If you’re up in the Boston area and heard the rumors about longtime WHDH anchor Christa Delcamp heading for Cox-owned WFXT, hold that thought. She’s gone from the Sunbeam station after 14 years, that’s ...
When John Dickerson left “Face the Nation” to take the reins has a co-host of the “CBS Morning News”, it left a big opening. And CNN veteran Dana Bash wanted to fill it. So ...
One line in a memo sent by Charter Communications CEO Tom Rutledge to company employees is triggering a lot of speculation among those employees and even newsies outside of Charter who have heard of ...
First CNN dumped its almost-new daily Snapchat news program “The Update” in December while other outlets, most notably NBC, appear to have entered millennial territory with measurable success. Then last week, CNN swallowed the ...
ABC News debuted their latest bloviator yesterday and we can only ask…. WHY? Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie made his maiden outing with George Stephanopoulos on “Good Morning America”, where he warned that ...
No, Tom Brady doesn’t think Boston radio host Alex Reimer should lose his job for calling Brady’s five-year-old daughter “a little pissant.” The New England Patriot quarterback was singing a somewhat conciliatory tune at ...
“Noticias Telemundo California” debuted this week at 11 PM on KCSO Telemundo 33 in Sacramento, focusing on California news from a Latino perspective. Guillermo Martinez is the solo anchor. He joined the station in ...
Just how long has one-time Fox News host Andrea Tantaros’ sexual harassment lawsuit against the company been going on? Still another amended complaint is being unveiled, this one alleging that Fox News had a ...
You might figure that a program co-hosted by Piers Morgan would go out of its way to essentially tell a segment of the audience that you hate them. Thus, “Good Morning Britain” tweeted out ...
Minneapolis anchor Chris Egert’s journey to recovery continues with the fitting of a prosthetic leg to replace the one partially amputated last month. Egert has been chronicling his recovery on Hubbard’s KSTP as well ...
For the Harold Ford, Jr aficionados among you, Tuesday was a day of celebration as Ford returned to the “Morning Joe” panel on MSNBC. Ford, who was in limbo after he was fired from ...
Block Communications’ WAND in Decatur, IL is adding two weekend AM hour-long newscasts beginning February 10th. Caryn Eisert and Meredith Juliet will co-anchor “Viewers want news and weather all the time and by bringing ...
Michael Yoshida joins Sunbeam’s WHDH in Boston, MA as a reporter. Prior to this move, he was reporter at Cox-operated WJAX in Jacksonville, FL for just over three years. The North Dakota native is ...
Conspiracy-theorizing anchor Ben Swann has been fired by Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta, four days after the station suspended him for the second time. Swann was suspended for trying to revive his Infowars-lite “Reality Check” ...
Tegna is shuffling reporter Jennifer Meckles from its KSDK in St. Louis, MO to sister station KUSA in Denver, CO. The St. Louis native had been at the hometown station for three and a ...
Those of us old enough to remember the tv series “Max Headroom” and the virtual anchor “Ananova” from the 90’s knew this day would come – eventually. Starting in April, a robot named Erica ...
Ten years after CNN Headline News was rebranded at HLN, the “Headline News” name is making its return The network is still HLN but “Headline News” is now being incorporated via bumps, graphics and ...
One of the most popular news anchors among teens is Savannah. No, not that Savannah. This Savannah is Savannah Sellers who, with Gadi Schwartz, hosts the NBC News Snapchat show “Stay Tuned.” Snapchat is ...
It’s a school night, you’re not going anywhere. So you might as well grab some popcorn and a six-pack to settle back and watch tonight’s “State of the Union” coverage. In general, coverage will ...
Tonight! One Night Only! Coming to a high-numbered cable channel on your set!! The return of Bill O’Reilly. O’Reilly will provide analysis for the cable news channel Newsmax on Pres. Trump’s first State of ...
Lis Wiehl, a former regular guest on internet personality Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News program, who then settled for a $32 million payout over sexual harassment charges she levelled against Billo, is now a legal ...
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin seems be doing a mini-apology tour for some of his reporting during the 2016 Presidential campaign. Before Trump supporters get too excited…. Toobin, appearing on comedian Larry Wilmore’s podcast, ...
Some more chin shots and body blows to the traditional teevee business’ future can be found in a recent survey of both cord cutting consumers and cable customers. Cord cutters say they are saving ...
We’ll freely admit right upfront that we are NOT Tom Brady fans. We live in Stiller country and have bled black and gold since the Bobby Layne days and offer no apologies. But we ...
Jenny Milkowski is OUT after three years as traffic anchor for “Good Day Chicago” on Fox-owned WFLD. IN is Michelle Alegria, who previously was a ten-year veteran of Disney’s WLS on its “190 North” ...
