As the dust begins to settle, people are poking around the Disney-Fox deal to see if they can predict the future and the shape the two drastically-redrawn companies will take. The first concern is…jobs. ...
And now we’re in the part of the reality show – EVERY damned reality show – where the ousted contestant is debriefed and tells their side of the story. So did Omarosa Manigault Newman ...
CBS News White House correspondent Major Garrett has been on the presidential beat since the Bill Clinton years. And while none of the other Administrations he’s covered were big fans, this is a different ...
What does talk show host Tavis Smiley have to say about his indefinite suspension and the yanking of his tv show by PBS? “I have the utmost respect for women and celebrate the courage ...
Sinclair Broadcast Group has raised $3.725 billion in new loans and the proceeds “are expected to be used to purchase the outstanding shares of Tribune Media Co., refinance certain of Tribune’s existing indebtedness, pay ...
If video walls are your thing, Heartland Media’s KEZI in Eugene, OR is right up your alley. It’s recently-unveiled news set is stocked with plenty of video walls and panels that allow the station ...
As temporary sets go, the one now housing the anchor team at Tribune’s WXIN in Indianapolis, IN looks pretty good. The station has used a working newsroom set background for some time now, so ...
Quincy Media has hired Phil Aldridge as the new 6 and 10 PM anchor at WAOW in Wausau, WI. He’s coming from Scripps’ KMGH in Denver, CO where he was a sports anchor/reporter. In ...
Set an early March 2018 departure date for weekend morning anchor Gina Benitez of Capitol Broadcast’s WRAL in Raleigh, NC. She’ll be leaving after just 14 months at the station. Both she and news ...
It’s three years and “I’m gone” for Andre Senior, morning anchor at Tegna’s WVEC in Norfolk, VA. He’s off to a new job in San Francisco. Senior came to Norfolk from Tampa, FL sister ...
Stephanie Dunlap joins Cordillera Communications’ KVOA in Tucson, AZ where she will be the weekend weather anchor and will be a general assignment reporter during the week. Dunlap, a graduate of The University of ...
Erin Clarke has joined Cox-owned WPXI in Pittsburgh as a general assignment reporter. Clarke comes to Pittsburgh after more than five years at NY1. Previously she worked for News 12 Long Island and at ...
The Walt Disney Co. announced its acquisition of a major portion of 21st Century Fox in a deal that dramatically remakes the entertainment landscape and positions the media giant for the future. It’s certainly ...
Omarosa Manigault lasted half a season on the inaugural run of “The Apprentice” back in 2004 before being fired by Donald Trump. Omarosa Manigault Newman lasted a little longer as a White House aide ...
Tavis Smiley’s PBS talk show has been taken off the air after an independent investigation uncovered “multiple, credible allegations” of misconduct by the host. “The inquiry uncovered multiple, credible allegations of conduct that is ...
Another news director change late Wednesday in Los Angeles, as Bill Dallman has left KCBS/KCAL after just over two years as news director for this O&O. Bill’s a former news director in Minneapolis at ...
CNN said Anderson Cooper’s Twitter account was hacked after the publicizing of a since-removed tweet from his handle that called the president a “tool” and a “pathetic loser” following Democrat Doug Jones’ win in ...
We love nothing more than a live, hard-hitting interview by an undeterred anchor of a smug, unsuspecting politician. This wasn’t it. Fox News faux newsperson Dana Perino brought House Speaker Paul Ryan on to ...
Remember that phrase, in case it goes viral. Chamath Palihapitiya is a former Facebook executive making waves after he spoke out about his “tremendous guilt” over growing the social network. Palihapitiya began working for ...
Starting January 20, Neil Cavuto fans will have more than even they can handle as the host expands his Saturday presence on Fox News Channel to two hours. That’s in addition to the 15 ...
Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill this week sent a letter to industry lobbyist and FCC Chair Ajit Pai, asking him not to let Sinclair own two of the top four stations in St. Louis ...
Page Six reports that New York viewers won’t be seeing Laura Behnke doing the weekend sports on ABC flagship WABC anymore. She left the station Tuesday at the end of her contract and as ...
Telemundo wasted no time putting together a management team for its newly-acquired WZDC in Washington, DC. Janette Luviano will take on the role as news director. She comes from WNJU, the New York Telemundo ...
John Henry Smith III is joining NBC-owned WVIT in Hartford, CT as its new sports director. He has previously worked with NBC Sports Bay Area, WPLG in Miami, WVUE in New Orleans and WTVH ...
Executives at a low power teevee station in Podunk, Anywhere, USA know this isn’t an appropriate question during a job interview. So why, evidently, did an NFL Network executive think it was OK? “I’ve ...
