Meredith’s WGCL reported last night that the FBI arrested a Michigan man who made nearly two dozen phone threats to CNN’s Atlanta headquarters last week, threatening to kill news network employees. Brandon Griesemer was ...
Yeah, it’s kinda wonky and turns into a pitch halfway through, but this article called “It’s Time For Journalism To Build Its Own Platforms,” really does address one of the bigger problems facing teevee ...
The lawyers might start rubbing their hands together in anticipation of this one. “The Wrap” has done an analysis of weekday cable programming and have come up with this: CNN has significantly fewer women ...
Wanda Byrd, who is black and says she’s been with TBS for 13 years, is suing the outlet and sister company CNN, claiming she is a victim of discrimination. Byrd, described in legal papers ...
Last November, NBC Sports host Bob Costas sat on a roundtable discussion in Maryland and predicted the downfall of NFL football over issues of player safety. “The cracks in the foundation are there,” Costas ...
Britain’s competition regulator has provisionally rejected 21st Century Fox’s proposed takeover of British satellite broadcaster Sky. The Competition and Markets Authority said the takeover would not be in the public interest because it would ...
The uniquely American habit of failing upward has been on full display over the past year with the latest example provided by former White House employee and twice-fired “Apprentice” contestant Omarosa Manigault. Having worn ...
Ann Curry’s warm words for today’s journalism in the recent issue of “Broadcasting and Cable” magazine were aimed at print with essentially a back of the hand to network and cable news. The former ...
What do you do when the suite of offices formerly occupied by your disgraced founder and CEO are emptied? Why you knock down the walls and turn it into a studio. Which is what ...
Ben Stanfield is the newly-minted news director for Nexstar’s WDHN in Dothan, AL. He’s been the station’s 6 &10 PM anchor for the past three years and nine months. Going forward, he’ll solo anchor ...
We like those “lifestyle” shows that have become ubiquitous on local television as much as we like those commercials for questionable medications that feature pretend anchors on a pretend news set pretending to interview ...
Watch the billable hours add up. David Goodfriend’s Locast.org isn’t a new idea. A few years back, it was Aereo’s turn in the barrel for daring to offer a cable alternative by retransmitting local ...
KVUE, the Tegna station in Austin TX wants you to notice the trouble they went to incorporating “Texas” elements into their brand-new set. Note the guitar-pick shaped desk. Marvel at the “Lone Star” frost ...
Jessica Brown was introduced Monday morning as the new co-anchor of WXIX “FOX19 NOW” weekday mornings. Brown had been weekend anchor and a reporter at the Raycom station for the past six years. Her ...
Natassia Paloma stuck it out for a year as an MMJ at Tegna’s KENS in San Antonio before she joined the end-of-year exodus of talent. As the result, she is the newest anchor at ...
SHELLEY CHILDERS returns to Texas and joins Disney’s KTRK in Houston as a General Assignment Reporter. Shelley who is a Houston Native and Graduate of Michigan State University, most recently worked for just over ...
Mrs. B wants you to remember that only two objects in motion can collide. Neither the utility pole nor the tree was moving in this example: ~The bus was southbound on Talley Road when ...
John Coleman spent more than 60 years forecasting the weather, but his singular achievement, the founding of The Weather Channel, transformed the business of teevee weather forecasting. Coleman was also the original meteorologist for ...
Count us among those who occasionally blow up at their Twitter feed and the ongoing dumbness one encounters on it – especially in the comments section. And count us among those who point to ...
Ed Martin, former Missouri Republican Party chairman, local radio host, and frequent pro-Trump cable-news pundit has been given the boot from CNN. No specific reason has been given for his firing, because it’s none ...
The government shutdown enters Day Three and the ever-helpful folks at CNN, MSNBC and, occasionally, Fox News, have deployed their “count-up” clock to remind us that Congress essentially took the weekend off and left ...
Raycom’s WMC in Memphis, TN looked to sister station WVUE in New Orleans, LA to find its new news director. Greg Phillips had been the assistant news director at the New Orleans station for ...
Spectrum News, Central North Carolina has named Brandon Sherer news director. It’s owned by Charter. Brandon will be based in Raleigh, which is convenient since he’s been the Assistant News Director for WTVD in Raleigh/Durham. ...
Ross Becker has left Entravsion-owned KMIR in Palm Springs, CA after just over a year as ND. Ross has spent most of his career as an anchor, working in Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Indianapolis, ...
Julie Zoumbaris returns to Meredith’s WNEM-TV in Saginaw/Flint, MI as General Manager. Here’s the news release. Julie worked there in a variety of sales roles for 14 years. She’s currently the Director of Sales for WRTV in ...
