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, ...
Fox News Channel has re-upped National Correspondent Bryan Llenas to a new multiyear deal, Llenas, who’s been with FNC for since 2010, will continue to cover national breaking news based out of New York ...
Reporter Johny Fernandez is two years and gone at Cox-owned WFTV in Orlando. He’s on his way to New York to take up a freelance reporting assignment at CBS News. In addition to three ...
Tashara Parker is the newly-named “Daybreak” traffic anchor for Tegna’s WFAA in Dallas. She’s coming to the Big D just before sweeps from sister station KYTX in Tyler, TX where she had been anchoring ...
Investigative reporter Jacob Long has hit the exit after one year at Tegna’s KSDK in St. Louis to become St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson‘s new spokesman. It was his second time around at the ...
KPIX, the CBS owned station in San Francisco, has promoted Emily Dick to morning executive producer. She’s been there for two years, hired as an associate producer, then producer, and now EP. Dick has ...
Scripps’ KSHB in Kansas City, MO. Hayley Lewis as a new member of the station’s sports staff. The former Miss Tennessee most recently worked at Heartland-soon-to-be-Allen Media’s KEZI in Eugene, Oregon. She starts later ...
Longtime KXAS anchor Meredith Land is abandoning the late-evening anchor desk at the NBC-owned Dallas station for (sing along now) a better “work-life balance.” See the family? While she’s gone from the 10 pm ...
The latest exit from the tv news business for the nonprofit world is Joel Feick, drawing the curtain on a 35 year career, the last eight of them as weekend anchor and reporter at ...
Former Fusion host Alicia Menendez has been tapped as a weekend anchor at MSNBC. Menendez currently co-hosts “Amanpour & Company” on PBS. The announcement of her hiring took place Thursday on “Morning Joe,” probably ...
Steve Capus, who spent eight years as President of NBC News and another four years as the Executive Editor for CBS News, will serve as an advisor outgoing CEO John Lansing of the U.S. ...
The 30-year Fox-Sunbeam marriage will continue as WSVN in Miami renewed its affiliation with Fox Television. Sunbeam also owns WHDH in Boston, but the station and the network broke up in 2017. WHDH now ...
Reporter Tiffany Justice is headed for FOX-owned KRIV from Sinclair’s KUTV in Salt Lake City, UT according to her social media postings. She’d been with KUTV since September of 2017. The recent Rocky Mountain ...
Meteorologist Valerie Mills moved across a couple of time zones to become the new weekend evening forecaster on Nexstar’s KXRM in Colorado Springs. She’s leaving her native Florida and Scripps’ WTXL in Tallahassee where ...
Dallas viewers will wave buh-bye to long-running weather guy Jeff Jamison at the end of the month. After 16 years, he’s out the door at CBS o&o KTVT. Next stop – unknown. He’ll get ...
Kimberly Eiten is to begin work Sept. 25 at Nexstar’s WMBD in Peoria, IL. It’s a return to her home state. She worked most recently at CBS o&o WJZ in Baltimore, MD, where she ...
Yes, November is fast approaching. With that in mind, Fox-owned WNYW in New York has named Kerry Drew and Bianca Peters co-hosts of the station’s “Good Day Wake Up.” Drew comes to the dawn ...
Lauren Petterson has been named President of FOX Business Network. Petterson, who most recently served as senior vice president of morning programming and talent development for FNC, replaces network vet Brian Jones. It’s actually ...
Tanya Rivero has been named a full-time anchor at CBSN, the CBS 24/7 ad-supported streaming news platform. She starts today. Rivero had been a freelance anchor and reporter for the streamer. She’s also worked ...
Coming to CBS-owned KTVT in Dallas is Brooke Katz as the station’s new weekend evening anchor. She will also report and be a fill-in anchor for KTVT. She most recently anchored and reported for ...
Charlie Haldeman, a former news director at KXXV in Waco, KPLC in Lake Charles, and KIII in Sherman, TX, is headed to Houston to become Senior Manager of Digital Content for KTRK, the Disney ...
It’s one more book and out for longtime Columbus, OH anchor Jerry Revish, who will hang it up at the end of that month at Dispatch-soon-to-be-Tegna’s WBNS. 39 of his 45 years in the ...
After 23 years at Deerfield-owned, Sinclair-operated *winkwink* WHAM in Rochester, NY, longtime morning news anchor Norma Holland does her last newscast today. She’s leaving the business to join a digital marketing company as the ...
