(from OrlandoSentinel.com) – Reporter Jason Allen will depart WFTV-Channel 9 after four years to take a reporting job in Dallas.
TV people usually jump at a chance to work at a Top 10 market — Dallas is the No. 5 market; Orlando is No. 19. Allen will report for KTVT, the CBS owned-and-operated station.
Allen said the stories he covered in Central Florida were “pretty amazing,” and as examples he listed the bizarre crimes, the shark bites and the Gulf oil spill….Cont….
(from UncleBarky.com) – Sharrie Williams has been named the new weekend anchor for CBS11/TXA21, replacing three-year veteran Nerissa Knight.
Williams, who will begin anchoring on the weekend of Jan. 22-23, arrives from CBS-owned WFOR-TV in Miami, where she worked for current CBS11/TXA21 news director Adrienne Roark. She has been a reporter and fill-in anchor at WFOR.
In a publicity release, CBS11/TXA21 president and general manager Gary Schneider noted that Williams covered this year’s earthquake in Haiti and also is an avid sports fan who began her journalism career as a college student producing feature stories on University of Tennessee athletes for Fox Sports Net South….Cont….
