A bubbling question among longtime KDKA viewers in Pittsburgh, PA is the whereabouts of feature reporter Dave Crawley. Crawley, who is approaching a 30 year anniversary with the station this year, hasn’t been on ...
10 former Medill School of Journalism students released an open letter this week accusing Prof. Alec Klein, director of the Medill Justice Project, of “harassing” and “predatory” behavior. Employees also signed the letter, which ...
Five journalism organizations across the country received a total of $2.6 million in grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to help strengthen quality journalism and innovation in local television newsrooms ...
Lauren Hope was a reporter for several Virginia teevee stations between 2008 and 2014 before her battle with depression overcame her. As a result, she quit what she called her “dream job” at WAVY ...
Twitter finally came up in the black revenue-wise in 2017’s fourth quarter, posting a profit of $91 million. That’s still not close to overcoming the $167 million the company lost in the same quarter ...
Linsey Davis was inspired to write her just-released children’s book by her three-year-old son Ayden. Davis, a ten year veteran at ABC News, wrote “The World Is Awake: A Celebration of Everyday Blessings” which ...
Shon Gables has been tapped as the replacement for the late Amanda Davis on the “CBS46 Morning News.” She’ll join Gurvir Dhindsa on March 5th as the new, permanent co-hosts of the AM program ...
Well-traveled anchor Mike Barz is traveling again, this time from Tribune’s Denver, CO duopoly KDVR-KWGN to Nexstar’s WISH in Indianapolis. He’d been in Denver just shy of three years. In Indianapolis, he will co-anchor ...
Even viewers know the importance of sweeps to local teevee news, so when the 10 PM anchors at Graham Media’s KSAT in San Antonio were MIA for the first week of the February book, ...
You have to wonder whatever made the folks at the Newseum imagine that, in a city overflowing with FREE attractions, people would pay $25 to see Al Neuharth’s typewriter? For ten years, the Newseum, ...
“Thank you for your service. Now get out.” Yeah, the Telemundo farewell to veteran network correspondent Angie Sandoval may well have gone something like that. After all, isn’t that the level of civility you ...
If you spent last night in the alternative universe of the Fox “News” primetime entertainment block, you didn’t hear that White House aide Rob Porter resigned following gruesome allegations that he physically abused two ...
Former VA. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli now functions as one of the army of bloviating talking heads on CNN. As such, he is officially a legal analyst, so his value to CNN is ostensibly ...
Sinclair execs were no doubt happy to hear that Tribune Media followed their lead and re-upped with Nielsen. It will save time once the FCC rubber stamp is put to the Sinclair-Tribune merger. “Continuing ...
Speaking of the fine folks from Hunt Valley, MD, as the inevitable approval from the Department of Justice and the FCC draws closer, keep an eye on just what stations the combined Sinclair-Tribune broadcasting ...
Former CNN marketing and publicity exec DeWayne Walker saw his $50 million lawsuit get tossed by a federal judge Wednesday. The judge granted a summary judgement in dismissing the case. Walker sued CNN, Time ...
It was Howard calling out “Help Me” this week when WPIX consumer reporter Howard Thompson tried to confront a Bronx mechanic on behalf of a viewer with a gripe. Jose Lebron-Pimentel, 36, came out ...
As we might expect, the desire of a certain resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to have a military parade organized for his entertainment was met with no small amount of derision throughout the country, ...
When 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has lost a third of the kurvy kouch’s inhabitants, it might be time to re-think the idea. Not that Brian Kilmeade went off the ledge in his skepticism about that ...
Mrs. B continues the series on some of the most common mispronunciations. jewelry: JEW-el-ry, not JEW-el-er-y (It has just three syllables not four.) library: LI-brar-ee, not LI-berry (Pronounce that “r” before the “a.”) miniature: ...
Could we be returning to the 19th century form of media? NBC’s Chuck Todd thinks so and he makes a good case for it. What was that 19th century form? Those were the days ...
It sounds good in theory, but we’ll wait to see how Hearst’s full-throated commitment to increased political coverage in the 2018 cycle actually plays out. Hearst says it plans on “significantly expanding and updating ...
Perhaps in anticipation of a recoupling with CBS, Viacom is slimming down. But, we’re told, not TOO much. The pink slips are not supposed to exceed triple digits, or less than 1% of Viacom’s ...
This does not bode at all well for the future of local television – or network teevee for that matter. One of Madison Avenue’s most visionary futurists predicts the ability of advertising to actually ...
