Barre, PA as the next ND. Hume most recently was ND for Hubbard’s KAAL in Rochester, MN, a job he left last November after two years, the latest ...
IN BRIEF…UP AND OUT OF TV NEWS EDITION
Kelly Boan is being promoted out of WLNE in Providence, RI to the corporate level to work on a new project. It’s a quick rise to corporate for Boan, who joined this Standard Media ...
IN BRIEF….NEW ASSIGNMENTS EDITION
Carlos Armando Cabrera is the newest MMJ at Telemundo’s KSTS in the Bay Area. He is coming from Miami online newser Periódico Cubano. Cabrera has also worked at Univision’s WVEN in Orlando and sister ...
IN BRIEF…NEW YEAR, NEW ADVENTURES EDITION
“It’s been a helluva ride,” Mike Lucas tweeted as he announced his departure from Tegna’s KAGS in Bryan, TX. He’s been at the station since 2018. He’s evidently not yet ready to share the ...
IN BRIEF…HAPPY HOLIDAYS EDITION
In Fresno, CA, Univision hired Isis Chaverri as ND for KFTV. GM Steve Stuck sent this note to the staff. Chaverri is a former ND for Univision’s WGBO in Chicago, a job she left ...
IN BRIEF…THE TEXAS SHUFFLE EDITION
This has been a busy week for Texas media blogger Mike McGuff and here is a quick rundown of what he’s been on top of. Anchor-reporter Aaron Wright announced his pending departure from Tegna’s ...
IN BRIEF…..LAUNCHES, TRANSFERS AND EXITS EDITION
Newly created Nexstar duopoly WWDCW/WDVM in Washington, DC has hired Ben Dobson to launch the news department. Dobson most recently was the ND for NBC’s WBTS, in Boston, a job he left in September after ...
IN BRIEF…MOVING ON AND UP EDITION
Juan Carlos “JC” Navarrete is the new weekend morning news anchor and reporter at NBC’s WMAQ in Chicago. He’ll start co-anchoring Sunday mornings with Kate Chappell at 5, 6, 8 and 10 a.m on ...
IN BRIEF….AROUND THE BURGH EDITION
Hearst’s WTAE has handed hometown native Elena LaQuatra the morning traffic job permanently and added noon news anchor to her duties. LaQuatra, who joined the station in 2018 as a general assignment reporter, has ...
IN BRIEF…COMINGS AND GOINGS EDITION
KTLA, Nexstar’s CW station in Los Angeles, has filled its open morning executive producer position by hiring Robin Radin. News Director Peter Saiers told the staff about the hire via this email. His note tells some ...
IN BRIEF….’TIS THE SEASON EDITION
Andy Miller is returning to his former job as ND for Nexstar’s WCIA in Champaign, IL, a job he held for eleven years until he was named Director of Local Content Development for Nexstar ...
IN BRIEF….BLACK FRIDAY EDITION
While staying in Wisconsin, a WTMJ manager leaves for a new ND job. Ryan Scott transfers north to become ND for Scripps sister station WGBA in Green Bay. He started at WTMJ as a ...
IN BRIEF….MAKING MOVES EDITION
Maureen Jennings Caruso is moving across town to become ND for Scripps’ WRTV in Indianapolis, IN. As you’ll learn in this note from GM Lana Durban-Scott, Caruso is currently the Assistant ND for Nexstar’s ...
IN BRIEF….COMINGS, GOINGS, UPS AND DOWNS EDITION
Back in February, veteran reporter David Goins split with Tegna’s WFAA in Dallas after six years at the station. Viewers now will be seeing him on NBC-owned KXAS in the market. He’s signed on ...
IN BRIEF…THE GEVERS EDITION
Longtime news manager Allison Gibson’s last day at KWWL in Waterloo, IA, recently acquired by Allen Media, was Friday. She’s headed west to be closer to her family after the death of her mother ...
IN BRIEF…..CH-CH-CHANGES EDITION
Mandi Mendoza has joined USAA in San Antonio as Director of Media Production. Wikipedia can explain what USAA is better than we possibly could! (Short Version: It’s and insurance and banking outfit.) Mendoza is the ...
IN BRIEF…..NEW MARKETS, NEW JOBS EDITION
Sarah Zak starts November 15th as ND for Nexstar’s WAVY in Norfolk, VA. She most recently was ND for Scripps’ WFTX in Ft. Myers. She left in September after 3 1/2 years. Zak has ...
IN BRIEF…MOVING UP AND ON EDITION
Gerron Jordan is the new morning “live desk” anchor at Hearst’s WISN in Milwaukee, WI He comes to the station from locally-owned WVLA/WGMB in Bon Rouge, LA. The Chicago native has also worked in ...
IN BRIEF….CH-CH-CHANGES EDITION
Stan Kowalski adds oversight of Altice’s News 12 in Westchester/Hudson Valley, New York. He’s been running the Bronx/Brooklyn newsroom for this hyper local cable channel. Here’s the note from SVP/GM Jacques Natz. Autumn Jones ...
