News director Gilberto Companioni was among a group of people “realigned” out of a job Tuesday as Telemundo began to put its stamp on recently-acquired WTMO in Orlando. WTMO was one of 13 ZGS ...
Joe Antonelli is the new vice-president and general manager of Scripps’ WGBA/WACY duopoly in Green Bay, WI. He’s coming from sister station WFTX in Ft. Myers, FL, where he’s been director of sales for ...
Mark Lukasiewicz left NBC News last year after 16 years at the network, which included time served as executive-in-charge of the NBC News Group Transformation Project, svp of NBC News Specials, and the news ...
It’s not every news director that has his/her own Vimeo page to show off their work. But then not every news director is named Cody Broadway. Broadway is the new news director for Tegna’s ...
Well-traveled anchor Mike Barz is settling into his third day at his latest anchor desk – Nexstar’s WISH in Indianapolis, IN. Barz just arrived at the station from Denver, but in his 24 years ...
The landscape keeps changing in a world we once assumed would last forever. Turner on Tuesday unveiled its latest streaming service – “Bleacher Report Live.” The subscription service will feature live broadcasts of UEFA ...
Mallory Brooks has anchored “KARK 4 TODAY” for the last 10 years on Nexstar’s KARK in Little Rock. But when she returns from maternity leave, she will become the new anchor of “KARK 4 ...
The days are dwindling down to a previous few for Nicole Ducouer at Hearst’s WXII in Winston-Salem, NC. Friday is her last day at the station, as she announced in a Facebook Live video. ...
A former television traffic reporter is jumping back into the game. Bill Hurrelbrink began working at Meredith’s KCTV on morning traffic duty this week. Hurrelbrink spent a few years on air at Tribune’s WDAF ...
What with “Roseanne,” “American Idol,” “Will & Grace” and “Murphy Brown”, teevee reboots seem to be all the rages these days. So why not in the world of teevee promotion? Yeah, maybe it does ...
It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Facebook, which not only wants to be your repository for cat pictures and dinner plate portraits, but also wants to be your source for news. That ...
The Stephanie Clifford aka Stormy Daniels interview on “60 Minutes” this weekend scored the program’s highest ratings since an interview with Barack and Michelle Obama ten years ago. Higher even than the 2016 interview ...
Staffers at Disney’s KGO in San Francisco are said to be breathing easier because of who the new GM is NOT going to be. It’s NOT going to be Tracey Watkowski-Silva, vp of news ...
Chicago viewers weren’t too happy a couple of weeks ago when Disney’s WLS dumped “Windy City Live” contributor Ji Suk Yi for what they claimed were “cost-cutting reasons.” She’s resurfaced at another location. Yesterday ...
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman reports sources have told him that veteran Bay Area anchor Jessica Aguirre will be signing a short-term contract and is staying put at NBC-owned KNTV. Lieberman reports the deal ...
Jessica Yellin reported for ABC News, MSNBC and, finally, was chief White House correspondent for CNN before leaving the business in 2013, is now an author. Yellin, who covered four presidential campaigns during his ...
And another exit from the business. Zack Schneider, who’s been doing sports on Quincy Media’s KBJR in the Duluth, MN market for the past ten years, is done with teevee news. Schneider is leaving ...
Nancy Cox, the long-serving anchor (she’s been at the station since 1992) for Cordillera’s WLEX in Lexington, KY may be off the air for up to three months when she undergoes a major surgical ...
Years from now, when the latest edition of Trivial Pursuit – Famous Teevee Firsts comes your way and you get the question “Who was the first transgender anchor and where did they work?” here’s ...
Magdalena Doris is now the FORMER morning reporter for CBS O&O WCBS in New York. Over the weekend, she posted her new status on Facebook. “I’m not setting my typical 1 AM alarm tonight. ...
You’re a part of this, you know. That is why, 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 ...
Dallas weekend morning anchor Jenny Anchondo surprised her co-workers at Fox O&O KDFW with an abrupt exit from the station at the end of last week. She announced in a Facebook post that she ...
We had this one ready for yesterday, but it got overlooked in the editing process. Better late than never. Or something. KUSI’s consumer reporter Michael Turko did his last desk-pounding last week. He spent ...
Mrs. B recently heard an anchor talk about a suspect being extradited “back” to Central Florida. “Extradite” means to return to a jurisdiction, so the “back” isn’t needed. >The teacher will be EXTRADITED to ...
This is expected to be the week that board members of CBS and Viacom get serious about the Redstone family’s urgent desire to have the two companies share the same roof again. The bean ...
