Conservative YouTube host Steven Crowder is under attack for making racist remarks against San Francisco reporter Betty Yu. Crowder, who hosts a podcast and show called Louder with Crowder, was doing a segment about ...
Marina Neuman is the new weekend morning meteorologist at Tegna’s KENS in San Antonio, TX. The Ohio native began her career at Block’s WLIO in Lima, OH before moving on to Sinclair’s WACH in ...
The Sinclair execs want you to know (and believe) that the effect of the weekend hack on local television station operations is just about over so we probably won’t be seeing too many more ...
KTBC, the FOX o-and-o in Austin, TX, wasted little time replacing longtime ND Pam Vaught by promoting Assistant News Director Kevin McPherson to the top job after 22 years as the #2. He’s in ...
Bay Area blogger Rich Lieberman tells us that his sources say a FOX Senior management team was recently formed at corporate headquarters to conduct an onsite probe on what exactly is going on at ...
Hearst’s WGAL in Lancaster, PA recently tapped Paola Tristan Arruda as the station’s new morning traffic anchor. She previously worked for three years as a general assignment reporter for Gray’s WCSC in Charleston, South ...
Come Monday, October 25th, FOX Weather, the Murdoch’s streaming entry in the weather wars, will debut on some electronic device near you. The company continues to beef up its staff ahead of the launch. ...
Media entrepreneur Byron Allen is stepping up his pursuit of Tegna’s 66 television stations Allen is trying to raise $8 billion to beat out a consortium that includes Apollo Global Holdings (owners of the ...
So is she leaving TV or leaving the business? Today in Amarillo co-anchor Ally Coscetti could very well be moving to a bigger market… hard to say though in 2021.
At WPEC in West Palm Beach, two personalities tried to find the humor in the cyber attack while communicating the technical issues to viewers. Tuesday morning things weren’t quiet back to normal so anchor ...
KREM, the Tegna owned station in Spokane, Wash., is being investigated to airing porn in a video monitor during a weather toss. The station says it’s investigating how and who might have piped that ...
Gray has promoted two of its executives. John Fiorelli will be the new general manger of KOLO in Reno, Nev. He started as a account executive and has elevated over the years. He became ...
The former general manager of WDSU in New Orleans recently left to go to a bigger station in the number two market. Joel Vilmenay is now the GM of KCBS and KCAL in Los ...
Sinclair released a statement today on the cyber attack against its software that took multiple stations across the country offline this morning and the outages rolled into the day. It’s unclear what the cause ...
The most well-known sports anchor in St. Louis is retiring. Rich Gould ran the sports department at KPLR for 34 years. For many in the market, watching Gould was better than anything you could ...
The husband and wife combination KGW anchor and reporter Cristin Serverance and Dan Haggerty have left Portland, Ore. are gone. They’ve left the Tegna station after a few years to take jobs in Raleigh ...
WDIV’s Victor Williams knows what he’s doing. He understands how to do something on TV and not make it entirely about himself. Williams was wrapping a story about free lessons for kids at a ...
Terri Cope-Walton is the latest news director to be awarded the main office down the hall. She is the new VP/GM for Graham Media’s WJXT/WCWJ in Jacksonville, FL. Cope-Walton was the ND for Scripps’ ...
Gray Television is deadly serious about its company-wide vaccination mandate, and if you had any doubts despite the dismissal and forced resignations of local station employees across the country in the past couple of ...
Finally….FINALLY…Jake Wiederrich has been named VP/News Director for FOX-owned KCPQ/KZJO in Seattle. He’s been the Assistant ND there for the last three years and has effectively been news director since March when former news ...
Yesterday we told you that Todd Brown was hired as the new VP/GM for Cox Media Group’s WFXT in Boston, ending his 20-year-long tenure, most recently as senior vice-president and chief revenue officer, with ...
Michael Cogdill joined WYFF (when it was WFBC) way back in 1989 as a weekend anchor and reporter. 8 years later, he moved into the main anchor chair beside Carol Clarke at 6 and ...
Jerry Goodman gets his first news director’s job at Gray’s WALB in Albany, GA. He’s spent the last 21 months as the Assistant ND for sister station KSLA in Shreveport, LA. Goodman’s resume is ...
Last night, veteran Portland anchor Dan Kleckner signed off his final newscast at Cowles’ KHQ, ending a 21-year run alongside his co-anchor Stephanie Vigil. That first newscast was a memorable one. “Our first night, ...
In a move first announced early last month, Lisette Hernandez bid farewell to the evening anchor desk at Nexstar’s KLST/KSAN in San Angelo, TX. http:// Hernandez was with the station for three years, her ...
Josh Palefsky has been bumped up to the top job at Nexstar’s KRON in San Francisco. He’s been the Assistant ND there for the last three years. Palefsky replaces his old boss, Aaron Pero, ...
As of Thursday, Todd Brown, a former Meredith executive, is the new vice-president and general manager of Cox Media Group’s WFXT in Boston, MA. Brown had been with Meredith for two decades, most recently ...
After three years as an anchor and assistant news director at Allen Media’s WXOW in La Crosse, WI, Andrea Albers is now part of the morning news crew at Scripps’ WTMJ in Milwaukee. And ...
Alyssa Meisner is no longer the morning/midday anchor at Sinclair’s KDBC in El Paso, TX. If fact, she is no longer Alyssa Meisner. Alyssa Patrick (her married name) is now reporting for Block Communications’ ...
