By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Tegna laid off all its marketing and creative services staff at its 68 television stations in 54 markets. Unconfirmed reports indicate that the move will cause 350 people ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Chris Earl, who anchors the evening newscasts at 4, 5 and 10 on KAKE, Lockwood’s ABC affiliate in Wichita, Kansas, is sharing his LinkedIn post about the common ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Last week’s announcement by Tegna that it is laying off all the creative services and marketing staff at its 68 television stations in 54 markets, and it’s centralizing ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Many local TV stations have community campaigns where they collect, clean and give away coats for families and kids in need. I’ve written about some stations that have ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com New TV job openings posted to News Blues include openings by Gray, Hearst, Tegna, ABC, NBC, Cox and Nexstar in South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, New Mexico, Washington and ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Josh Helmuth, the morning news anchor at KRDO, the ABC affiliate in Colorado Springs owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company, made a video where he outlined ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com You need some repairs to be done to your house. So, you google plumbers, roofers, painters, etc. in your neighborhood. You pick ones with good reviews and call ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Callie Starnes found it hard to leave the newsroom when she was named general manager in 2021 at WRCB, Sarkes Tarzian’s NBC affiliate in Chattanooga, according to ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A common refrain from local TV news viewers is that the news is so negative. Why can’t there be more good news? Jason Martinez, WTXF, Fox 29’s ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WAVY, Nexstar’s NBC affiliate serving the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, is once again returning to its “10 On Your Side Coats for Families” drive, dedicated to keeping ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com New TV job openings posted to News Blues include openings in Georgia, Florida, Virginia and Nevada. These are FREE job openings posted to News Blues for a week as ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KVVU, Gray’s Fox affiliate in Las Vegas, is airing a new format for its FOX5 News at 7pm starting Monday, November 11. FOX5 News at 7pm ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com You must admire Donna Bell and Jessica Foster at WJHG. Bell is the news director, and Foster is the assistant news director at Gray’s NBC affiliate in Panama ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com New TV job openings posted to News Blues include openings in Colorado, Georgia, North Carlina and Pennsylvania. These are FREE job openings posted to News Blues for a ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KCRA’s latest documentary is another example of the station’s push to do more long-form documentaries that started in 2020. And that push happened organically due to the success of ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Earlier this month, Sinclair launched Sinclair Cares: Hurricane Relief, a fundraising partnership with The Salvation Army to assist with humanitarian relief efforts on the ground in Western North Carolina, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Local TV stations around the country are helping victims of hurricanes Helene and Milton, even though they may be in markets totally unaffected by the storms. They partner ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Employees of WLOS, Sinclair’s ABC affiliate in Asheville, North Carolina, became part of the story when Hurricane Helene hit the area. Chirs Womack, the station’s sports director, describes how ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Kelsay Hart is an executive producer for KUTV, Sinclair’s CBS affiliate in Salt Lake City. Prior to that, she was a producer at WLOS, Sinclair’s ABC affiliate in ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The 2024 National Edward R. Murrow Award winners have been announced in both the Large and Small Television Market categories. There were 30 winning entries in 15 news ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com On October 16, 1949, Kansas City welcomed its first television station. WDAF-TV hit the airwaves with four hours of programming, including a live report from the American Royal, a ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In April 2024, CBS launched a national weather network to enhance coverage of critical weather stories at both its owned stations and CBS News. “With extreme weather events ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com When the Kansas City Chiefs came to town to play the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday, September 29, Nikki Kay, a sports reporter at Spectrum News 1, wanted ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com After 31 years of delivering unforgettable sports moments, WTRF’s Sports Director Scott Nolte is signing off for the last time, according to a story posted on WTRF’s website. Nolte ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com NOTE: News Blues published many stories about how local TV stations were covering the hurricanes or rising funds for the victims. News Blues is offering you a special ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In the local TV news business, on-air talent come and sometimes, they go. Sometimes, circumstances mandate that they just disappear from the air waves, their picture is scrubbed ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Last year, Rick Lewchuk, former SVP of creative marketing and brand standards for CNN Worldwide, started his own marketing company, Film At 11. Note: Lewchuk says this is probably ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Hurricane Milton, currently a Category 4 hurricane, is expected to make landfall on the west coast of Florida Wednesday night. How are Tampa area TV stations using their ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WCIV, Sinclair’s ABC affiliate in Charleston, South Carolina, is taking much needed supplies to western North Carolina. WCIV employees and their families donated many items for ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A two-man news crew from WRAL, Capitol Broadcasting’s NBC affiliate in Raleigh, were sent to Asheville the day before Tropical Storm Helene ripped through the North Carolina mountains. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KESQ, the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs, California, owned by Gulf California Broadcast Company, debuted its new set earlier this month. The new set was designed and constructed by ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com New TV job openings posted to News Blues include openings in Eau Claire, WI, Charlotte, Louisville and Tucson. These are FREE job openings posted to News Blues ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com There is research that supports the idea that jumping in the car and going for a ride can reduce stress and calm the nerves. The sense of ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com On Wednesday, Sept 11th, Hurricane Francine made landfall in the Morgan City area of Louisiana as a Category 2 storm. Morgan City is about 80 miles southwest of ...