The NBC-TELEMUNDO duopoly in Los Angeles is showing its newsgathering muscle in a new promo. 2 choppers, 58 news vans. A small army of reporters and photographers. KNBC and KVEA want you to know ...
So how many of Chris Cuomo’s CNN primetime specials did you watch last month? Thought so. Too late for you. The limited run, which focused on the first year of the Trump Administration, ended ...
After three and a half years, anchor Krista Miller is pulling up her Indiana roots at Quincy Media’s WPTA in Ft. Wayne and heading for Wichita. She’s accepted a weekend anchor-reporter job at Lockwood ...
Teri Monahan is the new general manager at Marquee Broadcasting’s WMDT and co-owned Azteca America affil WGDV in Salisbury, Maryland. She moves up from local and national sales manager. Monahan, who succeeds the retired ...
Sports director David DeGuzman is stepping down and away from his job at Gray’s WHSV in Harrisonburg, VA after four years. He says it’s his own call. “This was a decision made entirely on ...
Greta Van Susteren, who’s hit for the circuit in the cable news world, having worked at Fox News, CNN and MSNBC, is taking a bit of a hook with her next job. She’s getting ...
For the third time in less than a year and a half, personnel at Univision were pink-slipped. Among those laid off in the news division were Hena Cuevas, who’d been with “Aquí y Ahora” ...
Don’t you love it when you find yourself a pawn in the $$$ games that broadcast groups and cable/satellite providers play come retrains negotiation time? This time it’s Charter Communications and Northwest Communications. 11 ...
A couple of weeks back we told you about the ICE agent out in Wichita, KS. who tried to ingratiate himself with KAKE news anchor Deb Farris by sending her sensitive law enforcement material. ...
Send an emerald, or maybe two, to reporter Kevin Hogan at Meredith’s WFSB in Hartford, CT. He’s marking 20 years with the station. The Connecticut native is the New London bureau chief for the ...
There will be no February book results for WRAL chief meteorologist Greg Fishel. Not that he is subject to them after nearly 37 years at the Capitol Broadcast station in Raleigh-Durham, NC, almost 30 ...
We’ll just leave this right here for the conspiracy theorists to pounce on.. Michael V. Walter, the government scientist who runs BioWatch for the Department of Homeland Security, accidentally left a packet of documents ...
We’re still trying to figure out exactly what happened to trigger the immediate resignation of James Parker as news director at Nexstar’s KCAU in Sioux City IA. What we do know is that we ...
“KARK News at 4” made its debut Monday on the Little Rock Nexstar station. Ashley Ketz anchors the hour which we are assured is “news-centered” focusing on “content and news stories that matter… “We’ll ...
The ever-changing cast at Tegna’s KENS in San Antonio, TX continues to change. The latest departure is traffic anchor Chelsey Hernandez, who’s been with the station for three years. In March, she heads to ...
It has the scent of sweeps stunt on it, but at the same time, we can’t help but be drawn to the search for her birth mom by weekend sports anchor Jessica Morrey of ...
During the 2016 election, the Columbia Journalism Review dubbed Harry Enten as the “Whiz Kid” of political reporting’s next generation. The “Whiz Kid” is moving from his senior political reporter status at the ESPN-owned ...
Yes, competing anchors at CNN and Fox News do have the ability to act civilly toward each other. Fox anchor Bret Baier and CNN host Jake Tapper made a friendly Super Bowl bet, with ...
A onetime special assistant to former FBI Director James Comey, is leaving the bureau and joining CNN as a law enforcement analyst. Josh Campbell says he’s turned in his badge so he can publicly ...
Yes, Dan Patrick did talk briefly with ESPN about a possible return to the mothership in Bristol. But that was just days before former ESPN president John Skipper did his abrupt disappearing act on ...
When sweeps time rolls around, it’s infectious. Even other media can’t help but get involved in some way. Exhibit A is this informal and oh-so-unscientific poll asking us to vote on our favorite Pittsburgh ...
David Schuman moves to Weigel’s WDJT in Milwaukee WI. as a general assignment reporter. Schuman most recently worked at Scripps’ KTNV in Las Vegas, NV as a reporter. Schuman, who, believe it or not ...
Veteran KWTV anchor Kelly Ogle will be watching the sweeps period unfold from the sidelines this time around. The main man at Griffin Communications’ Oklahoma City, OK outlet fell (literally) victim to one of ...
This bit of Kentucky sports history will live on forever, thanks to the Internet. But the man who chased just-fired Kentucky basketball coach Billy Gillispie down a hall in pursuit of a sound bite ...