OK, so it’s Jeff Zucker’s people who are floating this idea. And CNN is moving quickly to shoot it down. According to those “people”, Zucker has already had some conversations with Disney about replacing ...
In a time where media is a favorite punching bag of talk radio gasbags and social media morons, it’s nice to see a news director get pro-active and dive deeper into a controversial story ...
After 30 years at KCET, reporter/anchor/executive producer Val Zavala is retiring from the Los Angeles public teevee station. Zavala, whose official title was VP of News & Public Affairs, joined KCET in 1987 after ...
Univision’s morning show “Despierta América” is minus two air personalities with the dropping of Lourdes Stephen and Orlando Segura Stephen was a 15-year Univision veteran. Both hosted specialty segments on the AM program. A ...
Weekender Amanda Porterfield moves to weekdays at Weigel Broadcasting’s WDJT in Milwaukee. Porterfield, who’s been with the station for two years, will begin co-anchoring the noon and 4 PM newscasts on January 29th. Before ...
Remember the good ol’ days a few years back, when on-air proposals were all the rage and threatened to become a sweeps period staple? We don’t miss them either. But they are in danger ...
A year ago, Larry Blunt was unceremoniously dumped as primary anchor at Sinclair’s WLOS in Asheville, NC. Over the course of 2017, Blunt got into the real estate business with his wife and by ...
WGN’s “Around Town” reporter Ana Belaval talked her way into participating in one of those satellite interviews with singer Ricky Martin, who was promoting his new movie and talking about hurricane relief in Puerto ...
Just when you thought cable news and its denizens couldn’t get any more moronic, along comes this gem. At least seven members of a cable television crew were arrested after they tried to sneak ...
Nathan Hodge, Moscow bureau chief for the “Wall Street Journal”, is joining CNN as Moscow bureau chief. The hire comes as a result of the nonstop Russia-related news, the network said In addition, CNN ...
The Redstone family’s effort to put Humpty (CBS) and Dumpty (Viacom) back together continues to move slowly forward. Shari Redstone who, along with her father Sumner, own the controlling shares in both companies, has ...
A month after NBC News dumped Washington-based senior director of news engineering and technical operations Larry Gaetano for workplace behavior issues, three staffers in the engineering area have been promoted. Jay Hurt becomes the ...
Kaila Lafferty will soon depart her anchor/MMJ at Sinclair’s KLEW in Lewiston, ID to join sister station KATV in Little Rock, AR as its new morning reporter. “Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I ...
We were happy to hear that Chris Bradley, chief meteorologist for Dispatch Broadcasting’s WBNS in Columbus, OH was released from the hospital this week. Bradley announced his released after two months from the OSU ...
February must be coming because a lot of stations out there are sprucing up their looks to be all ship-shape and Bristol fashion for the sweeps. Hearst’s WESH in Orlando has switched to a ...
And then at Meredith’s WSMV in Nashville, they rolled out NBC Arthouse’s “Look N” motion graphics package this week. The look, which originally debuted on NBC O&O stations in summer 2016, retains many of ...
Ten months after a 1,300 mile hike along the Appalachian Trail, Chrissy Funk is the newly-named creative services director of Sinclair’s WPEC in West Palm Beach. “I am honored and excited to take on ...
Oh goody, two of the cable news channels have added still more clutter to their over-crowded lower third screen. An unasked-for countdown clock ticking off the minutes and hours to a government shutdown now ...
Mekahlo Medina has been named co-anchor of the weekend editions of KNBC’s “Today in LA.” The reporter had been interim anchor for the last year. News director Todd Mokhtari promoted him last week. “Mekahlo ...
It was “Hail and Farewell” to longtime WGRZ “Daybreak” anchor John Beard Thursday morning in Buffalo. Beard heads off into the sunset after eight years in the co-anchor chair. “I fell in love with ...
And today is the day Chicago bids “Auf Wiedersehen,” “Sayonara,” and “Adieu” to chief meteorologist Jerry Taft after 40 years of calling the weather at Disney’s WLS. What, no “Goodbye?” When Taft announced his ...
José Luis Padilla, Regional VP of Azteca América’s West Coast-managed stations, is no longer with the company. Cutbacks were inevitable due to Azteca América’s recent acquisition by HC2 Network Inc. in a deal that ...
“A tough, bittersweet night for me at #KHOU11,” reporter Josh Chapin wrote on Twitter this week. “It was my last live shot for this amazing TV station. I’m headed on to a new opportunity ...