After half a century on radio, 18 of them simulcast on cable television, the I-Man is signing off his current “Imus in the Morning”WABC radio program this Thursday. Don Imus closed out a long, ...
PBS snapped back at talk show host Tavis Smiley with a countersuit that, among other things, alleges Smiley violated the network’s morals clause and seeks $1.9 million in returned salary plus unspecified damages. PBS ...
Morgan Schaab has been promoted to news director for Block Communications’ WAND in Decatur, IL. She first joined the station as a producer in 2008, and has been both Assistant ND and Managing Editor ...
Mark Little resigned on Friday as the ND at Raycom’s WIS in Columbia, SC. Here’s the note he sent his staff. He spent almost two years as ND here, and 14 years as ND ...
Katie McManus Faye has been named News Manager for Sinclair’s WTGS in Savannah, the FOX affiliate there. She’ll oversee the day-to-day newsroom operations and report to Victoria Spechko who’s the ND for sister-station WPDE-TV in Myrtle Beach-Florence, ...
Amid much fanfare, John Fugelsang was heralded as the main host of the “Page Six” syndicated gossip/”news” program last fall. His exit was considerably quieter. Fugelsang is already gone and, for the rest of ...
Sinclair’s KTVO in Kirksville-Ottumwa recently underwent a studio makeover to the tune of $1.5 million. In addition to the requisite new set, a new control room, four robotic PTZ cameras in the studio and ...
Nexstar’s WIVB in Buffalo is losing what was generally assumed to be Nalina Shapiro’s replacement. Callan Gray, weekend anchor at the station, is reported to be leaving the station when her contract ends in ...
Tegna’s KVUE in Austin, TX is apologizing profusely, as well it should, for a ridiculous closed-captioning errors last week that occurred during a story on one of the victims of Austin terror bomber Mark ...
The cake is slated for a Friday delivery in the newsroom of Scripps’ WPTV in West Palm Beach, FL to celebrate (or mourn) the retirement of Roxanne Stein, for the past 24+ years a ...
Lawrence Grossman, the former president of PBS and NBC News, died at his Westport, CT home Friday at the age of 86. Under his leadership, the length of the “McNeil-Lehrer Report” was doubled to ...
Christine Bellport, morning anchor at Gray’s WMTV in Madison, WI, was prescient enough to schedule her retirement in mid-May, so the station could wring a little ratings juice out of the farewell. Yeah, we’re ...
Jim Gardner is one of the Old Guard at Disney’s WPVI in Philadelphia, having held down the anchor chair since the Carter Administration. Up ‘til now, his ubiquitous mustache has been his most distinctive ...
Reporter Brittany Jeffers made it a relatively short stay at CBS-owned KTVT in Dallas-Fort Worth. DFW blogger Uncle Barky reports she’s leaving the station at the end of this week for parts unknown after ...
Jeff Kiernan is returning to WTMJ in Milwaukee as Senior Director of Local Content. (You and I might call that news director.) The full story is here. Kiernan is currently the news director for WBBM, the CBS ...
The Weather Channel just got sold again – for roughly ten cents on the dollar of its last selling price. The once-flourishing cable channel was snapped up for $300 million by standup comic-turned entertainment ...
Another day, another news director moving to the GM chair. Dana Neves, the long time (well, at least since 2006) news director for Meredith’s WFSB in Hartford. Here’s the news release with more details. ...
The social media outpouring of support may have helped a former Harrisburg PA anchor move forward with a formal complaint against her former employer, Nexstar’s WHTM. Flora Posteraro has filed sex discrimination and retaliation ...
We normally don’t cover the food fights between the cable news outlets. The charges, countercharges and insults are as enlightening and mature as a spitting contest between a septuagenarian President and a septuagenarian former ...
The CBS-BBC synergy just keeps growing. Seven months after trumpeting a content-sharing agreement, the two news organizations announced they will jointly open a news bureau in Johannesburg, South Africa. CBS News executive vice-president Ingrid ...
One employee was fired and another suspended at Cordillera’s KRIS in Corpus Cristi, TX after vulgar audio interrupted a live newscast Monday night. A station reporter’s voice-over was heard over a black screen saying ...
Houston blogger Mike McGuff reports that Levi Ismail has just joined the staff at Tegna’s KHOU in Houston. He arrived from WBBH in Ft. Myers, FL, where he was a general assignment MMJ. His ...
A-a-and another day, another former female colleague goes after internet personality Bill O’Reilly. This time, it’s former Fox News anchor Laurie Dhue, who is tired of Billo’s endless whining about FOX paying sexual harassment ...
