A week ago we reported that KSHB sports reporter Dee Jackson was the second person to file a discrimination lawsuit against the Scripps Kansas City, MO station This week, the FIRST person to file ...
A hearing has been set for June 20 by the Senate Commerce Committee to consider the nomination of Geoffrey Starks to be the newest FCC Commissioner. Starks would replace the already-departed Mignon Clyburn as ...
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Oh, the hooliganism that goes on at these rock and roll concerts. Veteran meteorologist Cecily Tynan of Disney’s WPVI is accused of assaulting a woman at a U2 concert in South Philadelphia Wednesday night. ...
Iditarod is a uniquely Alaskan experience – every March, locals drop everything to focus on the 1,000-mile, eight-to-nine day dogsled race spanning from Anchorage to Nome. Coverage of the race has long been a ...
Two days after the judge cleared it, AT&T and Time Warner completed their $81 billion merger. Life will be so much better for all of us. You can already feel it, can’t you? <><><><><><> ...
Over the span of his long career, “Big Al” Meltzer at one time or another worked for all three of the Philadelphia’s network affiliates as well as for independent WPHL and Comcast SportsNet. Best-known ...
If you were setting out to buy a television station in…oh let’s say Seattle, Salt Lake City and Oklahoma City, you might expect to shell out somewhere north of $55 million for the three ...
The good news is that record 1,072 TV stations are running local news, according to a new RTDNA/Hofstra survey, the fourth installment of their annual local TV and radio newsroom survey. The bad news ...
School communications must be the new PR for people trying to escape tv news, because we’ve reported on quite a few in the past few months. The latest is Terri Brewer, of Raycom’s WBRC ...
For 20 years, Hearst’s Washington bureau has provided political and national news to Hearst stations in 26 markets. It’s now poised to go a bit deeper. The company is adding a national two-man investigative ...
Steven Flint is the new general manager of Sinclair’s Tri-Cities duopoly WCYB/WEMT in Tennessee/Virginia. Since 2016, Flint served as general sales manager at the operation. Steve Marks, EVP-COO of Sinclair’s television group, said: “We ...
Another 20-year news vet has decided that’s enough and plans to exit the news business. This time, it’s Quad Cities anchor Gary Metivier of Gray’s KWQC. He dropped the news Tuesday on the 6 ...
Priscilla Casper, a veteran of the Tucson news market, will take over the anchor chair for KVOA’s one-hour weekday broadcasts of “News 4 Tucson, Live at Noon” and “News 4 Tucson, Live at 4:00P.M.”. ...
Jeff Zucker plans to stick around for another two election cycles. He’s just re-signed with CNN to continue as president of the network through 2020. This will come as good news to Donald Trump, ...
Call it the very definition of irony. On Tuesday night, Telemundo’s “Noticias Telemundo” used its massive and brand-new 36-foot wide video wall to illustrate a story about the controversial Mexico border wall supported by ...
As expected, in the wake of the approval of the AT&T-Time Warner merger, Comcast ramped up its belated bid to gobble up most of 21st Century Fox. The behemoth company that still can’t quite ...
KHOU traffic reporter Darby Douglas is out the door at the Houston Tegna station. Blogger Mike McGuff confirmed early Wednesday that the station opted out of Douglas’ contract and showed him the exit. Immediately. ...
Singer-songwriter Ryan Adams showed up on Scripps KMGH in Denver during last night’s 5 pm newscast to do the weather, promote his concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre…and to sing the catchy and slightly goofy ...
How about the use of “none?” If a reporter doesn’t know what should follow, s/he has a tendency to add a variety of prepositional phrases to muddy the water in the hope we won’t ...
The path has been cleared by a DC federal judge for AT&T and Time Warner to complete their $85 billion (with a b) merger. Brace yourself for a rush of other media mergers to ...
In just over two weeks, Cheryl Burton, a stalwart for the past 26 years on Disney’s WLS in Chicago will move into the 10 PM anchor chair, the day after Kathy Brock leaves it ...
Even as most news media coverage of the Trump-Kim Summit moves from breathless coverage of the pageantry to a more critical assessment of what the meeting actually achieved outside of a photo opportunity, the ...
Maria Lisignoli, a reporter for Tribune’s WHO in Des Moines, IA evidently suffered a mild concussion when two people assaulted her on a city street last month. Lisignoli, who was not on the clock, ...
Waterman’s WBBH in Ft. Myers, FL is jumping ahead of a lot of tv stations, becoming one of the first in the country to commit to a four-hour afternoon block of news. The new ...
