This is a special edition of the old Sports on the Air column: WKBW-TV (Channel 7) has completed its sports department roster with the hiring of Briana Aldridge, a native of northern California who most recently was a weekend sports anchor and reporter at a station in Colorado Springs. Alan Pergament has had a variety of roles at The News since 1970, including as a news and sports reporter. BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) News 4 Buffalo is proud to announce Heather Prusak as the newest member of our Sports team. (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. Bob Halloran serves as a reporter and anchor for SportsCenter 5. If you are experiencing difficulties logging in or are a subscriber getting a paywall, please try one or more of the following steps. The Pardon the Interruption guyson ESPN, Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, went pretty easy Monday on the Bills surprisingly close victory over Miami, which was playing third-string quarterback Skylar Thompson. WIVB already gets nine Bills games and surely would want the home opener against an AFC team that it would normally carry anyway as a CBS affiliate. She has told her social network followers that she is considering her next step while being paid through June 1. Alan Pergament: WKBW completes sports staff; A look at what local stations carry Bills games this season. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. Jonah Bronstein joined theNews 4roster in 2022 as a digital sports reporter. Williams didnt say where her next destination is; Stockman is heading for a job an an area college. The rating averaged a 42.3 rating for the last 90 minutes, hitting a 44.4 rating for the final 30 minutes when the Rams took the lead before Bills quarterback Josh Allen led the winning touchdown drive. How Tall Is Jenna Harner. In Big Country, Johnson was at first a bureau reporter in Brownwood, Texas and joined their sports team shortly after, according to her station bio. He was born in 1988 in Monroeville, Ala., the hometown of novelist Harper Lee that was the inspiration for Scout's hometown of Maycomb, Ala., in To Kill a Mockingbird.. Like all the departing Channel 4 reporters, she had nothing but nice things to say on social networks about her time in Western New York. The Bandits coverage ran six minutes before the stations coverage of the March for Our Lives. He is a member of the national Television Critics Association. Christoforosreturned to her New England area home and has taken a job in public relations in Watertown, Mass. WGRZ-TV (Channel 2) also has two female members of its on-air sports staff in Julianne Pelusi and Lindsey Moppert working with sports director Adam Benigni. 1998 - 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. | All Rights Reserved. Bills fans may not have enjoyed how tense the game was, but it kept Americas attention. It usually gets at least two games and sometimes more. Jenna is a woman of average stature who stands at a height of 5 ft 5 in ( Approx 1.65m). The veteran sports reporter and anchor has for five-plus years covered sports across Western New York, where she is proud to hail from and call home. He will be the stations weekend sports anchor and reporter. According to the Buffalo News, WIVB news director Scott Levy confirmed the station has. Marissa Bailey: The former Channel 2 anchor-reporter is on the beach, the phrase that people in the media use after losing their job and not having another lined up yet. He was almost always a reassuring presence. Paul Stockman, who has spent the last five years at WTVM-TV, the ABC affiliate in Columbus, replaces Brian Chojnacki, who recently left the station after a brief stay after he replaced Nick Filipowski. WIVB Channel 4 reporter Jerry Sullivan commented on how the rookie threw fewer passing attempts than any franchise in more than 40 years. Unger, who came to Channel 7 directly from Syracuse University, is headed to a station in Indianapolis. Relatively new to Buffalo having arrived this spring, Harner talks to Moran about her life and career, including growing up in Connect sports podcasts Updated Date: Feb 23, 2023 They are supposed to be reporters, not Bills fans. She joined Jenn Schanz, Marissa Perlman, Angela Christoforos and Kaylee Wendt in exiting Channel 4 after finishing their contracts at a station in the nation's No. Over the past year, TV lovers have had no shortage of new content to enjoy. My understanding is the Bills-Titans game on ESPNs Monday Night Football on Sept. 19 and the potential NFL Network game on Dec. 17 or 18 against the Miami Dolphins are open to bidding. Paul brings eight years of broadcasting experience with him as he comes to the Queen City from WTVM in Columbus, Georgia. Del Rio replaced Paul Stockman, who left the TV business. Paul J. Cambria, a feisty, high-profile criminal defense attorney since the 1970s, and Darius G. Pridgen, an outspoken religious leader and pr. The 71-year-old writer/producer from Buffalo discusses his latest projects in a wide-ranging interview with The News' TV critic Alan Pergament. Bailey was recently let go as the morning news weekday co-anchor at WBBM-TV in Chicago, a role she has had since 2017. However, I was told Channel 4 management wouldnt let her do an interview until after she left the station. Since ABC is carrying the Philadelphia-Minnesota Sept. 19 game 75 minutes after the Bills game on ESPN starts, that would presumably rule out WKBW for the Titans game since it cant carry two games simultaneously. 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Schanz landed a job at WXYZ-TV in Detroit, the nation's No. She started at WIVB-TV at the end of July and is a multimedia journalist for the station. Pergament asks Bills fans:How much Tony Romo is too much? Mary Margaret Johnson (above) announced that shell be joining the News 4 Sports team as the Digital Sports Reporter. Thats especially true when you consider what Oats said in one of his priceless TV interviews, -- after signing what turned out to be a meaningless contract extension -- that he would be at UB unless some other school came in with something crazy. Alabama came through with something crazy at around $2.5 million a year. The former Buffalo Bills guard was part of one of my scariest experiences as a sports writer and one of the most moving stories Ive covered a, Jeff Preval, who left WGRZ-TV (Channel 2) after nine years to become the weekend anchor at Channel 4 more than a year ago, is the new Call 4 A. Its a dream come true for a guy that worked his first Buffalo Bills training camp 29 years ago for WGRZ as a punky little 19-year-old.. Recklessly or erratically might have been better words. The station, which has Matt Bove as sports director, previously announced the hiring of Dom Tibbetts. Pergament asks:Who wants to watch the 6 p.m. news at 8 p.m. or the 11 p.m. news at 1 a.m.? There was a problem saving your notification. But what recent shows are the best of the best, according to critics? The bio added that Stockman attended Auburn University from 2007-11 and majored in radio/TV/film with a focus on broadcast journalism. You have permission to edit this article. Read more of his workhere. Javier Assad followed with two innings. Buffalo Web Design bySurdej Web Solutions. WIVB-TV, the local CBS affiliate, is carrying the preseason games against the visiting Indianapolis Colts on Aug. 13, the visiting Denver Broncos on Aug. 20 and the host Carolina Panthers on Aug. 26. TSN (@TSN_Sports) December 7, 2021. . pic.twitter.com/qGEXMgLCcG. Callari and WIVB sports anchor-reporter Paul Stockman were married over the weekend and posted pictures of the wedding on Twitter.