CBS News’ new political comes from in-house. Caitlin Conant moves over from the division’s communications shop. She replaces the terminated Steve Chaggaris, who was axed in January Prior to joining CBS News, Conant spent ...
Let the countdown begin for ESPN’s new morning show. “Get Up” debuts on April 2 and is the long-awaited (by some anyway) new program centered around Mike Greenberg (late of “Mike & Mike”) who ...
Maybe if more communities followed the lead of Yuma, AZ, Jackson, WY and El Centro, CA, cable companies and station owners would quit playing games with consumers during these all-too-frequent blackouts over retransmission fees. ...
PBS finally made official what has been fact for a year and a half. Going forward, Judy Woodruff will be the solo anchor for the “PBS News Hour.” That’s been the case ever since ...
Call it nor’easter fatigue. Or call it a generous gesture on the part of KYW reporter Vittoria Woodill Thanks to her, an aspiring tv reporter got her shot. And Germantown Academy high school student ...
Betty Ann Bowser was one of teevee news’ pioneers. Her career started at WAVY in Norfolk, VA in 1966 and by the early 70’s she was one of only two women in the newsroom ...
Well Mr. Zuckerberg, thanks for finally speaking up. “We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can’t then we don’t deserve to serve you. I’ve been working to understand exactly what ...
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman has the lowdown on the exit of Nexstar’s KRON evening anchor anchor Steve Aveson who is being shown the door at the end of the month when his contract ...
Perhaps Aveson should rally social media to his side. After former noon anchor Flora Posteraro announced her forced departure from Nexstar’s WHTM last week, Harrisburg, PA area social media went to work. To date, ...
The soon-to be empty news director job at Nexstar’s WFLA in Tampa will be filled by Ryan Minnaugh, currently holding down the news director job for Tribune’s WTKR in Norfolk. And guess who his GM was ...
Well there’s at least one teevee guy who’s not angling for a White House job. Bill Shine, former co-president of the Fox News Channel, has taken himself out of the running for the White ...
It took them long enough. After filling in on weekends for almost a year, Michelle Relerford was finally named permanent weekend evening news anchor at NBC-owned WMAQ. Relerford is a Chicago native who joined ...
We’re told Hurricane Harvey put her retirement plans on hold for a bit, but Susan McEldoon, president and general manager at Tegna’s KHOU in Houston on Wednesday said her career is drawing close to ...
WLBT/WDBD (Jackson, MS) ND Hatton Weeks returns to KAIT in Jonesboro, AR as GM. He was the ND at KAIT for eight years before moving to Jackson three years ago. Here’s the staff memo. Both stations ...
Tegna’s WHAS in Louisville is advertising for a new news director. Which means that DAVID SEALLS, who had been the ND for almost four years, is out the door. He previously worked in teevee ...
The top Democrat of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), says whistleblowers are alleging a plot to remove the current CEO of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the agency which controls ...
Alfredo Sánchez is no longer news director at KDEN Telemundo Denver. Sánchez, who spent nearly 20 years with Telemundo, is leaving to join Metropolitan State University in Denver as a tenure track professor. “After ...
And another one exits the business for the corporate world (really, is there a difference these days?) Kristin Kelly, evening anchor at Gray’s WCAX in Burlington, VT is leaving the station to become director ...
John Peterson, who has led the news department at Gray’s KOTA in Rapid City, SD since the Bill Duhamel era (20 years), is calling it a career just shy of 40 years. Peterson took ...
Tomorrow is Ken Brewer’s last day calling the weather shots on Nexstar’s WISH in Indianapolis, something he’s been doing for the last 17 years. He sent out his thanks to viewers already. “I want ...
“Irony” and “ironic” are a couple of words we occasionally use in copy. But are we using them correctly? We heard of a local reporter who used the word “irony” to describe the situation ...
So much for “leaning in.” Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg joined founder Mark Zuckerberg Tuesday in skipping a companywide internal briefing and Q&A Tuesday that was scheduled to brief employees on the still-growing international scandal ...
And speaking of Cambridge Analytica, its CEO Alexander Nix was suspended Tuesday after he was recorded bragging that his company had managed to influence more than 200 elections around the world. Britain’s Channel 4 ...
Pardon us if we are a bit skeptical in the wake of the Poynter Institute’s announced acceptance of $3 million from Google/YouTube that will fund something called MediaWise, which, in theory, will help middle ...
Retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters did not feel the need to sugar coat his exit as a longtime Fox News “strategic analyst.” Peters, a decade-long fixture at Fox News, quite Tuesday, denouncing ...
