Scott Livingston is now SENIOR vice-president of news for Sinclair Broadcast Group, not just a merely-mortal veep, the position he held since 2012. Livingston has been with Sinclair since 1991, when he was chief ...
“Fair Use” my…eye. Fox News is the winner in a ruling that should gladden the heart of station and news executives everywhere. In the decision, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals analyzes copyright fair ...
When he signs off the 11 o’clock news tonight, he’s signing off for good. Stephen Clark, for the past 16 years a mainstay at the anchor desk of Scripps’ WXYZ in Detroit, is exiting, ...
Operating on the perfectly reasonable assumption that a good, qualified meteorologist can have a more lasting career in teevee news than an anchor, KENS traffic anchor Stacia Willson says she is thisclose to earning ...
Graham Media Group’s WSLS is getting a new broadcast home in Roanoke, VA. The station is leaving its longtime broadcast home in downtown Roanoke where it’s been for 60 years. An old Grainger warehouse ...
Shelley Walcott, 11 PM anchor for the past five years on Hearst’s WMUR in Manchester, NH, wraps it up after tonight’s newscast. She posted the following on Facebook: “After 5 years at WMUR, this ...
Sometimes the newsroom seems a stable as a rock, sometimes, it feels like a landslide. These seem to be landslide days at Cox-owned WFTV in Orlando, where the revolving door spit out three reporters ...
The iconic KHOU call letters that graced the station’s old Allen Parkway Tower in Houston, TX are currently down, but not out. The six-by-six foot letters will make a return once the station figures ...
Miguelángel López has moved up the food chain from news director to VP of news for KTLM, the Telemundo O&O in McAllen. He’s been with the station since the summer of 2014, when he ...
The end of another sweeps period, and another departure from the teevee news business. Joe Kopecek, chief meteorologist for Tribune’s WXMI in Grand Rapids, MI is shutting down a 27 year career forecasting weather ...
While Kelly Ripa studiously avoided any mention of the harassment charges lodged against her co-host Ryan Seacrest –as did Seacrest, of course, the story told by his former personal stylist was big news on ...
KTVA, the Denali Holdings Station in Anchorage, AK went for a video display upgrade to sharpen up its look, dumping its existing LCD monitors behind the anchor desk in favor of a 1.9mm pixel ...
As chief meteorologist for Jacksonville’s WJXT for nearly half a century, George Winterling was at the forefront in the development of modern weather forecasting. Give him the credit for the infamous “heat index” we ...
Sinclair’s fast shuffle in which it pretends it’s selling off Chicago’s WGN and New York’s WPIX to speed up approval of its acquisition of Tribune Media isn’t fooling anybody. And they are letting anybody ...
Dad used to tell us with monotonous regularity “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.” His folk wisdom came to mind as we saw all of the wishing on right-wing websites recently, wistfully and ...
Comcast wasn’t put off a bit by the Murdoch’s long-delayed, and perpetually-challenged attempt to take over Sky TV and then sell it to Disney. It went right to the source and bid to take ...
The RTDNA (Radio Television Digital News Association) is encouraging journalists to unite and post the poster you see here across their social media platforms. The organization has had enough When sitcom-star wanna-be and NRA ...
It’s now full circle in the Miami, FL market for meteorologist Bryan Norcross. Back in 1983, WPLG gave him his South Florida teevee debut and now, after a 12-year absence from local television, he’s ...
After more than seven years as a general assignment reporter, Susanna Song will exit Chicago CBS O&O WBBM Friday at the end of her shift. She chose not to renew her contract and instead, ...
So we should get to see if there is such a thing as the “Ogle effect” for the next couple of days as anchor Kelly Ogle returned to the 10 PM anchor desk last ...
Yesterday, CBS launched CBS Sports HQ, a free 24-hour streaming sports news network. The ad-supported service features updates, scores, highlights and analysis, drawing from the resources of CBS Sports and its various digital properties ...
Ohio native Jess Briganti is saying goodbye to the Buckeye State and Youngstown, OH and is headed to Central New York for a new job in Albany. And she’s got the cake to prove ...
In just a couple of days, Buffalo sportscaster Jonah Javad becomes Dallas sportscaster Jonah Javad when he leaves Tegna’s WGRZ and starts his new job at sister station WFAA. Today is his last day ...
A 39-year broadcast career, 24 of them at Lockwood Broadcasting’s KAKE in Wichita, KS, came to a close Friday, as Ben Pringle signed off for the final time. He penned a Facebook farewell. “Working ...
