BIRMINGHAM SHUFFLE
Birmingham's WIAT is doing more shuffling than the WSOP
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TELEMUNDO PHOENIX TAPS AN MMJ
A new face for Telemundo’s KTAZ Phoenix
THIS STONE IS ROLLING
FIRST TIME IN THE CHAIR At Elmira, NY’s WETM-TV, in seems Stone Grissom got his first ND job at this Nexstar owned NBC affiliate. He’s a former lawyer who moved to TV and has ...
FOX NEWS PRODUCER SUCCUMBS TO VIRUS
The virus has had an gigantic impact on the media industry and yet, this news hits particularly hard
FOX NEWS BOSS AND ANCHORS ADVISED TO QUARANTINE
Fox News Confirms A Few Positive COVID-19 Cases
MEET THE NEW MILWAUKEE NUMBER ONE
Milwaukee's WISN12 announced who their new news director is
A POLITICAL MONEY BONANZA FOR PA TV STATIONS
Ad dollars are pouring it in and making it rain... but after election day: the drought.
SHAREHOLDERS REVOLT AT APOLLO COX PARENT FIRM
It keeps getting worse for Leon Black... and no, this is not about an episode of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'
MAKE WAAY FOR GALLIEN
Meet the new boss Huntsville, AL
“TODAY” ALLOWS ITSELF TO GET TRIPPED UP BY FOX’s WRONG REPORTING
If any of you readers have ever mistakenly called one of your children by the other one's name, you might wanted to reconsider thoughts on the this story. But then again, it may not ...
THE INTERVIEWS DRAW BIG FOR “60 MINUTES”
It may be CBS who enjoyed the last laugh after the Trump walk-out and subsequent leak
A ROC-Y ROAD AHEAD FOR ONE ANCHOR
Upstate NY anchor has all the symptoms
THIS JUST IN… CHRISTMAS IN DETROIT
Meet the reporter who's dropping a Christmas album
FORMER FOX BIZ/CNN REPORTER ARRESTED TWICE IN ONE DAY
Once... twice... three times arrested. Well, ok, just twice.
OLD FACE IN A NEW PLACE
Back to where it all began for one veteran reporter
BRAND-NEW SUIT AT ABC NEWS
Someone better brace himself to incur the wrath of a presidential tweet.
SINCLAIR TAKES ANOTHER STREAMING HIT
Sinclair's got beef with Hulu but Hulu don't play that game
MOVING UP IN THE TELEMUNDO FOOD CHAIN
His on-air debut will be November 9.
DOES BEING DIGITAL NEWS ANCHOR MEAN SHE IS VIRTUAL?
From big screen to little screen
A NEW MORNING FACE IN THE QUEEN CITY
Welcome to Cincinnati
NEXSTAR STREAMLINING
Nexstar moving and shaking all to the tune of saving millions
NBC NEWS POINTS ANGRY FINGER AT TUCKER CARLSON
Who would've thought someone who delivered a speech to some white nationalists who do something so despicable
TV JOB OPENINGS
If you want help finding a job, we can help. Click for more.
MEET THE NEW BOSS
New ND in IL is a native son
MOVING UP IN SINCLAIR’S BUCKEYE FOOD CHAIN
FROM BUCKEYE TO... WELL, STILL A BUCKEYE
TRUMP AIRS HIS INTERVIEW ON CBS’ ’37 MINUTES’
CBS issues statement regarding President Trump leaking interview
TWIN CITIES VET HEADS FOR THE DOOR
BIGGEST MINNESOTA EXIT SINCE AL FRANKEN
THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT, MR. BIDEN *AND* MS. WELKER!
VOTE FOR WHO YOU WANT, BUT THERE WAS ONE CLEAR WINNER
ANCHOR RECOVERING AFTER OPEN HEART SURGERY
The lesson here it can happen to anyone.
KOTA GETS A NEW WEATHER GUESSER
From Seattle to South Dakota.
FORMER POLICE CHIEF NOW A LOCAL TALKING HEAD
Will experts replace reporters?
