Seems like everyone is getting involved in television these days, even Baseball teams. The Chicago Cubs plan to start their own television venture as early as 2019, when their current agreement with NBC Sports ...
Fans of Sonny Apkan may remember his 2004 hit “Use What You Got” and that’s what Jacksonville’s WJXT an independent station with a news-format schedule, had to do, putting its new digs to heavy use covering ...
If you happened to see the local coverage Sunday of the shooting in Jacksonville Florida and thought half of it all looked the same, that’s cause it did. WJAX-TV (CBS) and WFOX-TV (FOX) had ...
The Federal Communications Commission’s Inspector General says there was no evidence of impropriety relating to the proposed – and now DOA – merger of Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media Co. This tidbit from the ...
Let’s spend just a little time on “anxious” and “eager. “Anxious” means full of worry or anxiety; “eager” means excited or enthusiastic. So… >Rosemary is anxious about her audition tape making the deadline. >I’m ...
A station in Austin, Texas is looking for………. PHOTOGRAPHER Shoot and edit video for daily newscasts. Cover general news assignments in a fast-paced environment using electronic cameras and editing equipment. Set-up and shoot interesting ...
There might be trust and accuracy issues dogging all media these days, thanks to a variety of factors including a hostile administration, the need to have the story first at the expense of facts ...
Congratulations to Yvonne Simons who returns to the ND chair at Sinclair’s KATU in Portland, OR. Simons has spent the last four years as the Assistant ND for KOVR/KMAX, the CBS owned duopoly in Sacramento. Earlier ...
The Melvin family showed up on the street outside 30 Rock as Craig Melvin signed off one of his three jobs at the network. Melvin stepped down as “Saturday Today” co-anchor. “For the better ...
It was back at the end of April when we reported on WUSA anchor Bruce Johnson’s announcement that he was battling cancer. At the end of last week, Johnson went on social media to ...
And that is how the boss described the Friday resignation of Chris Kline, the news director for the last 4+ years at Scripps’ KNXV in Phoenix (the ABC affiliate in market # 11). General Manager Anita Helt details ...
If you’re wondering why Ainsley “I want to be a journalist” Earhardt was the Fox employee who got to hold the mic during the most recent “interview” with Mr. Trump instead of real journalists… ...
One of the original faces of ESPN’s much-hyped, seldom-watched “Get Up” is signing off at the end of this week. Michelle Beadle will move to Los Angeles to front “NBA Countdown,” and will also ...
Yeah, David Pecker is a great name to use to create NSFW puns, but no, this is NOT a real screen grab. The shot of MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace is from a January broadcast and ...
The NFL Network’s newest reporter is MJ Acosta, who left NBC-Telemundo duopoly KNSD-KUAN in San Diego to take the job. She’ll be based in the Bay Area, and contribute to shows such as “NFL ...
Graham Media’s WJXT in Jacksonville has rolled out its new set and we have to admit, even our jaundiced eyes are impressed. Of course, the ubiquitous video wall is present, but since it’s seamless, ...
After just over two years, this week marked the final week for KSNW sports director Elliott Polakoff. He signed off after two years at the Nexstar station. He previously worked in Illinois and interned ...
Veteran reporter Sandra Gonzalez has joined the digital world as social media producer at Graham Media’s KPRC in Houston, TX. Gonzalez was previously a digital tools trainer with the Society of Professional Journalists training ...
Are you a news manager or on-air talent looking for a new adventure? A well-established media talent agency is looking to fill an Agent position. This is not a part-time job or interim gig. ...
Ainsley Earhardt wants to be a journalist. Donald Trump wants to be taken seriously. Both the “Fox & Friends” co-host and Mr. Trump need to keep at it. Earhardt interviewed President Trump on Wednesday ...
Another Fox News veteran – a real, live journalist and not a circus performer – is leaving the cable newser. Senior correspondent Adam Housley is leaving at the end of the month for the ...
Karen Fuller, a former anchor for KCTV in Kansas City, MO, will be able to proceed with her age and gender discrimination lawsuit against the station and owner Meredith Corp. Fuller had anchored the ...
As the CBS board of directors continues overseeing multiple investigations into alleged past harassment by CEO Les Moonves, he’s lawyered up, retaining Hollywood heavyweight attorney Daniel Petrocelli. Petrocelli repped Warner Bros in its long-running ...
Carly Henderson, a Los Angeles entertainment journalist, TV host and video producer, is the new co-host of “The Jam,” the morning news, talk and entertainment show on Weigel’s WCIU in Chicago, IL. Henderson has ...
