Stock photo provided by Pexels. Thank you for your support! Died April 2020. He is a retired NHL/AHL player and LSSU Alumni. Betsy Singer - anchor. On Wednesday, the newspaper reported that Faust had been fired from the Fox affiliate where he anchored the 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. newscasts. But I never saw anyone who looked like me be on TV," she said. But you can also love two things at once, and its clear Zach cherished his time in the NHL with his teammates as much as he cherishes the new calm and stability of his family life. He was 53 . Zach is retired from the NHL after nearly ten years of playing for the Boston Bruins, Los Angeles Kings, and Pittsburgh Penguins. Detroit Lions release hilarious Notecard Questions with Jamaal Williams video, NFL.com writer predicts Detroit Lions MVP for 2021, 9 Michigan football players selected in the 2023 NFL Draft, 2 Detroit Lions picks make Biggest Surprises of 2023 NFL Draft list, Detroit Lions land J.J. McCarthy in 2024 NFL Mock Draft, Detroit Lions WR Antoine Greens best college highlights, Tigers need to bring up Justin-Henry Malloy today, DFA Jonathan Schoop, Mel Kiper has Detroit Lions striking gold in latest 2023 NFL Mock Draft, 6 Candidates Detroit Pistons are interested in to replace Dwane Casey. Broadcasting, July 13, 1987 George Bebout, WXYZ: TV News Writer/Producer, Investigative Producer and Copy Editor. In the 1950s, WXYZ-TV created a series of widely popular locally produced children's programs. And, vice-versa. 16 talking about this. She graduated with an undergraduate degree from Lake Superior State University. Petersburg, KTVK in Phoenix and WJZ-TV in Baltimore, would lose their ABC affiliations to competing Scripps-owned stations (WFTS-TV, KNXV-TV, WMAR-TV) in those cities. In 2018, Jeanna won the Michigan Associated Press award for her effort in Best Sports Coverage. [2] In order to comply with the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) ownership limits of the time, the new Capital Cities/ABC would have to sell either WXYZ-TV or each of three radio stations that the two companies had owned WJR, WHYT, or ABC-owned WRIF (101.1 FM; the former WXYZ-FM, which was sold as part of the merger). The Emmy Award-winning reporter and frequent weekend anchor, who grew up in New Jersey, told the Free Press that she is thankful to the TV station and the city for the opportunities they've given her. Hes probably from Saskatchewan, she said. Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Chief meteorologist Jerry Hodak was the station's primary weathercaster for at least 26 of his more than 40 years in Detroit television. Aside from the normal first words, Trotmans parents say the first thing she really said as a baby was pull the goalie during a Red Wings playoff run in the 1990s. In Jay Berry's Sports Odyssey and Beyond, Berry tells the story of how he rose from humble beginnings in segregated 1950's America to become one of . Recently retired NHL player Zach Trotman, and Jeanna Trotman, the new weekend sports anchor and reporter at WXYZ in Detroit, play with their 11-month-old son Luca . Who is it? . A two-man sports staff means when one was on vacation, it was going to be a super long week for the other. In April, Leyden, Channel 7's sports director at Metro Detroit's ABC affiliate since 2012 and a sports reporter for the eight years before that, will leave to take a similar job in Boston. The Pittsburgh Penguins made an offer. It's a great source of amusement in the Trotman home these days. But she also loved storytelling and speaking. She celebrated her 30th birthday in August 2020. Kacie Hollins loves the rush of being a journalist. Under this rule, a television station that is carried on a cable system under must-carry rules can request cable systems to compensate the station for carrying it. General manager Brad Holmes retained only two of his original draft choices as he maneuvered his way to two picks in each of the first . [citation needed], WXYZ-TV's investigative unit, the "7 Investigators", gained notoriety in 2002 with chief investigative reporter Steve Wilson and his stories of financial mismanagement at the Kmart Corporation,[27] an undercover investigation that exposed high-pressure sales tactics used by a well-known financial firm, and confrontations with elected officials in Detroit, especially Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. The current team of "7 Investigators" is made up of Heather Catallo and Ross Jones. References: Facebook Follow Connert Media, Inc.s board WXYZ Alumni and Staff on Pinterest., WXYZ: Engineering In memory of Ray Aiken, one of the best audio engineers from the early years at WXYZ., WXYZ: Co-host of Club 1270 with Joel Sebastian. The show was later hosted by political reporter Jim Herrington and continues to air today with WXYZ-TV editorial and public affairs director Chuck Stokes as its host, writer and producer. On June 16, 1994, Scripps signed a long-term deal with ABC that would keep WXYZ-TV and WEWS-TV as affiliates of the network (they remain ABC affiliates to this day). She previously anchoredFirst Forecast morning segments for CBS Detroit, as well. Trotman then returned to her home state of Michigan in 2017, working as Sports Director at WEYI/WSMH, the NBC and FOX affiliate in Flint. [6][7][8] At the time, Cozzin Communications (a broadcast group owned by stand-up comedian/actor Bill Cosby) emerged as another prospective bidder for the station. Sports team. WXYZ-TV presently broadcasts .