With just two days left in the February book, stations are scrambling for anything that will provide a bump in the ratings. And Tegna is being particularly aggressive at its newly-acquired San Diego station. ...
Since December, Ilia Calderón has been quietly making history as she reports the news alongside Jorge Ramos for Univision’s flagship “Noticiero Univision.” Calderón’s high profile may mark a turning point for Spanish-language media, as ...
Lori Stokes can’t find a date. The co-host of WNYW’s “Good Day New York” says dating is real tough when you’re on teevee. We’re tearing up now, even as we write this. Stokes has ...
A Charleston promotions producer writes: One of my pet peeves is seeing “suppose to” instead of supposed to, as in: The officer said the driver was supposed to yield his right-of-way. The same goes ...
Much as we enjoy seeing what the folks on our friend’s list had for dinner, watching their “live” and recorded reports on family reunions, and reading journalists’ snarky takes on the stories they are ...
Susan Sullivan, who’s run the newsroom at WNBC in New York for the past seven-plus years, is moving within NBC (even the same building) to a standards and practices role for NBC News. She ...
And while the future of one New York local news director takes an upward swing, another ND’s future is…not as rosy. The abrupt departure last Thursday of Dave Davis as president and general manager ...
18 years is a long time to be an understudy in any profession. This week, Vonn Jones gets his chance. He’ll take over on March 1st as news director at Hearst’s KETV in Omaha, ...
A Little Rock radio station will continue to run its ‘Babe Bracket’ contest but has changed the name to ‘A Contest with No Name’, a play on the show’s title. The move comes after ...
Sinclair-operated KMTR in Eugene, OR is saying goodbye to main anchor Stephanie Domurat after just over three years. She’s headed east to Spectrum News Carolina in Charlotte. She will be the weekend morning anchor ...
Meteorologist Nathan Scott takes his place at the THV11 weather center on March 12 as the new weekend meteorologist. Scott is joining Tegna’s KTHV in Little Rock from Hearst’s WAPT in Jackson, MS. He ...
If the third time is a charm, perhaps Keith Olbermann’s slow walk toward ESPN – again – might be the one that takes. Olbermann will host “Pardon the Interruption” alongside Tony Kornheiser on Thursday ...
Yes, it was certainly chickens**t of Illinois Democratic gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker to skip a televised debate with his primary opponents that was scheduled for March 5. But it was even more chickens**t of ...
KSAT morning anchors Leslie Mouton and Mark Austin are super excited to host the Battle of Flowers Parade telecast again down in San Antonio. So excited that the duo is already sitting at their ...
Reporter Mike Faulk, of the “St. Louis Post-Dispatch”, was one of dozens of people the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department arrested during a protest in downtown St. Louis following a not guilty verdict in ...
We really wanted to get a picture of industry lobbyist/FCC Chair Ajit Pai with the brand-new Kentucky long gun given to him by the NRA in front of the CPAC crowd over the weekend. ...
If you want to pretend you’d remain cool, calm and collected if Jennifer Lawrence walked into your office, keep up the delusional front. A recent visit by Lawrence to the London Bureau of CNN ...
A very obvious buyer for some of the properties that Sinclair Broadcast Group plans to divest in order to gain approval for its acquisition of Tribune Media has emerged. And yes, it’s 21st Century ...
A 40-year-run in the business ends when WABC president and gm Dave Davis cleans out his desk. Most of that time has been spent within the ABC O&O group, starting when he joined KTRK ...
We got a really detailed email yesterday from a reader whose eye was caught by the story of Mike Deeson, former investigative reporter for WTSP and his lawsuit against the city of Tampa. Deeson ...
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman reports that KTVU’s Mark Ibanez would love to remain at the Fox O and O. He’s still at the top of his game after nearly 40 years as primary ...
Dell executive Howard D. Elias is the new non-executive board chair of Tegna. He’s president of Dell Services, Digital and IT, where he oversees technology and deployment services, consulting, global support and education services. ...
The high cost of healthcare is the focus of a unique content partnership between Disney’s WPVI and the “Philadelphia Inquirer.” The Philly Health Costs project (www.philly.com/Healthcosts), is underwritten by the first grant targeting health ...
After 16 years, sportscaster Paul Jones is signing off at Sinclair’s WZTV in Nashville to “find a new challenge and something that excites me and that I enjoy.” Jones said he was offered a ...