Up in Milwaukee, Tribune’s WITI rolled out Carl Deffenbaugh this morning as the station’s newly-anointed morning show co-anchor. Deffenbaugh spent much of his career covering sports before landing in Milwaukee two years ago as ...
Ty Steele, who pulled a disappearing act last spring at Tribune’s KTXL in Sacramento, where he had been evening anchor for the past three years, is turning up across the street….in the morning. He’ll ...
Romina Rosado is switching executive roles and divisions inside NBCUniversal. After six years, she’s moving from E!, where she was SVP of global content, to become SVP of digital news for Telemundo, developing new ...
Former anchor Renee Murphy made her tearful goodbyes last month at Tegna’s WHAS in Louisville after 15 years. Now it’s all smiles as her new employer has already given her a promotion. She’s the ...
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 ...
Sacramento news viewers were less than pleased when Tegna’s KXTV gave the unceremonious boot to anchors Cristina Mendonsa and Dale Schornack in the middle of the May 2017 sweeps after 21 years (Mendonsa) and ...
“The Today Show’s” Al Roker is not a restrained personality. And he has always been quick with an ad lib – often far less than G-Rated. So when Roker’s big-screen monitor started glitching during ...
It’s a given that once 21st Century Fox and Disney complete their deal and Disney takes over Fox’s entertainment assets, there will be a significant reorganization to fold all the news assets into compatibility ...
A new report says that some of the biggest newsrooms in the country are paying women and minority staffers significantly less than their male and white counterparts. Student reporters in the Asian American Journalists ...
After five years, morning anchor Jan Jeffcoat is leaving Tegna’s WUSA in Washington, D.C. She made the announcement last week on social media. Today she thanked viewers for well wishes. Jeffcoat is following her ...
Paris Dennard, a reliably pro-Trump contributor to CNN’s daily shoutfests, has been suspended by the network in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations. The allegations come from Dennard’s former employer, Arizona State University, where ...
Jon Alba, soon-to-be former sportscaster for Bangor, ME duopoly WVII-WFVX is leaving for a job in a bigger market. He just can’t tell you where. But the new job starts in mid-September and he ...
Grecia Medina is now occupying the newly created position of production and editorial director of “Al Rojo Vivo con María Celeste” at Telemundo News. Medina, who came over to Telemundo a year ago as ...
No, it’s not one of those mega-deals we keep expecting, but family-owned Draper Media has snapped up WRDE in Salisbury, MD from Sagamore Hill and the purchase price is…. None of your damned business. ...
Former KSHB reporter Belinda Post is crossing the street to Meredith’s KCTV. Post will be the new anchor of “Better Kansas City,” the station’s pay-to-play weekday revenue producer. She replaces Alexis Del Cid, who ...
Michael Cohen attorney Lanny Davis went on “America’s Newsroom” the day after his client copped a plea and implicated his old boss in payoffs to former squeezes, where Davis bit the hand that feeds ...
Fox O&O WNYW in New York had a bumpy night two nights ago as the station lost Internet access, reportedly due to construction issues. With the control room and studio essentially useless, the station ...
McKinnon Broadcasting’s KUSI in San Diego has brought in Denise McManus as vice president and station manager. Most recently, she was station manager of Tegna’s KMSB-KTTU Tucson, Ariz. Her rain-making ability qualified her for ...
The legal eagles at Meredith’s WSMV in Nashville are getting a lot of practice fighting age discrimination lawsuits. Last year, the former newsroom employees filed a discrimination suit against the station. Now, the station’s ...
Digital media company ATTN: has brought in Fernando Hurtado as a producer and editor. He’ll be producing the platform’s videos covering the environment, parenting, innovation and social justice. He most recently was present at ...
“Myself” is one of those words that pops up a lot in daily conversation. 99 percent of the time we use it wrong. The only right way to use “myself” is reflexively or intensively. ...
The wheels keep turning and the doors keep revolving. This time, a Twin Cities tv station has finally gotten around to hiring a Number One in the newsroom, but not until after some restructuring. ...
With the Sinclair-Tribune merger gone the way of the dodo, it looks like everything is in play these days. Cox and Cordillera are looking to sell, Tegna is buying as is Scripps. And with ...
Where Sinclair Broadcast badly stumbled, Nexstar evidently hopes to walk through unscathed and victorious. The New York Post reports that Perry Sook, Nexstar’s CEO, met with the Justice Department’s antitrust boss recently, presumably to ...
If Sook is looking for guidance, he need look no further than how Gray-Raycom is speeding toward merger approval by shedding stations where market conflicts exist. Tegna is buying up WTOL in Toledo, OH, ...
