When original host John Fugelsang stepped away from the syndicated “Page Six”, the producers tried out guest hosts for the next seven weeks, and came up snake eyes. So it allowed its trio of ...
CBS News is now fully up-to-date in its DC studio. It’s redone its flashcam! The new look features a blue wall with a world map inspired by the Cronkite-era map used as an element ...
The charitable arm of Tegna (yes, Virginia, they have one), just announced a block of nine grants to various organizations to support professional development opportunities and training for the next generation of diverse journalists. ...
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 ...
WBZ has been making quite a show of its 70th anniversary. Recreating vintage promos, an avalanche of archive clips, endless reminiscences. . And this is “Legendary Anchors Week.” Jack Williams, Liz Walker, Bob Lobel, ...
We knew that Les Moonves and CBS were reluctant parties to talks aimed at recombining the networks with Viacom. But, boy they REALLY don’t want to do this. To the extent that CBS is ...
“You don’t just come into this country with low skills, low education, not understanding the language and come into our country because someone says it makes them feel nice. That’s not what this country ...
Laura Hettiger, morning traffic reporter and program host at Meredith’s KMOV in St. Louis has picked up a moonlighting gig doing radio afternoon drive. Starting next week, she’ll be heard Monday through Thursday on ...
A familiar deadpan face will soon be turning up on cable news networks (most certainly Fox News) to try to persuade President Trump to back away from plans to tax foreign goods Ben Stein, ...
If anyone should know how the lowest common denominator that is cable news works, it would be the Three Dumbest People On Television (3DPOT) parked on the kurvy kouch at “Fox and Friends.” So ...
Family-owned KRGZ in Weslaco, TX welcomed back meteorologist Alan Shoemaker, who returned to work after battling acute myeloid leukemia since February. The 12-year veteran of the station has been undergoing treatment in Houston. He’s ...
KTMD in Houston is moving its 10 PM producer into a new slot. Sindy Espinoza is the newsroom’s new executive producer, effective immediately. Her career started Boston in 2012 at Entravision’s WUNI. She’s been ...
“The Washington Post’s” Margaret Sullivan put together an extensive piece on NBC News’ terrible, horrible, no good, very bad month. Take a look at what happened. Ronan Farrow, who was largely ignored when he ...
Page Six is reporting that internet personality Bill O’Reilly is in talks to return to television in his former 8 PM timeslot – this time on Newsmax TV. That would put him up against ...
For David Brody, these are the best of times to be a White House correspondent. Brody works for CBN, the Christian Broadcasting Network. During the presidential campaign, he scored eight interviews with the candidate ...
Tevin Wooten is the newest on-camera meteorologist for The Weather Channel. “We’re excited to welcome Tevin back to The Weather Channel family. Tevin’s enthusiasm and dedication for live weather coverage are fantastic qualities that ...
Tribune’s WGHP in Greensboro, NC announced the departure of morning anchor Kerry Charles. Charles has been working at the station for the past seven years. “I am going to miss this place,” Charles said. ...
Argue if you want that John Oliver’s penchant for returning to the “dumb anchor banter” well is low-hanging fruit, but it IS funny and if the butt of the jokes take offense….well, just don’t ...
If you’ve ever said “irregardless,” don’t say it again, at least not when you’re trying to be correct. There’s no such word. You’re probably thinking of “irrespective” and trying to say “regardless.” When sportscaster ...
He’s been through this before, so Edmund Ansin isn’t sweating the possible loss of network affiliation at Miami’s WSVN. The Sunbeam station survived the loss of its longtime affiliation with NBC quite a while ...
Maybe this is how political ads should be – the candidate standing in front of the camera with no gimmicks, saying what’s on his mind in plain speaking fashion. Or not. Pat Davis, an ...
For further proof that no matter what day of the week it is, you can always find the Three Dumbest People On Television (3DPOT) sitting on the kurvy kouch at “Fox & Friends” we ...
Mace Michaels, a freelance meteorologist for Fox O&O KMSP and Weather Nation in Minneapolis is recovering nicely, thank you very much, from a heart attack he suffered midweek last week. He thought at first ...
While the FCC just can’t wait to marry up Sinclair Broadcast and Tribune Media, the Department of Justice continues to sit in the judge’s chambers in silent contemplation while the bride and groom fidget ...
If you watched “Face the Nation” over the weekend on CBS, you saw the debut of its new home. The set is located in the new CBS News bureau in Washington. The new set ...
