Onetime CNBC and MSNBC anchor Dylan Ratigan is the latest former newsperson to consider a run for political office. Ratigan, whose eponymous program ended on MSNBC in 2012, is now living in Lake Placid ...
Ronan Farrow’s latest New Yorker bombshell, which may have triggered Melania Trump’s decision to fly solo to Mar-A-Lago this weekend, is getting the cold shoulder from NBC News outlets. But, oddly enough, FoxNews.com is ...
A new face at the CBSN should be a familiar one to longtime CNN viewers. Deborah Feyerick showed up last week anchoring on CBSN, the streaming service of The Eye. Feyerick left CNN last ...
This is how sensitivity training goes when the participants are blockheads you pay to yell for a living. Boston sports radio station WEEI suspended live programming on from 6 AM to 6 PM so ...
Marvin Gómez, a former MMJ at Entravision’s WVEN in Orlando, Fl, is now a bilingual weather broadcaster at AccuWeather’s Global Headquarters in State College, PA. He’s responsible for creating on-air weather presentations for multiple ...
Sinclair’s KOMO In Seattle, WA has a new executive producer. Ana Maria Lamas Brouhard joins the station from Sinclair sister-station in Austin, TX, KEYE, where she was also an EP. She’s also worked for Spanish language ...
Readers of a certain vintage will certainly recognize the name Terry Heaton. He was a news director in Tennessee, Hawaii, North Carolina, and Alabama, spent time as a consultant, and many years as a ...
If you have lemons, make lemonade. Which is why P.F. Chang’s, the Asian restaurant chain took advantage – at least in the Chicago area – on WLS’s goof last week which when viral. You ...
Hearst’s WPTZ, which serves Burlington, Vermont’s largest city, but is licensed to, and located in, Plattsburgh, NY, also currently has a facility in Colchester, VT. And now, the station is contemplating a move of ...
Tegna’s KSDK in St. Louis is adding Brandon Merano to the reporting staff starting next Monday. He’s coming to the station after five years at Wheeler Broadcasting’s WSIL in Harrisburg, IL. He’s an SIU-Carbondale ...
Both Fox Sports and ESPN are shopping around for new color commentators for their NFL coverage – ESPN to replace the departed Jon Gruden on “Monday Night Football” and Fox, for a warm body ...
And perhaps there is a full “MNF” shakeup in the works. As the Manning talk heats up, there are background rumblings about Sean McDonough’s future as the play-by-play voice of “MNF”. Some of the ...
From 1996 to 2003, Roy Hobbs was an anchor for WAGA in Atlanta, GA. After Atlanta, he worked in Kansas City, Birmingham and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Hobbs died over the weekend at his Palm ...
The lengths some people will go to avoid the madness that is sweeps month. Morning anchor Randi Naughton of Tribune’s KTVI in St. Louis has been out of commission since late January after undergoing ...
About damn time. Industry lobbyist and putative FCC Chair Ajit Pai is getting a closer look from the FCC’s independent watchdog over his dealings with Sinclair. News of the investigation comes as Sinclair is ...
So what reaction do you have when you hear that an 80-year-old is suing a 77-year-old for – wait for it – age discrimination!!!?? Thought so. And we won’t apologize for laughing out loud ...
Veteran anchor Anne Craig is parting ways with Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford-New Haven, CT. after 7 years. The 5, 5:30 and 11p.m.anchor leaves at the end of this month to spend more time with ...
We told you last month that, after 45 years covering news in Omaha, 31 of them leading the newsroom at Hearst’s KETV, Rose Ann Shannon was planning to retire. Now we know that she ...
After 5+ years as a principal co-anchor at Sinclair-operated WKEF-WRGT in Dayton, OH, it’s buh-bye for Deborah Linz. She decided to pass on the February sweeps with no destination mentioned post-WRGT in her Facebook ...
Depending on your point of view, you are either heaving a sigh of relief, or we just ruined your weekend, with the news the Oprah Winfrey has made it irrevocably official: No Presidential run ...
Graham Media’s KPRC in Houston, TX added a local, and immediate, touch to its coverage of the Parkland, FL school shootings, Former reporter Jennifer Bauer, who moved to Florida with her husband last summer, ...
Michelle Lee, who retired from the anchor desk at Quincy Media’s KBJR in Duluth, MN back in 2016 is “99.9%” certain she’s ready to re-enter the public eye – in a different role. Lee ...
Another day, another regional VP named at Raycom Media. This time, it’s Collin Gaston, who will add oversight of WSFA Montgomery, Ala.; WTXL Tallahassee, Fla.; WPGX Panama City, Fla.; and WDFX Dothan, Ala. to ...
