Out & About

[TheRolyPoly 2546]

WIVB's Don Postles has decided to call it a career at the end of the month after a long run in Buffalo that included a hat trick of working for all three stations... WKBW, WGRZ and now WIVB.

 

https://www.wivb.com/news/local-news/buffalo/news-4-veteran-don-postles-retiring-at-the-end-of-december/

[TVNewsLover 785]

6 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

WIVB's Don Postles has decided to call it a career at the end of the month after a long run in Buffalo that included a hat trick of working for all three stations... WKBW, WGRZ and now WIVB.

 

https://www.wivb.com/news/local-news/buffalo/news-4-veteran-don-postles-retiring-at-the-end-of-december/

Could Jeff Glor be his successor?

[cg4 7]

On 12/5/2024 at 9:09 AM, TVNewsLover said:

Could Jeff Glor be his successor?

That’s the rumor. At least as of a few months ago.

[PelicanMan 19]

Two stories out  of New Orleans:

 

* WVUE noon anchor Liz Reyes talked about her successful battle with thyroid cancer.

* Former WDSU evening anchor, former state legislator and current New Orleans City Council President Helena Moreno is officially running for New Orleans mayor.

[SDHIll1980 107]

For those of you that still care and are interested in such things, on this day thirty years ago, the Big Network Switch of the mid-90s came to Milwaukee.  Channels 6 (WITI), 24 (WCGV), and 58 (WDJT) were affected, as Fox moved to 6 from 24, 24 spends a month as an independent (again) before joining UPN at its launch, and 58 goes from an also-ran independent to the sixth station in the market (fifth as a fulltime affiliate) to air CBS programming.  Even though WDJT was already airing certain CBS programs that WITI was preempting at the time, the affiliation agreement between 58 and CBS came practically at the last minute, days before WITI was to switch to Fox.

 

WDJT's tenure with CBS has been long and by far the longest relationship the network has had with any station in Milwaukee television history; WITI's thirty-year relationship with Fox is their longest relationship with any network in their 68-year history.  Channel 6 spent most of its first three years as an independent before starting its first of two stints with CBS in 1959, then swapped with WISN-TV to carry ABC programming in 1961, and then returned to CBS in 1977.  With those two stints, WITI spent a combined 19 years with the Eye.

Edited December 12, 2024 by SDHIll1980

[TheRolyPoly 2546]

Sarah Carlson is returning to WISC-TV Madison, 11 years after being forced to step away due to having an epilepsy diagnosis.

 

https://www.channel3000.com/news/sarah-carlson-returns-to-news-3-now-after-overcoming-epilepsy-diagnosis/article_750f4dd0-b7e1-11ef-8208-8fb859b7a8f9.html

[DENDude 221]

KMGH / KCDO  Chief Meteorologist Mike Nelson retires today after a 48 year career, his final newscast is at 5PM.   He came to KMGH in 2004 from KUSA where he was the chief meteorologist from 1991-2004.  

 

Here are some articles on his retirement.

https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/colorados-weatherman-colleagues-reflect-on-mike-nelsons-nearly-50-year-illustrious-career-on-tv

https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/watch-mike-nelsons-first-denver7-weather-forecast-from-20-years-ago

https://www.denver7.com/weather/from-denvers-first-weather-computer-to-training-al-roker-mike-nelson-helped-transform-forecasting

https://www.9news.com/article/entertainment/television/mike-nelson-denver-meteorologist-weatherman-retiring/73-0417844f-e608-44cd-9853-6b617ebacee8

 

Edited December 12, 2024 by DENDude

[TheRolyPoly 2546]

5 hours ago, DENDude said:

KMGH / KCDO  Chief Meteorologist Mike Nelson retires today after a 48 year career, his final newscast is at 5PM.   He came to KMGH in 2004 from KUSA where he was the chief meteorologist from 1991-2004.  

 

Here are some articles on his retirement.

https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/colorados-weatherman-colleagues-reflect-on-mike-nelsons-nearly-50-year-illustrious-career-on-tv

https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/watch-mike-nelsons-first-denver7-weather-forecast-from-20-years-ago

https://www.denver7.com/weather/from-denvers-first-weather-computer-to-training-al-roker-mike-nelson-helped-transform-forecasting

https://www.9news.com/article/entertainment/television/mike-nelson-denver-meteorologist-weatherman-retiring/73-0417844f-e608-44cd-9853-6b617ebacee8

 

 

A real tough day in this business when we lose two GIANTS in one day. Chuck at WNBC and him at KMGH.

 

EDIT: I just learned that Lisa Hidalgo is the new Chief at KMGH. A VERY worthy pick to replace a GIANT legend in Colorado.

Edited December 13, 2024 by TheRolyPoly

[TheRolyPoly 2546]

17 hours ago, DENDude said:

KMGH / KCDO  Chief Meteorologist Mike Nelson retires today after a 48 year career, his final newscast is at 5PM.   He came to KMGH in 2004 from KUSA where he was the chief meteorologist from 1991-2004.  

