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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jeff Lenk left Sinclair duopoly KBAK/KFBX in Bakersfield, CA in early September. He was news director for the last five years. Lenk was with the station for 14 years, first as a producer and ...
KTBC, the FOX o-and-o in Austin, TX, wasted little time replacing longtime ND Pam Vaught by promoting Assistant News Director Kevin McPherson to the top job after 22 years as the #2. He’s in ...
Jerry Goodman gets his first news director’s job at Gray’s WALB in Albany, GA. He’s spent the last 21 months as the Assistant ND for sister station KSLA in Shreveport, LA. Goodman’s resume is ...
Scott Rates moves within California to become the next ND for News Press and Gazette’s KION in Monterey/Salinas, CA. He is currently the assistant ND/anchor for KHSL/KNVN in Chico, CA where he has worked ...
Brittany Burtscher returns to Scripps owned KJRH in Tulsa, OK as news director. She had been the Assistant ND here until 2019 when she went to Meredith-soon-to-be Gray’s KTVK-KPHO in Phoenix as an executive ...
Longtime Bakersfield, CA newswoman Suzanne Rodriguez has left Scripps owned KERO after four years at the station, the last two as news director. Rodriguez spent 18 years at cross-town competitor KGET where she was ...
Sports anchor Bryan Kennedy tweeted that his time Morris Multimedia’s WTVQ in Lexington, KY is coming to a close. “I have accepted a position as sports anchor/reporter for @KMOV in St. Louis. My final ...
Mike Friedrich returns to TV and Sinclair as he’s been named ND for KUTV in Salt Lake City, UT. He’s been out of TV for three years, after leaving his last job as Assistant ...
Kelly Hatmaker is moving to a new role within Cowles, helping develop a new streaming product for the company. He’s been the ND at KHQ in Spokane, WA for 2+ years and had been ...
Tiaira Shoultz has been promoted to news director at Tegna’s WVEC in Norfolk, VA. Shoultz arrived at WVEC as an executive producer in 2013, was promoted to assistant ND four years later, and assumed ...
A new face pops up tomorrow morning in the weather center at the Murdochs’ KRIV in Houston. Lena Maria Arango will also contribute to “Houston’s Morning Show,” the station’s weekday morning program. Previously she ...
Here’s the latest from Rick Gevers… A corporate transfer sends William McLain to Gray’s WTVM in Columbus, GA for his first ND job. GM Holly Steuart told the staff in this memo. McLain is ...
The Weather Channel en Español is getting set to relaunch and the cabler has hired Sussy Ruiz as its new editor-in-chief In that role she will oversee the recruiting of on-camera talent and crafting ...
Shuffling around the news managers… WAVE GM Ken Selvaggi has left that Gray owned station in Louisville, KY after more than ten years as ND. He’s also been a GM in Montgomery and is ...
Investigative reporter Cat Reid wrapped it up at Scripps’ KSHB in Kansas City, MO this week. She’s headed for Duke University law school. Reid spent six years at the station. When she finishes, she’ll ...
Reporter Keaton Thomas figured five years was enough at Sinclair’s KATU in Portland, OR and that a Twitter pic was worth a thousand words…more or less. Disney’s KPRC in Houston is looking for a ...
Veteran Seattle sportscaster Mike Ferreri is signing off tomorrow (Friday) after 21 years at Sinclair’s KOMO. He decided not to go after a new contract and instead is looking for…..wait for it…..the next big ...
Audrey Moon is leaving Quincy Media’s WREX in Rockford, Il to take a job outside of TV. She spent seven years at WREX, first as Internet Director, then Assistant ND, before being promoted to ...
Roger Gray has left Sinclair’s KVII in Amarillo, TX after a little more than two years as news director. His Linkedin page has more on his career history, which includes a stint as long ...
Emilie Ikeda is headed for the show, after leaving FOX O&O WAGA in Atlanta. She’s headedto NBC News. She begins Monday. Ikeda, who went through the FOX News Multimedia Reporters Training Program (!?) joined ...
Rick Bagley left Tegna’s KFSM in Ft. Smith, AR nearly two weeks ago. He had been at the stations since 2017 in his second stint as news director there. In between, he was the ...
Gavin Maliska has left Quincy owned WEEK in Peoria, IL after not quite a year as news director. WEEK does separate newscasts on a digital sub channel called HOI-ABC Krystal Swann has been promoted ...
