remember this guy? Sure you do. Former WSVN anchor Charles Billi (now at WTSP, Tampa) went national by way of Jon Stewart’s Daily Show monologue as Stewart picked on the media for over hyping the “knockout game” and other supposed dangerous trends.
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Add WPTV reporter Katie Johnson to the list of TV news reporters who’ve quit the grind of local news. She left the station recently to join the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission as their public information coordinator. Quite a change from having to wake up at 2am five days a week. Johnson, a Palm Beach native and UCF graduate, spent almost 3 years reporting for WPTV. She joined from WBBH in Fort Myers.
After a career in TV news spanning two decades Rick Sánchez is now firmly planted in radio. WIOD 610AM announced it is moving his current show which airs weekday afternoons at 3pm to weekday mornings from 10am to noon starting January 6 and moving Glen Beck to 6pm. Rick Sánchez still has a national contributor gig with MundoFOX though so he’s not totally out of TV news.
In his new time slot Sanchez will be “having a conversation with people about things that matter and things that are in the news that affect South Florida, which is fun” he told the Sun Sentinel’s Johnny Diaz.
Rick Sánchez returned to South Florida after his abrupt departure from CNN three years ago. In 2011, radio station 790AM hired Sánchez to replace Jorge Sedano as the FIU football announcer. And since last year he’s been with WIOD hosting a 3-hour weekday program from 3pm to 6pm.
WPTV reporter Alex Sanz is joining the Associated Press as a reporter. According to an SFLTV tipster Sanz will be covering the southeastern United States, and will be based in Atlanta. His stories will be appearing all over the web on sites who syndicate AP content, as well as broadcast stations locally who choose to pick up his stories.
Alex Sanz joined WPTV barely two years ago from KHOU in Houston and covered government and politics for the Palm Beach NBC affiliate. His last day at WPTV is said to be sometime toward the end of the month.
Sorry to be the bearer of this news but WPTV meteorologist Kait Parker is leaving us. She was hired by The Weather Channel as on-camera meteorologist. Parker has been with WPTV for the last three years having joined the station in December of 2010.
Look for her début on the Weather Channel January 13.
[TVSpy]
