“There are three categories that most people can’t do without: “News, sports and weather, and we own an entire category,” according to Weather Channel svp of programming Nora Zimmett. In a year when dozens ...
Nancy Leal is returning to Telemundo 39-KXTX in Dallas-Ft. Worth as the weekday co-anchor on “Noticiero Telemundo 39” at 4 and 4:30 PM After 11 years at Telemundo 39, Leal took a job at ...
CNN International business anchors Maggie Lake and Richard Quest launched a weekly 15-minute streaming program from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The program airs Wednesdays and will feature exclusive access to ...
If this were a divorce and a remarriage, you might say that CBS’s KTVT in Dallas is the jilted long-time spouse, ditched by KRLD radio which, in turn, has taken up with NBC’s KXAS. ...
Being a multimedia journalist has some pitfalls that are….well…different. Take Meghan Schiller of CBS-owned KDKA here in Pittsburgh. She spent Thursday morning covering the headaches being caused by the closure of a popular local ...
Birmingham, AL anchor Beth Shelburne of Raycom’s WBRC is keeping her viewers informed of her health situation after she suffered what appeared to be a heart attack on Monday. As of Thursday, she’s still ...
A former multi-market news director turned multi-market general manager has a new job. Mark Pimentel has been named General Manager of KRDO in Colorado Springs, CO. That’s the ABC affiliate there owned by News Press & ...
CNN’s Brian Stelter reports that a liberal consumer watchdog group is making what it calls a “six-figure ad buy” to condemn Sinclair. “Tell the FCC to stop the Sinclair merger,” the ad from Allied ...
Delaine Mathieu, evening co-anchor at Sinclair’s WOAI in San Antonio wants to make it clear she did NOT enjoy reading the Sinclair “promo announcement.” “I’ve been a news reporter for 23 years — which ...
In the latest fine-tuning of Sinclair’s corporate explanation for its mandated media-bashing anchor-driven “promo announcements”, the company cites a recent poll that doesn’t really square with the message the Sinclair would like to convey. ...
A morning show producer at Sinclair’s Kearney, Nebraska station, resigned at the end of last month over his concerns about what he called the station group’s “obvious bias” and interference. Justin Simmons left KHGI ...
Sinclair’s stone-faced “chief political analyst” Boris Epshteyn has a fresh new “must-run’ for Sinclair stations. And, in Boris’ view as expressed in his Wednesday AM newsletter, if you aren’t for the Sinclair “promo announcements, ...
RTDNA has kind of slid in sideways in a stealthy manner to weigh in on the Sinclair flap. But its press release boldly celebrated “local and truly independent” news. Nowhere is the word Sinclair ...
Back when he was somebody, internet personality Bill O’Reilly famously touted a “No-Spin Zone” that, as it turns out, didn’t extend to his sexual harassment settlements. When O’Reilly lost his bid on Tuesday to ...
Sharifa Jackson, an MMJ with Raycom duopoly WTVM/WXTX in Columbus, GA quickly found herself immersed in social media hot water this week because of one of those idiotic open mic gaffes. In this case, ...
Scripps is moving its Cincinnati #2 in news to Ft. Myers as the new number one. Sara Zak is returning to Florida after four years at WCPO to fill the news director chair at ...
It should come as no surprise that CBS’ low-ball stock offer for Viacom was flatly rejected by the latter. The offer was below Viacom’s market valuation, which is not how successful merger negotiations are ...
KDEN, the Telemundo station in Denver, has named Griselle Sierra is its news director, effective immediately. Sierra has more than 20 years of local broadcast experience and she has held numerous newsroom leadership roles ...
Reporter-anchor Jacquie Slater, who exited Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford, CT at the end of the year, has turned up in the New York capital of Albany at Hubbard’s WNYT, in the same role. Slater ...
Nexstar’s KNWA in Ft. Smith, AR welcomed back anchor Katelynn Zoellner to the set of “KNWA Today” after an absence of one year. Zoellner spent that year in her native California working in pee-yar. ...
If you’ve ever used the wrong word, one that sounded like another, you’ve probably used a malapropism. Mrs. B invites you to join the club. “incredible” and “incredulous” “Incredible” means hard to believe. >The ...
The ongoing outcry over Sinclair Broadcast Group’s mandated anchor “promo announcements” decrying “fake news” are in turn turning an ever-brighter spotlight on the Maryland-based company’s operations, goals and machinations. Much of the headline-making is ...
Yesterday, we told you of a Seattle anchor, KOMO’s May Nam, expressing her defiance of the Sinclair mandated “promos” Today’s dissent comes from Jeff Hoover, a longtime producer and on-air contributor for WGN’s top-rated ...
What do you do when your boss forces you to read propaganda on the air? A question being asked in the United States in 2018 (although some might think it’s a question that is ...
