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Channel 4 departures shake up Detroit TV news - Axios Detroit
March 7, 2025 - Last month, award-winning anchor and reporter Christy McDonald announced she would be leaving on her "own terms." Meanwhile, the station has added former Sacramento anchor Ty Steele and reporter Erika Erickson in recent months.
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Local 4 anchor Devin Scillian announced his retirement after 30 years at the anchor desk at WDIV in Detroit.
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r/Detroit on Reddit: WDIV-TV reporter Shawn Ley departs from the Detroit station's Local 4 News team
February 20, 2025 -
I liked this guy. I guess WDIV is still purging on air staff. What a shame.
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The award-winning Ley is the latest person to leave Detroit's NBC affiliate, which has had more than 20 departures since 2024. Veteran anchor Devin Scillian retired from the station in December. Months prior to that, a number of on-air and behind-the-scenes staffers left through a voluntary retirement incentive program. basically all of their good talent was bought out or retired. no wonder that station has gone down the drain so fast
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I think he was “purged” due to something he did that was against company policy. This doesn’t sound like it was a a buyout or not renewing his contract.
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r/Detroit on Reddit: Another reporter leaves WDIV
November 16, 2024 -
It seems another anchor, Shawn Ley, left WDIV.
https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/television/2025/02/20/shawn-ley-leaves-wdiv-tv-news-detroit/79303807007/
Anyone know why?
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This comes on the heels of Christy Macdonald’s abrupt departure shortly after she was seemingly anointed Scilian’s successor on Flashpoint. The yearlong purge of veterans suggests something‘s rotten in the kingdom on Lafayette.
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I’ve been out of work for a while. They keep posting the same job I’m qualified for every other month. When I was fresh out of college one of their senior producers, he’s still there, met with me for an interview. Only time in my life I was belittled and laughed at to my face. Verbally made fun of my “reel” I brought him. I hope the place burns and that guy gets the can too. Seems like a bad culture there.
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Detroit said so long to some old friends in 2024 as TV news stars retired or moved on
December 26, 2024 - WDIV-TV sports anchor Bernie Smilovitz, and reporters Mara MacDonald, Rod Meloni, and Paula Tutman will leave in July as part of a voluntary retirement program. In metro Detroit more than in most regional TV markets, the on-air reporters and ...
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WDIV-TV's Victor Williams leaving Detroit for new job in hometown of Atlanta
October 6, 2025 - Victor Williams went viral in 2021 for his live skateboarding standup shot during a Local 4 News report. Williams told WDIV viewers that he is leaving the Motor City to be closer to his father in Atlanta.
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WDIV-TV confirms upcoming departure of 4 veterans of news team
June 6, 2024 - WDIV-TV sports anchor Bernie Smilovitz, and reporters Mara MacDonald, Rod Meloni, and Paula Tutman will leave in July as part of a voluntary retirement program. Get ready for some heartfelt goodbyes in July to some of the best-known TV journalists ...
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May 5, 2025 - Longtime WDIV-TV sports anchor Bernie Smilovitz joined the station in 1986 and departed on July 1, 2024 as the result of a voluntary retirement package. ... WDIV: Executive producer, LIVE in the D. Retired from broadcasting, March 2023. WXYZ: TV news executive producer, 1992-1997.
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WDIV-TV reporter Shawn Ley departs from the Detroit station's Local 4 News team
February 20, 2025 - Detroit TV reporter Shawn Ley has left WDIV-TV’s Local 4 News team, according to the station.
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One of Michigan’s Mount Rushmore of TV news anchors to sign off for final time - mlive.com
October 16, 2024 - WDIV-TV Detroit news anchor, Devin Scillian, has announced his retirement from Channel 4 after 30 years.Photo provided by WDIV-TV
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WDIV hires anchor from Sacramento as Devin Scillian's departure nears
October 25, 2024 - With WDIV-TV's Devin Scillian poised to leave his lead anchor role in mid-December, the Detroit station already has a new anchor. Former Sacramento anchor Ty Steele of KCRA-TV announced on social media Thursday that he is joining Local 4 News.
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Detroit, MI – Devin Scillian is equally at home on your television, on your bookshelf, and on your stereo. Devin anchors the evening newscasts for Local 4 weekdays at 5, 6, and 11 p.m. He has been an anchor at WDIV Local 4 since 1996Additionally, ...