The new reigning queens of morning television paid a visit to Jimmy Fallon the other night to promote NBC coverage of the Olympics, their morning show and to share a couple of laughs. The ...
Retiring Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake, with nothing left to lose and, perhaps with an eye to his own future, let loose Wednesday on the Senate floor, delivering what can only be described as ...
Earlier this month, “The Washington Post” reported that Mr. Trump has made more than 2,000 false or misleading claims in his first 355 days in office. Last night, amid server crashes and Twitter backlashes, ...
In the teevee business, when someone says they want to “spend more time with their family”, it usually means someone higher up the food chain told them to get the hell out and don’t ...
Ann Curry, currently making the rounds promoting her new PBS program, is finally opening up about her “Today Show” experience with now-disgraced host Matt Lauer. And how. Wednesday on “CBS This Morning”, Curry dropped ...
Katie Couric returns to the Peacock Network for ONE NIGHT ONLY as co-host of the Opening Ceremony for the Pyeongchang Olympics on Feb. 9. alongside Mike Tirico Couric surprised a group of reporters during ...
“Dispassionate stoicism” aka “The Voice of God” That was how anchors used to ply their trade. Cronkite, Huntley-Brinkley, Chancellor, Jennings – all delivered the news devoid of real passion. We still vividly remember Jennings ...
Always nice to report on someone brave enough to move from the News Chair into the GM’s suite. Today it’s Kate Morris, who’s been named president and general manager of Tegna’s Idaho duopoly, KTVB ...
Zachary Kiesch says goodbye to Fox flagship WNYW in New York to head up to Columbus Circle as a New York-based correspondent for ABC News. He’s been with WNYW for the past two years. ...
ANDY DEVINE moves to Weigel Broadcasting’s WDJT in Milwaukee, WI as an on-air reporter. He comes to the market from Sinclair’s KDNL in St. Louis, MO where he spent just under two years. He’s ...
Reporter CODY LONG moves to Nexstar’s WKRG in Mobile, Al. as a bureau reporter in Pensacola, FL. He’s coming from Heartland Media’s WTVA in Tupelo, MS where he reported and anchored for two years. ...
Ben Pogue last forecast the weather for WCBD in Charleston, SC wa-a-ay back at the turn of the millennium. He spent ten years at the station and took a brief sojourn to News 14 ...
Jaimee Langton heads to Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta, GA as a producer. Most recently Langton was a producer at Sinclair’s WLOS in Asheville, NC. for the past two and a half years. Before that ...
Ginna Roe heads to Sinclair’s KUTV in Salt Lake City, UT as their first multimedia journalist. Most recently Roe was a multimedia journalist at Tegna’s WBIR in Knoxville, TN, where she started in December ...
This is the stuff the excites your average web junkie. Houston blogger Mike McGuff noticed this morning that while traffic anchor Jennifer Reyna of Graham Media’s KPRC and meteorologist Chita Johnson at Tegna’s KHOU ...
Tom Regan of Cox-owned WSB in Atlanta was out doing what dozens of reporters were doing all over the southeast – indeed, a huge swath – of the country Wednesday morning. He was out ...
Let’s look at two expressions that have the same root word but have different meanings: bullying and bully pulpit. Bullying is treating someone in an intimidating manner and even being cruel. Bully pulpit is ...
Just weeks before the 2016 election, Fox News spiked a story about an extramarital affair involving then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and porn star Stormy Daniels – real name Stephanie Clifford. The reporter, Diana ...
Jeffrey Small, a former reporter for KSDK in St.Louis and a former spokesman for the city of Ferguson, MO was charged yesterday with felony possession of methamphetamine and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia. A ...
On Day two of Jim Acosta’s new assignment as CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent, he asked the President: “Did you say that you wanted more people to come in from Norway?” “I want them ...
We get a few more of these bonehead moves and we’ll end up ignoring it if the real thing ever happens. Last week, it was Hawaii’s emergency services that scared the hell out of ...
Ever been on an extended road trip and you bring little pieces of home with you to put around the hotel room to give it more a homey feel. That’s kind of what Tegna’s ...
Kaley O’Kelley, the night-time co-anchor at CBS-owned KTVT in Dallas-Ft. Worth, is taking a medical leave of absence that will keep her off the air for up to six weeks. She went on Facebook ...
Lawmakers in at least six state governments have introduced legislation to preserve net neutrality rules, and legislators in other states are in the process of considering their own net neutrality bills. Concurrently, fifty Senate ...
Last week we told you of meteorologist Kevin Arnone’s departure from Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford-New Haven, CT. after more than three years. Today we can tell you he’s made a relatively soft landing. He’s ...