Our first reaction when CNN’s John Berman started interviewing a high school student in a locked-down Maryland high school in the middle of a shooting incident was “Well, that’s kind of interesting.” Then that ...
The buzz about the continued unexplained absence of anchor Rick Garcia on the KCBS news set is growing. It’s even become the source of some speculation on local talk radio in Los Angeles. His ...
A long-rumored move in Corpus Christi, TX finally took place as longtime anchor-reporter Katia Uriarte exited Tegna’s KIII to sign up with Cordillera’s KRIS. “I am SOOOO excited and happy to announce that I ...
Cable outfit Newsmax continues its loud opposition to the lifting of the 39% audience reach cap for TV station groups (and by extension, the Sinclair-Tribune merger), saying raising the cap was dangerous for democracy. ...
While Fox News’ Studio J undergoes a renovation, it’s fulltime tenant, “America’s Newsroom” with Bill Hemmer and Sandra Smith has some temporary digs for the next few months – a small space just off ...
Acting on a reader’s tip, we checked the NewsOn lineup to see if we could watch the Nexstar station in our region Tuesday evening. Sure enough, it looks like Nexstar has ended its two-year ...
CNN en Español’s flagship morning show, “Café CNN,” is now originating from Miami, having abandoned its former Atlanta home base. “Café CNN” is a Spanglish language morning show hosted by Alejandra Oraa, Maria Alejandra ...
As the estate of the late Roger Ailes, longtime boss at Fox News, undergoes probate in a Palm Beach County court proceeding, who should pop up but former Fox co-host Andrea Tantaros? Tantaros wants ...
17 years in the anchor chair was enough for Heather Herron, anchor at Nexstar’s WANE in Ft. Wayne, IN. She’ll be leaving later this spring to become vice-president of communications for a Fort Wayne-based ...
Camille Edwards finally made official what has been an open secret for at least a month, if not more. She’s out as news director at Disney flagship WABC. In an email sent out Monday ...
For better or worse, the federal trial pitting the Department of Justice agains AT&T over whether the company will be allowed to swallow up Time Warner is starting up this week. What was generally ...
The Tweeter-in-chief did his best Monday morning to promote an upcoming guest of 3DPOT*, aka “Fox & Friends”. “@seanhannity on @foxandfriends now! Great! 8:18 A.M.” Sure enough, all of DJT’s besties were together to ...
Adam Bradshaw, former news director at Meredith’s KVVU in Las Vegas, NV is headed for Wichita Falls TX. Bradshaw is headed for Nexstar’s KFDX/KJTL duopoly, which he announced with a Facebook flourish. “Drumroll please….. ...
Stephanie Zimmerman, aka the “ABC News Fixer”, is gone from the network. Zimmerman joined the ABC News investigative unit in December of 2012 as a consumer-oriented investigator. “It was a great five years, working ...
Pascale Head is the new Integrated News Director for the Cox Jacksonville FL duopoly WJAX/WFOX. Her new job also puts her in charge of Cox’s digital news brands, including websites, apps and social media ...
Anyone with even the smallest bit of curiosity as to how “fake news” is created should be paying attention as the story of Facebook’s role in Trump-Bannon ally Cambridge Analytica’s data mining operation unfolds. ...
Like Facebook, YouTube wants to be in the news business. Also like Facebook, YouTube doesn’t want to take responsibility for the quality of the content that shows up on its platform. At the SXSW ...
The reporter/videographer/web producer variously known as Suz, TheSuzieHunter, and the reporter with a thing for nachos made the move from print to broadcast over the weekend. Starting Monday, Suzie Hunter is now with Nexstar’s ...
Sinclair’s WOAI in San Antonio is proudly touting its new chief meteorologist Chris Suchan, He’s starting this week Suchan, who spent a decade in Charlotte, NC before embarking on a market tour that took ...
Please, more reporters, fewer pundits. That said, CNN has gone out and hired still another bloviator to sit on the set and yell at other gasbags. Joe Lockhart, former press secretary for Bill Clinton, ...
Kristin Byrne joins Scripps’ WTMJ in Milwaukee as a Freelance Reporter. Byrne most recently worked for Disney’s WLS in Chicago as a Traffic Anchor and prior to that was an Anchor/Reporter at Scripps’ WEWS ...
After two years in local teevee news, WTNH sports reporter Henry Chisholm has evidently had enough and has left the business. He’s moved on to the world of fundraising as a development associate with ...
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 ...
A former producer wrote to Mrs. B about “apropos/appropriate.” It might be helpful to you. One of her company’s partners said: “We’ll decide which one is more apropos.” Sounds kind of right, doesn’t it? ...
