By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Michelle Mackonochie will join the WRAL evening news anchor team after the start of the new year. WRAL is Capitol Broadcasting’s NBC affiliate in Raleigh. Mackonochie is ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com \Christy Shields turned a childhood fear of thunderstorms into a passion for understanding the science behind the weather. “I was afraid of thunderstorms growing up as a ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Steve Kazanjian, who was president and CEO at Promax for eight years, is hosting a one-day conference, called RE:FRAME, built for entertainment marketers and ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com FOX Television Stations (FTS) announces leadership promotions across multiple markets. Amber Eikel has been named Senior Vice President and Regional General Manager of FTS’ ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WDAF, Nexstar’s Fox affiliate in Kansas City, has named Crystal Martinez a permanent anchor on the FOX4 Morning News team. After stepping in during recent months, Martinez will ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KCPQ Fox 13, the Fox-owned affiliate in Seattle and KZJO, Fox 13+, announced a transformation of their news programming. Beginning June 16, viewers across Seattle will experience ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KCCI announces Andrew Altenbern is taking the reigns as Assistant News Director at KCCI, Hearst’s CBS affiliate in Des Moines, Iowa. He succeeds Natalie Cabieses, who was ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Meteorologist Jason Nappi has been a TV meteorologist since 2002 in TV markets from Louisiana to West Virginia, from Maine to New York and from Georgia to ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Local TV sports anchors and reporters are known for having lots of energy and being slightly zany. That’s OK with viewers who expect that from their sports ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Don Smith has spent 34 years in the local TV marketing business, working in various roles from writer/producer to manager at stations in Beaumont, Lake Charles, New York ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Kelly Hanson’s first day as host of ‘New Day Northwest’ in Seattle is today. ‘New Day Northwest’ is Seattle’s #1 morning talk show where local, national, and international celebrities, ...
For 41 years, Bill Shields covered the news for Boston audiences with flair, creativity, empathy and accuracy. As a reporter for CBS-owned WBZ, he covered it all from New England blizzards to the reuniting ...
You’ve seen stations around the country branded “Eyewitness News” That was Al Primo’s idea. The revolutionary idea he came up with was to have reporters interact with anchors to try to bring more light ...
Four U.S Presidents, the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement. Over the course of more than half a century, Bill Plante covered them all as a correspondent for CBS News. He joined the network ...
CNN+, AGE 28 days, of midtown Manhattan, NY, passed away peacefully April 28, two days earlier than expected. Death was attributed to a series of corporate missteps and cold calculation. CNN+ was born in ...
Dick Williams in journalism writing copy for the likes of Harry Reasoner and Pat Summerall under the watchful eye of then-CBS News President Fred Friendly. Not a bad start to a career that led ...
Jim Murphy left an impression during his two decades at WBZ Boston. Over the course of his career, Murphy scooped up three Emmys for his editing work for the CBS O&O He was a ...
It was almost exactly 37 years ago that Robert Mulholland shocked the industry with his abrupt departure from the office of President and CEO of NBC, a position he had held for two-and-a-half years. ...
Wendell Goler joined Fox News when it first launched in 1996 as a correspondent. The late reporter rose through the ranks at the cable news channel, working his way up to senior White House ...
Bobbie Battista was among the original CNN Headline News anchors when the network launched in 1981. She was promoted in 1988 to the parent CNN where she anchored coverage of the fall of the ...
Herb Dudnick died last week at the age of 86. Here’s the obituary. Dudnick is a former ND for KRON in San Francisco and worked briefly at ABC News. But he spent most of his long ...
Jerry Levin was the news director at WBRC in Birmingham, AL back in the early 1970’s before he headed off to a fledgling CNN, first in Texas and moving through Washington, DC and Chicago ...
Funeral services are being held today for Bob Griffin, a veteran of both KSLA and locally-owned KTBS in Shreveport, LA in a career that spanned nearly 60 years. Over the course of his lengthy ...
Estelle Gould spent all of her more than 36 years at Hearst’s WTAE in Pittsburgh, starting shortly after the station signed on the air in 1958. She never worked in front of the camera ...
Terry Cole, a former news director and general manager, died January 17 at the age of 63 in Rapid City, SD. A private funeral was held last Friday. He served as ND for at ...
Jim Lehrer co-created PBS’ “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report” and co-anchored it for decades. Lehrer and Robert McNeil teamed for the enduring program in the mid-70’s and underwent several name changes, including one when McNeil retired ...
Dana Loesch formerly of The Blaze and now defunct NRA TV has a new network. It’s called “The First” and news of her return was mentioned on social media late last week. You’ll recall ...
How respected and loved was Lima, OH sportscaster Vince Koza? This much Koza, spent nearly 30 years being heard and seen talking local sports in the Lima area. Three months ago, he was diagnosed ...
We’d be remiss if we didn’t note the passing of Fred Graham, the longtime Supreme Court and legal affairs reporter for CBS News, as well as “The New York Times” and Court TV. After ...
A shocker from New England: Denise D’Ascenzo, the WSFB news anchor and a fixture on Connecticut television screens remembered for her grace and class, has died suddenly and unexpectedly, the station announced in a ...
