Dear Diary, Today was my first day on my new job and I was so excited I could burst. Instead my pants did. Thanks to my wonderful co-anchor who captured it for Instagram so ...
A loyal reader requests that Mrs. B address her number one pet peeve. “Please explain the difference between bring and take so I can stop yelling at the TV.” OK, this lesson is for ...
To say that industry lobbyist/FCC Chairman Ajit Pai surprised the hell out of everybody is putting it mildly. Sinclair and Tribune stock took a nosedive Monday on Pai’s news, down 12 and 17 percent ...
Pai’s recent discovery of Sinclair’s habit of “selling” stations to owners who then simply turn that facilities back to Sinclair to operate and his designation of the shady practice as potentially illegal sent blood ...
Since Fox News is, without question, the favored network of this Administration, often appearing to be directing government policy from the kurvy kouch or the anchor desk, how did Mr. Trump’s Helsinki performance play ...
The disastrous reviews from the reliably pliant Fox News staff set the White House scrambling in full damage control mode. In his first public statement since his WTF presser following the “summit” with Russian ...
While Hannity was playing the poodle to Mr. Trump, Chris Wallace of “Fox News Sunday” was playing bulldog to Vladimir Putin in another Fox News exclusive. After the love-in with Mr. Trump, Putin sat ...
Jai Cunningham has been on the staff of Nexstar’s KHON in Honolulu for 26 years, moving from sports reporter through reporter, anchor and morning-show host. Now he’s done, preparing to leave the business behind ...
Sources tell us that Dennis Lortz recently seems to have resurfaced as news director at family-owned WOAY in Oak Hill, VA. Lortz most recently was news director at Nexstar’s WOWK in Huntington-Charleston, W VA, ...
Chris Luther of Raycom’s WMC said station staff think the TV station was struck by lightning. WMC Chief Meteorologist Ron Childers confirmed the station took a direct hit from lightning. The signal froze for ...
McKinnon Broadcasting’s KUSI has hired Dani Ruberti as a weekday reporter and weekend morning weather anchor. For the past three years, she toiled away as weather anchor and MMJ at Gray Television’s WVLT in ...
The Sinclair-Trib bombshell from the FCC is just the latest monkey wrench thrown into the best-laid plans of the corporate types. The Department of Justice’s plan to appeal a judge’s decision in the AT&T-Time ...
This story and the next focus on personnel shuffles at Nexstar’s Little Rock AR operation Susanne Brunner resets her alarm clock with her new assignment as co-anchor of “KARK 4 Today,” starting next Monday ...
Ashlei King tweeted the news: “Officially in #Arkansas for good! Ready to start work tomorrow at @FOX16News!” She’s the new morning anchor at Little Rock’s KLRT. “Good Day” program airs from 7 a.m. to ...
Several readers have asked Mrs. B to refresh their memories on when to use “may” and “might.” One reader in particular pulled at Mrs.B’s heartstrings: “What’s up with may and might? I’m a former ...
A sharp-eyed NewsBlueser over the weekend drew our attention to something that has thus far escaped Reuters, Bloomberg and a host of other outlets that have reported on the pursuit of Nexstar by Apollo ...
Bari Soash stays within Raycom as she takes over the news department for WTOC in Savannah, GA. Here’s the staff email from GM Larry Silbermann. Bari is currently the ND for Raycom’s WALB in Albany, GA, ...
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman isn’t one to jump on a bandwagon. When everyone else was breathlessly reporting the alleged “stolen jacket’ incident that that eventually led to the firing of KGO sportscaster Mike ...
Another quarter-century run is over and out at Tegna’s WGRZ in Buffalo, NY where veteran weather guesser Kevin O’Connell is out. Contract negotiations ended rather abruptly after O’Connell testified for a law firm whom ...
NBC is actually bringing Megyn Kelly back to prime-time next month for at least one prime-time special. We don’t know why either. ———– NOBODY ASKED US BUT….. No Facebook, “Infowars” is not, and never ...
We kind of expected better from a Hearst outlet. It wasn’t that long ago that newspapers in 100+ Nielsen markets had an entertainment reporter who would pester news directors and station managers every time ...
The “CNN Money” brand’s days are numbered. By this fall, CNN will group together what was “CNN Money,” “CNN Media,” and “CNN Tech,” under the new branding of “CNN Business.” It also looks like ...
A lesson in the perils of using Facebook as a news source: Kelsey Kernstine, a reporter for News-Press and Gazette’s KMIZ in Columbia, MO found herself in deep water last week when a misread ...