KTVX, the Nexstar property in Salt Lake City Utah, has taken the wraps off a new set that emphasizes structural elements. The anchor desk features a solid stone base with angled trim and branded ...
Not that we spend a lot of time in the Amish Country part of Pennsylvania, but we’ve spent enough to know that somewhere Intercourse Intercourse, Blue Ball and Paradise there is a town named ...
Mrs. B wants you to take a look at this: “The rumors were true,” she said of the split after an introduction that described the story as a “political scandal” that had left “many ...
Maybe New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand had her own #metoo moment Tuesday. It may have come via one of those “modern day presidential” tweets. “Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer ...
If all goes according to plan, we may hear Thursday that Disney and 21st Century Fox have reached a deal for Disney to acquire all but Fox News, Fox Sports and the local Fox ...
Tell us again how incredibly important Matt Lauer was to “The Today Show?” For the second consecutive week, the first two hours of the NBC morning program surged ahead of the show’s main rival, ...
The roster of boneheads caught up in sexual harassment actions just keeps getting longer. The latest is the result of a lawsuit filed by former NFL Network wardrobe stylist Jami Cantor and has resulted ...
WSYX in Columbus, OH is showing off its new set – a large, curved wall backed with color changing background and accented with frosted panels, faux white stacked stone walls and rectangular frames with ...
Jorge Ramos, the longtime anchor of Univision’s network newscast has a deal to write a book and, oh the stories he could tell. And he probably will. “Stranger: The Challenge of a Latino Immigrant ...
Former White House Press Secretary (and Easter Bunny at the Dubya-era Easter Egg Roll) Sean Spicer also has a book deal. And why not? He had a glorious six-month run as press secretary and ...
Tuesday morning was not business as usual on the set of “Good Day LA.” KTTV anchor Tony McEwing sat at the anchor desk in the place of longtime anchor Steve Edwards, and delivered the ...
VETERAN WICHITA TV REPORTER LET GO The station bio of KAKE reporter Chris Frank has gone missing and his social media, when last checked, hadn’t had an entry since the end of November. It’s ...
A 42-year broadcasting career comes to an end December 30 when veteran Chicago forecaster Jim Ramsey finishes his final weekend weather forecast for Tribune’s WGN. He’s been with WGN since 1987 after stints in ...
Lexington, Kentucky news viewers who have been missing WTVQ anchor Doug High since last winter will soon get him back. High, a commander in the Naval Reserve, has been on active duty since March ...
Kathy Fountain was very aware she needed to prepare for life after teevee news. It is a very unforgiving business for women in their 40’s and beyond. So back while she was still anchoring ...
Each is always singular when it is the subject or comes before the subject it modifies. And these pronouns follow the same rule: every either neither one another much ~Each knows exactly what to ...
Gerry Monteux likes where he is now. “I’m the luckiest guy in the world,” said Monteux, a wildlife photographer, as he reflected on the dramatic changes in his life. Once upon a time, Gerry ...
Carolyn Clampit is the newly-named director of sales for Nexstar’s KARD in Monroe, LA. Twenty years ago, she started her career in Monroe and has worked in teevee sales in Shreveport and Baton Rouge.
Buffalo sports anchor Jonah Javad has a verbal agreement to make the jump from Tegna’s WGRZ in Buffalo, NY to sister station WFAA in Dallas, TX He’s been with WGRZ since August 2012, where ...
On Friday, Dave Courvoisier signs off for the last time at Nexstar’s KLAS after a total of 27 years on Vegas airwaves. But it’s not a retirement. “That word just has an onus that ...
Christine Cook is the newly-named senior VP of global sales and brand strategy for CNN’s short digital film unit “Great Big Story.” In her new post, Cook will focus on revenue strategy and advertising ...
Patrick Mason has been hired away from ABC’s “Good Morning America” to be the new nightside executive producer for Tribune flagship WPIX’s 5, 6 and 10pm newscasts. Before “GMA,” Mason was local news producer ...
Minutes before students at West Virginia University were due to hold a news conference on campus, Matthew Fouty was removed as general manager of the university’s radio station, WWVU and temporarily reassigned. Kim Harrison, ...
Tom Ashbrook, the host of “On Point”, one of National Public Radio’s most successful programs has been placed on leave while he’s investigated for allegations of wrongdoing including engaging in “creepy” sex talks and ...
The first in a series of reports on sexual assault at the U.S. Air Force Academy aired on “CBS This Morning” Monday and it explains something viewers saw on Norah O’Donnell’s face and heard ...