It’s always bittersweet, isn’t it? For three years, Shannon Lanier anchored the morning news on Nexstart’s KIAH in Houston…a CW affiliate. Now he’s leaving the station, and headed east to Orlando. And on Instagram ...
A little over a month after exiting Scripps flagship WCPO in Cincinnati, Jasmine Minor has turned up at Circle City’s WISH in Indianapolis where she will be an investigative reporter.. Minor has also worked ...
Another former news director has ascended to the heady atmosphere of General Managership. Andrew Vrees, who’s been Hearst Television’s vice president for news after having served in the ND chair at WCVB in Boston ...
Sydny Boyd is now the newly-anointed EP at Scripps’ KMTV in Omaha, NE. She’s been a producer there for the past two years and if her social media is any indication she is THRILLED! ...
Mike Spruill is leaving Music City and his general sales manager job at Nexstar’s WKRN behind to head to sister station duopoly KRBK/KOZL in Springfield, MO as VP and general manager. He will also ...
Terrence Lee is the new early morning news anchor at Fox-owned WFLD in Chicago. He succeeds Rafer Weigel on “Good Day Chicago” from 4 to 6 a.m. Monday through Friday. Lee most recently was ...
It’s back to Houston and Graham Media’s KPRC for Kris Gutierrez after 5 years at NBC-owned KXAS in Dallas-Ft. Worth. He’ll be anchoring the main evening newscasts starting next Monday. Gutierrez left the station ...
President Trump has seemed to float getting rid of every journalist at the White House except a small handful of reporters he likes. Social distancing has forced a considerable depopulation of the White House ...
Keith “KC” Conner is the new news director for Gray’s WDTV in Clarksburg/Bridgeport, WV. Conner is a former ND at WOAY in Oak Hill, WV. He most recently worked as the managing editor for ...
15 years on the morning news desk is enough for anchor Nicole Koglin, who is leaving Fox-owned WITI in Milwaukee and the tv news business altogether. Not right away mind you. She plans to ...
After 18 years calling the weather shots at Hearst’s WESH. morning meteorologist Amy Sweezey is leaving the station and the tv news business, but not the Orlando area. She decided not to pursue a ...
Martha Saldaña has moved up to a newly-created anchor slot as Telemundo’s KBLR launched a new noon newscast. She’s been producing for the station since 2016. She previously worked as anchor and senior producer ...
After a short stint on the weekend anchor desk, Jackie Kennon is the newest member of the morning anchor team at Gray’s KCRG in Cedar Rapids, IA. She returned last summer to the station ...
Randy Reeves has agreed to step down from the news director job at KOMU in Columbia, MO, but will remain at the station. Reeves posted this on social media, and said the move will ...
KREM‘s newest evening anchor, Regina Ahn popped up for the first time last week on the Tegna station in Spokane, WA at 10 and 11 pm. She came to the station after three years ...
Weekend anchor/reporter Bryan Spyros plans to leave Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford/New Haven and the business altogether. He’s been with the station six years. —– Up in Green Bay, WI, Stacy Engebretson bid farewell to ...
Congratulations to Andy Pederson who’s on the job at Lockwood’s WCAV in Charlottesville, VA. He spent the last 2 1/2 years as ND for KTVE/KARD, in Monroe, LA. At WCAV, he replaces Val Thompson ...
Veteran Waco, TX anchor Ann Harder signed off Friday after 25 years in the chair at Scripps’ KXXV, most recently middays. “(News reporting) is really what I’m retiring from, but I’m not retiring from ...
Former WTAE weekend morning anchor Bofta Yimam is now working on Capitol Hill for CBS Newspath as a freelance reporter. —— Claudia Amezcua has crossed the street and joined Meredith’s KPTV in Portland, OR ...
Telemundo’s WNJU in New York has added veteran journalist David Rodriguez to the news team. Starting later next month, Rodriguez will co-anchor the 5 p.m. weekday edition of “Noticiero 47 Telemundo” and report for ...
Ashley Codianni, who had been head of social and emerging media for CNN, is “super excited” to be moving over to “Great Big Story” on a full-time basis as vp, brand and digital strategy. ...
Michelle Chism has left Hearst’s WGAL in Lancaster/Harrisburg, PA after about 2 1/2 years as news director. She had been the Assistant ND at Hearst’s WBAL in Baltimore for the previous 2 1/2 years. Chism has ...
Ana Belaval, the multitalented “Around Town” reporter on Chicago’s “WGN Morning News,” is about to star in her own one-woman comedy show. “Reporting Live: I’m Ana Belaval” shares her personal story “on how facing ...