Two weeks ago, we added our endorsement of KARK news director Austin Kellerman’s well-reasoned request for a Little Rock, AR radio station to drop its inane and overtly testosterone-y “Babe Bracket.” It’s 2018. Now ...
Tegna now has control of Midwest Television, Inc.’s stations in San Diego, including KFMB and KFMB-D2 and radio broadcasters KFMB-AM and KFMB-FM. The $325 million deal ends Midwest Television’s raison d’etre as they were ...
Oh, look at this. “The CBS Evening News” is adding some zest to its look with full-screen images replacing the old boxy look. And Jeff Glor now has a place to sit. Breath-taking. In ...
Kenny Boles, a well respected, long-time small market news director, passed away last night. While he was battling pancreatic cancer, he apparently died of cardiac arrest. He was just 64 years old. He’d spent ...
We’re so old, we remember when airline commercials were cancelled if a plane crash made the news. And competing car dealer commercials never ran in the same commercial block, let alone back-to-back. But what ...
Imagine you’re a reporter for a station location downtown and your home is just three miles away. Pretty cool commute. Then one day you go into the newsroom and find out that the station ...
The Fox Drone Army is on the march. Local Fox stations around the country have been ramping up their use of drones, particularly in coverage situations that can’t be easily accessed by traditional photographers. ...
And here we are again. Another week, Another school shooting – 18 of them since the start of the new year and we are only halfway through February. This time it was the stations ...
Donna Hamilton, the 5, 6 and 11 PM anchor mainstay at Hearst’s Baltimore flagship WBAL, is retiring from the job at the end of the May sweeps. Hamilton’s been on the station’s anchor desk ...
We have to hand it to Edward Egros, sportscaster for Fox O&O KDFW in Dallas. He knows how to play the social media game to maximum effect. This week, he managed to pick a ...
Egros keeps that kind of nonsense up, he might find himself in the same situation as the juveniles at Boston sports radio station WEEI. WEEI will suspend its live programming Friday as its staff ...
They’re on your side, looking out for you and now they want to welcome you to where “this is home.” Meredith’s WSMV in Nashville is rolling out a new image campaign to make viewers ...
Just under half of the documentary unit of Fusion TV, the Doral, Fla.-based TV network that is part of the Fusion Media Group, got pink-slipped yesterday. Six of 13 unit employees were dropped and ...
Evidently four years is long enough in the sun and fun of Phoenix, so it’s back to her home state of Iowa for Mary Ann Johnson, newly-named general manager at Nexstar’s WOI/KCWI duopoly in ...
From ESPN’s “Sportscenter” to a Super Bowl Week freelancing assignment with her old station, WRC in Washington and now this. Lindsay Czarniak is joining Joe Gibbs Racing to produce digital content during the Daytona ...
Nope, as far as we can see, this one has never been done before. Bonneville International’s KSL in Salt Lake City is the first tv station to cut a deal for sports rights, but ...
Mariel Ruiz is the newly-named co-anchor and morning meteorologist for “KTHV This Morning” She’s been with the Tegna station in Little rock, AR since June 2016. Previously, she appeared on various newscasts, namely its ...
Maryhelen Campa has been named Deputy Bureau Chief for the CBS News Southern Bureau, based in Dallas, TX. For the past 12 years, she’s been a producer in the network’s Los Angeles Bureau. It ...
Lydia Hu is now with Spectrum’s NY1 in New York, NY as an investigative reporter. She made the move from Raycom’s WBRC in Birmingham, AL, where she was a weekend anchor/investigative reporter for the ...
Don’t forget the “brew” in the second syllable of February: FE-brew-ary, not FEB-you-ary. The national anthem includes a couple of words that are often mispronounced. Perilous is PER-uh-lus, not PER-uh-lis. Rockets is ROK-its, not ...
Well, sure, Scott. Scott Livingston, vice president for news for Sinclair Broadcast Group, wants us all to relax and chill a bit over the news that the Hunt valley, MD.-based giant asked top managers ...
Bill Dallman moves north to become the next ND for Sinclair’s KOMO in Seattle. This memo to the staff from KOMO General Manager Janene Drafs has more. Bill most recently was the VP/News for KCBS/KCAL, the CBS owned duopoly in ...
“Fake News” and omnipresent bots emanating out of eastern European basements have been blamed for everything from the inexplicable, albeit marginal, popularity of Alex Jones and Omarosa Manigault to engineering the election of Donald ...
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman reports that Fox-owned KTVU recently tried to woo Sara Sidner back into the fold. But she evidently likes her job as CNN senior correspondent far too much and turned ...
Robert Feder nailed it with his call that Joe Donlon would be imported from Portland, OR’s KGW and instantly transformed into one of “Chicago’s Very Own” at Tribune’s WGN. The station announced Tuesday that ...
