Tegna’s KGW has brought on Claudia Amezcua to be the station’s new digital content producer, managing the station’s website and social media accounts. She started this week at the Portland, OR station. She made ...
We have a tipline. Anonymous. Untraceable. And a way to get the word out. It’s over there on the right hand column right under the video of the day. If you have something, send ...
WISH has a new home with 1.5 million dollars worth of bells and whistles. The Indianapolis Nexstar station took the wraps off the new 3,100 square foot set to kick off the week. 12- ...
Raúl Striker, Jr., until April a sports anchor for WLTV Univision in Miami, has joined Telemundo’s KSTS in San Jose as its new weekend sports anchor. Striker was one of the victims of the ...
NBC “Today” weatherman Al Roker rides a bicycle to work. He may need another ride in the short term. Someone stole his bicycle, a red Specialized road bike, from in front of the Sirius ...
Another news director has ascended to the GM’s office – that is, “ascended” depending on your perspective, of course. Christy Moreno, news director for the past three years at Tegna’s KUSA in Denver, CO, ...
These farewells are getting more elaborate. San Antonio morning anchor Leslie Bohl took to Facebook Live Monday to drop the news that after 21 years, she’s done with the morning desk at Sinclair’s WOAI. ...
Over the weekend we read of a confidential letter sent to special counsel Robert Mueller from President Trump’s legal team that, according to The New York Times, argued “that the president cannot illegally obstruct ...
Fox news primetime entertainer Laura Ingraham might want to think twice the next time she is considering taunting, insulting or otherwise demeaning a teenager. Back when Ingraham was the age of David Hogg, the ...
No pundits, no talking heads. That’s a selling point for “The Day Ahead” a new take on the conventional weekday morning news show that wants to spark conversation among viewers about the day’s biggest ...
Tribune’s WPIX is celebrating 70 years on the air in New York City. The station first launched as the city’s first independent television station on June 15, 1948. Back when the price of a ...
The former owners of Vermont tv station WCAX in Burlington, VT. agreed to an undisclosed settlement with the family of a murder victim whose picture was shown during a news broadcast nearly four years ...
The new AM Content Manager for Scripps’ WCPO in Cincinnati is Katie Simon. She’s been working in Boston for the past four years at Sunbeam’s WHDH. She’s also worked in Tampa. Simon starts July 2. ...
We don’t know about you, but a long time ago, we fled to Facebook as a way of getting away from the shouting heads of CNN and the exploding heads of Fox News. Now ...
Jim Bob Breazeale is joining Sinclair’s KGBT in Harlingen, TX, as its Assistant News Director. He’s been an EP for sister station KEYE in Austin, TX. He’s also worked for Sinclair’s KABB in San Antonio.
WALB in Albany, GA welcomes Jordan Barela as its news Digital Content Manager. Jordan had been working as Digital Manager and reporter for the Thomasville Times, which is owned by WALB’s parent company, Raycom Media. This ...
Irika Sargent, the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. news anchor at CBS O&O WBBM will be showing up mid-week as a guest co-host of The Eye’s “The Talk,”. Maybe the extra exposure can help ...
Four years after anchor Mark Wilson succeeded his father, legendary Tampa news anchor John Wilson, at Fox O&O WTVT in Tampa, was tagged as the region’s best tv anchor. He received the honor from ...
When I hear “We’ll have continuous coverage of this story,” I have to stifle a giggle. “Continuous” means uninterrupted. You hear it on the radio all the time: “Continuous soft rock favorites all day.” ...
Sources told us over the weekend that Chuck Howard, who was hired in September 2016 as sports director at Fox-owned WJZY in Charlotte, NC, was shown the door under what were described as “interesting ...
Camille Edwards may be gone as WABC news director, but former sports reporter Laura Behnke’s lawsuit against Edwards and the station is still alive and moving through the system. Behnke and her attorney Dave ...
Lisa Chavez has been promoted to Director of Content for Tegna’s KTVB in Boise, ID. She first joined the station in 2000 as a news photographer and advanced to become assignment manager and then digital content ...
Quincy’s WAOW in Wausau, WI has reopened its search for a new news director. We told you a few weeks ago that Michele Gors would be the next ND here. Unfortunately a family situation developed ...
Nicholas Thompson who, for the moment anyway, is a producer and reporter at FOX-owned KTVI in St. Louis, was evidently drunk when he got into an altercation with police after refusing to leave Busch ...
After two years in the trenches at Sinclair’s KATV in Little Rock, AR, reporter Sarafina Brooks bid the station farewell at the end of the week. Via Twitter: This has been the best 2 ...
