VOLVO DROPS HANNITY – HANNITY DROPS MOORE Well, it’s probably only a matter of time before we start reading about, and seeing diehard Sean Hannity fans running their Volvos into concrete walls or ...
We’ve missed The Mooch. So our heartbeat picked it up a bit when we saw that Anthony Scaramucci is shopping around a book that will chronicle the shortest tenure ever for a White House ...
Matt Zimmerman, vice president of booking, news and entertainment for NBC News, was booted from the network after two women filed complaints of inappropriate behavior. The network issued a terse, to-the-point statement: “We have ...
Squash is a kind of vegetable (though from a botanical standpoint, it's a fruit). And squash is a racket sport that's played with a small, hollow rubber ball. But the "squash" that's a verb ...
Greg Fishel, chief meteorologist at Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL in Raleigh, NC used to be a skeptic about the notion of climate change. He’s not anymore. In this piece for the "Columbia Journalism Review," Fishel ...
Ryan Hanrahan is the newly-minted chief met for NBC-owned WVIT in Hartford, CT. The Connecticut native is thrilled. And excited. “I’m thrilled for this opportunity and excited to continue to share my love of ...
Trading one flagship station for another, sports anchor Duke Castiglione is taking leave of Fox-owned WNYW in Manhattan and heading for Hearst’s WCVB in Boston. He’ll be the weekend evening news anchor and general ...
For the attention span-challenged, presenting “Sportscenter on Snapchat”, still another excuse to clutter up your smartphone with another app, and cut that cord at home. The regular schedule begins today, with new shows available ...
We are in the final days for ESPN’s “Mike & Mike”, an 18-year habit for many of us. The mic drops for Greeny on Friday and Trey Wingo will be picking it up ...
Chicago is losing the public TV station operated by City Colleges of Chicago. After 34 years, WYCC will go off the air in two weeks and 12 jobs will be eliminated when it goes ...
As if taking over NBCSN, CNBC, MSNBC and USA Network, not to mention NBC prime time, for the Winter Olympics in February wasn't enough, NBC also is ramping up the hype for a news ...
With half the staff it once had, CT-N, the Connecticut public affairs network that provides live coverage of the Connecticut legislature is back on the air with reduced programming 13 recently pink-slipped employees got ...
Sharon Butterworth moves across the street to Tribune’s WTIC in New Haven as the new deuce in the newsroom. She had been director of special projects at NBC’s WVIT. This is her third station ...
During her appearance with CNN's Wolf Blitzer yesterday in “The Situation Room”, Rebecca Berg announced she is now a full-time political reporter for the network. She’s been a CNN contributor for some time as ...
Robert Feder reports that 12 people lost their jobs in a round of layoffs at NBC Sports Chicago. Cord cutting a revenue declines were cited as the reasons for the cuts, which included including ...
Fox news entertainment host Sean Hannity is backtracking and now asking his Keurig-smashing bobble-heads to stop the madness. Hannity would have us believe his decision was based on sympathy for the Keurig Company which ...
WSNS Telemundo Chicago is launching an investigative team. Hilda Gutiérrez will head up Telemundo Chicago Investiga. Co-owned WMAQ will be a partner in the unit. “This is an exciting time for Telemundo Chicago,” said ...
We have a question. If we are to believe, courtesy of Sinclair suits and FCC Chair Pai, that the Sinclair-Tribune merger MUST be approved to save the industry because “scale is important” (and 223 ...
Hill opponents of the Sinclair-Tribune merger quite frankly may have been late to the party, but they are ramping up their efforts. Monday, a group of House Democrats, led by New Jersey Rep. ...
Tonight at 6:30 eastern on the Fox News Channel, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum will host a town hall meeting on tax reform with House Speaker Paul Ryan. Baier will precede the town hall ...
David Charns, the morning anchor at Hearst’s WMTW in Portland, ME. had to deal with a social media moron recently. Charns, who’s been with the station for the past two and a half years, ...
And First Prize for Dumbest. Bank. Robber. EVER! This guy. Eric Rivers. Meredith WCGL reporter Ashley Rivers was doing one of those MOS stories about traffic at a busy intersection in Atlanta, when Rivers ...
IN at Meredith’s KCTV and KSMO in Kansas City, MO. – Chuck Poduska as the new station general manager. OUT is Mike Cukyne, who had been GM for the past three years. Poduska is ...