LIMBAUGH HINTS AT HIS DEATH SENTENCE
The up and downs are more down these days.
PANDEMIC, SCHMANDEMIC – SHE’S SICK OF THE NEWS BUSINESS
And we bet other Moms feel this way...
THE HISSY FIT PLAY BY PLAY
The reasons why Trump ditched his interview are out.
THE SHUFFLE IN RALEIGH
When a main anchor leaves so things get shifted.
FOX NEWS HANGS ON TO ONE OF ITS LEGIT JOURNALISTS
But for how long?
YOUR KRISTEN WELKER LISTICLE FOR DEBATE DAY
Will her resume help her get through the night?
BYRON ALLEN SCOOPS UP ANOTHER TV STATION
Byron Allen‘s Allen Media Groupdivision Allen Media Broadcasting has signed a purchase agreement for its acquisition of broadcast television station KITV from SJL Broadcasting for $30 million. As with other major television stations in ...
CALLING IT A CAREER
Randal Stanley will retire at the end of the year. He’s been VP Operations for Altice’s News 12 Networks (serving the NY area) for the past two years, and earlier spent 12 years as VP/News ...
SINCLAIR NAMES A SPORTS NEWS VEEP
Sinclair Broadcast Group today announced David Morgan will be joining the company as Vice President of Digital Sports News for the company’s 21 regional sports networks (RSNs). In this role, he will oversee day-to-day ...
TO MUTE OR NOT TO MUTE
Former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump will have their microphones muted during portions of the second and final presidential debate on Thursday night, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced on Monday ...
HERE’S ONE OF THE FEW FOX NEWS GUYS WHO STICKS TO FACTS
President Donald Trump has sustained himself during a challenging 2020 campaign against former vice president Joe Biden with friendly interviews and support from the Fox News opinion hosts. But on Nov. 3, he can’t ...
KC GETS A NEW WEEKENDER
Carolina Cruz has moved west to step into an anchor role. She has joined KCTV as weekend morning anchor and will also be reporting on three days a week. Born in Colombia and raised ...
NO TRACE OF ETHICS WITH THIS BONEHEAD
We all know of hardened criminals and gang members hell bent on rigging elections, even without a “trace” of evidence. Fox News “hard news” anchor Trace Gallagher warned viewers on Monday morning that “gangs ...
MOVING UP IN MYRTLE
News anchor Meghan Miller has been promoted to co-anchor of “News 13 at 5” and “News 13 at 6” beginning in November. Meghan will continue anchoring “News 13 at 5:30” and co-anchor both additional ...
DISGRACED FORMER FOX NEWS REPORTER WANTS RAPE LAWSUIT TOSSED
Former Fox News anchor Ed Henry is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit filed by two women, including one whose complaints got him terminated in July for alleged sexual misconduct – according to USA TODAY. ...
SAME FACE, NEW PLACE
There will be a new, yet familiar face at the anchor desk for WXOW News 19 evening news viewers. Dustin Luecke will be filling the role as Evening News Anchor/Producer in La Crosse, Wisconsin. ...
MEET THE MAN WHO’LL HOST SINCLAIR’S TRUMP TOWN HALL
In the latest episode of Eric Bolling’s show from the Sinclair Broadcast Group, “America This Week,” the conservative broadcaster perpetuated misinformation about the origin of the coronavirus pandemic and measures that help slow its ...
VETERAN ANCHOR HITS THE EXIT IN SAN DIEGO
Reporter and anchor Sasha Foo has left the TV news industry after working the past 17 years at KUSI-TV to pursue other interests and life goals. The station aired a tribute to her during ...
BACK ON L.A. LOCAL TELEVISION….BUT A NEW ADDRESS
Seven years after leaving her KTLA anchor chair for a high-profile CNN gig, Michaela Pereira has returned to the local news morning shift according to the LA Times. But instead of coming back to ...
