“CBS This Morning” cohost Norah O’Donnell had something to celebrate on International Women’s Day – the first US teevee interview with a Saudi Prince in 13 years. We’ll start seeing parts of the interview ...
Another day, another broadcast guy getting into politics because, what the hell, it beats actually working, right? This time it’s in St. Louis, where FOX Sports Midwest Broadcaster Jim Hayes is running for first ...
What will those innovative kids at Sinclair come up with next? From stone-faced “chief political analyst” Boris Epshteyn holding forth nine times weekly in his wooden must-run segments, to end-runs around current ownership rules, ...
A day after FCC staffers sent Sinclair and Tribune attorneys back for a homework do-over on their long-delayed deal, the lawyers brought the commission a new deal. This second attempt at amending the filing, ...
Amy Morris is heading from Philadelphia to Manhattan to become the new news director at NBC flagship WNBC. She’ll replace the departed Susan Sullivan, who moved upstairs at 30 Rock into the network’s Standards ...
NBC News is losing its longtime Standards and Practices boss with the retirement of David McCormick this summer. “Standards and Practices” is corporate speak for “censor.” Just sayin’. McCormick, a 40-year network vet, joined ...
You may never have heard of it, but CNN has a talk show that reaches in the neighborhood of two million Facebook users. And starting next Monday, “CNN Talk” goes daily on both CNN ...
After spending a night behind bars, Charlotte morning anchor Terrance Bates is out and about. Bates, who does mornings on Bahakel’s WCCB, was arrested by police on a charge of “assaulting a female.” The ...
In the wake of a $100 million lawsuit filed by a former reporter for the station, Scripps WXYZ in Detroit has taken morning anchor Malcolm Maddox off the air “to avoid any further distraction.” ...
For the first time since Hurricane Harvey, KHOU’s “Great Day Houston” is airing live. Deborah Duncan hosts the morning program at the Tegna station. The venue is the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo all ...
A longtime CTV anchor-correspondent suspended in January over allegations of workplace harassment is no longer with the network. CTV cut ties with Paul Bliss after it completed an internal investigation into the charges. Those ...
CNBC is moving around some chairs on the desk, sending Wilfred Frost off to co-host “Closing Bell” with Kelly Evans from “Worldwide Exchange.” His “Worldwide Exchange” co-host, Sara Eisen, joins Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, Melissa Lee ...
Veteran teevee newsman Nick Watt is soon to be an LA-based correspondent for CNN. For the past 20 years, he’s been with ABC News, starting as a desk assistant and tape librarian, through a ...
Graham Media is partnering its teevee stations in San Antonio (KSAT) and Detroit (WDIV) with Nextdoor, the free and private social network for neighborhoods, to boost conversations around local news in communities across both ...
Life on the outside must seem rosier to Eugene Ramirez. Just over a year after joining the morning team at CBS-owned WFOR, Ramirez left to become the city of Miami’s new communications director. His ...
Radio on TV via the Internet. Simple, right? Comcast is adding NPR One to its Xfinity One App sket-top box menu. In the coming weeks, NPR content also will be integrated into Xfinity on ...
Former teevee anchor Christina Muñoz Madsen has raised some eyebrows among co-workers at the University of Central Arkansas over her appearances in television and online commercials for private businesses – so much so that ...
Idioms are bound to pop out of your mouth on a regular basis, but let’s be sure that what pops out is standard. Heres a list to keep handy: abide BY (a decision) agree ...
A New England source eagerly pointed out to us a rather uncomfortable situation in which Sinclair’s NBC10 (WJAR, Providence, RI) is crowing about its February rating victory over ALL competitors in every news time ...
After FCC staffers examining the Sinclair-Trib deal had a little talk with attorneys for both companies, Sinclair is going back to the drawing board to do a little fine-tuning. “Participants discussed FCC policies and ...
Tim Maestas is moving across the street in Albuquerque in May to become news director at Hubbard’s KOB. He’s currently executive producer at Nexstar’s KRQE in the market, a position he’s held for the ...
We can probably look for the billable hours to add up as the State of Washington has done an in-your-face with the FCC by becoming the first state to enact its own net-neutrality requirements ...
A source reports to us that weekend meteorologist Jamie Martin of Spectrum News 13 in Orlando, FL is no longer with the station. His bio is MIA on the News 13 website He’d been ...
A state bill that would severely limit the scope of non-compete agreements in personal service contracts was overwhelmingly approved in the Utah State House last month. And it’s moving through the Beehive State’s Senate. ...
