Telemundo’s KTMO in Amarillo, TX is short one meteorologist following the quick departure of Lluvia Vidana. She made her exit with a social media announcement: “Yesterday was my last day as a host on ...
We don’t know why we seem to assume something miraculous happens when someone departs the news business for whatever reason and actually turns up doing something productive in the afterlife. But that’s the self-involved ...
The Kansas City Chiefs gave up 19 unanswered second-half points to the Tennessee Titans and lost the AFC Wild Card game 22-21. But evidently the folks at Hearst KMBC in Kansas City, MO, just ...
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Mega-mug-wielding Ajit Pai, industry lobbyist and FCC chair, has cancelled his appearance at next week’s CES tech trade show in Las Vegas. Pai was scheduled to sit down Tuesday with the head of the ...
Can you hear the brainstorming session in venture capitalist Peter Thiel’s office? “Hey, I know, let’s put together a “conservative” cable news network. One that makes Fox look left wing. And hey, somebody get ...
Brad Ramsey will succeed Mike Devlin as president and general manager at Tegna’s WFAA in Dallas. It’s a return to Tegna for Ramsey, who previously was vice president of sales for the company and ...
Joe Trippi, late of Fox News after ending a seven-year-run, is the latest yakker to sign on with CNN. He happily tweeted about it over the holidays. Yes, he will be a political commentator, ...
Colleen King and Tina Urbanski, two longtime producers at MSNBC, are becoming executive producers for the cabler. King is moving from senior producer of “The 11th Hour” to executive producer with former 11th Hour ...
We’ll lead a round of applause for Alix Kendall, anchor at Fox-owned KMSP in Minneapolis-St. Paul, recipient of a $33,000 check from the city of St. Paul. Four years ago, she filed suit against ...
Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy has hired Jason Kopp as executive producer and David Winstrom as broadcast news manager for his cable/online news operation. Both are former Fox News executives, Winstrom as director of Fox ...
You gotta love those anomalous weather events that tempt reporters into stunts like frying an egg on the sidewalk on a hot August day, doing a standup outside in a hurricane so they can ...
Two new staffers join Tegna’s KSDK in the coming weeks. Next Monday, Michigan native Brittney Verner will join the news staff after having worked at a Waco, Texas, television station. On January 22, Chris ...
Colleen Quigley is making a move to Nexstar’s WNCN in Raleigh, NC as a reporter/MMJ. She reported for Raycom’s WWBT in Richmond, VA since 2015 before heading to Raleigh.
Kasey Cunningham joins Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL in Raleigh, NC as a reporter/MMJ. She’s coming from Raycom’s WAVE in Louisville where she worked as an MMJ for just under three years. Previously she worked at ...
What are we to make of the sudden departure of WOAI Chief Meteorologist Albert Flores down in San Antonio? After 40 years in the business, no on-air reminiscences, no extended farewell tour…. No cake! ...
The staff of Raycom’s WBRC in Birmingham, Al is mourning the passing of its longtime anchor Bill Bolen. Bolen, who retired in 2010, first broke into television in 1965 at WBMG, the Birmingham CBS ...
As we prepare to move things over to the new NewsBlues platform (same web address, different look), our developers will be doing some testing and troubleshooting over the weekend. This may result in some ...
“The Circus” will be coming back to town come April, but minus one of its founding and most recognizable ringmasters. When the Showtime political talker comes back in April, Mark Halperin will be gone. ...
CBS News political director Steve Chaggaris has reportedly been fired two weeks after allegations of “inappropriate behavior” surfaced. Chaggaris joined CBS in 1999 as an associate producer in the political unit, left briefly in ...
CNN has debuted a refreshed “Capitol View” studio in its Washington, D.C. bureau. The space, which has seen sporadic usage over the years primarily as a flashcam studio, was completely gutted for the upgrade, ...
Azteca America is shifting stations in the LA Market, moving to Spanish-language programmer KJLA. Southern California License, LLC, which had carried the Azteca programming on KAZA there sold that spectrum for $91 million in ...
NBC10 reporter Natasha Verma broke an extended silence to announce that the reason for he absence from the airwaves at the Boston NBC-owned station was that she’s been battling cancer. “Five months ago, I ...
Tegna’s WGRZ is evidently going for something a bit different, with the hiring of Kate Welshofer, a cable news anchor and YouTube comedienne with Western New York roots But what that “different” might be, ...
In Tampa, veteran news director Bill Berra has announced his retirement from Nexstar’s WFLA at the end of March. Here’s his note to the staff along with the note from his GM, Skip Valet. ...
