View Post NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk | TV Biz Joe Poss Named VP, GM of WTMJ By Merrill Knox on Feb. 11, 2014 - 10:40 AM Joe Poss has been named vice president and general manager of WTMJ, the NBC affiliate in Milwaukee. His appointment is effective February 17. It is a move within Journal Broadcast Group for Poss, who has been general manager of WG ...
FOX Affiliates | ShopTalk Parking Spaces Slim for WSVN After Owner Loses Lawsuit By Kevin Eck on Dec. 26, 2013 - 2:06 PM SFLTV is reporting many staffers at Sunbeam owned Miami-Ft. Lauderdale FOX affiliate WSVN will have to find somewhere else to park after the station’s owner lost his bid to foreclose on an adjoining property. After the realt ...
View Post FOX Affiliates | ShopTalk Longtime WSVN Reporter Derek Hayward Resigns By Kevin Eck on Aug. 21, 2013 - 4:26 PM GossipExtra.com reports, Derek Hayward resigned from Miami-Fort Lauderdale FOX affiliate WSVN last night. Hayward, who started at WSVN in 1991, told Gossip Extra he was leaving because he needed a change in his life. “I leave wi ...
View Post ShopTalk | Weather Meteorologist Pamela Wright Joins WYFF By Merrill Knox on Aug. 2, 2013 - 11:04 AM Pamela Wright is joining WYFF, Hearst Television’s NBC affiliate in Greenville, S.C., as the weekend morning meteorologist. “Pamela rounds out a weather team that is second to none in our area,” news director Bru ...
View Post Anchors | NBC Affiliates | Top 10 Reid Lamberty Out at Boston’s WHDH By Merrill Knox on Jun. 11, 2013 - 11:00 AM Evening co-anchor Reid Lamberty is out at WHDH, the NBC affiliate in Boston, NewsBlues reports. Lamberty joined WHDH from WSVN in Miami (both stations are owned by Sunbeam Television) in 2011. He has also worked as an anchor at WN ...
View Post News Directors | ShopTalk Triston Sanders Named Executive News Director at KENS By Merrill Knox on Jun. 10, 2013 - 12:36 PM Triston Sanders is joining KENS, the CBS affiliate in San Antonio, as executive news director, TVSpy has learned. It is a move within Belo for Sanders, who has been assistant news director at WWL in New Orleans since September 201 ...
View Post Anchors | CBS Affiliates | ShopTalk Juan Carlos Fanjul Signs Off From WPEC By Merrill Knox on Apr. 1, 2013 - 1:27 PM WPEC weekend anchor Juan Carlos Fanjul is leaving the West Palm Beach CBS affiliate, according to Gossip Extra’s Jose Lambiet. According to Lambiet, Fanjul wants to “seek other opportunities.” The departure comes ...
View Post ShopTalk | Weather Julie Durda In, Michael Smith Out at WPLG By Merrill Knox on Jan. 29, 2013 - 12:18 PM Julie Durda, who signed off in September from Miami’s WSVN, is joining rival WPLG. Bill Pohovey, the news director of the Miami ABC affiliate, announced the news in an email to WPLG staffers Tuesday morning. “Most of y ...
View Post ABC Affiliates | CBS Affiliates | FOX Affiliates | NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk South Florida Anchors Join in Holiday Fun By Kevin Eck on Dec. 26, 2012 - 5:22 PM The South Florida Sun Sentinel recruited celebrities including local news anchors from around South Florida to read “Twas The Night Before Christmas” in a video mash-up. Included in on the holiday fun were Adam Kuperst ...
View Post Reporting | ShopTalk In Miami, High Speed U-Haul Chase Takes Over Noon Newscasts By Merrill Knox on Dec. 7, 2012 - 1:57 PM A man driving a U-Haul truck led police on a high-speed chase through the streets of Miami Friday afternoon. Two of the Miami stations, ABC affiliate WPLG and Fox affiliate WSVN, were in the middle of the noon newscasts when the n ...