Former WBRE reporter Molly Henneberg wins Broadcast & Cable award

Fox News reporter Molly Henneberg, formerly of WBRE, was named one of 12 "next wave of leaders" winners by Broadcast & Cable. Kudos. (Corrected to delete erroneous references to WNEP)

WBRE'S Kristi Capel: America's hottest weather anchor

So says the T&A site bustedcoverage.com. Let the misogynistic comments begin!

Shakeup at WBRE?

A tipster reports that s/he heard that Agent Andy Mehalshick is moving off the anchor desk. "Since it's better than 50-50 that Lyndall Stout won't be coming back after her baby, that means an entirely new anchor team (again!) at 28." Discuss.

Kim Martucci gets an on-air proposal!

Former WBRE weather lady was proposed to recently on the air (!) down at WUSA in Washington. Wow. And wow.

• Read Martucci's crazy blog

Cutbacks at WBRE/WYOU?

A tipster passes this along from the pay NewsBlues site. "NEXSTAR CUTBACKS: Nexstar Broadcasting Group, a publicly traded company that controls 47 TV stations nationwide, is the latest broadcast group to order system-wide budget cuts and layoffs. Tipsters report the elimination of overtime and part-timers and a 10% across-the-board cutback at WJET-24-ABC in Erie (Market #142) and other Nexstar outlets.

Most of Nexstar's stations were acquired through the acquisition of Quorum Broadcasting in 2003. And many of these stations are licensed under the Mission Broadcasting brand, operated under Local Service Agreements with Nexstar to get around comply with current FCC ownership rules."

Luzerne man convicted of harassing WBRE hit with new charges

Edward Lewis of the Times Leader reports that Thomas Concert, 44, of Luzerne, has been charged with harassment after allegedly bugging the shit out of a CYS caseworker. Concert was convicted by a judge last year of harassment after bugging the shit out of WBRE.

Former WBRE afternoon news producer Tanya Brown in the news

Tanya Brown, the former afternoon news producer at WBRE, was the peg for a Times Leader story yesterday about a medical records management company that allegedly stopped paying some employees, including Brown.

WBRE linked to reduction of charges in 'to catch a predator' case

David Weiss reports in Thursday's Times Leader that a man originally charged attempted statutory sexual assault and other crimes got the most serious charges dropped and avoid jail time because of WBRE-TV's heavy involvement in the man's arrest. The story and the man's attorney don't spell it out, but strongly imply it. Agent Andy Mehalshick (pictured interviewing someone for a completely unrelated story) says "We don’t pretend to be the police... I don’t tell them to do it or not do it." Right.

WBRE to do noon news by itself, hires Miss USA finalist to do weather

WBRE will stop simulcasting WYOU's noon news and instead produce its own program at 11 a.m. But perhaps more notably, Kristi Capel -- the "reigning Miss Missouri 2006" -- has been on WBRE since the beginning on January.

• See Ms. Capel's MySpace page

Former WBRE weather guy contemplating run for elected office

Vince Sweeney, who used to do the weather on WBRE, is apparently making noise on his blog (click above) about following the paths of Keith Martin and Frank Andrews Shimkus to Harrisburg and/or going on to Washington. Judging by the blog – “I never saw a chestnut roasting on an open fire until I was probably in my 20s. It made for a great lyric in a marvelous song, but chestnuts roasting was never part of my reality” – he'll fit right in.

Nexstar stock going up, up, up

Things go well for the Texas-based TV company, James Haggerty of The Times-Tribune reports. NExstar owns WBRE and runs WYOU.