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}42+12 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with seven hours each weekday, four hours on Saturdays and 3+12 hours on Sundays); in addition, the station produces two half-hour sports programs that air on Sundays, the weekly sports highlight program 7 Sports Cave (which airs weekly at 11 a.m.) and the Detroit Lions highlight program Ford Lions Report Live (which only airs during the NFL season). In recent years, the station's news coverage received several journalism honors including two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards,[13] and the George Foster Peabody Award. The two stations continue to battle for ratings to this day. Caity Rose. It was awesome to work with him, and it's gonna be awesome to work him over these next couple months. From award-winning sports broadcaster Jerome Berry comes an insider account of the Black 14 incident and how he fought for success in a society designed to make him fail. Upon gaining FCC approval of the merger in February 1986, the new company sold WXYZ-TV as well as Capital Cities' Tampa station WFTS-TV to the E. W. Scripps Company. In June 2010, Zach had completed his strong freshman season. Jeanna is a Masters Degree holder from Boston University. pic.twitter.com/w19pPOdUNp, Jeanna Trotman (@JeannaTrotmanTV) July 9, 2021. Also, she had a chance to travel with the Wolverines to the national championship in San Antonio. With a laugh, she said, "Ifthings aren't going to be crazy enough, we're actually getting a puppy this week right before moving.". In September, Jeanna got a lot closer to that childhood goal when she started her new job as a sports reporter and weekend sports anchor for WXYZ-TV, Detroits ABC affiliate. Shes back!! 73 TV market. Those five, 10 minutes meeting after a game are worth it.. Generally speaking, newsrooms need to value different voices.". 11:51 PM, Apr 27, 2023. I would have thanked you for always being so gracious and amazingyou will be missed and Im honored to have been your final interview!!!!! My dads like, Jeanna, did you see the Free Press? she said. Died February 23, 2021., TV engineering. She graduated from Henry Ford II High School in Sterling Heights before earning a Communication degree at Lake Superior State University in Michigans Upper Peninsula. WXYZ-TV has been active in several community service projects. Jeanna covered a wide variety of professional sporting events while serving as sports director in Minnesota. So when her daughter, Jeanna, was chosen to give the sixth-grade graduation speech at Graebner Elementary in Sterling Heights, Judy wasnt going to miss her chance. However, it opted to title its newscasts Action News, since rival WJBK-TV was already using the Eyewitness News brand. WDIV: Coordinating Producer. Sept. 1 will be his last day at the ABC affiliate, as he plans a move to the digital . !," wrote "Movie Show Plus Host" and regular WXYZ film critic Tom Santilli on Twitter. The program showed films about exotic locations around the world. References: Facebook s id=3989,5182,15045 include_content=true], Jack Allen WWJ / WDIV: WXYZ: WABC: WLS: References: Obituary (PDF) Died May 3, 2020, WXYZ: Talent on several Good Afternoon Detroit segments and appeared as guest on and interviewee and many local news segments., WXYZ: Program director. WXYZ-TV, along with WDIV-TV, became the first Detroit stations to offer Mobile DTV feeds on August 6, 2010. That month, following complaints from Detroit stations and area viewers of being blacked out or unavailable in an area that they were supposed to serve, Comcast discontinued blackouts of the Detroit stations it already carried, added additional stations from that market and dropped many FlintTri-Cities area stations from that system. The after stuff.. For her degree in communications, Jeanna wrote her senior thesis on women in sports broadcasting. "Then the pandemic happened and we were on an island all of our own," she said. In 1987, the station created and produced a weekly educational literacy program aimed at children called Learn To Read, which was based on the audio-lingual method of literacy education, and was co-produced by Kentucky Educational Television. DetroitKidsShow.com, , Reporter, Producer. Recent Sightings: University , Radio, TV Sales Manager. Rose hasn't officially mapped out his next step, but he knows it will continue to be in story-telling, in some fashion preferably, he said, an outlet where he can tell feel-good stories, in longer form, and digitally. Her excellent performance in channels such as NBC25, WXYZ ABC Affiliate, and FOX 66 News has given Jeanna a big name. When she returned for her senior year, she made the athletic department and public-relations