retiring

After 15 years, the former Broadcasting & Cable executive, is stepping down from leading the public service organization. During Conlon’s tenure, the Ad Council addressed significant social issues on behalf of prominent nonprofit and federal government organizations.

The group’s VP of sales and veteran TV executive, will step down at the end of the year.

CBS latenight star David Letterman is retiring in 2015. Latenight television is a far different world than when Letterman and Leno began their competition. There are more entertainment shows to choose from, with personalities like O’Brien, Arsenio Hall, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Chelsea Handler working every night. CBS will first have to decide whether to continue with an entertainment program in that time slot. It’s not the money-maker it once was, but chances are the network will continue in that direction.

Representative John D. Dingell, Democrat of Michigan and the longest-serving member of Congress in history, announced today that he would not seek re-election at the end of his current term.

The U.S. president of JVC Professional Products Co. since 2000, stepped down today. The company is looking for a successor.

He joined the Cleveland CBS affiliate in 2001 and oversaw considerable changes at WOIO’s news operation, where a red-graphics-laden, unapologetically tabloid style yielded significant ratings success.

Hearst-owned ABC affiliate WCVB Boston (DMA 7) announced today that veteran sports reporter Mike Dowling will be stepping down after more than 28 years on the station’s sports team. Since […]

Veteran California Democrat  and Commerce Committee chairman Henry Waxman, whose legislative and political savvy helped remake the American health care system, reveal tobacco’s dangers and expose steroids in baseball, will retire at the end of the 113th Congress.

Irv Schulman assumes the helm as SVP of Syndication Sales.

Jim Boyle has retired for health reasons after three decades with the San Antonio ABC affiliate, whose newscasts have long dominated the ratings there. The station wouldn’t disclose details except to say that Boyle, 65, is recovering from surgery.

After 42 years with the network, the president of ABC Owned Television Stations National Television Sales will step down at the end of January.

The TV station executive will step down at the end of the year. He began his career in TV sales 44 years ago at WSFA Montgomery, Ala.

CBS announced today that Dan Dierdorf will leave the booth after this season. The 64-year-old Dierdorf has called NFL games for three decades, the longest current tenure by a TV analyst.

KTVU Oakland, Calif. (DMA 6), Director of Community Affairs and Public Service Rosy Chu announced today that she will retire from the Cox Media Fox affiliate in December after more […]

The VP-GM of Bahakel Communications’ ABC and CBS affiliate in Jackson, Tenn., will step down at the end of the year. He will be succeeded by the station’s current general sales manager, Mark Brooks, effective Jan. 1, 2014.

He will step down from the Green Bay, Wis., ABC affiliate next year.

Executive VP and station manager Jack Dominic told coworkers and volunteers at PBS stations WCET Cincinnati and Dayton’s WPTD that he’s stepping down before March 1. Dominic, who turns 67 in January, was involved in all aspects of WCET, including the national Cincinnati Pops and CSO specials and other local programming through the years.

LIN-owned CBS affiliate WISH Indianapolis (DMA 36) anchor Debby Knox announced  that she will retire next month, after being a staple in Hoosier homes for more than 33 years. Knox […]

The leader of Hearst’s CBS affiliate in Des Moines, Iowa, will step down at the end of the year after 40 years in broadcasting.

NAB Deputy General Counsel Valerie Schulte is retiring from the organization on Friday, Aug. 30. Since joining NAB in 1980, Schulte has worked on many of the most important issues before the FCC for free and local broadcasters — including children’s television regulations, the digital TV transition, digital radio issues, and legal issues related to satellite radio.