In a story NewsBlues has been following, nine employees of a Miami area television station have tested positive for COVID-19. WPLG announced Wednesday that the station is taking every precaution, including the testing of 147 employees ...
According to TVNewscheck, Ryan Rothstein, the general sales manager of Hearst Television’s WPBF West Palm Beach, Fla., today was named president and general manager of WPTZ-WNNE, Hearst’s NBC-CW duopoly in Burlington, Vt.-Plattsburgh, N.Y. Rothstein, a ...
In a move that likely would not have transpired had the novel coronavirus not created a global pandemic ahead of a pivotal U.S. presidential election, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises has given the green light to ...
Boundaries aren’t always broken where one might expect. Bolivia isn’t known as the most progressive of Latin American nations. But according to NBC News, Leonie Dorado, 26, is blazing a trail as the ...
Remember when Babe Ruth was traded from the Red Sox to the Yankees? Well, if you do, congratulations on still being alive. Another bombshell change of scenery is going down 100 year later. According ...
It’s a story that’s not getting nearly the attention it deserves. Such is the case with COVID-19, civil and racial unrest and a presidential election. A Houston station had the right intentions but ...
Ever since Donald Trump broke-up with them, Fox News seems to be all too willing to talk smack about their ex. Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade pushed back on President Trump’s re-election campaign secretary Wednesday after the ...
According to WVXU, you’ll have to wait three more months to see WKRC-TV’s new late afternoon anchor team of Meghan Mongillo and Adam Clements. Mongillo was heading to the hospital today to deliver her ...
The timing is definitely right as discussions are being held in newsrooms and beyond around the country. It’s not so much the racism that comes with burning crosses and swastikas. The racism being addressed ...
In a story NewsBlues has been following, LMTonline reports Laredo news station KGNS continues to be among the local establishments that have been plagued recently by the novel coronavirus. The network announced on Tuesday night ...
Sinclair Broadcast Group has appointed industry veteran and former Universal Studios executive Steve Rosenberg as president of local sports. In this new role, Rosenberg will oversee the company’s regional sports networks (RSNs), Sinclair’s digital ...
It’s a fear with which many in the industry are rightfully living. It’s happening in Florida. No word as to who caught it first but one thing is for sure – before anyone ...
There are words and then there is action. It seems NBC News is currently between the two. According to Deadline, Cesar Conde, the new chairman of NBCUniversal News Group, outlined a workforce goal of ...
Ever have someone mistake you for someone else? Then you catch a look at the person they mistook you for and you’re like WTF!?!!? Well this is 100x worse. According to RobertFeder.com WMAQ-Channel 5 is ...
Talk about a #1 story. During a live shot in Santa Monica, CNN’s Sara Sidner was reporting on an increase in coronavirus cases in the area. One person may have had enough of the story and ...
There’s something very said about how ironically cliche the phrase “this time it’s different” is. BUT, this time, it may very well be different. According to TVNewsCheck, Black Lives Matter protests in the aftermath of ...
At Orlando’s WTMO, Roberto Vizcon is out at this Telemundo affiliate after a little more than two years in his second stint at the station. The first time he was general manager. Current GM, Louis ...
Baby steps Fox News. Baby steps. Fox News Media today joined The Associated Press and other media outlets in changing its editorial style to capitalize Black when it is used as an adjective describing ...
Bay Area TV and radio stations continue to trim their payrolls as the coronavirus pandemic deals a critical blow to the economy. Late last week, Scott Reiss, a sports anchor and reporter at KTVU, ...
According to Mort Meisner, reporter Spencer Thomas just jumped 76 markets to FOX Affiliate KPTV in Portland. Spencer comes from across the country at FOX Affiliate WFFF in Burlington where she reported for the Morning ...
Coronavirus struck in an election year – and that means about a million things to the news world other than the most important – losses of lives and losses of livelihood. In the New York ...
The love affair is over. Donald Trump has just split up from his fourth wife, Fox News and he is encouraging all of their mutual friends to stick with him. We can not ...
In a story that NewsBlues brought to you less than 24 hours ago, it seems the croppers have become the mea culpas. According to TheWrap, Fox News on Monday said it regrets cropping Donald ...
KING 5 meteorologist Ben Dery is saying farewell to KING 5, and Seattle, to go home to Minnesota and join the KARE team. The KING 5 family wishes you good luck, Ben!
CW39 KIAH Anchor and Senior Producer Trey Serna has announced that he is no longer with Morning Dose, according to sources. “Some professional/personal news to share: I am no longer with Morning Dose. I am incredibly thankful ...