Media watcher busybodies “The Parents Television Council” filed an indecency complaint with the FCC because of an F-bomb that aired last month on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” The complaint was lodged against Sinclair’s Washington ...
A newly-rekindled passion for his father and grandfather’s profession is prompting Houston tv reporter Jake Reiner to plan his exit from Graham Media’s KPRC later this summer and plot his entry into the family ...
One time Chicago (CLTV) and Cleveland (WEWS) news director Jill Manuel is launching a new venture in Chicago, called JCat Group. Jill elaborated in this note: I have recently launched JCat Group, which offers services to newsrooms and ...
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Television’s most-watched Sunday morning program is going to try something new. Night-time and in person. CBSX, or CBS Experiences, is a brand-new unit of the company that is behind the planning of “An Evening ...
A week after Daniel Keith stepped down from the anchor desk at “Wake-Up Wisconsin” on Quincy’s WAOW in Wausau, WI after a short six-month stint (he’d been with the station for two years) to ...
We’re just spitballing here, but if the owner of the “Backpage” website (you know, the one shut down over the sex ads it ran that allegedly promoted human trafficking) had coughed up $20 million ...
Veteran Houston tv reporter Kevin Quinn signed off Disney’s KTRK for the final time last week as he left the business to become spokesperson with the Constable for Precinct 1 in Harris County, Alan ...
Saira Anwer is slated to become the new morning reporter at Berkshire Hathaway’s WPLG in Miami. The one-time teacher has spent the past two and a half years as an anchor/reporter in Madison, WI ...
We think we saw this once on a tv mystery show. A man is interviewed on the tv news about a crime committed in his neighborhood. And then it turns out that he’s evidently ...
Out in Utah, the Salt Lake Tribune and Tribune’s KSTU have launched a content sharing partnership. As part of the agreement, both outlets will highlight joint projects across all platforms, collaborate on newsgathering and ...
The stalled sale of Tribune Media to Sinclair Broadcast Group is, in turn, spawning quite a bit of speculation in the various markets that will be (or already are) affected by it. In Denver, ...
It was supposed to be a comfortable hammock that could provide a healthy ratings environment for “Megyn Kelly Today.” Instead, her 9 AM timeslot on NBC is taking a toll on its supporting poles, ...
OK, we’re 24 hours into the post-net neutrality era and no, we haven’t experienced any negative effect. Yet. The Orwellian-inspired Restoring Internet Freedom Order has given ISPs the greenlight to do whatever comes to ...
Scott Galloway is leaving Raycom Media’s WTOC in Savannah, GA at the end of the month. He’s spent three years as news director there and 32 years with the company, most of them at ...
Kyle Inskeep is the new co-anchor for the 4 PM and 5:30 PM newscasts on Sinclair’s WKRC and the 10 PM newscast on WSTR in Cincinnati, OH. Inskeep will join co-anchor Paula Toti on the ...
Former morning anchor Maggie Slysz is making a return to Tribune’s WTIC in Hartford-New Haven, this time around as a reporter. She’s slated to replace Rachel Lutzker who, we told you yesterday, is moving ...
Berkshire County, Massachusetts is the westernmost county in the state. For years it has been included in the Albany, New York DMA. Despite frequent battles over the years with other cable operators, things were ...
Chris Slaby joins Block’s WAND in Decatur, IL, next month as the station’s new assistant news director. He’s been working as a producer for Scripps’ WRTV in Indianapolis, and has worked in Albany, NY, and (twice) in ...
Even as the “CBS Evening News” continues to shed viewers, it is trying to appeal to the younger demo by growing its digital presence. EP Mosheh Oinounou, whose previous experience was in newer media ...
Another approach being revamped by CBS on its “Evening News” steals an idea from the network’s morning show. Or rather, it is “borrowing” the “Eye Opener” format from the morning show so that the ...
A childhood fear of weather has landed Wes Peery into a slot as the new weekend morning meteorologist at Tegna’s WXIA in Atlanta, GA. In his station bio, Peery talked of his phobia about ...
Here’s a tip I think you’re going to like and one that may surprise you. You don’t have to turn cartwheels to avoid putting a preposition at the end of the sentence. Isn’t that ...
The Department of Justice’s secret seizure of the phone and e-mail records of now-New York Times reporter Ali Watkins is an action that we all need to vigorously object to. This was the first ...
Phil Buehler is the new ND for Gray Television duopoly KOTA/KEVN in Rapid City, SD. He’s been in the job since April and replaces John Petersen who retired in April after 24 years as ND. ...
