For many of us he was THE voice of college football. For more than 40 years, Keith Jackson ruled the booth, presiding over ABC’s college football coverage. He retired after the 2006 Rose Bowl, ...
While cable news “entertainment” gasbags tie themselves into knots trying to decide whether to defend “modern-day presidential” vulgarisms or go along with an unconvincing denial, local teevee newsrooms are directed by Administration-friendly corporate bosses ...
Katie Couric, former on-air partner with Matt Lauer has finally offered her thoughts on the sexual misconduct allegations that brought Lauer down and out at the “Today Show.” And they are… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ “I had ...
Old anchors never die – they just find second lives and lead them. Back in the 1990’s, Tony Fama was a familiar face on the San Antonio airwaves as a KSAT anchor. For the ...
Greg McCastle arrives at Raycom Media to be the company’s new chief revenue officer, overseeing all sales aspects including digital, linear and addressable advertising. McCastle was vice president of ad sales with Raycom Sports ...
Cynné Simpson, nighttime anchor at Fox-owned WAGA in Atlanta, GA posted that she’s out of commission for a few weeks for an unspecified health issue. “This year, I’m resolving to prioritize my health above ...
Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Circa, a national digital news platform, is set to launch a video-driven, live news app this week. The innovation will allow Circa to capitalize on breaking news stories from Sinclair’s national ...
It’s a short move and a transfer within Sinclair for Sean Carroll who’s been named news director for WSTM/WTVH, a Sinclair duopoly in Syracuse NY. He’s worked at Sinclair’s WHAM in Rochester for almost eleven years, ...
Dwayne Fatherree is the new ND for Bayou City Broadcasting’s KADN, in Lafayette, LA. He’s been the Assistant ND and has held a number of jobs in both broadcast and print as you’ll learn via ...
Congratulations to ROSE ANN SHANNON who is retiring after 25 years as news director for Hearst’s KETV in Omaha, NE. She’s worked at KETV for 32 years and spent 12 years at KMTV in Omaha, worked ...
Duffie Dixon, who was let go by Tegna’s WXIA last fall after more than 13 years, is looking for a job. Her LinkedIn page contains her elevator pitch. “Quick-thinking, award winning, and detail oriented ...
And check out this video to see how Bakersfield, CA, KGET news director Michael Trihey found a car stolen from one of his photographers and confronted the perp!
Fox-owned KTTV reached across the Los Angeles streets to reel in KABC’s Elex Michaelson. Michaelson, who’s been reporting for the Disney outlet, will join Araksya Karapetyan as co-anchor on “FOX 11 Morning News.” And ...
Larry Mowry is moving off weekends at Disney’s WLS in Chicago to take on weather-guessing duties at 4 and 6 PM Monday through Friday. He’ll also do the weather segment on the 7 p.m. ...
Stephon Dingle is the new morning reporter at Hearst’s WLKY and…well, dammit, they are excited. “WLKY is excited to add another experienced journalist to our morning anchor team. Stephon’s love of news and energetic ...
The FCC is pausing its review of Sinclair’s acquisition of Tribune Media to give the Hunt Valley, MD media giant a chance to sell off what needs to be sold off to gain final ...
Tegna’s KENS is starting to fill all the holes left by a recent rash of exits at the San Antonio, TX station. Starting Tuesday, Aaron Wright, fresh off an anchor post at sister station ...
A surgical procedure to correct a recurring pain issue is going to take anchor Bob Donaldson off the air at Tribune’s WXIN (Fox 59) in Indianapolis, IN for at least five weeks. Donaldson said ...
Really? “Shithole” countries. Now if you haven’t been paying attention for the past 40 years (and evidently 62 million people either weren’t, or endorse this swill) the latest slur thrown out by this “modern-day ...
Sinclair continue to get all its ducks in a row in preparation for its acquisition of Tribune Media. Sinclair Broadcast Group and the ABC Television Network have a new agreement that extends affiliations across ...
Cheryl Wills will anchor Spectrum’s NY1’s first foray into late news when “NY1 Live At 10” is launched next Monday. “I think that this is going to be the show of record for what ...
Broadcast veteran Chris Fedele is the new general manager of Gray Broadcasting’s WTVG in Toledo, OH. The most recent assignment of Fedele’s 25 year career has been director of sales and marketing for Cordillera ...
Tegna’s proposed deal to buy Midwest Television’s KFMB suite of TV and radio stations for $325 million got the nod from the Department of Justice on Thursday The FCC still has to sign off, ...
