It’s not just the New York Times that “credits” Jeff Zucker and CNN with the rise of Donald Trump. People can chastise Trump for his focus on ratings all they want and CNN talking ...
President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on Fox News Sunday night, this time airing out his grievances while appearing on the highly-rated cable network itself – according to TheWrap. “Fox is good but Fox ...
At KVAL-TV in Eugene, OR, the Sinclair/CBS affiliate has tabbed veteran news director Lawton Dodd as its next news director. Lawton spent 22 years as ND for KSBW-TV in Salinas-Monterey before leaving the job ...
In a story NewsBlues has been following, Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy on Monday morning issued an apology for his show having run with a since-retracted story falsely accusing Nashville’s Democratic mayor of engaging ...
In a story, NewsBlues has been following, cuts from Meredith on a national scale just had a direct impact on the local scale. Namely WSMV in Nashville. This is a company that asked employees ...
NBCU News Group has tapped Emma Carrasco to take over as the company’s SVP of Corporate Affairs – according to MediaMoves.com According to an internal memo NBC News Group chairman Cesar Conde wrote to ...
Grand Rapids News 8 reporter Barton Deiters has been diagnosed with West Nile virus and remains hospitalized, his family said – according to WOODtv. Michigan has reported 10 known human West Nile cases in ...
Nexstar Media has announced that it has acquired WDKY-TV, the Fox-affiliated TV station in Lexington, Ky., from a Sinclair Broadcast Group subsidiary. WDKY-TV will be Nexstar’s first TV station licensed in Kentucky – according ...
Since 1989, thousands of people have started their day watching WLOX’s Rhonda Weidner on Good Morning Mississippi – according to WLOX.com. At the end of this year, Rhonda will retire from the news station ...
Rumor has it, T.J. Holmes has signed on to be co-anchor of the third hour of “Good Morning America,” according to TheWrap. He will join ABC News’ Amy Robach on the early afternoon program, ...
Jim Rose, who’s been a key player on Chicago’s WLS-Channel 7’s sports team since 1982, signed on Wednesday for three more years with the top-rated ABC-owned station – according to RobertFeder. “For almost 40 ...
It’s Tuck vs. Zuck. Tucker Carlson hit back at Facebook, complaining that the social giant “censored” a clip from his Fox News program on Facebook and Instagram that promoted a COVID-19 conspiracy theory – ...
It was a rough morning for KRIV FOX-26 Houston morning anchor Melissa Wilson, who didn’t expect to be going to hospital later in the day. According to Melissa’s Twitter she had “just underwent emergency ...
Pink slips, goodbye notes and somber social media posts are going to be plentiful in Meredith newsrooms over the next few weeks. On Thursday, NewsBlues confirmed with the broadcast company that positions will be ...
It’s a scandal bigger than Watergate — according to the NY Post. Page Six has learned that Gayle King and her “CBS This Morning” colleagues were furious because “Today” bagged the first live interview ...
Minnesota Public Radio announced it had fired Eric Malmberg, a DJ at MPR’s music station The Current, after public backlash from Current staffers and listeners – according to TwinCities.com. A news alert on MPR’s ...
President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden are taking their campaigns this week to the biggest tent in American media, prime-time TV, and that means more challenges for the media – according ...
Jean Hill, a familiar face to Buffalo’s Channel 7 viewers for more than a decade, died of cancer Monday at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Institute – according to WKBW. Jean joined WKBW in 1990 ...
Matt Lauer is once again trying to sell his massive Hamptons mansion – according to the New York Post. The disgraced former “Today” anchor has relisted Strongheart Manor, as the sprawling compound is known, ...
Here’s breaking news for ya… A lot of people in the Miami area speak Spanish. Still with us? OK… because that fact makes the following even tougher to comprehend. Get this… Last week, a ...
Not to worry Brian Kilmeade. Your make-up will be unaffected. Fox News Media is laying off employees in multiple divisions amid a restructuring of the company’s various businesses and platforms – according to TheWrap. ...
Big O Stephen Ostrosky is headed to the Big O to become managing editor for Hearst’s WESH-TV (NBC) in Orlando. He’s been the Assistant ND for WHAS-TV, Tegna’s ABC affiliate in Louisville for the ...
According to KETV in Omaha, Nebraska, a former local meteorologist has been found guilty after police say he leveled threats against Douglas County Health Director Dr. Adi Pour. Ronald G. Penzkowski pleaded no contest ...
Assemblyman and mayoral candidate Todd Gloria blasted his opponent Barbara Bry a day after a TV station retracted a story connecting him with a controversial real estate purchase. Speaking at a press conference via ...
Two of the biggest names from the Fox Corporation are set to testify under oath in a lawsuit over a right-wing conspiracy theory that Russia did not hack the emails from Democratic National Committee ...