Larry Forsgren is the new general manager at Scripps' KMTV in Omaha, NE. He’s been director of sales at the station. Prior to Scripps, Forsgren was the director of sales for WMBD-WYZZ Peoria, Ill.; ...
Really, when Jane Robelot returned fulltime to Hearst’s WYFF in Greenville, SC. in August for a “limited run” anchoring at 4 & 5, didn’t it feel like something more than “limited?” And so it ...
Must be the New England water. Two idiots within 24 hours of each other caused minor panic at two television stations with bomb threats that turned out to be hoaxes. In Burlington, VT, Gray’s ...
How’s the view under that bus, Mr. Costas? Veteran NBC sportscaster Bob Costas did a bit of truth-telling last week at a University of Maryland panel on the dangers of football and the ...
Cheddar is one of those new web presences. Its specialty right now is business videos. But next year, Cheddar plans to launch a second channel devoted to national and international news. The new channel, ...
Lena Sadiwskyj returns to TV after a 2+ year hiatus in marketing. It's also a return to Gray Television for Lena, as she takes over at WTVY in Dothan, AL. Here's the memo from ...
Barb Roethler has been named ND for Gray’s WILX in Lansing, MI. Barb, a veteran of the Detroit market, been the interim ND since Kevin Ragan suffered a stroke almost a year ago. Kevin ...
Julie Flynn joins Tegna owned WZZM in Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo, MI from Tegna’s WKYC in Cleveland, where she was an executive producer. She's spent the last 15 years in Cleveland, working at both WKYC and ...
Trump son-in-law and aide Jared Kushner told Time Warner executive Gary Ginsberg that CNN should fire 20% of its staff because they were so wrong in their analysis of the election and how it ...
The Baltimore Sun's David Zurawik brings to our attention a report on Sinclair's WBMA in Birmingham, Al about the Roy Moore case. A lazy MOS-based piece that was picked up by Breitbart and featured ...
As AT&T deals with an unprecedented demand from the Department of Justice that it divest CNN if it wants its proposed merger with Time-Warner to go through, we hear that Rupert Murdoch twice expressed ...
At least six sponsors have pulled their advertising from Sean Hannity’s Fox News conspiracy-themed entertainment hour following his kid-gloves treatment of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. E-Trade, Nature's Bounty, 23 and Me, Eloquii, Realtor.com ...
According to "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace, the president has “engaged in the most direct, sustained assault on a free press in our history”. But, says Wallace, he may have a point about ...
Last week, the Department of Justice gave RT America, the Kremlin-backed 24/7 cable channel, until today to register as a foreign agent. RT, a division of Russia Today, says it will go to ...
So tweeted sports reporter Pierre Noujaim at the end of yesterday when he reportedly left the Tegna KXTV newsroom in Sacramento CA. for the last time. He covered the Kings and other Northern California ...
Tanzina Vega is leaving her correspondent position at CNN after two and a half years. She made the announcement on Twitter: “Professional news: I've decided to leave CNN to pursue new opportunities in journalism, ...
Morning anchor Brian Loftus is re-adjusting his alarm clock. He’s been promoted to the evening anchor chair at Nexstar’s KLAS in Las Vegas, NV. He has a little under two months to get adjusted. ...
Brett Anthony, who once guessed the weather over the course of 11 years for Scripps’ KSHB, is back in Kansas City, this time at Meredith’s KCTV on the weekend newscasts. In the intervening period, ...
CONNECTICUT GOVERNOR CHASTISES STATE LAWMAKERS The Connecticut Public Affairs Network, which until last week ran the state government affairs channel known as CT-N, pink-slipped 22 employees this week. Some had been with the ...
Lisa Knutson will permanently step into the role of executive vice president and chief financial officer of E.W. Scripps. She’s been filling the position since the former CFO, Tim Wesolowski, left in early October. ...
ABC NEWS MAKES TWO NEWSROOM PROMOTIONS Just what any news operation needs. Two more folks with “executive” in their job title. David Reiter has been named Executive Producer, Special Events after, according to ABC ...
Somehow a story involving lawyers seem appropriate after a story about prostate exams. In the latest edition of the NewsBlues Billable Hours Review, we call on Robert Feder in Chicago, who has the ...
We all know how much fun prostate exams can be. Well, maybe not all of us, but enough to know it will never make a guy’s top 10 list of Fun Things To Do ...
Megyn Kelly went into her new tv show hoping to become American housewives’ new best friend with a warm and fuzzy hour. It hasn’t worked out that way. In fact, Kelly’s ratings with the ...