Two management promotions at Sinclair’s WKEF in Dayton: Becky Gulden becomes Assistant ND. She had been an EP there. And Reba Chenoweth becomes an EP, she had been the Senior News Producer.
It’s been 14 months since Mr. Trump last sat down for an interview with a broadcast network anchor. Last time it was Lester Holt and NBC News. This time it’s Jeff Glor and the ...
Steve Koles is moving from Kalamazoo’s WWMT, a Sinclair operation, to become the director of news and digital content for Dispatch Broadcasting’s WBNS in Columbus, OH. He’s excited. And honored. “I am honored and ...
Julie Parise, who exited Weigel’s WDJT in Milwaukee, WI earlier this year, has turned up as director of broadcast services for a suburban Philadelphia PR firm with a worldwide clientele. In the post, Parise ...
Not one, but two…count ‘em TWO new co-anchors joined Anthony Mason at the desk on “CBS This Morning: Saturday.” Michelle Miller and Dana Jacobson showed up in what we can only guess is an ...
Writers’ Guild members at Fox flagship WNYW in New York have given a thumbs-up to a new collective bargaining agreement. Unanimously, and when was the last time you heard that about a group of ...
It’s been exactly one year to the day since we last reported a cross-town news director move. And that’s what we have this morning, with news that Keith Connors will be the next news ...
Evidently, Mr. Trump’s favorite news channel is a favorite of Russia’s Vladimir Putin After next week’s Putin-Trump summit in Helsinki, Finland, Putin will sit down with Fox News’ Chris Wallace for an exclusive one-on-one. ...
When we last saw KRIS anchor Stephania Jimenez, she was in the middle of a controversy when the late-evening newscast she was anchoring in Corpus Christi was interrupted by vulgar whispers. Now, she is ...
Maybe, just maybe, this Sinclair-Tribune deal will be resolved within our lifetime. A significant step by the Department of Justice is being reported that can help move things along. According to Fox Business Network, ...
We don’t expect the FCC and its industry apologist chairman to actually take this into consideration vis-à-vis the Sinclair-Trib deal, but it’s worth mentioning anyway. It appears that Sinclair’s marble-mouthed “chief political analyst” Boris ...
Augusta GA duopoly WRDW-WAGT will have a new home next year and a lot of big promises are coming with the new home. Gray Television broke ground Thursday on a new 30,000 square-foot facility. ...
AT&T wasted no time closing the deal with Time Warner soon after the judge in the antitrust case made his rulng on June 12. Time Warner is now Warner Media, a CEO named and ...
A sharp-eyed NewsBlueser sent this one along: Wednesday night night on the “CBS Evening News” reporter Nikki Battiste was identified in the chyron as being with “CBS Newspath” as opposed to just “CBS News.” ...
It’s one of the lesser examples of intra-party feuding in Washington, but in this case, it does represent a victory of sorts for the GOP establishment over the Trump wing. The House Appropriations Committee ...
Bloomberg Markets anchor Julia Chatterley is leaving the company to host a new program on CNN International beginning this fall. Chatterley hosted the daily “Bloomberg Markets” and “What’d You Miss?” shows. Chatterly began her ...
The CBS News Hub is a freshly renovated newsroom in New York City that creates a new open workspace for all of its programming. Division president David Rhodes invited the staff to a brief ...
She’s still got the job but the audience…well that’s another matter. Joy Reid appears to have survived the turmoil surrounding the avalanche of her old homophobic blog posts that had resurfaced in recent months. ...
Come Monday, CW viewers in Cleveland, OH will be looking at a new station as the network affiliation moves. Raycom’s WUAB is the new CW affiliate as of Monday. As a result, the WOIO-produced ...
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 ...
Robert Feder reports that Chicago news anchor Hosea Sanders’ 61st birthday was a quiet one as he spent the day at home yesterday. Sanders is recovering from what he called “serious abdominal surgery.” The ...
That rumbling you hear is the earth shaking a little bit as Nexstar stock rocketed upward Wednesday on reports that it may be the target of a buyout effort. Reuters reported that private equity ...
Sinclair Broadcast Group is planning to launch a streaming TV service this year that could create a new competitor for Fox News. The free streaming app, called STIRR, would house a 24/7 TV channel ...
Heartland Media ain’t no Sinclair, or even Nexstar. But the 11-station group has its own ambitious plans on both the OTT and voice platforms. Lisa Bishop, Heartland’s chief digital officer, says its strategy is ...
Indiana’s Attorney-General Curtis Hill is in a lot of hot water over allegations that he inappropriately touched four women at a bar in March. So who does he turn to? Hill announced Wednesday that ...