North Dakota native Roxana Saberi is the newest London-based correspondent for CBS News. She’s been a freelance correspondent for the network, and CBS Newspath, since 2016. Saberi spent six years living and reporting in ...
Traveling down I-44 to Oklahoma City, the Lost Ogle blog reports that Tribune’s KFOR has lost its sugar daddy that covered the station’s Chopper Four nut. The Bob Moore Auto Group “respectfully” yanked their ...
Meredith’s WFSB is making a small change in its “Face the State” Sunday morning public affairs program. Going forward Dennis House will be the sole host of the program. Susan Raff will be freed ...
If you’re keeping score, the “CBS Evening News” is the only network newscast to take the program on the road and anchor from the deadly mudslides wreaking havoc in Southern California. The mudslides were ...
Telemundo wasted no time naming an anchor for its new midday newscasts. Felicidad Aveleyra got the nod and will be at the helm when “Noticias Telemundo Mediodía” debuts Monday, January 22 at 12:30 pm ...
The broadcasting career of former Oregon coach Mark Helfrich lasted all of five months, as he leaves the Fox Sports booth for the Chicago Bears. This will be his first NFL coaching job – ...
The downside of sucking up to audiences and trying to be the viewers’ BFF is that some of the knuckle-draggers in the audience think they’ve got carte blanche to dump on you. The latest ...
Waterman Broadcasting’s Ft. Myers duopoly WBBH-WZVN is cutting back on its sports coverage in newscasts and, as a result, sports director Joe Girvan was called into the office this week and told his position ...
Anchor Chris Egert of Hubbard’s KSTP in the Twin Cities continues his recovery from the amputation of part of his left leg. He says the most frustrating part of the healing is phantom and ...
Condolences to Orlando Sentinel TV Guy Hal Boedeker on the loss of his brother Tim. Tim Boedeker died Wednesday night at Boone Hospital Center in Columbia, Mo., after being diagnosed with stage 4 lymphoma. ...
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Time for another First Amendment lesson… Days after a blistering book (“Fire and Fury” by Michael Wolff) took shots at his administration, Donald Trump renewed his call for a federal libel law to punish ...
It now appears that John Dickerson will be easing out of the “Face the Nation” moderator’s chair as he settles into his new role as co-host of “CBS This Morning.” And the question arises ...
21st Century Fox is thisclose to buying 10 stations from Sinclair Broadcast Group as Sinclair barrels toward finalizing its merger with Tribune Media, according to several sources. Sinclair, already the No. 1 station group, ...
There’s a new Number One in the KCBS-KCAL news department out in LA. Assistant News Director Tara Finestone got the nod to replace Bill Dallman, who was shown the door last month. “Since joining ...
James Rosen’s departure from Fox News last month after 18 years was sudden and barely noted. Just before Christmas, Fox News announced that its chief Washington correspondent would be leaving at the end of ...
Sade Baderinwa was back at the anchor desk for Disney’s WABC in New York last night after a three-month absence. We told you back in October that Baderinwa was sidelined due to concussion omplications ...
Big Ten Network Chief Mark Silverman is getting a new job added to his portfolio – president of Fox Sports national networks. Silverman’s been the BTN boss since its launch in 2007. BTN is ...
Tegna’s WUSA launched a new morning show Wednesday, with the emphasis on comedy. Get Up DC! will air every weekday at 6a.m. and will be hosted by comedian Reese Waters and anchor Jan Jeffcoat. ...
The mystery surrounding the hiring of Katie Welshofer at Tegna’s WGRZ in Buffalo has been solved. The cable news anchor and YouTube comedienne will do some exclusive digital content and add “some entertaining content ...
Former colleague Willie Geist says he’s keeping in touch with former somebody Matt Lauer through texts mainly and he reports that Lauer, who recently observed his 60th birthday, is “as good as he can ...
We have a couple friends who got one of those Alexa deals as a Christmas present and we’re already tired of hearing about it. Too bad for us. It’s only going to get worse. ...
A small army of personnel from the various outlets of the NBC Sports Regional Channels is being dispatched to PyeongChang, South Korea for Winter Olympic coverage. They’ll augment the NBC crew covering the Winter ...
Sally-Ann Roberts has been waking up N’Awlins residents from the set of Tegna’s WWL for the past 26 years. That comes to an end February 28 when she steps down and closes out a ...