April Ryan, White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Network, says she’s hired her own security detail “They’ve put a target on my head…. I’ve had death threats. I’ve had craziness,” Ryan told “The ...
Spencer Koch spent 1/3rd of his life as general manager of Tribune’s KTVI/KPLR in St. Louis, MO. Those 23 years, and a total of 48 years in the tv business draw to a close ...
After 29 years at the station, and the last ten months serving in an interim capacity, Matt Garrett finally got the nod as the permanent general manager at the University of Missouri’s KOMU. Well, ...
ESPN’s got themselves another retired NFL vet to sit in the analyst’s chair. Victor Cruz, the former New York Giants wide receiver debuts today. Cruz will appear on “NFL Live,” “Get Up!,” “SportsCenter,” ESPN ...
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 ...
We told you yesterday the sad story of the Hazard, KY newsroom at Gray’s WYMT being taken in by a phony press release touting a gay church that was to open in the big ...
Jessi Schultz is the newest reporter at Scripps’ WEWS. She’s on the “Good Morning Cleveland” beat. Schultz is a Cleveland native who came home after two years at Sinclair’s WSBT in South Bend, IN. ...
Starting September 24th, Lina De Florias will be the 4 to 6 am anchor at Fox O&O KRIV in Houston, TX. News Director Susan Schiller made the announcement Tuesday. “Lina brings unbridled passion and ...
Tricia Macke, news anchor at Raycom’s WXIX in Cincinnati, put out a social media “all points bulletin” when her wallet went missing from her shopping cart at a Newport, KY market. “If you happened ...
Mark Neerman will be the next VP/News for KPIX, the CBS owned station in San Francisco. He’s been the ND at KSNV in Las Vegas for the past 3+ years, where he also served as a ...
After eight years in the chair, Anne Linaberger is out as news director at CBS O&O KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA. Relatively new GM Jay Howell evidently wanted his own person on the job, but ...
It was a rough ride, but it looks like a reasonably soft landing for former ABC News chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross and his longtime colleague Rhonda Schwartz. The two have landed squarely on ...
Disney’s KGO has its replacement for fired sports anchor Mike Shuman. Chris Alvarez is coming to the Bay from sister station KSFN in Fresno. He’ll be anchoring and doing a lot of MMJ (multi-media ...
It’s simple – you get a press release so call the phone number on it and verify it. Is that so hard? Apparently it is for some. Gray Television’s WYMT in Hazard, KY is ...
Longtime Birmingham News Director (and, more recently a GM in Roanoke) Garry Kelly heads to Augusta, GA, where he started this week as the GM for Raycom’s WFXG. Well…Raycom for now but the station is ...
Say goodbye to Dan Patrick and hello to Mike Tirico. From 2008 to 2017, Patrick was the in-studio host of NBC Sports’ “Football Night in America.” That’s over and now it’s Tirico’s turn. “Thank ...
C-SPAN is the last refuge of reasonably intelligent discourse on its phone-in shows. The refuge appears to be under siege. “The Washington Post‘s” Paul Waldman was guesting when a man named Christopher called in ...
Crandall Sims has been promoted to Executive Producer for WBTV, Raycom’s Charlotte station. She moves up from line producing. Sims has also worked in Columbia, SC, and Myrtle Beach. ———- Janna Smithson joins Raycom’s WMC in ...
OK, we get it…Chicago has a distinctive skyline. The Willis Tower. The Hancock. The CNA Tower. Metropolis. But does EVERY tv station have to use it as a studio backdrop on newscasts? Evidently, yes. ...
Telemundo, looking to beef up its District of Columbia reporting staff, has brought in correspondent Javier Vega. Vega, who had been with “Noticias Telemundo” in Mexico, will report to Victoria Rivas-Vazquez, Telemundo’s Washington bureau ...
“Bears Unleashed,” a half-hour weekly talk show we are to believe will cover “all the relevant hot topics” surrounding the Chicago Bears and the NFL, launches September 7th on Fox-owned WFLD and will air ...
When to use “was” and “were” is usually pretty easy. If the subject is singular, use the singular verb “was.” > The tape was in the editing booth. If the subject is plural, use ...
We’re glad someone is asking the question. If former White House staffers are bound to silence because of their non-disclosure agreements, what the hell use are they as cable news talking heads? Omarosa being ...
Sean McGarvy will join Scripps’ WEWS in Cleveland on August 27th as its next ND. Here’s the news release from the station. McGarvy’s been the interim ND at WEWS since Jeff Harris left earlier this summer ...
