Fox News chief news anchor Shepard Smith announced Friday afternoon he was taking a “previously-planned one-week vacation” and joked that when he returns “everything will be peachy-keen & hunky-dory.” Smith is getting out of ...
The disappearance of a web bio for WXYZ morning anchor Malcolm Maddox appears to confirm what some folks on the Tipline told us over the weekend. The morning anchor for the Scripps’ Detroit station ...
Scott Picken has resigned as news director for Nexstar/Mission Broadcasting WTVO/WQRF in Rockford, IL. He’s been the ND here since September, 2012. He’s been a news director in Rockford (twice), Boise, ID twice, Cedar Rapids, ...
Greg Schieferstein has left Idaho Broadcast Partners’ KPVI in Pocatello, ID after not quite two years on the job, his second time as ND here. Greg’s also been a news director in Peoria, Augusta, GA, ...
April Williams, a veteran of the Washington market, joins her FIFTH DC news operation as she becomes executive producer at Fox o-and-o WTTG. She’d spent the last ten years at WRC, the NBC o-and-o there, ...
News director turned corporate executive turned GM Mike Stutz is retiring as GM of News Press and Gazette’s operations in Palm Springs, CA. With one click here, you can read both Mike’s note to ...
We hinted at it last week. Now we’ll just go out on a limb and say that “Fox and Friends” weekend co-host Pete Hegseth is likely to be named the next Veterans’ Affairs Secretary. ...
Another former Fox News anchor is moving up in the State Department. Heather Nauert, the former Fox News anchor who never gained the trust of Rex Tillerson, is now the fourth-ranking person in the ...
We honestly can’t think of a more thankless newsroom job than assignment editor. News directors and executive producers pull them in multiple directions simultaneously, field crews curse their assignments and the sometimes-abrupt switching of ...
Maybe this is a hint of where Tegna intends to take its “Daily Blast Live.” You’ve been warned. The former executive producer of the “Jerry Springer Show” has been hired as the KUSA-produced show’s ...
It is a cold case mystery that in June will mark its 23rd anniversary. The disappearance of 27-year-old Jodi Huisentruit, then a morning anchor at KIMT in Mason City Iowa, is a puzzle that ...
Trying to get into the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day can be a challenge. Take Lucas Ross of the “Rise & Shine” morning show on Tribune’s KFOR in Oklahoma, City OK. Meteorologist Emily Sutton ...
MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle has apologized for her boneheaded mocking last week of CNBC anchor Larry Kudlow. Kudlow, upon being named the new White House chief economic advisor, said “However things work out, it ...
WLTZ news anchor Dee Armstrong was arrested early Friday after a dispute with her son, according to Columbus, GA police. Armstrong, who previously worked with WTVM in Columbus, faces one count of simple battery. ...
It was regional spelling bee weekend across the country and that meant that, also across the country, local anchors were stepping up and showing off their spelling ski. Watch Veronica De La Cruz of ...
Joel and Mary Rich, the parents of murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich, showed up on ABC’s “Good Morning America” to explain the impetus behind their lawsuit against Fox News. Fox, and particularly prime-time conspiracy ...
One of the few actual journalists at Fox News is sticking around. Shep Smith just signed a new multi-year deal to continue as Chief News Anchor and Managing Editor of Breaking News. No, nobody’s ...
We’re getting dangerously close to a tipping point in teevee news as newsrooms that once routinely avoided reporting bomb threats and building lockdowns until something concrete was learned now move into full alert at ...
This was either an old “Law and Order” plot or something that turned up on “Luke Cage.” The reason John Skipper beat a hasty exit from his chairmanship of ESPN last December is one ...
“The Los Angeles Times” is joining the growing list of media outlets, individuals and citizens’ groups voicing loud and insistent opposition to the merger of Tribune Media with Sinclair Broadcast Group. No, it’s not ...
Wha-a-at?!!? Did CNN’s Kate Bolduan send a subtle message in NOT sending congratulations out to Chris Cuomo on his ascendancy to prime-time? Bolduan did send out a congratulatory tweet to her “CNN Newsroom” co-anchor ...
Jason Disharoon, meteorologist at Tribune’s WGNO in the Big Easy took to Facebook to spread the news: “Proud to announce I’ve been promoted to the evening meteorologist position here at WGNO – News With ...
Say hello to CBS 17 Raleigh – that’s the new brand for Nexstar’s WNCN, unveiled Thursday. New set, new logo, new website (CBS17.com), new graphics and a couple new warm bodies in and around ...
You know what they say about karma. And you should know what they say about learning from others’ mistakes. Watch and learn as iHeart Media tries to extricate itself from a mountain of debt ...
Giomer García is a new reporter for Telemundo WSNS’ “Noticiero Telemundo Chicago”. He most recently was an associate producer at CNN en Español in Atlanta and worked at the Univisión station there. “His experience ...
