Fox News just can’t seem to put Scottie Nell Hughes in the past. Which is kind of how we felt when she kept turning up back in 2016 as a fact-free Trump surrogate, first ...
Veteran anchor Deborah Knapp, who’s spent more than three decades at anchor desks in Philadelphia and San Antonio has been awarded permanent residency of the 10 PM anchor desk at Tegna’s KENS in San ...
You know sweeps are right around the corner when stations spruce up their sets (if not outright replacing them) and spiff up their graphics. Hearst’s KMBC in Kansas City, MO is not immune. The ...
Connecticut’s statewide version of C-SPAN, CT-N, is causing no small amount of anguish among state lawmakers, who still can’t figure out what to do with it. CT-N provides daily coverage of activity at the ...
MSNBC personality Joy Reid probably figured her December apology for a series of 11-12 year-old homophobic entries on her now-discontinued blog would have put the story to rest. Wrong. A whole new series of ...
A 40-year broadcasting career, begun when he was still in his teens, comes to an end next month when Roger Cornish steps down from the anchor desk at Gray’s KWCH in Wichita. Cornish’s father ...
The Roku streaming service, which a lot of millennials we know have instead of local television, is launching a news category among its free video offerings. A key component will be a new 24-hour ...
Kayla Moody wrapped up her weekend anchor duties this past weekend at Tegna’s WHAS in Louisville , KY and is going back to where it all began for her. Next month, she’ll become the ...
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, ...
Former Hartford-New Haven reporter Jason Newton, who moved on after 3 ½ years from Nexstar’s WTNH to Nexstar’s DC Bureau 11 months ago, just resurfaced as a self-described “Washington Press Secretary.” Whoever he is ...
An in-house whisperer tells Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman that talk around town is that ditched KTVU anchor Ken Wayne is headed to KRON. That would make sense with the opening created by the ...
Chalk up another firing to cost-cutting. After 13 years at the anchor desk, Las Vegas anchor Steve Wolford was shown the door at Scripps’ KTNV. Wolford has nearly 40 years of experience on his ...
Thanks to his brother Jaie, a reporter at WOAI in San Antonio, TX, ABC News correspondent Jim Avila, is back home recovering from a much-needed kidney transplant. Avila’s kidney problem was triggered by diabetes. ...
KGO reporter Mike Shumann is apparently in hot water with the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, after being accused by the team of stealing a jacket from Ralph Walker, the director of team security. How ...
ABC News finally made official what was the worst-kept secret in the business – Amy Robach will be the new co-anchor of “20/20” Her name has been freely thrown around for months – most ...
This week in billable hours, Ben Amey, a former reporter for Hubbard’s WNYT in Albany, NY is suing Nexstar’s WTEN in the same market for negligence over a shoulder injury he claims was caused ...
Less than a month ago, Jenny Anchondo surprised her co-workers at Fox O&O KDFW in Dallas, TX with an abrupt exit saying she “decided to move on and make my departure from Fox 4.” ...
The “Minneapolis Star-Tribune” set out to do one of the by-now-standard stories profiling the Sinclair Broadcast Group’s corporate heavy hand in its local newsrooms, what with paranoia-inducing “Terrorism Alert Desk” segments and the daily ...
Chalk up another sweeps farewell tour as Sabrina Squire retires May 23 from Raycom’s WWBT (NBC12) in Richmond, VA Squire began her career at WWBT in August 1981 and became a primetime news co-anchor ...
The FCC’s #1 lawyer says there was no ethical issue raised by the attendance of the Commission’s three Republican members at this year’s Conservative Political Action Caucus (C-PAC) convention. Even though CPAC is an ...
ICYMI, net neutrality is now dead, officially, to the FCC and its courageous chief lobbyist and chairman. If you don’t live in one of the several states working on their own net neutrality rules ...
In San Jose, KSTS Telemundo 48 Área de la Bahía launched a noon news half-hour this week. Flavio Lacayo and Sandra Cervantes are co-anchoring the midday newscast. In addition, the station launched live morning ...
We will find out later this week who the new president/CEO of pubcaster WTTW’s parent company will be. On Thursday, Chicago-based Window to the World Communications Inc. will announce the successor to Dan Schmidt, ...
Carlos Rausseo is the new co-anchor of WTMO Telemundo Orlando’s 5, 6 and 11p.m. weekday newscasts alongside Olga Aymat. Rausseo is coming from KDEN Telemundo where he was a news and sports anchor since ...
