Here’s the Roundup for the Week Ending January 3

• Gray Media (NYSE: GTN) announced today that KTUU and KYES General Manager Nancy Johnson she will retire on January 3, 2025. Nancy joined KTUU, Gray’s NBC affiliate in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1981. While at KTUU, she served in a variety of leadership roles including Director of Marketing, Director of Programming and General Manager of Sales. During his tenure as CEO, he facilitated the expansion of local news to more than 22 hours of content each week, encouraged the development and production of original programming, and created one of the largest media organizations influential in Alaska.

Odds and Ends: :

• In order Tim Sakahara“family means so much”, which traces its roots to Sweden. The former Hawaii News Now reporter appears in Season 12 of the hit Swedish television show, “All for Sverige,” which translates to “Great Swedish Adventure.” Click here to read about it.

• In Beaumont, Texas, a former KFDM driver was celebrating on Bourbon Street on New Year’s Day and missed the attack within minutes. Click here to read about it.

• Seattle stations mourn death of 76-year-old Aaron Brown. Brown began his career at KING 5 where he was a night assignment editor. He later became a reporter and anchor for the station. He then moved to KIRO 7 where he anchored the 11 pm show. Here is the story.

• A man believed to be the last person to see an Iowa TV News anchor alive has died. A private investigator says John Vansicea friend of the former KIMT-TV reporter Jodi Huisentruit died earlier this month in Arizona. Here is the story.

• By John Kieswetter in Cincinnati: Veteran anchors and reporters left their stations, and new faces appeared on Cincinnati television screens. Here’s a look at the journalists who came and went in 2024, plus other major events.