Lindsay Schwarzwaelder will be joining KXAS, the NBC owned station in Dallas, as weekend meteorologist.

She told viewers about the move on her her facebook page saying, “Hi all!  I just wanted to announce that this Friday will be my last day at LEX 18.  I have accepted a job at KXAS in Dallas, TX.”  You can see a screen grab of the post after the jump.

Schwarzwaelder comes to KXAS from the Lexington, KY NBC affiliate WLEX where she has been working since November 2010.  She began her broadcast career at WIVB in Buffalo, NY. Read more

After five years as general manager of WITN in Greenville, Chris Mossman will move within Gray Television to take over as GM of WKYT in Lexington.

Mossman will also serve as regional vice president of Gray’s Kentucky and Tennesse stations, which include WBKO in Bowling Green, WYMT in Hazard and WVLT in Knoxville.

Mark Gentner, who has been general sales manager at WITN since 2007, will be promoted to general manager at the NBC affiliate. In his new role, he will oversee the final stages of construction on WITN’s new studio building in Greenville, N.C. Read more

Local, national and international media have descended on the small town of Danville, Ky., to cover Thursday’s Vice Presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan.

Stations in Lexington, which is about 40 miles north of Danville, have devoted coverage this week to Centre College, which is the smallest of the four venues to host a debate this election cycle. The school became the smallest institution to ever hold a general election debate in 2000, the first time it hosted a Vice Presidential debate.

More than 3,000 media credentials were issued ahead of Thursday night’s debate. WKYT reporter Phil Pendleton and Sky News reporter Dominic Waghorn had an interesting twist on the media circus — Pendleton interviewed Waghorn for WKYT, and Waghorn interviewed Pendleton for Sky News. Video is after the jump… Read more

Wayne Martin, the general manager of Lexington CBS affiliate WKYT, announced he will retire at the end of the year.

Martin’s retirement caps a 25-year career in television, the past 19 of them as WKYT’s GM. He joined the Gray Television station in 1993.

“Wayne represents the best of what we expect out of our managers, being an excellent professional manager and devoted to his community and his station,” Gray Television COO Bob Prather said in a statement. “We want all of our television stations to be part of the fabric of the community, and Wayne has clearly made sure that WKYT is an important part of the fabric of the Lexington market viewing area.”

Julie Dolan is the new morning co-anchor Lexington NBC affiliate WLEX, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports.

Dolan joins WLEX from WEHT in Evansville, where she has worked since 2007, most recently as the morning anchor. At WLEX, she will anchor from 4:30 to 7 a.m. alongside Chris Goodman.

“When we put Julie on the set for her newscast audition, it was as if Chris and Julie had worked together forever,” WLEX news director Bruce Carter told the Herald-Leader. “They had great chemistry, and it was just the perfect match.” Read more

Adam Yosim, a reporter for WLEX, the NBC affiliate in Lexington, was doing a stand-up for an alleged harassment story he was working on. Just as he finished a take, by saying, “…perfect timing,” a man being chased by police, ran through his shot.

At first when I heard ‘Stop!’ from the officer I was a bit confused and thought someone was telling me and my photog to stop,” Yosim tells TVSpy. ”(Then) I saw a bystander yell at the suspect and realized there was a foot chase underway.”

The rough cut video, posted by Yosin to his YouTube page shows officers eventually cuffing the man and placing him in a police cruiser.

Yosin added, “the police told us the suspect ran during a routine traffic stop.”

Lexington CBS-affiliate WKYT is swapping the schedules of its morning and midday anchors, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports.

Barbara Bailey (pictured left) who currently anchors WKYT’s 10 a.m., noon and 12:30 p.m. newscasts, will begin next week as the anchor of the 5 and 6 a.m. newscasts. The current 5 and 6 a.m. anchor, Stacy Ellison (pictured right) will take over for Bailey at 10 a.m., noon and 12:30 p.m. The changes go into effect next Wednesday, which coincides with the first day of school in Fayette County.

“A change like this makes sense to make on the first day of school when people get back into morning routines,” news director Robert Thomas told the Herald-Leader.

Longtime WTVQ reporter Greg Stotelmyer is leaving the Lexington ABC-affiliate after being unable to come to terms on a new contract, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports.

Stotelmyer has worked at the station since 1987. He has hosted WTVQ’s “Kentucky Backroads” segments, which examine unique places and people around the state, since 1995.

“I’m just assessing what’s the next step for me,” he told the Herald-Leader. “I need to figure out what’s the best fit. … You get at a point in life when one door shuts on you, you hope it opens up doors to better things.” Read more

There are three new hires at Lexington ABC-affiliate WTVQ, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports.

Ellen Bryan (pictured) joins the station as a weekend anchor and weekday general assignment reporter. Bryan has previously worked at WLIO in Lima, Ohio, and as an on-air personality at a radio station.

Jonathan Burton and Kristina Belcher have also been hired as general assignment reporters for the station. Burton joins the station from WTNH, the ABC-affiliate in New Haven, while Belcher was most recently an overnight producer at WLEX, the NBC-affiliate in Lexington.

WLEX morning anchor Nicole Pence is leaving the station later this month to join WTHR, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports.

Pence joined the Lexington NBC-affiliate in 2008 as a reporter and was promoted to morning c0-anchor in 2009. At WTHR, she will anchor the weekend morning newscasts and report during the week.

Pence, an Indiana native, told the Herald-Leader that WTHR, the NBC-affiliate in Indianapolis, was her “dream station.”

WLEX news director Bruce Carter said the station is currently conducting a national search for Pence’s replacement, though internal candidates are also being considered.