From 1957 to 1992, Dick Westbrook served in a variety of capacities at several radio and tv stations including WAND in Decatur, IL, from reporter, to anchor to director of public affairs to news ...
Stretching back to the days of Storer Broadcasting and when WJBK in Detroit was an independent-minded CBS affiliate, for 35 years Joe Weaver was one of the fixtures of the station’s then-dominant news operation. ...
Mike Hedeen started out as a sports reporter/weekend anchor at what was then Rochester, NY’s WGRC in 1990. As WGRC eventually transformed into Spectrum News, Hedeen gradually made the move into news coverage by ...
Jim Mathews delivered the news on WBNG and then, briefly, WICZ in Binghamton, NY for more than a decade, from 1979 to 1990. He’d come to Binghamton from what was then-sister station WTAJ in ...
Five years was evidently enough of Fallon Smith for NBC Sports Bay Area. The suits decided not to renew the contract of Smith, who anchored and covered the Oakland Raiders. Smith worked at the ...
Ray Hershel was 22 years old when he joined the staff of WGGB in Springfield, MA back in 1968. He never left. Last week, after half a century, and surviving countless ownership changes (most ...
CBS O&O KDKA in Pittsburgh is looking for a general manager. After a 39-year broadcast career, 29 of them as a gm and the last 14 at Gateway Center, vp and general manager Chris ...
Between 1961 and 1998, John Doyle held forth on the KVAL anchor desk in Eugene, OR. He even served as news director in the middle of that run. In that 37-year span, he reported ...
Richard Blystone was a veteran Associated Press correspondent with Vietnam War tours and other Asian assignments under his belt when he joined a fledgling CNN in June 1980, three weeks before the innovative network ...
In recent years, Carl Kasell was best known as the scorekeeper on the NPR quiz show “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” And if you were a winner, the prize was having your voicemail message ...
Tony Pepper who, along with co-anchor Jack Williams, ruled Boston teevee news from the WBZ anchor desk back in the 70’s and into the 80’s, died last week of complications from diabetes and heart ...
And early yesterday morning, another WBZ Boston news fixture, Charlie Austin, died at the age of 73. Austin was a trailblazer, one of the first African-Americans on Boston television in the role of general ...
Nearly half a century at one teevee station ended last week with the retirement of anchor Marsha Thompson at Raycom’s WLBT in Jackson, MS. Thompson started at the station in 1971, working in public ...
Friday was farewell day for long-serving Ft. Myers meteorologist Robert Van Winkle at Waterman’s WBBH. After 31 years, he’s putting away the clicker and giving away those colorful ties that became something of a ...
Veteran Indianapolis anchorman John Stehr is calling it a career at Dispatch Broadcasting’s WTHR . Stehr, who came to the station in 1995 as evening news anchor from CBS News, was off for an ...
Magdalena Doris is now the FORMER morning reporter for CBS O&O WCBS in New York. Over the weekend, she posted her new status on Facebook. “I’m not setting my typical 1 AM alarm tonight. ...
Lawrence Grossman, the former president of PBS and NBC News, died at his Westport, CT home Friday at the age of 86. Under his leadership, the length of the “McNeil-Lehrer Report” was doubled to ...
Christine Bellport, morning anchor at Gray’s WMTV in Madison, WI, was prescient enough to schedule her retirement in mid-May, so the station could wring a little ratings juice out of the farewell. Yeah, we’re ...
Reporter Brittany Jeffers made it a relatively short stay at CBS-owned KTVT in Dallas-Fort Worth. DFW blogger Uncle Barky reports she’s leaving the station at the end of this week for parts unknown after ...
John Peterson, who has led the news department at Gray’s KOTA in Rapid City, SD since the Bill Duhamel era (20 years), is calling it a career just shy of 40 years. Peterson took ...
CNN en Español’s flagship morning show, “Café CNN,” is now originating from Miami, having abandoned its former Atlanta home base. “Café CNN” is a Spanglish language morning show hosted by Alejandra Oraa, Maria Alejandra ...
17 years in the anchor chair was enough for Heather Herron, anchor at Nexstar’s WANE in Ft. Wayne, IN. She’ll be leaving later this spring to become vice-president of communications for a Fort Wayne-based ...
