Stretching back to the days of Storer Broadcasting and when WJBK in Detroit was an independent-minded CBS affiliate, for 35 years Joe Weaver was one of the fixtures of the station’s then-dominant news operation. ...
Please don’t say you actually believed Chris Ripley and the rest of the Sinclair honchos when they repeatedly said they had no interest in mounting a challenge to Fox News. The joke’s on you. ...
The Charlie Rose sexual misconduct situation burst forth again with a new “Washington Post” story Thursday that unearthed more harassment claims, interviewed the victims and showed evidence that at least three news division managers ...
Kaley O’Kelley, who has been an anchor for Dallas CBS O&O KTVT since January 2015, announced Thursday afternoon on Facebook that she will leave the station this month, in search of a life. She ...
What is the difference between a wiretap and a “pen register?” NBC News found out the hard way Thursday when it breathlessly reported that former Trump fixer Michael Cohen’s phones were tapped by Federal ...
It is amazing to us that this battle is still being fought across the country. Decades ago, we were covering court cases with cameras in the courtroom and yet, they remain a source of ...
Eric Bolling is coming back to tv this summer, but you’ll have to work a bit to find him. But when you do, you’ll find “America”, which is the name of his new program. ...
Was it just last March that Fox O&O WTTG in Washington debuted “Like It Or Not”, a week-in-review program featuring Bram Weinstein, Britt McHenry and Guy Lambert? Weinstein, a former ESPN “Sportscenter” host, is ...
Mike Hedeen started out as a sports reporter/weekend anchor at what was then Rochester, NY’s WGRC in 1990. As WGRC eventually transformed into Spectrum News, Hedeen gradually made the move into news coverage by ...
Seamless. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Get yourself a seamless giant video wall and they will flock to you. That appears to be the operative philosophy at NBC O&O KXAS in Dallas. The new video ...
After nearly three decades as one of “Sports Illustrated’s” highest-profile writers, Peter King is leaving the magazine and joining NBC Sports fulltime. In addition to being a senior writer as SI, King also was ...
Well, here’s something we never gave a second thought to, so aren’t we glad that HLN host Jane Velez-Mitchell is there for us? Velez-Mitchell thinks what mainstream media is really lacking is a sufficient ...
Cassie Wilson just made history in the Reno, NV market. She is moving off the morning weather forecasting beat and into the chief meteorologist chair for Sinclair-operated duopoly KRNV and KOLO – the first ...
From the beginning, NewsBlues has had an anonymous tipline. It’s untraceable and, if you’ve got a story, it’s a way to get the word out. You’ll find it over on the right hand column, ...
We could let the week go by without noting that there are viewers out there who pay attention to what they’re seeing on newscasts and, like us, when they see stuff that is intelligence-insulting, ...
That didn’t take long at all. It was just this past March that Britain-based Cambridge Analytica came under scrutiny after revelations that it had improperly obtained the personal information of millions of Facebook users, ...
Don’t panic. It’s just gone for viewers who watched Sinclair stations via PlayStation Vue. Sony’s live streaming site this week started pulling Sinclair stations off the channel lineups posted at Vue’s site. Previously, subscribers ...
It’s 37 years and out the door for Jacksonville, FL’s longest serving sports anchor. Sam Kouvaris is gone after he and Graham Media’s WJXT couldn’t agree to terms on a new contract. That contract ...
Yes, FCC commissioner Michael O’Rielly violated the Hatch Act with his remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February. That’s the final word from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, which issued ...
As a third woman comes forward, remembering that Tom Brokaw kissed her without permission 50 years ago, that letter signed by more than 100 past and present NBC News female staffers seems to be ...
Well we certainly get the notion of station groups sharing good stories – especially to help punch up newscasts during sweeps periods. But sometimes the pitfalls are obvious. Like on Tuesday, when Scripps’ WEWS ...
The never-ending Andrea Tantaros lawsuit against the estate of the late Fox News boss Roger Ailes is still ricocheting around the Manhattan court system. And Mrs. Ailes would like it to stop. In March ...
More dramatic lighting enhances the standard Tegna design for the KPNX version of the new news set. And let’s up the number and size of video panels – you just can overdo ‘em can ...
Do you really think that Twitter-dreaming about sodomizing a high school student with a hot poker is a justification for firing? Well….we do. A St. Louis circus performer thinks otherwise. Jamie Allman lost both ...