Wanna-be sitcom star and NRA fetishist dream girl Dana Loesch is the star of the loose-tongued bully-boy organization’s latest highly-produced threat. In a video posted on Twitter by NRATV, Loesch tells “every lying member ...
As Sinclair proceeds with plans to sell off some of its stations in order to stay within FCC guidelines that will allow it to swallow up Tribune, Meredith Corporation Executive Chairman Steve Lacy is ...
Comcast customers In Pennsylvania, New Jersey and 14 other states from New England to Virginia will soon see a boost in their internet speed thanks to several new upgrades to the cable giant’s broadband ...
Two veteran Fox News staffers are headed for new positions within the company. Nancy Harmeyer has been named vp of domestic bureaus, while Greg Headen becomes director of FNC’s foreign desk. While continuing her ...
CNN political analyst Ryan Lizza continues his crawl back from the sexual misconduct allegations that got him fired from his staff position at the “New Yorker”. He’s now free-lancing for “Rolling Stone” with several ...
Police clapped the cuffs on a Little Rock teacher Tuesday morning and put him behind bars after he got confrontational with a teevee reporter who was asking him about his sketchy social media posts. ...
Now there is a headline we had little hope of ever running in the foreseeable future. But industry lobbyist and FCC chair Ajit Pai has announced an almost $1 billion aid package to help ...
Not just any hooker, mind you. CNN senior international correspondent Ivan Watson was dispatched to interview Anastasia Vashukevich, a self-described “sex coach” who supposedly has some more of the goods on Donald J. Trump. ...
Aesia Toliver is one of the newer faces on Norfolk teevee news, showing up just recently at Nexstar’s WAVY as a reporter who, like the rest of the team is “on your side”. But ...
It’s a homecoming for meteorologist Brittany Rainey, who has departed Tribune’s Indianapolis duopoly WXIN/WTTV for Fox-owned WTVT in Tampa. Rainey is a Florida who spent the past two years in Indianapolis. She’s gone pretty ...
We are coming up on almost a year since Sinclair Broadcast Group hired one Boris Epshteyn to be the “Chief Political Analyst” for the company. Epshteyn was an Administration special assistant when he resigned ...
Disney’s WLS in Chicago, has dumped “Windy City Live” contributor Ji Suk Yi in what Robert Feder describes is a cost-cutting move.. She started with the program in 2011 as its social media producer, ...
Two Telemundo correspondents are trading jobs and locations. Edgar Muñoz (left) has left Los Angeles, where he has been Telemundo news correspondent since May 2016, and is now the network’s new Texas-based correspondent, covering ...
Patrick Webre has got his work cut out for him – if he actually intends to do his job. Webre is the newly-appointed chief of the FCC‘s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau. That’s the ...
On Sunday, as CNN international correspondent Will Ripley reported on Chinese President Xi’s desire to abolish presidential term limits, CNN International went dark on Chinese TV. This would be in the same time frame ...
Peter Noll, a 34-year broadcast veteran, is the new VP/GM of Sagamore Hill’s WNBJ in Jackson, TN. In his long career, Noll has worked in California, Ohio, Oklahoma and Iowa, in addition to a ...
At first glance, it seems so simple, you might wonder why you never thought of it. Than you take a look at the media landscape today and realize the huge flaw. Lawyer and media ...
Raycom Media on Monday appointed Chris Conroy vice president and general manager of its Cape Girardeau, MO duopoly KFVS/WQWQ. He’s moving from sister station KAIT in Jonesboro, AR where he held the same position. ...
Long after she is gone, Candy Altman’s mark on Hearst’s teevee news operations will be a legacy for others to live up to. Altman is calling it quits after 35 years at Hearst Television. ...
James Pitaro – who’s served as Chairman of Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media since 2016 – has been tapped as the new president of ESPN. “I’ve spent my life as an ESPN customer, ...
Pitaro already has his first headache with a lawsuit filed over the weekend in Connecticut. In that lawsuit, former ESPN host and (gulp!) legal analyst Adrienne Lawrence stakes out her position with the very ...
Ken Jefferson, morning and noon anchor at Waterman’s WVIR in Charlottesville, VA, died over the weekend after a brief and unexpected illness. For 25 years, he was a reporter and award-winning anchor for WHIO ...
So you folks in Louisville didn’t know you had an anchor with an Oscar-winning movie on her resume, did you? Elizabeth Woolsey has been anchoring the news at Block Communications’ WDRB in recent years, ...
We trip up on every day and everyday because we get careless. If you stop to think about it, you won’t confuse the two anymore. Everyday means ordinary or commonplace or what’s appropriate for ...
