An unsuccessful Congressional run last year has former Dallas investigative reporter Brett Shipp back pursuing his former avocation, in a slightly different format. Shipp abruptly left Tegna’s WFAA last year after 22 years to ...
Former CIA Director and current MSNBC contributor John Brennan has been a fierce Trump critic since day one of this Administration. He’s also had a high-level security clearance by virtue of his CIA tenure. ...
The date on the Trump statement revoking Brennan’s statement is July 26th. Three weeks ago. It is a handy distraction from the Omarosa thing, isn’t it? How ironic that it was a CNN reporter ...
Gray’s WTVG in Toledo, OH took about two months to find a replacement for Brian Trauring, who left his news director job in June after 16 years to take a corporate job with Lilly ...
So Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey thinks that by giving performance artist/conspiracy peddler Alex Jones a seven-day suspension he will force the InfoWars shyster to change the well-ingrained habits of the past 20 years. The ...
Maybe the payout to several Trib execs isn’t equal to the several wheelbarrows-full each would have gotten by selling out to Sinclair, but somehow, in the wake of the collapse of that deal, they’re ...
David Chancellor is the new morning co-anchor alongside newcomer Alex Del Cid at Sinclair’s WOAI in San Antonio. He started this morning. In making the move, Chancellor leaves behind 24 years of covering sports, ...
Discovery Inc. cut more jobs at the former Knoxville headquarters of Scripps Networks Interactive, which Discovery bought in March. The sign was just recently put outside the building so those who lost their jobs ...
A Fox Business anchor is back-pedaling and “clarifying” statements that insulted a foreign country and, surprise!, it’s not Lou “Get the Hell Offa My Lawn” Dobbs. Trish Regan drew Danish ire for a broadcast ...
NBC News’ foray into streaming news via Snapchat has proven so successful that it is expanding the reach of “Stay Tuned”, its signature daily newscast, to Instagram and YouTube. Stay Tuned – which NBC ...
Eric Harryman, who was unceremoniously shown the door back in March after three years as morning co-anchor at NBC-O& WTVJ in Miami, is back home in Sacramento. Tribune’s KTXL, where Harryman worked for four ...
The California-based “CNN Newsroom Live from Los Angeles” which frequently aired on CNN/USA in addition to CNN International is history and its anchor, John Vause, is being pulled back to Atlanta. The program often ...
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman reports that he is now hearing that the vacant KGO weekend sports anchor gig is probably “someone you’re not seeing on the air now.” Lieberman’s source says the gig, ...
This is what a “less-than-lethal” impact round can do to you. It was sustained by KATU photojournalist Ric Peavyhouse while he covered a protest in Portland, Ore. on August 4th during which the right-wing ...
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 ...
As more than 100 newspapers across the country ready the editorials for their Thursday, August 16th editions, RTDNA is asking its members to join in the pushback against the increasingly unhinged “fake news” of ...
We are proud to report that our congressman was among four House members who are pushing industry lobbyist/FCC chair Ajit Pai to explain why senior Federal Communications Commission officials for more than a year ...
As the rubble from the once-sure thing acquisition of Tribune Media continues to be cleaned up, another lawsuit, this one a class action brought by the law firm of Louisiana’s former Attorney-General, lands on ...
Be careful what you tweet. It could come back to bite you. And Soledad O’Brien is paying attention. Over the weekend, a persistent topic on network and cable news in the wake of the ...
Gray Television already owns WDBJ in Roanoke, Va. And now it is buying two more in the neighborhood to create a new duopoly. Gray is buying WFFP in Danville and WLHG in Lynchburg from ...
A month after reports indicated that Yahoo Finance planned to launch a live streaming new network, the hiring is underway. Politico Morning Media reports that four tv news veterans have signed on to the ...
Fifty years just wasn’t enough for Dave Ward. The former KTRK news anchor who retired last year is coming back to the Disney-owned Houston station to launch a new weekly feature, “Dave Ward’s Houston.” ...
Two years after she left the weather desk and the entertainment beat behind, Victoria Sosa is returning to WNJU Telemundo 47 in New York. She’ll be the new co-host of weekday morning entertainment and ...
NBC News took advantage of some infrastructure left behind by resident at that New Mexico compound that was raided by authorities last week to give viewers an inside glimpse of the place. Gadi Schwartz, ...