TEGNA announced today that Richard Dyer has been promoted to the role of senior vice president overseeing CBS affiliates WLTX in Columbia, South Carolina, and WFMY in Greensboro, North Carolina, in addition to his ...
“Fox & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy quickly shut down the idea of weekly interviews with President Donald Trump on Tuesday after colleague Brian Kilmeade suggested it according to TheWrap. After a lengthy, 47-minute segment ...
Updating an item from last week, regarding the ND opening at WEEK-TV in Peoria, Illinois, Lon Lucas is staying on as ND for a while but will eventually leave, as he wants to be closer ...
WAND-TV anchor and reporter Gordon Voit is leaving the station. “As many of you know, my faith is my guide. It’s really that simple,” he said in a Facebook post on Monday. “So when I ...
After almost more than four decades in the television news business, KRIS 6 Corpus Christi evening anchor Lee Sausley announced his retirement tonight on the station’s 6pm newscast – according to everything-Texas media authority ...
Gone are the days of a handshake and a beer apparently. Tom Randles is out at News4, leaving WSMV with no anchors of color – according to the Tennessean. Randles and station management said ...
Liz Wheeler, One America News Network’s top anchor, announced she will be leaving the network, according to the Washington Examiner. “Launching and growing Tipping Point has been the opportunity of a lifetime,” Wheeler said ...
KOCO’s Dillon Richards was doing his job in Oklahoma City when an (un)masked man came up running behind him, thinking he was either funny and/or original. Richards went on to plead with his followers ...
“Yes. Isn’t that incredible?” Esteban Creste, VP and news director at Univision’s New York station WXTV, is taking a well-earned victory lap. The station’s late news, Solo a las Once (Only at Eleven), won ...
Robert Feder need only look in the mirror to see a legend of Chicago journalism. But via his blog, he’s bidding a fond farwell to a fellow Windy City icon. Carol Marin, one of ...
Quincy Media– owned NBC affiliate WEEK Peoria, Ill. (DMA 120) has hired Amber Krycka to anchor 25 News at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. weekdays starting Sept. 14. She will co-anchor with WEEK veteran ...
Guy Brown has made the move up Interstate 94 from Madison to Minneapolis, where he’s now a meteorologist on KARE 11’s Monday-Friday “Sunrise” newscast – according to BringMEtheNEws. “I’m very thrilled to now be ...
At KXXV-TV in Waco, Texas, Josh (tag) Eure (it) has left this Scripps owned station after one year as news director. He’s had a number of jobs at both local stations and networks during ...
WEAU MMJ Eau Claire, WI WOI Local 5 Reporter/MSJ Des Moines, IA THV11 MSJ Little Rock, AR KXLY MMJ/Producer Spokane, Washington KNBN Weekend Anchor/MMJ Rapid City, South Dakota WEAR Investigative Reporter Pensacola, FL WMTV ...
Former “Today” co-anchor Ann Curry remains unclear as to why she was fired eight years after NBC News showed her the door – according to Fox News. “I still don’t really understand,” Curry told ...
We are still 53 days from the election, but political TV commercials already fill the airwaves. Like in past campaigns, some of the ones currently running on air can stretch the truth. So several ...
Megyn Kelly is launching a media venture and her first offering will be a podcast, the former Fox News and NBC News host said Thursday – according to TheWrap. “Some news: I am launching ...
Fox News will continue thriving even if Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump in November’s presidential election, Fox Corp. CEO predicts – this according to Deadline. “We’ve not only been strong but we’ve grown ratings ...
Robert Feder knows a thing or two about the Chicago media scene. And here’s what HE says about another Windy City icon: When Bill Kurtis talks, people listen. Now the legendary Chicago anchorman wants ...
Ben Hart, since 2017 the news director at WISN-TV, Hearst Television’s market-leading ABC affiliate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has been promoted to president and general manager of WJCL-TV, the company’s ABC affiliate serving the Savannah, ...
Reporting is getting to be more and more dangerous a vocation – and not the foreign war-zone correspondent type. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies arrested KPCC/LAist Correspondent Josie Huang this weekend while she was ...
Fort Wayne, Indian’s WANE 15 News Director Ted Linn retired Friday after 43 years in the news industry – according to wane.com. Linn came to Fort Wayne as the WANE 15 News Director in ...
While Miami Local 10′s Terrell Forney and his videographer Nick Lupo were reporting live outside of the Village Flea Market and Mall in West Little River, they narrowly escaped gunshots from a drive by ...
Security camera caught images of a man who threw two rocks at the large windows the enclose the main news studio and set of WABC, the flagship ABC owned station in New York City ...