Supporters of threatened net neutrality protections plan to protest outside the FCC offices on Thursday as the commission toes the corporate line to erase those rules. In the meantime, a newly-released study indicates that ...
Nashville meteorologist Craig Edwards is wrapping up a 41 year career, ten of them at Fox-owned WZTV, on Friday. The morning meteorologist says he made the move “after a lot of prayer and thoughtful ...
Veteran anchor Demetria Kalodimos was a no-show on the 5 PM newscast for Meredith’s WSMV in Nashville Monday. She was on the schedule, but not on the set. But with three weeks remaining on ...
NBC-owned WTVJ has brought on Johnny Archer as the station’s new weekend anchor. He came from sister station KXAS in Dallas where he was also weekend anchor. Archer previously worked in Idaho and Kentucky. ...
Sanika Dange joins Hearst’s WESH in Orlando, FL next month as the new weekend anchor and weekday reporter. She’s coming from sister station WPBF in West Palm Beach and it sounds like she can ...
And another one bites the dust. Steve Edwards, the longtime mainstay of “Good Day LA” on Fox owned KTTV, Los Angeles, was fired Monday. News director Kris Knutson informed that staff of the dismissal ...
Three women who accused President Trump of sexual misconduct during the 2016 campaign showed up on “Megyn Kelly Today” as they intensified their efforts to hold Mr. Trump accountable. Samantha Holvey, a former Miss ...
Despite a terror bombing attempt just off Times Square, heightening tension with North Korea and spreading wildfires in California, a New York Times story that ran over the weekend took priority Monday morning with ...
The guy who cut short Anthony Scaramucci’s tenure at White House Communications Director with a bombshell interview has been cut loose by the magazine that published the piece and suspended by CNN, where he ...
Napoli Management Group, the 24-year-old broadcast talent reps agency has sold a majority stake to Blue Equity Group. Beverly Hills-based Napoli Management is one of the largest of its kind in the country, with ...
Longtime WAFF anchor Mark Thornhill is gone from the Huntsville, AL station in what station management calls ‘a personnel matter.’ Thornhill, who’d been with the station since 1991, had his last day Friday, Dec. ...
Pittsburgh viewers who have been missing morning reporter Christine D’Antonio on CBS-owned KDKA have one week to go. She’s been out on medical leave for more than a month. “At the end of October ...
Jeff Hogan is moving south from Columbus, OH and Dispatch’s WBNS to take over the anchor chair at Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL in Raleigh, NC being vacated by the retiring Bill Leslie. Leslie is sticking ...
Blogger Mike McGuff posts that Patricia Lopez is leaving Disney’s KTRK this week Those of you who actually watch “The View” may remember that she was a finalist for one of the co-host slots ...
Sue Serio has been calling the weather for 20 years at Fox-owned WTXF in Philadelphia The “Good Day Philadelphia” forecaster said she has been through “seven news directors and about four general managers” during ...
Mark Suppelsa did his last newscast Friday night at Tribune’s WGN in Chicago, putting the finish on a 36-year career in teevee news. Among the highlights of the many tributes that poured in was ...
Veteran broadcaster Dick Reingold left his gig as GM for Sinclair’s WCTI in New Bern-Greenville-Washington, NC on Friday. Here’s part of the note he sent the staff: Though I am not from Eastern North Carolina, I ...
Bayou City Broadcasting’s KADN/KLAF in Lafayette, LA has a posting for news director on its website. Chris Welty, who was an anchor/reporter there, assumed the ND job earlier this year.
Veteran news director Ken White is on the job for Quincy owned WVVA in Bluefield, WV. Ken’s a former ND at WOWK in Charleston/Huntington and spent 14 years at WCCB in Charlotte where he ...
A new face pops up at Cordillera’s KOAA in Colorado Springs, CO today as Jeff Matthews takes his place at the weather center. They’re excited at the station. “We are excited to have Jeff ...
A lawyer for a former CNN producer says his client was NOT let go over sexual harassment allegations. CNN recently terminated Teddy Davis, a senior producer on Jake Tapper’s “State of the Union” following ...
San Antonio TX made national headlines last week when snow fell on the city – an occurrence as rare as civility in Washington these days While “CBS This Morning,” NBC’s “Today,” The Weather Channel, ...
Hoda Kotb finds herself sitting in a very visible chair, as NBC announced that she will co-anchor “The Today Show” for the ‘foreseeable future.” Kotb was by Savannah Guthrie’s side when Guthrie made the ...
Former Fox News anchor Juliet Huddy claims President Trump once made a pass at her in an elevator at Trump Tower, then commented on “hitting on her” during her morning show. Because when you’re ...
