10 months after being shown the door at Tegna’s WLTX in Columbia, SC, Mary Beth Jacoby is a news director again. She’s resurfaced at Gray’s WVLT in Knoxville, TN where, in addition to the ...
The bios’s gone, her station social media has been wiped clean. All signs that weekend anchor Natasha Barrett has left Disney’s KRTK in Houston. Barrett, a Houston native, came to the station in 2014 ...
Scott Pickey is out as the news director for locally owned Thomas Broadcasting’s WOAY in Beckley-Oak Hill WV after about 18 months. Scott and his GM, Dennis Adkins, were both released on the same day. ...
Shawn Reynolds has joined AccuWeather as Director of Network Programming. Shawn says that means he’ll be editorial lead for the AccuWeather Network. He most recently was an EP for Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta, news director for WTVM/WXTX-TV in Columbus, GA, ...
One thing you have to say about the still-alive-and-threatening Sinclair Broadcast Group acquisition of Tribune Media, it has inspired a spirit of bipartisanship sorely lacking in so many other avenues of live these days, ...
Nexstar’s got a laundry list of changes for its WHTM in Harrisburg, PA and we’re assured all of this was well underway BEFORE that station’s recent PR debacle with spurned midday anchor Flora Posteraro. ...
CNBC is moving veteran general assignment reporter Morgan Brennan into an anchor chair on its “Squawk Alley” program alongside Carl Quintanilla and Jon Fortt. Brennan has been with CNBC for close to five years, ...
You can safely call it a bloodbath at Univision as another estimated 150 jobs were axed at Fusion and Univision Digital. The job cuts kicked off midweek at Fusion and Univision Planeta where 40 ...
A recent flurry of exits by popular Buffalo, NY teevee news personnel may have some folks wringing their hands in anxiety and others wondering what the hell is going on. Fear not. Alan Pergament ...
Quincy’s WPTA in Ft. Wayne, IN has promoted weekend anchor-reporter Julian Teekaram to a weekday morning anchor chair. She’d been on weekends since 2016. The change is immediate. She’s a Ft. Wayne native. Previously ...
Sinclair’s KATV said goodbye last week to reporter Kimberly Rusley, who spent about a year and a half at the Little Rock station. She’s headed to sister station KFDM in Beaumont, TX. The Louisiana ...
After more than 16 years, morning ancho Vicky Crystal will soon give up the task of waking up viewers for Gray’s WLUC in Marquette, MI. Crystal, who has been working in either teevee or ...
As ABC News’ Lincoln Square Productions unit continues to undergo a deep re-evaluation, two more veterans are out the door. Danielle Rossen was vp of Unscripted Production at Lincoln Square. Erica Butler, the senior ...
Quincy Media’s WKOW in Madison, WI named veteran anchor George Smith as its new evening co-anchor alongside Amber Noggle. For the past 2 ½ years, Smith was a sports reporter for Fox-owned WFLD in ...
We told you last week that Kelly Frank was leaving Columbus, OH, and Dispatch-owned WBNS to be closer to her mother who is ill. She achieved that goal with Thursday’s news that she’ll be ...
We told you yesterday that the Fox Television Stations Division was planning to expand local news offerings in a number of markets across the country. Now we know what will be added to Fox ...
We’re not sure what a dozen Senators expect the FCC to find in Sinclair stations news scripts, but they’re demanding an investigation anyway. Oh yeah, they want to know if the local station is ...
We only know of this happening at one Sinclair station. But if one is doing it, can others be far behind? Thanks to the anonymous NewsBlueser who clued us in. We are told that ...
The University of Missouri School of Journalism is pondering a possible ban of Sinclair Broadcast Group from its student recruitment efforts at the school So far, 16 journalism school deans and department chairs have ...
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 ...
How about a “comics journalist?” It could be the next big thing and that’s not a bad idea. Scripps WCPO in Cincinnati hired one to illustrate stories that are photo-challenged and subject-sensitive. Let Kevin ...
Mark Prater, chief meteorologist for Nexstar’s WIAT for the past 8 years, was unceremoniously shown the door this week. Prater and WIAT news director Rob Martin declined to comment on the circumstances surrounding Prater’s ...
Brad Hamm announced this week he’s stepping down as dean of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. After taking a one-year sabbatical, he said he plans to rejoin Medill as a tenured journalism professor. ...
That St. Louis radio/TV host who lost his slot on Sinclair’s KDNL earlier this week over an indisputably sick tweet about his desire to sexually violate Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg also lost ...
