View Post ABC Affiliates | ShopTalk WGGB Videographer Hospitalized After Springfield Explosion By Merrill Knox on Nov. 27, 2012 - 10:51 AM WGGB videographer Tom Brushway was hospitalized Friday after a massive explosion in downtown Springfield. Brushway was sent to the scene to cover the gas leak for the Springfield ABC affiliate. He was one of 20 people injured in t ...
ABC Affiliates | Mornings | ShopTalk Springfield’s WGGB Shakes Up Morning Team, Again By Merrill Knox on Oct. 3, 2012 - 2:05 PM For the second time this year, WGGB is revamping its morning newscast. In April, the Springfield, Mass. ABC affiliate brought on Dan Williams and Kim Zachary, a husband-and-wife team team of local radio hosts, to anchor the newsca ...
ABC Affiliates | ShopTalk WGGB Launching Weekend Morning Newscast By Merrill Knox on Sep. 11, 2012 - 10:19 AM WGGB, the ABC affiliate in Springfield, MA, is launching a weekend morning newscast this Saturday. The hourlong newscast will air from 7 to 8 a.m. and will be the lead-in program to the weekend edition of ABC’s “Good M ...
NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk WEYI Hires Assistant News Director By Andrew Gauthier on May. 21, 2012 - 1:35 PM WEYI has hired Neille Giffune as assistant news director. In April, WEYI’s owner, Barrington Broadcasting, tapped news director Kathy Reynolds to oversee sister station WNWO in Toledo, in addition to leading the news departm ...
Reporting | ShopTalk Former WGGB Anchor Paul Mueller Resurfaces in Tampa with Bay News 9 By Andrew Gauthier on May. 8, 2012 - 10:36 AM Paul Mueller, who has been battling alcoholism since abruptly resigning from WGGB last April, has gotten another chance. On Monday, Mueller started a job as a reporter for Bay News 9, the local cable news station in Tampa. “ ...
ABC Affiliates | Anchors | Mornings | ShopTalk WTNH Hires Jeff Valin to Anchor Weekend Mornings By Merrill Knox on Mar. 13, 2012 - 11:16 AM Jeff Valin has been hired at WTNH, the ABC-affiliate in Hartford-New Haven, according to the New Haven Register. The new role is a return to Hartford for Valin, who was a reporter at Fox-affiliate WTIC from 2008-10. He was most re ...
Anchors | ShopTalk | Social Media Marking Sobriety on YouTube, Former WGGB Anchor Says Stress of TV News Often Led Him to Drink By Andrew Gauthier on Nov. 28, 2011 - 10:18 AM "I am so grateful to be alive today."
News Directors | ShopTalk Jim Tortora Named News Director at WGGB By Andrew Gauthier on Sep. 27, 2011 - 6:11 PM Jim Tortora, who resigned as news director of Syracuse’s WSYR this spring after being romantically linked to a reporter, has been tapped to lead the newsroom of WGGB in Springfield, MA. WGGB president and owner John Gormally ...
Anchors | ShopTalk Former WGGB Anchor Paul Mueller Says Humiliating YouTube Video Saved His Life By Andrew Gauthier on Jun. 6, 2011 - 3:50 PM "I intend for people to know me for winning my battle with alcoholism."