Anybody remotely familiar with the workings of both network and local tv newsrooms knows that one of the common practices is to prepare “obit pieces” on prominent newsmakers of all stripes so that when ...
Carlos Revelo is the new weekend sports anchor for “Noticias Telemundo 40” on Telemundo’s KTLM in Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen, TX (really fills up a station ID graphic). While he started Tuesday, he won’t be seen on-air ...
Nathalia Ortiz is the latest to sign on as an MMJ at NBC O&O WTVJ in Miami, FL. She has been freelancing with the station and will now join the staff., working weekends. She’ll ...
“Between” and “among” are easy. Use “between” for two and “among” for any more than that. If I have to choose BETWEEN the morning show and the 11 PM, it’s a no brainer. But ...
Pardon us, but if this is true, it stinks like yesterday’s fish left on a New Orleans sidewalk in August. In light of several reports that several NBC News female staffers felt uncomfortably pressured ...
Matthew Keys, a former web producer and network administrator for Tribune’s KTXL in Sacramento, who was convicted in 2016 on three counts of conspiracy and criminal hacking, finished the last of his sentence on ...
You have to love the ABC News graphic headline on Tuesday’s “World News Tonight.” “Dangerous Tornado Watch” As opposed to benign tornadoes, which we can confidently ignore. Or maybe the watch itself was dangerous. ...
When it comes to wages, working in tv news is a bit better than other industries in the long run. But 2017 was a somewhat stagnant year. According to an RTDNA-Hofstra University survey, over ...
The owner of one Sioux Falls, SD television station has bought another of the city’s stations. Gray Television, Inc. reached an agreement with Red River Broadcasting to acquire KDLT for $32.5 million cash, the ...
One of the pitfalls of running a business is the stockholders sometimes have a pesky way of inserting themselves into your day-to-day operations. So it follows that the less stockholders, the fewer headaches you ...
“Washington Post” reporter Jason Rezaian is the latest addition to CNN. He announced his new position on Twitter: “I’m pleased to announce that, starting today, I’ll be joining @CNN as a Global Affairs Analyst. ...
Has anybody checked with Michelle Wolf what the view under the bus was like? Since this “celebration of the First Amendment” was evidently supposed to be held under a caution flag, the WHCA is ...
Tribune’s KTLA anchors Lu Parker and Glen Walker have added an 11 AM news hour to their daily 1 and 3 PM anchor duties Jason Ball, station vice president and news director helpfully pointed ...
On Monday, Telemundo’s KTMD in Houston took the wraps off a new set which will make the rest of May go SO well. The new set mirrors looks used by other Telemundo and NBC ...
The speed with which Tribune’s WGNO replaced its morning team of Jacki Jing and Anne Cutler makes you wonder. Cutler and Jing announced back-to-back departures from the “Good Morning New Orleans” anchor desk about ...
Longtime Chicago news anchor Darlene Hill showed up for her first TV appearance Tuesday since leaving Fox-owned WFLD last fall . She was a guest on “Windy City Live” on Disney’s WLS. Although she’s ...
Jim Mathews delivered the news on WBNG and then, briefly, WICZ in Binghamton, NY for more than a decade, from 1979 to 1990. He’d come to Binghamton from what was then-sister station WTAJ in ...
Yesterday we took a look at the executive compensation enjoyed by top guys at Sinclair Broadcast Group as it prepares to take over Tribune Media. Now about the other elephant in the tv room ...
With those words, Megyn Kelly delivered a strong caution Monday to the 100+ current and former female NBC News staffers, led by Andrea Mitchell, Kelly O’Donnell and Mika Brzezinski, who signed a letter over ...
Even though it is our opinion that this whole DOJ vs. AT&T’s $85 billion proposed merger with Time Warner is all about the Administration’s hostility toward Time Warner unit CNN, we can’t disagree with ...
Think it’s been a bad year to be a Univision employee? It’s not over yet. CEO Randy Falco, who himself is scheduled to go away later this year, memo’ed the staff that more layoffs ...
When we last heard from Billy Huggins, it was December of last year and he was cleaning out his desk at Sinclair’s WPDE in Myrtle Beach, SC where he had worked for decades. He’s ...
Hearst’s KSBW in Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz, CA has hired Kim Pinckney Eller as its new Assistant News Director. She most recently was an EP at Raycom’s WBTV in Charlotte, and has also worked in Roanoke as a producer ...
