We’re told that FCC chair and industry lobbyist Ajit Pai is not making a recommendation about the proposed lifting of station ownership caps – a draft of which was released last week. And ...
"We do not and will not block, throttle, or discriminate against lawful content – and we will be transparent with our customers about these policies." So sayeth Comcast senior EVP David Cohen on the ...
Mrs. B hopes if you're responsible for news graphics or web stories that you'll capitalize both Thanksgiving and Day. Here are nine things historians say are true about Thanksgiving 1. The first Thanksgiving was ...
Breanna Molloy recently moved to Scripps flagship WCPO in Cincinnati, OH as a multimedia journalist. Most recently Molloy was an MMJ at Cordillera’s KATC in Lafayette, LA. She is a graduate of Regent University.
Allen Carter is moving to Dispatch Broadcast’s WTHR in Indianapolis as a multimedia journalist. Carter was an MMJ for the past six years at Nexstar’s WRKG in Mobile, AL. The California native received ...
Former Fox News Radio correspondent Jessica Golloher told a British panel that her efforts to go to Russia and investigate possible links between President Donald Trump and Russia were blocked by the network. ...
Talk radio host Mark Levin is headed for a weekly hour on Fox News Channel. “Life, Liberty & Levin” will air Sunday nights at 10 pm beginning next February. It says right here ...
Face it, school communications is just not as exciting and weather forecasting. Ask Matt Meister, who is returning to the weather forecast center, this time at Nexstar’s KXRM in Colorado Springs, CO. He ...
Brian Conybeare is going home. He’s leaving WCBS, where he’s been since 2015 and heading to Weigel Broadcasting’s WBND in South Bend, IN, where he will co-anchor the weekday 5, 5:30, 6 and 11pm ...
Cox Media Group filled a lot of holes just before the long holiday weekend. With Tom Raponi's upcoming retirement, Joe Pomilla will lead Boston as VP-GM of WFXT. Previously, Pomilla, a 30-year broadcasting veteran, ...
Megan Colarossi has been named co-host of “Good Day LA” on Fox-owned KTTV, sitting next to Steve Edwards. It’s already happening. “Megan has proven to be the perfect combination of intelligence and warmth, and ...
Just in time to ‘’fowl up” your Thanksgiving Day football viewing plans, CBS has gone dark on Dish Network. The network, it’s O&Os, CBS Sports Network and even the Smithsonian Channel – all ...
And the “restructuring” continues at NBC Sports Chicago, where last week a host of producers, some executives and the White Sox beat writer were dropped. Robert Feder reports that the most recent to ...
FCC TO “REVIEW” OWNERSHIP CAPS Pai continues to be the gift that keeps on giving to Sinclair Broadcast Group. In another greasing of the skids to make Sinclair’s all-but-done takeover of Tribune Media ...
As promised, FCC Chairman and media industry shill Ajit Pai Tuesday announced plans to scrap net neutrality regulations and hand our friends at Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon a gift of even more power ...
Megyn Kelly has her own Charlie Rose story to tell – one that left her more than a little pissed off and betrayed when it happened one year ago this week. “I asked Charlie ...
Nope, that didn’t take long at all did it? Less than 24 hours after an explosive “Washington Post” story, Charlie Rose is a former…well former everything except “accused sex offender”. CBS was the ...
A careful writer, and Mrs. B hopes you are, makes sure that "only" lands in the correct place. Look at how the placement of "only" affects the meaning of this sentence: I hit him ...
Nate Hill exited the KSNT studio on New Year’s Eve in 2014 after a 17 year career that took him from sports intern to news director and principal anchor of the Nexstar station in ...
Back in June, we told you that Louis Aguirre was returning to the Miami airwaves after a stint on the cancelled syndicated program “The Insiders.” And it is full circle for Aguirre, with ...
Rachel Wulff showed up on the anchor desk at Tegna’s KXTV in Sacramento, CA over the weekend. We last saw her in March when she announced her departure for maternity leave at sister station ...
Former Boston news anchor Heather Unruh says that since she told how her then-18 year old son was assaulted in 2016 by actor Kevin Spacey, at least eight other alleged victims have come ...
Patricia Janiot, the longtime face of CNN En Español, is heading to Univision, where she will co-anchor the network’s late-night newscast, "Noticiero Univision Edición Nocturna". Her co-anchor will be Enrique Acevedo. Beginning in January, ...
Mike Mangas, who’s been a fixture at Sinclair’s KRCR in Redding, CA since the mid-1970’s is leaving his post as news anchor, and the business, after 40+ years. “It would be impossible to put ...
