TVNewsLover 787 Posted May 22, 2019 Posted May 22, 2019 On 5/7/2019 at 10:20 AM, Georgie56 said: Mary Bubala has been fired from WJZ after her question about Black, female Baltimore mayors. Checked out the newscasts yesterday. Nicole Baker (morning anchor) was filling in at 5pm, and Rick Ritter was filling in at 11pm. Was surprised to see two male co-anchors at 11pm. 1
SFTV 532 Posted May 22, 2019 Posted May 22, 2019 7 hours ago, Bsean said: KNSD's Whitney Southwick is retiring today. I felt like he was slowly pushed out of Morning Weather and demoted to Traffic when Jodi Kodesh came thru during the Universal Budget cuts... on the other hand, former CSN, NBC Sports Bay Area and now KGO Sports Anchor/Reporter Mindi Bach leaving the news business for a PR Gig. http://richliebermanreport.blogspot.com/2019/05/415-media-exclusive-mindi-bach-to-leave.html?m=1
nathannah 2505 Posted May 22, 2019 Posted May 22, 2019 Sinclair Fox affiliate KDSM/Des Moines had their tower transmission line burn out on Friday, taking out their over-the-air and satellite coverage, and today a tower worker trying to repair it fell from the tower at around 1,000 feet and died. They had already had to delay the repairs a couple days due to strong wind gusts. 1
tyrannical bastard 4036 Posted May 23, 2019 Posted May 23, 2019 WJET (and likely countless others in the Nexstar Nation) have an "exclusive" look at the terror camp in East Alabama.... https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2019/5/23/no-you-did-not (Yep...the same story broken by WPMI, covered by WRBL and "copied" by WKRG)
TexasTVNews 1378 Posted May 23, 2019 Author Posted May 23, 2019 Would you believe its now been 25 years since New World/Fox deal was announced. IIRC, Raymie did an essay on New World at 20 and how the network switch changed local and national TV forever. 1
TheRolyPoly 2592 Posted May 23, 2019 Posted May 23, 2019 (edited) Sorry to double post, but when seven people have left one station in eight months, it means something's going on at the station. That station is WHNS Greenville, S.C. and two more people are leaving the station and yes, that includes main anchor and a longtime recognized face to the station (and to the market, having previously spent 8 years at WSPA), Diana Watson. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2019/5/23/two-anchors-out-in-greenville Edited May 23, 2019 by TheRolyPoly
tyrannical bastard 4036 Posted May 23, 2019 Posted May 23, 2019 22 minutes ago, TheRolyPoly said: Sorry to double post, but when seven people have left one station in eight months, it means something's going on at the station. That station is WHNS Greenville, S.C. and two more people are leaving the station and yes, that includes main anchor and a longtime recognized face to the station (and to the market, having previously spent 8 years at WSPA), Diana Watson. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2019/5/23/two-anchors-out-in-greenville They recently got a new General Manager, Charles Henrich who at one time was the VP of operations for Newport Television. One of the executives who worked with him at Newport is Gary Brown, who was hired as Meredith's SVP of content. With word on the street that Meredith is for sale I'm sure it's another feeling of instability for what's normally a more stable station.
rkolsen 1686 Posted May 24, 2019 Posted May 24, 2019 I’m not sure if it’s official but WJZ is running a promo of their anchor teams and at night it showed Vic Carter and Rick Ritter. Ricks been covering that shift since Mary Bubala was fired. However the Nicole Baker/Rick Ritter combo that’s going on for a few weeks wasn’t featured. Today it was Denise and Rick at 5. I’m not sure if it’s official but WJZ is running a promo of their anchor teams and at night it showed Vic Carter and Rick Ritter. Ricks been covering that shift since Mary Bubala was fired. However the Nicole Baker/Rick Ritter combo that’s going on for a few weeks wasn’t featured. Today it was Denise and Rick at 5. They also may want to update his bio. https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/personality/rick-ritter/ Quote Emmy Award-winning anchor Rick Ritter joined WJZ in May 2014. He anchors the 5 pm newscast with Mary Bubala & hosts the “Purple Connection” Postgame Show on Sundays during Ravens season.
rkolsen 1686 Posted May 24, 2019 Posted May 24, 2019 JJ Ramberg formerly of MSNBC has a special coming up soon on BBC World News called Follow The Food. Not sure if she is a correspondent or she sold them the show.
ihEARDtHAT 8 Posted May 24, 2019 Posted May 24, 2019 KUSI (IND-9 San Diego) says goodbye to Carlos Amezcua https://www.kusi.com/kusi-says-farewell-to-longtime-good-morning-san-diego-anchor-carlos-amezcua/
TexasTVNews 1378 Posted May 25, 2019 Author Posted May 25, 2019 (edited) Carolyn Mungo has been promoted from executive news director at WFAA8 to vice president and station manager of the Dallas-based, TEGNA-owned station. She’ll continue to report to president and general manager Brad Ramsey, whose new duties will include spread-eagling himself as senior vice president overseeing TEGNA’s TV stations in Austin and San Antonio (KVUE and KENS respectively). In a memo, TEGNA executive vice president and chief operating officer Lynn Beall said that Mungo’s “efforts to innovate, experiment and build a deep and loyal connection with DFW audiences across platforms make her perfectly suited for this leadership role at WFAA.” https://unclebarky.com/dfw.html Edited May 25, 2019 by TexasTVNews
Greggo 358 Posted May 26, 2019 Posted May 26, 2019 (edited) WFAA is a shell of what it once was. And the team that has overseen much of this decline gets promoted? Another genius move by Tegna. Edited May 26, 2019 by Greggo 1
Webovision 202 Posted May 26, 2019 Posted May 26, 2019 45 minutes ago, Greggo said: WFAA is a shell of what it once was. And the team that has overseen much of this decline gets promoted? Another genius move bye Tegna. that is how this industry works now.... look at jeff zucker... the smart people are looking towards the exit... not looking to become a manager... 2
CircleSeven 1960 Posted May 26, 2019 Posted May 26, 2019 A couple of notes from NOLA. On 1/10/2019 at 1:24 PM, CircleSeven said: TVNewsCheck states that WWL-TV evening anchor Natalie Shephard will become the new evening anchor for WDJT., It seems that it has found Natalie's replacement for the WWL's late news. WXIX 19's AM Anchor Charisse Gibson will become the new primary anchor of WWL's 10pm broadcast, beginning in June. Meanwhile, over at WDSU, its weekend anchor Juliana Massa is leaving that station at the end of next week. She's moving to Boston to become an anchor/reporter at WHDH.
