Chip Brewster is now a FORMER feature reporter at Graham Media’s KPRC in Houston. He took to Facebook to address the departure. “To all my fans, my time in Houston is coming to a ...
Stuart Boslow is the newly-minted assistant news director at Tegna’s KSDK. He’s been the morning news director for the past seven months. Boslow will report to Tiffany Lupenski who came to the station as ...
The two longest-tenured basketball play-by-play announcers in Division 1 basketball are right here in our backyard. Bill Hillgrove has been calling Pitt Panther games since 1969 while Ray Goss started a year earlier at ...
Javier Maynulet has been tapped to become the new GM of Hemisphere Media’s WAPA in San Juan, Puerto Rico when current GM José “Joe” Ramos retires in the first half of next year after ...
Make sure you have a good supply of salt on hand to consume along with this op-ed written by FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. Carr, a former aide to FCC Chair Ajit Pai, was ...
You can call this “María Elena Salinas Week” at Univision, as the network plans a weeklong goodbye to the veteran reporter-anchor. “As journalists our job is to report the news not be the ...
Psst…Hey!. Vice Media fired three employees and took “disciplinary action” against an unspecified number of others on Thursday as part of its investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and “inappropriate conduct.” Who got fired? ...
Bet onetime newsman Geraldo Rivera never thought his boneheaded Matt Lauer Twitter defense that disturbed his bosses and led to one apology would lead to this. Rivera, whose Lauer defense consisted of averring ...
“Town Hall”????!! “TOWN. HALL” What the hell, why not just call it “Radio Show” and be done with it? We knew that Minnesota Public Radio was going to rename “Prairie Home Companion” in ...
Those of us who still have mental images of Ann Curry’s tearful goodbye on the “Today Show” five and a half years ago have been wondering what’s been going through her head since the ...
When you report a story that stops people in their tracks and that story helps drive a significant drop in the stock market, you’ve got a story of consequence. And when it turns out ...
We are now in the final seven-day countdown to the launch of NewsBlues 2.0. The sweat is forming on the brows of the developers as they race to complete the transfer of the current ...
One of the truly nice guys in the business bowed out in Nashville last night, as longtime sports anchor-reporter Rudy Kalis signed off Meredith’s WSMV. He’d announced his retirement earlier this year. “I think ...
After seven years, anchor-reporter Brittny McGraw is out the door at Cox-owned WPXI in Pittsburgh to take the main evening anchor slot at Graham Media’s WSLS in Roanoke, VA. She’s been the weekend ...
Molly Rose is joining Tribune’s KTVI in St.Louis as a general assignment reporter. She’s coming from Kansas City and sister station WDAF. You can call it a homecoming because she grew up across the ...
WCAU is adding Miguel Martinez-Valle as a general assignment reporter beginning Dec. 18. He’s coming from Meredith's KVVU in Las Vegas, where he spent two years as a reporter and fill-in anchor. Before ...
After a two-year absence, meteorologist Brittney Shipp is returning to NBC’s WCAU in Philadelphia, PA. She’s returning after a sojourn at Nexstar’s KRON in San Francisco where she was chief meteorologist. She’ll be ...
Breathe easy, Ohio. Jerry Springer won’t be running for governor after all. The former Cincinnati mayor and teevee talk show host said polls showed him he had a real shot. But then, it ...
“New York Times” national political reporter Yamiche Alcindor is a new addition to the PBS NewsHour as White House Correspondent starting January 6th. Alcindor will continue to serve as a political contributor for ...
Well good on ya, Ms. Lewinsky. Anti-bullying activist Monica Lewinsky got a bit upset the other day when HLN trumpeted a two-hour special it was calling “The Monica Lewinsky Scandal.” It will now be ...
Cable channel Newsmax TV says it will now reach 50 million homes, thanks to its brand-new carriage deal with DISH that took effect Thursday. The channel features 12 hours daily of original content, primarily ...
You really have to wonder about the thought processes of the Wal-Mart marketing dimwits who thought it was a good idea to stock a t-shirt featuring the words “Rope. Tree. Journalist. SOME ASSEMBLY ...
The trio of vaudevillians who occupy the kurvy kouch at “Fox & Friends” this week railed on "The New York Times" Opinion section for “advocacy journalism” in an exchange designed for one set ...
The Department of Justice, which has gone to war with AT&T over its plans to acquire Time Warner – with CNN at the center of the battle, is being ever-so helpful with Sinclair ...
Score one for the good guys – and the First Amendment. Reporter Phil Williams of Scripps WTVF in Nashville won’t have to turn over investigative documents to District Attorney General Glenn Funk. The Tennessee ...