As we delve further into the alternative universe of Fox News prime-time and early-morning entertainment programming… “The Washington Post’s” Erik Wemple asks a very good question: “Why has Fox News abandoned Benghazi?” Let's ...
Remember the ol’ days about 14 months ago, when Fox News was hugely skeptical and highly critical of Donald Trump? To quote Hillary Clinton, “What happened?” Don’t ask us. Ask Trump buddy and determinedly ...
As Senate Democrats continue to write letters to FCC Chair Ajit Pai demanding a further delay in a decision regarding ownership caps, Pai is insisting in a “New York Times” op-ed that the caps ...
Let's look at two sets of words that sound alike but have such different meanings. "Addition" is the process of adding (one plus one is two) or something added, such as a room to ...
Tubas aren’t your normal accompaniment to a fine dining experience. What if the tuba is played by the dude who does the weather on your local tv station? The time: Tuesday night. The place: ...
Ilia Calderón has her work cut out for her on her next assignment – co-anchor of Univision's flagship evening newscast, “Noticiero Univision” alongside Jorge Ramos. Univision has chosen her to fill the spot currently ...
40 years is a long time to spend in any place. 40 years in the same anchor chair is nothing short of a Herculean feat of endurance and survival in the tv news business. ...
We don’t know, you tell us why NBC-owned WCAU in Philadelphia chose to pay tribute to Cy Young winner Roy Halladay on the day he died in a plane crash with an endless montage ...
Natasha Stenbock showed up yesterday as the new chief meteorologist at Nexstar’s KOIN in Portland, OR. She most recently worked at Fox-owned KMSP in Minneapolis. The Portland native has also worked in San Diego ...
Erica Simon is the newest member of the news team at Disney’s KTRK in Houston, TX. She signed on yesterday. As Erica Bennett, she was the weekend morning anchor at Cox-owned WJAX in Jacksonville, ...
Former tv host Greta Van Susteren is about to launch “Sorry”, an app that has a ton of potential to rupture lifelong friendships, and lead to public judgment of celebrities who find themselves needing ...
It seems even if 21st Century Fox had manned up and moved to fire Bill O’Reilly before his new contract kicked in, they wouldn’t have been able to. O'Reilly had a clause in his ...
Former Boston anchor Heather Unruh was the interview subject yesterday when she went in front of tv cameras to detail the alleged sexual assault of her son by actor Kevin Spacey. Unruh had been ...
While speaking on a panel at the University of Maryland this week, longtime NBC Sports broadcaster Bob Costas laid it on the line: “The reality is that this game destroys people’s brains." Whoa! Respect ...
This makes us feel better and it should you as well. 21st Century Fox absolutely pinky swears to UK regulators that if they allow the acquisition of Sky TV, it will not result in ...
Let us pause for a moment and consider that NBC’s “Meet the Press” is observing its 70th year of existence. It’s come a long way from the days of Lawrence Spivak and Ned Brooks ...
Didja hear the one about the newspaper columnist who thought he was being clever by body-shaming White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders? David Horsey, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning "Los Angeles Times" cartoonist, is ...
Colony Capital has lost interest in acquiring The Weinstein Company, less than a month after announcing it would provide a cash infusion for the company and explore buying it. They must have read Ronan ...
Fox News chief conspiracy theorist Sean Hannity took more time yesterday to announce his employer’s latest hire than he spent on election coverage Tuesday night. Election coverage lasted all of six seconds in Hannity’s ...
We think it was pretty common knowledge that the guy in the White House spent a lot of time hating on CNN. But for the Justice Department to say the $85.4-billion AT&T-TimeWarner deal ...
Longtime WRC NBC Washington intern and associate producer Andrew Tomasello lost his battle with cancer. “He was one of those special interns with an infectious smile,” said anchor Jim Handly. “Andrew made a point ...
Veteran journalist Mike Cherry got his winter wardrobe together, leaving Hawaii and SJL Broadcasting’s KITV behind for a move into an anchor-reporter slot at Hearst’s WMUR inManchester, NH. Cherry arrives in New Hampshire ...
Keith Jones is the new 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. news anchor at NBC-owned WTVJ in Miami, teaming up with Trina Robinson. He’s coming off weekends to take the place of Adam Kuperstein who ...
When you write “Retirement is everything I expected” on your Twitter feed and your station bio page comes up as “Ooops… Error 404,” chances are good that you are gone. Such is the ...