Anderson Cooper’s much-anticipated interview with Stormy Daniels, the adult film star formerly known as Stephanie Clifford won’t be seen on “60 Minutes” this weekend, so find something else to do Sunday evening But the ...
Nexstar’s WIAT in Birmingham, AL is trying to land somewhere between hard-hitting and casual in a new weather promo. But it doesn’t stray too far from its “Storm Team.” But for us, the constant ...
Teresa Woodard, who left Tegna’s WFAA in 2014 for a PR job, is back in the building. She left teevee to become PR/Communications Manager for Istation, an educational software company. Her PR journey was ...
Megan Cruz is coming soon to Cox-owned WFTV in Orlando, FL as a General Assignment Reporter. Megan spent the last four years at Hearst’s KOAT in Albuquerque, NM. The NYU grad previously worked on ...
Is this finally the year that more of us get our news from online rather than teevee? Sure, it’s still the oldsters who turn to the tube for what passes for news: 58 percent ...
That January prime-time exposure worked out rather well f Chris Cuomo. CNN announced it is moving the outspoken host off “New Day” into a 9 PM primetime slot, while moving John Berman into his ...
As many expected, dyspeptic CNBC senior contributor Larry Kudlow has been tapped to replace Gary Cohn as the top White House economic adviser So is this proof of CNN’s Brian Stelter’s theory of a ...
Some Baltimore media observers are mourning the imminent departure of veteran reporter Adam May from the local airwaves, the teevee business and Baltimore itself. May, a 15 year veteran of Baltimore television news, is ...
Which came first “Fox & Friends” or Washington Republicans? One guess is as good as the other as the “Three Dumbest People on Television” engaged in some virtual hand-holding with a certain viewer in ...
Camila Bernal has joined CNN Newsource as its newest reporter. She’ll have the chance to show off her bilingual skills as she reports in both English and Spanish for Newsource as well as for ...
“The New York Times” has finally taken notice of what some others have noted for some time. Foxnews.com has a heavy-breathing obsession with female sex offenders – especially teachers. “Through the first half of ...
Larry Strumwasser is the newly-named general manager of Sinclair duopoly KSNV/KVCW in Las Vegas, NV. Strumwasser joined Sinclair in 2016 as GM of WCGV-WVTV Milwaukee. He’s held a variety of executive sales positions over ...
And, in the end, James Pitaro might be grateful for the continued presence of former ESPN chairman George Bodenheimer as he takes over the reins of the challenged sports outlet. Earlier this week, there ...
Four years after being laid off by CNN, former executive vice president and CNN Digital general manager KC Estenson has landed a new job. He’s the new chief executive of GoNoodle, a kids media ...
An interim job as the Houston mayor’s press secretary has turned permanent for former KPRC reporter Mary Benton. She was on interim status for the past two months until being officially named to the ...
While covering students marching against gun violence outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida Wednesday morning, a MSNBC cameraman experienced what virtually every teevee news cameraman has endured – an rough tumble ...
Maybe it was the time of day, but Kelly Cronk of Tribune’s KSTU in Salt Lake City had a real…b**ch of a time reading a story about the FitBit During “Good Day Utah”, the ...
Mrs. B has noticed in her travels that anchors and reporters are having some trouble with how they talk about people from various states. Here’s a rundown courtesy of the U.S. Government Printing Office ...
Fox News’ sometimes-casual relationship with the truth and affinity for conspiracy theories have landed it in hot way. Joel and Mary Rich, the parents of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich are suing Fox ...
Another Nexstar station, another unhappy parting. This time it’s Flora Posteraro, co-anchor of WHTM’s “Live at Five” and “News at Noon” in Harrisburg, PA. She posted her news on Facebook. “It is with great ...
Philadelphia’s Telemundo62 (WWSI) is bringing on anchor Syrmarie Villalobos and weather anchor Alondra Anaya to front two new newscasts, the 60-minute “Primera Edición” at 6 AM and “Telemundo62 al Mediodía at Noon.” Villalobos comes ...
One-time WPLG forecaster Trent Aric is being charged in a domestic violence incident involving his wife, WPLG morning anchor Jacey Birch. After spending part of the weekend in the slammer, Aric was released, facing ...
Six days ago, we brought you the story of Charlotte morning anchor Terrance Bates. Bates, morning anchor at Bahakel flagship WCCB, was arrested by police on a charge of “assaulting a female.” He’s been ...
Another day, another bonehead decides to invade a liveshot. This time, it was in San Diego, Monday night, when reporter Bree Steffen and photographer Mike Gold of Scripps’ KGTV were on-air and the un-named ...
Former WWL bureau reporter Ashley Rodrique is now promoting fire safety and prevention efforts as the newly-named public affairs director for the Louisiana Office of State Fire Marshal. Rodrigue left WWL this month after ...