“I WANT MY MTV!!” YOU’LL GET IT….SORTA…ON ELECTION NIGHT
Can Kurt Loder or Downtown Julie Brown call some states? They can’t do a worse job than Chris Wallace did moderating. CBS News is building a new high-tech election night set in the Times ...
CNN LEGAL GUY EVIDENTLY DOESN’T KNOW WHAT CAMERAS DO
The New Yorker star writer and CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin exposed himself on a Zoom call — and has now been suspended from the magazine, a report said Monday. The incident allegedly ...
AN ALL-CANDIDATE “60 MINUTES”
As the United States inches closer to November 3 in one of the most crucial and history-making elections, stakes are high and the country is on their toes. Next Sunday, 60 Minutes will put a ...
TAPPER SLAMS FOX NEWS
If a conspiracy theory goes mainstream, when does it not become a conspiracy theory? How about when the most watched cable news network perpetuates it? CNN anchor Jake Tapper harshly criticized Fox News and ...
SCRIPPS OFF-LOADING ION STATIONS
The paperwork is drawn-up on the Scripps purchase of Ion Media. Scripps will divest Kansas City’s KPXE into a company called INYO Broadcasting Holdings. INYO will enter into an affiliation agreement to continue operating ...
VAUGHN McCLURE, ESPN REPORTER
ESPN NFL reporter Vaughn McClure died this week at his apartment in Atlanta – according to the NY Post. He was 48. Most recently covering the Atlanta Falcons, McClure had worked at ESPN since ...
SINCLAIR TO LEAP INTO NEXTGEN IN THE DC MARKET
Sinclair Broadcast Group closed Thursday on the acquisition of two Class A television stations located in the Washington, D.C., market. In addition to traditional broadcast programming, the company plans to use channel capacity from ...
SWITCHING TEAMS IN CHICAGO
Via Mort Meisner, Vi Nguyen joins NBC O&O WMAQ in Chicago as a Reporter/MMJ. Vi most recently worked at CBS O&O WBBM, also in Chicago. Vi is a graduate of DePaul University.
NBC NEWS STAFFERS STILL PISSED AT THE SUITS
NBC has been rocked by an internal feud over its decision to host a town hall with Donald Trump at the same time as ABC’s Thursday event with Joe Biden, a scheduling move that ...
WELL, HE TOLD US HE WAS GOD
A person was arrested Wednesday morning at Mobile’s WKRG studios after smashing out the front door with a tire iron. The station reported the person was injured and bleeding from the broken glass and ...
SINCLAIR ENTERS SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT WITH TRUMP TOWN HALL
It’s been a whirlwind of nationally embarrassing debates to canceled debates to dueling town halls. So what’s the next chapter in this comedy/tragedy? According to Deadline, Donald Trump will do a town hall ...
TRUMP LOSES RATINGS WAR TO BIDEN
Joe Biden’s town hall drew more TV viewers than President Trump’s competing event on Thursday night, according to early figures. An average of 13.9 million viewers tuned in to ABC to watch Biden field ...
STL TO SC
No more part-time anchoring for departing KTVI (Channel 2) reporter Derrion Henderson. The St. Louis native will be moving to South Carolina to take over as the full-time morning anchor at WMBF (Channel 32), ...
THE ACCESSORY EVERY ANCHOR NEEDS
“It’s 4:20 am. I’m in the makeup room with less than 10 minutes to get into the studio to anchor the morning newscast. It’s crunch time. I’ve spent 5 minutes struggling to ram my ...
THE SCANDAL GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING
It’s made for a… well.. a made-for cable movie. ‘Anchors Away’ starring Tom Berenger and Denise Richards. New details are emerging in the stunning tale of the relationship between the married Alaskan politician ...
FROM THE BOOKING DESK
In a story, NewsBlues has been following, a former Lincoln television reporter pleaded no contest to charges of attempted sexual assault on Tuesday in Lancaster County District Court. Zach Worthington, 25, a former reporter ...
SOMETHING SMELLS ROTTEN AT CHEDDAR
It was in April that Dexter Goei, the CEO of Altice USA, and Jon Steinberg, the founder of Cheddar, addressed Cheddar’s employees. Altice acquired Cheddar for $200 million in 2019. With massive layoffs around ...