Meredith Vieira — who co-hosted the "Today" show with Lauer for six years — recalled discovering a bag of sex toys in Lauer's office during a May 2016 segment of her talk show. Lauer ...
We’re gonna go out on a limb and say that Megyn Kelly’s oblique invitation to Lauer to come on her 9 AM show will go unacknowledged. Kelly made it clear any of the ...
You’re officially gone when your social media accounts go dark, and that is the state of things in the shrinking world of Matt Lauer. Starting Wednesday night, with the brave face of Hoda Kotb ...
Mrs. B is in a tiz today about "trooper" and "trouper." She keeps reading one when it should be the other. A "trooper" is a state police officer who pulls you over when you're ...
Back in September we told you that George Levesque, a 15-year veteran of the anchor chair at Sinclair’s KTXS in Abilene, TX planned to leave teevee for the theater at the end of ...
Sinclair’s KGBT in Harlingen, TX has hired Alex Del Barrio as a sports anchor starting immediately. He’ll alternate with Patrick Chalvire in doing the 6 and 10 PM newscasts. Del Barrio was previously ...
Up Route 22 from us in Johnstown, PA., meteorologist Mary Ours just underwent her own Demetria Obilor experience. Obilor, you’ll recall, is the WFAA traffic anchor who was targeted by one of those ...
Michelle Donaldson is the new GM at Hubbard’s KOB in Albuquerque, N.M. Her appointment was announced at an “all hands” station meeting by company president Rob Hubbard. She’ll replace departing GM Mike Burgess ...
Is Fox News now the “Trump News Network?” Andy Levy is a former co-host of Fox News Channel’s now-canceled tepid attempt at late-night humor “Red Eye,” and he seems to think so Andy now ...
In Dallas, Uncle Barky reports that NBC-owned KXAS has hired Vinita Nair as a “special assignments” reporter focusing on extended projects. Nair most recently co-anchor of “CBS This Morning Saturday.” Her co-anchor was Anthony ...
AT&T and Time Warner have told a federal court and, by extension, the Justice Department and Trump Administration, that the fed's case against their proposed merger is "improper selective enforcement of the antitrust laws." ...
Whit Johnson, co anchor of “Today in LA” at NBC’s KNBC, is leaving the station to seek new horizons or, as news director Todd Mokhtari put it in his memo to staff, “he has ...
The check’s in the mail. He’ll respect you in the morning. Comcast won’t mess with your internet post-net neutrality. Bur dammit, they want net neutrality abolished and abolished quickly, so they can then not ...
According to a recent Morning Consult/Politico poll, more than half of the nation’s voters favor some sort of “net neutrality” regulation. Only 18% support the position of ISP industry lobbyist and FCC chair ...
And in the last item today from the “Dumb-Ass Male Behavior in the Workplace” beat, Teddy Davis, a senior producer for CNN’s weekend show “State of the Union” was fired after the company investigated ...
The latest round of layoffs at ESPN totaling 150 that were announced yesterday appear to be confined to behind-the-scenes positions as the network re-tools to focus on newer growth areas, like ESPN+, the ...
Good lord!! Garrison Keillor? Say it ain’t so. Sorry, it is so. Keillor, who retired from hosting chores on “A Prairie Home Companion” last year, reported he had been fired by Minnesota Public Radio ...
Of course, it wouldn’t be teevee news if there weren’t speculation about the replacement with the warm body still in the room. So the names being bandied about include Anderson Cooper, the “pre-eminent ...
If it seems like the end of Matt Lauer’s career at NBC, “The Today Show” and, likely, everywhere else is a bigger story than Charlie Rose’s firing…well it is. For 20 years he ...
This was expected but no less shocking than the Lauer news because the number exceeds the best guesstimate. ESPN this morning announced the pink-slipping of 150 employees, mostly those from the studio production, digital ...
As we were going to press this morning, a true shocker came over the wire. NBC has fired Matt Lauer. Seems he had his own Weinstein-Ailes-O'Reilly problem. NBC took swift action hours after receiving ...
After being passed over several times for promotion, weekend meteorologist Scott Dimmich is out the door at Sinclair’s WKRC in Cincinnati, OH. His bio is already down. "In the fall of 2015, I looked ...
Varisa Dass joins Cox-owned WFOX and Cox-operated WJAX in Jacksonville, where she will be a general assignment reporter. Varisa most recently worked at Heartland Media’s WTVA in Tupelo where she was a reporter/MMJ. Prior ...
Matt Howerton moves to Tegna’s WFAA in Dallas as a general assignment reporter. Howerton comes from Hearst’s KOAT in Albuquerque where he also served as a reporter. Previously he worked in Waco, TX ...
