Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, who might be actor Bill Hader’s lost brother, is joining Fox News….FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY!!! That’s what it says here…. “The Ben Shapiro Election Special” is a limited-run series ...
We don’t often dwell on ratings stories – especially cable news ratings which are still dwarfed by broadcast television in virtually every timeslot. But it is interesting to note that last week, MSNBC’s Rachel ...
“First Move with Julia Chatterley” is wrapping up its debut week as the new morning offering on CNN International. “First Move” is presented live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and ...
Weigel Broadcasting’s WCIU has got a problem with its morning show “The Jam.” This morning new co-host Carly Henderson debuts on the 6-8 am news, talk and entertainment block. She and her co-hosts Felicia ...
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Jeff Carroll, until recently the VP of integrated marketing at NBCUniversal, is the new vice-president of marketing for Sinclair Broadcast Group. He’ll be working to advance audience engagement, increase revenue and further the company’s ...
Back in March we told you the story of Little Rock school teacher Lance Fritchman’s run-ins with Nexstar’s KARK and co-owned KLRT. He’s now been found “not guilty” of criminal trespass. Fritchman was unhappy ...
Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communications is planning to sell off the top two floors of its four-story building. Like the Newseum in Washington, DC, the Chicago institution is experiencing money woes and the sale ...
WJHL is looking for a meteorologist for our weekend newscasts. Candidates must be able to produce and present a clear, focused and forward-looking forecast and be prepared to cover severe weather from the studio ...
You’ll recall this past Friday was the last day at work for nearly 120 people at Tribune’s KDAF (CW) in Dallas and KIAH (CW) in Houston Texas. Tribune blamed decreasing ad revenue but the hub-bub ...
You may have read about the “next thing” headed to Television. It’s called ATSC 3.0 and Sinclair hopes it will pave the way for broadcasters to beam traditional video programming and other fare directly to the ...
Newsmax TV will soon be on a Comcast service near you. The deal was announced on Multichannel.com Monday. “Comcast is the largest cable operator and we already have almost all the other major ...
You may have got a good laugh over the weather wanna be’s on social media this past weekend poking fun of meteorologist on Flo’s front lines. A a good read over at the Columbia Journalism ...
A Wilmington, North Carolina reporter made some looters famous while covering the aftermath of Hurricane Florence Saturday. They may not want this attention, however. People were breaking into a closed Family Dollar store and WECT (NBC) ...
We just told you about things getting out of hand in a Wilmington North Carolina Dollar Store. Things got a bit more severe for another team covering the same incident. A team from Raleigh’s WRAL ...
As a reporter just freestyling during a storm, you never know what you’ll find or how you’ll lend a hand. That was the case Friday for WTVD’s (ABC) Julie Wilson who was broadcasting live ...
After 38 years, KTRK (ABC) Photojournalist Jamie Zamora is retiring. Zamora has seen just about everything and tells fellow co-worker and Houston blogger Mike McGruff, “I’ve seen more pain and grief than anybody should ...
KXAS (NBC) Dallas Texas reporter Cory Smith is headed to Washington D.C.’s WRC-TV (NBC). Smith told staffers in June he was leaving but expected he’d be in DFW through December when his contract was up. ...
MediaLine Job of the Day….. Weekday Morning Anchor 1011Now is looking for a proven newsroom leader to anchor the market-leading weekday morning newscast, with additional reporting or anchoring duties during the week. We’re looking ...
Tropical Depression Florence has picked up speed as it continues dumping heavy rains over North and South Carolina. Florence is moving north at 14 mph across the south and turning slightly toward the north. ...
17 deaths: The number of fatalities as of Sunday afternoon. 740,000+: The number of customers without power in the Carolinas on Sunday. 112 mph: That’s how hard the wind gusted in North Carolina’s New ...
Oh, you crazy Weather Channel! On the one hand, you give us incredible innovations like the virtual storm surge video seen here. On the other hand…..this. As for the former, a year ago, this ...
Anchors at Morris Mutimedia’s WWAY in Wilmington, NC had to make a quick exit and take shelter when a tornado warning was issued for their location. Then when they returned…the roof started leaking. <<<>>> ...
As Hurricane, then tropical storm and now tropical depression, Florence zeroed in and soaked the Carolinas over the weekend, the number of political ads airing on stations doing wall-to-wall coverage of the storm spiked. ...
Melissa Hendrix-Beach is being promoted to news director for KWES in Midland/Odessa, TX. She’s been the Assistant News Director and replaces Michael Thompson who is returning to KLTV in Tyler, TX, as executive producer. Here’s his departure ...