Down in Atlanta, Rodney Ho wondered what happened with Constance Jones, who lasted less than a year on “Good Day Atlanta” on Fox-owned WAGA, before hot-footing it back to Miami last spring. Turns ...
Let the speculation end, Robert Feder reports out of Chicago that the Darlene Hill era is official over at Fox-owned WFLD. She’s been off the station's morning show ever since her contract expired ...
We were wondering how long it would take a stateside TV operation to make a more permanent presence in Puerto Rico to cover the heroic, but under-supported efforts of the island to recover from ...
As employees steel themselves for the bad news, ESPN expects that the anticipated layoffs of up to 100 employees just in time for Christmas will save the stumbling network up to $80 million. ...
You diehard NFL fans secure in your firm belief that your favorite sport will always be freely available on over the air television need to wake up. Verizon Communications is thisclose to a new ...
So what’s it worth to Disney, Comcast, Verizon, Sony and any other company that would like to take a run at the divisions of 21st Century Fox the Murdochs are willing to part ...
Well wouldn’t you know it? No sooner do the AT&T brass throw their support behind CNN boss Jeff Zucker that the Trump Department of Justice sues to block the proposed merger with TimeWarner. ...
The rabidly anti-consumer, public-interest-hostile FCC is set to jettison net neutrality, a move that will delight mammoth ISPs around the country and send your internet bill up. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will ...
You may not know who Glenn Thrush is, but he is one of the latest to get swept up in sexual harassment allegations. In an article for "Vox”, reporter Laura McGann interviewed a ...
Really? Charlie Rose?!! Eight women have come forward in a "Washington Post" article to accuse “CBS This Morning” co-host Charlie Rose of sexual improprieties ranging from lewd phone calls, walking around naked in their ...
Yes, it’s true. Gene Simmons, the perpetually adolescent lead singer of nostalgia rock act Kiss has been banned for life from Fox News. His picture posted at the security entrance and everything. Simmons, ...
Recent college grad Marcus Beasley is the new weekend meteorologist at Gray’s KJCT in Grand Junction CO. He comes to the station from the University of North Carolina Charlotte, where he earned his ...
Weekend anchor Anoushah Rasta is signing off from Graham Media’s KPRC in Houston TX. and heading back to her home town of Los Angeles, CA – evidently with no job to show up ...
We promised you an update on the career plans of Steve Korioth who left the ND job at WVVA in Bluefield, WV, a few weeks ago. Steve tells us he's returned to his native ...
Collin Bishop has been promoted to Assistant ND for Tegna's WGRZ in Buffalo. He's worked there for 15 years and most recently was the EP of the morning newscast. He's also worked in South ...
Another news director change in another small Wisconsin market as Lane Kimble is being promoted to ND for Rockfleet Broadcasting owned WJFW, Rhinelander, WI. He's been the Assistant ND here for the past 2 ...
We're a bit tardy in reporting Ryan Hazelwood as the news director for Cordillera owned KOAA, Colorado Springs, CO. Ryan most recently was the ND at KVII in Amarillo, a job he left in ...
On October 22, Gray Hall had just started anchoring the noon news on ABC-owned WPVI in Philadelphia when he sensed something was wrong. “I was able to get through the opening,” Gray said. “So ...
Lisa Patrow is the newly-minted news director at Gray’s WEAU in Eau Claire, WI. The Wisconsin native had been working in the development field for the past few years until she was tapped on ...
After 7 years, weekend anchor Thomas Roberts is history at MSNBC. “Thomas Roberts has decided to leave MSNBC for other endeavors. He’s been a valued member of the NBC News and MSNBC family ...
Jason Mojica, the executive producer of Vice Media’s documentary films unit, has been suspended in the wake of a sexual harassment allegation. The charge appeared in an online article last week, in which several ...
Midnight SportsCenter host Scott Van Pelt has pretty much had it with the ESPN critics who complain about the network’s supposed left-leaning bias. SVP, in fact, called those critics “chickenshit.” He is especially ...
CBS last week completed the spinoff of CBS Radio to Entercom Communications. As part of the deal, Entercom will have the use of KCBS-AM-FM and WCBS-AM-FM call letters for 20 years. CBS News ...
Montana Republican congressman Greg Gianforte falsely stated that Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs had initiated physical contact and that the “liberal media … is trying to make a story”, according to the police incident report ...
4,000 shows after it ended “better than ever” ESPN’s “Mike & Mike” said goodbye Friday on radio and on ESPN2. Next spring, Mike Greenberg will emerge as host of a new morning show ...