Ann Conway was a high-profile reporter and anchor during the 80’s and 90’s, the golden days of local news in Rhode Island, when the average Rhode Islander could name the stars at each station. ...
In 1966, Ed Dague joined the technical staff at WTEN in Albany, NY, while also working as a disc jockey at two local stations Four years later, after working as the radio news anchor ...
Gregg Mace became a welcome guest in the homes of WHTM viewers across his four decades as a sportscaster. “You’d want him in your living room,” said Karl Ravech, an ESPN anchor who worked ...
For three decades, Jack Morse was the sports authority to Central New York audiences from his sports anchor perch at several tv stations in the market. He was a popular radio host in the ...
Mike Sands, the former anchor at Fox 40 in Jackson whose battle with cancer prompted a nationwide outpouring of love and support, has died. Sands “died Saturday evening, surrounded by family and friends,” WLBT-TV ...
Chris Myers, who was the deputy bureau chief of the CBS News Bureau in Los Angeles, died last Thursday. CBS News President Susan Zirinsky shared the news in this email. It had been reported last ...
Three-time news director Ken White lost his battle with cancer Friday morning White fought mantle cell lymphoma for five years. Before he died, this detailed note was posted Thursday to his Facebook page. White’s most recent ...
Veteran journalist Cokie Roberts joined an upstart NPR in 1978 and left an indelible imprint on the growing network with her coverage of Washington politics before later going to ABC News. She got her ...
As national political correspondent at NBC in the 1960s, Sander Vanocur covered conventions, elections and assassinations during some of the most momentous years in American history. He was a questioner at the first debate ...
CBS-owned WBBM on Wednesday announced several key personnel changes in the station’s news department — all apparently intended to help lift the station’s struggling news ratings. The biggest change (one we reported on last ...
For 39 years, beginning in 1977, Lee Van Ameyde toiled at WZZM in Grand Rapids, MI. During that four-decade run, he held a variety of positions, including Grand Rapids city reporter, weekend anchor, producer, ...
Another former ND, Glen Moberg, died last week, also of cancer. He’s a former ND and anchor for WSAW in Wausau, WI, and also worked for many years at WAOW in Wausau, and spent ...
We are very sorry to pass along the news that a veteran news director…who retired in 2015…has lost his battle with cancer. Chuck Bark, who spent more than ten years as ND for WBRZ ...
Way back in television’s early years, Jerry Fiore began his career as an anchor for WKTV in Utica, NY, where he worked for 20 years, beginning in 1957. From there he moved on to ...
Donna Davis co-anchored the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. news on WMC in Memphis, TN alongside Joe Birch from 2000 through 2008. Davis began her career in journalism in the mid-1990s at WMC radio, ...
Bob Mann died last week. He was 68 and had been out of our business for more than 30 years, but had an interesting career. He worked for the Chicago Tribune, the National Enquirer, ...
Jerry Eckhart’s career as a meteorologist began with an Army stint back in 1959 and included at stop at the National Weather Service, where he worked for 17 years before landing at KTXS in ...
Larry Brinton was known to Nashville movers and shakers as a pitbull of a reporter who doggedly pursued stories of corruption and wrongdoing from the 1950s to 1979 as a reporter and editor with ...
Just days after the passing for Cleveland tv legend Fred Griffith, another one of the city’s familiar and beloved anchors has also passed. Jeff Maynor, whose broadcasting career in Northeast Ohio included stints as ...
Gloria Lane came out of her college education in 1963 and stepped into a “Girl Friday” position at WSB in Atlanta, GA. From that office assistant position, which was a coveted job at the ...
Northeast Ohio television viewers knew Fred Griffith as the genial host of “The Morning Exchange” for 27 years on Scripps’ WEWS and “Good Company” for 12 years on Tegna’s WKYC. Griffith was asked by ...
When TJ Close wrapped up his tv news career in 1999, he had put in 30 years in the business as a reporter, anchor and news director at KIMA in Yakima, WA. He’d started ...
Bill Bolster was a general manager at KWWL in Waterloo, IA, whose career started in Iowa radio. While at KWWL, Bolster used his unique vision to create a statewide sports network, which would have ...
Lloyd Harvey Cornett, III adopted the name “Harv Holliday” when he got his first broadcasting job after college, as a sports producer, news producer/announcer and disc jockey at a Pueblo, CO radio station. After ...
Dick Ellis anchored KVUE’s newscasts throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. The Texas native had recently returned to the station to work on a series of special news reports about unsolved crime cases in ...
Former Pittsburgh tv news anchorman Bob Perkins, spent nine years anchoring the 6 pm news and co-anchoring the 11 alongside the legendary Bill Burns at KDKA during the Group W days back in the ...
Dan Cordtz was toiling away at the “Wall Street Journal” back in the early 70’s when ABC News realized it didn’t have anybody with enough economic background to report on the inflation that was ...
Here’s a milestone to ponder: During his four-decade career, Tom Ellis became the only person to anchor newscasts that were number one on each of Boston’s primary network affiliates. Ellis came to Boston in ...