NBC Sports Chicago has signed former Chicago Bear and New York Jets running back Matt Forte to be part of its NFL game day coverage. Forte will be an in-studio analyst. “The addition of ...
Andrew Stewart is the new vice president and general manager of Gray Television’s WOWT in Omaha, NE. Stewart spent nearly eight years as vice president and general manager of Bonten Media’s Eureka, CA stations ...
Gray also got around to making official the hiring of Don Davis as GM of its KOSA in Odessa-Midland, TX. Davis actually came on board in March, bringing with him 35 years of experience ...
For the past eight years, Scripps’ KMTV in Omaha, NE has been producing “The Morning Blend” weekdays at nine. No more. Current hosts Mike DiGiacomo and Kelly Nyberg and the program staff sent out ...
Spectrum wants to make certain that their cable customers in Pittsfield, MA and environs know their place. And it’s not Boston, and…well… Massachusetts is up for grabs. A year after yanking Springfield’s WWLP from ...
Halfway through the May sweeps, it was Tegna’s WFAA’s time to take a turn at unveiling its version of the corporate graphic package. Which, according to blogger Mike McGuff’s sources, means the station moved ...
Traffic reporter Leslee Lacey, also known for her “Speed Busters” franchise, is out at Nexstar’s WFLA in Tampa, FL. Her backup, AM reporter Meredith Censullo, is filling while the station launches the search for ...
While the FCC, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Tribune Media and Fox are proceeding forward as if the Sinclair-Trib deal is all but done, there is an interesting dissent. Wall Street. Fox Business reporter Charles Gasparino ...
Veteran news executive Dan Salamone is the first holder of Nexstar’s newly-created title of director of local content development. As such, he’ll oversee the execution and expansion of the company’s strategic local content and ...
Word out of South Florida is that the agent for WFOR prime-time anchor Rick Folbaum is shopping him around and, if anyone bites, he could be gone as early at August. Folbaum arrived at ...
Back in January, we told you how Alix Kendall, anchor at Fox-owned KMSP in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN, got a $33,000 check from the city of St. Paul after she filed suit claiming her driver’s ...
Former NBC News correspondent and Fox News host Linda Vester says her accusations of sexual harassment against iconic NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw are not about money or notoriety. “Some people might be tempted ...
Vester wasn’t the only person today calling for an outside investigation of NBC News in the wake of the “Matt Lauer matter” and her accusations against Brokaw. Press Forward, which was founded by female ...
In the tv news business, it is always good to have a fallback position, just in case things don’t go as planned, career-wise. Mike Iskovitz, morning forecaster at Fox-owned KRIV in Houston has a ...
Colby Smith, a seven-year veteran at Disney’s ABC News and ESPN, is the new senior vice-president of Content and Partnerships. In his new role, Smith will continue to oversee the development of ABC News ...
Keep your fingers crossed that Sinclair has developed an aversion to bad PR about its heavy-handed tactics toward some employees and might be turning a new leaf. We get kinda optimistic as the weekend ...
Jackie Layer is a familiar Boston tv face now showing up at a different location. On Monday, she replaced Wren Clair as the morning weather guesser at Sunbeam’s WHDH Boston. Clair left after about ...
Mark June 11 on your calendar. Barring extraordinary action in the Senate or a citizen’s revolt (we’re kidding, Fox), landmark 2015 U.S. open-internet rules will cease on June 11, and new rules handing providers ...
Sarah Burgess is the newly-appointed news director of Cox Media’s WFXT in Boston. She had been the managing editor there, and replaces Mike Olivera who moved to Cox’s WSOC-TV in Charlotte. Here’s the news release from Cox.
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 ...
Matt Caron is the new political reporter for Tribune’s WTIC (Fox 61) in Hartford, CT. He just recently made the move from Nexstar’s WWLP in Springfield, MA after spending the last 12 years there. ...
Is the fifth time the charm for Sinclair Broadcast Group and its dream of gobbling up Tribune Media? For the purchase price of just under $1 billion ($910 million to be exact), Fox is ...
Sources tell us that Sunbeam Television is losing network affiliations at the two stations that still have them. The company has been told it will lose WSVN-Miami’s Fox affiliation in early September, right before ...
It is so good to know that all is well at NBC News and absolutely everybody is in the clear. Following an internal investigation in the wake of the “Matt Lauer matter,” as NBC ...
It was the philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist George Santayana who “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” So here come the folks at Fox News led, inevitably, by the ...