The so-called “promo announcements” that Sinclair Broadcast mandated its local anchors deliver convincingly – or else – blatantly adopted Trumpian talking points about “fake news” and biased reporting and, only retroactively tried to refine ...
It is fairly evident that Sinclair’s overall contempt for real journalism is a top-down philosophy. For an example, we can reach back to an email exchange in November between David Smith, Sinclair’s executive chairman, ...
In an effort to reunite, per the Redstone family’s wishes, CBS is planning a low-ball all-stock offer to re-acquire Viacom. It isn’t every day that deal negotiations start with the acquirer valuing its target ...
Derek Dalton is coming from Hubbard’s WHEC in Rochester, NY to take over the troubled operation at CBS-owned WBBM. He takes over from Marty Wilke who recently resigned from the station, which quickly triggered ...
John Berman is the official replacement on CNN’s “New Day” for Chris Cuomo as Cuomo departs for prime-time. But for the past couple of days, with Cuomo off, Jim Sciutto has been filling in ...
Raycom has found a general manager replacement for the recently-retired Lee Meredith at its WAFB in Baton Rouge, LA. Ronna Corrente will move from Lexington, KY and Sinclair’s WDKY where she had been working ...
Yesterday we reported on the retirement of Marsha Thompson from Raycom’s WLBT in Jackson, MS. She spent all but three years of her 47-year career at the station. The story elicited this (and unsolicited) ...
We guess anything it takes to get a damned deal done is the operative sentiment here.. Disney is now reported to be offering to buy up Sky News in the UK if it helps ...
The new prime-time news co-anchor at Sinclair-owned (through its Cunningham shell corporation) WRGT in Dayton is Megan O’Rourke, who was bumped up into the position from mornings on WRGT and its duopoly sister WKEF ...
One of two vehicles involved in a morning rush accident in Hartford Connecticut Tuesday morning went sailing into part of the Fox 61 (WTIC) building. Anchor Tim Lammers told viewers of the accident during ...
Remember when Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner happily advertised the deal his father-in-law’s campaign struck with Sinclair Broadcast Group way back during the 2016 election campaign? Kushner said the agreement with Sinclair gave them more ...
Out in Portland, OR, the GM at Sinclair’s KATU wanted everyone to either be on board or shut the hell up. The memo from GM Robert Truman reads, in part “Please DO NOT answer ...
Not everyone in the Sinclair universe went gently into Scott Livingston’s dark night. Mary Nam, evening anchor at Sinclair’s KOMO in Seattle, begged to differ with Mr. Trump’s forced chuckle from Monday: “So funny ...
The Sinclair promo prompted a quick response from Scripps’ WCPO in Cincinnati: “Act independently,” posted news director Chip Mahaney. “That’s one of a few basic creeds of journalism ethics, and we claim it proudly. ...
You don’t have to actually accept a job to work in this Administration. You could be on a Fox cable network or a Sinclair local station and you could become an ex officio advisor. ...
It’s vacation week for Fox News talker Laura Ingraham, although she didn’t know it last Thursday. And it is more than likely that she is spending this vacation week nervously monitoring the still-growing list ...
After nearly two decades, Kyra Phillips is gone from CNN and is now reporting for ABC News based in Washington, DC. She will certainly be better utilized at the network than at CNN, where ...
It’s three years and gone for Hartford, CT reporter Sujaita Jain, who’s cleared out from Meredith’s WFSB. According to her Facebook post, her landing spot is TBD. “I have always believed journalists work for ...
Three years after joining WVIT NBC Connecticut in Hartford-New Haven, CT from Montgomery Al, our friends at the Laurel tell us that reporter Catalina Trivino is leaving. Cue the song, “What I Did For ...
Former Fox News analyst Ralph Peters noisily left the outlet last month, calling the network a “propaganda machine” for the Trump administration and accused the network of “wittingly harming our system of government for ...
If you’ve been anxiously awaiting ESPN’s new streaming service ESPN+, it will be a short wait. ESPN’s new streaming service is set to launch April 12, and will offer daily live MLB and NHL ...
Nexstar’s WIVB in Buffalo didn’t wait too long to replace departed sports anchor/reporter Shannon Shepherd. Jenna Harner will be coming on board as her replacement. For nearly two years, Harner has been sports director ...
Saying farewell to Topeka and to the teevee news business is Kyle Borchert, meteorologist at Nexstar’s KSNT for the past 5+ years. He’s announced he’s leaving the station “soon” to move to Minneapolis-St. Paul ...
Nearly half a century at one teevee station ended last week with the retirement of anchor Marsha Thompson at Raycom’s WLBT in Jackson, MS. Thompson started at the station in 1971, working in public ...