Marissa Limon, who found herself on the street after she and several other staffers were axed by Entravision Laredo at the end of February in a cost-cutting move, is now across the street. Limon, ...
Scripps sister stations WTVF in Nashville and KMGH in Denver are getting themselves all worked up over the NHL hockey playoffs. The morning show hosts are betting breakfast on the outcome of the series ...
Mike Sacks joins Fox-owned WNYW New York as a reporter, after just under two years as the Washington D.C. political correspondent for Scripps Television. The Duke University and Georgetown Law grad previously worked for ...
Diana Gutierrez, a multimedia journalist at Weigel Broadcasting’s WBND in South Bend, Indiana, has been hired as a reporter for “The Jam,” the weekday morning news and talk show on sister station (and flagship) WCIU ...
Facebook doesn’t just want you to share your family pictures, your recipes and your cat pictures. They want to be a prime source of information for you. Which is why it is somewhat troubling ...
Yeah, we’re scratching our heads, trying to figure out why Facebook would tell online celebrities Diamond & Silk that their Facebook page (with 1.4 million followers) “your brand has been determined unsafe to the ...
It’s been quite a show in both houses of Congress this week as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was grilled by Senators and Congressman about everything from user agreements and profile privacy, to ad targeting ...
Tegna’s WKYC in Cleveland announced that Brennan Donnellan will leave the station after the May book. General Manager Micki Byrnes explained Brennan’s plans in this email to staff. Donnellan shared via email that he couldn’t talk too much ...
A San Antonio bonehead with a laser could have caused huge problems for KSAT’s helicopter crew Monday night when the laser was pointed at the chopper as it flew during the Graham Media station’s ...
It wasn’t supposed to be this hard. All Shari Redstone wanted was for the two companies she ordered torn asunder once upon a time, yet still controlled, to come back together to fulfill the ...
Tuesday night on the “CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor,” the topic was the United States weighing the possibility of military action in Syria in response to a chemical attack on Damascus. The graphic ...
It appears that the increasingly shrill and insistent tone of Sinclair Broadcast Group’s defense of its media-bashing promos is not only not registering terribly well with the general public. Inside the Sinclair walls, employees ...
Scripps WCPO in Cincinnati is bringing back Clyde Gray, four years after the veteran ended his 33-year television career to start up his own marketing business. He’ll co-host the daily half-hour “Cincy Lifestyle” with ...
Edward Lawrence, who has freelanced for….well…everybody, including NBC News, CBS News, MSNBC and Global News Canada is now a fulltime assignment reporter covering economic and political breaking news for Fox Business. He’ll work out ...
Tegna made it permanent for interim general manager Marty Schack at KTHV in Little Rock, AR. Schack, who’s been “interim” since Michael Caplan took a medical leave of absence last year, is getting the ...
Want to make a weatherman cry? Show him how his weather forecasts cause depression. That’s the lesson learned at Tegna’s WGRZ where on Wednesday morning, the viral story of a toddler upset by the ...
David Gonzalez is the newest addition to Tegna’s KHOU in Houston as an MMJ and got started the way a lot of us got started. “I grew up watching the news in the morning ...
Spencer Thomas joins FOX Affiliate WFFF in Burlington, Vermont where she will be a General Assignment Reporter/MMJ. Spencer is a graduate of Central Michigan University and she was also a member of the TEAM ...
Mrs. B knows you hear it in songs and on soaps, even occasionally from the hallowed mouth of a network correspondent, but “between you and I” is WRONG. “Between” is a preposition. It takes ...
Evidently it’s just “extremists” who “do not like what they hear or see” who are “bullying” beleaguered Sinclair Broadcast Group. At least that is the opinion of Sinclair president and CEO Chris Ripley who, ...
Simultaneous to Sinclair’s faux apology to its employees is a 3+ minute video produced for Sinclair by just-hired “crisis management”specialists 5WPR attacking CNN by showing CNN senior media correspondent Brian Stelter warning of fake ...
Although he was unable to recall precisely when the White House meeting took place and which officials he briefed, Sinclair CEO David Smith says that he pitched Administration officials last year on a system ...
It was last November that a “Washington Post” article told the stories of eight women who accused longtime TV host Charlie Rose of making unwanted sexual advances, walking around naked in front of them, ...
We told you a couple weeks ago that Nexstar’s WIVB in Buffalo was losing Callan Gray. The weekend anchor was viewed by some as a natural replacement for the departed Nalina Shapiro. But Monday ...
Veteran WABC reporter Tim Fleischer was on the street recording a segment when an unhinged bonehead marched up to him and punched him in the face. The assailant then ran off. He was arrested ...