In the manner of Oprah, cable network executives seem to periodically line up their staffs and shout “You get a show, you get a show, you get a show, EVERYBODYYYYY GETS A SHOW!” MSNBC ...
21st Century Fox on Wednesday fired the opening salvo in the bidding war for Europe’s pay tv service Sky TV by offering more than $18 a share, about a 12% increase of Comcast’s latest ...
Lauren Sivan, a freelance reporter for Fox-owned KTTV in Los Angeles says she’s been frozen out of assignments since she came forward last October as one of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers. Sivan told TheWrap that ...
Janessa Webb, an on-air certified meteorologist for the past three years for Scripps’ WEWS in Cleveland is signing on to NBC News. Beginning later this summer, Webb will contribute to “Early Today” and across ...
Facebook Watch’s initial lineup of programs won’t even debut until next week and already, more programs are being added to the lineup. The social network on Wednesday announced a fresh slate of programs from ...
35 years is enough for KTVI chief meteorologist Dave Murray. So he’s planning to step down from that role at the St. Louis Tribune station in September. Morning meteorologist Glenn Zimmerman will into Murray’s ...
With Christiane Amapour now elevated to something called “chief international anchor”, CNN felt the need to have a new “chief international correspondent” in place , filling Amanpour’s old title. Clarissa Ward gets the nod. ...
Oh here we go. Monday night, Fox News anchor Shannon Bream fled to the confines of the studio, abandoning her plans to go live on the steps of the Supreme Court following the season ...
Mrs. B is fixing to get herself in trouble. But one thing Mrs. B is not is cowardly. From an anonymous correspondent: “Mrs. B, I must ask about the line quoted below. I was ...
More than four decades in the broadcasting business will come to a close when Ed Munson steps down as general manager of Meredith’s Phoenix duopoly KPHO/KTVK on September 7. Under Munson’s leadership since 2008, ...
Tegna is moving (and promoting) its KUSA Denver director of advertising and promotion to Houston. Bobby Springer will work alongside current KHOU GM Susan McEldoon from August 1st until the end of the year, ...
Back in March, comedian/tv host/entrepreneur and all-around busy guy Byron Allen added The Weather Channel to his expanding media portfolio. Now, TWC’s chief operating officer Freddy Flaxman has decided to leave the company. Chief ...
There are a lot of “me-too”-ers clamoring to jump on the bandwagon to urge the FCC to delay…again…its long-delayed decision on the Sinclair-Tribune merger. NABET-CWA, NTCA—The Rural Broadband Association, and Newsmax are among the ...
We see that “The Hill” has an opinion piece based on the premise that NBC News is in a sorry state these days. Well, starting with “Megyn Kelly Today” as a $20 million boondoggle, ...
“Your Morning Albany,” is the new weekday morning newscast that debuted this week on Spectrum News Albany. The hour-long program airs weekdays at 7 am and is co-anchored by Spectrum veteran Julie Chapman and ...
Financial challenges continue to bedevil Univision. Now the company, which had hoped to stake a claim in the digital universe, is considering dumping the assets that would have been the core of that strategy. ...
Nexstar’s WTEN in Albany has named Samantha DiMascio as the station’s new weekend anchor. She’s been with the station since 2015 as morning reporter. She previously worked across the street at Hubbard’s WNYT as ...
A new face will soon “Wake Up Wisconsin” on Quincy Media’s WKOW in Madison, WI. Current anchor Dani Maxwell isn’t leaving the station, but she is moving up into a management role as the ...
Not that it will make a dime’s worth of difference, but the Communications Workers of America is firmly declaring that D.C. Appeals Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh should not be allowed to join the Supreme ...
Last week we reported on the shuttering of Channel One, the classroom-oriented news operation run by Houghton Mifflin, largely due to several pearl-clutching parent groups appalled at the two minutes of commercials that were ...
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 ...
“I consider myself an underdog,” he exclusively told AJC blogger Rodney Ho. “I think CBS46 is the same. Throughout my career, it’s been nice to prove people wrong.” So now you know. Roberts doesn’t ...
Kelly Ripa, Ryan Seacrest and the kids from “The View” are taking a trip to downtown New York – along with the rest of Walt Disney’s Big Apple operations. Robert A. Iger, chairman and ...
Andrea Parquet-Taylor has been named VP/Station Manager for KTVT/KTXA in Dallas/Ft. Worth. She’s been the news director at this CBS owned duopoly since January, 2017, and has a long career in news. Parquet-Taylor’s been an ND ...
The naming of Brett Kavanaugh for the US Supreme Court as “Survivor: SCOTUS” closed out this season was to be the occasion of a live broadcast of the late Fox News newscast featuring Shannon ...