Less than two week remain until WGN anchor Mark Suppelsa closes out a 25 year tv news career in the Windy City. December 8 is when, presumably, cake will be served at the Tribune ...
Houston evidently still misses "Marrrrrvin Zindler….. Eyeeeeeewitness NEWS!" which could explain blogger Mike McGuff’s apparent ongoing search for the next colorful TV reporter. Zindler, who was fired from his first TV news job in ...
We couldn’t help but be gobsmacked over the weekend when we saw that the one of the most recent alternate-reality tweets emanating from 1600 Pennsylvania made the claim that the infamous “Access Hollywood” ...
CNBC is finding that getting into the events business can be a lucrative not-so-sideline to the core mission of delivering business news and commentary. The cabler is planning its next big thing, called “Healthy ...
Seems the Tweeter-in-Chief has some followers among some deplorables in foreign capitals, and they’re taking cues from his recent attacks on CNN’s reporting of conditions in their country. Newsweek reports Ahmed Abu Zeid, the ...
We haven’t seen one yet, but those anti-tax reform ads produced by an outfit called “Not One Penny” were supposed to start airing Tuesday on Fox News, particularly during “Fox and Friends”. The ...
Kris Kobach is the Kansas Secretary of State and a vice-chair of the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity. So why is he writing and getting paid for, columns for alt-right outlet Breitbart? On Tuesday, ...
Monica Lewinsky had the perfect reaction to HLN’s announcement of an upcoming two-hour special titled “The Monica Lewinsky Scandal”. The anti-bullying activist smartly corrected HLN’s announcement on Twitter, crossing out ‘The Monica Lewinsky Scandal’ ...
You don’t have to wait until Sunday to read the “New York Times Magazine” profile of Fox News conspiracy theorist Sean Hannity. It’s online now. Hannity is now passing himself off as an “opinion ...
The forecast is December 22. That is chief meteorologist Steve Baskerville’s last day at CBS-owned WBBM in Chicago. After 30 years he’s out the door. “It is a natural time for me to ...
Well why would you go to a party where you aren’t wanted? The White House Christmas party is scheduled for Friday at 2 PM, but CNN is taking a pass. “CNN will not be ...
This one should be riveting as it unfolds in court. The Federal courtroom in Nashville will be the setting when a lawsuit filed by three popular former WSMV news people is heard. Former longtime ...
Former WLKY News anchor Ken Rowland has passed away. Rowland was the Louisville Kentucky station’s first news anchor AND its first news director when the station signed on in 1964. For the next 24 ...
The terms "migrant" and "refugee" are sometimes used interchangeably, but there's a crucial legal difference between the two. Migrants leave home voluntarily to try to make their lives better with a new job or ...
We extend sincere wishes for a full recovery to Columbus, OH. meteorologist Chris Bradley of Dispatch’s WBNS. Bradley is back at The OSU James Cancer Center battling pneumonia. He learned early last week ...
In case it slipped by over the long holiday weekend (it certainly eluded us), the Glor era begins next Monday as Jeff Glor takes over anchor chores on the “CBS Evening News”. Maybe ...
Elizabeth Armstrong put in a whole year and a half as a reporter and fill-in anchor at Sinclair’s KATV in Little Rock, AR. So it’s time for her to make a 30+ market ...
We’re guessing that veteran reporter Sam Kiley didn’t get the memo about the troll-y tweet over the weekend about CNN International. Kiley is stepping into the role of CNN senior international correspondent, based ...
Anthony Scaramucci, who once spent 15 minutes in the public eye and then flamed out, lost out on an event at his alma mater, Tufts University, that was scheduled for next Monday. Since ...
CNN talking head Bakari Sellers seems to be itching to get back into the political arena. Sellers — a former South Carolina state representative — told SC newspaper "The State" that he’s ready ...
For Dave Barras, 37 years with Nexstar’s WISH in Indianapolis, IN comes to an end this Friday. Barras is stepping down from the 6, 10 and 11 pm newscasts at the station. He ...
“Golic and Wingo” debuted Monday morning on ESPN and new on-air partners Mike Golic and Trey Wingo wasted no time addressing what was on every viewer’s mind. "I think this was put best ...
OK, CNN isn’t exactly going all-in on Van Jones’s newly-announced talk show. “Jones will return to CNN with his unique take on the forces that elected Donald Trump, the anti-Trump “resistance” movement and ...
The “Washington Post’s” Paul Farhi must have been tickled pink to think he had a grabber of a story on a slow holiday weekend when he breathlessly reported that Friday’s “Morning Joe” on ...