Amanda Gilbert Joins KUSA in Denver Amanda Gilbert joins KUSA, the NBC affiliate in Denver where she will be a General Assignment Reporter. Gilbert comes from the ABC Affiliate in Salt Lake, where ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Darcy Stapleton is stepping up in altitude in her new job as Senior Manager of Creative Services at KMGH in Denver. But it shouldn’t be too much of an ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com It has to be the most played song in Philadelphia television history. The song has been used by WPVI, the ABC O&O, for more than 60 years as ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com New TV job openings posted to News Blues include openings in Tampa, Orlando and Louisville. These are FREE job openings posted to News Blues for a week as ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com You see them all over the road in your daily travels—bad drivers making dubious decisions behind the wheel that nearly cause accidents. You wish your car had ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The organization formerly known as Promax and now known as GEMA, Global Entertainment Marketing Academy, is continuing its annual awards program recognizing the efforts of local TV stations ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In 1949 at the 21st Academy Awards in Los Angeles, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was one of the pictures up for Best Picture. The names of ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Much has been written recently about the burn out some people are experiencing in the local TV news business. An article posted by the Poynter Institute, ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com New TV job openings posted to News Blues include openings in Atlanta, Savannah, Sacramento and Charleston. These are FREE job openings posted to News Blues for a week ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In August, during a newscast on WTVO, the ABC affiliate in Rockford, Illinois, news anchor Jorge Rodas was escorted off the set by morning meteorologist Joseph Marino due ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Soyoung Kim Joins KMSP in Minneapolis Soyoung Kim joins KMSP, the Fox O&O in Minneapolis where she will be a general assignment reporter. Kim comes from KPTV, the ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WEEK-TV, Gray’s NBC, ABC, MyNetworkTV and CW affiliated stations in Peoria, has a reputation for creative wildly imaginative news promos. Like this “Alice in Weatherland” promo from a ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Paul Rennie, the general manager at WGN, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Chicago, is retiring. Naturally, WGN’s morning news crew had some questions for Rennie about his eight years ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Sometimes you can across a news story that shocks and saddens you yet demonstrates how brave and courageous people can be. Here’s a story by KXAS, NBC5 DFW, ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In the old days of television, as David Hershey says, finding your channel number wasn’t much of an issue. “Today, with so many screen options, that’s become a ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Chicago’s Very Own WGN Morning News is celebrating 30 years on the air throughout September as only WGN Morning News can. WGN is Nexstar’s independent TV station in ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com NOTE: This is Part 2 of an interview with Mike Monsell, VP of Marketing for WPVI, the ABC O&O in Philadelphia, on the occasion of his 25th anniversary ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Mike Monsell got his Tinkerbell, the statue given to ABC employees in recognition of 25 years of service. Monsell was presented his 25th anniversary statue by Bernie Prazenica, ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WTVA, Allen Media’s dual affiliate of ABC and NBC in Tupelo, MS. is excited about the new member of their sports team, Avery Hilliard, just as football season ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Camille Gayle, a morning news anchor and reporter for WPDE, Sinclair’s ABC affiliate in Florence, South Carolina, posted a story on LinkedIn about an invention that helps find ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Lauren Minor Joins WLEX in Lexington as Weekday Evening Anchor Lauren Minor joins WLEX, Scripps NBC affiliate in Lexington, as weekday evening news co-anchor for the 4 and ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Local TV news may be the most advertised product on television. There are 200 plus TV markets in the country, and in every market, there are three, four ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Local TV stations are always advertising the benefits of watching their news coverage to potential news viewers. So why not take that same approach when it comes to ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com New TV job openings posted to News Blues include openings for an evening news anchor, news producer, reporter and consumer investigative reporter. These are FREE job openings posted to ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com After almost 30 years working in local TV as a writer/producer, promotions manager, creative director and VP of Brand Marketing in