He skipped it last year, but Donald J. Trump showed up at this year’s Gridiron Dinner, another orgy of self-celebration by Washington journalists. His role was to be comedian-in-chief and he played it to ...
It had to be a crusher for industry lobbyist, tireless coffee consumer and FCC chair Ajit Pai to have to decline his custom-made prize At the Conservative Political Action Conference a week and a ...
By his own admission, Anthony Scaramucci is on the list that bans certain former White House staffers from entering the White House without special permission – even as some reports have him on a ...
Mandi Johnston Mendoza is the new news director for Sinclair’s WOAI/KABB in San Antonio, TX. She’s been the assistant news director most recently and first joined the station as an investigative producer in 2003. She’s ...
Cowles-owned KFBB/KHBB in Great Falls, MT has promoted Megan Lewis to news director. She’s been an executive producer there for the past 18 months. Megan replaces Deyja Charles who is now an executive producer for WBRZ-TV in ...
They’re putting the band back together at Paxton Media’s WPSD in Paducah, KY , where PERRY BOXX rejoins BILL EVANS for their third partnership. But the roles are reversed this time: Bill’s the boss (GM) and ...
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow regularly comes out in front of CNN’s Anderson Cooper in the total number of viewers. But when it comes to ad revenue, Cooper is the winner. That’s because his ad rates ...
Rick Boone has left WNKY-TV in Bowling Green, KY a duopoly owned by Marquee Broadcasting after just four months on the job for this start-up news operation. Rick most recently worked as a reporter ...
John Scherer remains at KXLF/KBZK in Butte/Bozeman, MT but has been re-assigned to other duties here after more than 12 years as ND. He’s also worked in Madison, WI, and for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. ...
Tim Larson left KRDO in Colorado Springs this week after eleven years as GM for this News, Press & Gazette operation. He spent another two years running NPG’s Idaho Falls, ID, station. Tim was ...
New Mexico broadcasting pioneer Mary Lynn Roper is calling it a career. Roper who was the first female anchor in the state, is retiring this fall as vice-president and general manager at Hearst’s KOAT ...
Meteorologist Valerie Smock is leaving her slot as noon forecaster for Cox-owned WPXI in Pittsburgh. Smock, who’s been with the station since 2013, told the bosses that her husband recently took a job in ...
Gary Brown, for the past five years the vice president of talent development for the Napoli Management Group, is the new vice president of news and marketing for Meredith Corp.’s Local Media Group. This ...
Mark Mendenhall has been promoted from general sales manager to vice president and general manager of Raycom’s WECT in Wilmington, NC He succeeds Gary McNair, who retired last week. He began his career at ...
Once upon a time, Lou Dobbs was a rather well-respected business news reporter and anchor. Once upon a time. Even after moving over to Fox Business News from CNN in 2011, Dobbs maintained an ...
Anchor Angela Taylor rather abruptly left Hearst’s WESH in Orlando, FL last August after just over 2 and a half years for no apparent reason and with no apparent destination Sometime around the middle ...
Jenna McLaughlin joins CNN as its new national security reporter based in the Washington, DC. bureau. She’s coming from “Foreign Policy Magazine, where her focus was on Russian meddling in the US election. She’s ...
Joie Chen, who spent a total of 16 years at CNN and CBS News, is headed for Northwestern University’s Medill journalism program, where she will be director of its D.C. program branch. “Joie will ...
You’ll see this one again at the end of the month in the blooper reel. Back in our Cleveland days, we had a pill of an anchor who enjoyed ad-libbing questions to reporters in ...
John Moody, the longtime Roger Ailes buddy and Fox News executive vice president who wrote a boneheaded op-ed piece railing against diversity on the US Olympic team, has taken retirement. Moody made headlines last ...
What are the odds that Comcast’s unsolicited bid for Sky TV will give birth to a bidding war with Disney and 21st Century Fox? Comcast’s $31 billion bid has been rumored but when it ...
He’ll always have Kelly Ripa. Just days after his accuser went public with details of alleged sexual harassment, Ryan Seacrest got a much-needed show of support from his morning co-host There is mounting pressure ...
The reliance of teevee stations on the obscene amount of political $$$ spent during a campaign cycle is ultimately doing great damage to the country. Where we live, we are being subjected daily to ...
NBC News’ mean girl sat down for a second time with Russia’s mean strongman, the results of which will dribble out at strategically convenient times in the coming days. The first excerpt of the ...