Dana Loesch is ending her program on “The Blaze” after four years. The NRA spokesperson made the announcement at the end of her Monday broadcast. Her future remains unannounced, but perhaps her BDSM-inspired web ...
The next time The Weather Channel deploys its troops to scare the hell out of us with impending weather doom, they’ll be stylin’ in handsome new duds provided by Lands’s End. We thought you’d ...
We think we’d like watching the revamped version of “The National” from the CBC. The Canadian nightly news just unveiled a new set that is fairly monochromatic with minimal gew-gaws cluttering up the ...
It took a year but Chicago’s WLS has finally filled its weekend morning anchor slot. Robert Feder reports that joining Stacy Baca at the ABC O&O’s anchor desk will be Mark Rivera. The one-time ...
Kari Patey, currently the assistant news director for WNBC in New York, is headed back to the Twin Cities as news director for CBS's WCCO. The move represents a homecoming for Patey, who got ...
Rick Gevers reports that John Wilson has been named ND for CBS-owned KYW in Philadelphia. The move is effective immediately. He’s been filling that role on an interim basis since Margaret Cronan departed in ...
When fake news creators die, do their “fake news” websites die with them? In the case of the late Paul Horner, the answer appears to be “yes”. Horner, who once boasted in ”The ...
In a corporate equivalent of holding one’s breath until one gets its way, Britain’s Sky-TV is threatening to shut down its 24-hour news channel if its existence becomes an obstacle in Rupert Murdoch’s teetering ...
The Coalition to Save Local Media, formed to block the proposed merger of Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media, just keeps adding organizations to its ranks. Six new organizations have signed on, including United ...
Former television anchor and Democrat Chris Hurst, whose girlfriend Alison Parker was killed on live television in 2015, has won the race for the 12th district of Virginia's House of Delegates. Parker and her ...
Why anyone would expend time and energy refuting a little pisher like Fox News entertainment host Tucker Carlson we’ll never know. But here is CNN “officially” harrumphing against Carlson’s charge that the network is ...
When Ronan Farrow first crossed our radar a few years back as a wunderkind tv host on MSNBC, we admit we were less than impressed. But every time he comes up with another installment ...
Mrs. B's inspiration for today's lesson is this email: All too often I hear reporters use the terms "jail" and "prison" as if they are interchangeable. To the best of my knowledge, they are ...
Over the weekend at the Pasadena Civic Center in California, the legendary Vin Scully was the main attraction at something called “An Evening With Vin Scully.” And, as you might expect with a Hall ...
Mari Ossenfort has about to embark on her second go-round in the Sioux Falls, SD market. She’s been tapped as the new general sales manager at Nexstar’s KELO. She’s coming from North Dakota where ...
Racquel Asa, traffic and transportation anchor-reporter for Cox-owned WFTV in Orlando, expects to be back on the job later this week. She’s been recovering from what she describes as “an impromptu and much needed ...
When NBC fires up its coverage of the PyeongChang, South Korea Winter Olympics, its cable networks will be getting a huge chunk of programming. NBCSN will have 368.5 hours of the 450 hours of ...
Down Oklahoma City way, the Lost Ogle Blog takes in one of those substance-free “exclusive” interviews local television serves up during sweeps. In this case, Kelly Ogle of Griffin Communications’ KWTV sat down to ...
Allison Gibson is the new news director at Quincy’s KWWL in Cedar Rapid, IA. She moves into the job from sister station WEEK/WHOI in Peoria IL. The 30-year broadcast veteran has also worked in ...
Dish Network last July filed a federal lawsuit against Univision, charging the network distributed Mexican soccer games via Facebook in violation of a carriage agreement. Univision moved to dismiss the suit, but Dish wants ...
After nearly 26 years, CNN en Español senior anchor Patricia Janiot is leaving the network. She announced her departure, saying she had decided to accept a new position that would “broaden her horizons” and ...
CNN is mulling the notion of “Build That Wall” for what it considers to be the premium content contained on CNN Money and CNN Politics. But when, as a consumer, you’ve been getting the ...
Fox News is no longer seen in Britain, the result of 21st Century Fox realizing no one there wanted to watch Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson when they already have Graham Norton and Benny ...
Sinclair’s KSNV, the “Los Angeles Times”, the Associated Press, ABC News, and the “Washington Post” have joined together to sue the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. The news organizations claims that the LVMPD is ...