Susan Farley is being promoted to news director at Rockfleet Broadcasting duopoly WVII/WFVX in Bangor, ME. She’s been the Assistant News Director there since 2016 but has worked in Maine most of her life. Sarah replaces another ...
Tegna’s “Daily Blast”, a daily half-hour that airs on the company’s various platforms in its 36 markets hosted one of the more interesting discussions last week. Unfortunately, you may not have access because the ...
In Buffalo, Tegna’s WGRZ finally got around to replacing the long-departed Jonah Javad, who is practically an old hand in Dallas by now. After six months, J.T. Messinger has been anointed the station’s newest ...
Michael Raffaele is leaving Heartland Media’s WTVA in Tupelo, MS after almost two years as ND. Michael says he has a new job which will be announced soon. He’s also worked in West Palm Beach, ...
Houston blogger Mike McGuff reports that anchor Sara Donchey is no longer with Graham Media’s KPRC. She’s been anchoring the 4 pm newscast after joining the station in 2015. Donchey’s been on maternity leave ...
Mia O’Brien is the newest sports anchor/reporter for Tegna duopoly WTLV/WJXX in Jacksonville, Fla. For the past three years, she’s been working as sports anchor/reporter at Sinclair’s KGAN in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Ithaca ...
Tamara Mino scored her first on-air job in the business this past week, landing at WVEN Univision Orlando as an MMJ. Mino was most recently an Orlando-based correspondent for Cox-owned Spanish-language digital news platform ...
Report for KPIX-TV news programs. Must be able to shoot, gather, assemble and explain information on all kinds of local and national news stories. Must be able to write in a clear and engaging ...
The hurricane-preparedness plans of local tv stations are out of storage as newsrooms across the Carolinas deploy to cover Hurricane Florence, which is now a Category 1 storm that is carrying massive amounts of ...
Here is a breakdown of Hurricane Florence and its expected effects: Category 1 storm 400 miles: the storm’s diameter, which is approximately the size of four Ohios put together 90 mph: top expected wind ...
That is how program co-host Gayle King put it on Thursday’s edition of the “CBS Morning News,” with this week’s ouster of CEO Les Moonves and “60 Minutes” Executive Producer Jeff Fager. She and ...
Les is gone, but what about his wife, Julie Chen? The above quote is her sign-off on last night’s episode of “Big Brother” so, as a couple, they’re apparently tight. They haven’t gone to ...
In the face of sagging ratings, resulting from tougher competition from Fox Business, CNBC Thursday announced a shakeup in the ranks and in its approach to news coverage. Nik Deogun is departing at the ...
The News 12 Regional Network is getting a multi-million dollar upgrade next year courtesy of its owner, cable operator Altice USA. A brand-new broadcast facility is planned for the network’s Long Island facility and ...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF), RTDNA and 20 other organizations are teaming up to launch the #DefendPressFreedom campaign which is aimed at encouraging voters to ask their congressional candidates in the United States midterm elections ...
George Conway indirectly does it to his wife Kellyanne. The uncle, boyhood friend and rabbi of White House adviser Stephen Miller have all done it to Miller. So why shouldn’t Curtis Ingraham take shots ...
Phoenix morning anchor Andrea Robinson broke the news on Facebook Thursday morning: “All great things come to an end. Some bittersweet news to share today & hopefully the answer to MANY of your questions: ...
From the beginning, NewsBlues has had an anonymous tipline. It’s a way for you to let us know what it happening in your newsroom, in your market, in your world. It’s untraceable and, if ...
Erik Elken, morning anchor and sports director for the past four and a half years at Sinclair duopoly WKEF-WRGT in Dayton, OH is headed south to El Paso, TX and News-Press and Gazette’s KVIA. ...
After six years as co-host of various programs on CNN en Español, most recently the morning newscast, María Alejandra Requena (left) has been promoted to anchor of the daily 4 pm “Panorama Mundial.” She’s ...
Two newsrooms are mourning the loss of a former long-time anchor for both of them. David Davis was killed late Wednesday in a traffic accident outside Dallas, TX. Davis was on a cross-country road ...
One of America’s highest rated metered-market stations in the Midwest is looking for a Chief Meteorologist. Severe weather and storm tracking on-air, online, in our phone and smart TV apps, is our primary focus. ...
We’re kind of taking this Hurricane Florence thing personally. We have a nephew taking his young kids to his brother’s place in Nashville while his wife, a nurse, goes on emergency duty at a ...