So how do you replace a legend like Don Imus? You make sure Juliet Huddy, who quietly left her anchor slot at Fox News in September 2016 with what was later revealed to be ...
Malapropisms are words that sound kind of like the correct ones but are just wrong enough to sound ludicrous. Here are some common ones. “Solicit” and “Elicit” “Solicit” means to ask for something, like ...
Industry watchers have been saying for weeks it was coming, but we suppose most people have to see it with their own eyes. Or, in the case of local Sinclair anchors, be forced to ...
In the same seven-day span that Sinclair Broadcast Group treated its local anchor like marionettes, ordering them to read a corporate-produced script warning of the dangers of “one-sided news stories plaguing our country,” it ...
Guess who’s taking a vacation this week? As the list of sponsors bailing on her Fox News entertainment hour hit (by some accounts) 17, Laura Ingraham announced she’s taking a post-Easter week off. It ...
When he stepped down from his post at Sinclair’s WZTV as the “dean of Nashville sportscasters,” Paul Jones declared he wanted to ‘find a new challenge and something that excites me and that I ...
Kelsey Wingert, a sideline reporter for the Atlanta Braves on Fox Sports South, was hit by a foul ball during Friday night’s Braves-Phillies game. She was standing in the camera well beside the first ...
Lon Lucas joins Quincy Media’s WEEK/WHOI duopoly in Peoria, IL as news director. He’s most recently been an executive producer for KLAS in Las Vegas, and has also worked in Toledo, Cincinnati, and Baton Rouge. ...
Gavin Maliska has left WABG/WXVT/WNBD/WABG-DT in Greenville, MS owned by Cala Broadcast Partners after combining two companies, four stations, and two newsrooms into one facility. Maliska had worked for the Frontier Broadcast companies for ...
Chris McDaniel, who was a news director in a number of markets with a strong investigative background, died March 24th in Baton Rouge, LA, at the age of 70 after a brief illness. After ...
“Texas Monthly,” never at a loss for interesting reading, this month gives us part one of a three-part story of an up-and-coming teevee reporter who stumbled on to a story that should have made ...
Tommy Tran joins the CBS Sports Digital team as anchor-host at CBS Sports HQ in Fort Lauderdale, FL. For the past 5 ½+ years, Tran was sports director at Disney’s KFSN in Fresno, California, ...
Fox lawyers certainly keep busy and the billable hours continue to mount up for 21st Century Fox. Now, three women who are already suing former Fox News host and current internet personality Bill O’Reilly ...
Candace Martino leaves the arid climes of Odessa, Texas and the sports desk at Nexstar’s KMID after less than a year to head north and east. The University of Tampa grad is set to ...
Star Derry joins Tribune’s WTTV in Indianapolis as meteorologist for “CBS4 This Morning.” She’s coming from from Quincy’s WKOW in Madison, Wisconsin where she spent a quick year and a half. Before that, the ...
For those of you who just can’t get enough of the overuse of “Breaking News” graphics and breathless delivery, good news. NBC News is bringing back its formerly-dormant “Breaking News” Twitter account. But a ...
Friday was farewell day for long-serving Ft. Myers meteorologist Robert Van Winkle at Waterman’s WBBH. After 31 years, he’s putting away the clicker and giving away those colorful ties that became something of a ...
After four years at CBS-owned WCCO in Minneapolis, three of them as co-host of the station’s “Midday Morning”, meteorologist Kylie Bearse is headed for Denver, CO. Bearse helped launch that program. “You know how ...
Facing the possibility of a growing advertiser boycott, Fox News prime-time entertainer/agitator Laura Ingraham tried going the apology route. In recent weeks, right-wing pundits have found themselves stymied by the continued successful activism of ...
Tegna’s KHOU finally has a new home to replace the one abandoned after Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc on the Houston station’s historic facility and rendered station personnel homeless. Station managers announced a lease agreement ...
Chris Guarino, a 30-year television veteran, mostly as a producer at CNN and WETA in Washington, is joining “The Hill” as executive producer of its upcoming morning show and an opinion show that is ...
It wasn’t enough that KMSP news reporter Courtney Godfrey lost the lower part of her left leg in a boating accident last summer. The Minneapolis reporter was then shocked to learn that the boat’s ...
Station managers lobbied behind the scenes against it and few working teevee journalists were willing to risk management wrath to go on the record supporting it. But the state of Utah now has a ...
Alexis Orengo joins “Noticiero Telemundo 39 a las 11 am” on KTVX and will also deliver local weather forecasts during the weekday early morning news cut-ins. He started this week. Pablo Sánchez Nuñez will ...
New York Magazine presents a very useful capsulization of Sinclair’s force-feeding of its corporate weltanschauung on its local stations, despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that viewers don’t like it one bit. During ...
