Vicevich out at WTIC

Jim Vicevich announced today that he is no longer employed by WTIC 1080. Over four months of negotiations, both sides were unable to reach agreement on a new contract. Radioviceonline.com will continue and Jim will be on FOX 61 News tomorrow at 6AM and will have a web chat at 7AM. We wish Jim luck in his future [...]

25 Years and Counting

Happy Anniversary to Angela Dias of WTIC-am 1080 in Hartford who celebrates 25 years at the station this month. Angela is the morning news anchor but started out as a street reporter. She grew up in Rhode Island, and remembers that during her first week at work, Paul Douglas took her to the state capitol [...]

Welcome Back, Coleen

A coup for FoxCT – Coleen Marren is returning as News Director, a position she held back when the station’s 10pm news first went on the air in the 90s. Coleen is leaving KDKA in Pittsburgh as News Director; prior to that she has served as N.D. at WCVB in Boston, WISN in Milwaukee and [...]

How Do You Say “Good Idea” in Polish?

Nearly one quarter of New Britain’s population is Polish so it makes sense that the city’s daily would publish a Polish language edition. But it hasn’t happened till now so we’ll give the credit to new publisher Michael Schroeder (who rescued the paper from extinction). Starting tomorrow The Herald will publish a weekly Polish-language section [...]

A Beautiful Day

Fox61 photog Garett Allison married NBC Connecticut Anchor Keisha Grant in Barbados on Saturday. More lovely photos on The Brooks File….

Diane Calling the Shots

The Connecticut Network –CT-N — has announced that well-known Connecticut broadcaster Diane Smith has signed on to be the 2010 Elections Coordinator. Diane will be instrumental in managing day-to-day operations for CT-N’s election coverage this year. She will work closely at all levels of the CT-N organization to help develop, support and facilitate various election-related [...]

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