Happy Friday to those who celebrate in practice or in spirit. In this week’s roundup of stories we didn’t get to for one reason or another, we see one Michigan station expanding its news offerings, Houston shows a lot of anchor and reporter churn and a longtime North Carolina anchor retires.
Starting Monday, May 8, WILX in Lansing, Michigan is expanding its local news coverage. Viewers can join anchor Taylor Gattoni every weekday starting at 4 p.m. for your first look at the day’s biggest stories and live interviews with local newsmakers on First @ 4. Joining Taylor will be meteorologists Justin Bradford and Colton Cichoracki with the First Alert Forecast. Click here for more.
Houston media blogger Mike McGuff had a few stories up this week about Houston goings on. In one, he said that Justina Latimer is joining KPRC 2 Houston as its traffic anchor on Monday, May 1, 2023 from WSMV4 Nashville, Tennessee, taking over the role from Anavid Reyes who recently left.
He also said Candace Burns has officially been named as the new KPRC 2 4pm anchor according to co-anchor Lisa Hernandez.
McGuff also said Brittany Ford is leaving her reporter role with KHOU 11 Houston according to the Houston Association of Black Journalists (HABJ) newsletter where she is a member. Click here to read his reports.
Viewers of Telemundo 15 will see a new addition to the news team, but the face is a familiar one. journalist Hernán Quintas returns to the newscasts as the main anchor for the 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts on KUNA TV, the local Palm Springs market area Telemundo affiliate. Click here to read more.
For many years Lasalle Blanks greeted Daybreak viewers every morning on 13News Now in Norfolk, Virginia. He’s been called a one-man pep rally, and hype man for anyone struggling through difficult times. But a few years after he left to report the news in his hometown of New Haven, Connecticut, Sal had a massive stroke. Today, he’s showing everyone that the comeback is greater than the setback. Click here to read about it.
Buffalo News write Alan Pergament is hearing that former WKBW anchor-reporter Ashley Rowe is ready to get back in the television news business. According to reliable sources, she is going to be an anchor at a station in North Carolina sometime this month. More details are expected to arrive soon. Click here for more.
Longtime news anchor and former meteorologist Jay Siltzer (pictured) announced his retirement from WLOS in Asheville, North Carolina on the morning broadcast of May 2. Siltzer, who lives in Hendersonville, joined WLOS in 1999. This year was his 24th year at WLOS and his 30th year in the news business. Click here for more.