The Jeff Fager era at “60 Minutes” is over. NOW. “Jeff Fager is leaving the company effective immediately,” CBS News president David Rhodes said Wednesday in a statement. “Bill Owens will manage the 60 ...
KTSM chief meteorologist Chuck DeBroder was fired this week after 23 years with El Paso, TX Nexstar station. The El Paso Times reports his Sunday 10pm weathercast was very uneven, he appeared stiff and ...
After years of doing news on the local level, most recently as an anchor-reporter at NBC O&O WBTS and NECN in Boston, Frank Holland is headed for a general assignment reporter slot at CNBC. ...
For those ready to scale the pay wall to check into Fox Nation when the streaming service debuts sometime before the end of the year, this may serve as either an inducement or a ...
We worked with many legendary tv news folks over the course of our four-decade career in the business. Ike Seamans was unique among them. He was old school- through and through We produced weekend ...
Dave Busiek, who’s been news director for Hearst’s KCCI for 29 years (not a typo), is retiring at the end of the year. He spent another 10 years at the station as a reporter ...
Rich Hillengas, an award-winning photographer and 36-year veteran of Disney’s WLS in Chicago , IL is the station’s new news operations manager. Hillengas came to WLS from St. Louis and KTVI back in 1982. ...
Just in time to cover Hurricane Florence, Sylvia Obén has come on board Telemundo Charlotte as an MMJ. She comes from Houston, where she had been a correspondent for Spanish-language online news site Mundo ...
Sometimes the headlines write themselves. That’s the case as we report the news that Destiny Chance is the new weekend PM anchor on Fox O&O KTBC in Austin, TX. Chance has only been with ...
Alexandria Jud has been hired as producer of the top-rated 10 p.m. newscast at Disney’s WLS, starting September 17. A graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Jud most recently was executive producer ...
Alyssa Meisner moves to morning and noon anchor at Sinclair’s KDBC in El Paso, TX. She comes from Nexstar’s WOWK in Charleston, W.Va., where she was a weekend anchor for the past three years. ...
This morning Mrs. B heard a word mispronounced on NPR, of all places, that made the left side of her face twitch: “FUSS-trated.” Don’t forget. Both syllables in FRUS-TRATED have an “r.” INTRAVENOUS all ...
KIAH, a Tribune Broadcasting station, has an opening for a morning news Anchor to work in our Houston location. The Anchor will be an experienced journalist who can handle major news, breaking news and ...
How big is Hurricane Flo? So big that a life-threatening storm surge was being pushed 300 miles ahead of its eye, swirling clouds that could deluge states from South Carolina to Ohio and Pennsylvania ...
As powerful Hurricane Florence churns towards the U.S. Coast station promo folk are already hard at work. Capitol Broadcasting tweeted Tuesday that WRAL (NBC) crews were “equipped with drones and ready to tell the ...
OK, so we’ve talked about drone coverage of Hurricane Florence but what about taking care of TV station personnel? Most stations along the coasts have a pretty good understanding of what it takes to ...
The Houston Chronicle today and others are finally reporting something we first told you last week, that well over 100 people were fired from KIAH (CW) and Dallas sister station KDAF (CW). You’ll recall, ...
A few changes in San Antonio, Texas to tell you about. Earlier this week, KSAT (ABC), reporter Courtney Friedman took to social media announcing she’s joining Tim Gerber at the anchor desk for 10 ...
KELO‘s (CBS) Angela Kennecke is reporting on the opioid crisis, giving viewers a rare private look inside her daughters death. On May 16, Kennecke’s 21-year-old daughter Emily died of a fentanyl overdose. The Sioux ...
As cable news ratchets up its coverage of the imminent approach of Hurricane Flo later this week, live shots abound, and everybody has a crack at a slice of that 15 minutes of fame. ...
Interim CBS INC CEO Joe Ianniello had barely hit “send’ on his first inter-office memo before the speculation started as to whom the permanent replacement for Les Moonves might be. Ianiello, who had been ...
Jeff Fager was a no-show at the CBS offices the day after Les Moonves resigned, leading some to speculate he may be the next high-profile exec to go. “Page Six” is reporting that Fager ...
Suddenly journalism seems vital again and with it, journalism school. Of course, it doesn’t come without challenges for both professors and students. Matt Tullis, a journalism professor at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT provides ...
Poppy Harlow’s solo anchoring days on CNN’s “CNN Newsroom” are drawing to a close. Starting next Monday, she will be joined by CNN’s chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto. Harlow’s been on her own ...
Once upon a time, it seemed to be a settled issue – the national reach of a television-group owner was, by Congressional action, limited to 39 percent of U.S. homes. That was decided back ...