 

Here are some articles on his retirement.

https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/colorados-weatherman-colleagues-reflect-on-mike-nelsons-nearly-50-year-illustrious-career-on-tv

https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/watch-mike-nelsons-first-denver7-weather-forecast-from-20-years-ago

https://www.denver7.com/weather/from-denvers-first-weather-computer-to-training-al-roker-mike-nelson-helped-transform-forecasting

https://www.9news.com/article/entertainment/television/mike-nelson-denver-meteorologist-weatherman-retiring/73-0417844f-e608-44cd-9853-6b617ebacee8

 

 

It was actually at 10:00pm. And now Lisa Hidalgo is the Chief that now leads the ONLY all-female weather team (Katie Lasalle, Danielle Grant and Stacey Donaldson) in the entire state of Colorado.

 

 

[MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie 947]

1 hour ago, TheRolyPoly said:

 

It was actually at 10:00pm. And now Lisa Hidalgo is the Chief that now leads the ONLY all-female weather team (Katie Lasalle, Danielle Grant and Stacey Donaldson) in the entire state of Colorado.

 

 

Lisa is the perfect fit for chief -- congrats to her and her team and to MIke for his decades of service...

[Greggo 358]

1 hour ago, MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie said:

Lisa is the perfect fit for chief -- congrats to her and her team and to MIke for his decades of service...

Joining the growing list of stations with their chief on air in the mornings …

[tyrannical bastard 4018]

A few departures of longtime employees is happening at WMBB in Panama City, FL. 

I don't think these are related to the recent layoffs that have gone down at Nexstar stations over the past several days.

 

Longtime anchor Amy Hoyt will be stepping down tonight.  She has worked in the market since the early 1980s (beginning at WJHG) and started working at WMBB in 1994, anchoring the news ever since.

https://www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-news/bay-county/amy-hoyts-proclamation/

 

General Manager Terry Cole is also stepping down.  He's led WMBB since 2008 when Media General sold them to Hoak Media.

https://www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-news/bay-county/wmbbs-terry-cole-is-stepping-down-as-general-manager/

 

Before WMBB, he was also the GM at rival WJHG and later was the GM at KAKE in Wichita.  He even received correspondence from Dennis Rader, who was revealed to be the infamous "BTK Killer" and these messages led to his capture.

 

Also retiring is a longtime engineer, Mark Gilland who has worked for WMBB for 26 years.

 

Edited December 13, 2024 by tyrannical bastard

[TheRolyPoly 2546]

WCBD Charleston's Josh Marthers is also done and retiring after 17 years there.

 

https://www.counton2.com/news/local-news/josh-marthers-announces-retirement/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook.com

[Encore 323 26]

WDIV Local 4 evening anchor Devin Scillian has retired tonight after 3 decades in Detroit television news. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aIjIbMO8cY

This month so far has been a very tough and interesting one in the news business with plenty of local news legends retiring including Chuck Scarborough in New York, Mike Nelson in Denver, John Clark in Raleigh-Durham, Amy Doyt in Panama City and now Devin Scillian in Detroit and we are still not done yet because Don Postles in Buffalo is still working until the end of the month.

Edited December 14, 2024 by Encore 323

[TheRolyPoly 2546]

2 hours ago, Encore 323 said:

WDIV Local 4 evening anchor Devin Scillian has retired tonight after 3 decades in Detroit television news. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aIjIbMO8cY

This month so far has been a very tough and interesting one in the news business with plenty of local news legends retiring including Chuck Scarborough in New York, Mike Nelson in Denver, John Clark in Raleigh-Durham, Amy Doyt in Panama City and now Devin Scillian in Detroit and we are still not done yet because Don Postles in Buffalo is still working until the end of the month.

 

Adding one more...

 

WPXI's David Johnson and yes, Peggy Finnegan was there too. It only made sense for David and Peggy to be together one more time.

 

https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/watch-david-johnsons-final-newscast-channel-11-news-friday/2NS2ROHX7FGI5KERMNEDP3SLCY/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem_manual&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawHJ48ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQgRq3vty_tkfWhZBJkqgSkRq18ILclpoW4jjD26xJjtNn9FbsUrFFo9-A_aem_RqGjJhyuNimsZph_ZivofA

And WTVD's John Clark at 6am yesterday.

 

 

[MidwestTV 1236]

Man, it sure would be nice if we could get some of these archaic cable folks to retire like the local legends are

[TheRolyPoly 2546]

Alex Alecci is temporarily coming back to Orlando Television to do weekends at WFTV. He returns tomorrow.

