Natalie Kalibat jumps 114 markets and becomes the Sports Director at Nexstar’s WRIC in Richmond from sports anchor/reporter at sister station WBOY in Clarksburg, West Virginia. The New Jersey native spent two and a ...
In the aftermath of the whole sorry Matt Lauer mess, NBC has issued strict new policies to deal with sexual harassment issues. Among the new rules is one that REQUIRES employees to report any ...
The Friday-before-Christmas news dump contained the news that a total of 310,000 employees of AT&T, Comcast and Sinclair would be receiving $1,000 bonuses for… Not their good work. Not their corporate loyalty, Not because ...
Elizabeth Vargas, co-anchor of ABC News’ “20/20” for the past 14 years, will leave the network when the 40th season of the newsmagazine wraps in May. She’s leaving for “other opportunities.” *wink, wink* She ...
Over the weekend, MSNBC ruffled a lot of feathers, including many of its own talent, when it cut ties with contributor Joan Walsh after 12 years on the payroll. It didn’t take long for ...
Morning anchor Malcolm Maddox of Scripps’ WXYZ in Detroit, MI is back on the air after a two-week investigation into charges of sexual misconduct turned up nothing. Allegations against Maddox surfaced earlier this month ...
James Rosen, who joined Fox News in 1999, three years after its launch, is gone at the end of the year, according to TV Newser. As the network’s Chief Washington Correspondent, he often reported ...
Not all of the social media experiments work out the way we hoped. CNN’s dip into the Snapchat world, “The Update”, has been cancelled after just four months. Evidently, advertisers didn’t flock to support ...
Jennifer Dale returns to Raycom as she’ll be the new ND for WCSC in Charleston, SC. She’s currently the ND for Nexstar’s WJHL in Johnson City, TN where she was hired by GM Dan ...
Dennis Lortz has left Nexstar’s WOWK in Charleston/Huntington, WV after just nine months as news director. He’d been the assistant ND before being promoted, is a former news director and anchor in Nebraska, and ...
After 2 1/2 years, Stephen Crews has left Nexstar’s WDHN in Dothan, AL. Crews had worked there for five years before being promoted, and spent many years before that working for some weekly newspapers ...
One of Raycom’s Regional News Directors, Vicki Zimmerman (LaFluer) is retiring. She’s a former news director at WAFB in Baton Rouge and earlier worked at KPLC in Lake Charles, LA., which paid tribute to ...
One time news director Bridget Breen has been promoted to GM for Quincy Media’s KTIV in Sioux City, IA. She joined the station in 1994 and has done about every job in the building ...
CBS-owned KCNC in Denver, CO has parted ways with longtime anchor-reporter Tom Mustin. He wants you to know it wasn’t his idea. “Thank you all for your kind words and posts. To set the ...
Starting January 2, Sally McDonald will anchor the “FOX 26 Morning News” at 4 a.m., 5 a.m., and 9 a.m. on Fox-owned KRIV in Houston, TX. Her new job starts just one day after ...
Stacey Garvilla was introduced as the newest forecaster on the team at News Press and Gazette’s KRDO in Colorado Springs., CO. She comes to the station after five years at Nexstar’s KSNF in Joplin, ...
Longtime Little Rock weather guesser Tom Brannon said goodbye Friday morning. After 22 years, Brannon signed off from Tegna’s KTHV. The station posted a six-minute video of highlights from his tenure and accolades from ...
WBNS meteorologist Chris Bradley got a most welcome gift for the holiday. The Columbus forecaster, who was hospitalized last month with pneumonia, was able to spend the holiday with his family. Bradley, who who ...
9,000 full and part-time employees of Sinclair Broadcast Group are getting $1,000 end-of-year bonuses, the result, says Sinclair, of the recently passed “tax reform” legislation. Senior level executives won’t be getting the bonus. Here ...
On Thursday, the FCC made it official – it is fining Sinclair Broadcast Group a total of $13.4 million for not identifying paid programming as advertising. The FCC said Thursday that Sinclair’s Salt Lake ...
We’re betting this won’t get any traction at all, but it is worth noting that former FCC Chair Tom Wheeler – under whose watch the commission actually acted in the public interest rather than ...
There’s a millennial audience out there hungry to be served, and it may be that Scripps’s Newsy is filling the bill. Newsy features in-depth coverage of the day’s U.S. news and stories from around ...
Hall of Fame sports broadcaster Dick Enberg died yesterday at his home in La Jolla, CA. Over a 60-year career, Enberg called Super Bowls, Olympics, Wimbledon tennis and Final Fours for NBC, CBS and ...
Matt Bowman has been named GM of WCTI New Bern-Greenville-Jacksonville, NC. He will also be responsible for the oversight of Sinclair’s provision of services to WYDO under a joint sale agreement. Bowman has been ...
