The current news director at sister Hearst station WVTM Birmingham, Ala., joins WTAE on March 4 to succeed the retiring Jim Parsons.
Jim Parsons, WTAE Pittsburgh news director and investigative reporter will be retiring from the Hearst ABC affiliate on Feb. 29. Parsons has been the station’s news director since 2016 and a WTAE investigative reporter for 15 years.
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This year, Pittsburgh declared homelessness a public health emergency. “This Chronicle episode will focus on the issue of homelessness in Pittsburgh and what our city is doing to improve the situation,” says says Charles W. Wolfertz III, GM of Hearst’s ABC affiliate WTAE.
Hearst ABC affiliate WTAE Pittsburgh is set to premiere WTAE Listens, a 30- minute public affairs program that the station says will strive to do exactly what its name suggests: […]
Pittsburgh is known as one of the truly competitive TV markets in the nation, and a new battleground has emerged in the 4 p.m. hour. KDKA (above) has run 4 p.m. news since 2002, while WTAE debuted an hour-long program in July and WPXI did so in mid-September.
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for two general managers, three sales managers, an assistant news director, a producer, a maintenance tech and a master control op.
Andrew Stockey, Kelly Sasso and meteorologist Jeff Verszyla will anchor the hour-long broadcast beginning July 6 on the Hearst ABC affiliate.
Hearst-owned ABC affiliate WTAE Pittsburgh has added meteorologist Brian Hutton Jr. He becomes part of Pittsburgh’s Action Weather team, led by Chief Meteorologist Mike Harvey, Meteorologist Ashley Dougherty and Meteorologist […]
WTAE Chronicles ‘Being Black In Pittsburgh’
WPGH, WTAE and WPNT roll out the new television transmission technology.