At KAVU-TV in Victoria, Texas, James Munoz is adding news director to his resume at this Morgan Murphy Media owned ABC affiliate. He’s been anchoring there and will continue to anchor the 5:00 news. ...
Dallas-based NBC News correspondent Morgan Chesky has revealed he has the coronavirus and is opening up about how he’s dealing with it. Chesky, 34, shared his status in a lengthy message on Twitter in which he explained how ...
The Republican Party may have plans for 2024 if Donald Trump doesn’t pull it out in November – and it doesn’t stray too far for the winning formula in 2016. Namely: FAME. According to ...
It’s as if the big bad wolf was sitting among the rubble and wondering aloud who blew all these houses down. According to Yahoo News, now that President Donald Trump has finally said that ...
It’s the story of a missing child, now presumably safe and yet there still may be more questions than answers surrounding the ordeal. According to the NY Daily News, the 1-month-old daughter of Canadian sports anchor ...
Shirley Descorbeth, a reporter for Weigel Broadcasting’s CBS affiliate in Milwaukee, has been hired as a zone producer for “News Nation,” the Nexstar Media Group newscast coming to WGN AMERICA. Descorbeth grew up in Chicago’s ...
Twin Cities FOX 9 reporter Christina Palladino has announced that her 16-year stint in TV news is coming to an end. “That’s a wrap on a 16-year career as a television news journalist!” she posted ...
Meteorologist Stevie Daniels has officially joined Scripps-owned WMAR-2 News in Baltimore. Previously, Stevie worked as a weekday and weekend meteorologist at WIVB/WNLO, Buffalo, New York. “Stevie brings with her a great familiarity of the ...
WRAL-Raleigh reporter Mandy Mitchell has announced her departure from the station after nine years there. Mitchell, who made the announcement on Twitter, said she is leaving the TV news business to “start a new ...
José Santos is leaving Telemundo Houston KTMD. He made the announcement via Facebook: Más de 5 años de experiencias inolvidables. En el 2015 llegue a Telemundo Houston determinado a dar mi todo por ...
Fox News on Sunday repeatedly featured a well-known photo of convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein posing with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago — but each time Trump was edited out of the image – according ...
Hugh Downs, the legendary TV broadcaster whose career has spanned more than six decades, died on Wednesday. He was 99. Molly Shaheen, his great-niece, confirmed his death. In 1978, Downs began anchoring “20/20’s” second ...
The Memphis Grizzlies announced today that Grind City Media will launch a new morning program “Rise & Grind with Jessica Benson and Meghan Triplett,” according to NBA.com. The show will debut on Monday, July ...
Is it really a tearful goodbye from Cincinnati for Michael Baldwin? The WXIX anchor and general assignment reporter is heading to Clarksburg, WV, to become one of the nation’s few African American TV news directors. ...
The NBA is coming to Orlando, along with hundreds of players as the plan is for all games to be played in the Big O. But a few people may be leaving Orlando as ...
It has been a few months since a high-profile Fox News employee has been fired amid sexual harassment allegations, so to be fair, it was only a matter of time. Something had to ...
A CNN reporter in Brazil was engaged with her anchor, when a thief apparently decided not to wait until the story was complete. It all happened during a live broadcast. Bruna Macedo and her ...
It’s quit literally the worst time in the history of television for networks to create new programming. Reruns are the norm in the age of coronavirus, but the news is still, well, new. The ...
WCBS New York anchor Mary Calvi is joining CBS Television’s, Inside Edition, as weekend anchor and fill-in anchor for Deborah Norville. Calvi will continue to anchor the morning and noon newscasts at WCBS. “Our ...
WPXI-TV reporter Cara Sapida has revealed that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She made the announcement on social media (full status below). “I’m praying one of these mornings soon enough I will ...
According to Deadline, the legendary NBA announcer who famously cries “Yes!” when a basket is made won’t be doing any play-by-play when the league’s restarts its paused season. Marv Albert told the New York ...
KSHB-TV has promoted Rae Daniel to a morning anchor/reporter role. Daniel will anchor at 4:30 a.m. on KSHB, and at 7:00 a.m. on KMCI, while Lindsay Shively handles the rest.
At Charlotte’s WJZY-TV, Tina Luque, is leaving this newly-owned by Nexstar FOX affiliate (once a FOX o-and-o) after more than four years as news director. She’s been a news director at WTKR-TV in Norfolk ...
It’s the virus that has so many reporters breaking the number one rule. Through no fault of their own, they’re becoming the story. According to LMTonline, KGNS news director and news anchor Jerry Garza ...
Dennis Miller famously signed off his SNL Weekend Update installments with “That’s the news… and I… am… outta here.” It would have been pretty fortuitous for one Wyoming station to end their Friday broadcast in the same manner… ...
