After telling you about the “roses and rainbows” portion of Nexstar’s first-quarter report, now is the time to look at a bud Mr. Sook and company hopes sprouts from the ratings-challenged thorn that is ...
Hearst is moving Mike Cherry off the 5 pm anchor desk at WMUR in Manchester, NH and shipping him cross-country to sister station KCRA in Sacramento where he will join the morning news team. ...
WDJT, the Weigel-owned outlet in Milwaukee, WI this week launched the “CBS 58 News Quickcast,” an all-new digital newscast that promises to get users caught up on the day’s big stories and give them ...
We’re told that family reasons have caused Jeff Woodard to step down as news director for Tegna s/t/b Standard Media’s WGRZ in Buffalo, NY. It was just two months ago that Woodard returned to ...
Jason Walker started this week as the new Assistant ND for KBTX Gray’s station in Bryan, TX. He’s been the news operations manager and chief photographer at Sinclair’s KEYE in Austin, TX. Coventry Adrian ...
Joey Sulipeck has been chief meteorologist at Cox-owned WHBQ in Memphis for more than 18 years. So one might have thought he’d have another think before sending out a complaining tweet after the Memphis ...
It hasn’t been a good year for the folks at One America News, the 24/7 cable network for people who think Newsmax and Fox News are foam-at-the-mouth liberals. First they lost their principal underwriter ...
After 53 years of covering the Eagles and all of the rest of Philadelphia sports, Ray Didinger is hanging up his IFB at NBC Sports Philadelphia and his weekend radio show. “I loved the ...
Paul Caron moves within Nexstar to take over as news director for WBTW in Myrtle Beach, SC. Caron has been the ND for Nexstar’s WHNT in Huntsville, AL for the last three years. He ...
Buffalo media watcher Alan Pergament reports that there might be a dual exit from the morning news program at Scripps’ WKBW. Pergament has gotten indications that both “AM Buffalo” co-host Melanie Camp and meteorologist ...
After 27 years of anchoring at Tegna s/t/b Standard Media’s WQAD in the Quad Cities, Jim Mertens is pulling up stakes at the end of the week and making the short hop to Gray’s ...
First it was Gray, then came Tegna s/t/b Standard Media. And now it is Nexstar’s turn. The first quarter of 2022 saw the company’s net revenue rise 8.6% from the same quarter of 2021 ...
After just under three years of reporting and weekend morning anchoring at Sinclair’s WWMT in Kalamazoo, MI, Hannah Knowles is moving west and closer to her Pacific Northwest roots. The “Legendary” KOMO is a ...
Mindy Basara has decided that 18 years at the morning anchor desk for Hearst’s WBAL in Baltimore, MD is enough. But she’s not leaving the station that she joined 24 years ago as a ...
The new weekend forecaster at Telemundo’s KVDA is Yahaira Hernandez. She shared the news will still at her former station, Telemundo’s KXTQ in Lubbock where she produced and anchored, as well as forecasting the ...
As Deborah Turness, at one time president of NBC News during a rather turbulent period, prepares to take on her new role as CEO of BBC News, her replacement at ITN in Britain has ...
Come June, a new face will grace the morning airwaves at Weigel’s WDJT in Milwaukee, WI. Frankie Jupiter is coming from Sinclair’s WSTM in Syracuse, NY, where he’s anchored mornings for the past three ...
It’s been an unsettling couple of weeks for the employees of CNN what with the merger of Warner and Discovery, the shutting down on the barely-month-old CNN + and a new boss in the ...
We’ve been watching Grant Stinchfield’s fact-free, unhinged rants going back to the days when he was a paid flack for the NRA. Check some of his past antics here and here. He was a ...
NewsNation waited until they had a win under their belt before announcing an election year partnership with Decision Desk HQ. Decision Desk HQ provides state by state polling data and serves as the NewsNation ...
Marvin Hurst has been a staple of San Antonio television news ever since he joined Tegna s/t/b Standard Media’s KENS 17½ years ago. Hurst, who will continue to produce the station’s series “Kids Who ...
We told you last month that Sally Kidd ended her 17-year run as national correspondent for the Hearst Television stations, keeping her next destination a closely held secret. It’s not a secret any more. ...
We got a heads-up that CBS-owned KPIX in San Francisco introduced a new morning meteorologist this week. And Jessica Burch was in a hurry to get there. She only signed off from her former ...
Less than a month to go before Cynthia Fodor closes the tv news chapter of her life by signing off for the final time, June 1 at Hearst’s KCCI in Des Moines, IA. It’s ...
Back in March, reporter Melissa Colorado announced her departure from NBC-owned KNTV in San Jose, CA after four years. She’s still with NBC, but now she’s back in her hometown at the flagship, WNBC ...
After four years as an MMJ at Gray’s WWBT in Richmond, VA, Karina Bolster is walking away from the job and tv news and into a second career. http:// The phrase “communicating with the ...
Host Trevor Noah drew laughs at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night when he cracked that the self-congratulatory evening was a superspreader event. No one is laughing now. Since the event just five ...
Kevin Hodge returned to locally-owned WBKB in Alpena, MI as news director and 6 p.m. anchor last month. Back in 2019, he was a reporter at the station before leaving to spend a year ...