Bofta Yimam, weekend anchor at Hearst’s WTAE in Pittsburgh, PA for the past two years is no longer with the station. And she is no longer in Pennsylvania. Yimam, who joined WTAE in 2013 ...
CBS News senior foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan will add moderator of the Sunday morning franchise “Face the Nation” to her resume beginning Feb. 25. She’s been one of a rotating cast of substitutes ...
Kirk Herbstreit will step into the Jon Gruden role for ESPN’s NFL draft coverage April 27 and 28. Herbstreit, (seen here doing his best Russell Crowe) the lead analyst for ESPN’s “Saturday Night College ...
A lot of local weekend news around the country really consists of very little news and a lot of feature stories re-purposed from the weekday newscasts. Graham Media’s WKMG in Orlando, FL has come ...
Last week, CNN Digital announced that layoffs of 50 staffers as part of an ongoing campaign to cut costs and find projects that bring instant revenue rewards. This week, names started turning up of ...
If anybody is still attending the White House Correspondents’ Association Annual Orgy of Self-Love, stand-up comedian and “The Daily Show” contributor Michelle Wolf is this year’s host. The dinner takes place April 28. “Our ...
Yesterday we ran a story that reported Los Angeles Olympic fans were upset that KNBC had dropped Olympic coverage in favor of that most Los Angelean of pastimes – a car chase. Many viewers ...
It initially seemed to be a gobsmacking surprise move. Sinclair Broadcast Group said it planned to spin off both WPIX in New York and WGN in Chicago as part of its revised bid to ...
As an old friend said to us yesterday, you can take the reporter out of the newsroom, but you can’t take the reporter out of the person. Less than a year ago, investigative reporter ...
There were no tv cameras present when the Utah State House voted yesterday to limit noncompete clauses in contract. Supporters of the bill claim that teevee management ordered the vote not be covered. The ...
Tavis Smiley admits he had relationships with female colleagues over the years, and they’re none of your damned business anyway, because they were consensual But, according to him, PBS’ decision to drop his talk ...
The courage and sacrifice of 15-year-old high school student Anthony Borges during last week’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School inspired an open Facebook letter to him from Monica Malpass, an anchor at ...
An independent investigation’s report has concluded that fired NPR executive Michael Oreskes was repeatedly warned about his behavior toward women, but ignored the warnings and kept up his boorish behavior. The report found that ...
Another day, another executive shuffle, this time at CNN. Terence Burke, senior vice president of national news, and a CNNer since 1999, is “outta here.” Andrew Morse, the GM of CNN Digital and EVP ...
The pink slips are flying at digital media company Vox Media, where 50 employees are being told their services are no longer needed due to “industry changes.” The layoffs, which amount to 5% of ...
Sometime today, the FCC will publish its Orwellian-titled “Restoring Internet Freedom,” in the Federal Register. This is the revocation order for net neutrality. With its publication, a 60-day window opens, during which Congress can ...
A response that became a meme. Back in January, Chicago fashion blogger Hoda Katebi was a guest on WGN’s morning show, being interviewed by co-anchors Larry Potash and Robin Baumgarten when the discussion turned ...
A new sports reporter is headed to CBS O&O KOVR in Sacramento, leaving Heartland Media’s WAAY behind. Sara Hodges has been with the Huntsville, AL station since October 2015. She’s also worked in Dothan, ...
If you were in Los Angeles Tuesday night watching the final minutes of the USA Hockey team’s semifinal match with the Czech Republic, you were treated to some most unwelcome bonus coverage that was ...
Cassidy Quinn, a reporter for Tegna’s KGW in Portland, OR and prolific YouTube vlogger, took viewers along via “Facebook Live” as she snowboarded down a mountain near Pyeongchang, South Korea. “This is playing and ...
Let’s spend our time together today looking at some words that sound alike but have different meanings. Apprise means to inform. For example: ~The EP plans to apprise interns of the requirement to attribute. ...
Former KCCI meteorologist Frank Scaglione is denying public accusations that he used social media to pursue sexual relationships with underage boys. Through his attorney, Scaglione issued a statement that read, in part, “Mark Twain ...
And how do you feel about noncompete agreements? As a general rule, management loves them and employs them to give themselves assurance that valued employees just don’t go hopscotching around newsrooms in the market ...
Employees at Disney’s KFSN in Fresno, CA were evacuated from their building Tuesday morning by firefighters after two people reported feeling ill when they came in contact with a suspicious envelope. The envelope in ...