They’re keeping it in the family at the Sun-Times in Chicago as Jennifer Schulze, former news director at Tribune’s WGN, becomes executive producer – new media for the Sun-Times. She’ll report to Carol Fowler, ...
Jack Hynes, dubbed by many as the “dean of Boston television” has left us at the age of 88. Hynes spent most of his career at Hearst’s WCVB, 26 years in all. His father ...
This changes everything. Hearst Boston flagship WCVB added a new reporting position to its recently updated newsroom. The new desk debuted February 9th. It should add to the sweeps excitement felt by all teevee ...
Jamie Nguyen is leaving the relative safety of local news at Disney’s WABC to move up to the network level as coordinating producer for NBC News’ “Rossen Reports” investigative series featured on “Today.” Nguyen ...
The now-officially unhinged NRA, formerly a sportsman’s advocacy organization, and now somewhere between ammo industry lobbyist and purveyor of conspiracy theories, has had it uptohere with criticism of the current Administration. And the gang ...
Howard Kurtz hasn’t gone full Grant Stinchfield. Not yet, anyway. The host of Fox News’ “Media Buzz” is still capable of putting words together and writing an article or, in this case, a book. ...
Scott Dempsey, currently GM of Raycom’s WBTV in Charlotte, NC, just had a few extra portfolios dumped on his desk after being appointed regional group vice president for the Montgomery, AL-based company. He’ll now ...
Nicolás J. Valls has been named the new general manager of LBI Media’s WGEN in Miami. He will be the first to lead it as an Estrella TV station when that run begins on ...
Will Jensen is the new weekday 5, 6 and 10 PM co-anchor at Sinclair’s KTXS in the Abilene, TX market. Jensen, who’s been doing his second tour with the station since 2015, moves up ...
Gray Television appears to be on a mini-buying spree in pursuit of market duopolies. Earlier this week it was a crappy little station in Fargo, ND to pair up with its KVLY. This time, ...
That bonehead we told you about last week who stole a crucifix from a church outside Green Bay, WI and then used it to smash an electric sign outside the studios of Sinclair’s WLUK ...
Call it two years and out for Robin Cross, now-former WSVN producer. “After conducting a thorough investigation, WSVN has terminated a 7 News producer who was caught on cellphone video using a racial slur. ...
It looks like WGN’s search for a successor to the recently-retired Mark Suppelsa is just about over. The Chicago Tribune station is one the verge of signing Joe Donlon, a 21-year veteran of Tegna’s ...
Under a newly-forged partnership, NBC O&O WCAU and Telemundo 62 are joining forces with “The Philadelphia Tribune” in a news and resource-sharing agreement. Robert W. Bogle, president of The Philadelphia Tribune explained “This is ...
No, you probably don’t want to assume that the Disney-Fox acquisition plan is a done deal. Not with Comcast lurking about. The media giant is giving all indications that it believes it still has ...
Or words to that effect, from Rupert Murdoch and 21st Century Fox in the latest maneuver to hurry along the oft-delayed takeover of Britain’s Sky News. Fox promised to establish a fully independent board ...
For the second year running, the Administration has submitted a budget in which funding for public broadcasting is $0. It is more than likely that PBS was not surprised to see the proposal to ...
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman is reporting that it is likely that Jessica Aguirre will not be back at NBC O&O KNTV upon the end of her contract. Lierberman has reported in the past ...
Lieberman, on a roll lately, is also reporting that Mindi Bach has been told her services are no longer wanted at NBC Sports Bay Area. No surprise there as Comcast (which owns NBC) has ...
For ten days now, 450,000 Spectrum customers who get their local TV channels from Northwest Broadcasting are without programming. Sick of their residents being treated by both Spectrum and Northwest like something sifted out ...
Gray Television is shelling out an undisclosed bundle of bucks to buy up a second station in Fargo, ND to pair with its already-owned KVLY. The lottery winner is Central Plains Media, which is ...
Maria Salazar started this week as a general assignment reporter for Fox O&O KRIV in Houston. She’s coming from Maranatha Broadcasting’s WFMZ in Allentown, PA where she’s been for just over two years. We ...
KHOU this week brought on Jessica Borg, who most recently was working as a freelancer for WCBS in New York. Previously, she was a reporter/fill-in anchor for News 12 Long Island and before that ...
Tahera Rahman is making history and breaking barriers in Rock Island, IL. and more power to her. Rahman endured several rejections over the years as she pursued her dream of being a teevee reporter ...
Did you know that P.F. Chang’s was hosting the Olympics? Perhaps they had some sort of inside information at Disney’s WLS in Chicago. As an attention-grabber, substituting the name of a restaurant chain for ...