Trymaine Lee is the newest correspondent to join MSNBC. He’s been a contributor to NBC News and MSNBC Digital since 2012. Lee, based in New York, will be covering the role of race, violence, ...
Evidently heavy nighttime traffic during newscasts is a thing in Lancaster, PA, and Brittany Garzillo is now on the job to tell viewers about it. She recently joined Hearst’s WGAL to do traffic reporting ...
Jamie Ostroff joins family-owned KTBS in Shreveport, LA as Monday through Friday anchor/reporter. Jamie, who most recently worked at Nexstar’s WIAT in Birmingham, AL for 3+ years as a reporter, is a graduate of ...
Don’t you hate it when you use the wrong word or expression and don’t realize it until you see it in print later? Mrs. B hopes this lesson will save you some embarrassment like ...
It’s been a little over a year since NBC pulled its affiliation from Sunbeam’s WHDH and created its own station in the market. The Boston Globe looked at the ratings situation since that bitter ...
Don’t you think it stands to reason that if you are the favored target of a social media-wielding Tweeter-in-Chief with a highly-charged base and his own tv network to echo him, that you might ...
LOOK! Up in the air. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Mike Lacett, sports anchor for Block Communications’ WRDB in Louisville, KY. and occasional pro wrestler Lacett has a long-simmering ...
Atlanta’s favorite conspiracy-theorizing anchor has been suspended (again) by his all-too-tolerant station. Ben Swann, evening anchor at Meredith’s WGCL, was yanked off the air hours after he tried to revive his “investigative” site ironically ...
Bloviator/contributor/commentator/gasbag (pick one) Ryan Lizza is back on CNN after a 7-week sojourn to sexual harassment limbo. CNN banished Lizza from the airwaves after Lizza was terminated in December by his principal employer “The ...
Harold Ford has evidently settled his legal action against Morgan Stanley for terminating him over a workplace harassment charge that was ultimately never proven, but MSNBC is on the fence about his future status ...
Just after the New Year began, we reported on the sudden and unexpected death of former Cleveland and Charlotte teevee reporter Kathleen Cochran DiPiero – which was unexplained at the time. Now we know ...
Speaking of the “Tin Hat” demographic, speculation a-plenty over the weekend with the brief disappearance of conspiracy theorist Sean Hannity’s Twitter account. The account of the Fox conspiracy theorist went dark around 10 PM ...
Mark Durham has left Quincy owned WAOW in Wausau, WI after two years as news director. He spent the previous three years as an ND in Beckley, WV. Mark’s also worked in Seattle, Denver, Miami, ...
Steve Colwell joins Nexstar’s WDTN in Dayton, OH as dayside executive producer. He’s spent the last 15 years working for Cox-owned WPXI in Pittsburgh in a variety of roles.
Rhonda Kitchens returns to Raycom’s KPLC in Lake Charles, LA, as morning assistant news director. She has ten years experience in the Lake Charles market and has been working most recently in Beaumont as ...
Starting February 1, Taniya Wright will join the weekday morning and midday anchor team at Nexstar’s WNCN in Raleigh, NC. She’s coming from Scripps’ KJRH in Tulsa, OK. The news director has been eyeing ...
WNBC will be getting its new executive producer of weather from the Big Sky state. Mike Rawlins is departing his chief meteorologist post at Cordillera’s KRTV in Great Falls, Montana to move to 30 ...
After six and a half years, morning anchor Meredith Wood said goodbye Friday to Heartland Media’s WAAY in Huntsville, AL. “It’s going to be hard to say goodbye to this place…almost 7 years is ...
Newton’s Third Law is regularly demonstrated in the teevee business. A week ago, we reported to you that Amanda Porterfield was promoted at Weigel’s WDJT in Milwaukee, WI to the weekday noon and 4 ...
Lightning rod anchor Jemele Hill is leaving the co-anchor slot on ESPN’s Sportscenter at 6 pm. Hill, who earned a reported salary of $1 million as a host of “SportsCenter,” is joining The Undefeated, ...
Andrew Deschapelles has been named president and general manager of Telemundo’s KTAZ in Phoenix and KHRR in Tucson. He’s been doing the job on an interim basis for several months, replacing Araceli de León ...
The odyssey of meteorologist Kevin Arnone continues. Three weeks ago, the Connecticut native Facebooked his departure from Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford-New Haven, Ct. A week later, he trumpeted (on Facebook, natch) his own weather ...
It happens north of the border too. Paul Bliss, a prominent anchor and political reporter on CTV has been suspended after harassment claims were made against him in a blog post. In that post, ...