TVNewser is reporting that NBC News has fired longtime senior director of news engineering and technical operations Larry Gaetano after an internal investigation. Gaetano, who’s been with the network since 1997, was based in ...
The FCC of former Verizon lawyer and now Commission Chair Ajit Pai is refusing to cooperate in the New York Attorney General’s investigation into fake net-neutrality comments, saying those comments did not affect the ...
TRIAL DATE SET IN DOJ’S SUIT AGAINST AT&T Mark your calendar for March 19, when the Department of Justice takes on the AT&T-TimeWarner merger in federal court. After seeming set to sail through the ...
Some of Mrs. B's readers have asked about a Latin term you’ll see every now and then: What does [sic] mean? The Latin adverb sic is part of the phrase sic erat scriptum, which ...
Robert Asman, who was a producer for the legendary David Brinkley and produced some of television news’ most memorable reporters of the 60’s and 70’s, died over the weekend. He was 91. Asman rose ...
After 16 years, it’s the end of anchoring and perhaps the beginning of a music career for Stephen Clark, anchor at Scripps’ WXYZ in Detroit. He wrote to viewers on Facebook: "At the end ...
Blogger Mike McGuff reports that Rita Garcia is leaving the morning show at Fox-owned KRIV in Houston, TX and heading for sister station KTTV’s “Good Day LA.” She came to KRIV six years ago ...
Fox News contributor Gillian Turner is now a fulltime correspondent at the network. She will cover stories for daytime and prime time out of the Washington DC bureau. Turner joined FNC as a contributor ...
Wait…you’re serious about this? A pimped-out four-door Jeep Wrangler is NBC Connecticut’s latest weapon in increasingly absurd weather wars. A gaudy paint job sure to cause accidents by distracted drivers and gew-gaws galore. ...
Pittsburgh television fixture Sally Wiggin announced her retirement last night. She made the announcement during the locally-produced pre-game show on WTAE, just prior to the Steelers-Bengals matchup on “Monday Night Football” Wiggin, who’s been ...
Last summer, four days after the firing of yet another news director at Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta, GA, chief meteorologist Jim Kosek and four other employees were also unceremoniously dumped. Kosek’s back at a ...
The implosion of his career doesn’t seem to be registering with disgraced former “CBS This Morning” co-host Charlie Rose if you set any store by “Page Six.” And why wouldn’t you? The gossip ...
It gets real, Charlie. CNN’s Christiane Amanpour is stepping in to fill at least part of the PBS void left with the cancellation of Charlie Rose’s talk show that many affiliates carried, Amanpour’s offering ...
As he gradually tries to make his way back into the public consciousness and seek meaningful employment, Billy Bush was the perfect guy to pen a “New York Times” op-ed titled “Yes, Donald ...
The on again-off again romance between acquisition-hungry Disney and a motivated-to-sell 21st Century Fox is on again. Disney has a rival in Comcast, which continues to court the Murdochs about assets including some ...
“Time Magazine” released its list of 10 finalists for its once eagerly-anticipated “Person of the Year”. And the ten finalists are President Donald Trump (who has already graciously declined the honor), Chinese President ...
Media stumbles like ABC News’ Brian Ross’ poor initial reporting on the Michael Flynn case give a hostile Administration ammunition in its ongoing war with the media, provide “opinion” radio hosts endless fodder ...
New York State attorney general Eric Schneiderman, FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel and twenty-seven senators are calling on the FCC to delay its vote on repealing its net neutrality rules next week, citing concerns ...
Internet personality Bill O’Reilly’s apparent strategy of insulting and casting aspersions on those with whom he settled harassment complaints is not going well. For him and his former employer. A brand-new federal lawsuit ...
Former WRIC, Richmond, VA news director Kelly Woodard is the new assistant news director for Scripps' WEWS in Cleveland. She left WRIC in July after almost four years as news director for that Nexstar ...
Congratulations to WJLA news director Mitch Jacob who's assuming additional duties as station manager for this Sinclair station in Washington DC. Mitch has been ND here for just over three years, and has been ...
Sinclair owned triopoly WSTM/WSTQ/WTVH in Syracuse, NY has posted an opening for a news director. Records show that Rae Fulkerson has been the ND here since 2008.
Tomorrow will be the first day on the job at Nexstar’s WDTN in Dayton, OH for Julia Palazzo as she joins the station’s “Living Dayton” midday team. “I’m honored with the opportunity to ...
The official bio of 33-year reporting veteran Jack Kuenzie is nowhere to be found on the website of Raycom’s WIS in Columbia, South Carolina. “This is not how I envisioned the end of ...