Gino Lamont started his broadcast career toting a camera for KMIR back in 1997. Wednesday, he was named the Palms Springs Entravision station’s news director. In between, Lamont started on-air at the weather set ...
Graham Media is getting plans together to move it’s WSLS, Roanoke, VA into a new facility before the year is out. The former warehouse will house updated production facilities, newsroom, and offices. Yes, folks, ...
With words to that effect, ESPN announced it is discontinuing its public editor position after 13 years. ESPN Editorial Board chair Kevin Merida claimed the post had “outlived its usefulness, largely because of the ...
Forget about James Murdoch moving to Disney along with most of the Fox tv and film properties should the $52+ billion deal ever consummate. Murdoch is planning to strike out on his own should ...
Was it only six months ago that María Elena Salinas signed off the nightly newscast at Univision after a 36-year run? And now, she’s back in front of the camera with an English-language news ...
Say goodbye to “SC6” and welcome back “Sportscenter” nightly at 6 PM. As ESPN prepared to announce that Sage Steele and Kevin Neghandi will become permanent hosts of the hour, it is reclaiming the ...
A rescue of net neutrality appears headed for a Senate vote as early as next week. Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and 32 other Democrats have submitted a new discharge petition under the Congressional Review ...
It’s a return to the tv news routine for former Univision anchor and reporter Mariana Pineda. She’s the new social media specialist and assignment editor for “NewsFix,” an anchorless newscast geared towards millennials on ...
Let us now examine the hectic life of Celia Pompeani – morning traffic reporter and night-time tv producer/host for PensTV, the Pittsburgh Penguins’ tv channel. The 25-year-old has been juggling a schedule that is ...
In TV news, you probably can’t get around using “allegedly” and “suspect.” But let’s be sure to use police jargon correctly, if we have to use it. Crimes are not committed by “suspects.” They ...
Fox News, through a web reporter with only a passing acquaintance with facts, and a former homicide detective who claims he was set up by the web reporter and last, but certainly not least, ...
Adrian Arambulo is the new co-anchor of KNBC’s weekday morning newscast. He’s been with the station since 2013 as the station’s weekend anchor and reporter. “Adrian is a modern day journalist with excellent story-telling ...
Former ESPN President John Skipper, who suddenly and unexpectedly left the Disney-owned sports broadcaster last year as a result of a drug problem, has joined UK sports media firm Perform Group. Skipper will serve ...
The revolving door has been swinging heavily in recent weeks at Fox-owned KDFW in Dallas. Jennifer Myers, weekend meteorologist, is the latest to pack it in and leave the business. After just under six ...
Andrea Morehead, the 5 & 11 pm anchor at Dispatch’s WTHR in Indianapolis, who’s been MIA recently, revealed the reason for her absence this week. She is fighting an aggressive form of breast cancer. ...
Telemundo Tampa, WRMD is beefing up its staffing with two new additions. Ruben Capote (right) has been named forecaster for the station’s 6 & 11 PM weekday programs. While a meteorologist, he’s coming with ...
If you Dallas readers tuned in to KDFW’s “Good Day” morning newscast at 4:30 this morning, you missed the first half-hour. The brand-new, extra half-hour that was tacked on to the Fox-owned station’s morning ...
It didn’t take long for WIAT in Birmingham, AL to come up with a replacement for Mark Prater, who suddenly disappeared from the airwaves last month after ten years with the station. Ashley Gann, ...
Hand in hand with the announcement of Gann’s promotion is the naming of her replacement on “CBS 42 Morning News with Art Franklin” and “CBS 42 News at Noon with Leigh Garner.” Nate Harrington ...
Stay with us, now… CNN’s Christiane Amanpour will be replacing Christiane Amanpour who’s been the interim replacement for the departed and disgraced Charlie Rose on PBS beginning in July. Ever since Rose was booted ...
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 ...
Skeptical looks aside, Jason Guy and Michelle Imperato are revving up for more air time. Unlike Dallas (see above) the newsroom (including Guy & Imperato) at Hearst’s WESH in Orlando, FL has more than ...
Mike Lacett joins Tegna’s WZZM in Grand Rapids, MI as weekend sports anchor/reporter. Lacett most recently worked at Block’s WDRB in Louisville, KY. He is a graduate of Syracuse University, S.I. Newhouse School Of ...
According to a paper recently published by a gaggle of Yale researchers, people who are prone to psychosis, who are delusional, dogmatic, or religious fundamentalists are all likely to accept “fake news,” no matter ...