WBRC FOX6 News Anchor/Reporter Janet Hall is stepping away from the anchor desk after 40 years delivering the news to viewers throughout the Birmingham area. Janet’s last newscast was Thursday, September 10 at 6:00 ...
Since arriving in late June, newly hired CW39 Houston KIAH News Operations Manager Scott Fitzgerald, formerly the KJRH Tulsa, Oklahoma news director) has already helped oversee lots of changes at one of Nexstar Media ...
It seems some of the personalities at Fox News have decided to eat their own when it comes to reporting on President Donald Trump. According to Yahoo News, after the network confirmed key parts ...
WPIX’s Kirstin Cole’s team in New York has become just latest crew to be attacked in the field, in what has becoming a disturbing and dangerous trend. According to the award winning reporter’s twitter ...
The Des Moines Register is reporting on the sadly un-shocking alleged treatment of female executives in local news. In a news story five years ago, “WOI to overhaul broadcast in 2015,” the Register reported ...
Hearst-owned ABC affiliate KMBC in Kansas City, Missouri, will debut a new newscast on co-owned CW affiliate KCWE. KMBC 9 News at Noon will be a one-hour local newscast airing weekdays starting Sept. 21 ...
Nexstar Broadcasting has appointed Tom Keeler vice president and general manager of its broadcast and digital operations in Portland, OR (DMA 22), overseeing KOIN (CBS), KRCW (CW), KOIN.com, and their related social media channels. ...
The Meredith Corporation has announced that it will seek shareholder approval of an amendment to its charter that would increase options for a tax-efficient separation of the Company’s National and Local media groups while ...
Peoria, Illinois’ WEEK-TV is looking for a new news director to replace Lon Lucas. Lon was ND for about 2 1/2 years. He earlier was an Executive Producer in Las Vegas, and has also ...
Jeff Tavis is the new Digital Executive Producer for Scripps’ KSTU-TV (FOX) in Salt Lake City. He most recently was the Executive Producer of Digital Media and Special Projects for WPLG-TV (ABC) in Miami, where he began his ...
Former KDKA-TV chief meteorologist Jeff Verszyla has been hired on staff at WTAE-TV as weekend evening meteorologist beginning Oct. 1 – according to TribLive.com. Verszyla, who was let go by KDKA in December 2018 ...
Carlos Diaz, who grew up in Greenwood, IN before landing high-profile jobs at news network HLN and celebrity interview show “Extra,” now has an anchor job in Indianapolis. Diaz will succeed WTHR-13 “Sunrise” anchor ...
13-year-old Mary Maloney loves gymnastics and by all accounts, should be starting the 8th grade. She’s not home like so many other kids her age, because of the pandemic. According to Radio.com, Mary’s at ...
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs has President Donald Trump‘s back when it come to… well everything. Specifically however, Dobbs is protecting 45 from the “horrible lies” in the Atlantic report regarding the alleged comments ...
Consumer trust in mainstream news was already wobbly well before the calendar flipped to 2020. But with the presidential election looming — and the White House occupant continuously working to discredit news organizations — ...
One of Fox News‘ main personalities is suggesting some serious action against Anifa… all 46 of them, dammit! Brian Kilmeade suggested Tuesday that protesters aligned with anti-fascist groups — known broadly as Antifa — ...
Daji Aswad has joined the weather team at WISN-TV (Channel 12) as meteorologist on the Milwaukee ABC affiliate’s weekend evening newscasts. Aswad starts her new gig, forecasting the weather at 5, 6 and 10 ...
Michelle Relerford, morning news anchor at NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5, just became a first-time author. Her new book, Khi Has Fun at Home, tells how children can stay healthy and safe while dealing with a ...
KVEO Brownsville, Texas has been rapidly expanding in 2020 and has just debuted what they think is a ‘first’ in the country. News director Amy Sullivan says she thinks the Nexstar Media Group now ...
In Albany, at WRGB-TV, Perna Roberson is moving to the ND job at this Sinclair Broadcasting owned CBS affiliate. Perna’s been the Assistant ND for the past two years, and has also worked in Birmingham, Atlanta, ...
If there are people out there who are opposed to a statue honoring someone that they consider to be a murderer, it’s not exactly a good argument to say that if they mess with ...
Telemundo is launching PolitiQUÉ, a short-form series in English urging young viewers to register and vote, Thursday on Snapchat’s Discover page – according to NextTV. The series, produced by Noticias Telemundo, is part of the ...
In a story NewsBlues has been following, it didn’t take long for her to stir-it-up in her new position. One of the advocacy organizations calling for MSNBC anchor Joy Reid to apologize for comments ...
At Mobile, Alabama’s WALA-TV, 29 year veteran Randy Merrow has been promoted to news director. Randy’s been the Assistant ND more than 20 years. He started at the station as a senior producer. He ...