Patrick McCreery has been promoted to Executive VP of Operations for the Meredith Station group, effective immediately. Here’s the note from President Paul Karpowicz in which he explains that all GMs will report to ...
Good news for Steve Barrett fans down in the Orlando market, He tells the TV Guy he’s back to stay – with a three year contract and everything. Barrett put in nearly 13 years ...
After five years at Tegna’s KING in Seattle, Heather Graf is moving to Sinclair’s WJLA in Washington DC as a reporter. The Charleston, SC native previously worked at WTVF in Nashville, Tennessee, WLOS in ...
Malcolm Johnson makes a 51 market jump to join the reporting team at NBC-owned NBC10 (WBTS) & NECN. Malcolm leaves Scripps’ WFTX in Ft. Myers where he has been a reporter for just under ...
Taisha Walker moves to Graham Media’s KPRC in Houston as a reporter She’s arriving from Hearst’s KMBC in Kansas City, where she was a reporter for the past two years.. Previously, she reported in ...
Linda Ong waves goodbye to El Paso, TX and Nexstar’s KTSM where she has been morning anchor for the past three years. She’s headed for the Music City (Nashville to non-music types) and sister ...
Liz Kotalik joins the team at Tegna’s KUSA in Denver, CO as an anchor/reporter She’s departing Fox-owned KSAZ in Phoenix where, for the past two years, she was a morning reporter/fill-in anchor. Prior to ...
Sandra Jones is joining NBC O&O WVIT in Hartford as a consumer/investigative reporter. For the past 17 years, she’s been reporting at Tribune’s WTVR in Richmond, VA.
Today is Marcos Revuelta’s last day as an MMJ and weekend anchor at Gray’s KGNS in Laredo, TX He’s moving up and out to sister station KWTX in Waco. He’ll start there January 15 ...
Mrs. B likes what Mark Twain said about his mother: “She never used large words, but she had a natural gift for making small ones do effective work.” Here’s a list of suggestions to ...
Yesterday’s big media story was the naming of Hoda Kotb as the permanent replacement for disgraced Matt Lauer on NBC’s “Today”. An intriguing footnote to that announcement is that, among the many congratulatory tweets, ...
Sinclair Broadcast Group on Tuesday named three new general managers, the appointments being announced by Steve Marks, EVP-COO of Sinclair’s television group. Robert Truman was promoted to GM of KATU-KUNP Portland, Ore. Marks said: ...
Simpson Broadcasting’s KNBN was yanked from DirecTV at the start of the New Year after the Rapid City-based station could not come to terms with the satellite provider. So unless viewers in a broad, ...
Funeral services for Atlanta anchor Amanda Davis will take place later this morning in Atlanta, The WGCL anchor died last week after suffering a massive stroke. In her memory and to raise awareness of ...
California-born Daniela Leon is the newest reporter to join the staff at Nexstar’s KXRM in Colorado Springs, CO. After growing up in Kansas, and attending Kansas State University, she joined the staff of Gray’s ...
Well, at least they got someone who knows the territory and is familiar with the grisly issue facing the organization. Former Miss America 1989, as well as former Fox News anchor, Gretchen Carlson is ...
Three years of weekend double shifts finally took their toll on meteorologist Kelly Franson and she is taking her leave of Cox-owned KIRO in Seattle. She composed a lengthy Facebook post to explain her ...
On New Year’s Eve , KCRA weekend weathercaster Eileen Javora signed off for the last time. Javora, who’d been with the Hearst station since 2005, said she’s leaving to spend more time with her ...
Sources whisper to us that CBS is quietly floating the idea of correspondent Don Dahler as the possible replacement for the disgraced Charlie Rose. During the holiday week, he anchored Saturday morning and evening ...
After two years, meteorologist Rebecca Stevenson is working her last week at KCPQ, the Tribune station in Seattle, WA. She posted a notice on her Facebook page over the weekend. “I want to let ...
Fox-owned KDFW in Dallas-Ft. Worth is bringing on a new face to join incumbent meteorologists Dan Henry, Evan Andrews, Ali Turiano and Jen Myers. Alberto Romeo is coming from Tegna’s KYTX in Tyler, TX. ...
Over the holiday, Elissia Wilson debuted as the newest member of the weather team at Scripps’ WTMJ in Milwaukee, WI. She came from Montgomery, Alabama where she did the weather for the Alabama News ...
It’s a year and gone for reporter Sarah Acosta, who departed Tribune’s KTXL in Sacramento over the weekend. When she spread the word across the social media universe, she said she’ll move back to ...