Add Verizon to the list of mega-giants seeking to become even bigger by nabbing a piece of 21st Century Fox. Disney and Comcast has already had conversations about everything that the Murdochs have ...
We will admit we never got that “thing” so many people have about Maria Bartiromo. In fact, the most memorable thing we can recount about her is that “The Ramones” recorded a song about ...
Changes are coming to NewsBlues. On December 11, we will launch a more streamlined website. A new look. Newsblues 2.0 Easier access to the daily newsletter and both recent and older archived stories. ...
Nowadays, Buffalo meteorologist Don Paul does his weather forecasting for WKBW. Before joining the station, he spent the better part of three decades at WIVB, now a Nexstar station. His reputation spreads far beyond ...
A new face will soon grace the airwaves at Sinclair’s KGBT in Harlingen, TX. Marybel González is coming on board as sole anchor of the Saturday 6 and 10 pm and Sunday 5:30 and ...
Our old WTVJ colleague Bob Mayer left tv news and had a swell cake when he exited WTVJ back in 2010. But the camera still seeks him out. You may have seen him ...
Gretchen Koenen, an MMJ with Nexstar’s KSNT in Topeka, KS was wrapping up a live shot Wednesday night and starting a Facebook Live feed when she was approached by a stranger. And the incident ...
Another day, another zombie tv station sold. This time it’s independent KOFY in San Francisco being sold by Silver Point Capital to Stryker Media 2 . Zombies are stations that sold their spectrum in ...
A few years back, HLN revamped its programming schedule to emphasize news during the day and true crime and investigation at night. The general format remains the same but the network is doing ...
Connecticut state representative Bob Godfrey(D), one of the lawmakers originally involved in the creation of CT-N, says he intends to file legislation that either gives the public affairs network full control of its ...
Welcome to our first digital age news room feud: Buzzfeed vs. CNN. In this corner, CNN with 400 employees and multiple networks and digital platforms. And in this corner, Buzzfeed, a scrappy operation ...
Fox News anchor Kelly Wright is in the middle of a lawsuit against his employer over racial discrimination. And now he appears to be willing to put himself in the middle of the Murdochs' ...
As industry self-congratulatory gestures go, you can’t beat the Newseum, one of the more imposing buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue in the District of Columbia. Memorabilia, multi-media displays, mini-studios where visitors can indulge their ...
We’d rather they didn’t, but Charles and David Koch are backing Meredith Corporation’s bid to buy Time Inc. publisher of “Time” and “People” magazines. (yes, Time still publishes) The Kochs are said to ...
Nexstar’s KETK celebrated its 30th anniversary in Tyler, TX with a brand-new broadcast facility. CEO Perry Sook is excited. “This is a very exciting time for Nexstar and our East Texas operations, as ...
Chalk up another victim of Hurricane Harvey. After much speculation, Tegna’s KHOU is leaving it’s Allen Parkway complex for a new home. KHOU President and General Manager Susan McEldoon issued a statement making it ...
Disney had a shot, now it’s Comcast looking to snap up assets from 21st Century Fox. The cable giant wants to explore talks to buy Fox’s movie and TV studio, some of its cable ...
Leeann Tweeden, the news anchor for "McIntyre in the Morning" on KABC Radio in Los Angeles, says back before he was the junior Senator from Minnesota, Al Franken groped her while she was sleeping ...
If you were driving past Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Hunt Valley, MD. corporate headquarters yesterday, that was the sound of champagne corks popping. The FCC, strictly along party lines, voted yesterday to eliminate the 42-year-old ...
Mrs. B wonders if you've noticed the words "council" and "counsel" misused. A “council” is a group of people appointed or elected to serve in a deliberative, administrative, or legislative capacity. ~City council is ...
With barely a ripple, anchor Don Postles of Nexstar’s WIVB in Buffalo, NY slipped back into his usual anchor chair after an unexplained absence of several weeks. Whatever the still-officially-unexplained reason, it appeared to ...
“What Jemele said about the president is wrong from the standpoint of her representing ESPN. If you’re on your own, you can tweet, text, get an airplane and fly a banner…But when you’re ...
"WGN Morning News" sports anchor and stand-up comic Pat Tomasulo is officially getting his own late night weekly topical comedy show starting in January on the Tribune station. Plans were unwrapped Wednesday for ...
CNBC’s “Squawk Box” is really on the street in their new studio home. Midweek, the folks at CNBC unveiled a new street-level set at the NASDAQ overlooking Times Square. The new set is ...