A sharp-eyed NewsBlueser who obviously pays close attention to these things, sent along a take on the latest spin from the CBS Pee-yar folks: The network sent out a flash touting the “Evening News’” ...
Cody Murphy is the latest addition to the weather team at Meredith’s WSMV in his home town of Nashville, TN. The Middle Tennessee State University grad arrived after 3 ½ years at Waterman’s WBBH ...
Michael Perchick moves to Disney’s WTVD in Raleigh, NC to become their newest general assignment reporter. It also gets him a little closer to his home state of New Jersey. He leaves Tegna’s KVUE ...
Gabrielle Karol moves north to Portland, OR to be an investigative reporter for Nexstar’s KOIN. Previously, she spent the past 3+ years a general assignment and investigative reporter for Tegna’s KXTV in Sacramento, CA. ...
Anchor Jade Bulecza is joining Nexstar’s WJTV in Jackson, Mississippi. She previously worked as a bureau chief at Raycom’s WTXL in Tallahassee, Florida. Prior to working in Tallahassee, Bulecza was a bureau chief at ...
You’ve heard her announcing during the Oscar telecast and countless commercials over the years. Now, if you are a “Nightline” devotee, you will hear Randy Thomas –if not see her, as the program’s new ...
On the first day she walks into her new office at Disney’s WABC, newly-named president and GM Debra O’Connell will get to confront the human resources train wreck left behind by her predecessor, Dave ...
She is “soooooo sorry” folks. “Today’s” Savannah Guthrie was evidently deep into preparation for an upcoming show segment when…..oops… She could be heard saying “Oh s***, sorry guys.” Guthrie continued to read, looking down ...
A search for former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning in a broadcast booth this fall won’t get you anywhere. Both ESPN and Fox Sports had relentlessly pursued Manning to be the booth analyst on their ...
Working in this Administration is, at this point, better characterized as being cast for a part. The latest example, of course, is the improbably-named Caroline Sunshine, late of the Disney Channel’s “Shake It Up”, ...
A quarter century is enough for San Antonio’s Steve Browne, the longtime weather guesser at Graham Media’s KSAT. No more vegetable garden. Wave buh-bye to the critter cam. They’ve got him through May sweeps, ...
Meredith’s WALA in Mobile, AL appears to have found its replacement for retiring anchor Bob Grip. Byron Day, a Mobile native who got his teevee news start at WALA way back in the early ...
Veteran Indianapolis anchorman John Stehr is calling it a career at Dispatch Broadcasting’s WTHR . Stehr, who came to the station in 1995 as evening news anchor from CBS News, was off for an ...
Jeff Paul, a reporter for CBS-owned KTVT in Dallas, is headed for the big show. He’s joining Fox News as its newest West Coast correspondent. Beginning April 23rd, Paul will be based out of ...
Recent surveys would seem to indicate we’re not as thrilled with our social media as we were as recently as five months ago. Facebook’s recent stumbles in the realm of data gathering and selling ...
Right up through his recent retirement from the 6 & 11 PM anchor chair, former WXYZ anchor Stephen Clark said his post-retirement plans involved a move to Nashville so he could work on his ...
A source tells us that Magdalena Doris is likely headed for Disney’s WPVI in Philadelphia, PA. Until last week, Doris had been the morning reporter for WCBS in New York – a stint that ...
After nearly three years in Chattanooga, reporter Stephanie Santostasi is heading to Sinclair’s WLOS in Asheville, NC. In Chattanooga, she worked for sister station WTVC. The Central Michigan grad also interned in Detroit and ...
Quincy’s HOI-ABC in Peoria, IL has hired Bobby Oler as its new main anchor. Oler spent just under four years as sports anchor at Gray’s KSPR in Springfield, MO before a station consolidation eliminated ...
Deborah Linz waved goodbye to Sinclair’s WKEF/WRGT Dayton, OH duopoly last month after five years in the principal weekday co-anchor chair. She’s about to surface at Raycom’ WXIX, a short ride down I-75 in ...
A recurring mistake begins today’s lesson. The other day we heard a radio announcer say “re-occurring,” as in “I have a re-occurring dream in which I’m being chased.” It’s RECURRING, not “re-occurring.” And it’s ...
Instead of putting the Cambridge Analytica problem behind his company, Facebook guru Mark Zuckerberg seems to be increasingly engulfed by it. Zuckerberg, who has finally come to terms with the idea that he has ...
Terrance Bates returned to the studio this morning to anchor the news on Bahakel’s WCCB in Charlotte, NC after assault charges were dropped against him Bates was arrested on March 6th and spent a ...
Robert Feder reports from Chicago that Michael Allardyce is the new multi-platform director at NBC Sports Chicago – a newly-created job description. Allardyce will lead the network’s portfolio of content and initiatives, including NBCSportsChicago.com, ...