Weekend and fill-in news/sports anchor Joe D’Ambrosio has given notice at WVIT NBC CT in the Hartford-New Haven market where he has worked since 1990. The longtime Connecticut broadcaster is also the “Voice of ...
Allison Rogers is the new weekend morning meteorologist at Hearst’s WLWT in Cincinnati. She comes from Gray’s WYMT in Hazard, Ky., where she not only handled daily forecasting duties but served as a reporter. ...
With nowhere to go and no plans to leave the District, WRC sports anchor Carol Maloney is leaving the NBC-owned station after six years. Her contract expired in the fall and management chose not ...
Mark Meredith has been appointed White House Correspondent for Nexstar’s Washington DC Bureau from National Correspondent. He’d also been National Correspondent for Media General before Nexstar acquired it. Previously he worked in Denver and ...
Kody Leibowitz makes a 99 market leap to join Nexstar’s KRON in San Francisco where he will be working at the capitol bureau in Sacramento. He leaves Sinclair’s WJAC in Johnstown, PA where, for ...
Charlie Lapastora moves to the Fox News Channel as a general assignment reporter and MMR for Fox News, Digital and Radio. He was a weekend sports anchor and reporter for the past year and ...
Jasmine Styles jumps 129 markets to become weekend anchor and reporter at Scripps’ WFTS in Tampa. Previously, the Florida State graduate was a primary anchor for the past 2+ years at Sinclair-operated KBTV in ...
After a cup of coffee in Phoenix, Ryan Haarer returns to Denver and Tegna’s KUSA as weekend anchor. Haarer leaves Meredith’s KTVK/KPHO in Phoenix after just seven months. He was a freelance anchor and ...
Kevin Barry takes a 72 market leap to Cleveland as a general assignment reporter at Scripps‘ WEWS. He leaves Sinclair’s KGAN in Cedar Rapids where, for the past four and a half years, he ...
There was quite a bit of mutual back-scratching at a no-questions-entertained news conference on the White House steps yesterday afternoon. So there were no embarrassing questions to be deflected about how the “historic tax ...
Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, House Communications Subcommittee Chair on Wednesday proudly unwrapped a draft of the Open Internet Preservation Act, which she tweeted would ensure a free and open “space” by providing “light-touch” ...
Back in 2010, the City University of New York gave Charlie Rose a lifetime achievement award, not knowing that his greatest, albeit most infamous, achievement was yet to come. So after he achieved the ...
In other talented bonehead news, reporter Glenn Thrush won’t be fired from the New York Times following sexual harassment allegations against him. But he’s still suspended until January and when he returns, it won’t ...
We last watched a New Year’s Eve Countdown Show way back when Dick Clark was able to do them on his own steam and hadn’t become a prop for Ryan Seacrest. So we won’t ...
Yep, the moronic fearmongering tactics of gun industry lobbyist, the National Rifle Association have come to this. In response to “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill’s recent comments to an Australian newspaper that his passion ...
Gray Broadcasting didn’t have to go far to find a new gm to replace the outgoing Chris Baker at its WVLT-WBXX duopoly in Knoxville, TN. Jasmine Hatcher Hardin will take over on January 1. ...
Another day, another unexpected departure in Bristol, CT. ESPN host Ryen Rusillo is leaving his show after Friday. ESPN senior vice president Traug Keller released a statement saying the company tried to keep him. ...
That’s the question a lot of people were asking today. And the answer is: Catt Sadler is a veteran host-anchor on the E! Network, having worked there for over a decade. And she was ...
Still another settlement in still another “nonsense” sexual harassment lawsuit (as Rupert Murdoch would put it) as Fox News wrote a check to Julie Roginsky. Roginsky, a former political talking head with the network ...
And still more of what Rupert would term “nonsense” as two former Fox News employees, who received settlements after complaining about Bill O’Reilly’s sexual harassment, are suing the network and the Internet personality for ...
Veteran Boston newsman Mike Nikitas dropped an unexpected bombshell this week, announcing that he is leaving the business – as of Tuesday. That’s right, he’s already gone. Nikitas has been anchoring the weeknight news ...
For more than 40 years, Jerry Taft was the “go-to” forecaster for Chicagoans needing to finalize their weekend and holiday plans. They’re going to need a replacement. Taft, for the past 34 years at ...
“Utilize” is a useless word for people who are trying to show off. It means the same thing as use. Most of the time Mrs. B prefers short words to long ones. And your ...
Busy days in Hunt Valley, Maryland. As the Sinclair Broadcast Group prepares for the conclusion of its merger bid with Tribune Media, things just got a little more interesting with the filing of a ...