Tegna went out and found themselves a chief technology officer to position them with more of a digital content platform environment. Kurt Rao did much the same at Time Inc., where he is coming ...
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman reports that while Steve Aveson is out the door at Nexstar’s KRON, he’s not quite OUT. THE. DOOR. While his contract was not renewed and lapsed at the end ...
Looks like St. Louis broadcast bonehead Jamie Allman not only lost his nightly “news” program on Sinclair’s KDNL, but now he’s taking one of those by-now-standard “Fox vacations” that hosts take after they’ve stepped ...
Sinclair’s WSYX has been without a chief meteorologist since Bill Kelly split in October to take the chief met job at sister station WJLA in Washington, DC. No more. Marshall McPeek is the new ...
Tribune’s KSWB in San Diego is tacking on an additional 30 minutes to its nightly 10 PM hour because the audience for that earlier newscast really wants to stay up an additional half hour. ...
The race to expand local news offerings in advance of the expected Sinclair-Tribune merger got jump-started as NAB got underway in Las Vegas. Fox Television Stations announced an expansion of the amount of local ...
Fox News’ latest rising star on the news end of things is Dana Perino, host of an afternoon news hour and a panelist on “The Five.” It was Perino who drew the choice assignment ...
Tony Pepper who, along with co-anchor Jack Williams, ruled Boston teevee news from the WBZ anchor desk back in the 70’s and into the 80’s, died last week of complications from diabetes and heart ...
And early yesterday morning, another WBZ Boston news fixture, Charlie Austin, died at the age of 73. Austin was a trailblazer, one of the first African-Americans on Boston television in the role of general ...
Newsmax is sending a clear message it intends to step up its game with the hiring of former Fox News executive Michael Clemente as the new CEO of its television arm, Newsmax TV. It ...
If CBS and Viacom are going to go steady again, Viacom would like CBS to sweeten its offer by $2.8 billion, evidently so it feels truly loved. As the Redstone family stands on the ...
After just over three and a half years, Kenny Plotnik is out the door as vice-president and news director of NBC10 Boston, NECN and Telemundo Boston. The station staff got the word Monday morning ...
Laura Ingraham returned to her timeslot during the Fox News entertainment block last night after her seven-day “Fox vacation” (which has been enjoyed in the past by Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters and Shep Smith ...
Despite Nexstar’s claims to the contrary, the former co-workers of deposed WHTM (Harrisburg PA) anchor Flora Posteraro back up her claim that she was the victim of a retaliatory firing because she spoke up ...
When you are as classy as St. Louis radio/tv personality Jamie Allman, you kinda deserve to lose your show. Which is what happened to Allman Monday. “We have accepted Mr. Allman’s resignation, and his ...
Jeff Kreiner, former VP and creative director at both CBS and NBC, and the author of two books, is now sitting down with television leaders and recording the conversations for his podcast “Kreiner’s Korner. ...
The “CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor” continues to struggle in the numbers, now down about 5% from a year ago and mired in third place. So there’s been a bit of a shakeup ...
A judge tossed a defamation lawsuit filed by a Providence, RI police officer against WJAR, several of its personnel and its former owner. Capt. Russell Henry claimed in his suit that he was defamed ...
Targeting the digital audience appears to be the strategy as McKinnon’s KUSI in San Diego, CA named Tony Bernhardt Jr. its new assistant news director Bernhardt, who replaces Lisa Burger who recently departed for ...
Take their word for it, Raycom’s WBTV in Charlotte, NC is heading down the nontraditional route with its latest offering, “On Your Side Tonight with Jamie Boll”, which debuts tonight at 7:30. The new ...
“Chicago’s Very Own” could be in a spot of trouble. As staffers at Tribune’s WGN nervously prepare for what appears to be the inevitable takeover by Sinclair, a competitor has the station in its ...
Some might call it the “30 Rock of the South”. Telemundo Center, whose cost NBCU pegged at “more than $250 million,” officially had the ribbon cutting and is up and running. It will host ...
Entravision seems determined to be a leader in the sad notion of hubbed news operations as it continues to shrink news operations at its stations. Multiple sources say Entravision executed massive cuts nationwide last ...
We continue today with our lesson on malapropisms: words we often confuse because they sound alike. “evoke” and “provoke” “Evoke means to bring to mind. >The sight of the bowling alley EVOKED memories of ...
From our government’s “Move along, nothing to see here” Department, comes word that the Department of Homeland Security (the name has always caused us to shudder) wants to monitor hundreds of thousands of news ...
