Only time will tell if getting booted from a public Rose Garden event is good for your career. But it sure as hell raises your profile. Reporters continue to line up to support CNN ...
Speaking of Lou Dobbs and his concern for the lack of decorum and deference on the part of journalists toward the president…. Back in 2012, Neil Munro, formerly of “The Daily Caller” (the same ...
While Lou tries to remember where he stands on any particular hot-button issue, let’s turn to Shep Smith, Fox’s breaking news anchor whose continued existence at the network has got to set some of ...
As the mid-term elections draw nigh, many of us are already dreading the onslaught of political commercials that come with it. At stations owned by Graham Media, there are plans to provide more in-depth ...
Self-regarding tv personality Britt McHenry has found her next gig. She’s joining Fox Nation, the new 24-hour digital streaming service of Fox News, which so far consists of a box asking for viewer emails ...
Dad always used to tell us kids “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride,’ an aphorism we couldn’t understand at six years of age and hit us like a brick when we were in ...
Now that it’s safe to take a job at a Tribune station with the onus of a Sinclair takeover removed, Little Rock reporter Charmaine Nero is taking an MMJ job at Sacramento’s KTXL – ...
After an extended absence, including a recent stint as news anchor with Nexstar’s WFXR in Roanoke, VA, Alexan Balekian is back in the Fresno, CA market, anchoring weekends for the KGPE part of Nexstar’s ...
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 ...
Gray Television’s KXII in Sherman, TX moved up sports anchor-reporter Jeremy Thomas to the AM anchor chair this week, and he can thank the boss’ wife. It’s the second time around in the news ...
Morning meteorologist Darren Peck signed off this week after seven years with Tribune’s KTXL in Sacramento, headed for Seattle, gray skies and Tegna’s KING. During a farewell segment on the program, Peck shared a ...
For a guy who loves to dish it out, Mr. Trump has a tough time taking it. After she asked a series of questions about the public airing of the recording between him and ...
A day after Mr. Trump attacked the FCC over its all-but-certain killing of the Sinclair-Tribune deal, industry lobbyist/FCC chair Ajit Pai assured a congressional committee that the commission stands by its decision and that ...
A Bay area television station is in some very hot water over a story and picture that ran on its noon news July 23rd. And now leaders of the National Association of Black Journalists ...
As outfits like Facebook, Google, Twitter and other Silicon Valley tech companies continue dabbling in what they think is news, they are finding they have to compromise on their early, absolutist view of free ...
We agree with the Lost Ogle blog – there is only so much time you can spend with “family and friends” before it becomes, first, distracting; second, enervating and finally, somewhat maddening. Especially if ...
Roughly 250 people got pink-slipped yesterday as Univision continues its reshaping in an effort to survive. We say roughly because the best estimate is that 6% of the company’s workforce is being laid off. ...
Dirk Rowley evidently decided that four years of hosting one of those headache-inducing pay-to-play “lifestyle” programs was enough and he’s taking a walk across the street to take a job as news anchor. He’s ...
Back in February, Rick Cabrera stepped down from the anchor desk at News-Press & Gazette’s KVIA in El Paso, TX, calling it a “scary decision.” “Scary” because he had been with the station for ...
WVTM anchor Lisa Crane is adding the title of producer to her resume. This fall, the Hearst station in Birmingham, AL is launching a quarterly locally-focused magazine show called “WTVM 13 Chronicle.” Crane will ...
Another one of the Hearst “Chronicle” programs also made a change this week. For WCVB reporter Nicole Estaphan, it’s a return to the program where she was once an intern. She’s already on the ...
WABC News managing editor Marilu Galvez is moving over from the news side to become the Disney flagship’s vice president of community relations and development. Galvez will be responsible for developing new community outreach ...
Walter Evans spent the better part of 30 years reporting and anchoring the news at KDFW in Dallas, now a Fox O&O. As a young radio newsman, he covered the Kennedy assassination in Dallas ...
Shelley Childers is the newest freelance MMJ at Disney’s KTRK in Houston, TX. Childers previously worked at Scripps’ WXYZ in Detroit where she also reported. It’s a homecoming for the Texas native who is ...
A Charlotte anchor/reporter gets us going today. Part of his e-mail to Mrs. B made her juices flow: Now what do we do with HIGH ranking politicians who say “physical” when they mean “fiscal”? ...
Cox Media Group is one of the most-respected groups out there these days, but at 14 TV stations, is finding it difficult to go up against behemoths like Nexstar and Sinclair and even Gray-Raycom ...
