Here’s the Roundup for the Week Ending January 3

• Gray Media (NYSE: GTN) today announced that longtime KTUU and KYES General Manager Nancy Johnson 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, Programming Director, and General Sales Manager. During her tenure as General Manager, she facilitated the expansion of local news to more than 22 hours of content each week, encouraged the development and production of original programming, and crafted one of the most influential media organizations in Alaska.

Odds and Ends:

• For Tim Sakahara, “family means so much,” that he’s tracing his roots back to Sweden. The former Hawaii News Now reporter appears in Season 12 of the hit Swedish TV show, “Allt for Sverige,” which translates to “Great Swedish Adventure.” Click here to read about it.

• In Beaumont, Texas a former KFDM news anchor was celebrating on Bourbon Street early New Year’s Day and missed the attack by a matter of minutes. Click here to read about it.

• Seattle stations mourn the 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 later moved to KIRO 7 where he anchored the 11 p.m. newscast. Here’s the story.

• A man believed to be the last person to see a missing Iowa TV News anchor alive has died. A private investigator says John Vansice, a friend of former KIMT-TV reporter Jodi Huisentruit passed away earlier this month in Arizona. Here’s the story.

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