 

https://www.facebook.com/AlexAlecciWx/posts/pfbid0k1j8SuLxeEzt4cmRDofAnW1tRKygLJT9WLtRRgbCYfat67Gn8DUAvqNX7N5yPTN6l

[TheRolyPoly 2546]

On 12/13/2024 at 9:03 PM, Encore 323 said:

WDIV Local 4 evening anchor Devin Scillian has retired tonight after 3 decades in Detroit television news. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aIjIbMO8cY

This month so far has been a very tough and interesting one in the news business with plenty of local news legends retiring including Chuck Scarborough in New York, Mike Nelson in Denver, John Clark in Raleigh-Durham, Amy Doyt in Panama City and now Devin Scillian in Detroit and we are still not done yet because Don Postles in Buffalo is still working until the end of the month.

 

Update

 

Christy McDonald replaces Devin on the same program he founded at KFOR-TV Oklahoma City... FlashPoint. She starts next week.

 

https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/32618/wdiv_s_christy_mcdonald_will_replace_devin_scillian_on_sunday_s_flashpoint_show

[Dave Lampstein 120]

With election season behind us, some of the bold and innovative newscasts local stations eagerly announced are starting to be cut.

 

For example, WISN is dropping their 9 p.m. newscast on their True Crime subchannel… a smart move, considering the newscast seemed like a misallocation of time and resources.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/television-radio/2024/12/16/wisn-tv-channel-12-is-dropping-9-p-m-newscast-on-sister-station/77009461007/?tbref=hp

 

Edited December 16, 2024 by Dave Lampstein

[nathannah 2493]

1 hour ago, Dave Lampstein said:

With election season behind us, some of the bold and innovative newscasts local stations eagerly announced are starting to be cut.

 

For example, WISN is dropping their 9 p.m. newscast on their True Crime subchannel… a smart move, considering the newscast seemed like a misallocation of time and resources.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/television-radio/2024/12/16/wisn-tv-channel-12-is-dropping-9-p-m-newscast-on-sister-station/77009461007/?tbref=hp

 

RIP "No Rules Nine" (as it's affectionately known on-air)...it was actually a pretty good show, but really without MeTV on that channel and the lead-in changing night-to-night from TCN, it really couldn't establish a steady audience over time unlike other Hearst 10/9 shows.

[Dave Lampstein 120]

2 hours ago, mrschimpf said:

RIP "No Rules Nine" (as it's affectionately known on-air)...it was actually a pretty good show, but really without MeTV on that channel and the lead-in changing night-to-night from TCN, it really couldn't establish a steady audience over time unlike other Hearst 10/9 shows.

I feel like they had a long way to go before they got anywhere near WITI’s 9p. I never saw WISN’s 9p mentioned in any of their press releases celebrating their other wins, it was even hard to find any information on it at all… I thought they gave up on this a year or more ago.

[nathannah 2493]

1 hour ago, Dave Lampstein said:

I feel like they had a long way to go before they got anywhere near WITI’s 9p. I never saw WISN’s 9p mentioned in any of their press releases celebrating their other wins, it was even hard to find any information on it at all… I thought they gave up on this a year or more ago.

Considering it's otherwise a channel in the 180s or 990s far away from the regular stations, it's in standard def and as I said, its lead-ins and lead-outs were very inconsistent and it also disrupted that hour of programming (on Friday nights you just got dumped into the middle of a Dateline episode), it was uphill. I assume they kept the show on so long because it was a case of 'we have the folks here' in the past, but with Derek Rose's role expanding earlier in the day and all of their personnel changes this year it was getting harder to keep on, along with the November swoon once the political ads ended.

[Breaking News 835]

7 hours ago, Dave Lampstein said:

With election season behind us, some of the bold and innovative newscasts local stations eagerly announced are starting to be cut.

 

For example, WISN is dropping their 9 p.m. newscast on their True Crime subchannel… a smart move, considering the newscast seemed like a misallocation of time and resources.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/television-radio/2024/12/16/wisn-tv-channel-12-is-dropping-9-p-m-newscast-on-sister-station/77009461007/?tbref=hp

 

 

2 hours ago, mrschimpf said:

Considering it's otherwise a channel in the 180s or 990s far away from the regular stations, it's in standard def and as I said, its lead-ins and lead-outs were very inconsistent and it also disrupted that hour of programming (on Friday nights you just got dumped into the middle of a Dateline episode), it was uphill. I assume they kept the show on so long because it was a case of 'we have the folks here' in the past, but with Derek Rose's role expanding earlier in the day and all of their personnel changes this year it was getting harder to keep on, along with the November swoon once the political ads ended.

With WISN 12 doing a 9pm wasn't a "Hearst Thing" ? WBAL & WCVB did a 10pm with their METV stations. I wonder if those and other Hearst stations that are doing

those 9pm/10pm will follow suit?

[ns8401 951]

22 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

 

Update

 

Christy McDonald replaces Devin on the same program he founded at KFOR-TV Oklahoma City... FlashPoint. She starts next week.

 

https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/32618/wdiv_s_christy_mcdonald_will_replace_devin_scillian_on_sunday_s_flashpoint_show

Good reason for that…. She did a program on public TV that was current affairs focused. 

[ns8401 951]

WXYZ Has added former WJBK reporter Randy Wembley who spent 10 years there before leaving in 2023.