TheRob 938 Posted May 26, 2019 Posted May 26, 2019 16 hours ago, Greggo said: WFAA is a shell of what it once was. And the team that has overseen much of this decline gets promoted? Another genius move bye Tegna. 16 hours ago, Greggo said: WFAA is a shell of what it once was. And the team that has overseen much of this decline gets promoted? Another genius move bye Tegna. TV companies are gradually coming after the managers after years of cutting talent salaries. Make one general manager run two or three stations. Give the ND a new title and double the duties. Gray recently "promoted" a few news directors to be general managers, even though those people will continue to be their station's news directors. Meredith added "station manager" titles to a few sales directors and news directors recently.
H4UL4U 127 Posted May 26, 2019 Posted May 26, 2019 With smaller staffs you don't need as many managers, or rather the structure doesn't have to be so hierarchical. That is happening not just in TV, but business everywhere. When news staffs weren't as big in the early days of local TV news the main anchor was also often the news director or managing editor, or the production manager was also an executive producer. 1
mre29 1563 Posted May 26, 2019 Posted May 26, 2019 On 5/24/2019 at 3:38 PM, ihEARDtHAT said: KUSI (IND-9 San Diego) says goodbye to Carlos Amezcua https://www.kusi.com/kusi-says-farewell-to-longtime-good-morning-san-diego-anchor-carlos-amezcua/ 9? I thought they were channel 51...
NEOMatrix 1307 Posted May 27, 2019 Posted May 27, 2019 33 minutes ago, mre29 said: 9? I thought they were channel 51... It's 9 on cable and 51 on satellite and OTA. Probably because cable penetration was high in San Diego, stations like KNSD (NBC 7/39) and XHDTV (MyTV13) brand by cable numbers.
ED2 144 Posted May 27, 2019 Posted May 27, 2019 42 minutes ago, mre29 said: 9? I thought they were channel 51... Cable 9, channel 51. NBC 7 and FOX 5 also use their cable channel numbers as their brand as San Diego has a high percentage of cable subscribers.
rkolsen 1686 Posted May 27, 2019 Posted May 27, 2019 JJ Ramberg formerly of MSNBC has a special coming up soon on BBC World News called Follow The Food. Not sure if she is a correspondent or she sold them the show. Also, WJZ finally got the wide screen version of the graphics however it looks like it was just a straight replacement of the background image (where the grey bar reaches the bug). None of the text elements extend beyond the previous 4:3 safe zone.
TheRolyPoly 2592 Posted May 27, 2019 Posted May 27, 2019 1 On 5/26/2019 at 3:12 AM, CircleSeven said: Meanwhile, over at WDSU, its weekend anchor Juliana Massa is leaving that station at the end of next week. She's moving to Boston to become an anchor/reporter at WHDH. From Connecticut, anchored at WWLP Springfield, Mass., no surprise she's going back home.
TheWatcherAtl 20 Posted May 27, 2019 Posted May 27, 2019 On 5/25/2019 at 11:26 PM, Greggo said: WFAA is a shell of what it once was. And the team that has overseen much of this decline gets promoted? Another genius move by Tegna. I have no problem with WFAA. I guarantee you if you watch their morning show you'll enjoy Demetria Obilor's work.......
Greggo 358 Posted May 27, 2019 Posted May 27, 2019 3 hours ago, TheWatcherAtl said: I have no problem with WFAA. I guarantee you if you watch their morning show you'll enjoy Demetria Obilor's work....... We’re not talking about Demetria. We’re talking about the ND and GM. In November, the station didn’t win a single news time slot in households and/or 25-54. That’s pretty bad for a once-great station. Fast forward to May and their only win was in households at 6p. Fox 4 now owns the market. 1
MarkBRollins88_v2 350 Posted May 27, 2019 Posted May 27, 2019 11 hours ago, TheWatcherAtl said: I have no problem with WFAA. I guarantee you if you watch their morning show you'll enjoy Demetria Obilor's work....... I do. And i don't.
NEOMatrix 1307 Posted May 28, 2019 Posted May 28, 2019 (edited) Jay Crawford of ESPN is coming to WKYC in the fall and will anchor a "interactive" midday newscast and a (FINALLY!) 5pm newscast coming sometime in 2020. https://www.wkyc.com/mobile/article/entertainment/television/former-espn-anchor-jay-crawford-joins-wkyc-this-fall/95-338dbb05-fae6-4d9d-aa9e-cd4b6df59a63 Edited May 28, 2019 by NEOMatrix 2
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