July 22 Notes
11 Alive News Director Heads to St Louis
WXIA/WATL TV’s news director Denisha Thomas, has joined another TEGNA station in St. Louis, KSDK, which is also an NBC affiliate. She has worked as a news director at several other TEGNA stations, like WWL New Orleans and WATN in Memphis, before joining WXIA/WATL in July 2024. She also worked in leadership roles in Jonesboro Ark., Cleveland, Ohio, and Buffalo, New York.
Tamron Hall Headed Back to WSB?
After a single season at CBS-owned and operated WUPA, Tamron Hall‘s hour-long talk show appears to be on the way back to WSB, where it originated. According to Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Rodney Ho, Hall announced the move on Facebook Reels, saying the show will now be back on WSB, where it spent its first six seasons. No exact date and time for the show’s reappearance on Channel 2 has been confirmed. Hall is syndicated to 206 stations, and averages a national 1.2 million total viewers.
Chernoff and Oliver stick with “The Fan”
Sports talk WCNN 93.7 The Fan hosts Matt Chernoff and Chuck Oliver have signed long-term contracts with the station’s parent company, Dickey Broadcasting, according to the station and their fellow hosts John Michaels and Nick Cellini. The duo hosts the Chuck & Chernoff show weekdays 2 – 6 pm on the station.
