FTVLive FIRST told you last week that after 3 years at WCNC in Charlotte, Morning Anchor Kellie Patterson is leaving the station.
She is headed to KMGH in Denver.
No word yet on what show Patterson will anchor in the Mile High City.
Patterson is known as the anchor that competed on CBS's 'Amazing Race.' She did that while still a student at the University of South Carolina .
WHAS News Director Mark Neerman has "resigned" from the station.
The station isn't commenting on the real reason, but Neerman's "resignation " effective immediately.
The staff got word that Neerman was gone in an email from GM Linda Danna.
Neerman had been at the station since 2009.
Longtime KGET News Director John Pilios is getting out while the getting is good.
After 14 years at the station, Pilios retires from the station Today.
Before coming to Bakersfield in 1999, Pilios was news director at KCOY TV in Santa Maria, the city where he broke into broadcasting as a radio disc jockey in 1977.
When he came out of the Navy in 1970, John Pilios kicked around for a while, trying to find the right job.
"I did a lot of jobs that you could say I wasn't very good at. But I'd always wanted to be in broadcasting", Pilios said.
His dream was to be a baseball play-by-play announcer. Vin Scully was his idol.
But, his wife Cindy was not dialed in on John's dream.
"I always felt a little guilty about it. I wouldn't let him do it...dragging our daughter around the states doing what I thought was a stupid thing," she said.
So, John and wife Cindy and baby daughter Dawn established roots in Santa Maria.
"Being a compassionate journalist and a pursuer of the truth and the two things can coexist easily, and that's what I've tried to impart on the people I've worked with," Pilios said.
More at KGET
Jon Stewart made his return to The Daily Show and it was a very funny opening bit. And unlike Keith Olbermann, he worked Carlos Danger into his return to the air.
Let's go to the video:
So far in 2013, 326 TV stations have been sold or involved in a deal to get new management.
326!
The biggest buyer has been Sinclair.
The Washington Post reports that in the past year, Sinclair has paid almost $2.5 billion to snap up 79 local television stations. For most Americans, local television is still the prime source of news. If all the acquisitions are approved, Sinclair will control that broadcast for a third of U.S. households.
Sinclair is one of a handful of “super group” station owners that includes Gannett, Nexstar and LIN Media. The Baltimore company is family-controlled and has been known to promote the Republican party and right-of-center causes. Its fast-expanding national footprint has raised the guard of media watchdogs.
“We are headed for a world in which fewer than 10 companies will control most of the local TV stations in the entire country,” said Craig Aaron, the president of Free Press, an opponent of media consolidation. “There will be less competition for local scoops, fewer voices on the air and the same cookie-cutter content everywhere you look. As a result, people will be less informed.”
More after the jump.
Read MoreWLS in Chicago started streaming their Noon newscast this week and so far "ABC 7 To Go," has gone on without any major glitches.
As FTVLive reported back in June, the station dumped their 11AM newscast and replaced it with a web only version.
The station said they expected the streaming cast to last somewhere in the 8 to 10 minute range, but they went past that mark on the first day.
The streaming cast was anchored by Alan Krashesky (pictured). He fronted the newscast from the newsroom.
So far the newscast is airing without commercials. But we're sure the station's sales staff will be working to change that.
Cleveland stations had a very busy night, when the news broke late last night that Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man who kidnapped three young women and kept them captive in his basement for ten years, was found hanging in his cell at about 9:30 p.m.
Castro was pronounced dead at 10:52 pm. at a Cleveland hospital.
WOIO Reporter Ed Gallek said that Castro had been on suicide watch. Guards were supposed to checked on him every 30 minutes.
His body was reportedly discovered during a regular security check.
Brian Williams who took time off to have knee surgery was back Tonight on NBC Nightly News.
Williams opened the newscast with the latest on Syria.
It looks like BriWi has comeback just as things are heating up.The slow news days of Summer and gone.
Let's hope his knee holds up.
....or a really fat body.
WGN in Chicago kicked off their expanded morning news this morning and they have Oprah on the show.
Although, the Queen of all Media was not on set, she was phoning it in. The anchors were talking to Oprah, when they all the sudden heard a dial tone.
Damn! You don't hang on on Oprah! Only Oprah tells YOU when to hang up.
The video after the jump.
Read MoreIt seems WPIX, the struggling Tribune station in New York isn't done shaking things up.
The station announced changes Today to it's morning newscast.
Marysol Castro is returning to the station to anchor alongside Dan Mannarino.
Castro, who was the traffic reporter for WPIX when it launched Morning News in 2001, will return to the station to anchor PIX11 Morning News from 4-6 a.m.
