View Post FOX Affiliates | ShopTalk | Top 10 | TV Biz Fox General Manager Mike Renda Moves From Chicago to Detroit By Merrill Knox on Nov. 16, 2012 - 9:32 AM Breaking: After three years as general manager of WFLD in Chicago, Mike Renda is jumping to another Fox O&O. Effective January 7, Renda will be the VP-GM at WJBK in Detroit. Renda and Fox Television Stations CEO Jack Abernethy ...
Anchors | FOX Affiliates | ShopTalk WJBK Remembers Jeffrey Zaslow, Husband of Anchor Sherry Margolis By Andrew Gauthier on Feb. 13, 2012 - 4:38 PM Funeral services were held this afternoon for Jeffrey Zaslow, the best-selling author and husband of WJBK‘s Sherry Margolis. Zaslow died in a car accident Friday morning in northern Michigan. WJBK, which recently mourned t ...
FOX Affiliates | ShopTalk Death of WJBK GM Jeff Murri Ruled Suicide By Merrill Knox on Feb. 6, 2012 - 1:29 PM The Oakland County medical examiner’s office ruled Saturday that the death of Jeff Murri, the general manager of WJBK in Detroit, was a suicide. Murri died last Thursday of a gunshot wound to the head at St. Irenaeus Catholi ...
FOX Affiliates | ShopTalk WJBK Remembers GM Jeff Murri Following Sudden Death: ‘This Place Will Never Be the Same’ By Andrew Gauthier on Feb. 3, 2012 - 11:52 AM The hosts of WJBK‘s morning show “The Nine” shared their memories of general manager Jeff Murri today. Murri died suddenly on Thursday at the age of 50. “The whole thing is quite amazing to me because jus ...
FOX Affiliates | ShopTalk WJBK GM Jeff Murri Dies at 50 By Andrew Gauthier on Feb. 3, 2012 - 10:04 AM WJBK vice president and general manager Jeff Murri died suddenly on Thursday. He was 50. Murri began his broadcast career with WJBK and had served as GM of the Fox O&O since 2001. “We are devastated by the loss of one of o ...
ShopTalk B&C Names Top Local TV Executives of The Year By Merrill Knox on Dec. 20, 2011 - 4:12 PM Broadcasting & Cable is out with its annual “Local TV Executives of the Year” list (subscription required). B&C contends that 2011 was a remarkable year for the local landscape — with tornadoes in Tuscalo ...
