Reporter Nancy Zambrano joined KRIV in Houston just 4 months ago.
On Friday she is leaving the station.
Word is that Zambrano is leaving the TV news business and getting the hell out Houston.
Mike McGuff hears that she maybe going back to Austin for a PR/marketing job.
She is not commenting on her lasting such a short time at the Fox O&O.
It is said that Oklahoma is God's country, but that doesn't mean an Atheist or two doesn't live in the state.
And CNN's Wolf Blitzer just happened to interview one and ask her if she thanked the Lord for being safe?
Oops!
The video of the awkward moment after the jump.
Yesterday, FTVLive FIRST told you that KOCO in Oklahoma City was getting help from fellow Hearst stations.
WDSU sent their website Managing Editor Clint Durrett and their 10PM producer to KOCO in OKC to help pitch in with coverage.
KOCO isn't the only station getting help from their corporate sisters.
Sinclair stations have also sent crews to help sister station KOKH with the coverage of the tornado damage. Here is a list of some of the stations pitching in to help KOKH:
Sinclair sent:
--A reporter and photographer from KEYE in Austin
--A photographer from KABB in San Antonio
--A reporter, photographer and sat truck from WOAI in San Antonio
--A reporter and photographer from WKRC in Cincy
--A reporter and photographer from WSYX in Columbus
Wood-TV Reporter Ryan Takeo is making an over 30 market jump into a top 10 market.
The Grand Rapids Reporter is joining KPIX in San Francisco in early June. He is represented by MediaStars.
The internal memo sent to the KPIX staff announcing Takeo's hire is coming up after the leap.
Read MoreGinger Gadsden, morning and noon anchor at Tampa's CBS affiliate WTSP-Ch. 10, will be leaving the station when her contract expires on June 30.
But at this time of layoffs and cutbacks in media, Gadsden, who has tired of working the morning shift, has no other job lined up. And she’s still committed to leaving.
“You know that feeling you get when you’ve made up your mind and you’re at peace with it?” said Gadsden, who came to work at WTSP in 2006. “That’s what I’m feeling. For me, it’s not sad, it’s exciting.”
More after the bounce.
Read More"Rob has played a huge role in the success of Action News and 6abc for decades", says Bernie Prazenica President & General Manager, 6abc. "I can't thank him enough for all that he has done. His talent and professionalism are unsurpassed in broadcast journalism. We will miss him as a colleague and a friend and wish him everything good in retirement."
Longtime Action News collaborator, Jim Gardner agrees, "He's been an extraordinary example of consistency, a great communicator, and a wonderful colleague all these years. We will miss him."
The obligatory quotes after the hop.
Read MoreTribune owned WXIN in Indianapolis has named a new News Director.
Kerri Cavanaugh will take over the news director position at WXIN-TV in mid June.
Cavanaugh was the ND at WXMI the Tribune Fox affiliate in Grand Rapids, Mich.
She replaces Lee Rosenthal who left Indianapolis for KTVU in San Francisco in April.
Cavanaugh has been news director at WXMI in since 2010.
ESPN is sacking around 300 staffers and they have come up with a new term.
The employees were not laid off, fired, sacked or bounced.
They were "smartly managed" out the door.
The sports net is looking to pink slip around 300 people and according to their mouthpiece Katina Arnold the network is "implementing changes across the company to enhance our continued growth while smartly managing costs," Ms. Arnold said.
The last time ESPN "Smartly Managed" people out the door was in 2009.
Jay Leno is still taking some cracks at NBC for pushing him out of the Tonight Show.
Leno quipped: “After being booed at the Billboard Music Awards (Sunday) night, Justin Bieber said, ‘I’m 19 years old. I think I’m doing a pretty good job.’ Hey Justin. I’m 63. I thought I was doing a pretty good job. Welcome to show business, pal.”
Barbara Walters' daughter Jacqueline Danforth was arrested for a DUI in Florida over the weekend.
TMZ, which broke the news Monday, reported that she was "taken to the ground" by police, who said they thought she would try to run into traffic.
Danforth and a male passenger were pulled over by cops around 1:30 a.m. in Naples, Florida on Sunday. When police handcuffed the man, according to the police report, Danforth tussled with cops and "began shouting."
"I was afraid that the suspect may run into traffic on the highway, so she was taken to the ground due to her unpredictable behavior, then secured in handcuffs," the arresting officer wrote in the police report. She was later released from custody after posting a $1,000 bond.
There was a time when you mostly played video games on video game consoles. But if Microsoft has its way, you’ll do much more than that on the upcoming Xbox One console – and watch a new “Halo” live-action show from Steven Spielberg, too.
On Tuesday, the company unveiled its entrant into the next-generation console war, showing off the Xbox One in an event in Redmond, Wash. But this is no mere game machine. Three months after Sony first announced its own hyped PlayStation 4 console, Microsoft broke out big names like Spielberg and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for its hourlong presentation that brought forth a “powerful, all-in-one device,” according to the Xbox president of interactive entertainment, Don Mattrick.
More after the hop.
Let's make this easier for everyone. If you're a TV Reporter and you have not been targeted by the DOJ, please raise your hand.
If this continues the way it's going, it appears not many hands will be raised.
Now, CBS Reporter Sharyl Attkisson thinks she might have also been a Department of Justice target. Attkisson says that her personal and work computers have been compromised and are under investigation.
More after the jump.
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