View Post Anchors | ShopTalk | Top 10 Anchor Ryan Peterson Set to Join WNCT By Merrill Knox on Mar. 25, 2013 - 2:50 PM Ryan Peterson is joining WNCT, Media General’s CBS affiliate in Greenville, N.C. Peterson will anchor the 5 p.m. newscast on WNCT and the 10 p.m. newscast on a CW-affiliated digital subchannel. Jeff Varner and Amanda Goodman ...
View Post NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk | Weather Meteorologist Kweilyn Murphy Joins WDSU By Merrill Knox on Jan. 15, 2013 - 5:08 PM Kweilyn Murphy is joining WDSU. Murphy will be the weekend meteorologist at the New Orleans NBC affiliate. Murphy moves to New Orleans from Greenville, N.C., where she is the weekend meteorologist at WNCT. Prior to that, Murphy wa ...
CBS Affiliates | ShopTalk Ingrid Johansen Named News Director at WNCT By Kevin Eck on Oct. 29, 2012 - 10:39 AM Ingrid Johansen has joined WNCT, the CBS affiliate for Greenville, NC, as news director. Johansen, who had been out of TV for four years, last managed the congressional campaign for Frank Palombo, who lost his bid to represent N ...
ShopTalk New News Sets in Greenville, NC and Bakersfield, CA By Chris Ariens on Oct. 4, 2012 - 10:54 AM Station owners and GMs continue to open their wallets for new news sets. The latest at Scripps-owned KERO-TV (ABC) in Bakersfield (upper left) and Media General-owned WNCT (CBS) in Greenville, NC (upper right). NewscastStudio repo ...
Anchors | CBS Affiliates | ShopTalk Jeff Varner Joins WNCT as Evening Anchor By Merrill Knox on Sep. 28, 2012 - 10:49 AM Jeff Varner is joining WNCT, the CBS affiliate in Greenville, N.C., as the anchor of the 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts. Varner comes to Greenville from New York City, where he was a general assignment reporter at CW affiliate WPIX. He r ...
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 ...
NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk | Weather Meteorologist Bay Scroggins Joins WPTV By Merrill Knox on May. 15, 2012 - 1:28 PM Meteorologist Bay Scroggins has joined WPTV, the NBC-affiliate in West Palm Beach. Scroggins began his career at WNCT in Greenville, followed by WZVN in Fort Myers and KSTP in Minneapolis. He also worked briefly at WFOR, the CBS O ...
CBS Affiliates | Reporting | ShopTalk WDBJ Adds Two Veteran Reporters By Andrew Gauthier on Apr. 19, 2012 - 10:29 AM WDBJ is welcoming two new reporters to its news team. The Roanoke CBS-affiliate this week announced the additions of Bryce Williams (far left) and Orlando Salinas (near left). Williams joins WDBJ as a multimedia journalist and gen ...
Anchors | ShopTalk After 26 Years at WNCT, Allan Hoffman Will Retire By Merrill Knox on Apr. 18, 2012 - 10:10 AM WNCT anchor Allan Hoffman announced he will retire this Fall after 26 years at the Greenville CBS-affiliate. “I won’t disappear from the airwaves here at WNCT,” Hoffman said in his on-air announcement. “I h ...
Anchors | ShopTalk Marti Skold to Debut as News 14 Carolina Anchor By Andrew Gauthier on Nov. 22, 2011 - 1:12 PM Marti Skold is set to join the anchor desk at News 14 Carolina beginning December 1st, when the 24-hour cable news channel officially introduces her as its new weekday morning anchor. Skold spent the last five years at Salt Lake C ...