department a deal. Age. On October 4, 2006, WXYZ became the first television station in Michigan and the first Scripps-owned station to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. As far as round numbers go, 35 seemed like a good one to go out on, LewAllen says. Before becoming a booth announcer at WXYZ-TV, Gene sang with a group of men called The Grenadiers a quintet subset of men from the The , Associate News Producer. Trotman was raised as the only girl in her family so growing a career in sports journalism was a natural path. On . She was recruited by several GLIAC schools, which participate in Division II, and found the best fit at Lake Superior State, which told her it planned to start a journalism program by her sophomore year. Retire after 36 years on January 19, 2019. WXYZ-TV was previously offered as the ABC affiliate on cable through Cable Atlantic (now Rogers Cable) in Newfoundland and Labrador including in St. John's from 1985 to 1997 (which has since been replaced by Boston ABC affiliate WCVB-TV). Brad was also nominated for Emmy awards in 2012, 2013, and 2017. The Auntie Dee Show hosted by Dee Parker was a popular children's talent show. Hours later, ABC officials pulled that night's show from the entire network. Apart from college basketball, Jeanna traveled to college football bowl games in San Diego and in New York City. He has been inside NFL, NHL, MLB, NBA, and NCAA locker rooms, interviewing top athletes and coaches at the professional, Olympic, collegiate, and amateur level. I knew I wanted to be a reporter fromthe time I was a kid. The newscast was canceled in late 2004 due to poor viewership (today, WKBD airs local news under the CBS News Now format and WWJ-TV resumed local newscasts with the launch of CBS News Detroit in January 2023). He has been working as a sports reporter since joining Channel 7 in 1988. LewAllen attended Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in journalism. In turn, one week later on February 2, the station launched a new Sunday morning sports program, the 7 Sports Cave.[30]. Channel 7 officials immediately announced that night's show would not air on the station. In Ypsilanti, a 12-year-old girl broke a long-standing barrier in Little League baseball. The harder choice was where she could pursue her athletic and academic interests. Jenna, we wish you the best of luck! In 1954, Bob Brickwedde (using the stage name Bob Henry) hosted the Nash Theater Hour on Thursday nights and hosted Western movies featuring Deadeye and Black Bart on Saturdays as "Sheriff Bob". Ex-Detroit news anchor aims profanity, insults at woman who . WXYZ-TV disc jockey Ed McKenzie also brought his talents to television with The Ed McKenzie Saturday Party, which featured live musical performances from such artists as Chuck Berry and Louis Armstrong. "I want to have more work-life balance," Rose said. RIP to a great guy and anchor, who also worked like a reporter at games, extending his mic to ask questions in packs and of course 1 on 1 because Don was respected - and liked or loved - by anyone . I had no idea this was your last telecast!!!! References: C , TV talent, reporter. 7 Action News reporter Peter Maxwell was on the scene Monday morning and . Please leave your comments below., WXYZ: 2007- Promotions Coordinator WVMV: 2006-2007 References: LinkedIn, Mary Mercado KSAT: TV Producer WXYZ: TV Producer. Rose is 38 years old. "I'm so excited. Social Media: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn A wonderful addition to our 7am newscast on @tv20detroit! "That story registers with me," Rose said. Zach always took pride in being extremely fit, even for an NHL player. The closestshe got to a microphone was setting up and breaking down the equipment in the radio booth. Working as a sports reporter and anchor at WXYZ in Detriot is her main source of income. ", Said Galli: "Justin loves the Detroit sports scene, the sports scene in Michigan. Chowdry has been with WXYZ since February 2016 and handled both reporting and fill-in anchor duties. DETROIT - An investigation intensifies as police work to gather clues involving the death of a well-known doctor in a neighborhood in Detroit's Boston Edison Historic District.. [21] Also later that year, the station opted to preempt Saving Private Ryan, along with the other Scripps stations (by stark contrast, WTVG and WJRT-TV, then ABC O&Os, aired the movie).[22]. In May 1985, Capital Cities Communications, which owned Detroit radio stations WJR (760 AM) and WHYT (96.3 FM, originally WJR-FM, now WDVD), announced its acquisition of ABC. She spoke at Fords baccalaureate and honors night. "There were times my husband would drive all the way to New Jersey, pickher up and drive all the way back, all in the same day, just to make sure we could take care of her," she said. Jeanna Trotman, who grew up in Sterling Heights, has come home as a WXYZ-TV sports reporter and anchor, along with husband Zach, a retired NHL player. There were a couple months where we just never felt settled, Zach said, and just kind of anxious and stressed out about everything.. Scripps used the station's popularity as leverage for Detroit's cable providers to carry the Scripps-owned HGTV cable network, using the FCC's retransmission consent rule to force local cable systems to carry HGTV. Its the station I grew up watching as a kid, the station I interned at TEN years ago, & the station I ALWAYS hoped I would get the chance to come home to. Cecily Strong returns as Gov. In 1984, Turner and Kelly would also host the short-lived afternoon program, Good Afternoon Detroit. It was nearly dinner time at the Trotmans home, where they have lived for barely a month. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. As the bridal party piled into the shuttle bus to take pictures downtown, Zachs phone rang. Jackie Schuler, formerly Jackie Brittain, is a sports reporter, host and analyst. Pete started out at WRIF with Mark Zahnow and Eddie Durrschmidt. Support local journalism, and subscribe here. During the breaks, Rita would , WXYZ: Sales. Sports. Evening WXYZ-AM disc jockey. I would have thanked you for always being so gracious and amazingyou will be missed and Im honored to have been your final interview!!!!! A graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia, she previously worked forKYW-TV, theCBS affiliate in the same city,where she covered stories like Hurricane Sandy's devastating aftermath. 5 talking about this. "Omg@SymaChowdhry !!! Steve Neavling is an award-winning investigative journalist who operated Motor City Muckraker, an online news site devoted to exposing abuses of power and holding public officials accountable. Before she went to Michigan, Jeanna worked as the Sports Director at KAAL based in Rochester, MN. "He's been a great friend and a great colleague," Rose said of Galli. I think that's really important in newsrooms. He stopped and tried to push back the tears. Come September, I am beyond thrilled to join @wxyzdetroit as their weekend sports anchor & reporter. Facebook posting, July 23, 2020 So proud of our Show Ready team recognized as one of Detroits most innovative woman owned , If you have information about Lou, please drop us a note using the Comment section at the bottom of this page., TV announcer. They got to know each other casually. Zach wanted to be Nicklas Lidstrom or Chris Pronger after being drafted as Mr. Thats not the case now in the familys new home in Berkley. She interviewed Jennifer Hammond of Fox 2 Detroit, former Fox Sports Detroit reporter Shannon Hogan and former Pistons arena hostess and WXYZ traffic reporter Erin Nicole. During most of that time, Smith also reported on human-interest and entertainment stories. In the back of your mind youre kind of always hoping it happens, he said. WXYZ would later gain credibility for its coverage of the 1967 Detroit race riots. Lions owner Sheila Hamp meets with reporters in Allen Park during practice on Wednesday, October 26. Channel 7 has hired Rose's replacement; an announcement is expected in the coming days. Calling it a day. Jeanna and her husband are proud parents to their lovely kid called Luca. , Joel Alexander Zelle Born September 7, 1950; Died: September 6, 2019 Obituary (PDF) WXYZ: Traffic. Murphy, occupied with a bully stick, lost interest long ago. It's the station I grew up watching as a kid, the station I interned at TEN years ago, & the station I ALWAYS hoped I would get the chance to come home to. Shes back!! That's the headline for me. Sydney was raised up in the Bay Area in Northern California right in the middle of the three big cities San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose. She began dating Zach and she got an internship at WXYZ, where she learned from sports director Don Shane, Tom Leyden and Brad Galli. Just like that, with all his friends and family watching, Zachs first NHL goal was a winner at home against the team he grew up rooting for. Phil Wrobel - Creative Services Director - philip.wrobel@wxyz.com. Laura Huckabee - meteorologist. Trotmans first job in television was in 2014 at KAAL, the ABC affiliate in Rochester, Minnesota where she served as Sports Director. Luca had been a good sport the whole time a nosy visitor decided to stop by and pester mom and dad. I cannot wait to get out there. He broke a big story Aug. 5, 2015, when he was in the lower bowels of Comerica Park and saw then-Tigers president and general manager Dave Dombrowski go into a room, and come out a short while later with his son, who was crying. @wxyzdetroit pic.twitter.com/EIAhaAtuti. LewAllen made the permanent switch to news in 2004 after serving as a weekend sports anchor for years. "I love Detroit. And Im like, Ah, man, that kids cute. But storytelling, writing, is always what I wanted to do, and then I love sports. In July 2010, Hodak announced his retirement from WXYZ-TV with his last broadcast occurring two months later on September 23. Come September, I am beyond thrilled to join @wxyzdetroit as their weekend sports anchor & reporter. In the past three years, he has had two or three concussions, two sports-hernia surgeries, a knee surgery and a back injury twice. