View Post CBS Affiliates | FOX Affiliates | ShopTalk | TVBiz Jacksonville Meteorologist Sues Nexstar for Defamation By Kevin Eck on Dec. 8, 2014 - 10:00 AM Jacksonville meteorologist Tim Deegan is suing Nexstar Broadcasting after a website content provider, owned by the station group, used his photo in a story about another Tim Deegan who was arrested for allegedly keeping three wome ...
View Post Anchors | NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk This Bud’s For News: WESH Sports Anchor in Beer Ad, Video Game By Kevin Eck on Oct. 27, 2014 - 4:15 PM Larry Ridley, sports director for Orlando NBC affiliate WESH, has gone national, but not for his reporting. Orlando Sentinel TV critic Hal Boedeker reports, Ridley appears in a Bud Light commercial. A quick check of his twitter fe ...
View Post CBS Affiliates | FOX Affiliates | ShopTalk Jacksonville Station to Reportedly Let Five Anchors Go By Kevin Eck on May. 28, 2014 - 4:48 PM Cox owned Jacksonville CBS and FOX affiliate WTEV-WAWS is reportedly cleaning house in its anchor ranks. The Jacksonville Business Journal reports, “anchors Mark Spain, Paige Kelton, Lynnsey Gardner and Mike and Tera Barz ...
View Post CBS Affiliates | FOX Affiliates | ShopTalk Garrett Bedenbaugh to Join WTEV-WAWS as Weekend Meteorologist By Kevin Eck on Apr. 10, 2014 - 2:31 PM Garrett Bedenbaugh is joining Jacksonville CBS and FOX affiliate WTEV-WAWS as weekend meteorologist. WTEV-WAWS news director Bob Longo told TVSpy Bedenbaugh will join the station in mid to late May and will start on air, “so ...
View Post NBC Affiliates | News Directors | ShopTalk WESH Names Kirsten Wolff News Director By Kevin Eck on Feb. 7, 2014 - 9:54 AM Kirsten Wolff has been named news director for Hearst owned Orlando NBC affiliate WESH. Wolff posted the news to her facebook page, “I am blown away by today. 7 years ago I dreamed of becoming a News Director. I took a 3,000 ...
View Post CBS Affiliates | FOX Affiliates | ShopTalk Bob Longo Named News Director for WTEV-WAWS By Kevin Eck on Jan. 2, 2014 - 5:02 PM Cox Media Group has named Bob Longo as news director for its Jacksonville, FL, CBS and FOX affiliates WTEV-WAWS. “I’m thrilled and honored to join Cox Media Group Jacksonville and CBS47 & FOX30 Action News beginnin ...
View Post ABC Affiliates | NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk Casey Anthony’s Lawyer Wants to Depose WESH and WFTV Reporters By Kevin Eck on Nov. 14, 2012 - 2:10 PM Charles Greene, the attorney for Casey Anthony, has filed notice he wants to depose Kathi Belich, a reporter for the Orlando ABC affiliate WFTV, and Michelle Meredith, a reporter for the Orlando NBC affiliate WESH, in a defamation ...
Anchors | NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk Meredith McDonough to Mornings, Syan Rhodes to Evenings at WESH-WKCF By Merrill Knox on Jul. 26, 2012 - 10:16 AM Orlando NBC-affiliate WESH is shaking up its anchor lineup starting next month, according to the Orlando Sentinel‘s Hal Boedeker. Syan Rhodes, who anchors from 4:30 to 7 a.m., will shift to the 10 p.m. newscast on WKCF, the ...
Reporting | ShopTalk Reporter Stephanie Kolp Joins WESH From WBBH By Merrill Knox on May. 23, 2012 - 11:15 AM Reporter Stephanie Kolp will join Orlando NBC-affiliate WESH next month, according to the Orlando Sentinel. Kolp comes from WBBH, the NBC-affiliate in Fort Myers. Prior to that, she was a reporter, anchor and producer at WLNS in L ...
Anchors | ShopTalk Stewart Moore Jumps from Columbia to Orlando By Andrew Gauthier on Jun. 7, 2011 - 2:14 PM Stewart Moore, the co-anchor of WIS‘s morning newscast, is leaving Columbia, SC for Orlando and a job with WESH. Moore will begin work as a weekend anchor and weekday reporter for the NBC-affiliate on August 1st. “Stewart ...