View Post ABC Affiliates | Reporting | Revolving Door Detroit Reporter Leaving City After Pandemic Changed Her Perspective By Kevin Eck on Mar. 1, 2021 - 8:26 AM Syma Chowdhry is moving to be closer to her family.
View Post CBS Affiliates | Revolving Door CBS Makes Management Moves in Detroit and Atlanta By Kevin Eck on Aug. 18, 2016 - 10:55 AM “We are very fortunate to have such an experienced and talented roster of talent,” said Peter Dunn.
NBC Affiliates | Reporting | Top 10 Scott MacFarlane Joins WRC By Merrill Knox on Jun. 21, 2013 - 10:36 AM Reporter Scott MacFarlane is joining WRC, the NBC owned station in Washington, D.C., vice president of news Mike Goldrick announced today. “For the past eight years, Scott has been a Washington Bureau reporter for the COX st ...
View Post CBS Affiliates | ShopTalk Tom Jordan Leaving KUSI for Detroit Radio Job By Kevin Eck on Feb. 13, 2013 - 3:07 PM Tom Jordan, anchor for San Diego independent station KUSI is leaving television to join Detroit CBS radio affiliate WWJ. Jordan will be the news anchor for the CBS owned radio station’s morning show. KUSI news director Steve ...
View Post CBS Affiliates | ShopTalk No More Local Morning News on Detroit’s WWJ By Kevin Eck on Dec. 12, 2012 - 12:19 PM CBS owned station WWJ has announced it will be dropping its morning news show, “First Forecast Mornings.” “WWJ remains committed to local programming where it makes sense,” the station said in a statement. ...
View Post CW Affiliates | Top 10 | TV Biz Jack Walsh Named VP-GM at WUPA in Atlanta By Merrill Knox on Nov. 19, 2012 - 10:18 AM Jack Walsh will step into the role of vice president and general manager at WUPA, the CBS-owned CW affiliate in Atlanta. Walsh joins WUPA from rival WGCL, where he has been the local sales manager since 2009. Prior to that, he was ...
View Post ShopTalk | Weather Legendary Detroit Weatherman Sonny Eliot Dies at 91 By Kevin Eck on Nov. 16, 2012 - 3:28 PM Sonny Eliot, the legendary Detroit weatherman whose career in television and radio spanned over 60 years has died. He was 91. Eliot was best known for his weather forecasts which were more performance than informational. Famous ...
CBS Affiliates | ShopTalk Tom Canedo Named GM of Detroit’s WWJ By Kevin Eck on Oct. 26, 2012 - 11:42 AM Tom Canedo has been named vice president and general manager of Detroit CBS O&O, WWJ. Canedo comes from WUPA, the CBS owned CW affiliate in Atlanta. “Tom has done a great job of leading our efforts to make WUPA one of ...
CBS Affiliates | ShopTalk How Did 27 Stations End Up With Identical Scripts For a Story About Conan O’Brien? By Merrill Knox on Nov. 4, 2011 - 2:45 PM Conan O’Brien poked fun at content-sharing in local news this week, showing a clip on his show of several anchors repeating the same phrase — “push the envelope” — while reporting on the late night ho ...
ShopTalk Dead Body Found Atop Detroit TV Tower By Andrew Gauthier on Mar. 9, 2011 - 11:59 AM A maintenance crew in Oak Park, MI made a gruesome discovery on Tuesday: a dead body perched 1,000 feet above the ground, near the top of a TV broadcast tower. The crew found the deceased man, who is believed to be in his 20s, whi ...