Another Cleveland TV news personality is heading for the Big Apple, and another TV type is incoming from a smaller market…
NEW YORK STATE OF MIND: We watched as former “Fox 8 News” anchor Stacey Bell left the anchor desk at Tribune Fox affiliate WJW/8 for Long Island NY, where she joined Cablevision all-news channel “News 12″…then later, made the big jump to New York City’s NBC O&O, WNBC/4.
She’ll be joined on the air in New York soon by a fast-rising Cleveland TV news star who is joining a “crosstown” competitor, as they put it.
In what seems to be no surprise to those who have told us about this, Gannett NBC affiliate WKYC/3 “Channel 3 News” reporter/MMJ A.J. Ross is heading for another network O&O in the nation’s number one market.
Ross tells OMW that she will be an MMJ at ABC O&O WABC/7 in New York.
We asked her to expand on her time in Cleveland and at 13th and Lakeside, and she graciously responded. (Note: she sought none of this…we had to go ask her.)
About Cleveland, A.J. Ross writes:
Cleveland is the reason I am now a better person, not to mention journalist.
I’ve met so many amazing people in this city through The Word Church, volunteering at the Boys & Girls Club, even random conversations in Constantino’s downtown and elsewhere…truly compassionate and generous people I will never forget.
I came to Cleveland without any friends or family, and now leave with a laundry list of people I will truly miss.
And about her time at Channel 3:
My colleagues at WKYC are so dynamically talented it has truly been an honor and pleasure working beside them.
From The Miracle in Cleveland, to polar vortexes, and The Decision Part 2, anytime a big story breaks and the pressure is on, everyone brings their A game both in front of the camera and behind the scenes.
There is no question their consistent support and encouragement helped both prepare and elevate me for this next chapter in my life.
Best of luck in the Big Apple, A.J., and thanks for talking to us…
CLEVELAND NOW: Regular OMW readers know that Scripps ABC affiliate WEWS/5 is about to premiere the local version of the in-house syndicated show “The NOW”.
The show now has a local host.
OMW hears that when “The NOW” debuts on Channel 5 on September 8th at 4 PM, the host at 3001 Euclid will be Dhomonique Ricks.
Ricks comes to WEWS from Sinclair ABC affiliate WSET/13 in Lynchburg VA, where her bio says she’s a weekend anchor and weekday reporter.
WSET is the ABC affiliate for the Roanoke/Lynchburg VA market…a geographically spread market where “ABC 13” concentrates on news from the eastern and southern parts of the area.
Her bio says she’s a graduate of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, where she was an anchor and reporter on the university-owned and operated NBC affiliate in Columbia MO, KOMU.
But the TV bug bit Ricks early, as she hosted the show “Whatever” – produced by and for teenagers – at the age of 14 at Minneapolis NBC affiliate KARE/11.
“The NOW”, the third Scripps in-house production after “The List” and “Let’s Ask America”, supplants “RightThisMinute” (where Scripps also has an interest)…that video clip show was hurried into the 4 PM time slot on WEWS after the second daily airing of “Dr. Oz” fell on its ratings face.
Cleveland native Dr. Mehmet Oz takes his TV show to WJW this fall…
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