In Connecticut, The Laurel reported “water line breaking news” at WFSB studios in Rocky Hill late Tuesday morning. “water line breaking”. Dozens of station employees were evacuated and the noon newscast replaced with a ...
Hoda Kotb has been named Today co-anchor, joining Savannah Guthrie, the NBC morning show unveiled Tuesday. She’ll join Savannah Guthrie for the 7-9 AM hours of the show, replacing Today veteran Matt Lauer who was ...
A 30-year-run on the anchor desk came to a somewhat stormy close with the severing of relations between Demetria Kalodimos and Meredith’s WSMV in Nashville. The station made it official Monday morning with a ...
We’ll put the disclaimer at the top: As a general rule, the lowest-rated broadcast network evening newscast more than doubles the top-rated prime-time cable noiser. That said, what are the average audience numbers of ...
Those “Disputed Flags” that Facebook has been using to identify fake news for users are going away. They were the red flags placed next to the articles in question. And the reason is either ...
Jim Ramsey signed off Saturday night as WGN’s weekend weather forecaster. His retirement from the Tribune Chicago station culminates a 42-year career in broadcasting, including an earlier stint at ABC-owned WLS. “It has been ...
One week after Jasmine Hatcher Hardin was named general manager at Gray’s WVLT in Knoxville, TN, the station has posted the news director position on its website. Tony Bernhardt has been ND at the ...
Beginning next Monday, Lana Durban Scott takes over as GM at Scripps’ WRTV in Indianapolis, IN, replacing Larry Blackerby, who departed last fall. Currently, she’s senior director of news strategy and operations for Scripps, ...
Tiana Bohner is making a leap from Sinclair’s WCYB in Bristol, VA to Meredith’s KVVU in Vegas, baby. She’s been a reporter with the Bristol station since 2014. With the move, the Hawaii native ...
Robert Feder reports that Reese Marcusson has been named acting chief executive officer of Window to the World Communications, parent company of public television WTTW. The station board is fine-tuning its search for a ...
Atlanta media consultant and public relations man Jeff Dickerson did his last stint over the weekend as a regular panelist on Fox-owned WAGA’s weekly talk show “The Georgia Gang.” Dickerson was a regular panelist ...
With its internal investigation completed, Detroit public teevee station WTVS is preparing to reinstate Stephen Henderson, who hosts “American Black Journal” and is a contributor for “MiWeek” on the station. Henderson was terminated as ...
When Pat Sweeney exited his sports anchor job at Forum Communications’ WDAZ in Grand Forks , ND in 2014, he very likely figured his new job as a video producer at the University of ...
Former WJW reporter Kathleen Cochrane DePiero died unexpectedly over the weekend following a brief illness, as reported on the station’s website. DePiero started at Fox 8 in Cleveland in 2005, but stepped away from ...
Amy Hudak just joined Nexstar’s WTNH in New Haven as a reporter. She arrived from Sinclair-operated WHAM in Rochester, New York where she worked for just over two years.. Hudak is a Connecticut native ...
Instead of wordy phrases, Mrs. B hopes you’ll start simplifying. Try these on: Instead of “as a means to,” say to. Instead of “by means of,” say by or with. Instead of “due to ...
The short answer – Hell, yes. This unconventional presidency has done its bit to spawn unconventional coverage. Who started the war is a question that really has no clearcut answer. The network at the ...
At the beginning of the year, tech journalist Kara Swisher declared that media companies needed to be tougher on serial liars in tech and politics, and that tech companies needed to take stock of ...
This is happening way too often these days. A WOIO news crew became the story when they were held up on Cleveland’s East Side Thursday afternoon. The three juvenile males who held guns on ...
A veteran Milwaukee news director has resigned her job after 3 1/2 years. Here’s the memo Janet Hundley sent to her staff yesterday afternoon at Scripps-owned WTMJ. Before joining the station, Hundley spent 26 ...
Tributes to Atlanta anchor Amanda Davis are pouring in from around the nation, from viewers, colleagues, friends, politicians and celebrities who knew her, watched her and were covered by her. Davis, the morning anchor ...
After 12 years, and a mysterious extended absence this past fall, weekend anchor Karen Grace says she is gone from Nexstar’s KENS in San Antonio, TX. “KENS accepted my resignation as of December 23,” ...
One of our early alma maters is getting a new news director as Kyle Fobe takes a cross country journey from Las Vegas and Meredith’s KVVU to Nexstar’s WTAJ in Altoona, PA. In Vegas, ...