If Fox News is his favorite information source and personal ego masseuse, Sinclair is Donald Trump’s go-to local station owner. Ever since his son, Junior and Sinclair CEO David Smith cut a pre-election deal ...
Over the past couple of days, it has become clear that Kimberly Guilfoyle’s exit from Fox News did not trigger a lot of tears at the network…and more than a few smiles. Guilfoyle’s exit ...
We ran across an op-ed that asked the question “At What Point Does Lou Dobbs Become an Actual Liability For Fox?” In recent months Dobbsy has suggested the White House assign someone to slap ...
Robert Feder reports that a former web manager for CBS O&O WBBM is now the general manager of digital for Weigel Broadcasting. Michael Gay most recently was vice president of content for Inform Inc., ...
Tegna’s WHAS in Louisville, KY is losing a familiar face. Morning anchor Renee Murphy announced this week that as of Friday she is out of the anchor chair, out of the station and out ...
Sharp-eyed viewers who have mornings free to dial around the network morning talk offerings should be forgiven if they have a sense of déjà vu when taking in the just-revamped backdrop of NBC’s “Megyn ...
The door out of the executive suite continues to revolve at Univision. The latest to go is Chief Revenue Officer Tonia O’Connor, who spent ten years with the company. She just took on the ...
The number will cause nightmares across the cable industry, traditional television and ripple out through marketers. Cord-cutting is outpacing the best industry estimates and is on track this year to reach 33 million adults ...
Matt Lauer is singing “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me” as he begins to rise back into radar range. In a new interview, Lauer contends he’s an easy mark and being taken advantage in the wake ...
Fox-owned WTTG in Washington, DC has expanded its “Like It Or Not,” from a weekly to a daily program, starting this week. The expansive cast includes ESPN alums Bram Weinstein and Britt McHenry as ...
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 ...
Brittany Decker, who’s been the weekend anchor and a reporter for Hearst’s WVTM in Birmingham, AL since 2016, is moving up at the station. The boss is excited. “We’re excited to add Brittany to ...
After spending the past three years working on building his own business specializing in marketing, advertising and consulting, Javier Castro has returned to tv news. He’s now an MMJ with WUVP, Univision 65 in ...
That’s the question we have for Abby Huntsman, currently a weekend denizen of the kurvy kouch and thus, on the second line of the Three Dumbest People On Television. She’s evidently in talks to ...
This week in news directing began with a bang… First: From Seattle, KIRO News Director Jake Milstein is leaving the Cox owned station later this week for a ‘new adventure’. Here’s the very classy note he ...
Janet Hundley has been named VP/News for WVIT, the NBC owned station in Hartford. Here’s the note from General Manager Susan Tully (herself a former ND in Dallas) to the staff. Janet most recently was ND ...
Jocelyn Dorsey, the first African-American to regularly anchor an Atlanta newscast, is retiring after 45 years with Cox-owned WSB. Dorsey joined the station when she was just 23, after an eight-month stint at a ...
A new round of promotions and additions was announced for the Washington D.C. Bureau of NBC News. NBC News vet Tony Capra is the newly-minted director of newsgathering for the division. Capra’s been with ...
Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott’s ability to harness conspiracy theorists, aspiring white nationalists and cranky curmudgeons into a winning prime-time line-up of Administration sycophants has landed her in the top 100 of AdWeek’s fourth ...
They promise it will be “highly graphical.” “Richly informative.” “Continuous.” Feeling lightheaded yet? Say buh-bye to a well-known DC news brand. WJLA announced Monday that sister cable news station NewsChannel 8 will be known ...
Former New Orleans Saints running back and Hall of Famer Deuce McAllister is joining Raycom’s WVUE in New Orleans, as the replacement for longtime sportscaster Jim Henderson. “When Jim let us know he would ...
Aaron Wische continues his move up the ladder at Houston’s KPRC. He’s now the Assistant News Director for this Graham Media owned station in his hometown. He had been the Senior EP of Special Projects ...
There’s another Houston management hire, as Oscar Garcia becomes the new nightside executive producer for KRIV, the FOX owned station there. Earlier this month we reported his departure from Tegna’s KIII in Corpus Christi after two ...
Nicole Warren has been promoted to Assistant ND at WTNH in New Haven. She had been the executive producer for that Nexstar owned station, and previously worked for six years at WTIC there. Nicole’s also worked as ...