Disney’s KTRK in Houston is in the market for a pm traffic anchor/reporter with the exit of Rebecca Spera. Blogger Mike McGuff reports that Spera had been slated to return from maternity leave when ...
16-year broadcast vet Karla Redditte is poised to take her place at the anchor desk alongside WWBT’s Curt Autry later this month upon the retirement of anchor Sabrina Squire. Squire announced she is stepping ...
Comcast is reportedly lining up the armored trucks in an attempt to rip the bulk of 21st Century Fox’s film an tv assets away from Disney. Reuters reports that Comcast is speaking with investment ...
Charter Communications customers will live fear-free of a blackout of CBS programming for at least a few years as the two companies have agreed to a long-term carriage deal. The deal includes all of ...
It is a special sort of irony that the incoming president of the National Rifle Association is a guy who brokered illegal arms sales to Iran back in the 80’s on the heels of ...
Although he’s not quite ready to spell out his next act, reporter Saul Garza, a 19-year veteran of Fox-owned KDFW in Dallas is kissing off the business. He was offered, and rejected, a new ...
Things got a little breathless in the Fox News universe over the weekend when federal judge T.S. Ellis sternly challenged the government’s case against Paul Manafort, saying, in effect, special counsel Robert Mueller may ...
After just under three years, Jonathan Rozelle, a reporter at Nexstar’s Little Rock, AR duopoly KARK/KLRT has announced he’s done and headed north. Rozelle will be joining Hubbard’s KSTP in St. Paul later this ...
One year ago, Norfolk’s WVEC meteorologist Crystal Harper announced her cancer diagnosis. On live TV Sunday, the Virginia meteorologist shared a special moment with her viewers. “I promised I’d be back and here I ...
There is something in the Buffalo water, we swear. For the second time in two months, romance has effected change at two Buffalo tv stations. First it was Jonah Javad, sportscaster at Tegna’s WGRZ ...
It’s a homecoming and a return to Telemundo as Luis Roldán and Roberto Vizcón take the lead roles at Orlando O&O WTMO Both veteran executives had already served with Telemundo, Vizcón as general manager ...
And with that, WEVV morning show anchor/EP Shelby Coates announced that she is not renewing her contract with the Bayou City-owned station in Evansville, IN. station. She continued, on her Facebook feed: “And three ...
We have to admit it. We love it when the Jimmy Kimmels and John Olivers of the world decide to hold up a mirror to the tv news business and let us see just ...
The difference between possessive and plural. That’s today’s lesson, class. Plural means more than one. You do not need an apostrophe to make a noun (whether common or proper) plural. (singular) pro (plural) pros ...
Honestly, the Charlie Rose stories just get creepier. Katherine Brooks Harris, Sydney McNeal and Chelsea Wei, who are all in their 20s, are suing Rose and his former employer CBS News for his “blatant ...
Mark Little returns to Raycom Media as ND for WLBT/WDBD in Jackson, MS. Little most recently was ND for Raycom’s WIS in Columbia, SC, a job he left in March after almost two years. He spent 14 ...
Michele Gors returns to commercial television as she joins Quincy’s WAOW in Wausau, WI as its next news director. She’s a former ND in Wichita, Memphis and Cedar Rapids, but spent seven years as GM for ...
Alex DeLeon has been promoted to news director at WTVO/WQRF in Rockford, IL. He has been an executive producer for the station in his second stint for this Nexstar/Mission Broadcasting opoeration. He has also worked ...
Debi Highland started May 1 as the new news director for WNKY in Bowling Green, KY owned by Marquee Broadcasting. She comes from a print background: her complete history is detailed on her Linkedin page. ...
Congratulations to Brian Trauring who’s been named VP/News, Marketing and Content Development, for Lilly Broadcasting. It’s a return to Lilly for Brian – he was working at WTVG in Toledo, OH when it was a ...
What do you do if your corporation’s top EVP of legal is on the bench because of a wall of lawsuits? If you’re Fox News, you hire another top litigator to be your general ...
Calm down. We’re talking about “What the Fact”, the latest entry in the Sunday morning news and information tv wars. Only this “WTF” shows up on Newsy, the Scripps-owned, millennial-targeted national multiplatform news network. ...
As a videographer for Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins broadcasts, John Martin literally worked behind the scenes during his 19 years at NESN. In January 2017, it was revealed that Martin had been ...