CAKE FOR CANNON
Longtime Fort Smith, Arkansas anchor and reporter Craig Cannon has announced his plan to retire from 40/29 News on November 25th. Cannon has been a familiar face on the River Valley and Northwest Arkansas ...
HEADING FOR THE EXIT
The talent is moving in the wrong direction at Cincinnati’s WKRC-TV. Angela Ingram, a 14-year veteran, delivered her final newscast this week, only three weeks after 10-year veteran Angenette Levy exited. Ingram, who joined ...
AN INSANE ELECTION YEARS BODES WELL FOR CABLE NEWS
People are watching the news. There’s no question about that. And according to the “Atlanta Journal Constitution,” it’s not difficult to figure out which television networks are benefiting from the presidential election, ...
FORMER WAVY REPORTER SERIOUSLY INJURED
A Virginia Beach Fire Department employee was involved in an auto-pedestrian crash Tuesday afternoon. Police spokesperson Linda Kuehn confirmed that Virginia Beach Fire Department’s Public Information Officer Art Kohn sustained serious injuries following the ...
WHAT IF A BASEBALL NETWORK HAD NO BASEBALL TO PROGRAM?
Seems like this could be a “Saturday Night Live” sketch or something… What does a baseball network show when there’s no baseball? In the case of Marquee Sports Network, the answer is football. According ...
NOW HE GETS TO DEAL WITH AGENTS
One time news director turned agent Mike Bothwell has moved to Charlotte where he will be the Program Manager for Talent Acquisition for Spectrum Networks. He’s a former ND in Harrisburg, PA, Steubenville, OH, and ...
NBC NEWS HIRING ON A REGIONAL BASIS
NBC News Digital has hired four reporters, its first hires under the regional reporting initiative announced in July by Cesar Conde, Chairman of the NBCUniversal News Group. The reporters are all based outside of the ...
MAYOR BROUGHT DOWN BY SCANDAL INVOLVING TV REPORTER
In a story NewsBlues has been following, a day after disclosing a “consensual, inappropriate messaging relationship” with a local television anchor, Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz resigned Tuesday, effective at the end of next week. This ...
THE TINFOIL HAT THAT IS FOX NEWS
It wasn’t that long ago that Mr.Trump was relaying to the American people that kids are “almost immune” to the coronavirus. We now know that Barron Trump tested positive for COVID-19 around the ...
A REUNION IN CHARLOTTE
They’re putting the band back together in Charlotte, where Claire Otto joins WJYZ-TV (Nexstar/FOX) as the Assistant News Director. The move reunites her with ND Casey Clark. They held the same jobs at KCTV in Kansas City. Claire’s also worked ...
OUT THE DOOR
At KMID-TV in Midland, TX…veteran Texas news director David Lowell has exited the Nexstar owned ABC affiliate after three years as ND. He earlier spent 28 years as an ND in Beaumont. David’s also ...
IT JUST GETS MORE BIZARRE
***THERE HAS BEEN AN UPDATE TO THIS STORY*** The mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, Ethan Berkowitz, has resigned. Berkowitz, who is married, announced his resignation in a statement read by his chief of staff, Jason ...
HOW THE 9NEWS SECURITY GUARD FATAL SHOOTING UNFOLDED
There’s a tornado in Colorado, where the typical disaster would normally be an avalanche. But this is a tornado of everything going wrong at once. Now, in addition to a man being fatally shot, ...
FORMER TV REPORTER ARRESTED IN SEX ASSAULT CASE
A former Lincoln, Nebraska TV reporter pleaded no contest to a charge of second-degree attempted sexual assault Tuesday. Lincoln police arrested Zachery Worthington, who was with KLKN, following a news briefing in October 2019. ...
JUST NOT SYCOPHANTIC ENOUGH
President Donald Trump is ramping up his attacks against Fox News and promoting its competitors as he returns to the campaign trail following a COVID-19 diagnosis – according to the Hollywood Reporter. “@FoxNews allows ...
