View Post On the Move On the Move, 9/17/14 By Aneya Fernando on Sep. 17, 2014 - 11:06 AM Tom Llamas joins ABC News as a correspondent and anchor. He had been an investigative reporter at WNBC in New York. Frances Rivera joins MSNBC as an anchor. She previously worked at WPIX in New York. Elsa Ramon joins KCBS in Los ...
View Post Reporting Pope Benedict XVI Bids Farewell to the Vatican By Merrill Knox on Feb. 28, 2013 - 11:56 AM Shortly after 11amET/8amPT, Benedict XVI departed the Vatican for the last time as Pope. Local stations in the top five markets broadcast special coverage of his departure and flight to Castel Gandolfo, the Vatican’s vacatio ...
Mornings | Reporting | Top 10 VIDEO: Angry Woman Interrupts WPIX Reporter’s Live Shot By Andrew Gauthier on Jul. 16, 2012 - 10:10 AM WPIX reporter Hilary Whittier was reporting from Manhattan’s Columbus Circle when an angry woman, shouting in a foreign language, interrupted her live shot. “You see a lot of odd things on live TV. You see a lot of odd ...
Anchors | Mornings | Top 10 VIDEO: WPIX Anchor Frances Rivera Breaks Down Crying During Newscast By Andrew Gauthier on Apr. 25, 2012 - 4:58 PM WPIX anchor Frances Rivera broke down crying during the CW-affiliate’s morning show, after the station played a new Procter & Gamble commercial that, Rivera’s co-anchor Sukanya Krishnan warned, is “bringing m ...
CW Affiliates | Top 10 WPIX Tries Out Studio Audience For Morning News By Merrill Knox on Feb. 16, 2012 - 3:55 PM The New York Daily News reports WPIX will try out a studio audience next Monday as a way to boost ratings during February sweeps. The crowd, expected to total 22 people, will be made up of guests selected from an online contest: F ...
CBS Affiliates | CW Affiliates | Reporting | Top 10 WCBS Reporter Jay Dow Joining WPIX By Merrill Knox on Jan. 10, 2012 - 10:59 AM Jay Dow, a reporter at WCBS in New York, has joined WPIX the CW-affiliate in the same market, FishbowlNY reports. Dow has been a reporter at CBS O&O WCBS since 2001. He will be a reporter on the WPIX’s morning newscast, ...
Mornings | Top 10 | Viral VIDEO: WPIX Anchor Falls After Showing Off Heels By Andrew Gauthier on Oct. 19, 2011 - 5:24 PM “It’s really hard to fall on live TV,” WPIX morning anchor Sukanya Krishnan said this morning, after falling on live TV. Krishnan and her morning co-anchor Frances Rivera were doing a segment about high heels and ...
On the Move On the Move, 9/28/11 By Andrew Gauthier on Sep. 28, 2011 - 11:16 AM Kristen Drew joins KXTV in Sacramento as a reporter from WLKY in Louisville. Frank Holland joins WGN in Chicago as an anchor-reporter from WDIV in Detroit. Joel Brown joins WTVD in Durham, NC as an anchor-reporter from corresponde ...
Anchors | NBC Affiliates | Top 10 WHDH Taps Reid Lamberty to Replace Frances Rivera By Andrew Gauthier on Sep. 8, 2011 - 10:29 AM Boston’s WHDH has hired Reid Lamberty to replace Frances Rivera, who recently left the station to join WPIX in New York. Lamberty will co-anchor WHDH’s 5, 6, 10, and 11 p.m. newscasts alongside Kim Khazei. “Rei ...
CW Affiliates | Mornings | Top 10 It’s Official: Frances Rivera Joins NYC’s WPIX By Merrill Knox on Aug. 22, 2011 - 2:35 PM We told you last month that Frances Rivera — a longtime anchor at Boston’s WHDH — left the station to join WPIX, the CW affiliate in New York City. Today, the station makes it official in a news release, calling ...