When you hear someone talking about selling off assets to concentrate on the “core business”, it’s an open question as to whether the core business will actually be helped. So it goes with E.W. ...
Another stumble for Vice Media, this time in Canada. Around 20 employees, or 10 percent of the local workforce, were laid off as the Viceland channel is set to go off the air in ...
CNN is finding out the hard way that YouTube celebrity does not a successful enterprise make. In an epic fail, CNN is shuttering Beme — the video company it acquired from and hoped to ...
The NBC O&O division is ponying up big-time to send 31 staffers to cover the Winter Olympics in South Korea. We can only ask why. Sure, if you’ve got a local athlete in the ...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo followed through on his criticism of the Pai FCC’s dismantling of net neutrality rules by signing an executive order that mandates net neutrality in state contracts for broadband service. ...
CNBC’s Joe Kernen is in Davos, Switzerland this week covering the World Economic Forum meeting. Yesterday afternoon he sat down with President Trump for a rare – we really mean RARE – interview. It ...
The suits at Tribune’s WGN knew five months ago that anchor Mark Suppelsa was putting away his anchor suit and IFB at the end of the year. And still, no replacement in sight. And ...
Reality intruded on the Fox News primetime alternate universe Thursday night, but Sean Hannity resisted as much as he could. Evidently the mainstream press DOES get it right, much to his chagrin. Matt Fuller ...
After six years at ESPN, and with the future somewhat up in the air, Lindsay Czarniak is coming back to NBC-owned WRC in Washington, DC. For a week. Czarniak will be part of the ...
While Tamron Hall was still at NBC, before her “Today” hour was yanked from her and handed to the rapidly disappearing Megyn Kelly, she was simultaneously hosting a program at Investigation Discovery called “Deadline ...
One day after a Michigan knucklehead was arrested for making repeated death threats to the CNN Atlanta switchboard, some nobody got kicked out of the CNN Center for wearing a “CNN Fake News” t-shirt. ...
Brenda Cantú has been named weather anchor at Telemundo’s KTLM in Harlingen, TX. Previously she did the weather for two years at KNVO McAllen, Texas. She got her certificate at Mississippi State.
Chad Darnell, assistant chief photographer, at Paxton’s WPSD in Paducah, KY. is a guy who’s got his priorities in order. Just after Darnell dropped his daughter off at Marshall County High School Wednesday morning ...
Miranda Christian is now a news reporter/MMJ at Scripps’ WPTV in West Palm Beach, FL Prior to making the move to West Palm Beach, Miranda was an MMJ at sister station KMTV in Omaha, NE. ...
Bob Trihy is the new weekend meteorologist at Block Communications’ WAND in Decatur, IL. Bob is an AMS Meteorologist and has more than 20 years of experience working in the industry, most recently at KSPR ...
Antoinette DelBel joins Sinclair’s WHAM news team in Rochester, NY as a news reporter/MMJ. She previously worked in television at Time Warner Cable in Buffalo and Long Island News. Most recently, she worked as a ...
Jim Bernard, who retired in 2012 as a meteorologist for KIEM in Eureka, CA., died this week at his home. Bernard stepped down as the result of a battle with ataxia, a neurological disease ...
Glenn Selig, who spent ten years as an investigative reporter for WTVT in Tampa, FL, was one of 22 people killed during a siege at a Kabul, Afghanistan Intercontinental Hotel over the weekend. Selig ...
After a remarkable hearing that featured gut-wrenching statements from 156 of his accusers and an apology that the judge said rang hollow, former Olympic gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced Wednesday to 40 to ...
We were just thinking the other day that there were just not enough gasbags holding forth on those CNN shoutfests and….lo and behold… Steve Cortes is joining CNN as a contributor and political commentator. ...
Billy Bush, the mike-holding stooge in the famed “Access Hollywood” tape that showed just how far our national standards have cratered, has his new bliss and he’s planning to follow it. He’s got a ...
We guess we won’t feel sorry for Bob Costas’ omission from NBC’s Super Bowl coverage next month. Being taken off the team is all good with Costas. “Not only do I not have a ...
Turner, the parent company of CNN, will take along the outlet when it moves into new European headquarters in London next January. The change will mean a new purpose-built CNN London newsroom and studio ...
We’ll endorse the notion of hiring Peyton Manning to replace Jon Gruden in the “Monday Night Football” booth on ESPN. The onetime must-see game has become almost an afterthought in recent years, with the ...
In the case of CNN contributor Mary Katherine Ham, she was sitting on set doing a segment on “The Lead With Jake Tapper” when a spotlight went going….going…gone. Tapper, evidently a whiz at quick ...