We’ve said for a long time that Sinclair’s must-run “Terrorism Alert Desk” is the absolute nadir of local television “journalism.” Sinclair’s flagrant abuse of its local teevee licenses to run the “TAD” fear-mongering is ...
Robert Feder brings us word of a Chicago alderman’s plan to launch One Illinois, a statewide, nonprofit digital news outlet, in April. Founder Ameya Pawa plans a Kickstarter campaign and will accept contributions from ...
Sinclair will welcome meteorologist Brad Sowder to the KABB Fox News First morning team next Monday in San Antonio. He’s coming from Hearst’s KOCO in Oklahoma City. They’re excited, kids. “I’m very excited about ...
You’re probably tired of it. We’ve been tired of it for so long that we abstain from covering it in these pages. We’re willing to bet the average viewing public has had a bellyful. ...
After more than three decades, sports director Glenn Carver signed off this week at Tribune’s WREG in Memphis. He started at the station in 1984 as an intern, worked his way up and became ...
C’mon Alison, don’t hold back. Tell us how you really feel. You know – the difference between being Alisyn Camerota at Fox News and your current job on “New Day” at CNN. “I got ...
Sometimes life after teevee news isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Less than a year after waving goodbye to the weather set after 9 years at Hearst’s KMBC in Kansas City, MO and ...
The new morning anchor at Nexstar’s WNCN in Raleigh-Durham will be pulling double duty as part of the news department’s investigative unit. Felicia Bolton is coming from Raycom’s WMC in Memphis, TN where she ...
Now that Jonah Javad and Nalina Shapiro are caravaning to Dallas, where Javad is taking up a sports job at Tegna’s WFAA, let the speculation begin as to their replacements at WGRZ (Javad’s old ...
During a conference call with investors to discuss their quarterly results, Sinclair Broadcasting execs faced the inevitable question of how their discussions with Washington about acquiring Tribune Media have been going. According to CEO ...
While the FCC seems poised to give Sinclair Broadcast Group whatever it desires in its quest to acquire Tribune Media, eight state attorneys general have banded together to urge the Commission into a different ...
Ian Rubin is headed to Cleveland as news director for Raycom Media’s duopoly WOIO-WUAB. Here’s the news release, courtesy of General Manager Erik Schrader. Schrader’s spent the past 14+ years as news director for ...
Honestly, we thought it was miracle enough when Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson actually acknowledged that their flogging of Glenn Haab’s story of being manipulated by CNN was based on a lie created by ...
It’s just under three years and out for reporter Dana Griffin at Hearst’s KCRA in Sacramento, CA. She’s headed east to sister station WYFF in Greenville, SC where she moves up a notch or ...
38 years as a teevee political reporter would seem to be career enough for anybody. But not Dick Kay, who left WMAQ in 2006 with no particular retirement plan. A brief stint working in ...
Jay Quaintance is the newly-named news director for Nexstar’s WJHL in Johnson City, TN. For the past 11 years, he’s been the assistant news director at sister station WATE in Knoxville, TN. Quaintance has ...
While the “Today” gang was away at the Winter Olympics, the set at 30 Rock got a makeover. Most impressive is the gargantuan weather set that Al Roker now calls home. Not one, not ...
James Norris, a news photographer for Sinclair’s KTUL in Tulsa, OK, passed away over the weekend. He was 32. Norris joined the station just a year and a half ago and worked frequently with ...
We’ve never been the biggest fans of Katie Couric but we may have a recent quote of hers engraved and framed to put on our wall here at NewsBlues HQ. Couric sat down for ...
Those of us who remember the old “Firing Line” show with conservative writer William F. Buckley as host remember it as a program that featured erudite guests of all political stripes and consistently intelligent ...
At least everything that Cox owns in the Tulsa market. Tina Commodore, news director at KOKI, has been upped to Integrated News Director of Cox’s teevee, radio (KRMG AM-FM) and digital platforms in Tulsa, ...
WBZ, the CBS O&O for Boston, figured it would end the February book with a bang by celebrating its longtime meteorologist Barry Burbank. Burbank is celebrating 40 years with the station this week and ...
Over the course of his broadcasting career, Adam Lynch was a radio newsman, a classical FM announcer, a weatherman, a reporter and finally, an anchor. He worked in Lima, OH, Cincinnati, Weirton, W. WV, ...
Pundit is one of those words we get from India, like bungalow and thug. It comes from “pandit,” meaning scholar or wise teacher. The first premier of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, was often referred to ...
The fever swamp of right wing websites led by the Fox News primetime entertainment block, have been flaying CNN’s town hall on gun control and safety following the Parkland shooting, because Glenn Haab, father ...