Talk about “Breathless in Atlanta!” This is about the third or fourth “confirmation” that former MSNBC and CNN anchor Thomas Roberts has been hired by Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta as its new main anchor. ...
CBS is strengthening its coverage of the Trump White House by elevating Weijia Jiang to the role of CBS News White House correspondent. Jiang will report daily for all CBS broadcasts and platforms, including ...
Former KSDK and KMOV reporter Ruth Ezell is going Wilde in St. Louis this week. She’s one of the cast members in a local theater production of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” ...
Paul Folger, currently an anchor at Hearst’s KOCO in Oklahoma City, OK is preparing for a move north. He’ll start August 1st as the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. newscast anchor at Hubbard’s KSTP ...
Seven months after he retired as news anchor at Tribune’s WGN, Mark Suppelsa and his wife, Candus, put Chicago in their rear-view mirror and headed for Montana over the weekend. They’ve long had a ...
Back in February 2017, Josh Elliott, once a rising star at ABC and ESPN, then an underused asset at NBC News, made a controversial departure from CBS News just 11 months after arriving at ...
Sports anchor Taylor Tennebaum let her Huntsville, AL audience know over the weekend via social media that she is “outta there” and headed to Indianapolis. She’s leaving Tribune’s WHNT to take on the sports ...
Four Gray Television regional vice-presidents who were still running one local station while juggling corporate duties can focus on the larger task. Gray hired GMs for the four stations where the veeps were still ...
WMBF in Myrtle Beach, SC, has filled its Digital Content Manager opening by promoting Brad Dickerson. He’s been a digital content producer for that Raycom station.
Bryanna Gallagher joins the news team at Tribune’s WPMT in Harrisburg, PA, where she will be a reporter. Previously, Gallagher spent a year and a half as the weekday evening news anchor/producer for Northwest ...
Let’s go over a few pronunciation stumbles today. From Hartford we get this: “…. the word THE. I always thought it is pronounced THUH before words beginning with a consonant, an THEE before words ...
Sinclair Broadcast Group assures us that the “sky is not falling” because of its proposed, yet long-delayed, purchase of Tribune Media. The FCC’s voluntary merger review “shot clock” has been on pause since January ...
Uncle Barky reports from DFW that KXAS weekend evening anchor/reporter Cory Smith will be leaving the Fort Worth-based NBC O&O when his contract expires at the end of this year. And his replacement is ...
Sinclair’s WACH in Columbia, SC is looking for a new news director. The ad is out there. A search shows that Darryl Huger had been ND there since July, 2015.
Matt Goldberg, currently the Assistant News Director for KNBC in Los Angeles, has a new job. He’s off to New York (where his fiancee lives) to become VP/Content Strategy for the NBC owned stations. Here’s the ...
Veteran broadcaster Dick Reingold is headed to WHEC in Rochester, NY, as its next general manager. Here’s the official word. That ‘official word’ has details on Dick’s extensive background, including a GM in a number of ...
Stephanie Cutter, the former Deputy Campaign Manager for Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign is taking her talent for bloviating to ABC News, exiting CNN after five years. We’re informed that Cutter will be contributing ‘political ...
A California state net neutrality bill that was eviscerated and left for dead in a committee room last month has found a second life – revived by its original sponsors and at least one ...
Last week we told you the story of how two “enterprising” reporters found themselves suspended at News Press & Gazette’s KYMA in Yuma, AZ. The duo, who weren’t named at the time, got into ...
Broadcast and cable networks have made adjustments to their schedules for tonight’s prime-time rollout of Mr. Trump’s choice for the Supreme Court vacancy. As with the selection of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, ...
Quincy Media’s WREX is bringing some new faces aboard One in the morning, one in the evening. One with a few years of experience under his belt, another fresh out of college. One starting ...
Victoria Price, weekend anchor and reporter at Nexstar’s KARK/KLRT in Little Rock, AR, is headed for Florida’s Gulf Coast and another Nexstar outlet. After three years, Price is headed for WFLA in Tampa, FL, ...
KREM reporter DanaMarie McNicholl only joined the station last August, but she’s already saying goodbye Temporarily. McNicholl recently won the Miss Washington title which means that for the next year, she’ll be cutting ribbons ...
Joy Redmond is the new weekday morning anchor for Raycom’s WMC in Memphis. She came to WMC from sister station WLBT-WDBD in Jackson Mississippi where she anchored for nearly six years. She’s also worked ...
Ed Schultz, who journeyed from right to left over the radio and television airwaves through the decades, is dead. Schultz, 64 years of age, died of natural causes, according to his former television employer ...