Still another promotion at WTEN/WXXA in Albany, NY finds Ryan Mott upped to the top job for this Nexstar duopoly. He’s been the executive producer here since August, 2010 and previously worked a producer in ...
It turns out that industry lobbyist/FCC chair Ajit Pai knew all along that there never was a cyberattack on the FCC, but he kept his mouth shut at the request of the Inspector General ...
RON KELLER gets promoted within News Press & Gazette to become ND for KION in Salinas/Monterey, CA. Ron’s been the Assistant ND for NPG’s KEYT/KCOY/KKFX in Santa Barbara, CA. Ron replaces DEB MONROE at KION: she ...
That’s what a veteran KGO staffer told Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman about rumors of morning anchor Natasha Zouves leaving the Bay Area and headed back to Southern California, possibly to San Diego, where ...
Charter Communications has some ambitious plans for its Spectrum cable news operation that includes the launch of ten – count ‘em – ten local news channels later this year in Ohio, Wisconsin and Kentucky. ...
Jackie Kostek, a reporter, producer and writer on “The Jam” morning show at Weigel Broadcasting’s WCIU has been hired by Scrippps’ KTNV in Las Vegas, as a sports and features reporter. Before joining WCIU ...
Louisville sports anchor Katie George is moving up to The Show. She’s leaving Block Communications’ WDRB to become the sideline reporter for the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks. She starts Thursday. She was hired at WDRB ...
After four years and a baby, meteorologist Bri Eggers is packing up, waving goodbye to Sunbeam’s WHDH in Boston and heading back home to Idaho. She went on Facebook over the weekend to announce ...
It’s 19 years and gone for morning features reporter M.A. Rosko at Fox O&O KMSP in the Twin Cities. “It was just time to take a deep, long breath. I’ve been focusing on a ...
If you don’t get along with the boss, you get replaced. If you’re lucky, you kind of land on your feet in the same market and don’t have to move. So it is with ...
A charter member of the WNJU Telemundo 47 news team is hanging it up after four decades. Jorge Ramos will be on the anchor desk until September 21 and then….buh-bye. He thanked everybody while ...
After being passed over once for the top job, Laurie Passman was named vice-president and news director at CBS O&O KTVT. Passman was interim news director back in January 2017 when Andrea Parquet-Taylor got ...
Really, it’s just too easy. Ainsley Earhardt wants to be a journalist. “I mean, I want to be a journalist, I want to ask tough questions,” Earhardt told “Business Insider” for an October 2017 ...
Deana Reece, the news director for Nexstar’s WTWO in Terre Haute since January, 2014, died suddenly Thursday morning of an apparent heart attack. Nexstar’s VP/Local Content Development Jerry Walsh sent this email: Deana was a tremendous ...
Tribune’s KTLA in Los Angeles this week unveiled a new partnership with…Alexa. The station is now offering “KTLA’s Flash Briefing,” an audio newscast that incorporates the day’s top stories and most interesting news through ...
CNN’s Dylan Byers is leaving the network to become senior media reporter for NBC News and MSNBC. Byers, who’s been with CNN since 2015, will cover Silicon Valley and Hollywood, with focus on Amazon, ...
While everybody, rightly, went out of their way to pay tribute to the Queen of Soul on her passing Thursday, leave it to Fox News to provide an inadvertent laugh for the sharp-eyed in ...
Just weeks after he was badly wracked up in a surfing accident, WRAL morning co-anchor Jeff Hogan plans to return to the desk Monday at 4:30 am. Hogan still needs some surgery and continues ...
Hearst’s WYFF in Greenville, South Carolina looked toward sister station WESH in Orlando for its latest anchor addition. Amanda Crawford will show up Monday at 4:30 am as the newly-installed anchor of “WYFF News ...
Berkshire Hathaway’s WPLG in Miami is now doing a 3 pm weekday newscast. The 30-minute “FirstCast at 3” debuted this week. With an estimated 16 percent of Miami’s population over the age of 65, ...
For the past five years, Joe Leadingham has been doing sports anchoring and reporting for Nexstar’s WKRN in Nashville. And he’s leaving it behind to become a medical device salesman. “But wait,” as they ...
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 ...
Porter Berry is the newly-named VP and editor in chief of Fox News Digital. He succeeds Noah Kotch who took a position with “The Daily Mail’s” digital operation. Berry will oversee all Fox News ...
Liana Brackett is a meteorologist for The Weather Channel. She is also Mrs. Georgia America 2018 and will compete in the Mrs. America pageant on August 25. She won the title in her first-ever ...