Andrew Wyatt is the new general manager for Nexstar’s WDVM in Hagerstown, MD, replacing 40-year veteran Hugh Breslin, who is retiring. Wyatt, who is already on the job, came from Raycom’s WFXG in Augusta, ...
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Manuel Rivera debuted this week as the news 5, 5:30, 6 and 11 pm sports anchor and reporter for KBLR Telemundo Las Vegas. Rivera previously worked as a sports anchor for shows such as ...
We can’t help it, when we saw this story, we just started imagining the entire news crew singing this while on tour. Forget traditional introductions. When Nexstar’s KARK in Little Rock brought on new ...
None of the rules apply to this guy. We can’t help but notice the softball pieces being churned out these days about Bill Shine, the newly-minted communications director for the Administration – pieces like ...
For the past 15 years, “Get Marty” has been a signature consumer advocacy franchise for CBS-owned KDKA in Pittsburgh. No more. Reporter Marty Griffin left the station at the end of the July for ...
Emily Florez, a reporter and sometime news anchor for NBC’s WMAQ in Chicago won’t be returning from maternity leave after all. She’s been on that leave since February. Florez announced on Facebook that she ...
NBCUniversal will break ground on a new, combined media center for its Boston area properties in Needham, MA next week. NBC will take over the old General Dynamics building in Needham and re-purpose it. ...
Even conspiracy-addicted “news” blogsites have limitations – apparently. Last year Lucas Wintrich created a sensation when, as a new hire for tinfoil-hat site “Gateway Pundit,” he managed to score a White House press pass, ...
Disney’s WABC in New York has a new assistant news director. Elizabeth Flores makes the trip north from Miami where she’s been the Assistant ND at NBC O&O WTVJ. In a remarkable coincidence, she once ...
The revolving door keeps turning at NBC Sports Philadelphia where the latest exit is Rob Ellis. Ellis spent the past 17 years at NBC Sports Philly and its predecessor Comcast Sportsnet. His contract was ...
After three years at Sinclair’s WTVC in Chattanooga, TN, Katherine Marchand is recharging her batteries before she starts up at Disney’s KTRK in Houston. She left Chattanooga at the end of July “The last ...
It’s all well and good to hire legal eagles to sue someone. Just remember to pay them. That apparently, is the problem facing former WTSP chief meteorologist Jim Van Fleet. Back in 2016, Van ...
One of the world’s biggest hedge funds now owns a big chunk of the parent company of the Nielsen ratings service and is urging the company to put itself on the block. Elliott Management ...
Jerod Smalley, sports director for Nexstar’s WCMH in Columbus, OH considers himself a lucky guy Last Thursday, he suffered a stroke, and over the weekend discovered that he has a hole in his heart. ...
Kim Passoth signed off from her weekend anchor slot at Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta and is headed home to Los Angeles. Passoth, who spent three years CBS 46, is going to work for the ...
Some of us have been working on “farther” and “further” all our lives and still have to stop and think about it, Mrs. B included. “Farther” is a distance word: >I can throw the ...
Evidently, while Sinclair expected a breakup with Tribune Media, it anticipated a “we can still be friends” parting – not a billion-dollar breach-of-promist lawsuit. And what promises to be some drawn-out litigation between the ...
Tracie McKinney gets her first ND position at Scripps’ KTNV-TV in Las Vegas, NV. She’s been the interim ND since Mike Dello Stritto left in June to become ND for KOVR/KMAX in Sacramento. McKinney most recently ...
It looks like Les Moonves’ days as CBS CEO may be numbered. There’s word that Shari Redstone, once closely aligned with Moonves and the majority stockholder of CBS, is shopping around for suggestions for ...
Congratulations to TRACI ZERAVICA who’s been promoted to Director of Content and Marketing for parent company Cowles. She’s been the ND at KHQ-TV in Spokane, WA for two years in her third stint at the station. (She earlier ...
Two Fox News veteran executives have new responsibilities with the network. Cherie Grzech, as the newly-named vice president of the Washington, D.C. Bureau, will oversee all departments within the bureau including editorial operations. Additionally, ...
A career in real estate awaits former WPEC anchor Eric Roby, who left the station after sitting in the morning anchor chair for 17 years. Roby signed off the Sinclair West Palm Beach, FL ...
Hearst’s WISN in Milwaukee is adding an hour-long newscast to the schedule beginning September 10 and so far we haven’t seen one single quote about how “this is to better serve the needs of ...