There’s a new news director at WLOS in Asheville, NC as the current ND, Julie Fries, gets a promotion. We’ll tell you about Julie first. She’s headed to WLOS owner Sinclair Broadcasting as a group ...
CNN went forward over the weekend with an already-scheduled marathon of episodes of Anthony Bourdain’s CNN series “Parts Unknown,” culminating in the airing of an unseen episode Sunday evening. On both Friday and Saturday, ...
After ten years, weekend morning anchor Nicole Brewer called it quits over the weekend. “There’s no drama, no back story. I just want to be able to eat dinner with my husband and tuck ...
Mark October 3rd on your calendar if you’re a fan of epic litigation. That’s when CBS and CEO Les Moonves will face off against National Amusements and Shari Redstone, majority stockholder of CBS, INC. ...
Over the weekend, CBS O&O WBZ in Boston celebrated its 70th birthday, the culmination of a months-long celebration of the station’s storied history, an on-air that required some diligent searching of pre-digital era records ...
Over the years, if you watched with any regularity, you either loved or hated columnist and Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer. As the weekend approached, Krauthammer released a letter in which he disclosed that, ...
After 17 years, Chick Hernandez packed up and went out the door at NBC Sports Washington. The sportscaster, whose duties primarily focused on the Washington Redskins, was the victim of a contract non-renewal. Hernandez ...
As Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” expands to three hours later this morning, it is also originating from the newly-upgraded Studio J With the expansion and new studio, the program has also upgraded its graphic ...
Patricia Andreu reported for NBC O&O WTVJ over a span of 13 years back in the 90’s and the early aughts. Now that she is a recent Rhode Island transplant, she is turning her ...
Around the Kansas City market, there have been rumblings for some time. Now the rumblings have become reality. KSHB sports reporter Dee Jackson has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Scripps station. Jackson’s complaint ...
Well-regarded Hartford-New Haven traffic reporter Rachel Lutzker is switching around her shift after 20 years of mornings. That’s because WTIC, the Tribune owned Fox affiliate in the market, is adding traffic to the early ...
Meteorologist Lauren Olesky of Sinclair’s WPEC in West Palm Beach gives new meaning to the word multitasking. She can deliver the weather AND solve a Rubik’s Cube. Watch and see if you can figure ...
We’ve been reporting recently on the rumblings coming out of Black Rock and West 57th as ratings for the “CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor” continue to evaporate week-by-week. It even got to the ...
Scripps lawyers evidently don’t like what they’ve been hearing from a judge who’s been assigned a defamation lawsuit against WEWS in Cleveland and reporter Jonathan Walsh. They’re requesting a new judge to replace Common ...
Pittsburgh area news watchers still have questions about the status of veteran KDKA reporter Dave Crawley who’s been MIA for the past ten months. As we reported to you back in February, Crawley, who ...
After just over four years as an anchor and reporter at NBC’s WVIT in Hartford-New Haven, Tara Joyce has turned up at the AM anchor desk of News 12 Westchester. She let us know ...
Months after Katie Uriarte left Tegna’s KIII and crossed the street for Cordillera’s KRIS, that empty anchor chair is about to be filled. Makenzi Henderson, late of Raycom’s KXXV in Waco, starts Monday. Her ...
Call it a trade-off for veteran Dallas sportscaster Mike Doocy. In September, he’ll be giving up his daily sports segments at 6, 9 and 10 pm on KDFW newscasts. In return, he’ll be a ...
Four years after she left Univision’s KXLN in Houston, Miriam Pineda is returning to television news with Tribune’s KIAH. The former reporter and anchor will be an assignment editor for the news department. After ...
Sinclair Broadcast Group, which operates the largest newsgathering drone program in the country, has been granted permission by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that few drones operators have. The broadcaster will be allowed to ...
Acting on the assumption that you can never have too much of a good thing – which, of course, requires that you regard “Good Day” as a good thing, Fox O&O KDFW in Dallas ...
Telemundo’s KTDO in El Paso, TX is launching two new newscasts on Monday, June 11. The two half-hour will air at 4 and 4:30 PM weekdays. In addition, the station is rolling out a ...
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 ...
While the other broadcast and cable networks have yet to announce their plans, Fox News is planning on making a Singapore splash with their live coverage of the United States summit with North Korea ...
“Good Day Atlanta” anchors Alyse Eady and Sharon Lawson, along with feature reporter Paul Milliken will be pulling some double duty beginning next month when Fox O&O WAGA in Atlanta launches an eight-week test ...
