Scripps Moves Jodie Heisner To WEWS News Dir,

The station group promotes her from assistant news director at its WXYZ Detroit. She succeeds the Cleveland ABC affiliate’s Sean McGarvy who moved to a senior content role at corporate.
WEWS Moves To Wipe Away Medical Debt

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Meteorologist Trent Magill Returns To WEWS
WEWS Adds Sean McGarvy As News Director

McGarvy, 39, comes to Cleveland’s ABC affiliate from KMGH in Denver, where he was assistant news director.
WEWS Adds Anchor Katie Ussin In Mornings
Scripps-owned ABC affiliate WEWS Cleveland (DMA 19) has hired Katie Ussin to be part of its Good Morning Cleveland in June. She will join co-anchor Terrence Lee weekdays, 4:30-7 a.m. Ussin currently co-anchors multiple newscasts at WDTN Dayton, Ohio. Prior to her five years at WDTN, she worked as a reporter and anchor at KULR […]
WEWS Criticizes TBS For Flaming River Picture
WEWS Reporter Homa Bash Leaving For Dallas
WEWS Creates Survival Guide For Clevelanders
News-producing stations in the country’s 18th largest TV market have been hard at work preparing to offer comprehensive coverage of next week’s Republican National Convention that’s relevant to area viewers, while also ensuring staff have flexibility to cover unexpected activity and stay safe.
When Donald Trump and other Republican luminaries take their turns at the podium next month at the Republican National Convention, the reporters and producers of hundreds, maybe thousands, of television news organizations will focus their efforts on the messages emanating from the Quicken Loans Arena stage. The exception, though, will be the handful of hometown broadcast stations, whose cameras will be trained elsewhere.
Anchor Rob Powers is returning home to Cleveland (DMA 18) to Scripps-owned ABC affiliate WEWS. Powers will join WEWS anchor Danita Harris, Chief Meteorologist Mark Johnson and Sports Director Andy Baskin. The station is where his career began as an intern in the sports department back in the late 1980s. His career path took him […]
Meteorologist Jason Nicholas Moving To WOIO
New Promos From Markets Large And Small
Sports Reporter Lauren Brill Joins WEWS
WEWS NBA Championship Promo A Slam Dunk
WEWS Sued By Boy’s Father Over Hidden Camera
Steve Weinstein Named WEWS VP-GM
E.W. Scripps chooses the GM of its Bakersfield, Calif., duopoly to succeed Sam Rosenwasser as head of its Cleveland ABC outlet. He succeeds Sam Rosenwasser who left the station on Dec. 15, 2014.
E.W. Scripps-owned ABC affiliate WEWS Cleveland (DMA 19), today announced a new media partnership with the Cleveland Browns beginning with the 2015 season. WEWS will broadcast all of the team’s preseason games plus year-round programming targeted to Browns fans. “Our consistent goal is to continually communicate with our fans and connect with them in unique […]
Rosenwasser Stepping Down As WEWS GM
Sam Rosenwasser announced Monday that he is stepping down as vice president and general manager of WEWS Cleveland. His last day at the station will be Monday, Dec. 15. E.W. Scripps Co., which owns the ABC affiliate, has yet to name a successor. Rosenwasser, 61, has been the general manager of the station since April 2010.
Jeff Harris Joins WEWS As News Director
E.W. Scripps Co. taps the former ND of its KMGH Denver to lead the news operations at its ABC affiliate in Cleveland.
WEWS Sued Over Hidden Bathroon Camera
A former employee of Clevealnd ABC affiliate WEWS has sued the station’s parent company, E.W. Scripps, saying an engineer had placed a hidden camera in the men’s bathroom this summer.
Hidden Camera Found In WEWS Bathroom
WEWS Posts, Pulls, Erroneous Story On Indictment
WEWS Anchor Leon Bibb Pays Tribute To MLK Jr.
WEWS Unveils Mobilecast For Browns Fans
On Monday, Sept. 9, at 7 a.m., Scripps-Owned ABC affiliate WEWS Cleveland (DMA 18) gave the city’s sports fans a new place to engage and celebrate their beloved Browns. That exclusive destination was DAWGS on the Run, a first-of-its-kind interactive mobilecast. Hosted by the station’s sports duo Andy Baskin and Mike Cairns, the weekly mobilecast […]
Former WEWS Anchor John Hambrick Has Cancer
WEWS Apologizes, Pulls Ramsey Story
The Cleveland ABC affiliate took down an online story about the criminal past of Charles Ramsey, the man who helped free three women held captive in a neighbor’s house for nearly a decade, after being flooded with complaints.