Meredith Corporation is buying Time, Inc for $2.8 billion. "We are adding the rich content-creation capabilities of some of the media industry's strongest national brands to a powerful local television business that is ...
Keith Olbermann declared yesterday that he is "retiring from political commentary in all media venues." Wait, you didn’t know that Olbermann was still commentating somewhere out there? He’s been at it online for GQ ...
After 20 years, Carlos Montero is leaving CNN en Español this week. His departures comes as the network announced the trimming of morning show “Café CNN” from three hours to two hours. In addition, ...
So if you are among the lucky ESPN employees who managed to avoid being pink-slipped in the upcoming holiday down-sizing, here’s your reward: You get to attend a two-hour presentation at the network’s ...
DUTHIERS FOR ROSE? Page Six tells us that Vladimir Duthiers is the front-runner to replace Charlie Rose as co-host on “CBS This Morning.” Before you open another window and start searching “Vladimir Duthiers”, let ...
Veteran news anchor Sarah Lucero signed off for the final time last week at Tegna's KENS in San Antonio, TX. She’s recently signed a new deal with the station but decided that ...
Thanksgiving is a favorite time of year for family reunions. But it’s not often that family meets for the first time around the holiday . Lisa Bell, anchor at Graham Media’s WKMG in Orlando ...
A former production department employee at Raycom’s WAFB in Baton Rouge is being charged with two counts of video voyeurism after he visited the station and an employee discovered the man’s cell phone was ...
Last September we told you about a horrific boating accident on Hennepin County’s Christmas Lake outside of Minneapolis. In that accident, Courtney Godfrey, a 30-year-old reporter with Fox-owned KMSP in the Twin Cities ...
Morning anchor Kara Sewell is headed for Tegna’s WFAA in Dallas from Raycom’s WXIX in Cincinnati, where she held the same position for the past three years. She’s a Texas native and her ...
Joanne Po is the new managing director of Fox News Digital as the website fine-tunes its multi-platform operations. She’ll report to Fox News digital editor Noah Kotch. “Jo will also continue her focus on ...
Peter Hamby is a CNN veteran who is the new news director of Snapchat. The mobile app aspires to be a trendsetter for media outlets by reaching younger audiences with the news stories and ...
VAN SUSTEREN A TRUE SOCIAL MEDIA BELIEVER Greta Van Susteren, who formerly anchored shows on CNN, Fox News and (briefly) MSNBC, has a new book all about social media out called “Everything You Need ...
Our dearth of new openings ends this week with news that Tammy Phillips will leave Raycom's WMC Memphis, TN early in December. She shared this heartfelt note with her staff. Tammy's been the ND ...
WABC ND HIT WITH SECOND DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINT Laura Behnke (right), WABC’s weekend sports anchor and reporter, has filed a complaint with the New York Station Division of Human Resources for gender and race discrimination ...
We're late in reporting that Sarah Gray became the ND for Gray’s WSAW in Wausau, WI. last June. Here's her bio from the WSAW website. She'd been an EP for a Gray sister station, ...
Kate Glover is the new news director for Gray’s WNDU in South Bend, IN. GM John O'Brien sent this note to the staff. Kate most recently spent seven months as ND for Tegna's WGRZ ...
Raquel Amparo moves across town to become ND for Univision’s KUVN, Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX. Raquel shared the news with friends via this post on Facebook. She has been the Managing Editor (and earlier, EP) ...
After three years on the evening anchor desk at Quincy’s WREX in the Quad Cities, Sean Musarello is leaving the business for “a job that will allow him more time to spend time ...
Ronan Farrow, whose landmark Harvey Weinstein exposes were deemed insufficiently vetted by NBC News, continues to tweak the network. Over the holiday, he posted on Instagram a still shot taken from one of ...
Regulars of Scripps’ WTVF found their morning viewing routine disrupted with the departure of Steve Hayslip from the AM anchor desk. According to the station, he left to help build up a family business. ...
The four million Dish customers who didn’t get to see the San Diego Chargers stick it to the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day now have the network back. Cold comfort. Dish and CBS ...
Over the holiday weekend, formerly-respected tv host Charlie Rose: 1. Had his 2015 Excellence in Journalism award rescinded by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University, 2. Saw the University ...
@realDonaldTrump @FoxNews is MUCH more important in the United States than CNN, but outside of the U.S., CNN International is still a major source of (Fake) news, and they represent our Nation to the ...
In the meantime, as the Department of Justice studiously avoids the growing monopolistic threat posed to local television by the likely Sinclair Broadcast-Tribune merger, it is hell bent on forcing AT&T to divest itself ...
