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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