Kathia Yarí López has just started producing Telemundo 48’s newly launched midday show, “Noticiero Telemundo 48 al Mediodía,” in San Jose, CA. She joined the station from Telemundo Philadelphia, where she was a news ...
Adriana Macías is the latest MMJ to join Telemundo’s KDEN in Denver, CO. She came to the station after two years at KORO Univision Corpus Christi. Macías previously worked as an investigative reporter for ...
New York-based News 12 and the i24News cable network, both owned by Altice USA, are going to be combined into a newly formed division called Altice USA News. “In today’s world, access to reliable, ...
After five years as a Fox News West Coast-based national correspondent, Will Carr joined ABC News as a correspondent based in Los Angeles. He started Monday and will be in place in LA in ...
This deserves to become a trend that would do far more good than on-air proposals and coverage of anchors’ baby deliveries. Cox-owned WFTV in Orlando is another station that has gone the route of ...
KSAT’s David Elder enjoys his “fun ’n’ games” beat as a lifestyle reporter for the Graham Media San Antonio station. For some reason, Joel McHale, host of a Netflix weekly program named, oddly enough, ...
“Myself” is one of those words that pops up a lot in daily conversation, and 99 percent of the time, we use it wrong. The only right way to use “myself” is reflexively or ...
As a small army of current and former NBC News woman colleagues come to the vigorous defense of Tom Brokaw, Brokaw himself has penned a lengthy, and, at times angrily personal, denunciation of what ...
In the wake of the Brokaw story, more than one news organization is raising questions about NBC’s history of dealing with harassment allegations – and that once again rekindled the Ann Curry- Matt Lauer ...
MSNBC host Joy Reid wants you to know she apologizes for the homophobic posts found on her inactive blog site, but she still doesn’t think she wrote them. All the same, she admitted she ...
Let’s take a quick look at the Sinclair 2018 proxy statement to find out. Everybody wants to be David Smith, who makes about 300% more than anybody else in salary, stock options and bonuses, ...
Americans were treated to a profane, insult-laden, often inappropriate monologue Saturday night. But enough about the POTUS in Michigan. How about the White House Correspondents Dinner? Next year, hire a musical act to entertain ...
Five years was evidently enough of Fallon Smith for NBC Sports Bay Area. The suits decided not to renew the contract of Smith, who anchored and covered the Oakland Raiders. Smith worked at the ...
And as the May sweeps kick off, stations continue to unveil new logos, new promos and, most of all new sets. Tegna’s WUSA went with the “in the round” Tegna look and the omnipresent ...
Ray Hershel was 22 years old when he joined the staff of WGGB in Springfield, MA back in 1968. He never left. Last week, after half a century, and surviving countless ownership changes (most ...
Stocks editor Liz MacDonald will host the newly-launched “Evening Edit” starting today on Fox Business Network. The show is called “Evening Edit” and it will air at 5 p.m. ET. The 5 PM hour ...
We have to wonder about the basement-dwelling losers who seem to think they have a calling to insult tv newspeople about things that have nothing to do with their abilities to report the news. ...
Bruce Johnson, the 30-year veteran of Tegna’s WUSA in Washington, DC has announced he has non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and will be taking time off to seek treatment. He made his announcement via Facebook. Johnson promises ...
Veteran Honolulu morning news anchor Ron Mizutani has left Nexstar’s KHON in Honolulu to become president and CEO of the Hawaii Food Bank. “How exciting is that? I’ve actually wanted to be part of ...
Sources tell NewsBlues that Chris Gilson, weekend meteorologist at Nexstar’s KRQE in Abuquerque, NM is out the door in the next few weeks. He’s been with the stations for more than five years. We’re ...
Tom Brokaw is probably the last network news anchor to achieve the iconic status reserved for the Cronkites, Brinkleys and Jennings. So it is a bombshell to see this elder statesman of tv news ...
Andrea Roane has held down at desk in the WUSA newsroom in Washington, DC since 1981. She is currently the noon anchor at the station but over the years has shown up anchoring in ...
This, of course, is the weekend when the orgy of self-celebration known as the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner takes place so that a pouting President can skip it and attend a Michigan rally ...
Industry lobbyist and FCC chair Ajit Pai says the commission still hasn’t reached a decision on the Sinclair-Tribune deal, even as the shot clock continues on “pause.” FCC sources have signaled that the clock ...
