View Post ABC Affiliates | CBS Affiliates | ShopTalk | Sports Georgia Sports Anchor Fired For Refusing Covid Vaccine Finds New Job at Local High School By Kevin Eck on Oct. 15, 2021 - 11:06 AM "I’m supposed to be at a football game and it’s really great to get back," said Dave Platta.
View Post ABC Affiliates | Anchors | Revolving Door | Sports Georgia Sports Anchor Fired After Refusing Covid-19 Vaccine By Kevin Eck on Sep. 16, 2021 - 10:46 AM Gray Television is requiring all employees to get vaccinated by Oct. 1.
View Post ABC Affiliates | ShopTalk WTVM Celebrates 60th Anniversary By Merrill Knox on Oct. 8, 2013 - 10:26 AM WTVM, the ABC affiliate in Columbus, Ga., is celebrating its 60th anniversary this month. The station brought some of its former anchors and reporters, including Dick McMichael, Eddie Bland and Al Fleming, back to the studio (vide ...
View Post Reporting | ShopTalk Curtis McCloud to Join WWBT From WTVM By Merrill Knox on Sep. 30, 2013 - 11:37 AM Curtis McCloud is joining WWBT, the NBC affiliate in Richmond. McCloud, who has spent the past three years as a reporter at WTVM in Columbus, Ga., announced the news on his blog: During my time at WTVM I have had the chance to bet ...
View Post ABC Affiliates | ShopTalk | Weather Greg Majewski to Join WTVM as Weekend Meteorologist By Kevin Eck on Aug. 9, 2013 - 11:21 AM Greg Majewski will join Raycom’s Columbus, GA, ABC affiliate WTVM as weekend meteorologist on August 19. Majewski is an Army reservist who served as deputy director of communication infrastructure with the 335th Signal Comma ...
View Post ABC Affiliates | ShopTalk | Weather KAIT Says Hello Again to Justin Logan, Goodbye to Sarah Tipton By Kevin Eck on Jul. 25, 2013 - 3:24 PM Meteorologist Justin Logan (pictured right) is on his way back to Raycom’s Jonesboro, AR, ABC affiliate KAIT. Logan told viewers on facebook, “I have accepted the morning meteorologist position at KAIT-TV in Jonesboro, ...
View Post ABC Affiliates | ShopTalk | TV Biz Holly Steuart Named VP-GM of WTVM By Merrill Knox on May. 29, 2013 - 10:40 AM Holly Steuart has been named vice president and general manager at WTVM, Raycom Media’s ABC affiliate in Columbus, Ga. Until December, Steuart was general manager at WHP, the CBS affiliate in Harrisburg, Pa. She was let go w ...
View Post ShopTalk | TV Biz GM Lee Brantley to Retire From WTVM By Merrill Knox on Mar. 21, 2013 - 5:21 PM Lee Brantley will retire in July after 18 years as general manager of WTVM, Raycom Media’s ABC affiliate in Columbus, Ga. “Lee has built a team on respect and candor – not to mention building WTVM as the market l ...
View Post News Directors | Top 10 Eric Ludgood Joins WAGA as Assistant ND By Merrill Knox on Feb. 26, 2013 - 3:37 PM Two months after his departure from Atlanta’s WGCL, Eric Ludgood has been named assistant news director at rival WAGA. During his time at WGCL, Ludgood served as news director and as executive producer. He is a former vice p ...
ABC Affiliates | ShopTalk | Weather Arkansas Native Laura Huckabee Joins KHBS-KHOG as Morning Meteorologist By Andrew Gauthier on Apr. 30, 2012 - 2:00 PM Laura Huckabee, an Arkansas native and cousin of Mike Huckabee, is joining KHBS-KHOG in Fort Smith-Fayetteville, where she’ll anchor the Hearst station’s weekday morning newscast. Huckabee has over two decades of forec ...