Detroit, Washington D.C., Houston and Dallas, Gary Wann ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Two news franchises airing weekly on KABB, Sinclair’s Fox affiliate in San Antonio, are shot entirely on iPhones with one also edited on the iPhone. “I’m coming up on ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WINK Television, Fort Myers Broadcasting Company’s CBS affiliate in Fort Myers/Naples, FL. has an opening for an Art Director. Imagine working where the sun shines nearly every ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A three-month study by Marketing News Canada that tested the effectiveness of local TV news ad placement vs. non-news inventory has some exciting results for not only local ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com I’m sure this has happened to other local TV creative services producers. You’re looking for music for a project you’re working on. As you scroll thorough the cuts ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A news segment titled, “You’re Awesome”, airing on WTXF Fox29, the Fox-owned affiliate in Philadelphia, is a win, win, win for the station’s news viewers, the station’s sales ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In all 50 states, the price to put two children in daycare is now more expensive than the average rent, according to a story posted on LinkedIn by Danielle ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Ian Cassette Joins Spectrum News as a National Meteorologist Ian Cassette is joining Spectrum News as a national meteorologist based out of Raleigh, North Carolina. Cassette’s forecasts will be ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com There are no roads to Stehekin, Washington, so you can’t drive there directly from Seattle, 140 miles away. But that didn’t stop local TV reporter Leah Pezzetti and ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Local TV news operations are often the course of last resort for consumers who can’t get satisfaction in disputes with local businesses or governments. In Jacksonville, when consumers have ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WAVE, Gray’s NBC affiliate in Louisville, created a new weather promo touting its coverage of extreme weather and saw an opportunity to show it to folks who might ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WISN, Hearst’s ABC affiliate in Milwaukee, has led weekday news at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. in household ratings for every major Nielsen measurement period – February, May, July, ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com NFL Preseason football is here. And football fans can’t wait. Live NFL football is some of the most-viewed programming on television, so if your station is broadcasting an ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WCIU, Weigel Broadcasting’s CW affiliate in Chicago, known as The U, is back with a bold, fresh, fun new look, sound and feel. The U has long been ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com LinkedIn is a great place for many local TV news and marketing folks to post recent work, whether that be news stories or promos. The reason station employees post ...
“The main goal of the approach was authenticity,” says David Stotts, WTKR's creative services director. “We really wanted to make a connection with teachers, parents, students and the community.”
“I'm calling it the TV station of the future because it really is,” says Brian Joyce, KMGH’s general manager. “Everything in this facility is state-of-the-art technology, brand new.”
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com On Friday, June 28th, the weather called for ice cream in Orlando. So WOFL, the FOX-owned affiliate in Orlando, branded as FOX 35, partnered with the South ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KSTU, Scripps Fox affiliate in Salt Lake City, branded as Fox13, has a summer weather promo with a western feel. Darcy Stapleford, KSTU’s promotion manager, says the station ...
For subscribers, on Friday we have two exclusive stories that you will only find here! Hot Jobs, is our weekly look at the job market in tv news, it is powered by our sister ...
It was chilling to watch live. On Monday night, Ashleigh Banfield was interviewing a member of the Ukrainian parliament who has took her ground in Kviv. It was 4:00 a.m. at the time of ...
This is bizarre and scary. In less than 24 hours, KSNV morning meteorologist Chloe Koast and Fox5Vegas reporter Kristen DeSilva were hit by reckless drivers and almost died. Early Saturday morning, Koast and her ...
The story emerges and so do all the stories that were originally buried. Some stories are from people who still work there and others from those who may never work in the business again ...
It started with the Milwaukee Bucks. It started with the Milwaukee Bucks most likely because the shooting of 29-year-old African American Jacob Blake occurred 33 miles south from where the Bucks would typically ...
The layoffs, firings and buy-outs were a predicted ramification of the consequences of a global pandemic. After all, advertising revenue going down will inevitably lead to pink-slips. It might not come tsunami style as ...
It’s not the first time in history that a President has made a promise that was not only broken, but had come back to haunt him. “Read my lips, no new taxes,” said George H. ...