We’re supposed to be treated to what we’re told is “an interactive space using the entire studio, combining the latest in technology and modular design,” when Telemundo’s nightly network newscast moves into its brand-new ...
And that, says the corporate version, is why MSNBC continues to put up with the fallout from Joy Reid’s past history of blog idiocy and the continued “drip, drip, drip” of those posts. On ...
The middle player on the “Fox & Friends” kurvy kouch desperately wants to be taken seriously as a journalist. But it’s rather difficult when Ainsley Earhardt consistently spouts nonsense. Recent case in point: As ...
It seems the idea of tv stations launching campaigns to pay off medical debt is catching on. We don’t object at all. The latest is Sinclair’s KUTV in Salt Lake City, UT, which raised ...
Later this morning, Weigel’s WYTU, the Telemundo station in Milwaukee, debuts “Noticiero Telemundo Wisconsin” at 11. Jocelyne Pruna, who co-anchors Telemundo Wisconsin’s 10 pm weeknight newscasts and is also a reporter for sister station ...
Last March we reported to you that longtime WPXI forecaster Valerie Smock was leaving the Pittsburgh Cox station to spend more time with her family up in Pennsylvania’s northeast corner in Scranton. She’s resurfaced ...
It’s in the DC/Virginia area, but WTIC co-anchor Lorenzo Hall just can’t tell you what it is. Yet. All the 4 & 10 PM co-anchor for the Tribune Hartford-New Haven station will tell us ...
WBTS, the NBC owned station in Boston (and branded as NBC Boston) just named Ben Dobson as its new news director. Ben is currently the ND for NBC’s Hartford station, WVIT. He won’t have trouble finding ...
Yesterday, we ran a story about the ongoing ratings slide for the “CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor” and some of the internal angst and anger over that slide. Today, we need to correct ...
For those who closely follow the schedule of the Fox News Network, what’s happening now is that “Happening Now” with Jon Scott will soon be no more. In its place, starting on June 11, ...
America’s Tweeter-in-Chief is manufacturing a feud with ABC in the wake of Roseanne Barr’s firing for the latest in her ongoing series of racist, conspiracy-mongering tweets. For the second consecutive day, Mr. Trump aimed ...
The new chief investigative reporter at Tribune’s WTIC in Hartford-New Haven, CT ought to know his stuff. He’s a former police detective. Former Hartford Deputy Police Chief Brian Foley has, in the past, often ...
In Palm Springs, Janet Zappala, anchor of KMIR’s “First at 4:30,” and the co-anchor of the 5 and 6 pm weeknight newscasts, announced last night she is leaving the anchor desk, effective immediately. The ...
Visitation is set for tonight for WYFF anchor Mike McCormick who, along with WYFF News 4 photojournalist Aaron Smeltzer, was tragically killed earlier this week. The two were reporting on heavy rain and mudslides ...
This was supposed to be the month that Nielsen ditched a 60-year tradition – the paper diary for which so many paid so much that produced so little accurate data. At least that was ...
Another victim of the nationwide Entravision layoffs, cutbacks and elimination of news operations has landed on her feet. Jasmina González debuted this week as a video journalist at KTLM, Telemundo 40 Río Grande Valley. ...
Semone Doughton returns to TV news after a nearly two-year hiatus from the business. She’s been hired by Quincy Media’s WEEK in Peoria, IL to co-anchor the station’s morning shows. Doughton left Raycom’s WTVM/WXTX ...
We can’t, for the life of us, understand why there wasn’t universal condemnation for Samantha Bee’s poor attempt at a punchline on her program this week. If Roseanne Barr can get fired for her ...
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ASHLEI KING moves to Nexstar’s KLRT in Little Rock, AR as morning anchor for the station’s “Good Day” program. Yesterday was her last day as a reporter for Sinclair’s KABB/WOAI duopoly in her hometown ...
Reporter Brandon Evans is moving to Hearst’s KOAT in Albuquerque, NM. He spent the past two years as an MMJ at Sinclair’s WTVC in Chattanooga, TN. Prior to that he produced for four and ...
Chad Matthews has been promoted to VP/News Director of Disney’s WABC in New York. Finally. He’s been the Assistant News Director since returning to the station last year, after five years as Assistant ND for NBC’s ...
And it’s a return to Sacramento for Mike Dello Stritto, who was announced as the new ND at CBS duopoly KOVR/KMAX late yesterday. Mike, who’s currently the ND for Scripps’ KTNV in Las Vegas, ...