Sarkes Tarzian’s WRCB is playing chessmaster with both talent and its daily news schedule before falls rolls around. On the talent side, reporter Tim Pham will cut back on some reporting duties so that ...
Longtime Milwaukee investigative reporter Colleen Henry retired from Hearst’s WISN last week. Her plan is to spend more time with her husband, Milwaukee attorney Steve Kohn, had been battling cancer. He too retired from ...
Dear Mrs. B, Please try to put out a missive on “hard” versus “difficult.” I must say I enjoy your daily lesson. Life just got simpler. “Hard” and “difficult” are synonyms. Use whichever you ...
Four high-profile critics of the now-all-but-dead Sinclair-Tribune merger are urging members of the Tribune board to make it official: Withdraw from the deal. Public Knowledge President Gene Kimmelman, Brian Hess, executive director of the ...
After the initial reports made it seem that Kimberly Guilfoyle’s departure from Fox News was due to a really swell opportunity to hook up with a Trump PAC and work even closer with her ...
Congratulations to Matt Van Slyke who gets his first ND job at Morgan Murphy Media’s duopoly KAPP/KVEW in Yakima, WA. He’s been the Assistant ND at KSBY in San Luis Obispo and has worked in San Francisco (two ...
Former KGO sportscaster Mike Shumann is letting a Facebook post do all the talking. Shumann, who left the station in May after 24 years on the job, and one week after he was accused ...
Sacramento reporter Tom Miller served up mixed emotions and cake as he posted to Facebook his plans to leave Hearst’s KCRA for a job in Austin, TX, from whence he came “I’ve made wonderful ...
If Sara Haines hadn’t decided to leave “The View” before last week’s brawl between Whoopi Goldberg and book-touting Judge Jeanine, she certainly would have had reason to get out after that unfortunate incident. Haines ...
It’s bigger, it’s curved, it’s even MORE seamless. It’s the latest video wall unveiled on “ABC World News Tonight.” The older one – big, flat and, well seamless – debuted a week before being ...
Pat Boone (no, not that one) liked Palo Alto, CA so much after moving there two years ago, he wants to run for city council. “It just feels like I’ve lived here all my ...
Ana Guerra debuted last week as the new morning anchor at KTAZ Telemundo Phoeniz. She’s currently doing morning cut-ins and co-anchoring the midday newscast. She replaces Jimena González, who left the station. Guerra previously ...
Phoenix is losing one of its more well-known and colorful personalities next month when reporter Mike Watkiss leaves Meredith duopoly KPHO/KTVK after 22 years. Don’t count on any on-air tributes. “I hope not, I ...
Sources tell us that after four years covering the Fighting Irish and other local teams, Eli Gehn has exited Gray’s WNDU in South Bend and is headed for Lexington, KY. Earlier this year, Angelo ...
WNEP, the Tribune station in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton PA, prides itself on its weekly “Talkback Feedback” segment, where the station responds to viewer calls left on its “Talkback 16” line throughout the week. As if viewers ...
“The Daily Beast” is reporting that “60 Minutes” executive producer Jeff Fager hired a high-powered Washington law firm known for its ability to “kill stories” when it seemed the “Washington Post” was conducting an ...
What looked for the past year like a sweetheart deal simply being held up by bureaucratic red tape and mere technicalities that were going to swept aside is now looking more like a romance ...
Comcast evidently didn’t feel the bidding war was worth it – either that or it took a look at recent developments with DOJ-AT&T and FCC-Sinclair and figured “the hell with this.” In any event, ...
The Department of Justice is in a hurry to get its appeal of the AT&T-Time Warner merger underway. The longer it takes, the more what is now known as “Warner Media” becomes entrenched So ...
The saga of Nexstar’s troubled WHTM in Harrisburg-York, PA just won’t quit. “The Philadelphia Inquirer” provides a scoring update on the station where at least 10 employees — seven women and three men — ...
Twenty-six years ago, Linda Cohn anchored her first “Sportscenter” on ESPN when women working in sports were curiosities. That 26-year streak, a record for “Sportscenter” hosts, is only going to get longer as Cohn ...
The journalists of Fox News are increasingly pushing back against the daily Trump anti-press tirades, even though the trend hasn’t spread to the vaudevillian sycophants of their prime-time and early morning opinion-based programming. The ...
CNN President Jeff Zucker announced Thursday he is taking a six-week medical leave for heart surgery. In fall of 2010, Zucker was diagnosed with a heart condition known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition in ...