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside independent station WMYD (channel 20). Smith also won acclaim for his award-winning series From the Heart which began in the late 1990s as a collection of heartwarming, historical and inspirational stories from around the Detroit area. Also, was an integral part of redefining KAALs presence in the local community. The most famous program, Lunch with Soupy, launched the career of comedian Soupy Sales. If they bought her a video camera and Final Cut Pro, she would produce one video story each week for them. It was his agent. WWJ: Sports WCZY: Sports WOMC: Sports Larry Adderley JOURNALISTS, USA JOURNALISTS' BIOS , WXYZ: Special projects executive producer and WXYZ. Jeanna helped create the award-winning 19th Hole when the PGA Tour Champions returned to Greater Flint. Most recently, it formerly carried Doppler7Weather, a local weather channel looping weather radar, temperatures and live local radar, along with an L-Bar (similar to that used by The Local AccuWeather Channel and the defunct NBC Weather Plus, though it was operated independently from either network) that showed current conditions and five-day local forecasts. WXYZ's special coverage has also included the victory parades of the city's professional sports teams, most recently the Detroit Red Wings' Stanley Cup victory in 2008 and the Detroit Pistons' NBA championship in 2004. "I know that I'vecovered a lot of AsianAmerican stories,especially recently in thispast year. 5 feet 6 inches (162 cm) Spouse. 5 feet 9 inches. [31] Months later, the station introduced two more hours of morning news on WMYD as well. Even at 5-11, she was too short to be a middle hitter at the Division-I level. The television station originally broadcast from studios located in the Maccabees Building on Woodward Avenue in midtown Detroit, across from the Detroit Institute of Arts. "I just kind of surveyed a lot of different things, and I decided to kind of throw myself out in the wild and see what my skill set can do," Rose said. Age. Rose was offered a contract extension by Channel 7, Metro Detroit's ABC affiliate, this spring, but he already had begun exploring his options. WXYZ-TV is a partner in several charitable endeavors including the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul,[13] Operation Can Do and Detroit's annual children's immunization fair. Brad Galli, a Detroit native, anchors Sports on 7 Action News at 5, 6, and 11 p.m. on WXYZ, and at 10 p.m. on WMYD. References: Twitter Facebook, KSTP: Director of Creative Services. Later, Jeanna enrolled for a masters degree in Broadcast Journalism at Boston University. After all those years of being apart because of Zachs NHL career and Jeannas climb up the TV-market ladder, the jolly chaos of a squawking child and a barking dog are more than welcomed part of daily life most young families take for granted. Broadcasting August 25, 1980, WXYZ: AM programming References: Facebook, WXYZ: Creative Services. ET every Sunday morning (and replayed at 10:30 a.m. [citation needed]. He also told other students to call 911. I remember looking and seeing how hes always lingered on the blue line from college, Jeanna said. The duo are proud parents to their lovely kid called Luca. As a condition of that agreement, television stations in other cities, including WTSP in TampaSt. In May, Jeanna accepted an offer from WXYZ to come home to the place where her career really started, in the 15th-largest TV market. For the second time that day, Zach said yes. They text. The new addition will be a playmate for the family's rescue dog, Hamilton. Bonds anchored newscasts and a late night talk-show called Bonds Tonight at WJBK-TV shortly afterwards and later hosted a radio show at WXYT. Salary. Get the latest Detroit news, weather, traffic and more that you need throughout the day from WXYZ-TV Channel 7 He worked his tail off, man, and he brought a passion for the job every day that was unquestioned. Draft day for Lions fans is just as big as the first regular season home opener game, and this year, the Lions had two first-round draft picks. I want to be an honorary Detroiter," Chowdhry said. Pro athletes often find something to dislike about their routine after several years. The program debuted in 1953 and was such a success that ABC moved production to Los Angeles in 1960 and aired the show nationally. Spotlight is now Detroit's longest-running current events television program. while at Lake Superior State University, Jeanna competed as an NCAA Division II athlete. Jeanna Trotman is a sports reporter and anchor for WXYZ Detroit covering high school, collegiate, and But as Jeannas career dreams were soaring, Zachs were ending. The show began in 1988, patterned to some . Speaking to reporters for the first time since a nearly 10-month detainment in Russia on drug-related charges, the WNBA star had to take a . WXYZ-TV was carried by the Cancom system from 1983 as the ABC station for Canadian cable television providers too distant to receive a border station's signal over-the-air, though later, Seattle station KOMO-TV was added to Cancom's offerings as a Pacific Time Zone alternative.
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