Mrs. B hopes you’ll pay close attention to your pronunciation of these words. mastectomy: muh-STEK-tuh-mee, not muh-SEK-tuh-mee (Don’t leave out the first “t.”) preventive: pre-VEN-tive, not pre-VEN-ta-tive (“Preventative” is a corrupt form of preventive.) ...
Sinclair’s contempt for ethical boundaries is clearly on display in a recent letter received by the company’s news directors and newsroom managers. “Please take the time to evaluate the importance that the Sinclair PAC ...
Is it because Valentine’s Day was imminent? Is it the novelty of getting video of a rarely-seen personage? Or is it just more celebrity-f*****g that our media does so very well, and with an ...
John Moody may have been proud of his spiteful little screed posted on the Fox News website that included the breath-taking quote “Unless it’s changed overnight, the motto of the Olympics, since 1894, has ...
Former WMC weekend anchor Ben Watson suffered a massive heart attack mid-week last week and all efforts to resuscitate him were futile. Watson, who was let go by WMC just over two years ago, ...
Reporter Donna Rossi, an on-air fixture for over two decades at Meredith duopoly KPHO/KTVK in Phoenix, AZ, called her career a wrap last week. “The industry has changed more in the past eight years ...
Among the new economies being practiced by Meredith Corporation as it takes over Time, Inc. is the elimination of 600 jobs at Time’s Tampa-based customer service department. Meredith plans to phase out operations over ...
Tina Cervasio is the new lead sports anchor for Fox-owned WNYW in Manhattan. In addition, she will be the first female anchor in the nearly 50-year history of the station’s Sunday night “Sports Xtra”. ...
Beth Hoppe starts next month as the new senior VP of long form for ABC News. She’s moving over from PBS where she has been chief programming executive and general manager for the past ...
Mark Rosen returns to Georgia as the next news director for Raycom’s WTVM in Columbus. Here’s the memo from GM Holly Steuart (a former ND herself) to the staff. Mark’s spent the last two years as ...
Jane Helmke announced late Friday that she was stepping down as news director of Tegna’s KARE in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Jane’s been ND there for about 6 1/2 years and has held a wide variety ...
The other ND change occurred in Las Vegas, where KVUU news director Cristi Jessee has left this Meredith owned station after just over two years as news director. The note from GM Todd Brown to the ...
OK, we’re in the thick of the February book, but take a moment and read about how Hubbard’s WHEC in Rochester, NY won the 11 PM race in November with an entirely new team ...
Here’s a ratings stunt we can get behind. Jesse Jones, a reporter for Cox-owned KIRO in Seattle, WA, announced that he and the station had bought up the medical debt of 1,000 viewers, totaling ...
Michael Smith used to be the lesser-known half of the Michael Smith-Jemele Hill anchor duo at ESPN’s “SportsCenter 6.” Either this will change things or “Who’s Michael Smith?” will become a popular trivia stumper ...
We’re catching up with former news anchor Chris Hurst, who’s starting out in his new day job as a Virginia State Delegate. Hurst, a former anchor at Gray’s WDBJ in Roanoke, VA, left that ...
Some bonehead with a screw loose terrified parishioners at a suburban Green Bay church Friday night, then took his bizarre act to a local teevee station. A man hiding his face strode into the ...
Kim Wynne joins Nexstar’s WKRN in Nashville where she will be a general assignment reporter. Wynne most recently worked at Tribune’s WGHP in High Point, NC where she was a reporter and fill-in anchor. ...
And because it is sweeps, we leave you with this sure ratings grabber, as Bob Herzog co-host of “Good Morning Cincinnati” on Sinclair’s WKRC shares his morning makeup routine. Don’t try this at home. ...
It’s been nearly two years since former anchor Wendy Bell and Hearst’s WTAE in Pittsburgh had an acrimonious parting over an ill-advised Facebook parting. That was in March of 2016. In June of that ...
After eight years and the conclusion of one last February book, anchor-reporter Nalina Shapiro is out the door at Nexstar’s WIVB in Buffalo. She’s been doing the station’s 5:30 and 10 PM newscasts. Channel ...
A veteran Miami news producer who now works at Sunbeam’s WSVN has been suspended while the station investigates a video in which her dispute with a neighbor erupts into profanity and the use of ...
All Jason Thompson wanted to do is point with pride at the diversity of the 243-member US Olympic team. As the USOC’s director of diversity and inclusion, Thompson pointed out “. . . I think full-on ...
What will they think of next? NBC o&o KXAS in Dallas-Ft. Worth is building up quite a fleet of specialized vehicles for its weather efforts. The latest addition is the “Texas Lightning” truck which ...
We ran across this classified ad and, frankly, were a bit gobsmacked. “’Fox & Friends’ is looking for a dynamic Head Writer. If you never get beat on a story, have an eye for ...