Mannarino, who has been reporting and fill-in anchoring for WPIX since 2011, has been bumped up the food chain.
The changes start next Monday.
While many of you spent the Labor Day Weekend cleaning out the garage, Katie Couric did something a bit more exciting.
She got engaged.
The perk one said "yes" to her boyfriend of nearly two years, financier John Molner.
People reports that a rep for Couric confirms the engagement – Molner popped the question with a spectacular diamond ring at sunset on the beach in East Hampton, N.Y.
A widow since her husband Jay Monahan died from colon cancer in 1998, Couric, 56, has had several suitors over the past decades, but never seemed to find "The One."
Now it appears she has.
FTVLive FIRST told you that WFOR morning Anchor Josh Benson had been fired from the station on Friday.
As we reported Benson has been at the Miami station for just a year, joining WFOR from WFTV in Orlando.
The station has released a statement as to why the anchor was sacked:
“WFOR-TV has terminated the employment of Josh Benson for his operation of a personal website that streamed the station's newscasts without the knowledge and consent of the station.”
Word is that Benson posted stories on his blog about the web streaming service Aereo. CBS is locked in a lawsuit trying to stop Aereo from streaming their stations. The service had recently started operations in the Miami market.
Benson has since taken his personal website down and his social media accounts have been deleted.
FTVLive reached out to Benson, we are yet to hear back from him.
During our long day and half vacation, WNBC made official what FTVLive FIRST reported back in August.
FTVLive told you that KCBS morning anchor Sibila Vargas had left the station and was bound for the Big Apple and WNBC.
WNBC has now confirmed our report and named Vargas anchor of its Noon and 6PM newscasts.
With placing Vargas on these newscasts, it appears that WNBC has become the only major station with a different anchor team for each of its weekday newscasts.
At most stations, the morning team sticks around to do the Noon news, and the late news team also pairs up for at least one afternoon newscast.
That's not the case at WNBC:
Mornings: Darlene Rodriguez and Michael Gargiulo.
Noon- Rob Schmitt and Sibila Vargas
5PM- Tom Llamas and Shiba Russell
6PM- Chuck Scarborough and Sibila Vargas
11PM- Chuck Scarborough and Shiba Russell.
Watching WNBC's newscast will be like trying to tell who's married to who at a swingers convention.
Are the guys getting paid for than the ladies at one Milwaukee station?
At least one female Anchor believes that is the case and she's suing the station.
Anchor-reporter Shari Dunn has filed a complaint against her employers, WDJT and it's owner Weigel Broadcasting.
Dunn says in her suit that there is "a possible pattern and practice of paying female employees less than male employees."
The complaint alleges that Weigel provides more high-profile opportunities for men and that it has created "a culture where the opinions of male employees are valued more than the opinions of female employees."
The complaint also states race was also a cause for discrimination as was the fact that she opposed discrimination in the workplace.
The complaint was filed with the Wisconsin Equal Rights Division and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said attorney Nola Hitchcock Cross in a statement.
She said the case was expected to proceed to federal court on a class-action basis.
Dunn describes herself in the statement as a "loyal, consistent and eager employee." She was born in Milwaukee and attended Nicolet High School and Marquette University. She joined the station in 2009.
Station manager Jim Hall did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
One-time KAKE reporter and part-time anchor Jared Cerullo has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, citing breach of contract and defamation.
The Wichita Business Journal reports that the lawsuit filed on Aug. 23, names Gray Television Group Inc., the parent company of KAKE, and Michael Sipes, KAKE’s news director.
Sipes, who became KAKE’s news director in January, says he cannot comment on the lawsuit.
Cerullo is seeking damages in excess of $75,000.
The suit alleges that Cerullo was wrongly terminated for information he shared through Twitter and during an on-air newscast about how a defendant in a murder case pleaded during a June preliminary hearing.
Cerullo incorrectly reported that that person entered a plea of guilty, when, in fact, the defendant pleaded not guilty and waived his right to a preliminary hearing, meaning the case was bound over for a jury trial.
Notified of the error, Cerullo corrected his mistake on Twitter and later issued an on-air correction and apology.
Cerullo, according to court documents filed with Sedgwick County District Court, was suspended on June 25 only to have his employment contract terminated a day later for what was characterized as “gross negligence.”
Cerullo’s termination sparked a firestorm among some KAKE viewers, some of whom launched a Facebook campaign demanding he be reinstated.
In June, Cerullo shared his story during an interview for a local radio show, telling the host that he made a mistake but the “punishment didn’t fit the crime.”
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