Multimedia Journalist/Anchor Chris Costa is bringing his MMJ talents to Tegna’s KHOU in Houston, TX. He’s coming from sister station WCSH in Portland, ME where he spent two years. It’s not his first Texas ...
Coming up later this month, Ashley Stroehlein will take over the weekend sports desk at Tegna;s WCNC in Charlotte, NC. She’s crossing the street after five years at Gray’s WBTV and presumably hang on ...
Reporter Jerad Giottonini is headed for Nexstar’s KTVX in Salt Lake. He spent the past two and a half years at Tribune-soon-to-be-Tegna’s-by-way-of-Nexstar WHO in Des Moines, IA. ———- Doing the prudent career move, Geoff ...
Tegna is moving morning meteorologist Mariel Ruiz from Little Rock’s KTHV to KVUE in Austin. She started on weekend at KTHV in 2016 before moving to the weekday morning slot. She’s done in Little ...
Longtime Arkansas newsman Bob Steel returns to a newsroom as news and program director for a Little Rock radio station. Bob’s a former ND for both KARK and KATV but he began in radio ...
Meteorologist Matt Jones is the new evening weather guesser at Spectrum News in Milwaukee, WI. He coming to Wisconsin after two years at Gray’s KYTV in Springfield, Mo. He’s also worked at stations in ...
It is six years and out for Cynné Simpson, soon-to-be former evening anchor at Fox-owned WAGA in Atlanta. She’s done a week from today. Her future? “I’ll be volunteering with humanitarian aid organizations around ...
Lauren Langer makes a big move from Nexstar’s WMBD in Peoria, IL., where she was a weekday evening anchor, to Graham Media’s WKMG in Orlando, FL., to work as a weekday-dayside reporter. She spent ...
WISN (ABC) Meteorologist Lindsey Slater is moving to “WISN 12 News This Morning” weekdays from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m., taking over for long-time WISN 12 News Meteorologist Sally Severson, who has decided to ...
Ji Suk Yi, best known for her seven years as a featured personality on “Windy City Live” on Disney’s WLS in Chicago, IL has been hired as a regular contributor to the morning show ...
KRDO (ABC) anchor Shannon Brinias, the morning weekday host for the “Good Morning Colorado” news program, is no longer working as an on-screen anchor. Brinias still works at KRDO but in a different capacity. ...
WGN‘s Morgan Kolkmeyer took to social media Wednesday to make a big announcement-she’s expecting. Their baby is due in January of 2020. Kolkmeyer said she is about 16-weeks along, and that she will be ...
Suzanne Rodriguez is moving from Assistant ND to News Director at KERO in Bakersfield, CA. She’s been the #2 there for almost two years after 18 years at cross-town competitor KGET where she was the ...
Two years after being diagnosed with…and then beating….cancer, Natasha Verma, anchor at NBC-owned WBTS in Boston, MA is leaving Beantown and heading west to Denver. She’ll be the morning anchor at Tegna’s KUSA, starting ...
Daren Stoltzfus is moving from Sinclair’s WCIV in Charleston, SC to Hearst’s WESH in Orlando, FL to become the station’s new sports director. He replaces Pat Clarke, who was told it was coming to ...
Mika Johnson is the new PM Content Manager for Scripps’ WFTX in Ft. Myers. She’s worked in San Antonio for the past eleven years, spending the last nine at KSAT there as a producer. She’s ...
Sinclair’s WKRC in Cincinnati, OH needs to hustle up and find a replacement for recently-departed anchor Rob Braun so the replacement can sit next to Cammy Dierking for a few months before she heads ...
Jonathan McCall is the new weekend anchor-reporter at Tribune-soon-to-be-Nexstar’s WDAF in Kansas City, MO as a weekend anchor and reporter. McCall will pull double duty, anchoring both weekend mornings and weekend nights. He previously ...
Bill Hormann has left Gray’s Toledo affiliate WTVG after nearly sixteen years as a reporter and weekend anchor. He dropped the news during Sunday night’s newscast. He started working at WTVG December 2003. He ...
Caitlin Lockerbie has moved on from Nexstar-soon-to-be-Tegna’s WATN in Memphis to already-Tegna WTSP in Tampa where she is the new morning anchor. She’d been in Memphis for just over three years and worked in ...
Chris Peralta leaves The City of Brotherly Love to become the executive producer for Nashville’s WSMV (Meredith/NBC). He’s also worked in Norfolk. ——— At Birmingham’s WVTM, Hunter Stone has been promoted to Assistant ...
Kristen Powers took a significant leap to become a reporter for “Good Morning Washington” at Sinclair’s WJLA in Washington DC. Powers previously worked for 2 ½ years as a news reporter/anchor for sister station ...