First it was soon-to-be former ”20/20” host Elizabeth Vargas, now it’s Gretchen Carlson signing on to an overall deal with A+E Networks to create and host a series of three documentary specials. The first ...
We told you last week about the 13-hour telethon that Tribune’s WGHP conducted to raise money for the Salvation Army relief efforts in the aftermath of weekend tornadoes that hit the region. The final ...
When to use “was” and “were” is usually pretty easy. If the subject is singular, use the singular verb “was.” Example: “The tape was in the editing booth.” If the subject is plural, use ...
A Montana Congressional candidate is advancing his political run by bashing Sinclair Broadcast Group – on Sinclair’s on Montana stations. John Heenan, in the spot, charges that Sinclair is “using its power to take ...
Suri Crowe used to be a reporter at Sinclair’s WSET in Lynchburg , VA. Last year, Crowe’s contract was not renewed and she was forced out of WSET. Crowe joined WSET in 2014, when ...
You’d be smiling too if, like Rupert (center), Lachlan (left) and James (right) Murdoch, you were due to get a chunk of a $206 million golden parachute when Disney’s $52+ billion purchase of the ...
“Chicago’s Very Own” unveils its Portland, OR import tonight at 5 as Joe Donlon makes his much-anticipated debut on Tribune’s WGN, sitting alongside Micah Materre. He’s been writing about his re-introduction to the city ...
CBS News President David Rhodes and his boss Les Moonves share a dream. If CNN ever becomes available, both of them would like to bring it under the CBS umbrella. Rhodes’s rationale is that ...
When Grace Joyal exits the morning anchor desk after five years at Bahakel’s WOLO, two people are stepping up to take her place. Claire Richardson and Curtis Wilson will become the new anchors of ...
CBS O&O KDKA in Pittsburgh is looking for a general manager. After a 39-year broadcast career, 29 of them as a gm and the last 14 at Gateway Center, vp and general manager Chris ...
Fox News primetime entertainer Laura Ingraham’s got great ratings, no sponsors (courtesy of a boycott) and now a lawsuit brought by a former employee. Karolina Wilson says she was having a great time working ...
“Seems I got to have a change of scene” “’Cause every night I have the strangest dreams.” Ken Wayne, a fixture at Fox O&O KTVU in Oakland, CA for the past 26 years is ...
Meteorologist Lisa Vaughn and Fox O&O KRIV in Houston have parted ways – rather suddenly and with no advance warning. Vaughn’s last day was a week ago. Vaughn inexplicably disappeared from the airwaves for ...
Score another survivor of Entravision’s gutting of its Laredo, TX news operation. Miguel Amante has landed a new job at Telemundo Laredo. Amante was one of the many staffers who lost their jobs when ...
A suburban Cincinnati man found himself the center of some unwanted attention when Maytal Levi, a reporter for Raycom’s WXIX, confronted him about the collection of Confederate flags and lawn jockeys with Afro wigs ...
Between 1961 and 1998, John Doyle held forth on the KVAL anchor desk in Eugene, OR. He even served as news director in the middle of that run. In that 37-year span, he reported ...
In the past week or so we have had weathermen “arrested” for stealing spring, and meteorologists becoming “unhinged” over the ribbing by their colleagues for continued bad weather news In Buffalo, Nexstar’s WIVB turned ...
The TV tower that transmits PBS station KOZK in southern Missouri collapsed while seven maintenance workers were working on it. One of those workers was killed and five others injured. Six of the seven ...
Paul Magnes, vp and general manager of Sunbeam’s WHDH and WLVI since 2015, will become executive VP and general manager of Sunbeam Television Corp., effective July 1. He’ll succeed Bob Leider, who will stay ...
Local news operations are finally coming around to the idea that if they are to survive and attract the millennial demo, they have to go to them – millennials aren’t hanging around the house ...
And by that we mean, could hitting the road become the preferable alternative to tv news burnout over a life in corporate PR? That would seem to be the conclusion drawn by Caleb James, ...
Is he is, or is he ain’t a journalist? It was inevitable that when his subservient bosses at Fox News gave Sean Hannity a pass, and even a pat on the back, in the ...
Listicles. News articles that are really nothing much more than lists. We can’t get enough of them so let us spend a little time looking at the latest – The Time 100, its annual ...
It always makes us happy to hear that Dan Patrick just keeps working. We’ve been a fan since the original “Sportscenter” on ESPN a century ago. When its new season begins on May 29th, ...
