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More retirement sign offs later today...

 

WRTV's Kevin Gregory at 6:00pm.

WAVE's John Boel at 6:00pm.

 

Just in case anyone wants to set those recorders to later publish on the Tube. I can't think of others for today because others are retiring months from now (Cheryl McHenry, Ellen Leyva, Lisa Rose, Rich Tettemer, etc.).

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Missed one from today too... WTKR's Patrick Rockey. His final sign off was also at 6:00pm and here it is:

 

 

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KOKI’s FOX23 evening anchor Sara Whaley announced that she is leaving the station and the desk to be a full time mom to her little girl. Sports Director Nathan Thompson has been named her replacement starting Monday at 5pm and Spencer Tilus will be the Sports Director no word on who will take the weekend sports anchor/reporter position as of yet.

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Another departure from Tulsa tv… KOTV meteorologist Megan Gold is leaving 6 and heading down the turnpike she’s staying with Griffin Media going to join News 9’s weather team on weekday mornings not sure if Jed or Lacey is swapping shifts to have Cassie’s old shift or what’s happening there. Kotv has hired a replacement for weekend mornings it will be Chloe Arroyo who will be joining the team straight from graduating from the Meteorological school of OU.

 

UPDATE: Jed Castles is now going to be on weekend mornings and the field meteorologist (just like what KOCO does with Michael Armstrong), Justin Rudical will move to the Noon show Monday through Friday, and Andrew Adams moves from weekend morning to the weekend evenings. David stays 4,5,6,10pm and Lacey will handle 5-7am,9am weather while Megan does Jed's old shift of 4:30am weather, 5-7am traffic and be back up weather.

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WMDT has replaced its weekday morning news at 5am (still starting at 6am) and instead, replaced it with Wake Up Weather, a simulcast of WGDV-LD 32.1 which is WeatherNation with local inserts from WMDT added inside it.

 

Those inserts are at 5:07 and 5:47 a.m. with GMA's Tech Bytes at 5:27 a.m. (as per the on-demand clips at WMDT.com).

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WDJT has their replacement for Sam Kuffel; JD Rudd, who recently left Spectrum News WIsconsin, popped up on this evening's newscasts and the temperature was appropriate enough to note.

 

 

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44 years in the business, the last 15 years at WPTV, and at WTVJ for a good chunk before that... Michael Williams is finally hanging it up and retiring on Friday. One of the true great anchors and guys in all of broadcasting.

 

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1206938464130401&id=100044427759775

 

CORRECTION: I said a dozen years at WPTV, but actually joined in 2010 so 15 years.

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I'm hoping someone records tonight's 10 p.m. newscast at WOWT as it will be John Knicely's last newscast.

 

Today is retirement day for the man who spent 50 years in broadcasting, 47 of that at WOWT in two separate stints.

 

https://www.wowt.com/2025/03/12/knicely-done-wowt-bids-farewell-longtime-anchor-john-knicely/?fbclid=IwY2xjawI-b75leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdtixFgnQK0rghGPkIsPhOiUTsGtaMuE8RdKVCdv1beQTNZ4ZY6EYHSkyw_aem_Fdr0lEmJjRQGsNgA8uaM3A

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Victoria Kokinos has joined WYFF Greenville after spending the last six years at sister WJCL Savannah. She'll be doing traffic (in the morning) and weather (at 12 Noon), just like what she did at WJCL.

 

https://www.wyff4.com/article/victoria-kokinos-joins-wyff-news-4-today/64218624?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&fbclid=IwY2xjawJGmclleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHRG3EHJctZZ4qp5t5G628BifdAQWE2nhrXLgjmRGWCJboLDPzUCfcDLlhw_aem_i-pu4eAwGVKzHNbOhmc16A

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The WPLG story is big news, so I broke that off into its own thread. Please take the discussion there.

 

 

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