Another former news director gets (in his case) another general manager job, and this one at one of the best regarded stations in the country. Joel Davis will be the next GM for Capitol Broadcasting’s ...
Nearly a year after she announced her diagnosis with ALS, WAFB anchor Donna Britt made a second announcement. She is stepping down from the Raycom station in Baton Rouge, LA. Britt joined the WAFB ...
It’s back to square one for Nexstar’s WIVB in Buffalo as far as it’s morning team is concerned Jordan Williams, who has worked with four co-anchors in the five years he’s been on the ...
The tragic suicide of famed fashion designer Kate Spade this week led WUSA weekend anchor Debra Alfarone to go on the Tegna station’s Tuesday night newscast to share about the time she tried to ...
A few months after Colonel Ralph Peters wrote a fiery “I quit” to Fox News, he isn’t done yet with the network or its star conspiracy theorist Sean Hannity. While President Donald Trump has ...
Former Miami, FL newsman and politician Tomás Regalado has, in a way, seen his career come full circle Back in the 70’s in Miami, we were familiar with the radio work of Regalado whose ...
NBC News is starting to bring in bodies to staff its still-in-the-planning-stage streaming service. One of its early hires is Christine Cataldi, who is moving over from her co-executive producing duties at “Megyn Kelly ...
Hey, they’ve already got a name and a Facebook page for “Anderson Cooper Full Circle”, which will air nightly at 6:25 Eastern beginning later this summer on Facebook Watch. Get it? “Full Circle.” “AC ...
Nine months after he disappeared from Sinclair’s KGBT in Harlingen, TX, Eddie Flores is, as they say, back in the anchoring game. He’s now the new primary anchor at Nexstar’s KMID in Midland, TX. ...
No…not Bill Clinton. And not Newt Gingrich. One is on a book tour and the other has joined some other circus. Never one to hedge its bets, CNN is ramping up its preparations for ...
With monstrous volcanoes on both Hawaii and in Guatemala, CBS News decided to employ some “augmented reality” as it were, to cover both stories on “CBS This Morning”. Lonnie Quinn was enlisted from the ...
Gray’s WIBW in Topeka, KS is seeing its sports department melt away and up the market ladder. Yesterday we told you that sports director Chris Lilly was moving to Wichita and weekends at KAKE, ...
Univision “Primer Impacto” correspondent Borja Voces has added co-anchoring “Noticiero Univision Edición Digital” alongside Carolina Sarassa to his weekly duties. The program is simulcast weekdays at noon live on Univision, UnivisionNoticias.com, Facebook Live, YouTube, ...
If you’re puzzled by when to use “that” or “which,” you’re not alone. It’s a common quandary. “That” defines and restricts. “Which” is explanatory and nonrestrictive Use “that” when it’s essential to the meaning ...
Yes, you read that right. The network which eagerly latches onto the Administration’s culture war attacks to adopt them as their own, had to swallow hard Tuesday and fess up to an unforced error. ...
Gerald Baker, the Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief who’s got a reputation for being quite a pain in the…..keyboard….of reporters trying to do an honest job of covering news, is leaving the Murdoch paper to ...
Lots of hand-wringing is taking place at Black Rock these days as the “CBS Evening News” continues to shed viewers. And “Page Six” is now reporting that the second-guessing that was probably taking place ...
Word in Hartford-New Haven has it that Jimmy Marlow, a reporter for Nexstar’s WTEN in Albany, NY, is headed for a still-to-be-named station in the Connecticut market. He’s evidently one of four staffers at ...
They might be at the top of the heap in the cable ratings, but there are signs that it is rough going for Fox News in the advertising department. Between the ad boycott still ...
Maybe a new set can make “Hannity” more attractive to advertisers. That’s the first show to emanate from Fox’s re-done Studio J. The studio’s inevitable plethora of video walls, including the floor to ceiling ...
It looks like another exit from the tv news grind, this time in New Orleans. After eight years anchoring at Hearst’s WDSU, Scott Walker is leaving July 27th to pursue a new adventure and ...
Come July, Chris Lilly and his Twitter obsession will have a new Kansas home as he moves to Lockwood Broadcasting’s KAKE in Wichita from Gray’s WIBW in Topeka, where he’s held forth for the ...
It took nearly a year and a half and an army of lawyers, but, U.K. regulators have given Rupert Murdoch‘s 21st Century Fox the OK to acquire the 61 percent of media and telecommunications ...
