View Post ABC Affiliates | ShopTalk WJBF Adds Julie Parise to Morning Show By Kevin Eck on Jan. 14, 2014 - 5:39 PM Julie Parise has joined Augusta ABC affiliate WJBF as a reporter for “Good Morning Augusta.” The station welcomed her on its facebook page, “We want to welcome Julie Parise as the newest member of the Good Morn ...
View Post ShopTalk Archith Seshadri Signs Off From WJBF By Merrill Knox on Nov. 18, 2013 - 10:05 AM After three years at WJBF in Augusta, Archith Seshadri is leaving the station to join WJZY-WMYT in Charlotte. Seshadri joined WJBF in 2010 as a digital journalist and fill-in anchor. He became the station’s weekend morning a ...
View Post ABC Affiliates | ShopTalk Man Calls WJBF, Threatens Reporter By Merrill Knox on Nov. 7, 2013 - 11:48 AM A caller to Augusta ABC affiliate WJBF threatened reporter Michael Miller he would be “blasted in the face with a shotgun,” The Augusta Chronicle reports. Police were notified Tuesday afternoon after the call, accordin ...
View Post ABC Affiliates | ShopTalk Ashley Bridges to Anchor Weekends at WJBF By Kevin Eck on Aug. 7, 2013 - 3:56 PM Ashley Bridges has been promoted to weekend evening anchor for Augusta, GA, ABC affiliate WJBF. Before coming to WJBF in August 2012, she was a booker and field producer for ABC’s “20/20” and “Good Morning ...
View Post ShopTalk | Sports Tara Hernandez Says Goodbye to WXMI By Merrill Knox on May. 21, 2013 - 5:26 PM WXMI sports anchor Tara Hernandez is signing off from the Grand Rapids Fox affiliate, according to Mlive.com. Hernandez joined the station in 2008 from WJBF in Augusta. Her last day at WXMI is Wednesday, and she begins next week a ...
View Post Reporting | ShopTalk Reporter Brett Buffington Joins WIS By Merrill Knox on Apr. 12, 2013 - 2:24 PM Brett Buffington has been hired as an investigative reporter at WIS, the NBC affiliate in Columbia, S.C. Buffington was most recently a reporter and multimedia journalist at WJBF, the ABC Affiliate in Augusta. He was nominated for ...
TV Biz Media General Reorganizes TV Stations Into Two Regional Units By Merrill Knox on Jul. 2, 2012 - 1:02 PM After selling its newspaper assets, Media General has announced a corporate restructuring that elevates James Conschafter and John Cottingham to key leadership roles for the company’s television stations. The company’s ...
ABC Affiliates | Mornings | ShopTalk WJBF Launches Weekend Morning Newscast By Merrill Knox on Apr. 30, 2012 - 9:58 AM Augusta ABC-affiliate WJBF debuted a weekend morning newscast on Saturday. The newscast will be anchored by Archith Seshadri, WJBF’s Columbia County reporter. He will be joined by meteorologist Jason Nappi. “I’m ...
ABC Affiliates | ShopTalk | Weather Video: Weathercaster Receives Awkward On-Air Proposal During WJBF Newscast By Andrew Gauthier on Dec. 6, 2011 - 12:21 PM Jenna Lee Thomas’s weather forecast was interrupted Sunday night by a man in a tuxedo. Thomas’s boyfriend Eric surprised her during WJBF‘s evening newscast and slowly got down on one knee (video above). The stati ...
NBC Affiliates | News Directors | ShopTalk Dan Schillinger Joins KWWL As News Director By Merrill Knox on Oct. 26, 2011 - 4:28 PM Dan Schillinger has joined KWWL, the NBC-affiliate in Cedar Rapids, IA, as news director. Schillinger comes from Augusta ABC-affiliate WJBF, where he was news operations manager and executive producer. Prior to that, he was the ne ...