Tulsa, OK sports reporter/anchor Harold Kuntz was ready to do his segment on Griffin Communications’ KOTV 9 p.m. newscast on sister station KQCW when he learned his beloved Philadelphia Eagles had won the Super ...
Let’s get started on another list of often-mispronounced words. dilate: DIE-LATE, not DIE-uh-LATE (It’s a two-syllable word.) drowned: DROWND, not DROWNDED (It’s a one-syllable word.) foliage: FO-lee-udge, not FO-ludge (There are three syllables.) Halloween: ...
Medialine, one of the leading job search engines in the broadcast industry, is teaming up with Reel Media Group to expand its offerings to job seekers. The site, which will rebrand as ‘Medialine powered ...
Behind-the-scenes staffers on WNYW’s highly rated “Good Day New York” are being asked to take a pay cut of up to $7,000 – each – to settle a long-running contract dispute. Segment producers are ...
George Mallet’s second sojourn on Milwaukee lasted less than two years. Mallet confirmed over the weekend that he was invited to pursue other opportunities by management at Scripps’ WTMJ at the end of the ...
Grendel Levy is the new news director for Nexstar’s WOWK in Charleston-Huntington, WV. She’s spent the last four years as ND for Scripps’ KIVI in Boise (and two years there before that as an EP). Which ...
Eric Maze is leaving Scripps’ WFTX in Ft. Myers, FL to return to Missouri to take a job media as a media specialist for the University of Missouri’s Hospital System. Eric’s been ND at WFTX for ...
It turns out that Randall Margraves will avoid being charged for his startling courtroom behavior Friday. News cameras and cell phones were at the ready in Charlotte, MI when Margraves, the father of three ...
The tech whizzes from Silicon Valley have, by now established that every time they dip their toe into the waters of actual news, they stub themselves on a rock. YouTube is the latest with ...
The unlikely-named Krystal Ball is joining “The Hill” where she will be a co-host of a new morning show that will launch later this year as the publication expands into digital video, further blurring ...
Another teevee newser is deciding to part ways with the business. This time it’s Austin Bowling, chief meteorologist at Raycom’s KSWO in Lawton, OK, where he’s been since 2010. His Facebook announcement evidenced some ...
Any doubts as to the most favored cable channel in the White House and in certain Capitol Hill quarters were erased when some of the folks at Fox News had a crack at it ...
If you’ve spent any time in teevee news and paid any kind of attention, you know the name Jim Willi. Announcer, news director, general manager and, for the last 28 years, an owner with ...
In answer to the question, “What has happened to reporter Mugo Odigwe on KMOV in St. Louis, MO?”, the answer is After three years at the station, the Nigerian-born reporter left the station at ...
After 15 years of being the first and only host of ESPN’s “NFL Live”, Trey Wingo got a royal send-off from colleagues, both present and former, on his last show. Former “NFL Live” analysts ...
Alexa Conomos wasted no time jumping into her new vocation. Just a month after waving goodbye to the anchor desk at Tegna’s WFAA in Dallas, she took her Facebook following on a guided tour ...
In other real estate news, it’s apparently none of your damned business who the buyer is or what they are paying for it, but Tegna’s KHOU announced that it is selling the historic Allen ...
If you watched the Super Bowl last night strictly for the commercials, you might have noticed a couple of familiar faces in the 90-second Alexa commercial. So who was the news anchor? Kirk Hawkins, ...
That seems to be the direction that an age discrimination lawsuit by three former staffers of Meredith’s WSMV in Nashville is taking. In a recent court filing, Meredith claimed that one of the three, ...
Allow us to second the motion of KARK news director Austin Kellerman in Little Rock, AR. Time for a local radio station to dump its moronic (our word) Babe Bracket, an embarrassingly-dated attempt at ...
Special committees are being formed. Advisors are being hired. CBS and Viacom are taking those initial steps to reunification. The two companies, which were one until 2006, are being pushed to reunite by the ...
A show of hands, please. Who is actually surprised that the President is taking a pass on a Super Bowl interview? And who is actually upset that there won’t be one to ignore. It ...
Michael Wolff may have the blockbuster book-selling thing going for him right now, but his endless promotional tour for his Trump-bashing book “Fire and Fury” is taking something of a toll on him. His ...
WMAQ sports anchor Mike Adamle, dealing with the effects of concussion-related CTE, went on “Megyn Kelly Today” Thursday morning to announce that he and his wife are launching a new foundation dedicated to being ...
The Telemundo Station Group is rolling out updated station apps and websites that feature “Telemundo En Vivo” (Telemundo Live), a new TV Everywhere experience for digital and mobile app users. “Our new Telemundo En ...
