Florida News Center

(from Examiner.com) – On Monday, January 14th, an administrator of the official Facebook page for WKRG-TV posted a message on the page welcoming Peter Albrecht to the news department of the station after he was rehired by the station recently. According to the professional Facebook page for Peter Albrecht, he was hired for the positions of investigative reporter and news presenter for the station’s 5:00 p.m. newscast.

Peter Albrecht was originally employed by WKRG-TV from 1990 to 2000. His primary jobs during his original tenure were presenting news and sports reports for the station’s weekend newscasts (from 1990 to 1996) and presenting news reports for the station’s 5:00 p.m. newscasts from Monday through Friday (from 1996 to 2000)….Cont….

Our friends at NewsBlues.com report that Jamie Burch will be the new News Director at Panama City’s WJHG. Burch comes from WKRG in Mobile, where he was an executive producer.

Burch replaces Gavin Maliska, who left WJHG this past June to become News Director at WGXA-TV in Macon, GA. Burch will now be the third News Director for WJHG in just a few years. Stay tuned for any further changes.

(from Examiner.com) – On Wednesday, July 11th, Jessica Taloney completed her final news report and presented her final newscast for WKRG-TV after deciding to end her tenure of five years at the station so she can stay home more often and focus on her first child, whom she is expected to birth sometime this month. By the end of her tenure, her primary jobs at the station were news investigations and presenting 5:00 p.m newscasts (she presented newscasts at other times of the day occasionally).

Shortly before her final newscast at 5:00 p.m, a post attributed to Jessica Taloney was uploaded onto her professional Facebook page (at 4:12 p.m.) to announce that Wednesday was her final day of work at the station. The post also included an image of a cake decorated with the logo for the station and the words “We Will Miss You…Jessica!”….Cont….

(from WKRG.com) – Former WKRG News 5 news anchor, Drexel Gilbert, is no longer on our airwaves, but is focusing on getting others in front of the camera. Gilbert spent 18 years on the anchor desk here at News Five. She has spent the last five years dreaming up her new business, called “I Love It When You Read To Me.” It is bringing families closer, through the love of reading….Cont….

(from TVSpy.com) – Steve Alexander, a reporter at CBS-affiliate WKRGin Mobile, is leaving the station next month when his contract is up.

“I want to take a moment to thank all of you,” Alexander wrote on Facebook. “My contract at Channel 5 is not being renewed, and my last day at work is November 20.”

Alexander joined WKRG in 2000 from KAVU, the ABC-affiliate in in Victoria, TX. He has also worked at WVUE in New Orleans, KDEB in Springfield, MO and WTVW in Evansville. (from TVSpy.com)

//hattip to NewsBlues.com

Kimberly Curth moves to a reporter at WSMV in Nashville. She was previously a weekend anchor and reporter at WKRG in Mobile, AL.

Erin Guy will leave KOCO in Oklahoma City to be a reporter for WPBF in Palm Beach.

KYTX in Tyler, TX, will say goodbye to Hayley Wielgus, who was a weekend anchor and reporter. She moves to WWSB in Sarasota, FL.

Miguel Amante, a former anchor and reporter at KXTX-39-Telemundo in Dallas, is joining Central Florida News 13 in Orlando as a multi-media journalist and producer for the cable channel’s CFN13 En Español. He starts July 5.

//hattip to MediaBistro

(from AL.com) – Jené Young announced her engagement Monday morning during WKRG News 5′s morning show, causing us to predict a 90 percent chance of depressed single men sprinkled up and down Dauphin Street. Miss Young earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of South Alabama before moving to Texas for her first job in television, but returned a year or two back and was promptly pursued by the local cadre of ne’er-do-well male reporters, including at least one from the ranks of the Press-Register. They’ll be crying in their beer now, of course. Miss Young said her intended proposed in Orange Beach and went so far as to follow tradition by dropping to one knee when asking for her hand in marriage. We wish them all the best.

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