Christopher Palmer has been named vice president and general manager of the group’s WKBT La Crosse-Eau Claire, WI. He has worked in broadcast management and sales for more than 20 years. Palmer joins Morgan ...
Monica Chavarria has been promoted to executive producer for Scripps’ KRIS in Corpus Christi, TX. She has been a producer there. —— Danny Walker has been promoted to General Manager for Heartland ...
Luke Stuckmeyer, once upon a time an anchor, reporter and host at NBC Sports Chicago, landed this week at CBS-owned WBBM. Until he was cut last October, Stuckmeyer was one of the originals at ...
12-year station veteran Chris Earl is moving into the evening anchor chair next month alongside Beth Malicki on the evening newscasts at Gray’s KCRG in Cedar Rapid, IA. He’ll succeed Bruce Aune, who’s signing ...
Two appointments at Scripps’ stations to the number two slot. At KGTV in San Diego, Sarah Cowan has been promoted from her role as EP for that station to assistant news director And ...
Two management hires at Scripps’s KMGH in Denver: Kirsten Boyd has been promoted to Assistant ND from her old job as executive producer. She’d held that position for the past six years. And David Klugh has been ...
Could robots be helping write the news for KUSA (NBC) in Denver? According to a Denver area newspaper that could be the case. The TEGNA-owned TV station is using the services of a company ...
Endy Rodríguez is out the door as VP of news at Telemundo’s WNJU, its New York flagship. Rumors had been flying around the water cooler for the past few weeks because he was nowhere ...
Hearst’s WYFF in Greenville, SC has promoted Parella Lewis weekday morning weather anchor. She joined the station just last September to do weekend morning weather. Before Lewis joined WYFF, she spent 12 years forecasting ...
She’s ba-ack. Dunia Elvir is once again anchoring at Telemundo‘s KVEA in Los Angeles after a two-week suspension. She was banished January 10 following a social media eruption over the appearance of a conflict ...
Chicago public tv station WTTW has hired Hugo Balta as the station’s newly-created news director position, effective Feb. 3l. He succeeds Mary Field, who retired in July after 23 years at the station. Balta ...
Congratulations to Josh Morgan who’s been promoted to station manager at Quincy Media’s WREX in Rockford, IL. He joined the station in March, 2013, as news director. Morgan had been an EP for WPSD-TV ...
Sportscaster Rich Coppola and Tegna’s WTIC hit a contract wall last summer, resulting in his departure from the station after 30 years. Now he’s across the street at Nexstar’s WTNH. New job. New role. ...
Heather Janssen recently joined CBS-owned KOVR in Sacramento, CA as the station’s first full-time multimedia journalist. She moved north from Gray’s KOLD in Tucson, AZ, where she held the same title for the past ...
Estrella TV has hired former Univision anchor Javier Olivares for its Dallas-based news team. He’ll be co-anchoring newscasts for three stations: Dallas’ KMPX, Houston’s KZJL and Miami’s WGEN. Olivares, who worked at Univision for ...
It’s buh-bye to tv news for WCCO reporter Mary McGuire after three years at the Twin Cities’ CBS O&O. Her next career move is still in development She spent close to a decade in ...
Tegna’s KENS in San Antonio, TX, this week moved veteran anchor-reporter Sharon Ko into the anchor chair alongside Aaron Wright at 6 p.m. “Sharon is well known within this community and has connected with ...
In Richmond, Va. John Rogers is the newest “Good Morning Richmond” anchor for Nexstar’s WRIC. He came from Nexstar’s WFLA in Tampa, Fla. where he spent nearly seven years as a fill-in anchor and ...
It was all Houston media watcher Mike McGuff could do to keep up with the pre-sweeps movement in local television over the past few days. Newcomer Matthew Seedorff showed up on Fox-owned KRIV as ...
With the approach of the February sweeps, Finnie isn’t the only move station execs around the country are making to firm up their personnel. Down in Houston, Chauncey Glover has moved up from anchoring ...
Helen Swenson has been named Vice President, Content for Spectrum News NY1, the 24 hour cable news operation in New York. Details in this news release. Swenson most recently was an Executive Producer for TEGNA, ...
Jason Olson has been promoted to Assistant ND for Graham Media’s WKMG in Orlando. He’s worked there in a number of roles for eleven years, most recently as Assignment Manager. Olson’s worked in Tampa ...