CNN’s recent practice of getting the hell out of digital initiatives if they don’t prove quickly profitable continues with the gutting of CNN Moneystream. A handful of tech staffers were shown the door Thursday. ...
Last year, Sinclair Broadcast Group with toying with the idea of dumping Nielsen in favor of comScore. Scratch that. Sinclair signed a new multi-year deal with Nielsen, the details of which are none of ...
Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews is newly-anointed as executive vice-president of CBS News. She’s continue to oversee day-to-day operations of the division. “Ingrid is an extraordinary journalist and newsroom executive who is passionate about the integrity of ...
The second chief meteorologist in the history of NBC-owned KXAS (formerly WBAP) in Dallas-Ft. Worth is now the station’s senior meteorologist. David Finfrock went to part-time status as of February 1st at the station ...
The former Miss Connecticut (2016) Alyssa Rae Taglia has officially had the morning traffic clicker handed to her at Nexstar’s WTNH in New Haven, CT by longtime News 8 personality Terresa Dufour. Dufour is ...
Najahe Sherman joins Heartland Media’s WAAY in Huntsville, AL as a weekday morning anchor For the past five years she worked as a reporter at Nexstar’s WKRN in Nashville, TN. Prior to that, she ...
Niala Charles becomes a news reporter at Sinclair’s WPEC in West Palm Beach, FL. Previously, Charles spent three years as an MMJ/anchor at Quincy Media’s KTTC in Rochester, MN after graduation from Pepperdine University..
Following up on our story yesterday about Charter Communications’ intent to expand its Spectrum News Channel operations into at least five more markets, a source directed us to a job posting already up for ...
The exit of longtime anchor Demetria Kalodimos from Meredith’s WSMV was a messy one and the mess still isn’t cleaned up. The “Nashville Scene” has some more details of how the station coldly informed ...
Now that he is relieved of the burden of having to include facts and logic in his reporting, recently-axed WGCL anchor Ben Swann is reviving his “Reality Check” “investigative” piece on his ironically-named Truth ...
In the absence of the departed Sarah Lucero, Tegna’s KENS in San Antonio is turning to a familiar face to carry the 10 PM newscast through the February book. Deborah Knapp will add the ...
Starting this weekend, you might think you stepped into a time machine if you watch “Good Morning America.” Sam Champion returns to the “GMA” weather center as Ginger Zee starts her maternity leave and ...
Will Ripley, last seen on stateside local television in 2014 on Denver’s KUSA, is moving from CNN International’s Tokyo bureau to the company’s Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong. Since 2014, Ripley has traveled and ...
In what alternate universe does Tom DeLay argue AGAINST approval of the merger of Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media? In this, the universe where “alternative facts” are a thing. The former Republican House ...
OK, fair’s fair. And this characterization of Bill O’Reilly’s return to cable tv Tuesday night is anything but. While you might want to indulge in a bit of schadenfreude over the terrible numbers, O’Reilly’s ...
Nate Rodgers has joined Fox-owned WWOR in New Jersey as a reporter for “Chasing News with Bill Spadea.” Wouldn’t you know, he’s a perfect fit. “Nate is a perfect fit for the ‘Chasing’ team, ...
Our guess is that the reason FCC commissioner Brendan Carr took his argument for net neutrality’s demise to a Belgian conference is to reduce his chances for being laughed out of the room. Laughed ...
William Ballard drives down Myrtle Beach’s Grand Strand to take on the general manager duties at Sinclair’s WPDE in South Carolina. He will also be responsible for the oversight of Sinclair’s provision of services ...
A year after she stepped away from the anchor desk at Nexstar’s WKRN in Nashville, veteran anchor/producer/reporter Anne Holt decided the time was right to dress down her bosses over the lack of diversity ...
Ever wonder how to do two newscasts that air at the same time every night in two different teevee markets? Ask Rita Verreos down in Lubbock Texas. She recently started anchoring the weeknight 10 ...
Yesterday was exit interview day for weekend anchor/reporter Heather Waliga at Disney’s WTVD in Raleigh-Durham, NC She announced via Facebook over the weekend that she was out the door – destination unknown except that ...
Mrs. B wants to spend her time with you for the next few lessons on mispronunciations she wants you not to make. The word mispronunciation does not have “pronounce” in it, so please pronounce ...
Mallory Hagan, evening anchor at Nexstar’s WRBL in Columbus, GA is considering giving up the anchor chair for a political career. And her station is still trying to figure out how the hell to ...