We’re hearing that something approaching panic may be setting in at CBS News as the rating for its evening news continue to crater. A long-time staffer at the Tiffany Network tells us on the ...
Twenty-eight years is a long time to spend in one place – especially a tv station and more importantly, in an anchor chair. Kathy Brock did it at Disney’s WLS in Chicago. And she’s ...
After just over a year in Columbus, OH, Tara Lane has returned to Charlotte, NC and joined Fox O&O WJZY as weeknight meteorologist. Lane previously spent almost fifteen years in Charlotte as a meteorologist ...
C’mon Elsa, tell us how you really feel. Less than a year after Elsa Ramon renewed her contract with CBS duopoly KCBS-KCAL in Los Angeles, she’s declared her old business dead and plans to ...
Following the March departure of original host John Fugelsang, the syndicated daily pop culture confection known as “Page Six” has had a parade of guest hosts essentially auditioning for the job. Lo and behold, ...
Longtime CNBC financial reporter Hampton Pearson is retiring next month. “In my years here, no one has defined the phrase ‘class act’ more than Hampton,” wrote CNBC’s White House correspondent Eamon Javers on Twitter. ...
As Comcast sits on the sidelines trying to figure out how to get back in the game, 21st Century Fox and the Walt Disney Co. have each set July 10 meetings for their shareholders ...
Carolina Cruz joined WSNS Telemundo Chicago this week as a news producer. This is her second job behind the camera, a career move she made in 2015 after her job as an MMJ was ...
Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL in Raleigh, NC just filled its vacant morning EP opening with an internal promotion. Kim Ursich is moving up to fill the position. She’s been a producer there for five years, after working ...
Have you ever seen an ad like this? “Number one station looking for a morning anchor to compliment our male anchor.” Good luck! Who’s going to want to sit beside a man and tell ...
After a remarkable 18 years running a top ten market newsroom, Dan Rosenheim will retire July 7th as ND for CBS’s San Francisco station, KPIX. And if 18 years at one large market station wasn’t ...
Kaelan Dorr, who worked for the Trump campaign as a deputy communications adviser and later joined the White House as director of congressional communications, is Sinclair Broadcast Group’s new “executive political producer.” Dorr will ...
WYFF reporter and anchor Mike McCormick and photographer Mike Smeltzer are being remembered by friends, co-workers and industry colleagues as well a folks who only knew them through their reportage. The two were killed ...
Years ago, CBS News built a reputation with an ongoing series called “Eye on America,” which featured long-form reporting on vital domestic issues. From 1991 to 2006, the ongoing series was a daily staple ...
As the better part of the Starbucks workforce across the country took half a day off yesterday for sensitivity training, Megyn Kelly aired her reservations. Kelly isn’t a fan of Starbucks new policy allowing ...
News came recently that that the DC Fox duopoly WTTG/WDCA, which is dubbed “Fox 5 Plus,” is moving studios and office facilities to Bethesda, MD, all of which is to take place by 2021.. ...
While ABC was still trying to decide the fate of the ultimately cancelled “Roseanne,” the inevitable chewing over of her ridiculous tweet by cable news talking heads led to a rather ironic exchange. FTR, ...
The topic of climate change inevitably causes news executives to shudder because of the certainty that any mention of it, particularly during a weather segment, will trigger an avalanche of nay-sayers. Networks have been ...
Public trust in media is probably at an all-time low, and that lack of trust not helped by daily attacks from a certain Twitter-addicted official whose charges alternately are rooted in a grain of ...
Shari Redstone, CBS’ main shareholder through her National Amusements, moved Tuesday to quell a rebellion at the media company, filing a lawsuit that accused the CBS board of directors of improperly trying to strip ...
About a week ago we reported that South Carolina GOP gubernatorial primary candidate Catherine Templeton had set her legal dogs onto about 20 tv and cable stations that were airing an attack ad from ...
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 ...
Let’s spend just a little time on “anxious” and “eager” because I’m anxious about it, but I’m eager to move on to “different from” and “different than.” “Anxious” means full of worry or anxiety; ...
WYFF weekend anchor and reporter Mike McCormick and cameraman Aaron Smeltzer were killed Monday while covering severe weather in the outer bands of Subtropical Storm Alberto. The two staffers for the Hearst station in ...
Just months after veteran anchor Flora Posteraro had an acrimonious parting of ways with Nexstar’s WHTM (ABC 27) in Harrisburg, PA, three-year veteran Dawn White announced her departure. Citing “the current work environment and ...
