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 ...
We worked with many legendary tv news folks over the course of our four-decade career in the business. Ike Seamans was unique among them. He was old school- through and through We produced weekend ...
A few moves out there in the wonderful world of local news to tell you about. WRGT (FOX) morning anchor Erik Elken is saying goodbye to Dayton, Ohio and making a run for the border ...
KMSP meteorologist Steve Frazier lost his long battle with cancer on Wednesday. Frazier learned three years ago he had pancreatic cancer. Twice he came close to death and rebounded. He lost 90 pounds. He ...
Clark Booth was a wordsmith who worked all forms of news media for more than a half century during what may now be seen as the Golden Age of the genre made his biggest ...
Walter Evans spent the better part of 30 years reporting and anchoring the news at KDFW in Dallas, now a Fox O&O. As a young radio newsman, he covered the Kennedy assassination in Dallas ...
Funeral services for Tom Petner will be held later today, July 6th, at the Clayton & McGirr Funeral Home, 100 Elton-Adelphia Road (Route 524) in Freehold Township, NJ. A visitation will be held from 2:00 to ...
Richard Valeriani began his news career in the late 1950s at the Associated Press, when he was dispatched to Cuba to report on the Bay of Pigs in 1961. While still in Cuba, he ...
Nexstar’s WKRG is mourning the passing of Ray White, who anchored the station’s morning newscasts as part of his 13-year tenure with the station. White, who wrote several journalism textbooks used in college broadcast ...
Long before Accu-Weather and The Weather Channel, in the Pittsburgh market, there was Joe DeNardo. The headline of this item was how conversations usually started when the topic of weather came up around Pittsburgh ...
Over the span of his long career, “Big Al” Meltzer at one time or another worked for all three of the Philadelphia’s network affiliates as well as for independent WPHL and Comcast SportsNet. Best-known ...
From 1979 to 1992, Cathy Clark was a familiar face to San Diego News viewers. Over the course of those 27 years, she worked first as a reporter at KFMB, moved on to KNSD ...
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, ...