Connor Schell, who just last summer was promoted to oversee content on ESPN’s television, online, and print platforms is said to be the front-running candidate to replace John Skipper, who removed himself as president ...
Inside the Beltway Tuesday, the cocktail talk, in part, centered around the notion that House Republicans were working on a bill to prevent blocking and throttling of ‘net content, which the FCC’s net neutrality ...
Looks like that March court date is on with the Department of Justice facing off against AT&T over the latter’s proposed merger with Time Warner. Both parties have reportedly have informed the court officially ...
You have to wonder if the executives at NBC are asking each other just what the hell they thought they were getting for the $25 million they were paying Matt Lauer to front “The ...
“Cuomo Prime Time,” which previously ran only for a week from Studio 71 at CNN’s HQ in New York returns next month for several weeks. CNN is treating it as special programming focused on ...
We certainly hope this helps. MSNBC is beefing up its guest and segment booking department by placing two veteran producers into brand-new roles. Sarah Baker and Jesse Rodriguez have been named directors of booking ...
PBS has found a companion show to go alongside Christiane Amanpour’s “Amanpour on PBS” to fill the slot left open with the firing of now-invisible and quickly-forgotten Charlie Rose. “Beyond 100 Days,” the BBC ...
Baruch Shemtov can now say he played the Garden. Shemtov, entertainment reporter for Fox-owned WNYW in New York, had a walk-on role in “Elf the Musical” at The Theater at Madison Square Garden, performing ...
Former WBNS anchor Andrea Cambern is but one of thousands of Californians whose lives have been disrupted by the California wildfires. Over the weekend, she was forced to evacuate her home when the fires, ...
Putting a competing local newscast on your sister station opposite the “CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor” on your main signal? What could possibly go wrong? So far, nothing, according to Dominic Mancuso, GM ...
Chris Egert, anchor at Hubbard’s KSTP in St. Paul, MN continues on the mend after having his left foot and part of his leg amputated. He kept viewers up to date with video of ...
Hubbard’s WDIO has tapped Amy Adamle as the station’s new “Good Morning Northland” anchor alongside meteorologist Taylor Dayton. Adamle joined the station in June and takes over for Maarja Anderson. Anderson held the role ...
Telemundo still needs FCC approval for its purchase of ZGS, but it is moving quickly to rebrand WZDC, its Washington, DC affiliate. Telemundo has hired Alban Zamora (center left) to co-anchor the station’s 6 ...
Carlos Johnson spent nearly 19 years as a producer at Meredith’s WSMV, starting when he was still a student at Middle Tennessee State University. During his tenure, he produced News 4’s coverage of major ...
The mothership listed badly in Bristol, CT yesterday and is likely still rocking, following the bombshell resignation of ESPN president John Skipper. Skipper, one of the most powerful people in both the media and ...
We wouldn’t oppose antitrust hearings on the Disney-Fox deal as some Democrats are calling for. But then we also wouldn’t mind congressional hearings on the Sinclair-Trib deal and the AT&T-Time Warner but so far ...
Henry Wofford, an anchor at Nexstar’s KRON in San Francisco, is profusely apologizing after an extended bit he did with co-anchor Darya Folsom went off the rails Monday morning. During the sports segment, “The ...
Tegna will get CBS affiliate KFMB, digital multicast channel KFMB-D2 (CW), as well as radio stations KFMB-AM-FM when it completes its purchase of the San Diego broadcasting business. Subject to FCC approvalm Tegna will ...
Harris Faulkner has been a mainstay with Fox News for 12 years and the past 18 months have been rather rough ones. That Ailes–O’Reilly–Shine–Bolling thing you know??? But the “Outnumbered Overtime” host does see ...
This should prove interesting. Twitter is trying to clean up its act with regard to hate mongers after spending several years sharply focused on rigidly policing the transmission of boob and butt shots. This ...
What a way to mount a defense against sexual misconduct. Suspended PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley went on “Good Morning America” Monday and flatly said, “PBS made a huge mistake.” Smiley said the ...
Erick Erickson, a conservative commentator who has been a Fox News contributor since 2013, is leaving the network. “After five years at Fox News, I am leaving the network,” he said on Twitter. “I ...
Effective immediately, Telemundo-owned WNEU’s weekday newscasts have been renamed “Noticiero Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra” (Telemundo New England News). Following last week’s purchase by Telemundo of 13 ZGS stations, including WRDM in Hartford, CT., the Boston ...
Priceless advice indeed, and that is exactly what news director Austin Kellerman of Nexstar’s KARK in Little Rock, AR did last week after his “Pig Trail Nation” brand jumped the gun. The sports outlet ...
The old one was so….so mid-20th century…that you can understand why Montgomery, AL-based Raycom Media went on the hunt for something a little more…today. But we kinda wonder at the human toll for this ...