You may know Matt Schlapp from his many appearances as a panelist on Fox News and CNN. Behind-the-scenes sits in the very powerful position as chairman of the American Conservative Union. However, Comcast has ...
Sharon Reed is a former anchor in Atlanta, Cleveland and St. Louis. In her travels she has encountered some real newsroom boneheads even, appallingly, in the management ranks. She has some thoughts and anecdotes ...
We’ve all been there. It’s the equation that you run through your head every single day of working in the news business – weighing speed vs triple-checking. Do you focus on beating that deadline ...
The love affair between President Trump and Fox News may be officially over. The president’s once favorite home-court-advantage network has been a consistant Twitter target as of late. His most recent target being ...
WISN 12 is excited to announce that meteorologist Molly Bernard will be joining WISN’s Weather Watch 12 team, which includes “Milwaukee’s Chief Meteorologist” Mark Baden, ‘WISN 12 News This Morning’ weekday meteorologist Lindsey Slater ...
At Ada, Oklahoma/Sherman, Texas’ KTEN-TV, Joey Parker is the new news director of the Lockwood Broadcasting owned NBC/ABC affiliates. He most recently was the anchor and assistant ND at KMIZ-TV in Columbia, MO. Joey’s been ...
Talent Scout in news is a slightly different totem pole echelon than the scout in pro baseball. Sinan Sadar, whose career as a television news executive has taken him to TV markets around the ...
It’s not a good time for print journalism to begin with. So it’s REALLY not a good time at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette where it’s being proven that a house divided against itself can ...
Let’s catch you up. Van Jones was a key player in passing the Trump administration’s 2018’s prison reform bill, which enjoyed bipartisan support (a term last used in… well, 2018). Cut to 2020, as ...
While CNN‘s New York City headquarters is the home-away-from-home for many more CNN employees as well as the shooting location for Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon, Erin Burnett, Chris Cuomo and many more, Atlanta has ...
Chris Swaim, weekend meteorologist at WISN-TV, has left the station, and is leaving Milwaukee, after more than three years at the ABC affiliate. Swaim’s last day at the station was Sunday. He announced his ...
Well, that’s March, April, May and now June without one piece of good news. Ok, that’s an exaggeration, but if you were yearning for a little relief, here’s June 2020’s news bloopers:
Israel has generally enjoyed a strong knit relationship with the American evangelical community. One can’t attend the AIPAC conference without brushing shoulders with key figures of the community as well as mostly Republican ...
WXII 12 News’ Morning Anchor Kimberly Van Scoy has announced that she has been diagnosed with congestive heart disease. “I want to say thank you so much for your kind e-mail and messages,” Kim said ...
At Eau Claire, Wisconsin’s WEAU-TV, Janis Harper has started as the next ND for this Gray owned NBC affiliate. Janis left KTVA-TV in Anchorage, though did not know her destination. She left KTVA on the seventh anniversary ...
There was a time when, for reporters covering them, party conventions meant happy hours, hotel room parties and bad decisions. The 2020 GOP and Democratic conventions will have a different vibe this election year. According ...
A cold case out of Iowa involving a local anchor just hit an unfortunate milestone. According to KCCI Des Moines, this weekend marked 25 years since Mason City, Iowa news anchor Jodi Huisentruit disappeared. The ...
In a story NewsBlues has been following, we’re pleased to bring you great news out of the heart of central Pennsylvania. CBS 21 News anchor Robb Hanrahan has left the hospital after suffering a “massive ...
Jemele Hill isn’t afraid to ruffle feathers. She managed to accomplish the feat regularly when she was on a 24-hour sports network, so news should actually make it easier. According to Fox News, Ex-ESPN host Jemele ...
MSNBC is expected to tap political analyst Joy Reid to anchor a 7 p.m. daily news and opinion program, people familiar with the matter said, filling the vacancy created at the cable news channel ...
Mark Zuckerberg has had some egg on his (ahem) face on occasion over the course of the last few weeks – when to censor, if ever, whether to follow in Twitter’s footsteps by slapping ...
NBC News Digital announced today that Michelle Garcia is joining NBC News as the new editorial director for NBCBLK – NBC News’ African American news vertical on NBCNews.com. NBC News global head of digital news Catherine Kim, ...
After seven years in the number one spot, the new management team at KRIS in Corpus Christi, Texas dismissed their morning and noon anchor team, Mike Gillaspia, Sonya Hill and Maclovio Perez, choosing not ...