A WEEK AFTER HER BIO DISAPPEARED, IT’S OFFICIAL
In a story NewsBlues has been following, a morning anchor at one of South Carolina’s largest television stations is no longer employed by the media outlet, according to one of her colleagues. Kamie Roesler – ...
WHAT IN THE HELL!!!?!?
In a story NewsBlues has been following, an unidentified individual in Tennessee physically attacked a member of a Nashville television news crew on Sunday. The attack was captured on video which was posted to ...
NOW IS THE TIME FOR THE STATION TO LAWYER UP
In a story NewsBlues has been following, not only is the agency for which accused “Patriot Rally” shooter Matthew Dolloff worked as a subcontractor, but also the TV station that hired him for security ...
NASHVILLE CREW ATTACKED
This is unfortunately becoming all tool common place. A crew from Nashville’s WSMV NEws4 had an experience with man who is know wanted for assault. Working on a story in from of an elementary ...
AND YOU’D BETTER BELIEVE THEY ARE NECESSARY
The amount of content to fact-check during the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign is so considerable that FactChat‘s Spanish-speaking allies, Univision and Telemundo, have increased the size of their teams to both translate their partners’ ...
MOVING ON….
Leon Hendrix signed off of the WOOD TV8 anchor desk in Grand Rapids, following more than 13 years at the station Sunday evening. Leon has accepted a new role at Spectrum Health, where he ...
WHAT WENT WRONG WITH THAT “SECURITY GUARD” TEGNA HIRED IN DENVER?
On Saturday, Oct. 10, a protester was shot and killed by an individual suspected to have worked for a private security company. Why was he at the scene in front of the Denver Art ...
CNN’S ACOSTA TAUNTED BUT STRIKES BACK
CNN’s Jim Acosta deftly handled a chorus of “CNN sucks” chants from rally-goers in Sanford, Florida where President Donald Trump is holding his first proper political rally since his diagnosis of being infected by ...
SCRIPPS SHOWS SOME “SPINE”
The national “If You Give a Child a Book…” campaign will distribute more than 165,000 books to kids in low-income households across the country this school year after raising $825,369 during its annual fundraiser ...
HEADING UP THE COAST
At KIRO-TV in Seattle, WA, Tara Finestone is returning as ND for this Cox Media Group owned CBS affiliate. Tara was a producer at KIRO from 2000-2003. She’s spent the last 2 1/2 years ...
PREPARING A FRIDAY LAUNCH
An award-winning 24-hour TV news service is launching in the Rio Grande Valley on October 16. Spectrum News 1 is promising to offer “high-quality, hyperlocal news, politics, weather and original local content” exclusively to Spectrum ...
ANCHOR’S VERY AWAY – REPORTER ARRESTED, MAYOR APOLOGIZES
***UPDATE*** Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz has resigned from his position after revelations that he carried a sexting relationship with now former KTBY and KYUR reporter Maria Athens. __________________________________________________________ The mayor of Anchorage has apologized ...
TRAFFIC IN COLUMBUS
Andrea Henderson, NBC4’s newest Traffic Reporter, is no stranger to the Buckeye State. Andrea grew up in Northeast Ohio and graduated from The Ohio State University with a degree in Journalism. Prior to joining ...
LOUISVILLE ANCHOR SHUFFLE
WLKY announces an expansion to its weekday anchor lineup. Starting Oct. 12, anchor Stephon Dingle will join the evening news team as co-anchor of WLKY News at 5 p.m. and WLKY’s Caray Grace will ...
THEY WERE RIGHT TO FIRE ME
In a story NewsBlues has been following, meteorologist Marty Coniglio, a longtime Denver television weatherman, explains his departure from 9News this summer in a column posted online as reported by the Denver Post. “Better ...
IT’S A WALK-OFF (from news)!
It’s not like he was even the traffic reporter! An Emmy-award winning journalist who most recently worked as the news director at Little Rock’s THV11 is the new spokesman for the state Department of ...