BREAKING! Look Who's Leaving Tegna!

Back on October 7th, FTVLive FIRST told you that Tegna sources were telling FTVLive that Tegna looking to end the Joel Cheatwood experiment at their stations.

Cheatwood started consulting Tegna’s low rated KXTV in Sacramento and WTSP in Tampa with this idea to do news gear toward millennials done by millennials.

Now long after, Tegna went all-in with the Cheatwood way of doing TV news, which focused more on social media and trending stories and less on Journalism.

Tegna started parting ways with many longtime employees with early retirement and hiring young and “hip” kids that were going to change the face of TV news.

But, it never really happened and many started to look at the Tegna stations as more of a punchline than somewhere you wanted to work.

Sources told FTVLive in October that Cheatwood would be moving on from Tegna.

Well, just a few hours ago and two days before Christmas, Joel Cheatwood did the holiday week news dump and announced on his social media that he was indeed leaving Tegna.

Here is his post:

Once again, FTVLive was way out in front on this story.

Stay tuned….

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