Eleven years after she started her second go-round with Gray’s WITN in Washington, NC, Lynnette Taylor announced her departure from the station, her native North Carolina and the tv news business. Taylor has been ...
When KARK reporter Mitch McCoy got a piece of hate mail from a viewer who called him a disgrace to Arkansas and said he should be taken off the air, instead of stewing about ...
When Heather Herron announced back in March that she was leaving the tv news business after 17 years to take PR job for a music store, the folks at Nexstar’s WANE in Ft. Wayne, ...
Karin Movesian returns to the ND chair as she takes over at Meredith’s WNEM in Saginaw/Flint, MI. Here’s the note from GM Julie Zoumbaris to the staff, which also details Karin’s work history. She replaces Ian ...
Mike Gonzalez is leaving Morgan Murphy Media’s duopoly KAPP/KVEW in Yakima, WA, where he had been both ND and anchor. He has a new on-air job at KPNX in Phoenix. Mike’s been the ND here for a ...
Keith Olbermann must have some feline DNA because the guy’s got at least as many lives as a cat. In his latest comeback (after comebacks at Fox Sports, MSNBC, NBC, Current TV…..the list goes ...
Freelance meteorologist Liz Horton wrapped up a year and a half at CBS O&O WFOR over the weekend. She spread the word across as many social media accounts as she could find: Instagram: Today ...
If found, please contact CBS, ABC and NBC. In the past two years, the three networks’ morning shows have shed just under two million viewers – percent of their total viewership. But nobody has ...
On June 4th , Leslie Adami takes on the job of morning reporter for KVUE’s “Daybreak” in Austin, TX. She’s coming from Nexstar’s KLBK in Lubbock where she recently wrapped up a stint after ...
CBS News foreign correspondent Ben Tracy recently was one of under two dozen media personnel on hand in North Korea to witness what the North Koreans claim is the destruction of their main nuclear ...
Lexi Sutter has been hired as a general assignment reporter for NBC-O&O WMAQ in Chicago. She spent the past year as a reporter and fill-in anchor at Scripps KNXV in Phoenix. She’s also worked ...
“How do you get from the weekend edition of the big news at Channel 8 in Indianapolis, to one year later, almost to the day, when I’m the co-host of ‘The Today Show’? I ...
Benjamin Zamora will join Telemundo WSNS in Chicago as a general assignment reporter, starting June 11. He’s coming from KINC in Las Vegas where he was a news anchor and producer. His career began ...
A book ends and there are new beginnings…. And in Baltimore, it evidently takes two people to replace the just-departed Donna Hamilton. (See next story) Veteran investigative reporter and anchor Deborah Weiner is moving ...
Donna Hamilton signed off Wednesday night, wrapping up a 23–year career at Hearst flagship WBAL. She sat down with “The Baltimore Sun’s” David Zurawik to reflect on her long career and her retirement. ZURAWIK: ...
ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross returns to the airwaves tonight with a story that will air on “20/20.” The report is an investigation into murders committed by individuals who had been mandated to ...
From 1979 to 1992, Cathy Clark was a familiar face to San Diego News viewers. Over the course of those 27 years, she worked first as a reporter at KFMB, moved on to KNSD ...
Steve Chamraz, who’s been filling in since February on the 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts in Scripps’ WTMJ, is getting the job permanently. This is one of the first major on-air personnel moves since ...
Chris Cuomo signed off from “New Day” for the last time Thursday and he prepares to shift around his day and take on the night. Cuomo’s new CNN prime-time assignment begins June 4, so ...
Let the billable hours accumulate in Cleveland. A defamation and libel lawsuit filed against Scripps’ WEWS, Scripps itself and investigative reporter Jonathan Walsh will proceed after a judge’s ruling. Newburgh Heights Mayor Trevor Elkins ...
Houston blogger Mike McGuff reports that just as May sweeps wrap up and Graham Media’s KPRC claims victory, the station is losing its assistant news director Although he’s not saying just yet what his ...
Post-sweeps, there are a lot of new faces coming to the anchor desk at Telemundo’s KVEA in LA. Guillermo Ochoa has been named the station’s morning co-anchor anchor for “Noticiero Telemundo 52 a las ...
After a career at BET spanning three decades, Debra Lee is stepping down from her position as chairman and chief executive officer of BET Networks, effective next Monday, May 28. She’s the latest in ...
John Avlon has been a familiar face since 2010 to anyone who regularly watches those CNN shoutfests. His regular job was editor-in-chief of “The Daily Beast,” a title he held since 2013. Avlon is ...