Stephanie Zimmerman, aka the “ABC News Fixer”, is gone from the network. Zimmerman joined the ABC News investigative unit in December of 2012 as a consumer-oriented investigator. “It was a great five years, working ...
We honestly can’t think of a more thankless newsroom job than assignment editor. News directors and executive producers pull them in multiple directions simultaneously, field crews curse their assignments and the sometimes-abrupt switching of ...
Another Nexstar station, another unhappy parting. This time it’s Flora Posteraro, co-anchor of WHTM’s “Live at Five” and “News at Noon” in Harrisburg, PA. She posted her news on Facebook. “It is with great ...
Staffers at CBS O&O WBBM in Chicago were caught short Monday afternoon when station veep and GM Marty Wilke announced her retirement. If anybody asks, the retirement was entirely Wilke’s own decision. “My six ...
NBC News is losing its longtime Standards and Practices boss with the retirement of David McCormick this summer. “Standards and Practices” is corporate speak for “censor.” Just sayin’. McCormick, a 40-year network vet, joined ...
Ken Jefferson, morning and noon anchor at Waterman’s WVIR in Charlottesville, VA, died over the weekend after a brief and unexpected illness. For 25 years, he was a reporter and award-winning anchor for WHIO ...
New Mexico broadcasting pioneer Mary Lynn Roper is calling it a career. Roper who was the first female anchor in the state, is retiring this fall as vice-president and general manager at Hearst’s KOAT ...
Meteorologist Valerie Smock is leaving her slot as noon forecaster for Cox-owned WPXI in Pittsburgh. Smock, who’s been with the station since 2013, told the bosses that her husband recently took a job in ...
James Norris, a news photographer for Sinclair’s KTUL in Tulsa, OK, passed away over the weekend. He was 32. Norris joined the station just a year and a half ago and worked frequently with ...
Over the course of his broadcasting career, Adam Lynch was a radio newsman, a classical FM announcer, a weatherman, a reporter and finally, an anchor. He worked in Lima, OH, Cincinnati, Weirton, W. WV, ...
Sometimes the newsroom seems a stable as a rock, sometimes, it feels like a landslide. These seem to be landslide days at Cox-owned WFTV in Orlando, where the revolving door spit out three reporters ...
After 16 years, sportscaster Paul Jones is signing off at Sinclair’s WZTV in Nashville to “find a new challenge and something that excites me and that I enjoy.” Jones said he was offered a ...
Bofta Yimam, weekend anchor at Hearst’s WTAE in Pittsburgh, PA for the past two years is no longer with the station. And she is no longer in Pennsylvania. Yimam, who joined WTAE in 2013 ...
From 1996 to 2003, Roy Hobbs was an anchor for WAGA in Atlanta, GA. After Atlanta, he worked in Kansas City, Birmingham and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Hobbs died over the weekend at his Palm ...
Donna Hamilton, the 5, 6 and 11 PM anchor mainstay at Hearst’s Baltimore flagship WBAL, is retiring from the job at the end of the May sweeps. Hamilton’s been on the station’s anchor desk ...
Jack Hynes, dubbed by many as the “dean of Boston television” has left us at the age of 88. Hynes spent most of his career at Hearst’s WCVB, 26 years in all. His father ...
Former WMC weekend anchor Ben Watson suffered a massive heart attack mid-week last week and all efforts to resuscitate him were futile. Watson, who was let go by WMC just over two years ago, ...
This bit of Kentucky sports history will live on forever, thanks to the Internet. But the man who chased just-fired Kentucky basketball coach Billy Gillispie down a hall in pursuit of a sound bite ...
If you’ve spent any time in teevee news and paid any kind of attention, you know the name Jim Willi. Announcer, news director, general manager and, for the last 28 years, an owner with ...
The second chief meteorologist in the history of NBC-owned KXAS (formerly WBAP) in Dallas-Ft. Worth is now the station’s senior meteorologist. David Finfrock went to part-time status as of February 1st at the station ...
Yesterday was exit interview day for weekend anchor/reporter Heather Waliga at Disney’s WTVD in Raleigh-Durham, NC She announced via Facebook over the weekend that she was out the door – destination unknown except that ...
