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WDIV-TV (Channel 4) Vice President and General Manager Bob Ellis announced Tuesday that sports anchor Bernie Smilovitz and reporters Mara MacDonald, Rod Meloni and Paula Tutman will be leaving the ...
A former Detroit TV reporter and anchor has filed a lawsuit alleging he was fired from a Los Angeles TV station group because he is an older, white, straight man. ... Local 4 News as a reporter ...
The Jewish News has called Smilovitz a "go-to source for news about Detroit’s ... D.C., and he is a University of Michigan graduate. He has won several local Emmys and Best Sportscaster Awards ...
In 1969, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began to impose restrictions on the common ownership of print and broadcast media in the same market.The combination of the Detroit News and WWJ-AM-FM-TV was given grandfathered protection from the new regulations, but by the mid-to-late 1970s, the Evening News Association was under pressure to break up its Detroit cluster voluntarily.
Jim Matthews was the overnight anchor at Metro Detroit's WWJ-AM known as "Newsradio 950". He had held that position for seven years. He was 57 years old at the time of his death. [1] "Matthews" was the name he used professionally; his legal surname was "Nicolai". [2] He was a graduate of Lutheran High School in Harper Woods, Michigan. [3]
Marsh was one of several personalities abruptly fired by WCBS-TV in October 1996 as part of a management-ordered shakeup of the station's news department due to declining ratings. [14] [15] Along with John Johnson, she was quickly hired by WNBC-TV to anchor a new midday newscast for the station. [16]
In late June, Scillian and Gill did similar segments during the 6 p.m. news that celebrated the careers of MacDonald, who joined Channel 4 in 2004, Meloni, who's been there since 1995, and Tutman ...
Though she is now retired from television news, her daughter (also named Amyre Makupson) was recently a primary news anchor at WGXA in Macon, GA. Amyre II has since been hired by, ironically, her mother's old stations WWJ and WKBD, as "executive producer of community impact" for the new CBS News Detroit , set to launch in January 2023.