Come June 30, Derrick Blakley closes out a 41-year career in tv news when he signs off for the last time at CBS owned WBBM in Chicago. He’s been at the station since 2003. ...
Lester Holt and four of his NBC News colleagues will share moderating duties for the first debate of 2020 Democratic presidential contenders. The debate, shown on NBC News networks, will unfold over two nights ...
That placeholder gig at Sunbeam’s WSVN in Miami is coming to an end for meteorologist Felicia Combs. Six months after leaving WPTV in West Palm Beach and landing as a fill-in at WSVN, she’s ...
Jeff Mulligan joins Disney’s KGO in San Francisco, CA as executive producer. He’s been the Dayside EP for Scripps’ KSHB in Kansas City, MO. ——– At the start of Pride Month. Meagan Fitzgerald (left), Sunday ...
Longtime newsman Marc Weiner is the new director of professional development for CBS News. He’s a former ND in Las Vegas, Raleigh, and Santa Maria, CA, held management jobs in Los Angeles, Dallas, and Minneapolis and ...
Claudia Simonés has joined Telemundo’s WSTS in San Jose, CA as a weekend reporter. She’ll also be a multimedia journalist for “Noticiero Telemundo 48” weekdays. Simonés previously worked as an MMJ at Univision affiliates ...
News anchor Diana Watson is leaving Meredith’s WHNS in Greenville, SC after 15 years. She’s headed for the nonprofit world, as chief philanthropy officer for the YMCA of Greenville. She wraps up her tv ...
A San Francisco journalist whose equipment was seized in a police raid will get back his property, a police attorney said Tuesday at a court hearing, but that did not resolve larger issues surrounding the conduct ...
After an on-air comment that was clearly boneheaded and questionably racist, Lexington, KY anchor Lee Cruse will take a week off from his morning duties at Scripps WLEX, courtesy of HR and wincing executives. ...
Liz Burch is taking her enterprise reporting reputation to Tegna’s WTSP in Tampa, FL, as a Monday-through-Friday nightside reporter. She will make the move from Sinclair’s WLOS in Asheville, NC where, for the past ...
Jason Disharoon is the newest member of the weather team at Tegna’s KARE in Minneapolis, MN. He’s coming to the Great White North from New Orleans, LA and Tribune-soon-to-be-Nexstar’s WGNO. In fact, he visited ...
For those who don’t know, KEYE (CBS) Anchor Fred Cantu hosts an online radio station featuring swinging hits and cool crooners. The Austin Texas anchor has a pretty impressive website that can be found by ...
Maureen Kocot wrapped up 24 years at Dispatch outlet WBNS in Columbus, OH. The veteran reporter worked in Champaign IL for three years before joining WBNS in the mid-90’s. Fun fact: Her co-workers called ...
Thomas Tobin is the newly-hired senior executive producer for Tribune’s New York flagship WPIX For the past four years, he’s been EP at Sinclair’s WJLA. His hiring marks a return to the Big Apple. ...
Valerie Butler Guyton is the new Assistant News Director for NBCs KXAS in Dallas/Ft. Worth. She most recently was an EP for WXIA in Atlanta. She’s also worked for another Atlanta station, two stations in ...
Two years after he was shown the door at Fox Sports over allegations of sexual impropriety, Jamie Horowitz has made a soft landing with his old ESPN boss John Skipper as EVP of Content ...
That didn’t take long Scripps has closed its $521 million acquisition of 15 television stations in 10 markets from Cordillera Communications. Scripps now owns 52 stations in 36 markets. Not Nexstar size, but pretty ...
KHOU (CBS) H-Town Rush, Morning show is getting another member of crew. No, not KPRC 2 feature reporter Ruben Galvan who Blogger Mike Mcgruff announced. Anchor Lisa Hernandez surprised her KHOU morning team as she not only ...
Laura Harris gets a move up to co-anchor of the early morning newscasts at NBC-owned KXAS in Dallas-Ft. Worth. Harris replaces Marc Fein, whose contract wasn’t renewed. Harris came to the station last summer ...
KOIN weekend anchor Trevor Ault has moved on to ABC News as a multi-platform reporter, crossing the country to the network’s Washington D.C. bureau. Ault started as a digital content producer and reporter for ...
Ah, Spring across the SW/SE can only mean one thing: Severe Weather. Forecasters in Dallas-Fort Worth started warning this past weekend of potential “hail the size of baseballs”, prompting events and flights to be ...