CNN’s New Day Weekend anchor Christi Paul apologized for saying “gypped” on-the-air. Someone on Twitter called her out for doing, citing the “stigma attached to being Roma/Gypsies.” As NPR notes, “the term [gypped] carries ...
“I can not tell I lie” was a famous quote that George Washington probably never said, but that didn’t stop one Fox News contributor from lying about her co-panelist – and right in front ...
Local 12 in Cincinnati announced Thursday that anchor/reporter Meghan Mongillo and weekday reporter Adam Clements have been named the new afternoon co-anchors effective immediately. They will team-anchor multiple newscasts every weekday, including 4 p.m. ...
When you spend more than 35 years with someone, saying goodbye can get a little emotional. “Oh boy, I’m starting to tear up already and I haven’t even said anything yet,” joked veteran Detroit TV ...
Carlos Tamez has returned to Dallas to join Estrella TV as news director and managing editor. He’ll be overseeing newscasts in Dallas, Houston and Miami. Tamaz started this week. He replaces Rubén Olague, who left ...
It seems the timing is fitting to say it… to say something – and that’s what hundreds of media professionals are doing collaboratively. According to the Los Angeles Times, more than 320 scholars and ...
Many presidents in history had their favorite types of dogs. Nixon famously had Checkers, the Cocker Spaniel. George W. Bushhad Barney the Scotty. And of course the Obamas had Bo, the Portuguese Water Dog scampering ...
Joy Reid is in talks to fill the 7 PM ET slot once held by Chris Matthews and his longtime MSNBC show Hardball, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Reid currently ...
FOX News Channel has promoted Patricia Peart to Vice President of Weekend Booking, effective immediately. In this capacity, she will continue to manage the network’s weekend breaking news coverage as well as oversee guest ...
Les Crystal, who was president of NBC News in the late 1970s before serving for more than two decades as the executive producer of PBS’s NewsHour, died on Wednesday. He was 85. Crystal had ...
Nicol Lally is leaving WTEN. Her last day at the station will be July 31. Her departure comes four months after another member of the morning team, Jess Briganti, left the area to move back home. ...
KKTV, Colorado Springs, CO…Lauri Martin is now the ND for this Gray Television owned CBS affiliate. She had been the assistant news director. The station’s website now lists Kerri Blanco as the GM. She had been the sales ...
In a story that is sure to only be in development stage, it’s been a bizarre few days for one Nebraska station’s weatherman. According to the JournalStar, Dean Wysocki, KLKN’s chief meteorologist, is no ...
Can it be that Fox News is not slanted far enough right for President Trump‘s pleasure? It’s not the first time that the president has lashed out about the network, but this time he ...
To kid or not to kid? THAT is the question. White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany spent all day defending President Trump‘s comments regarding slowing-down Covid-19 testing, saying they were made “in jest.” ...
Even if his first rally after the break-out of COVID-19 wasn’t the success he was looking for, President Trump did hand an inadvertent assist to Fox News. The channel pulled in its highest-ever prime-time ...
Well, the President must be crestfallen. According to Deadline, the White House Correspondents’ Association canceled its plans for its annual dinner, which had been planned for late August. “We still hope to have ...
All those firings had to free up some room in the budget after all. According to Axios, CBSN, the 24/7 digital streaming news service for CBS News, is expanding internationally to pull in more ...
KPRC’s Houston Life daytime lifestyle program, will be seen weekdays at 3 p.m. serving as the lead-in to KPRC 2 News at 4:00 p.m., starting Monday, Aug. 17. Co-hosted by Derrick Shore and former KPRC anchor Courtney Zavala, Houston ...
The E.W. Scripps Company has appointed Ramon Pineda to lead its operations in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he will serve as vice president and general manager of Scripps’ NBC affiliate, KRIS, its CW station and its independent ...
In situations like these, you wonder how many pairs of eyes ads actually go through before they make it to air/print. Well there’s no i’s in “Tennessean” but there is an “a” and ...
It was back to work for two-thirds of the on-air team at CBS This Morning. According to NewsCastStudio.com, it was a return to Studio 57 on June 22, albeit without all of its normal crew and talent. ...
In a story NewsBlues has been following, a “broken heart” isn’t enough to stop one newsroom couple! According to PennLive.com, days after suffering a massive heart attack, CBS21 anchor Robb Hanrahan is showing signs ...
Emergency surgery is never really good news, but luckily for one reporter, there’s a happy ending. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, CBS46 chief meteorologist Jennifer Valdez had artificial disc replacement surgery on her spine ...
KTRK ABC13 is reporting that its own President and General Manager, Wendy Granato, has tested positive for COVID-19. This is reportedly at least the second positive result for a Houston television staffer. Channel 13 anchor ...
