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[10Viewer 338]

Meteorologist Jeff Booth is gone from WBNS in Columbus. Also, meteorologist MacKenzie Bart has also left the station for WJW. 

[PelicanGuy 117]

WBRZ reporter Earl Phelps will do his last story July 24. He's leaving after six years at the station to join the Delta News complex in Greenville, Miss. 

[AaronQ 287]

On 7/22/2022 at 12:20 AM, TheRob said:

KXRM in Colorado Springs had some Twitter problems tonight (the tweets, indeed, the station's account are all gone).

 

 

 

 

Oh my.

[Georgie56 3330]

Former WFAA’er David Schechter is now a climate reporter for the CBS innovation lab.

 

 

Edited July 26, 2022 by Georgie56

[Axiom81 71]

WKOW (Madison) : George Smith (Evening Anchor) is out at WKOW.

WISC (Madison) : Dana Fulton ( Meteorologist) is leaving  the station on Friday.

 

WCSC (Charleston) : Lisa Weismann (Evening Anchor) last day is Friday.

[Nelson R. 569]

 WSOC’s John Paul leaving for Philadelphia

 

 

Edited July 28, 2022 by Nelson R.
Article is paywalled so I included the Twitter link as well

[Kenneth Kissel 284]

WJAC's Tim Rigby is retiring on August 4th. https://wjactv.com/news/local/wjac-tv-anchor-tim-rigby-announces-retirement

[tyrannical bastard 4053]

On 6/30/2022 at 8:59 AM, tyrannical bastard said:

WALA FOX 10 is expanding Studio 10 to TWO hours and adding a midday newscast this fall.  Not sure if the midday news will be on at 11am or noon.  Joe Emer announced this morning on Good Day Gulf Coast, and he will be moving to these new shows, bringing Eric Reynolds back to the program with Sarah Wall. Eric currently anchors the 4:30-7am portion.

 

That's the first time I've seen a lifestyle program expand to 2 hours....has this happened anywhere else?

 

An update...the midday news will be at 11am-noon and Studio 10 will be 2 hours from 9-11am beginning on September 5th. 

[atlnews2 598]

Wtvc was unable to air morning news due to widespread Covid outbreak 

 

 

[TheRolyPoly 2615]

On 7/28/2022 at 4:36 PM, Nelson R. said:

 WSOC’s John Paul leaving for Philadelphia

 

 

 

Allison is lucky to have had lots of WTOV colleagues work alongside her at WSOC, him and Natalie Pasquarella included.

On 7/29/2022 at 12:12 AM, tyrannical bastard said:

An update...the midday news will be at 11am-noon and Studio 10 will be 2 hours from 9-11am beginning on September 5th. 

 

In other words... all local, all morning from 4:30am-12pm.

[Kenneth Kissel 284]

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2022/7/31/gone-in-altoona

 

Matt Alvarez is gone from WTAJ Altoona and former WUSA Meteorologist Howard Bernstein will be the new main anchor on August 22nd. Big market drop for Bernstein. 

[tyrannical bastard 4053]

8 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

In other words... all local, all morning from 4:30am-12pm.

That seems to be the new trend emerging at the news-intensive stations that don't have to deal with network programming at the time.

 

WGN Chicago goes from 4am-1pm central.  Any other station exceed that time, locally? 

Only 1 hour of that is devoted to lifestyle programming...Daytime Chicago, from 10-11.

 

Might be a good time filler on some former superstation of theirs, but alas....

[TheRolyPoly 2615]

15 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

That seems to be the new trend emerging at the news-intensive stations that don't have to deal with network programming at the time.

 

WGN Chicago goes from 4am-1pm central.  Any other station exceed that time, locally? 

Only 1 hour of that is devoted to lifestyle programming...Daytime Chicago, from 10-11.

 

Might be a good time filler on some former superstation of theirs, but alas....

 

KTLA from 4am-2pm and that's all-news.

[Nelson R. 569]

5 minutes ago, TheRolyPoly said:

 

KTLA from 4am-2pm and that's all-news.

Overkill

[TheRolyPoly 2615]

2 minutes ago, Nelson R. said:

Overkill

Not really. This is Los Angeles after all.

[east-tx-tv 121]

Tim Ryan, the longtime Good Day co-anchor at KDFW, has announced his retirement from the station after 33 years.  His last day will be August 26.

 

https://www.fox4news.com/good-day/longtime-fox-4-anchor-tim-ryan-announces-retirement

[TheRob 940]

Ouch. In a market like Chattanooga, the morning news probably uses a skeleton staff on a normal day. If you can't put on the news, that means you literally have no producer, no air talent, no director-- and maybe  enough people working sick on the nightside staff that you can't hold them over for a double shift all night.

 

https://www.adweek.com/tvspy/widespread-covid-outbreak-forces-chattanooga-station-to-cancel-morning-newscast/243150/

[tylerSC 64]

Also in Charlotte Maureen O'Boyle signed off the anchor desk last Friday night at WBTV. Pleasant, popular, and professional, it will leave a big void to fill. Sorry to see her go.

[Kenneth Kissel 284]

On 7/28/2022 at 7:59 PM, Kenneth Kissel said:

WJAC's Tim Rigby is retiring on August 4th. https://wjactv.com/news/local/wjac-tv-anchor-tim-rigby-announces-retirement

Watch Tim's Final Newscasts HERE:

 

5 PM : https://www.newson.us/clips/195/31025208

5:30 PM : https://www.newson.us/clips/195/31025209

6PM : https://www.newson.us/clips/195/31025210

 

https://wjactv.com/news/local/signing-off-longtime-wjac-news-anchor-tim-rigby-broadcasts-final-newscast

Edited August 4, 2022 by Kenneth Kissel

[nathannah 2516]

On 6/2/2021 at 4:21 PM, mrschimpf said:

Kari Lake, ex-KSAZ'er, is running for AZ governor. Of course, she totally expects to win the race by refusing to talk to any media, so we'll see how that goes.

This is why I do not gamble.

 

 

[ScottJ 134]

Bob Kovachick announced on WNYT's 4:30pm newscast today that he is retiring. October 3 is the last day. 

 

He's been at the station since 1988 and has spent more than 40 years as a meteorologist. 

Edited August 5, 2022 by ScottJ

[nycnewsjunkie 1446]

Per FTVLive, WHBQ Chief Meteorologist Joey Sulipeck is out. He had been suspended by the station after making racial remarks toward Draymond Green on social media. The move comes shortly after Imagicomm’s takeover of the station from Cox.

[Nelson R. 569]

Former WJZY anchor and reporter Lindsay Clein is now a 4 and 5pm anchor at WXII! Good for WXII! 

 

Edited August 10, 2022 by Nelson R.

[Chase29 18]

More retirement news.  Gary Shapiro morning Anchor for KUSA will be retiring in December. Longtime 9NEWS anchor Gary Shapiro to retire after 40-year career | 9news.com

[ScottSchell 371]

Joie Bettenhausen formerly at KWWL has joined KTUL here in Tulsa Oklahoma as meteorologist/ traffic anchor for Good Morning Oklahoma and the Midday News she had her first on air appearance this morning on GMO doing traffic.

Edited August 11, 2022 by ScottSchell