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What A Difference A Year Makes.

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Mark_Giardina

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Just to give you an example of personnel turnover in the Rochester TV market here’s what happened between 2005 and this year. And before I begin, credit for this information has to be given to Jack Allen at Jack’s website: http://www.rnyn.com




Melissa Long left Channel 8 and went to CNN where she anchors CNN Headline News on the weekends.

Other departures at Channel 8 include Rachel Barnhart, who as most of know is suing the station.

Christine Crafts, Rob Haswell and Steve Levine also said good-bye to Humboldt Street. Haswell and Levine went to work for other TV stations out-of-state, while Crafts went to teach at SUNY Brockport.

Over at Channel 13, weekend sports anchor Traci Buch left the Empire State and moved south to start her own business

13 also saw the departure of Reporter Gavin Reynolds and Meteorologist David Aldrich.

Channel 10 Reporter Kristine Lopez also left New York and moved to Atlanta Georgia.

Reporter Stephanie Dusek left R-News.

With the exception of Ty Chandler and Melanie Barnas, the rest of the WUHF news department either quit or were fired after WHUF and WROC announced an agreement where Channel 8 would run FOX 31’s news operation.

In November of 2005 the “new” FOX 31 at 10 made its debut with anchors Lia Lando, a native of Corning, and Katrina Irwin as anchors. (Both Lando and Irwin work as reporters for Channel 8)

Not to keep harping about Channel 8, but that place had more changes than a baby does diapers. 8’s “Wake Up Rochester" early morning program experienced the biggest personnel shake-up.

First Melissa Long was moved from co-host to field reporter before she up and quit. Field reporter Cathy Orosz then became co-host, only to be back in the field again as she was replaced by Melanie Barnas, who was the anchor of FOX 31 news before Channel 8 agreed to run that operation.

"Wake Up" co-hosts Rob Haswell and Christine Crafts also said goodbye to Rochester TV. John Stehlin was named as Haswell’s replacement as weather forecaster.

I won’t even bother trying to figure out the new faces on Rochester TV because I would be here most of the day.

If anyone would like to take the time I'm sure people would like to see what personnel changes took place on Buffalo and Syracuse TV from last year to now.





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"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted and I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them".</P>
 
Thank you kindly for the plug, Mark. I do want to mention that most of the information that goes on RNYN is from personal observation and from myself e-mailing stations (who seem to respond less these days). Every once in a while a kind person will send in an e-mail tipping me off on something. In no way am I trying to make this an advertisement, but I do know that many of you who read and post on Radio-Info have access to information that I do not. Never hesitate to e-mail me if you see that I am missing something. Without trying to sound too corny, I would like to believe that RNYN is a public service to the community of Rochester. Therefore the more contributions I receive the better the website can become.

In response to the actual post of Mark's:
This past year has indeed had its shares of changes in television news. In my opinion the two most substantial stories of the year are Rich Funke moving to the news department and the WROC/WUHF merger. 2006 is far from over and it will definitely be interesting to see what happens next.<P ID="signature">______________
Jack Allen
Rochester, NY News - www.rnyn.com</P>
 
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