Maranatha Broadcasting’s WFMZ, an independent station in Allentown, PA is showing off a new Devlin Design Group creation – the station’s first new set in ten years. It competes nicely with anything its ...
On some of those bad days at the office, you would often hear someone grumble they were ready to give up the business for PR. Not many ever made the leap. Tina Shively has. ...
Nexstar’s WNCT in Greenville, SC has signed Shayla Reaves as its new evening anchor. She’s coming from Fox-owned WTVT in Tampa where she was a reporter and fill-in anchor for more than four years. ...
Gray’s KWCH in Wichita, KS has promoted assistant news director Kim Wilhelm to the No1 slot. She’s been acting news director since October 2, replacing Brian Gregory, who left for another job. “Kim has ...
LA Times political commentator and cartoonist David Horsey just keeps getting flayed for his recent column that made some disparaging remarks about White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and this line: “Much like ...
21st Century Fox is vehemently denying a witness’s allegation that the company bribed FIFA officials to win TV rights for international tournaments. The allegation came in federal court yesterday from Alexander Burzaco, a ...
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin is working on a new book examining the investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. “This is the book that Jeff Toobin was born to write,” ...
At the company’s annual stockholders’ meeting, Fox executives were all “thumbs-up“ regarding their oft-delayed acquisition of Britain’s Sky TV, save for one final hurdle – a review by the UK Competition and Markets Authority, ...
Russia’s Parliament on Wednesday approved legislation requiring foreign media organization’s to label their news product as the work of a foreign agent. This is in direct retaliation for the US requiring RT, the ...
So far, the Department of Justice is finding few allies among attorneys general at the state level as it ramps up its effort to force a divestiture of CNN by AT&T. For its ...
No doubt anticipating a swift passage of its Tribune Media acquisition through the FCC, Sinclair Broadcast Group announced plans for a $12 million expansion of its Hunt Valley, MD corporate headquarters and a ...
Really, it is time for a remake of the movie “A Face In The Crowd”. And while Arthur Godfrey served, in part, as the model for the character Lonesome Rhodes, played by Andy Griffith, ...
With his wife Edith by his side, Bernard Waterman, founder of Waterman Broadcasting, passed away over the weekend in Sanibel Florida. Waterman’s company owns WBBH in Ft. Myers and WVIR in Charlottesville, VA. Waterman ...
Jordan Vandenberge, morning reporter for Nexstar’s WEHT in Evansville, IN is moving east. After 7 years with the station, he’s moving to Cleveland and a job with Scripps’ WEWS. He took to Facebook: “While ...
Claudia de la Fuente is the new co-anchor of the KBLR Telemundo’s weekday evening newscasts in Las Vegas. De la Fuente replaces Alejandra Ortiz, who left the station earlier this year to become KVEA ...
Really, after sponsoring and airing the city’s Christmas parade for 43 years, did the Greater Raleigh Merchants Association think Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL would just slink away after losing out to Disney’s WTVD? The parade ...
It’s a new set for Gray’s WYMT in Hazard, KY and the emphasis is on the station’s surroundings in the Kentucky mountains. A faux stone finish and a large video wall that shows off ...
A new contract between anchor Hala Gorani and CNN International resulted in a branding change for the London-based program. “The world has changed almost beyond recognition in the past three years, and the ...
Spectrum speculator OTA Broadcasting has donated the license and other assets of low-power WEBR New York to noncommercial WNET New York, according to the transfer application filed with the FCC. OTA has also agreed ...
A six-decade history of broadcasting ends at the close of 2017, as KCCO in Alexandria, MN signs off for good. The station, which began life 59 years ago as KCMT until it was ...
Tuesday, Simmons College in Boston announced the establishing of the Gwen Ifill College of Media, Arts and Humanities. “For over 100 years, our mission at Simmons has been to prepare our students to lead ...
In a perfect world, people like us who spent half their working lives in local television would righteously shun anything that threatened the existence of local tv. Like Netflix. We can’t. We admit it. ...
The folks at Fox seem to have a tough time with ethical boundaries. A former sports marketing executive testified Tuesday that Fox Sports paid bribes to soccer officials to retain broadcast rights. The ...
How does Shep Smith stay employed? God bless him for it, though. Yesterday Smith spent an inordinate amount of time dismantling his own network’s current pet Clinton conspiracy story – the “Uranium One” agreement. ...
First it’s Neil Cavuto, who says he’s “just not interested” in doing a sit-down with the Chief Executive because it "probably would not add" value. "It’s true, no presidential interview request into the White ...