It was a quiet Tuesday night in Naples, Florida for retired sportscaster Warner Wolf when his text message app and his email started coming alive to clue him in on a show he’s never ...
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A historic is a combination of words Mrs. B rejoices over. Take this example: A historic World War II boat that survived dozens of operations — and a few near-misses — on the other ...
The thin ice that Steve Bannon has been treading since Michael Wolff’s Trump tell-all “Fire and Fury” hit the bookstores and e-readers last week finally broke yesterday. Bannon stepped down as executive chairman of ...
CNN did some shuffling in its DC Bureau yesterday, entering year two of the Trump Administration CNN senior White House correspondent and constant thorn in the Trump administration’s side, Jim Acosta, was named Chief ...
The revolving door that is Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta has claimed its latest exit…and entrance. Out is Mark Pimentel (right), GM for the past three years. In is Lyle Banks (left), a self-described turnaround ...
CBS tapped John Dickerson to fill the “CBS This Morning” vacancy left by the firing of Charlie Rose over sexual misconduct allegations starting this morning. He’ll join Norah O’Donnell and Oprah Winfrey political advisor ...
The new Number One morning team on network news is, without question, SavHoda. Or HodaSav. Or KoThrie. For the sixth straight week, the “Today Show” is the top-rated network morning show. Last week marked ...
We’re at the point where we will applaud any teevee person willing to take on viewers with a keyboard, an Internet connection and an idiot opinion/insult they feel compared to share. Like Rene Knott, ...
A year ago, amid much fanfare, the Facebook Journalism Project was launched with former network anchor-correspondent Campbell Brown at the helm. The initiative was to help smooth things over and facilitate relationships between the ...
2016’s Hurricane Matthew gave reporter Holly Bounds-Jackson a career-defining opportunity. She spent ten days in September and October of that year covering the storm’s devastation in the Low Country of South Carolina as a ...
Former Houston weekend anchor Anoushah Rasta has, according to blogger Mike McGuff, let her Twitter profile do the talking – as in “Journalist @nbcbayarea Proud UCLA graduate.” . And what it is saying ...
Weekend anchor Kris Betts is picking up extra air time at Tegna’s KVUE in Austin, TV. The station is adding a 5 PM Saturday half-hour this weekend, a week after unveiling an expanded Saturday ...
We told you a couple months back about the mysterious ailment that forced Portia Bruner off the air at Fox-owned WAGA in Atlanta, GA. She spent several months in therapy, as doctors tried to ...
Lifetime Fitness’ ban of all national cable network news stations from its fitness center’s TV screens. Lifetime, a Minneapolis-based chain of 128 fitness centers said that banning the viewing of CNN, Fox News, MSNBC ...
Saying goodbye to a colleague in a newsroom is often a perfunctory affair. People comes and go and, while the cake and refreshments are a nice break (or distraction if you are a grumpy ...
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As the FCC prepares to implement the process of flattening net neutrality rules, and several states across the country, Nebraska and California among them, consider implementing their own net neutrality regulations, it now appears ...
Here’s a handy little tool that should be a bookmark on everybody’s tablet, smartphone, laptop and PC. Monday, the Public Data Lab, a network of researchers, journalists and organizations, released a field guide for ...
So says the Pew Research Center and can you say you’re really surprised? According to Pew, just 50% of U.S. adults now get news regularly from television, down from 57% a year prior in ...
Damon Phillips has been lured away from ESPN to become General Manager of NBC Sports Washington. Phillips spent 10 years at ESPN overseeing streaming services ESPN3 and WatchESPN. Most recently, he was ESPN VP/Technical ...
A bad reaction to medication is being blamed for the weekend disappearance of Texas A&M sports reporter Courtney Roland. Roland was reported missing by her roommate Sunday evening, triggering search efforts throughout the Houston ...
Minnesota Public Radio evidently has not seen the last of fired radio host Garrison Keillor. Keillor, terminated by MPR in November after allegations of “inappropriate behavior” by a person who had worked with him, ...
Kent Crawford has been named Group Manager for three Sinclair Broadcast Group stations, providing oversight to Sinclair operations in Seattle WA, Portland OR, Salt Lake City UT and Medford OR. At the same time, ...
Meteorologist Dave Cocchiarella started working weekend mornings at Hearst’s WESH in Orlando, FL. back in December 2015. Now he’s crossed over to the other side. Hal Boedeker reports that Cocchiarella is moving into sales ...
