By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Yes, you read that right. Jake Dunne, a meteorologist at KWCH, Gray’s CBS affiliate in Wichita, Kansas, is running 26.2 miles every day this week on 7 ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KFOR, Nexstar’s NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City, has been named one of nine recipients of the 2025 Walter Cronkite Awards, the only local TV station to do ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WTMJ, Scripps NBC affiliate in Milwaukee, welcomes the return of Kidd O’Shea as the morning news team’s new traffic anchor and community correspondent, bringing his extensive experience ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com It’s a common challenge that marketing and creative services at face often at local TV stations. A longtime, esteemed on-air news anchor or meteorologist is retiring, and ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Beth McDonough, a former TV reporter at KMSP, the Fox-owned affiliate in Minneapolis, says she lost her job after she woke up in jail after her ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KTHV, branded as THV11, Tegna’s CBS affiliate in Little Rock, announces that several longtime staff members and Arkansas natives are taking on new anchor roles at the station. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com There are dozens of Spanish shipwrecks loaded with gold, silver and precious stones along Florida’s coast waiting to be discovered. Treasure hunters just found one. Who hasn’t ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Approximately 50,000 to 62,000 children are adopted from foster care each year in the U.S., according to recent data. And around 108,000 to 114,000 children are ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Meteorologist Scott Gagliardi leaves WFSB, Gray’s CBS affiliate in Hartford, and joins rival WTNH, Nexstar’s ABC affiliate in New Haven. Both stations are in the same Hartford-New ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com NOTE: This is from Stacey Woelfel’s Substack column, The Last Editor by Stacey Woelfel. Stacey Woelfel spent 35 years on the faculty of the Missouri School ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Local TV news photographers are usually easy to spot in the newsroom. While the anchors and reporters are in suits and dresses, the photogs are in ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com If you’re having a bad day and need your faith about the good in people restored, I recommend you watch this story by Jacob Brooks, a multimedia ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Bryan Still, a meteorologist for WCMH, Nexstar’s NBC affiliate in Columbus, Ohio, went back to the junior high school he attended starting in 2007. This time, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KCCI, Hearst’s CBS affiliate in Des Moines, took home multiple wins at the Upper Midwest Regional Emmy® Chapter, The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Saturday night ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KXAN, Nexstar’s NBC affiliate in Austin, has just released two new promos, one for the investigative unit and the other for the morning news, that make liberal use ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Rheya Spigner will join WISN, Hearst’s ABC affiliate in Milwaukee, as co-anchor of WISN 12 News at 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. beginning the week of October ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Erin Myers, a reporter for KTLA, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Los Angeles, was doing a report on a rainstorm Monday morning when an unexpected visitor stole show. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Stop scrolling and watch the news. That’s the message behind a new eye-catching promo for KSAT, Graham Media’s ABC affiliate in San Antonio. “You’re speaking to two ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two Border Patrol officers on October 10. WGN is Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Chicago. Although WGN is not ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com There were 11 hurricanes in 2024, 5 reaching major hurricane status. One, Hurricane Helene, brought unfathomable damage, death and destruction to the western areas of the Carolinas, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Yes, you read that right. In 1955, the minimum wage was 75 cents an hour. A gallon of gas was a quarter. Automobile seat belts were required ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com What if every local TV station in the country made a commitment to help raise funds and awareness for a non-profit in their market? A one-day commitment ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KSBW, Hearst’s NBC and ABC affiliates in Salinas, CA., is honoring Action News 8 anchor Dan Green for his 30 years of bringing viewers important news coverage ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com NOTE: This is from Stacey Woelfel’s Substack column, The Last Editor by Stacey Woelfel. Stacey Woelfel spent 35 years on the faculty the Missouri School of ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A lot has happened to South Texas TV air waves in recent weeks, according to San Antonio’s top local news website. From experienced anchors moving to different ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Having a bad day? You need to go back to 2nd grade. Kaitlyn Biernacki, a second-grade teacher in the Myrtle Beach area, goes beyond the basics to teach ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com It’s a local TV love story. Two TV journalists, Jacob Seus and Julia Gorman, fresh out of college, meet at a local TV station and start dating. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Local TV stations across the country make critical contributions to their markets and their state by broadcasting live debates between candidates before elections. For example, on Friday, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Reggie Aqui, a morning news anchor, and anchor and race/culture reporter Julian Glover, are leaving KGO, the ABC-owned affiliate in San Francisco. In an emotional statement ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Thanks to the reporting of KXAS, the NBC-owned station in Dallas, more new safety measures are on the way to the deadliest street in Dallas. The ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Michelle Edmonds, the former leading evening news anchor at KIVI, the Scripps’ ABC affiliate in Boise, is heading back to school of sorts. Edmonds has been announced ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In early September, WISH-TV, Circle City Broadcasting’s CW affiliate in Indianapolis, let go more than 20 employees after the company terminated people who did not sign ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The day kids go back to school is a seminal moment in cities and towns across the country. And it’s hard to miss. Big yellow school ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Recent changes in the Minnesota TV news scene might reflect what news viewers nationwide can expect to see. Neal Justin, pop culture critic at the Minnesota Star Tribune, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Wes Rodda, the marketing director at KPRC, Graham Media’s NBC affiliate in Houston, said in a post on social media that, “At KPRC 2, marketing and news ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com News Blues publishes commentary from time to time that we see on social media. We ask permission to share it on News Blues, even though it’s public. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com On one day in July, 30 high school athletes are invited to an exhibit hall, the Peoria Civic Center. “It’s our own little sound studio where we ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Watching the video interview between Rick Lewchuk, founder of Film At 11 marketing and former SVP of marketing at CNN, and Paige Albiniak, an editorial director at ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Joany D’Agostino was under a lot of pressure, and she knew it. “I joked this had to be the best promo I ever made,” D’Agostino says. “When ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Ken Bauer, creative services director at KHBS/KHOG, Hearst’s ABC and CW affiliate in Fayetteville, Arkansas, will retire at the end of the year, capping seventeen years with the ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Blaine Stewart has no memory of his heart attack. Stewart, the morning news anchor on WTKR, Scripps’ CBS affiliate in Norfolk, suffered a near-fatal heart attack on June ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KATU anchor Steve Dunn is retiring from news at the end of 2025 after a storied career and 39 years at KATU, Sinclair’s ABC affiliate in Portland, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com On June 1st, CBS announced it was moving its 31-year affiliation with WANF, Gray’s station in Atlanta, to the CBS-owned WUPA beginning August 15, 2025. That’s ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Steve Kazanjian, who was president and CEO at Promax for eight years, is hosting a one-day conference, called RE:FRAME, built for entertainment marketers and ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The distance between Norfolk and the southern edge of the station’s coverage in the Outer Banks is 110 miles. The distance between Norfolk and the eastern ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KUSA, soon to be Nexstar’s NBC affiliate in Denver, is airing 12 chapters of “Free Press, Free Country” during KUSA’s nightly newscast “Next with Kyle Clark.” One ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com After decades of guiding viewers through sunshine and storms, Chief Meteorologist Brent Watts is signing off from WDBJ, Gray’s CBS affiliate in Roanoke, Your Hometown Station. “After ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Thanks to the folks at Stephen Arnold Music (SAM), one of the favorite sessions at the annual Promax Station Summit was held virtually last week, and ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Talk about the power of local TV news, and its news anchors. KHOU, Tegna’s CBS affiliate in Houston, aired a story about a woman who was ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Dozens of shelter pets now have a better chance of finding a forever home. More than 120 at-risk dogs and cats from overpopulated shelters in Alabama ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WAVY, Nexstar’s NBC affiliate in Portsmouth, Virginia, raised almost $7,000 to benefit Mercy Chefs, the Portsmouth-based nonprofit providing hot, chef-prepared meals to disaster survivors and first responders. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com From August 7 through the 17th, more than a million people attend the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. The fair began in 1854 and is the ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Remember the days when local TV news ratings were, well, news. You held your breath when the ratings info would come in after the ratings periods of ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Prior to the top of the seventh inning at the 2025 MLB All-Star Game on July 15 at Truist Park, the home field of the ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WANF, Gray’s independent station in Atlanta, branded as Atlanta News First, is expanding its news footprint with more reporters in the field and more local programming. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Morgan Murphy Media announced three strategic executive promotions in enhanced leadership roles, effective immediately. Chris Cornelius is named Chief Operating Officer. Cornelius joined Morgan Murphy ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WXIA, branded as 11Alive, Tegna’s NBC affiliate in Atlanta, named Todd Spessard as Director of Content at WXIA beginning September 3. Spessard brings more than three decades ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com For 18 days, from June 9th through June 27th, Nexstar’s NBC affiliate in Elmira, New York, WETM, made local TV broadcasting history by being the first ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Stacey Dales is beginning her 17th year covering the NFL, but she’s about to do something she — or any woman, for that matter — ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Sam Kuffel, the meteorologist who was dropped by WDJT, Weigel Broadcasting’s CBS affiliate in Milwaukee in January over her social media posts about Elon Musk, is returning ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The man accused of attacking a Grand Junction reporter in a bias-motivated crime is set to stand trial more than a year after his arrest. Patrick Egan, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com To create a promo for WBTV’s True Crime Carolina, a series examining unsolved crime cases in North Carolina and South Carolina, Jeremiah Banks wanted to set ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Brandon Lawson, meteorologist for WJZY, Queen City News, Nexstar’s Fox affiliate in Charotte, has been named the Climate Coverage Champion for the Charlotte area by the ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com During the school year in Rochester, in any given week, a teacher and a classroom of students are interrupted with a surprise. “That’s the fun part,” ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A serial killer was trying to cash in on his crimes. Until an investigation by WHNS, Gray’s Fox Carolina in Greenville, uncovered the plan and alerted ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com One phone call to WMAQ, the NBC-owned affiliate in Chicago, branded as NBC Chicago, began an investigation that revealed how scammers were using skimming devices to drain ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Dorothy Lucey cohosted Good Day L.A., the morning news program on KTTV, THE Los Angeles Fox affiliate, for 17 years. Her 17-year run ended May 2012. Lucey ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Rilwan Balogun, a reporter at KPRC, Graham Media’s NBC affiliate in Houston, spent weeks covering the story of a broken elevators in a senior living facility. “I told ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WISH, Circle City Broadcasting’s CW affiliate in Indianapolis, just released a promo campaign for its All Indiana Sports App. Jerry Morales Jr, a promotions producer at ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In June, WDIV, Graham Media’s NBC affiliate in Detroit, held a one-day event to collect bikes to distribute to people who didn’t have one. “We had 2,059 ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Heather Gray is the new general manager for WRAL and WRAZ, Capitol Broadcasting’s NBC and Fox affiliates in Raleigh. Gray, a first-time TV station general manager, becomes ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com You’ve seen the interview. A TV news reporter, microphone in hand, approaches an elected official in a public place, like city hall. The reporter starts asking questions ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com It’s been 13 years since Gary Striewski has sat in his seat on the set of KGWN-TV, Marquee Broadcasting’s CBS and The CW Plus affiliated ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Local TV news consumption is shifting from traditional TV to digital platforms like apps and websites, but television still remains a popular way to access local news. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In the latest episode of Life After News, Jason Ball sits down with Christina Pascucci to trace her path from the anchor desk to motherhood, from Senate ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Michael Baldwin, the news director at KBJR, Gray’s NBC and CBS affiliate in Duluth, Minnesota, branded as Northern News Now, believes that “when reporters and photographers collaborate, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KCCI, Hearst’s CBS affiliate in Des Moines, is celebrating its 70th anniversary during the month of July, culminating into a special presentation, “This Is Iowa: KCCI Salute to ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Hal Eisner, KTTV, Fox 11’s anchor and reporter, sits down for an emotional and revealing farewell interview after decades in broadcast journalism. “I like this ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A Muscovy duck has been causing chaos in a Cape Coral, Florida neighborhood, attacking several people and even sending one to the hospital. Bella Line, a reporter ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com You know your new promos must be good if one of the station’s anchor/reporters and the sales director post it on social media along with glowing remarks. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Juliet Clothier and Susan Sutherland host “Secrets of the C-Suite: The Podcast”, a bi-weekly podcast devoted to exploring leadership, demystifying and humanizing what it’s like to ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com This episode of Life After News is part of a series of podcasts by Jason Ball that dives deep into what happens after the headlines fade. Tamsen ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KCCI, Hearst’s CBS affiliate in Des Moines, finished the May 2025 ratings book winning the advertiser coveted demographic of Adults 25-54 from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com An initiative by KMGH, Scripps’ ABC affiliate in Denver, has the station going out in different neighborhoods and doing the morning and evening newscasts live on-location. To ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A new comprehensive study conducted by Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard Kennedy School, has some encouraging news for local TV ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The Gulf Coast Sports and Entertainment Network (GCSEN), a broadcast television regional sports network in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Edward M. “Ed” Miller, a familiar face to Northeast Ohio viewers during the late 1970s and early 1980s, passed away peacefully in Naples, Florida, at the age ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of investigative reporting, announced the winners and finalists in the 2024 IRE ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jackie Johnson McBride knew since she was little that she wanted to be a meteorologist. “My science reports would be on weather,” she says. “When I ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In a study published back in January 2023, Thomas Patterson, Harvard Kennedy School’s Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, found that local public radio stations can ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Charlie Grisham, the general manager at WRTV, Scripps ABC affiliate in Indianapolis, posted a story on social media about high school seniors walking the halls of their ...
NOTE: This is from the latest edition of “The Topline” from TVND.Com, written by Kirk Varner. In case you missed the breaking industry news this afternoon, CBS has announced that come this ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com If an EF4 tornado hit your town, destroying 150 homes and killing five people, you would remember that for the rest of your life. That memory would ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com You have to hand it to Mackenzie Moody for being a good sport. Moody, a news producer for WTKR, Scripps CBS affiliate in Norfolk, was willing to ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Most local TV news operations provide comprehensive coverage of local government in their markets. And sometimes in that role as watchdogs, they find evidence of something amiss ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WTEN, Nexstar’s ABC affiliate in Albany, New York, has been taking the entire cast and mobile set to various locations around the Capital Region of Albany since ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com She was once atop the #1 TV morning news in Los Angeles. Then a life-changing shift took her off the air. For more than 20 years, Jillian ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WMAQ NBC 5 Chicago will deliver an unprecedented NBC 5 Investigates series uncovering the startling allegations behind a months-long investigation of grooming and sexual misconduct inside a Chicago ...