Jim Bernard, who retired in 2012 as a meteorologist for KIEM in Eureka, CA., died this week at his home. Bernard stepped down as the result of a battle with ataxia, a neurological disease ...
John Coleman spent more than 60 years forecasting the weather, but his singular achievement, the founding of The Weather Channel, transformed the business of teevee weather forecasting. Coleman was also the original meteorologist for ...
After 30 years at KCET, reporter/anchor/executive producer Val Zavala is retiring from the Los Angeles public teevee station. Zavala, whose official title was VP of News & Public Affairs, joined KCET in 1987 after ...
It was “Hail and Farewell” to longtime WGRZ “Daybreak” anchor John Beard Thursday morning in Buffalo. Beard heads off into the sunset after eight years in the co-anchor chair. “I fell in love with ...
And today is the day Chicago bids “Auf Wiedersehen,” “Sayonara,” and “Adieu” to chief meteorologist Jerry Taft after 40 years of calling the weather at Disney’s WLS. What, no “Goodbye?” When Taft announced his ...
José Luis Padilla, Regional VP of Azteca América’s West Coast-managed stations, is no longer with the company. Cutbacks were inevitable due to Azteca América’s recent acquisition by HC2 Network Inc. in a deal that ...
Last week we told you of meteorologist Kevin Arnone’s departure from Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford-New Haven, CT. after more than three years. Today we can tell you he’s made a relatively soft landing. He’s ...
San Diego sportscaster and radio personality C.S. Keys died in La Mesa, CA over the weekend. La Mesa police officers were called to Keys’ home Saturday morning where he was pronounced dead. The death ...
For many of us he was THE voice of college football. For more than 40 years, Keith Jackson ruled the booth, presiding over ABC’s college football coverage. He retired after the 2006 Rose Bowl, ...
Sally-Ann Roberts has been waking up N’Awlins residents from the set of Tegna’s WWL for the past 26 years. That comes to an end February 28 when she steps down and closes out a ...
Fred D’Ambrosi has parted ways with Raycom’s Cleveland duopoly, WOIO/WUAB. Fred’s been the ND there since the spring of 2015. He’s also been an ND in Milwaukee, San Diego, and Washington, DC. Fred worked at WKYC ...
After seven years, J. Scott Howard has left Heartland Media’s KHSL/KNVN duopoly in Chico, CA The station has posted his job on its website. Howard, a Chico native, previously worked for Gray Television as ...
Lynn Marshall, who once served in a number of roles for KFDX in Wichita Falls, TX, including news director, died unexpectedly this week at the age of 64. According to this obituary, he was ...
Weekend reporter Renee Chmiel is leaving Nexstar’s WTNH in New Haven, CT. Her last day is January 17th, a Wednesday, which serves as Monday for most weekend reporters. No idea what the future holds ...
Telemundo’s KTMO in Amarillo, TX is short one meteorologist following the quick departure of Lluvia Vidana. She made her exit with a social media announcement: “Yesterday was my last day as a host on ...
What are we to make of the sudden departure of WOAI Chief Meteorologist Albert Flores down in San Antonio? After 40 years in the business, no on-air reminiscences, no extended farewell tour…. No cake! ...
The staff of Raycom’s WBRC in Birmingham, Al is mourning the passing of its longtime anchor Bill Bolen. Bolen, who retired in 2010, first broke into television in 1965 at WBMG, the Birmingham CBS ...
Three years of weekend double shifts finally took their toll on meteorologist Kelly Franson and she is taking her leave of Cox-owned KIRO in Seattle. She composed a lengthy Facebook post to explain her ...
On New Year’s Eve , KCRA weekend weathercaster Eileen Javora signed off for the last time. Javora, who’d been with the Hearst station since 2005, said she’s leaving to spend more time with her ...
Jim Ramsey signed off Saturday night as WGN’s weekend weather forecaster. His retirement from the Tribune Chicago station culminates a 42-year career in broadcasting, including an earlier stint at ABC-owned WLS. “It has been ...
Atlanta media consultant and public relations man Jeff Dickerson did his last stint over the weekend as a regular panelist on Fox-owned WAGA’s weekly talk show “The Georgia Gang.” Dickerson was a regular panelist ...