At Savannah, Georgia’s WJCL, a Hearst Television ABC affiliate, Timothy J. Morrissey, its president and general manager since 2014, will retire from Hearst Television this fall. Morrissey’s successor will be announced at a later ...
Gray Television‘s WBRC-TV, branded as “FOX6,” has unveiled a new weekday anchor lineup in its evening and late newscasts as the station moves forward with the retirement of Janet Hall after 40 years of ...
It’s stressful enough to get a wedding underway when there’s not a global virus wreaking havoc. After several pandemic-related delays, KDKA-TV News anchor Paul Martino married his longtime girlfriend, Joy, over the weekend, according ...
Meteorologist Adam Krueger will join CW39 KIAH Houston from Spectrum News Austin and Spectrum News San Antonio. Krueger will take over for Maria Sotolongo who recently announced her departure Here is what Krueger posted ...
A WCVB reporter was stabbed while working Sunday night in Copley Square, the local news channel told The Boston Globe. Ted Wayman is recovering after being taken to a local hospital. The Globe reported ...
A group of female bloggers from the Bar Area have united against a fellow blogger for that they detail in a joint letter as sexist behavior. The 29 journalists specifically mention Rich Lieberman’s critiques of ...
Their mantra is “We’re bringing you balance not bias” but why don’t you bring the ratings while you’re at it. Based on its opening night, “News Nation” still has a long way to go if ...
OUCH! I’d never heard of UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock, but i just saw him get Matt ColdCocked by Sky News’ Kay Burley. Burley was all over social media after video circulated showing her ...
Hey! I don’t pay $0 per year to NOT have political ads! Facebook is continuing its campaign to try persuade Americans that it’s doing everything it can to ensure the social platform isn’t going ...
If you pull away all the aluminum foil, this guy just may have a point! A Columbia, Maryland man has filed a petition with federal regulators alleging Sinclair Broadcast Group has violated TV station ...
Yes, you’ll have the jobs of on-air talent, photog and editor, but we’re only gonna pay you one salary, so it evens out. Morgan Murphy Media-owned ABC affiliates KAPP-KVEW Yakima/Tri-Cities, Wash. (DMA 118) has ...
They’re rave reviews… but with a caveat. Robert Feder’s reputation is sterling and what he says carried weight in the world of journalism… buuuuuuut he’s also all-things Chicago, so take this with a ...
Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc., has promoted South Dakota native, Mari Ossenfort to Vice President and General Manager of the company’s broadcast and digital operations in Sioux Falls, SD and Rapid City, SD. In her new ...
Despite Nancy Pelosi‘s objections, it seems there will be presidential debates between the now official nominees, President Donald Trump and Former Vice President Joe Biden. But who will moderate what is sure to be ...
Mark your calendars. Wednesday was the day that President Donald Trump and Representative Ilhan Omar came out on the same side of an issue. The President has called upon MSNBC to fire “ReidOut” host Joy ...
Dominic Tibbetts is joining the ABC 27 news team as the Weekend Sports Anchor/Reporter. Prior to making his move south to Tallahassee, Dom held the same position with sister station KXLF in Butte, Montana. ...
Nationally known TV writer Rob Owen will join Trib Total Media this month, providing readers the latest in local TV news and hand-picked recommendations on shows to watch on broadcast/cable networks and streaming services ...
Stations all over the country are ceasing upon an opportunity to sell inevitable political ad space with more “news.” Fox-owned KRIV Houston (DMA 8) will debut The NewsEdge Early Edition at 6 p.m. on ...
The build was there. The expectations were there. The promises were made. Then the launch! It was a successful one. The first thing to look for was tech issues, which would be understandable ...
KENS5 Assistant News Director James Keith went on a Twitter blocking spree this weekend after criticism from local reporters and former San Antonio mayor Julián Castro over how the station handled issues of race in a ...
WISN-TV (Channel 12) meteorologist Sally Severson, who announced her gradual retirement from the Milwaukee ABC station 13 months ago, did her final broadcast on the station Monday – according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. ...
MikeMcGuff reports that KXAN Austin anchor Robert Hadlock is celebrating 30 years with the Austin NBC affiliate. The longtime weeknight anchor on KXAN News at 5, 6 and 10pm newscasts hit the airwaves of ...
We’ve all heard of toxic newsroom environments choc full of harassment, but there were certain subjects that always seemed off-limits, like maybe CANCER! The New York Post is reporting – a former senior producer ...
When he started reporting the news in Hartford, the Whalers were skating around downtown. He outlasted the Whale, but every House party must end. Dennis House, veteran news anchor at WFSB Channel 3, is ...
Well, the eventually got to the bottom of it. Now it’s time to put the episode in his rear window. In a story NewsBlues has been following, a Georgia man who was seen slapping ...