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman has been hot on the trail of a story. Seems he got wind of some heavy courting going on between NBC-owned KNTV and former KGO anchor Carolyn Johnson. Lieberman ...
Reporter Jacquie Slater has been with Nexstar’s WTNH in New Haven, CT for a little more than two years and…. Oh, let’s just let her tell it as she did on her Facebook page. ...
Two weeks ago today, former KRIV anchor-reporter Rita Garcia left Houston to join sister station KTTV out in Los Angeles. Now she is the newly-named replacement for the fired Steve Edwards on the station’s ...
“Versus” is a preposition that means “against” in sports. In other contexts it means “as opposed to” or “in contrast to.” Notice there is only one “e” in “versus.” And “vs.” is the abbreviation ...
Karl Mann, we hardly knew ye. And Mann, Peoria-area television news viewers probably don’t know you were ever on the air. Just weeks after Mann was hired to be the new anchorman at Sinclair’s ...
As some Congressional voices are being raised in concern over the proposed Fox-Disney deal, it is worth noting that the Administration fully supports the deal. Fox Business stenographers duly noted the official reaction “I ...
The backlash is building against Rupert Murdoch as the aged 21st Century Fox executive/owner tries to sell his deal with Disney, in part by dismissing the sad history of sexual harassment at Fox News ...
Well maybe this is one place where Sinclair Broadcast Group plans to use some of that three and three-quarters of a billion dollar loan that it took out last week. The Federal Communications Commission ...
Bill Moyers, best known for his years hosting a variety of programming on PBS before he ended his broadcasting career, is ending what may be his last media outlet. The 83-year-old is shutting down ...
Once again proving there really is no statute of limitations on these kinds of charges, NBC News reported over the weekend that back in 1999, NBC paid severance to a female staffer who accused ...
Television agent Olivia Metzger, who reps, among others, newly appointed “CBS Evening News” anchor Jeff Glor, “Today” show co-host Hoda Kotb, CNN’s Poppy Harlow, NBC White House correspondent Kristen Welker, NBC host Jenna Bush ...
An 18-year career at Morris Multimedia’s WWAY in Wilmington, NC ends right long with 2017 as anchor Daniel Seamans vacates the anchor chair and the business. He’s taking on a public information officer job ...
Bill Gamel, for the past 30 years a mainstay at Morris Multimedia’s WCBI in Columbus, MS, puts a cap on a 44 year career today. Gamel has been the anchor for “WCBI Sunrise”, the ...
Linda Cavanaugh signed off for the last time Friday at Tribune’s KFOR in Oklahoma City after a career marked by a number of firsts – the first non-network journalist from the United States to ...
Late Friday, veteran ND Pat Costello announced his pending retirement. He’ll leave Sinclair owned KOMO in Seattle, WA when the February rating period ends. He’s been ND there for three years. GM Janene Drafs ...
Shawn Reynolds is heading 90 miles up I-85 to Atlanta, where he’ll become the morning executive producer for Meredith’s WGCL. The GM for Raycom owned WTVM/WXTX in Columbus, GA, Holly Steuart, distributed this email. ...
Michele Morin has been promoted to assistant news director at Sinclair’s Seattle KOMO. She’s been the dayside EP there, previously was the morning EP, and also worked at KIRO in Seattle.
Former Memphis news director Tammy Phillips didn’t spend much time between jobs. We told you two weeks ago she was leaving Raycom’s WMC in Memphis after six years as ND. She’s moving to a ...
Longtime Los Angeles newsman (and former RTDNA board member) Bruce Cramer has announced his retirement at the end of the year. Bruce spent the last 17 years at KABC, where he was recently promoted ...
After three years at Fox-owned KMSP in Minneapolis, Uncle Barkey relays news that reporter Jack Highberger is headed to NBC-owned KXAS in Fort.Worth in the same role. Highberger previously was a reporter for KGPE ...
The newest reporter-anchor at Fox-owned WJZY in Charlotte, NC is Morgan Frances, who, in moving from family-owned WINK in Ft. Myers, FL, also moved from the sports desk to the news desk. Frances spent ...
Graham Media flagship WDIV has promoted Jason Colthorp to anchor of the station’s 5:30 p.m. weekday newscast, joining Karen Drew, Ben Bailey and Bernie Smilovitz. He will continue to report for other newscasts. “We ...
The champagne glasses were clinking last night on K Street in the District as telcom industry lobbyists celebrated pending demise of net neutrality. Actual consumers weren’t invited which is just as well. They are ...
And for the next tip of the hat from the FCC to Sinclair, Nexstar and Fox, a party-line vote moved the commission thatmuchcloser to lifting the 39% ownership cap. This one won’t get as ...
