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The new First at Four debuts Monday, Sept. 14, on the Raycom NBC affiliate. Ashlea Kosikowski will anchor.

Beginning Sept. 8, Scarlett Fakhar joins Fox-owned KRIV Houston (DMA 10) as a general assignment reporter for the station’s weekday 5 and 9 p.m. newscasts. Most recently, Fakhar was the […]

The Now San Diego debuts Sept. 14 and will feature anchors Ariel Wesler and Anne State, with meteorologist Angelica Campos.

He will head sports at the Philadelphia CBS O&O beginning next week.

She has been the Las Vegas CBS affiliate’s managing editor/assistant news director for the past eight years.

Reporters and photographers have long known about the dangers of working in TV news. But last week’s tragic shooting deaths of WDBJ photographer Adam Ward and reporter Alison Parker in Virginia, have heightened awareness in the broadcasting community about just how vulnerable journalists can be in the field. In fact, TV news crews face an increasing number of threats as they cover stories in public places.

The quest for scale, driven by the distribution power of a few enormous technology platforms, is killing the business case for local news. There are vigorous debates about what the future will hold for TV; the medium has proven stubbornly successful through waves of digital change. But even if “TV” survives, it’s hard to see where local TV news — built for a world of daily appointment viewing, of people sitting down every night at 6:30 to see what happened that day — fits in.

Beginning Sept. 3, meteorologist Ivan Cabrera joins Scripps-owned ABC affiliate WFTS Tampa, Fla. (DMA 13). He will be the primary meteorologist for The Now Tampa Bay, weekdays at 4 p.m., […]

Zachary Kiesch is joining Fox-owned WNYW New York (DMA 1) as a general assignment reporter, beginning Sept. 8. Most recently, Kiesch was a news reporter for WRC Washington, where he […]

Since last Friday, Jeff Platt, Tony Cedrone and Amanda del Castillo have left Gray Television’s NBC affiliate in Wyoming.

Mornings on 2 at 9 a.m. will debut on Sept. 14 on Fox-owned KTVU San Francisco (DMA 6) and will be hosted by Bay Area natives Gasia Mikaelian, Mike Mibach […]

Some are praising Graham Media’s KSAT San Antonio for uploading amateur video of a police-involved shooting. The police are saying that the station is putting cops lives in danger.

As of Monday, KWHY’s 5 and 10 pm local newscasts have been canceled. With very few exceptions, the the Meruelo Group-owned station’s entire news, marketing and sales staff were laid off in the process. About 50 to 60 people today lost their jobs – about 40 were from the news department.

Telemundo’s KNSO will begin airing its first-ever local newscast Noticiero Telemundo Valle Central today. The one-hour Spanish-language program will air weekdays from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. and deliver local news to viewers in Central California, including the Fresno, Madera, Tulare and Visalia markets. The program is being produced locally in partnership with Nexstar Broadcasting Group’s CBS affiliate KGPE and NBC affil KSEE in Fresno as well as Telemundo in Bakersfield.

Adam Ward, the 27-year-old cameraman for WDBJ Roanoke, Va., who was murdered last week was remembered today at a commemoration at Salem High School. Salem High School Principal Scott Habeeb said Ward “loved life and he was truly kind to people.” Habeeb was the offensive line coach when Ward played middle school football, was one of his teachers as a high school freshman and was an assistant principal for Ward’s final three years of high school.

Rahel Solomon will join CBS-owned KYW Philadelphia (DMA 4) Eyewitness News team as a general assignment reporter on its Eyewitness News team beginning Tuesday, Sept. 8. Solomon comes home to […]

Allison McGinley, who has worked at the Graham Media CBS affiliate in Orlando, Fla., for 21 years, has been named news director. She had been acting news director since Steve Hyvonen resigned July 21.

Michael Cogdill, anchor at Hearst’s NBC affiliate WYFF Greenville-Spartanburg, S.x. (DMA 37), has been named to the Silver Circle of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), Southeast […]

Tribune Broadcasting’s CW affiliate WPIX New York (DMA 1), has named Chuck Carter senior executive producer of news. He will oversee all aspects of the morning daypart, including PIX11 Morning […]