In the never-ending parade of disgraced boors from the world of journalism, add the name of Adrian Carrasquillo, BuzzFeed News White House correspondent. Make that FORMER White House correspondent. Carrasquillo, who made the list ...
65 inches of snow in 60 hours means a lot of attention is going to be paid to the city that got hammered. Such was the case this week in Erie, PA, which set ...
Fran Schneidau was remembered by colleagues and listeners as a talented, devoted journalist after news of her death was announced midweek. Schneidau, who worked for nearly forty years as Connecticut Bureau Chief for WCBS-AM ...
You tell us. Does the facial expression we’re looking at here have some hidden message? For the past six years, Little Rock teevee reporter Marci Manley has been covering the doings at the Arkansas ...
And to wrap up 2017, we’ll take the Wayback Machine on another blooper quest, this time to the early 80’s for the arguably classic “Tapes of Wrath.” It’s not because we had a very ...
Amanda Davis, the morning anchor for Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta, suffered a massive stroke at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport late yesterday afternoon. She was rushed to the hospital, but to no avail. Last night ...
Minnesota Attorney-General Lori Swanson is the latest state-level official to join a challenge to the FCC’s recent dumping of net neutrality rules. And on the consumer side, complaints continue to mount about net neutrality-related ...
Mark your calendar. This might have been the year in which it finally dawned on network executives that paying something akin to a small nation’s gross national product to a teevee anchor is just ...
And now the broadcasters are dipping their toes into the world of podcasting. Graham Media’s WDIV in Detroit, MI is beginning a series of podcasts called “Mismatch”, stories about the incompatible, the unsuitable and ...
Be careful how you say something – it could cause you no end of discomfort. Take Mika Brzezinski, who, in an interview published earlier this week about being a target of the Tweeter-in-Chief, let ...
Lindsay Mills and Clay Gordon met, and got engaged at Tegna’s WCSH in Bangor, ME station and moved on to Peoria, Ill, where they anchored at Nexstar’s WMBD from 2014 until recently. The couple ...
The many hats worn by Rick McFarland during his 37+ year run at Graham Media’s KPRC include sports photographer, news director and, lately, senior executive producer. All those hats are now in the closet, ...
Long-time station manager Bill Huggins is clearing out his desk in anticipation of his departure from Sinclair’s WPDE in Myrtle Beach, SC at the end of the week. Huggins has been at the helm ...
There have been a lot of exits at ESPN this year, virtually all of them involuntary. One voluntary exit comes Friday, December 29th, at the conclusion of the Cotton Bowl Classic football game. Jeannine ...
Yesterday we took a look at the best bloopers of the years, judged by no one in particular. Were things funnier “back in the day?” You decide as we set the Wayback Machine for ...
Using 25-cent words doesn’t necessarily make you sound smarter. Usually the most effective language is the simplest. Mrs. B could “initiate” her lesson with these suggestions, or she could simply begin it: Instead of ...
When we return to the NewsBlues regional office in the New Year, we’ll be looking for this bit of good news from our friends at Comcast who intermittently keep us connected with you. Starting ...
During a long career on Cincinnati airwaves, Brad Johansen has been the voice of the Cincinnati Bengals and, since his shift from sports three years ago, a news staple. Twenty five years at Sinclair’s ...
Longtime Buffalo anchor Irv Weinstein died yesterday in a California nursing home. For 34 years, Weinstein’s rapid-fire, alliterative delivery (“pistol-packing punks”) turned WKBW into a local news powerhouse and himself into a local broadcasting ...
AT&T and Time Warner have agreed to extend the deadline for their long-delayed merger until June 21, according to an SEC filing. The extension should allow time for a verdict in the Department of ...
Dan Cohen is the new 5pm & 10pm anchor at Fox-owned KTTV in Los Angeles. He had been morning anchor at KFMB in San Diego. “Dan’s breadth of experience covering news in Southern California ...
An attempt to tie alt-right darling website Breitbart into a lawsuit brought against James O’Keefe’s bumbling Project Veritas has evidently failed – allowing a huge sigh of relief to escape from the folks at ...
CBS’ three-year experiment in bypassing cable and going to streaming news looks like it’s starting to pay off. The CBS News ad-supported streaming service has drawn more than 280 million livestreams in 2017. That’s ...
This past summer, Sinclair’s WBFF launched “Project Baltimore” to dig into the operations of the Baltimore public school system. Now the station is taking the city to court to gain access to records that ...
It’s been almost a year since Sinclair’s WLOS in Ashville, NC, unceremoniously shoved longtime anchor Larry Blunt out the door. Blunt was caught short after 12 years at the station. “The year since WLOS ...