Weekend meteorologist Ray Petelin is headed for the door at Hearst’s WTAE in Pittsburgh. His contract was not renewed. “I’m on the schedule, right now, until mid-September,” said Petelin. “I don’t have immediate plans ...
CBS O&O WJZ in Baltimore unveiled their new set and it pretty much looks like most sets these days, complete with video walls. But it does have a glassed-in “green room” with a small, ...
A former local sportscaster for Tegna’s WLTX in Columbia, SC and sister station WTLV in Jacksonville, FL has been hired by the SEC Network as a host and anchor for its studio show programming ...
After 23 years at Tribune’s WTIC in Hartford, CT and a total of 45 years in the business, sportscaster Bob Rumbold says enough. “A big thank you goes out to the athletes and coaches ...
Mark Clegg was a more-than-familiar face during his 12 years anchoring at Scripps KSHB in Kansas City. He ended his 27-year tv news career back in 2014 and, by all accounts, he never looked ...
Here’s a way to start the weekend. Jump out of a plane. WRAL meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner took the leap Friday as she jumped out of a perfectly serviceable airplane with the U.S. Army Golden ...
Watch the billable hours mount up. On the same conference call yesterday during which Tribune Media announced it was pulling out of the $3.9 billion deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group, it also announced it ...
A couple of Democrats on the House committee that oversees the FCC is urging the commission to investigate reports that Sinclair conspired to raise ad rates with other broadcasters. Reps. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) ...
A former Milwaukee television reporter has reached a plea deal for punching a reporter from another station at a Brewers baseball game. Former WITI reporter Adair “A.J.” Bayatpour would avoid a felony record under ...
News director Dave Busiek has named Scott Reister the new sports director at Hearst’s KCCI in Des Moines, IA Reister replaces Andy Garman, who signed off last week to enter the wild world of ...
So far, the only person of note who approves of Laura Ingraham’s headlong descent into what can only be described as unfiltered white nationalism is….David Duke. Even Ingraham is now trying to walk back ...
As Disney’s swallowing of 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets moves forward there is a question that lingers…. What will happen to Fox’s 22 regional sports networks? We may know soon. Disney CEO Bob Iger ...
Conservative commentator S.E. Cupp is moving from CNN’s after-thought subsidiary HLN to the big room. Just a year after it launched on HLN as a Monday-Thursday early prime-time offering, it will move into a ...
Days after Google, YouTube, Facebook and Apple booted performance artist/conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his InfoWars web of tinfoil-hat sites, the app for accessing the sites is trending across the country. On Wednesday, InfoWars ...
The endless “drip-drip” drain of Univision executives and talent continues with the layoff of Merijoel Durán, morning anchor at WXTV Univision 41 in New York. Durán’s position was eliminated as part of the recent ...
A new anchor showed up this morning on Baltimore’s WJZ, a CBS O&O. Nicole Baker came to the station after three years with Hearst’s WJCL in Savannah, GA. Baker previously worked in Rhinelander, WI. ...
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Judge Andrew Napolitano is going against the knee-jerk reaction of Fox’s primetime entertainment hosts. The Fox News legal analyst criticized U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III for his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s ...
María Pérez is the newest member of the KTLM Telemundo 40 in Rio Grande City, TX She’ll be the 11 am weather forecaster for the station, replacing Lluvia Vidaña, who moves to the 5 ...
The management structure at Tegna’s WKYC in Cleveland, OH is undergoing some earth-shaking changes. Adam Miller has been named Director of Content for the station. He’s spent pretty much his entire career at the “Today ...
UPDATE: Tribune Media Co. on Thursday said it has terminated its agreement to be acquired by Sinclair Broadcast Group and filed a breach of contract lawsuit against Sinclair. The suit seeks compensation for losses incurred ...
There’s a question that’s been making the rounds quite a bit in recent months as the exchange of shots between the Administration and CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent. On the one hand, yes, he ...
When the midterms comes in three months, CBS News veteran Mary Hager will oversee the production of the network’s multiplatform coverage. CBS News president David Rhodes, finally able to report some good news, said ...
This time it’s John Eck who, as Chief Local Media Officer, was in charge of the troubled company’s 126 tv and radio stations nationwide. He’ll be gone by the end of the month. He’s ...
Another CBS exec is taking a shot at social media as Nancy Han leaves her position as senior producer of “CBS News This Morning” for the past two years. She’ll be the executive producer ...