KHOU anchor Lisa Hernandez has decided NOT to return to the Houston Tegna station after her maternity leave. She wants to “spend more time with her family.” Hernandez, who went on leave last August, ...
It was just a year ago, Julie Moravchick became assistant news director at Spectrum News Wisconsin. A year later and we find that Moravchik has been named news content manager for Nexstar-soon-to be Fox’s ...
Tegna’s KIII in Corpus Christi, TX has named Barbi Leo co-anchor of “3News First Edition” She joins John-Thomas Kobos and meteorologist Alan Holt on the newscast. Leo comes to the station’s newscast after a ...
Coming in March…Chris Lea will join the sports department of Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL in Raleigh, N.C. His move comes after seven years at Hearst’s WXII in Winston-Salem, N.C., He has also been a radio ...
Laura Jarrett is now holding forth as the newest addition to CNN’s “Early Start” alongside Christine Romans. Jarrett, an attorney, had no previous experience when CNN brought her on board in 2017 as a ...
Morgan Murphy’s WKBT in La Crosse, WI has brought on Alec Giannakopoulos for his first tv news job since graduating from the University of Iowa last year. He’ll be the weekend sports anchor while ...
Ismael Estrada joins NBC’s KNSD in San Diego as Managing Editor. For the last 10 years, he’s been a field producer for CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” and earlier worked as an investigative producer for ...
Christine Byers will join Tegna’s KSDK in St. Louis next month, moving over from her current job on the police beat for the Post-Dispatch. While she doesn’t have TV experience, she knows the area ...
Congratulations to Eric Walters who’s been named news director for Gray’s WDBJ in Roanoke, VA. Walters has worked at Nexstar’s WBTW in Myrtle Beach for more than 25 years, rising to news director in ...
Christa Dubill occupied the main anchor desk for much of her 12 years at Scripps KSHB in Kansas City, MO. Come the end of the year, she’s taking the “friends and family” option and ...
John Ehrhart is the new ND for Gray’s WDTV in Bridgeport, WV. He most recently had been the ND for sister station KCWY in Casper, WY, a 12+ year assignment which ended this summer ...
Telemundo’s KULX in Salt Lake City UT has brought on Cindy Bernal as the anchor for the station’s weekday 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts beginning a week from today.. She joins KULX after two ...
Meteorologist Madeline Evans has evidently replaced Reuben Contreras at Disney’s KFSN in Fresno, CA. The freelancer recently announced her arrival as Contreras’s presence disappeared from the stations website. She’s also worked in Norfolk and ...
Anayeli Ruiz checks out after two years as an MMJ at NBCU’s WMAQ and WSNS (Telemundo) in Chicago. The bilingual reporter is moving back home to Texas to be closer to her family. Before ...
Alexander Williams is the new weekend meteorologist at Nexstar duopoly KNWA/KFTA in Ft. Smith, AR. This is his first fulltime tv news job after interning at WJHL in 2013 and WBKO in 2015. News ...
The University of Central Florida in Orlando has announced a new endowed journalism scholarship in the name of Wendy Chioji. Chioji was a news anchor at Hearst’s WESH for more than 20 years. She ...
James Warner is off to Florida to become the Assistant ND for WOFL, the FOX o-and-o. This is his second tour of duty for this operation. He’s leaving KSWO-KAUZ in Lawton, OK/Wichita Falls, TX. ...
Alanna Quillen has left behind Scripps’ WPTV and West Palm Beach after three years and headed for Dallas. She’s the new early AM reporter at NBCU’s KXAS back in her hometown. Before West Palm, ...
Grendel Levy is now working for Hearst’s WDSU in her hometown of New Orleans as a special project producer. She most recently had been the ND for WOWK in Charleston/Huntington, WV. Levy’s also been ...
CBS Newspath correspondent Mola Lenghi is now in “The Show” after being named CBS News correspondent Lenghi’s been with Newspath for the past three and a half years, after arriving there from WUSA in ...
Betsy Korona has been bumped up to become executive director of news for MSNBC and NBC News Now. Korona has been heading up the MSNBC dayside team as senior director of news. She’ll have ...
Cate Cauguiran, who’s been a per diem reporter at Disney’s WLS for the past three years, has been promoted to full-time general assignment reporter. She also will join the reporting team of “Asian Influences,” ...
Congratulations to Tom Powell, evening anchor at WPTA, one-half of Quincy Media’s Ft. Wayne, IN duopoly. He’s adding the duties of assistant ND to his portfolio, and will continue to anchor at 5:00, 6:00, ...