Oh if only FACEBOOK were still filled with cat pictures, recipes and awkward family photos But it’s come a long way from those bright college days when Mark Zuckerberg conceived it as a digital ...
Alexis McAdams, who’s been working on a per diem basis for Disney’s WLS in Chicago is the latest Chicago reporter to be beckoned by the bright lights of cable news. We reported to you ...
The makeover at CBS News’s local stations continues with the naming of Kristine Strain as the new news director at KCNC, CBSN Denver and CBSDenver.com. She’s been the number two at the station for ...
Alison Parker and her photographer Adam Ward were murdered while doing a live shot for the CBS affiliate in Roanoke. It’s been years. It happened in 2015. The father of Parker has been fighting ...
KVAL lost longtime anchor David Walker at Sinclair’s Eugene, Ore. station, has passed at 67 after battling a longtime illness. “David was a great man and a great broadcaster. He was deeply loved by ...
It seems the great resignation is centered in Texas. KEYE Austin anchor Melanie Barden announced this week that she is leaving the business. Here’s her Facebook post. “After 8 years, 3 states and 4 ...
Here are the latest TV openings. If you need more information or want to know how to apply, email us at help@newsblues.com MMJ Lincoln, Nebraska KLKN 1 year MMJ Fargo, ND Gray Media Entry ...
Newsy announced 14 new correspondents with both local and network news backgrounds. The new 24/7 network by Scripps is covering the country with the following bureau locations. Atlanta; Chicago; Dallas; Denver; Los Angeles; Missoula, ...
From San Antonio to South Carolina now back to SA. KENS 5, the Tegna CBS affiliate in the market, has hired back a former reporter and hometown girl Alicia Neaves. Neaves will be the ...
31 years is enough for KPIX anchor and reporter Ken Bastida. He announced he is leaving the San Francisco CBS O&O at the end of the month. “I started Aug. 1, 1990,” he said ...
Up until last August, Wilmington, NC viewers regularly saw Bob Bonner reporting the news on Gray’s WECT as he had done for the past two decades. Now, when they see Bob Fankboner speaking on ...
Gail Huff spent 17 years as a reporter at Boston’s WCVB television, even after her husband, Scott Brown was elected Massachusetts governor in 2010. She last worked in tv news at WJLA in Washington, ...
Just a few days after she announced that her decade-long tenure on Disney flagship WABC was over, Amy Freeze is now destined for the Fox Weather streamer when it launches on October 25th. Yep, ...
Scott Rates moves within California to become the next ND for News Press and Gazette’s KION in Monterey/Salinas, CA. He is currently the assistant ND/anchor for KHSL/KNVN in Chico, CA where he has worked ...
This one is Kerri Hayden, a 25-year employee at KGWN in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She took to social media after her work shift on Saturday. http:// Hayden says she requested a religious/medical exemption in August ...
Gray Television’s corporate vaccination policy continues to claim victims. This time it is 18-year veteran Meggan Gray, the popular co-host of “Good Morning Mississippi” at WLOX in Biloxi, MS. http:// She really didn’t elaborate ...
Barely six months after earning her AMS Seal, Elyse Smith is moving up at Tegna’s WGRZ in Buffalo, NY. Smith, who joined the station in January of last year, is coming off weekends to ...
The official toll of Gray Television staffers dropped due to their refusal to get the COVID-19 vaccine jab now stands at three. Veteran KYTV (Springfield, MO) reporter Linda Simmons is the latest to get ...
After three years being (in our humble opinion) underutilized at Apollo Cox’s WPXI in Pittsburgh, PA, Danielle Dozier signed off from the station in May, destination unknown. Now we know. Dozier is the new ...
After 3 years as news director and THIRTY years as assistant news director (!) Lissa Hamblen has stepped down at Nexstar’s KOLR in St. Louis, MO We are hearing that he number two also ...
One might never have noticed that former KHOU “HTownRush” morning feature reporter Ruben Galvan was no longer with the Tegna station if one hadn’t run across his recent Facebook posting: http:// He’d been with ...
Jake Ryle, a reporter at Scripps’ WCPO in Cincinnati, OH for the past four and a half years, announced he is going off the radar for awhile. A recent diagnosis of anxiety and persistent ...
Starting next Monday, Jenni Lee, a familiar face to Austin, TX tv news viewers, will be found on the anchor desk middays on Tegna’s KVUE. She’s moving off the weekend evening newscasts, and is ...
Brittany Burtscher returns to Scripps owned KJRH in Tulsa, OK as news director. She had been the Assistant ND here until 2019 when she went to Meredith-soon-to-be Gray’s KTVK-KPHO in Phoenix as an executive ...
Brittany Garzillo, a general assignment reporter and fill-in news anchor at Fox-owned WFLD in Chicago, IL is moving up to Fox News Channel as a New York-based reporter. This after just over a year ...
The Ohio guy who attacked MSNBC reporter Shaquille Brewster on a Mississippi beach last August as Brewster was doing a live shot is going to jail. But 54-year-old Ben Dagley has yet to face ...
We’ve mentioned this before. News Directors now more than ever are having a hard time recruiting talent in lower and mid-level markets. Either talent isn’t coming it (meaning the 200+ reels they used to ...