Jodi Latina, the chief political correspondent for Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford, CT will be the fill-in host of “Capitol Report” while regular host Tom Dudchik takes time off to deal with the untimely loss ...
“The Morning After” on Nexstar’s KDAF in Dallas morphed into “Inside DFW” this week, The newly-revamped AM program from 9-10 AM promises that is it “YOUR show about YOUR city” and solicited viewer ideas ...
Gerald Harris has joined Tegna s/t/b/ Standard Media’s KHOU in Houston, TX Harris spent just over a year as a Capital Bureau reporter for Nexstar’s WKRN in his hometown of Nashville, TN. Interestingly, Harris ...
It’s been 18 years on the anchor desk at Gray’s WBTV in Charlotte, NC for anchor Maureen O’Boyle. And it’s not going to go much beyond that. She announced during the 6 pm newscast ...
Amanda Post becomes ND at Sinclair’s WGME in Portland, ME. She’s a Maine native and a ten-year veteran of WGME. Post has been the Assistant ND and also worked for Spectrum News in Syracuse ...
To say we have had a skeptical view of the White House Correspondents’ Association annual celebration of itself is to put it mildly. Over the years the just-revived dinner has grown into a celebrity-stuffed ...
Randi Naughton has been a familiar face to television viewers in St. Louis, MO, the last 23 of them as morning co-anchor on Nexstar’s KTVI. A change is coming. http:// She joined the station ...
It’s on to his next adventure, hopefully one with saner hours as longtime Des Moines, IA anchor Dan Winters prepares to exit the anchor desk at Nexstar’s WHO at the end of the sweeps ...
Free-streamer “The Weather Channel en Español” launched this week on the 40th anniversary of Allen Media’s “The Weather Channel.” The first on-camera meteorologists to join “The Weather Channel en Español” are Albert Martinez, Henry ...
CNN+, AGE 28 days, of midtown Manhattan, NY, passed away peacefully April 28, two days earlier than expected. Death was attributed to a series of corporate missteps and cold calculation. CNN+ was born in ...
When Amanda Raus announced last December that she was leaving Tegna-soon-to-be-blahblahblah’s WTIC in Hartford, CT and on to her next adventure, it was generally assumed she would be making a jump into the New ...
Brooks Blanton returns to West Michigan starting May 31st as the ND at Tegna-soon-to-be-Standard Media’s WZZM in Grand Rapids, MI. Blanton spent 7 1/2 years as ND for WXMI (now Scripps) before leaving last ...
Two former Austin, TX anchors, Leslie Rhode (left) and Judy Maggio (right) have brought out an old idea, polished it up for the social media age and launched ATX Good News The site’s premise ...
Carlos Diaz Warns is the new senior vp of news at Estrella Media. “Well-respected, knowledgeable, and forward-thinking, Carlos is the ideal person to expand Estrella Media’s position as a leading Spanish-language news content provider,” ...
Greta Van Susteren has already hit for the circuit, with stints at CNN, FOX News and MSNBC. And now she is trying to work her way back up in the minors, with word that ...
Jodi Fleischer has left NBC-owned WRC in Washington, DC and is returning to Cox Media as a charter member of the group’s newly-established investigative unit. http:// You’ll never guess how they feel about this ...
The station’s Chief Legal Correspondent Katie Barlow will anchor the 30-minute weekly program Sunday evenings at 11:30 p.m. In the course of the program, Barlow will interpret and explain what’s happening in the courts ...
After 17 years at Fox-owned KTVU in Oakland, CA, Mike Mibach is officially the replacement for the departed Frank Somerville on the station’s late newscast. The official announcement came in a station’s Zoom meeting. ...
There’s an opening at the top of the “CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell.” Al Ortiz, a 43-year veteran of CBS News and the program’s interim executive producer since last summer, is stepping down ...
There’s a new Assistant News Director to tell you about at KOLR-TV in Springfield, MO. Dan Romito returns to TV news after a five-year absence He is the new assistant news director at Nexstar’s ...
It is not often we get to acknowledge someone who appears to have spent their lifetime in news – especially a lifetime in news spent at one station!! Dave “Buzz” Baker started his tv ...
They tell us the idea the inspiration came from an actual true crime podcast that’s been at it since 2017. But we couldn’t help recalling the Steve Martin-Martin Short comedy series “Only Murders In ...
We reported to you last December that on Christmas morning in Hartford, CT, WFSB reporter and fill-in anchor Ayah Galal made history anchoring the morning show in a hijab. Barely four months later, in ...
Debut day draws closer for Emileigh Forrrester, soon to be co-anchoring the evening news at Nexstar’s WHNT in Huntsville, AL. She’s coming from Gray’s WALB in Albany, GA in a move so face she ...
Bay Area blogger Rich Lieberman reports that an outbreak of COVID-19 throughout San Francisco forced a scramble Tuesday morning at Disney’s KGO when the ENTIRE morning news team were diagnosed with the virus and ...
Yesterday we told you that Phil Hendrix, who was a senior producer with the defunct Black News Channel, was hired as news director for NewsNet, a 24/7 news-oriented free-to-air television network. Today, it’s former ...