Weekend morning meteorologist Kevin Arnone is leaving Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford-New Haven, CT. He posted the news on his official Facebook page. “This is a tough post to write to you guys but I ...
ABC-owned WPVI in Philadelphia welcomed back anchor Gray Hall this weekend, out since late October after undergoing emergency brain surgery. “I am overwhelmed with messages on Facebook and Twitter, thank you, thank you. I ...
Anchor-reporter Eli Roberts has left Bayou City’s WEVV in Evansville, IN to return to Israel and join cable newser i24, as a Tel Aviv-based correspondent. Roberts, who holds dual US-Israeli citizenship, joined the Indiana ...
Former Fox News anchor Julian Phillips is expanding his involvement in the restaurant business. Phillips, who left the cable news world ten years ago, has been working as a motivational speaker as well as ...
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In newswriting you’re always better off using short words in short sentences. It’s the most effective way to tell a story. Newswriting coach Merv Block suggested these additions to Mrs. B’s “communicate simply” series: ...
After months of hard work, I am delighted to officially launch the new and improved www.newsblues.com website this morning or as I like to call it NewsBlues 2.0. Our goal with this updated website ...
Brian Ross may be keeping his title of Chief Investigative Correspondent for ABC News, but as he returns from suspension, it will be to focus on “long-term” projects. Ros was placed on a four-week ...
Things got interesting Sunday morning when CNN’s Jake Tapper brought White House aide Stephen Miller on for an “interview.” Miller spent his airtime touting talking points and attacking CNN. “I think in the toxic ...
Robert Feder reports that Brittany Payton is crossing the street from co-host of WGN’s “Chicago’s Best” to co-host of “Good Day Chicago” on Fox-owned WFLD. She’s leaving the Tribune station to start January 15 ...
Fred D’Ambrosi has parted ways with Raycom’s Cleveland duopoly, WOIO/WUAB. Fred’s been the ND there since the spring of 2015. He’s also been an ND in Milwaukee, San Diego, and Washington, DC. Fred worked at WKYC ...
After seven years, J. Scott Howard has left Heartland Media’s KHSL/KNVN duopoly in Chico, CA The station has posted his job on its website. Howard, a Chico native, previously worked for Gray Television as ...
Congratulations to longtime ND Bill Evans who’s been promoted to General Manager for Paxton Media owned WPSD in Paducah, KY. Bill’s been there for more than 20 years, first as ND then VP/News and ...
Congratulations as well to Colin Benedict who’s been promoted to VP/News for Morgan Murphy Media, the parent company of WISC in Madison, WI, where Colin will continue to serve as news director. He’s worked ...
WTVF in Nashville has a new executive producer. Bethany Davison joins the Scripps owned station from WJXT in Jacksonville, where she held the same job. Bethany’s also worked in Tampa, Roanoke, and San Luis ...
Lynn Marshall, who once served in a number of roles for KFDX in Wichita Falls, TX, including news director, died unexpectedly this week at the age of 64. According to this obituary, he was ...
Hearst’s WMUR in Manchester, NH has named Adam Sexton as its new political director. The job becomes effective today. Sexton, an anchor and reporter with the station, will continue to work with political reporter ...
It was only last October that Gray’s KSNB in Hastings, Nebraska feted local sportscaster Ed Littler’s 25th anniversary with the station. Now, his station bio is gone and so are his official social media ...
Both former NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb and Eric Davis have lost their jobs with ESPN, the result of sex harassment allegations stemming from their time at the NFL Network. McNabb was named in a ...
Fox-owned WOFL in Orlando took to tacking on “The News Station” as part of its branding effort during the November sweeps. Graphics, video walls and script mentions were all employed, a borrowing from Sunbeam’s ...
The Telemundo Station group is planning to launch midday newscasts at several of its stations across the country later this month. New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, Chicago and Miami are among the stations ...
Weekend reporter Renee Chmiel is leaving Nexstar’s WTNH in New Haven, CT. Her last day is January 17th, a Wednesday, which serves as Monday for most weekend reporters. No idea what the future holds ...
Patrikk Simmons-Peréz has joined KVUE in Austin, TX as an MMJ. He moved to Austin from Raycom’s KXXV in Waco, TX, where he got his first on-air break as an MMJ straight out of ...
Like a rubber ball, Sofia Ojeda has bounced back to the weekend morning anchor desk at Graham Media’s KPRC in Houston, TX. It was just last October that Houston blogger Mike McGuff reported that ...