Futuro, the independent nonprofit organization committed to producing ethical multimedia journalism and founded by journalist Maria Hinojosa, is expanding its media portfolio with the acquisition of Latino Rebels. Latino Rebels is a pioneering digital ...
After two years as host of “On the Story” on sister network HLN while occasionally filling in on the main service, Erica Hill is re-joining CNN fulltime as its primary fill-in anchor and national ...
“Chicago’s Best,” the weekly food magazine show on Tribune’s WGN is getting a couple of new faces. Marley Kayden and Lauren Scott will join Elliott Bambrough beginning in May. Kayden is the former weekend ...
Veteran media executive Ronald Day is the new executive vice president of programming for Telemundo, one of three executives just hired by the Hispanic network. He previously served as an executive producer for NBC ...
We suppose it’s like being in a club, right? “Good Morning America” has revamped its website and…seriously…added a daily newsletter called “GMA Wakeup.” The eternal battle between “Good Morning America” and “Today” for A.M. ...
Trent Kelly moves across the Sunshine State to Berkshire Hathaway’s WPLG in Miami. For the past four years, he was a reporter at Waterman’s WBBH in Fort Myers where he was an anchor/reporter. The ...
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, ...
Chris Lovingood joins Hearst’s WTAE in Pittsburgh, PA as the station’s new weekend morning anchor, ending a two-month search for someone to replace departed anchor Bofta Yimam. He announced his departure via Facebook: BREAKING ...
Yes, it’s akin to a headline about the sun coming up in the east, but it’s good to note anyway that the Department of Justice is on the verge of approving Sinclair Broadcast Group’s ...
An upcoming book contains new, and rather bizarre, details that might shed some more light on just how off-kilter the CBS-Viacom talks might be getting. According to Ken Auletta’s upcoming book, “Frenemies: The Epic ...
Matt Piacente, news director of Fox-owned WFLD, stepped out from behind the curtain Tuesday to host a new daily live video on Facebook for the station. According to Robert Feder, Piacente was clearly channeling ...
After 7 ½ years and a smorgasbord of work assignments, including her most recent stint as anchor of “Good Morning New Orleans”, Anne Cutler is leaving Tribune’s WGNO and is headed for Fox-owned WTTG ...
Portable People Meters are the next big thing as local stations and networks are tired of missing out on credit for folks watching in sports bars, airport waiting areas and even other peoples’ homes. ...
In the wake of a deadly round of weekend tornadoes and severe weather, Tribune’s WGHP hosted a 13-hour telethon Wednesday to raise money that will be distributed through the Salvation Army to local resident ...
Some call it “CNBC for millennials” which actually sounds for more grown-up than it’s real name – Cheddar. The video streaming service has already garnered an audience. Now it plans to expand that audience ...
Meredith’s KTVK in Phoenix AZ is using a temporary set, displaced while work is being done on the principal studio home. The temporary newscast setup includes a backlit cityscape, round pod anchor desk and ...
And who would blame anyone for bringing charges against the weatherman for this so-far ridiculous spring across the country? Bravo to viewers who swore out an “arrest” warrant against Kaj O’Mara, charging him with ...
Raengel Solís joins WNJU Telemundo 47 New York as the station’s weekend weather forecaster. The Dominican native will appear on “Noticiero Telemundo 47 Fin de Semana” at 6 and 11 pm. She’ll first show ...
Three decades after retiring from Chicago tv news, Peter Nolan is looking back. He’s just published “News Stories: A Memoir,” a collection of essays about the memorable stories he covered and characters he encountered ...
A little more than a year after WINK morning anchor Jennifer Stacy found herself blindsided by one of those news director “We’re going in another direction” edicts, she’s coming back to morning television. Stacy, ...
Richard Blystone was a veteran Associated Press correspondent with Vietnam War tours and other Asian assignments under his belt when he joined a fledgling CNN in June 1980, three weeks before the innovative network ...
Some of us have been working on “farther” and “further” all our lives and still have to stop and think about it, Mrs. B included. “Farther” is a distance word: I can throw the ...
Like Tammy Wynette, the bruised and battered execs at Fox “News” are standing by their man. Sean Hannity may have cheated on them, led them down the garden path with his many debunked conspiracy ...
While Nate Silver’s data journalism site 538 is leaving ESPN after four years, it will be a short trip. 538 is teaming up with ABC News, just in time for the mid-term election cycle. ...
It seems to be getting more familiar all the time – a tv news veteran chucks it to go into PR or something akin to it. The latest is Janine De La Vega, who ...