Hearst is moving reporter Steve King from its WJCL in Savannah, GA to WXII in Winston-Salem, NC He spread the news on Facebook. “It’s been a pleasure to tell the stories that matter most ...
John Gonzalez, a former photojournalist, steps into the role of vice president of technology and operations at Telemundo’s WNJU in New York. “John is highly-respected. He is an innovator, a leader and a mentor ...
Robb Ellis, now a weekend weather guesser with CBS-owned WBBM is Chicago, is making a return to the Indianapolis airwaves, but only on a temporary basis. Ellis, who once was the lead meteorologist for ...
A new reporter is set to show up at Tegna’s KSDK in St. Louis next week. Jenn Sullivan most recently was at Sinclair’s WICS in Springfield Illinois. She left the station last month in ...
Nexstar’s KXAN in Austin, TX is looking for a new lead investigative reporter after parting ways with Brian Collister Collister, who spent nearly four years with the station, had one direction – the station ...
Two years after launching the newscast, María Elvira Salazar has exited “Mega Noticiero” on Miami’s Mega TV. During her one and a half minute farewell, Salazar expressed her gratitude to the station and her ...
Stephanie Sy, a former journalist with Al-Jazeera America, recently joined up with CNN International on a freelance basis. She’ll be based in the New York bureau and will primarily anchor. She has been primarily ...
Our very best wishes to Sacramento sports anchor Gary Gelfand. Gelfand, of Tribune’s KTXL, is on medical leave after being diagnosed with leukemia, according to a station Facebook post. This is his second go-round ...
The clock is ticking on the Murdochs’ plan to take over Sky in Britain. It’s a race that’s been run for nearly a decade, but with the Disney deal looming, it’s now down to ...
A day after we told you about the launch of a new news app from Sinclair’s Circa unit, the rest of the story drops. Left unmentioned in the news of all the golly-gee-whiz hype ...
Janel Forte is the newest addition to the news team at Tegna’s KHOU in Houston. She came to Houston from Raycom’s WLOX in Biloxi, MS, where she was a weekend anchor. She’s expected to ...
After six years, Belen DeLeon is waving goodbye to Tegna’s KUSA in Denver, CO, where she was the weekend weather forecaster. She’s headed for KNBC in Los Angeles. Monday was the last day for ...
Meredith’s WALA in Mobile, AL. has a year to come up with Bob Grip’s replacement. After 33 years anchoring at the station, Grip announced to his co-workers that he is hanging it up at ...
Adam Bagni is moving across the continent, from Boston to Phoenix, to become the new weekend anchor/reporter at Tegna’s KPNX. He starts January 29th. Bagni had been freelancing at Sunbeam’s WHDH in Boston until ...
After more than 35 years at WLS in Chicago, most of them as the 6:00 producer, Bob Veasey is retiring next month. Here’s part of the note that ND Jennifer Graves sent to the newsroom. Remarkably, ...
Jillian O’Brien moves cross country from Hearst’s KSBW in Monterey, where she was the Assistant ND. She’s headed to Washington to be the EP of Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien, to whom she is NOT related.
Scott Brady returns to WJLA (Sinclair) in Washington as an executive producer. He was a producer there in the 90’s. Most recently he was the news director for KYTV in Springfield, MO before losing his job with ...
Over the weekend, the Weather Channel’s Mike Seidel did his 20,000 live shot, while covering a snowstorm in Rochester, NY for the cable outlet. “He’s a road warrior,” Mike Fomil, a producer who was ...
Starting next Monday, January 22, Carlos Zapata will be anchoring the 4 pm newscast at KXTX Telemundo Dallas, alongside Teresa González. It’s a move up from the weekend anchor slot he had been holding ...
San Diego sportscaster and radio personality C.S. Keys died in La Mesa, CA over the weekend. La Mesa police officers were called to Keys’ home Saturday morning where he was pronounced dead. The death ...
Former WVIT anchor Joanne Nesti is the newly-elected chair of the Haddam, CT. Board of Education. Nesti, who left the Hartford-New Haven station in 2006 after 25 years, had been a teacher prior to ...
“Worser” is one of those words Mrs. B hopes will never come from your mouth or from your keyboard, unless it’s someone’s family name. Worse and worst are the comparative and superlative forms of ...
The first week of NewsBlues 2.0 came off with relatively few hitches, compared to some launches we have been party to over the years. We thank those of you who took the time to ...
It’s been more than ten years since CBS and Viacom went their separate ways, much to the chagrin of many in the ruling Redstone family. Now, as consolidation on steroids is the order of ...