Anthony Ponce’s post-teevee career as a Lyft driver in Chicago fell short of the two-year mark. Ponce has signed on as “Good Day” co-anchor on Fox-owned WFLD. He will co-anchor with Natalie Bomke from ...
Two tinfoil hat websites that try to pass themselves off as “news” organizations are getting hit with a lawsuit by a man who said his life was ruined after he became the subject of ...
15 years after he showed up at Disney’s KTRK in Houston, Kevin Quinn announced his imminent departure from the station. By imminent, we mean he’ll be around for a few more months. Houston blogger ...
The group “Press Forward”, a support network for victims of sexual misconduct in newsrooms, launched a website Tuesday, and has appointed an advisory board that includes CNN’s Jake Tapper and PBS’ Judy Woodruff. “Press ...
Weather anchor/reporter Meredith Mitchell disappeared from Tegna’s KTHV in Little Rock back in late 2017 with no explanation. She’s ba-ack as reported on Facebook. Mitchell is now working for Nexstar’s KLRT/KARK.
Alyx Dote is moving up to weekday morning news anchor for “News 4 Tucson Today” at Cordillera’s KVOA in Tucson, the station announced Tuesday. She will co-anchor with Sean Mooney. Dote currently co-anchors News ...
Yes, this guy’s name really is Meteorologist Drew Anderson and yes, he’s running for Congress. Anderson, who called the weather for Tribune’s WPMT in Harrisburg until two weeks ago and once worked at WGAL ...
It’s not the first time the morning crew at Cox-owned WSB in Atlanta has incorporated rap into the morning news. Morning co-anchor Fred Blankenship and traffic reporter Mark Arum spent Tuesday morning’s show rapping ...
Be very happy if you don’t work in Kentucky and have to work with the Kentucky State Police. KSP commissioner Richard W. Sanders this month issued an order that tries to stop reporters from ...
Staffers at CBS O&O WBBM in Chicago were caught short Monday afternoon when station veep and GM Marty Wilke announced her retirement. If anybody asks, the retirement was entirely Wilke’s own decision. “My six ...
The longer the Sinclair-Tribune merger drama slogs along, the more Sinclair finds itself exposed to an uncomfortable scrutiny of its methods of operation and the many avenues it explores to skirt the rules. We’ve ...
It’s sounding more and more like the smart money on the replacement for the departing Gary Cohn as chief White House economic advisor is CNBC’s dyspeptic show senior contributor Larry Kudlow. It must be ...
One of the five people killed in Sunday’s helicopter crash in New York City was a former WFAA intern. Trevor Cadigan was also the son of the Dallas station’s longtime production manager Jerry Cadigan. ...
ABC News’ latest New York-based correspondent jumped from the west coast and KNBC in LA. Whit Johnson left the weekend morning anchor desk at KNBC, where he held forth since 2012. He started Monday. ...
So far, the unanswered question is what will Whit Johnson’s wife, KCBS reporter Andrea Fujii, do? She’s been with KCBS since 2012 and the couple have two daughters and a dog. She joined KCBS ...
Graham Media’s KSAT in San Antonio is sporting a new face. Japhanie Gray just joined the news staff as a reporter. She comes to the station after five years at Raycom’s KAIT in Jonesboro, ...
Daily Beast editor-in-chief John Avlon gets to sit in the anchor chair all this week on CNN International’s “State of America.” The program airs at 3:30 PM Eastern. Kate Bolduan’s maternity leave continues. If ...
Dialma Santiago has been promoted to vp of news for WKAQ, Telemundo Puerto Rico, moving up from news director. She held the latter title since 2013. Santiago has been with the station since 2000, ...
We’re still waiting to find out if lawyers for Donald Trump will try to stop the airing of an interview Anderson Cooper recently conducted with Stormy Daniels, the porn star who has sued Trump ...
Pete Hegseth is in the second line of the “Three Dumbest People On Television” as a weekend co-host of “Fox & Friends,” the morning entertainment franchise of the Fox News Channel. And, as everyone ...
When the latest nor’easter hit New England last week, as expected, local stations went big in their coverage of the event None bigger than Sunbeam’s WHDH in Boston. How big did they go? They ...
That’s the subject of today’s lesson. “Explicit” means expressed directly or clearly stated. >The news directors EXPLICIT memo left no doubt that he was fired. >The assignments editors EXPLICIT instructions were to begin the ...
Whether life gets more difficult for industry lobbyist/FCC chair Ajit Pai as the result of Sinclair’s recent shenanigans is something we couldn’t care less about. It does, evidently, concern a segment of media business ...
Deborah Linz, anchor-reporter at Sinclair’s owned/operated Dayton, OH duopoly WKEF/WRGT, is calling it quits after five years. “It’s been a journey these last 5 years and I am so grateful to have worked with ...
