FTVLive was FIRST to tip you off (back on March 5th) that KTVX in Salt Lake City was going to hire George Severson as the station's new News Director.
Well, now it's official, staffers at KTVX were informed that Severson is the new ND.
Rob Thompson, EP has been promoted to assistant ND.
We hate to say we told you so (who are we kidding, we LOVE saying that).
Serverson starts at the station in 2 weeks.
Yesterday, FTVLive told you that Joy Behar is leaving "The View" likely bound for CNN.
Is Elisabeth Hasselback following her out the door?
TVNewser says that the future of “The View” co-host Hasselback is up in the air. According to two sources familiar with the matter, Hasselbeck will not be returning to the daytime program next season.
More after the Jump
Read MoreJoy Purdy at at WTVL/WJXX in Jacksonville, FL is leaving to....all together now.... spend more time with her family.
"I have been trying to figure out what to do at a crossroads in my life. I was recently offered the main anchor spot here at FCN, the 11 p.m. newscast. So exciting! However, after much prayer, and countless family discussions ... I've instead decided to take a break from work to spend time with my family," says Purdy.
FTVLive has been reporting the Erin Burnett to mornings saga for over a week now.
It started out that Burnett was going to team up with Chris Cuomo for new and revamped morning show on CNN.
Then FTVLive reported that the deal was "dead in the water".... Burnett would not be making the move to the morning shift as CNN President Jeff Zucker had hoped.
As FTVLive told you Exclusively , Zucker had grown tired of dealing with Burnett's agent John Ferriter.
Yesterday, FTVLive told you about the arrest of WLBT Weather Anchor Eric Law on charges of having sex with a girl under the age of 16.
So far, court papers have not said how old the girl is, but if convicted, Law could be going away for a very long time.
Matt Baldridge, the attorney for Law said his client allowed police to conduct a search of Law’s home at 284 Belle Rose Circle on Thursday morning. Law surrendered to police about 11 a.m. after being told of the charges — two counts of sexual battery and two counts of gratification of lust.
Find out how much time he's looking at and more after the Bounce
Read MoreLarry King is like 170 years old, so you might not expect him to totally get Today's Technology.
And we can tell you he doesn't.
When Larry wants to Tweet something, he phones it in. Really he does.
The Wall Street Journal did a Larry King Fluff piece and it's really not all that interesting, except for the part where King went to a basketball game in Brooklyn. He wanted to tell his fans that it was the first time a sports event in Brooklyn since 1957. So he decided to tweet it.
Wait till you read how Larry Tweets after the Jump
Read MoreWhen the White House announced that they would be stopping tours of 1600 Pennsylvania because of budget cuts, one Fox News anchor offered up a solution.
He'll pay for it.
Find out after the the Jump which other FNC Anchor says you can count him in as well.
Read MoreThe stories of how hated Keith Olbermann was at ESPN (or MSNBC, or Current TV) are waaaaay to numerous to count.
So when the rumors floated that Olby might be headed back to ESPN everyone laughed.
But Damn if they might not really be true.
More on Olbermann to ESPN after the Skip
Read MoreThat pop you heard was Ann Curry opening another bottle of champagne.
With the help of Robin Roberts return from a bone marrow transplant, Good Morning America walked away with the February ratings crown.
GMA pulled in 5.67 million total viewers and 2.13 million adults 25-54.
Ann Curry Executioner Matt Lauer and the rest of the Today Show gang fell to almost a million viewers behind GMA.
Today pulled in 4.82 million total viewers and 2.03 million in the demo
CBS This Morning drew 3.01 million and 1.15 million viewers.
WJXT in Jacksonville, FL has an opening for an AP.
Assist producer in all aspects of producing a newscast. Responsibilities include writing news stories and teases, editing, research, posting to social media, and monitoring news feeds. You will be assigned other duties as needed.
The Full Listing after the Bounce
It looks like Joy Behar was sick of the View.
After 16+ years on the ABC Gabfest, Behar is signing off from 'The View.'
She plans on leaving the show this Summer.
“It seemed like the right time,” she told Deadline. “You reach a point when you say to yourself, ‘Do I want to keep doing this?’ There are other things on my plate I want to do — I’ve been writing a play, I’ve been neglecting my standup.”
More on what she'll be doing after the Hop
Read MoreDon Dahler, the WCBS weekend anchor, is leaving the station, but he's not going far.
Word is the New York anchor is going to be a correspondent for CBS News.
FishbowlNY says that although Dahler’s time at WCBS was productive, it can also be described as dizzying. He joined WCBS in September 2007, initially as weekend evening anchor. By May 2008, Dahler was named weekday noon and 6 p.m. co-anchor.
That lasted until September 2011 when Dahler was shifted back to weekends to make way for Chris Wragge following his stint on The Early Show.
Sources say Dahler will be based in New York as a reporter for the CBS Evening News and CBS This Morning.
WLBT (Jackson, Miss) Weather Anchor Eric Law has been arrested by cops, accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a minor.
Law is charged with two counts of sexual battery and two counts of gratification of lust.
Cops say the arrest is the result of an allegation that Law had inappropriate contact with a girl under the age of 16.
The judge has set bond at $50,000 per count, for a total of $200,000.
"Eric Law has been suspended until further notice," said WLBT News Director Wilson Stribling.
Law has been with the station since 2004.
Fox has named the person that will run their new O&O's in Charlotte.
Karen Adams will be the VP and general manager of the anticipated Fox duopoly, stations are WJZY (Fox) and WMYT.
Effective upon FCC approval of sale of the stations by Capitol Broadcasting, Adams will be responsible for overseeing the stations’ business and operations, reporting to Jack Abernethy, CEO of Fox Television Stations.
Adams spent the last 16 years as president-GM of WGHP Greensboro, N.C., which was a Fox O&O from 1996 to 2008. Prior to becoming GM, she held a variety of positions at WGHP, including VP of programming, VP of creative services and community involvement and camera operator, which was her first position at the station.
H/T TVNewsCheck
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