After five years as the primary anchor for Nexstar’s WNCN in Raleigh-Durham, NC, Sean Maroney is exiting the teevee business for the nonprofit world. He’s taking a position as a major gifts officer with ...
Proving that there is life even after you’re voluntarily retired from teevee news, may we present Dave Ward, who retired last year after hitting the half-century mark with Disney’s KTRK in Houston. Ward has ...
Joe Musso is the new sports reporter at CBS-owned KOVR in Sacramento, CA. He debuted last week. Musso spent the last two years as a as a sports reporter, anchor and producer with KOLN/KGIN, ...
Just in time for the February book, Tribune’s San Diego outlet KSWB inevitably took the wrapping off its new set yesterday. It’s “anchoring in the round” as it were and as many as six ...
Just in time for the February book, Cordillera’s KSBY in San Luis Obispo, CA has executed a fancy anchor shuffle. Long-time anchor (since 1990) and Central Coast native Richard Gearhart will co-anchor KSBY News ...
Noel Ramos has been promoted to the assistant news director position at Telemundo’s KTMD in Houston. His promotion came on the same day the station launched it’s 11 AM newscast. Ramos started out as ...
Jessica Rodríguez has been named to the newly-created role of President and Chief Operating Officer of UCI Networks, effective immediately. The corporate-speak for the move goes thus “…setting up a new organizational structure under ...
Still having some trouble understanding WHY the dismantling of net neutrality rules is a terrible idea? Burger King tries to explain in a fascinating manner. Even FCC Chair/industry lobbyist Ajit Pai might understand. Watch ...
Mrs. B has noticed some confusion with “then” and “than.” Then is an adverb. It means “at that time” or “next.” Than is a conjunction used to introduce the second element of a comparison. ...
Steve Capus suddenly stepped down yesterday as executive producer of the “CBS Evening News,” a job he held for the past four years. In his place, Mosheh Oinounou was swiftly named EP of the ...
Today we know more about the Michigan bozo arrested by the FBI last week for calling in repeated threats to CNN’s Atlanta headquarters. Brandon Griesemer is a 19-year-old part-time grocery worker who lives in ...
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is facing federal charges after KAKE news anchor Deb Farris told local police he was sending her sensitive law enforcement material and text messages that were sexual ...
Muhamad Hassan, a veteran photographer for CBS-owned WFOR in Miami, has settled his lawsuit which alleged the station demoted him for fat-shaming investigative reporter Jim DeFede. The pre-Christmas settlement is just now coming to ...
New Jersey Senators Cory Booker and Robert Menendez are going after Secaucus-based and Murdoch-owned WWOR, charging the station with failing to live up to its mandate to serve its city and state of license. ...
Once Bret Baier signs off the 6 PM weekday newscast of Fox News, strange things happen. For the next four hours, you, in all honesty, can’t call anything you see “journalism”….or even the more ...
Montana’s Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock signed an executive order that requires all internet service providers with state contracts to commit to net neutrality, the principle that all traffic on the internet should be treated ...
Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz is coming out with a book whose central these is that press misjudgment has upended coverage of the White House and boosted the president’s agenda Donald Trump is staking ...
For the weekend ending January 19, “Good Morning America” won the overall viewership. But “Today” is still very much in the game, winning the coveted 25-54 demo. “Good Morning America” attracted an average of ...
It is amazing how correct punctuation, properly placed, can change the meaning of a message. For instance: In covering the aftermath of the government shutdown, CNN’s Jim Acosta tweeted the following Tuesday Trump world ...
“The Van Jones Show” debuts on CNN this Saturday, January 27th in its regular, twice-monthly slot and the network is going all out to get us to watch. And if you believe the quotes ...
Two teevee journalists working on a six-part documentary series called “Death Row Chronicles” for BET are fighting a subpoena ordering them to testify before a grand jury in the murder case of Death Row ...
It could have been ugly for a news crew from KOMO in Seattle, WA the other night. They were on their way back from an assignment when a bonehead driving a Ford Ranger came ...
Jason Abbruzzese is joining the NBC News Digital team as senior tech editor to oversee coverage of the tech and media business and its impact on daily lifes. Abbruzzese comes from Mashable where he ...
Meredith’s WFSB in Hartford, CT has brought Samaia Hernandez back to the market from sister station WNEM in Saginaw, MI. Hernandez previously worked at WNPR and the “Hartford Courant” in the market.
Vi Nguyen moves to CBS-owned WBBM in Chicago where she will be a general assignment reporter. Vi worked at Nexstar’s WISH in Indianapolis for the past three years. Previously, she interned at WGN and ...