After 20 years, WXYZ noon anchor JoAnne Purtan is leaving the station later this month after learning her contract will not be renewed. She put out the word on Facebook “I learned recently that ...
Call this one a ground-breaker: Competing anchor, Univision’s Jorge Ramos and Telemundo’s José Díaz-Balart sat down in a Coral Gables, FL bookstore for a conversation that will air tonight on Telemundo station’s at 6:30 ...
Veteran news director Bob Rockstroh moves within Nexstar to become ND for WFFF in Burlington, VT. Bob’s been the ND at WETM in Elmira since November, 2013 and has previously run newsrooms in Providence, Hartford, and Ft. ...
J Bates (no, that’s not a typo and no, I don’t know if it stands for anything) has been promoted to ND for Scripps’ KIVI in Boise, ID. He’s been the digital director there, ...
Mike Oliveira leaves Cox’s Boston outlet WFXT to become news director at sister station WSOC in Charlotte, NC. Mike’s a Boston native and has been ND at WFXT since August, 2016: before that he spent ...
The above move means Julie Szulczewski has left WSOC, where she’s been the ND for almost seven years. She’d been the managing editor there for three years before leaving for about a year to be ND ...
Rob Tompkins has left Nexstar owned WFXR in Roanoke, VA after about 2 1/2 years as news director. He’s held a number of jobs in and out of our business, as his Linkedin page details. ...
Raycom Media’s national investigative team recently produced “Licensed to Pill”, which analyzed the nation’s top 1,000 prescribers of opioids to Medicare patients and found just 10% had been sanctioned. The story spent months investigating ...
Sources relay to us that WCPO in Cincinnati had several layoffs this week and decided not to renew the contract of one of its “Good Morning Tri-State” anchors. Chris Riva anchored his final show ...
21st Century Fox would like British regulators to the same lengthy scrutiny to Comcast’s bid for Sky TV that Fox has endured. The problem is that Comcast doesn’t bring the same baggage to the ...
Telemundo’s WZDC seems to have completed its general makeover with the station rebranding itself “Telemundo 44”, replacing the former “Telemundo Washington” brand. To accompany the change, the station added a 5 PM newscast, a ...
Josh Scheinbaum is an investigative reporter for Gray Television’s KCRG in Cedar Rapid, IA. His brother Aaron Scheinbaum is a Dubuque bureau reporter for the same station. Even though they have the same employer, ...
Former WDJT reporter/anchor Michele McCormack wasted no time diving into her “life after” job. Just a few weeks after leaving her job at the Milwaukee teevee station owned by Weigel Broadcasting, she assumed her ...
As states continue to move forward with their own net neutrality measure that actually protect consumers and assure open access to the Internet, it’s the Senate’s turn to float its own insincere and superficial ...
Ed O’Keefe, a contributor since last year, is joining CBS News fulltime as a political correspondent based in the Nation’s Capital. He’s coming from “The Washington Post” where he covered congressional and presidential politics. ...
News director Dave Parker of Tegna’s KTHV is bringing meteorologist Tracy Beene back to the station’s weather team. Beene was with the station from 2010-2012 and later worked at KARK and KLRT in Little ...
For those Pittsburgh viewers who have been missing WTAE’s Sheldon Ingram for the past couple of months, he’ll be back Monday on the Hearst station. “I had total knee replacement surgery on January 5th ...
We’re paraphrasing… Today is Jeevan Vittal’s last day at Tribune’s WTIC in Hartford-New Haven, CT. After 7 years, he’s headed to Washington, DC to cover the swamp for NY1/Spectrum News. Acting on the theory ...
Uh-oh….this does not look like a planned exit. Just a day after Univision bailed on a proposed IPO and named a new chief financial officer, and just months after he signed a new two-year ...
When we read CNN reporter Chris Cilizza’s recent analysis piece “Donald Trump is Producing the Greatest Reality Show Ever,” we actually though it was quite clever. To our chagrin, former CNNer Soledad O’Brien didn’t ...
Steven D. Hammel, vice president and general manager of Capitol Broadcasting’s Raleigh duopoly WRAL-WRAZ is stepping down after ten years. Hammel oversaw consistent ratings success for WRAL and was responsible for expanding both WRAL ...
No nor’easter could dampen the celebration at 30 Rock this week as “NBC Nightly News” observed its 70th birthday. From its beginnings in 1948 as the ten-minute “NBC Television Newsreel”, program gradually expanded and ...
How badly does Fox Sports want Peyton Manning as the key player on its brand spankin’ new $3 billion “Thursday Night Football” package? Enough to pay him up to $10 million a year. Of ...
So who’s got more Facebook followers – Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Megyn Kelly or Anderson Cooper? If you put your money on Dan Rather, you win. Rather has more than two and a half ...
