And for good reason. When Ray Dunaway of WTIC NewsTalk 1080 hit the top of the hour this Saturday morning he noted that Aaron Kupec wouldn’t be delivering the news because he’s getting married today. Congratulations to Aaron and glad he has a nice sunny day for the nuptials. Chris “Franchise” Frances filled in for [...]
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Face the State WFSB 11 a.m Host: Dennis House Pratt and Whitney Jobs and the Connecticut economy: Fred Carstensen UConn economist Who will run the city while Mayor Perez is in court? Dr. Larry Deutsche City Council Minority Leader The Real Story Fox61 10:30 am Interim host: Laurie Perez Pratt & Whitney layoffs: why is [...]
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Merdien Record-Journal reporter Amanda Falcone is leaving after 4 years to join the Hartford Courant (newsflash: the Courant is hiring?). Amanda started at the R-J in 2005 after graduating from UConn and began her tenure as an education reporter. Since then, she’s also covered the city of Meriden, the state legislature and has served as [...]
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Traffic Reporter Mark Christopher is no longer with WVIT-TV (Channel 30). Producer Chris Ayotte (love her) has been filling in for the past two weeks. Stay tuned as to who fills that spot…. Meanwhile, here’s an update from Mark himself on how life changed after the birth of 13-month old Zachary: “Bottom line daddy was [...]
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The economic downturn took a toll on the ad revenues at local television stations; the decrease in car commercials alone was significant. Politics to the rescue. We’re told that Connecticut stations have seen big dollars coming in for health care advertisments and that U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon is spending hundreds of thousands on two [...]
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WFSB has hired a new reporter who started this past weekend. He’s Ray Villeda and comes to the station from WSYR in Syracuse. He’ll be working weekends and three days a week. Ray, because you’re from Monroe, Connecticut we probably don’t need to give you The Laurel’s ” New On-Air Person Training Course”, which consists [...]
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