Sources tell us that it’s official – former KTVU anchor Ken Wayne is headed for the anchor chair at Nexstar’s KRON in San Francisco, CA. No official word on what days or day part ...
Through no fault of their own, the Three Dumbest People On Television (aka, the denizens of the “Fox & Friends” kurvy kouch) accidentally had news made before their dumbstruck eyes Thursday morning when they ...
Well this should be interesting. Sandra Cordova Micek’s background is as a corporate marketing executive with no broadcasting experience whatsoever. So why not name her president and CEO of the parent company of Chicago’s ...
She’s still on the payroll at NBC and we’re told she’ll do her MSNBC weekend program. But Joy Reid is withdrawing a bit as the storm continues to build over her hacking claims following ...
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman reports that it becomes more likely with each passing day that KGO sportscaster Mike Shumann will lose his job. A harsh and sad ending to a 28-year career. Shumann ...
Some reporters take their weekends to unwind, sleep in, maybe party a bit and gear up for the next week. Evelyn Holmes, a reporter for Disney’s WLS in Chicago prefers getting up on Saturday ...
A local viewer emailed the following to “Pittsburgh Post-Gazette” tv beat reporter Rob Owen, asking a question that has plagued viewers AND news directors through the ages. “Why is it that it seems local ...
Sources tell us that Raycom’s KXXV Central Texas News Now in Waco, TX is contemplating an anchor change as the May sweeps loom. We’re told that the 6 and 10 p.m. anchors will not ...
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 ...
Tribune’s WTIC in Hartford, CT has brought on a new weekend meteorologist. And for Rachel Piscitelli, this is her first on-air job. According to her Facebook page, she just started this week after working ...
CNN has joined four other national news organizations in asking a federal court to unseal records from the criminal case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and the investigation into Russian influence in ...
We noted yesterday that, in its fourth attempt to get regulators at the FCC and the Department of Justice off its back and on board with its acquisition of Tribune Media, Sinclair planned to ...
“The Wall Street Journal” tells us that when CBS CEO Les Moonves and Viacom boss Bob Bakish and their respective entourages met in January over a tray of take-out deli sandwiches to talk about ...
Will Kunkel, sports director at Gray’s KWCH in Wichita posted the news on – where else? – Facebook. “THANK YOU to everyone in Kansas – in particular the Wichita area. Wichita has become another ...
After both struggling along for years as the public TV version of competitors, the station that used to be the PBS flagship in Los Angeles — KCET — and the current flagship — PBS ...
Brooke Martel has been promoted to co-anchor of KSBY’s new morning show, “Daybreak.” The Cordillera station is launching the new two-hour morning program for the San Luis Obispo, CA market. Martell is a hometown ...
We checked when someone pointed it out to us and, sure as shootin’, we hadn’t done a Megyn Kelly piece in months – which actually says more about a dearth of interest in her ...
Devlin Design Group has presented Meredith’s WNEM in Saginaw, MI with a new studio set that, coupled with the CBS O&O graphics package and a brand new production music library, means the station should ...
Former Pittsburgh anchor Wendy Bell thought you should know that, as a woman and a victim of sexual harassment who lost her job when she blew the whistle on her harasser, she’s fully supportive ...
You did read that correctly, and if we didn’t know that “Fox & Friends” has no evident plans to add to the cast of the kurvy kouch, we would swear that Kari Lake was ...
Please say the Tribune New Orleans station isn’t being fitted for a revolving door. A week after anchor Anne Cutler announced her departure from WGNO, her fellow “Good Morning New Orleans” host Jackie Jing ...
Tegna’s WXIA in Atlanta has decided to turn its morning crew into the “Morning Zoo” of tv, with a Pandora channel featuring “a diverse set of music genres and artists” picked by its “Morning ...
Colleen Campbell joins WDTV, the CBS Affiliate in Weston, WV, where she will do weekend weather and will be a general assignment reporter weekdays. She previously worked for Tribune’s WPHL in Philadelphia. Colleen is ...
Somewhere, way back there in middle school, you probably had a teacher explain the difference between “lie” and “lay,” but it’s kind of fuzzy now. And you hear them misused so much, you may ...
Once more, Sinclair Broadcast is reconfiguring its proposed acquisition of Tribune Media in an effort to gain favor with the folks who will vet the deal for the FCC and the Department of Justice. ...
