View Post ABC Affiliates | Sports | Top 10 Bob Slovak Named Weekend Sports Anchor at KTRK By Merrill Knox on May. 6, 2013 - 11:49 AM Bob Slovak is the new weekend sports anchor at KTRK in Houston, Houston media blogger Mike McGuff reports. Slovak has worked at the ABC O&O since 1998. Tim Melton, who has been off the air since 2011 recovering from a stroke, ...
View Post ShopTalk Rival Stations Staff KFDM During Bill Leger’s Memorial Service By Merrill Knox on Dec. 28, 2012 - 3:11 PM Two rival stations are pitching in today at KFDM in Beaumont so anchors and staffers can attend the memorial of anchor Bill Leger, who was killed in a car accident last week. ABC affiliate KBMT and Fox affiliate KBTV (a sister sta ...
View Post CBS Affiliates | ShopTalk Anchor Bill Leger Remembered by KFDM By Kevin Eck on Dec. 26, 2012 - 10:08 AM Bill Leger, the KFDM news anchor who died in a traffic accident early Saturday, was remembered by the station with video tributes and updates on funeral arrangements and memorials for the man the station knew as the, “ever ...
FOX Affiliates | Reporting | ShopTalk Foti Kallergis Leaving KTBC for His Family Business By Andrew Gauthier on Feb. 24, 2012 - 5:23 PM Foti Kallergis, who has worked as a reporter and fill-in anchor at KTBC for the past five years, is leaving the Fox O&O to oversee his family’s cooking school and catering company. Austin360 reports that Kallergis will l ...
CBS Affiliates | ShopTalk | TV Biz Rix Garey Named General Manager Of KFDM By Merrill Knox on Dec. 9, 2011 - 4:43 PM Sinclair Broadcasting announced today that Rix Garey will take over as general manager of KFDM, the CBS-affiliate in Beaumont, Texas. Since joining KFDM in 1980, Garey has held a variety of management roles at the station, includi ...
TV Biz | TVBiz Sinclair to Buy Freedom Communications Stations By Merrill Knox on Nov. 2, 2011 - 2:16 PM Sinclair Broadcast Group will purchase the eight-station Freedom Communications station group for $385 million, the company announced today. The deal will be reviewed by the FCC and is expected to cl0se early next year. Sinclair a ...
Anchors | CBS Affiliates | ShopTalk KFDM Anchor-GM Larry Beaulieu Announces Retirement After 37 Years By Andrew Gauthier on Jul. 28, 2011 - 10:50 AM In the studio where he’s worked for the past 37 years, KFDM anchor and general manager Larry Beaulieu announced to staff this week that he will retire at the end of September. “I’ve been privileged and blessed to ...