CNN Worldwide chief Jeff Zucker is back in his office after having heart surgery this past summer. He returned last week. You may recall Zucker announced on July 19 that he would be taking a ...
Sometimes news is right under your nose. And when it hits you, you might want to spread the word. That’s why, from the beginning, NewsBlues has had an anonymous tipline. It’s untraceable and, if ...
It was with a fair amount of fanfare that former Fox newser Andy Levy moved over to CNN a little more than a year ago to become sidekick to S.E. Cupp on her newly-launched ...
This time, it’s Hearst rolling out “Dispatches From The Middle,” with funding from Facebook. The program aims to present stories from smaller communities across the country. “Hearst Television’s approach to “Dispatches from the Middle” ...
A little more than 2 ½ years after joining Tegna’s KTHV in Little Rock, AR, reporter Katlyn Gardenhire is leaving the station for unspecified health reasons. She posted her news on Facebook a day ...
MediaLine Job of the Day….. WEEKEND MORNING ANCHOR (Full Time Regular): This is a rare opportunity to join the highly successful Fox13 Good Day team as a weekend morning anchor and weekday morning reporter. ...
Meet Joe Ianniello, the acting CEO of CBS, Inc. whose job post-Les Moonves can be likened to the guy with the broom following the elephants in a circus parade. Less than 12 hours after ...
For the second time in a year, “CBS This Morning” co-host Norah O’Donnell got to be the voice of the network in explaining the disgrace and departure of a fellow employee and, in this ...
Later in the day “The Talk” went on without regular host Julie Chen as it kicked off its ninth season. She’ll be taking an unspecified amount of time off Panelist Sharon Osbourne took the ...
OK, we know by now that most millennials who want news flock to the internet and their smartphones to get it. But that doesn’t stop television and cable from trying to divine what will ...
Fred Campagna, for the past three years the senior meteorologist at Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford-New Haven, CT is headed for the door. He posted his message on Facebook Monday, citing (very graciously, mind you) ...
Two years after she wrapped a 23+-year tv news career as the popular anchor for Fox O&O WJBK in Detroit, MI, Kam Carman resurfaced this week as creator, host and driving force behind “Dine ...
Raycom’s WOIO in Cleveland, OH rolled out its new 9am show called “Sunnyside Up,” which has been available on “digital only” for a year. It’s not a traditional newscast, though it has Jeff Tanchak ...
Nod yes, quickly – we don’t want to hurt any feelings. Sinclair flagship WBFF in Baltimore got a complete studio makeover which, they tell us, puts the latest technology to work while embracing and ...
Kevin Osgood is leaving Nexstar’s WFRV in Green Bay, WI for a bit of a career change. He’ll be the next executive director of the Door County (WI) Maritime Museum. While that may sound unusual, ...
Matt Johnson will be the next ND for Sinclair’s WWMT in Kalamazoo/Grand Rapids, MI. He’s coming from sister-station KRCG in the Jefferson City/Columbia, MO market, where he’s been for two years. Matt’s worked for another ...
After nearly ten years, weekend weathercaster Beth McLeod has left Raycom’s WOIO. She posted a goodbye note on her Facebook page, and her bio is already gone from the station’s website. Prior to WOIO, ...
Remeisha Shade joins Scripps’ WEWS in Cleveland as a Weekend Meteorologist and will fill-in on weekdays and report. Shade, who left NBC O&O KXAS in Dallas in 2016 after six years, is a graduate ...
Brett Austin started this week as the new Senior Executive Producer for Tegna’s WTSP in Tampa. He’s most recently worked for ESPN where he helped launch the SEC Network. Austin has also worked in Columbia, ...
A short lesson today. Mrs. B knows you have places to go and people to see…and so does she. Take a look at two sets of P-words that sound alike but have very different ...
Meteorologist KGNS is looking for a Meteorologist to join our weather team. The successful candidate will present the weather forecast for our daily 1 1/2-hour morning newscast plus our ½ hour noon show and ...
Embattled CBS CEO Les Moonves has stepped down from his post, Broadcastingcable.com reported Sunday — just hours after new sex abuse allegations were leveled against him in a New Yorker article. You’ll recall last week we ...
Hurricane Florence is growing larger and stronger and its latest projected path is centered on Wilmington, North Carolina, adding more urgency to the State of Emergency declared in the Carolinas. The storm regained its hurricane ...
Did you have a chance to check out any of the NFL games Sunday? The other networks got their shot after NBC this past Thursday and of course the talk on the half-time shows ...