Alexa Valiente won an Emmy last year for her role in the ABC News coverage of the Las Vegas shootings. At the time, she had been with the network for five years. Valiente, who ...
Terry Martin served as an associate producer of the “CBS Morning News”; a senior producer, associate producer and later producer of weekend editions of the “CBS Evening News”; a producer in the CBS Special ...
Folks in the Grand Rapids, MI area will have a chance this weekend to celebrate the life of Patti McGettigan, a legendary news executive who guided newsrooms from Michigan to Memphis over the course ...
Mike Boguslawski began his TV career at WTNH and WVIT in Hartford-New Haven, CT back in the 70’s and 80’s before pursuing TV jobs at WPXI in Pittsburgh back in the 90s and later ...
Dennis Carlson spent the better part of the past three decades work in Montana television in various capacities, with occasional side trips into government service. For the past four years, he anchored the 5 ...
We sorrowfully report the passing of a multi-time news director who died last week. Stew Hirsch was just 53 years old when he died last Friday in a Ft. Wayne, IN hospital after what ...
Back in the 90’s, Matt DeCample came to Little Rock, AR as a general assignment reporter for KATV. “He was a great reporter. So smart about so many things, especially politics,” former news director ...
We are sorry to report the death of 415 Media, the Bay Area media blog operated by Rich Lieberman since…well it seems like the dawn of time. To be fair, we have gone down ...
Alan Weisman’s long tv news career started at CBS flagship WCBS in New York back in the early 70’s. He moved over to ABC News in 1978 to be one of the original producers ...
This David Horowitz was the longtime consumer reporter for KNBC and known to national audiences for his appearances on “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson” back in the day. Not the ultra-right wing commentator, ...
In the 1960s, he co-anchored the news with Tom Brokaw. He once played cards with Ethel Kennedy. And he later made a network broadcast after reporting a quip from Richard Nixon. Terry Forsberg held ...
Veteran news director Patti McGettigan died Saturday afternoon in Memphis, just two months after she took a medical retirement from Cox-owned WHBQ. McGettigan was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005. She also survived a ...
Dave Durian was one of the first hosts of “Evening Magazine” (aka in some markets as “PM Magazine”) at KDKA in Pittsburgh back in the 70’s and 80’s. He left Pittsburgh for Baltimore in ...
Former ABC anchor Steve Bell…who spent more than 15 years on the faculty of Ball St. University…died Friday, January 25th at the age of 83. While covering the Vietnam War, he was captured by the ...
Sylvia Chase, who made a dignified exit from ABC News in 1985 after then-president Roone Arledge spiked her deeply-researched “20/20” story on the relationship between the late Marilyn Monroe and both JFK and RFK, ...
Doug Johnson was a Houston, TX native who joined KPRC in 1962 as a program host and five years later, took on weather forecasting duties at the station. He held forth at the weather ...
Steven Lattimore, a reporter for CBS-owned WBBM from 2000 to 2003 and longtime adjunct professor of broadcast journalism at Columbia College, died December 20. “He loved his students and was always happy to see ...
Lee Leonard joined ESPN in 1979 at its inception after a career in New York radio and tv jobs at NBC and CBS His was the first voice ever heard on ESPN, saying “If ...
Don Webster was a young Canadian tv personality when a WEWS executive taking a vacation in Erie, PA spotted him and hired him for the Scripps station in Cleveland. That was back in 1964. ...
Stu Witt who was a long time CBS News executive, passed away peacefully on Thursday, December 6 from complications of Parkinson’s disease. In 1979, Witt exited CBS, moving to the talent agency N.S. Bienstock, ...
Just a few days before his death, Christmas carolers made their way to the home of WBNS chief meteorologist Chris Bradley, to brighten his holiday. On Wednesday, his long battle with leukemia ended. He ...
After five years, KGUN primary anchor Stella Inger is headed for the door and Southern California. And, of course her decision wasn’t easy. The decision to not renew my contract did not come easy, ...
For more than 35 years, Mike Parker and his distinctive voice seemed like a permanent part of the scenery at CBS O&O WBBM in Chicago. It was just two years ago that Parker called ...
Doug Rafferty’s broadcast career began back in 1974 at WTTV in Indianapolis and four years later, he was the station’s new anchor. It was a job that lasted until WTTV eliminated its news department ...
Back in the early 1970’s, Ervin Hester made the news when he read the news on Raleigh-Durham’s WTVD. He was the first African-American to anchor a weekend newscast in the southeast. The Durham native ...
Over the course of a 35-year career, Tom Hooper’s baritone voice was said to be the most trusted in Milwaukee tv news. As the “Contact 6” watchdog for WITI television, Hooper excelled at comforting ...
Lee Kinard was 25 when he began his tv news career at WFMY in Greensboro back in 1956. He was there for the next 43 years, until his retirement in 1999. Along the way, ...
When she was just a toddler, Pam Henry contracted polio. This was back in the days before the Salk vaccine was widely available. When she was 8 years old, she became the last national ...