If you’re going to have a life after tv news, this isn’t a bad one to have. 17 years ago, Brendan Fehily was a street reporter for Cowles’ KULR in Billings, MT. Today, he’s ...
Robert Smith, the other, even less-visible, of the brothers who control Sinclair Broadcast Group, has donated more than $10,000 over the past two years to Montana Republican Congressman Greg Gianforte, the guy who last ...
Former KARK anchor Jancey Sheats (2005-2015) seems to be growing a career as a temporary fill-in at the Nexstar station in Little Rock, AR. She’s sitting in on the morning program through May while ...
This week, it’s at CNN where she is in the midst of a multi-week stint as a sports correspondent for the cable outlet. Since she left ESPN last August after her contract expired, Czarniak ...
Federal Communications commissioner Mignon Clyburn said at the agency’s public hearing yesterday that she is exiting the FCC. Clyburn, one of the more vocal opponents of gutting net neutrality rules, plans to be gone ...
Back in 2015, longtime Philadelphia anchor Renee Chenault-Fattah took a temporary leave from her job at WCAU after her husband, former Congressman Chaka Fattah, was indicted and later convicted on racketeering, bribery, money laundering ...
Bethany Moore heads to Scripps WXYZ in Detroit, MI as a reporter and she was excited enough to share the news via “Facebook Live”. Moore has been a reporter for the past two years ...
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 ...
Jenny Dreasler has resurfaced at Nexstar’s WISH in Indianapolis, IN as a reporter. Dreasler exited Sinclair’s KHQA in Quincy, IL, where she was an anchor-reporter, last June after just over two years.
In happier times, Jacey Birch and Trent Aric seemed like the perfect beautiful South Florida media couple – she an anchor and he a meteorologist at Berkshire Hathaway’s WPLG in Miami. No more. After ...
In recent years, Carl Kasell was best known as the scorekeeper on the NPR quiz show “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” And if you were a winner, the prize was having your voicemail message ...
Twitter is agog, the late-night hosts have a fresh source of material and cable news panels will be convening everywhere but Fox News, over the revelation that the third “mystery” client of Trump fixer ...
A veteran news director fills the open ND job at Meredith’s KVVU in Las Vegas. Tom Bell will be the new ND. He’s spent the last five years as ND for the CBS Sacramento duopoly KOVR-KMAX. ...
Kristen Drew, a soon-to-be former reporter for Sinclair’s KOMO in Seattle, WA is waving goodbye to the business and saying hello to “life after” as the city of Bainbridge Island’s new communications coordinator. Drew ...
Evidently you Marylanders need reminding that one of the stations you regularly watch, Scripps’ WMAR in Baltimore, is a Maryland station. So please appreciate that the station went to a lot of time and ...
MSNBC, which breathed deep and then ditched that annoying news ticker crawling along the bottom of the screen. What started out as a way to stay on top of the rapidly-evolving events of September ...
First it was Lara Spencer making herself scarce as “Good Morning America” tries to press its ratings advantage with its core team of Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos and Michael Strahan Now, Page Six reports ...
That headline sums it up. For the first time in the 20 years these studies have been done by RTDNA in conjunction with Hofstra University, total local TV news employment has surpassed total newspaper ...
Cox-owned WPXI in Pittsburgh is adding Danielle Dozier to its Severe Weather Team 11 lineup beginning April 23. She comes to the station from Tribune’s WXIN in Indianapolis, and replaces Valerie Smock. Smock announced ...
Sarah Westwood is moving over from the “Washington Examiner” to be the cable outlet’s latest addition to its White House press contingent. Westwood has been with the Examiner since 2014, most recently as its ...
How does the job of “Media Prep Technician” sounds to you? What does a “Media Prep Technician” do? It says here: [R]esponsible for subject matter knowledge and problem solving in all areas of Studio ...
Brittany Jeffers’ exit last month from CBS-owned KTVT in Dallas was a pretty quiet one with no destination mentioned. Destination identified. Jeffers started this week just down I-45 at Graham Media’s KPRC in Houston. ...
For those of you who track these things, CBS News correspondent Seth Doane was the only U.S. teevee network correspondent on the ground in Syria at the time that missiles were landing last Friday ...
Nexstar’s WANE in Ft. Wayne IN has found its replacement for exiting-the-business Heather Herron. Terra Brantley, a fixture for the past quarter century on morning and noon newscasts at the station, is moving up ...
“Hopefully” is widely used to mean “I hope” or “we hope,” or “it is hoped.” That’s not only wrong, it’s silly! And you’ll probably hear it at least once, if not several times, today. ...