Those Allied Progress ads opposing the merger with Tribune Media that were placed on four Sinclair stations starting airing this weekend – with a catch. Sinclair ran them on condition that the :30 spot ...
Adam Bagni, formerly an anchor for WJAR, a legacy television station in Providence, Rhode Island now owned by Sinclair, penned an op-ed piece this weekend for the Providence Journal in which he unloaded on ...
A former Sinclair reporter at WPEC in West Palm Beach, FL is getting some attention because of his legal fight with the company. Jonathan Beaton quit at WPEC in 2015 and moved to Orlando ...
Lauren Hills is another one of those former WPEC that Sinclair evidently has in its cross-hairs Hills was an anchor-reporter for the West Palm Beach station for a little over four years when she ...
Mark Neerman is the news director of Sinclair’s KSNV in Las Vegas. He’s also a Sinclair regional news director and an energetic defender of the company’s anti-media promo. “If you look at the words, ...
The apparently inevitable takeover of Tribune’s WGN by Sinclair triggered a meeting between the station’s journalists and union reps. Robert Feder says the meeting was held to consider ways to deal with Sinclair Broadcast ...
Rob Braun, the 30-year veteran anchor at Sinclair’s WKRC in Cincinnati, says he’s been getting death threats since the station began airing Sinclair’s (and Scott Livingston’s) anti-media message. Braun told coworkers that he’s had ...
That Little Rock, AR teacher we told you about a month ago who tried to call out a local tv reporter and landed behind bars as a result, is back in the classroom. Mitchell ...
Longtime station employee Joe Terrell ascends to the ND job for Raycom owned KLTV/KTRE inTyler/Lufkin/Longview, TX, succeeding the late Kenny Boles whose passing we reported in February after more than 20 years as ND. GM Pat ...
Chris Avery returns to his native Montana as news director for Sinclair owned KECI/KCFW/KTVM which are branded as NBC Montana. Avery has been an EP for KSTUin Salt Lake City for almost five years, and ...
A Navy veteran has filed a class-action lawsuit against Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon over the millions of Facebook accounts secretly scraped for data before the 2016 election. Jordan O’Hara ...
Bill Maher, no fan of snarky Fox News entertainer Laura Ingraham, came to her defense on his HBO program over the weekend. While calling her a “deliberately terrible person,” Maher faced down an audience ...
CNN may have been shamed into cancelling “Crossfire” its daily partisan shoutfest 13 years ago, at least in part thanks to a Jon Stewart appearance on the program in which he effectively rebuked the ...
Veteran Youngstown, OH anchor-reporter Mike Case is counting down his last week at locally-owned WFMJ. After 17 years at the station, the last six as morning co-anchor, Case is leaving at the end of ...
As we told you last month, Magdalena Doris has resurfaced in her hometown at Disney’s WPVI in Philadelphia. She was welcomed to the team by longtime anchor Monica Malpass via Facebook “She grew up ...
Yesterday we told you about the campaign by Allied Progress, a liberal watchdog group that wanted to place ads voicing opposition to the Sinclair-Tribune merger on four Sinclair stations. They bought time on WJLA ...
Less than 24 hours after the National Press Photographers Association issued a stern rebuke to Sinclair for its for its anchor hostage video, the company pulled a promised $25,000 donation to NPPA. Ironic, since ...
As Sinclair anchors across the country anonymously griped and grieved over the embarrassment of performing a script that decried rampant “media bias,” one local Sinclair anchor is relatively ok with it. Michael Benny of ...
We’ve heard from the journalists about the Sinclair promo. We’ve quoted the pundits. The politicians checked the way the wind was blowing and jumped on the bandwagon. What about viewers? “The fact that your ...
Kelly Frank is leaving Dispatch-owned WBNS at the end of May after not quite three years as ND. Here’s the memo from GM John Cardenas (also a former WBNS news director) to the staff. Kelly ...
Rachel Maddow, which is causing the hearts of some folks we know to clutch up something awful. In the month of March, MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show” finished as the highest-rated show in cable, with ...
Better than you’d expect, but it’s got room for improvement, according to the most recent study “Local TV News and the New Media Landscape,” conducted by the Knight Foundation It feels old-fashioned, and there’s ...
We can now finish the title of the new WOMC (Detroit) morning program “WOMC Mornings with Stephen Clark and…” JoAnne Purtan. The recently-dropped WXYZ anchor is joining the other recently-departed WXYZ anchor to co-host ...
Seven years after co-hosting “Un Nuevo Día,” Daniel Sarcos has left to host his own show in the Dominican Republic. After five years, Ana María Canseco is also exiting. She’s announced she’s leavin but ...