Citadel’s WLNE in Providence, RI executed the top management shuffle yesterday. When the dust settled, Tina Marie Castano immediately took charge as the station’s new vp and general manager. She jumped back to the ...
AT&T lost a round in Federal Court when a judge denied the telecommunications giant’s request for access to internal Department of Justice documents related to its scrutiny of AT&T’s proposed merger with Time Warner. ...
Evidently the idea of a CBS-Viacom reunion is leaving Wall Street cold. CBS stock has been slipping despite a good fourth quarter and share prices have slipped more than 5% since the January 12 ...
There’s a lawsuit making its way through a federal court in Orlando, FL that involves the late Roger Ailes, his widow, Fox News and a once-closeted gay businessman who says he was outed because ...
Does CNN host Jake Tapper really oppose the agenda of the Trump Administration? “Whenever anybody says that to me, I say, you can’t find any evidence about what I think about his tax plan ...
Industry lobbyist and FCC Chair Ajit Pai will take the podium at the CPAC conference at the end of the week, his first as chair of the telecommunications industry’s deregulation subsidiary. It was at ...
10 seconds too long for a reader? Miss the top of the newscast? Want more video and less facetime from your anchor? The “NBC Nightly News”, following the lead of CBS’ “Evening Newsfeed” is ...
Sinclair Broadcast Group gets creative when it comes to the revenue side of things It just made up a brand new job description for a former gm, Dave Schwartz, who is now vp of ...
And before the sweeps period goes away, let’s take a look at the new set gracing the setudio at Raycom’s WMC in Memphis, TN Video walls galore, stonework and metal pillars adorn the FX ...
Matt Fernandez joins Charter’s Central Florida News 13 in Orlando as a reporter/MMJ. Fernandez most recently worked as a reporter for a year in Birmingham, AL at the Nexstar’s WIAT. Before that, he was ...
Rumors and social media accusations had been swirling throughout the weekend, but we’re not about rumors here. Now, the rumors have become real as Hearst’s KCCI in Des Moines, IA parted ways with, and ...
It was just last week that longtime KARE news director Jane Helmke announced she was stepping down. Now a flurry of changes are happening at the Tegna station in the Twin Cities. For the ...
We reported to you several weeks back that this was in the works and now it’s happening. Christa Delcamp is headed to O&O NBC10 aka WBTS in Boston. Delcamp parted ways with Sunbeam’s WHDH ...
Mark Senator Marco Rubio as a yes and scratch Florida Governor Rick Scott from the guest list for Wednesday night’s town hall “Stand Up: The Students of Stoneman Douglas Demand Action” that CNN will ...
You will remember that back in 2015 reporter Alison Parker and her photographer were murdered on camera as she did a live shot for Virginia television station WDBJ in Roanoke, VA. Her father, Andy ...
The City of New York is evidently jumping feet first into the ongoing sexual assault lawsuit that former Fox News contributor Scottie Nell Hughes filed against the network and Fox Business program host Charles ...
Is it us, or does Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle look bored out of her skull? CNN’s senior media correspondent Brian Stelter thought so and had a little fun at a rival’s expense by ...
“The Washington Post” has a round-up report detailing the latest, innovative steps being taken by states’ attorneys general and governors to head off the loss of net neutrality protections. Those step have a number ...
Can’t get enough of Fox News? Or maybe you’ve cut the cord and can’t sleep at night because you miss it so terribly. Here comes Fox Nation, a standalone subscription service that will be ...
Former Fox News host Eric Bolling turned up on MSNBC and CNN last week – not as a host, but as a father who lost a son to an opioid overdose thus becoming, in ...
Stephen Miller usually hits the streets as a reporter for Fox-owned KRIV in Houston, TX. But Sunday night, he traded in his mic logo for a clicker and took on the weather segment. “Left ...
After a year and a half anchoring mornings on Gray’s KALB in Alexandria, LA, Carmen Blackwell said goodbye and moved on. She’s now the morning anchor-reporter for “Arizona Morning” at Fox O&O KSAZ in ...
“Myself” is one of those words that pop up a lot in conversation. Most of the time we use it incorrectly. We get paranoid about using “me.” So we make this mistake: Give David ...
CNN has invited President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Rick Scott, the state’s senators Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio, and Rep. Ted Deutch to participate in a town hall to be broadcast live Wednesday night ...
Well, they tried to be diplomatic about it. But now, AT&T appears ready to take the gloves off in its question to take over Time Warner. After months of placating words and tip-toeing around ...