Former WJW reporter Kathleen Cochrane DePiero died unexpectedly over the weekend following a brief illness, as reported on the station’s website. DePiero started at Fox 8 in Cleveland in 2005, but stepped away from ...
Fran Schneidau was remembered by colleagues and listeners as a talented, devoted journalist after news of her death was announced midweek. Schneidau, who worked for nearly forty years as Connecticut Bureau Chief for WCBS-AM ...
The many hats worn by Rick McFarland during his 37+ year run at Graham Media’s KPRC include sports photographer, news director and, lately, senior executive producer. All those hats are now in the closet, ...
There have been a lot of exits at ESPN this year, virtually all of them involuntary. One voluntary exit comes Friday, December 29th, at the conclusion of the Cotton Bowl Classic football game. Jeannine ...
Longtime Buffalo anchor Irv Weinstein died yesterday in a California nursing home. For 34 years, Weinstein’s rapid-fire, alliterative delivery (“pistol-packing punks”) turned WKBW into a local news powerhouse and himself into a local broadcasting ...
CBS-owned KCNC in Denver, CO has parted ways with longtime anchor-reporter Tom Mustin. He wants you to know it wasn’t his idea. “Thank you all for your kind words and posts. To set the ...
Hall of Fame sports broadcaster Dick Enberg died yesterday at his home in La Jolla, CA. Over a 60-year career, Enberg called Super Bowls, Olympics, Wimbledon tennis and Final Fours for NBC, CBS and ...
Veteran Boston newsman Mike Nikitas dropped an unexpected bombshell this week, announcing that he is leaving the business – as of Tuesday. That’s right, he’s already gone. Nikitas has been anchoring the weeknight news ...
For more than 40 years, Jerry Taft was the “go-to” forecaster for Chicagoans needing to finalize their weekend and holiday plans. They’re going to need a replacement. Taft, for the past 34 years at ...
Carlos Johnson spent nearly 19 years as a producer at Meredith’s WSMV, starting when he was still a student at Middle Tennessee State University. During his tenure, he produced News 4’s coverage of major ...
Bill Gamel, for the past 30 years a mainstay at Morris Multimedia’s WCBI in Columbus, MS, puts a cap on a 44 year career today. Gamel has been the anchor for “WCBI Sunrise”, the ...
Gerry Monteux likes where he is now. “I’m the luckiest guy in the world,” said Monteux, a wildlife photographer, as he reflected on the dramatic changes in his life. Once upon a time, Gerry ...
On Friday, Dave Courvoisier signs off for the last time at Nexstar’s KLAS after a total of 27 years on Vegas airwaves. But it’s not a retirement. “That word just has an onus that ...
Nashville meteorologist Craig Edwards is wrapping up a 41 year career, ten of them at Fox-owned WZTV, on Friday. The morning meteorologist says he made the move “after a lot of prayer and thoughtful ...
Robert Asman, who was a producer for the legendary David Brinkley and produced some of television news’ most memorable reporters of the 60’s and 70’s, died over the weekend. He was 91. Asman rose ...
One of the truly nice guys in the business bowed out in Nashville last night, as longtime sports anchor-reporter Rudy Kalis signed off Meredith’s WSMV. He’d announced his retirement earlier this year. “I think ...
Former WLKY News anchor Ken Rowland has passed away. Rowland was the Louisville Kentucky station’s first news anchor AND its first news director when the station signed on in 1964. For the next 24 ...
For Dave Barras, 37 years with Nexstar’s WISH in Indianapolis, IN comes to an end this Friday. Barras is stepping down from the 6, 10 and 11 pm newscasts at the station. He ...
4,000 shows after it ended “better than ever” ESPN’s “Mike & Mike” said goodbye Friday on radio and on ESPN2. Next spring, Mike Greenberg will emerge as host of a new morning show ...
With his wife Edith by his side, Bernard Waterman, founder of Waterman Broadcasting, passed away over the weekend in Sanibel Florida. Waterman’s company owns WBBH in Ft. Myers and WVIR in Charlottesville, VA. Waterman ...
Longtime WRC NBC Washington intern and associate producer Andrew Tomasello lost his battle with cancer. “He was one of those special interns with an infectious smile,” said anchor Jim Handly. “Andrew made a point ...