We have a personal Twitter account for one reason and one reason alone – to keep up with journalists and the work they are doing. We rarely look at the comments section because we ...
Hearst’s Jackson, MS general manager thinks it’s time to step up and speak out about recent violence and threats again journalists. WAPT GM Mike Neelly believes viewers should recognize that the recent violence against ...
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 ...
In addition to hosting KTAB 4U and co-anchoring the 5 pm news, anchor-reporter Stacie Wirmel is adding the 10 pm newscast to her daily duties. Oh, and she will continue to report. She’s been ...
Jeff Anderson is the new general manager for Gray Television’s WKYT in Lexington, KY. He had been the station’s director of local and digital sales for the past four and a half years. Chris ...
We’ve lost count of how many times Sinclair Broadcast Group tried to re-jigger its deal to acquire Tribune Media over the past 14 months, but we’re in the ball park when we say we’re ...
According to The Lost Ogle blog, it’s 23 years and out for Lance “Danger” West, anchor/reporter for Tribune’s KFOR. West suddenly stepped down Tuesday afternoon, just hours after a short-lived Twitter account named “JustaGirl35” ...
Alexander von Lichtenberg is in at Nexstar’s WFFF-WVNY duopoly in Burlington, VT after spending 23 years in the Boston market with Univision, Entravision and Telemundo.. He’s the new vice-president and GM at the station. ...
Justin Andrews, morning show reporter for Meredith’s KMOV in St. Louis for the past three years, is on the mend following a fire in his downtown St. Louis apartment. The fire broke out Tuesday ...
Just a year after he took over hosting duties of “Midday Maryland”, another of those execrable “pay to play” program, this one on Scripps’ WMAR in Baltimore, MD Wyatt Everhart is turning his back ...
Paula Faris and ABC News announced Wednesday that she’ll be departing “The View” and “Good Morning America Weekend.” She’s staying with ABC News, however and will begin a new role with ABC News that ...
After two years of working for sister stations KNWA-KFTA in northwest Arkansas, Hilary Hunt is resurfacing on Nexstar’s KARK-KLRT combo in Little Rock, AR as the replacement for anchor-reporter Victoria Price, who is moving ...
Younger news viewers have long been “The Today Show’s” jam, as the kids say these days. That includes cord-cutters, and the franchise wants to make sure it can reach them. With that in mind, ...
It’s a homecoming for Angelina Armendáriz, who is starting a new position as an MMJ for Univision 23 (WLTV) in Dallas after 3 and a half years at Telemundo 40 (KTLM) in McAllen, TX. ...
There’s another exit at Nexstar’s KSNW in Wichita, KS – out of the station and out of the business. Weekend morning meteorologist Katie Western is exiting after two years to go into teaching. Western ...
Ned Perme, who’s been forecasting weather for Sinclair’s KATV for the past 34 years in Little Rock, AR says it’s time to move on. Perme began his broadcast career in 1977 in Mobile, AL ...
The real-life inspiration for Ron Burgundy is trying his hand at comedy. Former Detroit news anchor Mort Crim, who retired from WDIV in 1997 and has earned the honorific “legendary,” is set to guest ...
We start today’s lesson with a little friendly jabbing in the form of e-mail to Mrs. B. This is from a spam I received today. Pretty good! “Have you ever looked at consultants’ rates ...
24 hours and a stock hammering later, courtesy of industry lobbyist/FCC chair Ajit Pai, the suits at Tribune Media emerged from the bunker to register their disappointment with Pai’s judgement that Sinclair was playing ...
A Republican President with whom it had been cuddling, a Republican Congress, Republican control of the FCC and the Department of Justice. What could possibly go wrong? “Politico” has a pretty good take on ...
Sally Momdooh is returning to the Houston market as a reporter for Graham Media’s KPRC. She’s coming from Scripps KMGH in Denver where she’s spent the past three years. Judging from her heartfelt Instagram ...
How bad did it go in Helsinki? The Administration played a walkback two-step Tuesday as Mr. Trump told a hastily-assembled White House press corps he has full faith in US intelligence agencies and their ...
KSNW in Wichita is showing off its new set and one of the available Nexstar graphics packages. The set was designed by the Nexstar in-house design team and features…you guessed it…LED video panels and ...
Now this is “Real News.” AND “Real Honest Opinion.” A vandal/graffiti wanna-be named “thrashbird” took to a Los Angeles billboard to express their opinion of Fox News. The vandal changed the new Fox slogan ...