It’s six years and out for Martin Berlanga, anchor at Telemundo’s KTMD in Houston. I’ve been lived through one of the best times in KTMD’s history and I wish all my colleagues the best,” ...
While Megyn Kelly makes a hash of the ratings of her old “Today Show” timeslot, Tamron Hall is moving on to new projects. Hall lost her “Today” hour when NBC News boss Andrew Lack ...
Longtime KUSA anchor TaRhonda Thomas is Philadelphia-bound. She’s been a fixture on Tegna’s KUSA in Denver for the past 11 years, but the upside of the move couldn’t be ignored. “It’s a great opportunity ...
Fox-owned KTVU is using a temporary set as the primary studio undergoes a facelift in anticipation of the station’s 60th birthday. You’ll see when it’s closer to sweeps. Of course. ———– Yes, those video ...
As performance artist Alex Jones continues to demand that the White House and the Republican Party step in to get his shoddy act back on social media, and his ex-wife contends the ban seems ...
For more than 30 years, Jose Barbosa held forth as one of Chicago’s foremost Hispanic-language broadcast journalists. That comes to an end on Friday, when he steps down from his 5 and 10 pm ...
KMSP meteorologist Steve Frazier lost his long battle with cancer on Wednesday. Frazier learned three years ago he had pancreatic cancer. Twice he came close to death and rebounded. He lost 90 pounds. He ...
I know you hear it in songs and on soaps, even occasionally from the hallowed mouth of a network correspondent, but “between you and I” is WRONG. “Between” is a preposition. It takes an ...
Jennifer Lyons is stepping down as ND for Chicago’s WGN after four years in the top job and almost 25 years at that Tribune owned station. In her four years, she guided Chicago’s busiest television news ...
Despite their stated devotion to the Constitution, it appears that a plurality of Republicans would be ok with giving the Trump Administration the power to shut down certain news outlets. That’s the finding from ...
But granting victim status to performance artist/conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is a non-starter. Jones shares a misconception with many that the First Amendment grants the unfettered ability to say whatever the hell you want ...
Yesterday we told you about the abrupt departure of two news directors and shared the rather terse dismissal letter regarding Scott Levy, late of KCTV. Today, there is more to share regarding the unexpected ...
After a nine-year run, Fox News foreign correspondent Conor Powell is leaving. Powell made his departure public via Facebook post last week., noting that he will head back to the U.S. in “the coming ...
Fox News already has Conor Powell’s replacement on board. Trey Yingst, who has served as One America News Network’s chief White House correspondent since June 2016 is headed for the Jerusalem bureau and, most ...
Patricia Maese, weekday anchor at Sinclair’s KDBC in El Paso for the past four years, seems to have up and gone –voluntarily or otherwise. Her bio has been wiped from the station’s website. This ...
This year’s Three Rivers Regatta here in Da Burgh is over and still, longtime KDKA reporter Dave Crawley still isn’t back on the job.. Last year at this time, Crawley was kneeling on a ...
For the first time in five years, Tracye Hutchens (left) returned to the morning shift at Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta, paired with Gurvir Dhindsa, Julie Smith, and Jennifer Valdez. She swapped places with Shon ...
KOMU morning meteorologist Tori Stepanek has left the station after ten years, declaring on Facebook she is returning to campus. “I can honestly say I’ve loved every moment I’ve spent in this building and ...
We told you a week ago about Yuma reporter Vanessa Dillon’s arrest on a domestic violence charge. Now, the investigative reporter for News Press and Gazette’s KYMA has resigned, according to the station. She ...
Dallas news viewers, mark March 2019 on your calendar. That is when an era ends at Tegna’s WFAA when veteran anchor John McCaa plans to hang it up and make his exit. He’s going ...
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Last December, after 15 years as an anchor and reporter at CBS O&O KCNC, Denver news veteran Tom Mustin was kicked to the curb. He got up, dusted himself off and is joining Scripps’ ...
Meisha Johnson’s next act will involve, in her words, “ministry, advocacy, and philanthropy within the media space,” and will evidently keep her in Philadelphia. She’s leaving CBS O&O KYW after three-plus years as the ...
Scott Levy, who’s been the news director for Meredith’s KCTV in Kansas City since August, 2016, has left the station. The other Meredith news directors learned of the change in a remarkably terse email from ...
