By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Google ‘How popular is true crime genre’ and you’ll get hundreds of reports, articles, academic studies, statistical reports, legal reviews, psychological studies and opinions as to how popular ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Your station is launching a new hour-long lifestyle program in the morning. From scratch. A big deal. Among all the preparation that’s involved—the set, the graphics, schedules, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Delmarva Sports Network, a locally-focused, all-sports television station and streaming service based in Salisbury MD, is partnering with the Delaware Blue Coats, the NBA G League affiliate ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The Atlanta Hawks, Atlanta News First (WANF), Peachtree Sports Network (PSN) and FanDuel Sports Network have agreed on a partnership to simulcast 11 games this season that ...
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 WMAQ, NBC 5 Chicago, WSNS Telemundo Chicago and NBCUniversal Local Chicago’s roster of digital properties are set to provide viewers with extensive, multiplatform coverage of the upcoming ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Nexstar says it’s in productive discussions with Disney while it continues preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live. Along with the FCC, local TV giant Nexstar was at the forefront ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The second season of Taylor Swift’s series, The Swift Effect, will debut a new episode, A New Era, on Oct. 2 on Peacock and the NBC-owned stations’ ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WXII, Hearst’s NBC affiliate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, will air a powerful one-hour documentary commemorating the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene. The Long Road Home is scheduled ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Nash Roe, a 16-year-old Iowa high school student and budding TV producer, is launching a new docu-series called “Iowa Food Diary”, set to air on Sept. ...
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 WCCO, CBS Minnesota, the CBS-owned affiliate in Minneapolis, is making new programming changes to its afternoon and evening lineups. Beginning Monday, Sept. 8, the station will air ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WGN, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Chicago, is launching a new hour-long weekday show called WGN Take Two, starting Monday, September 8 at 2pm CT. From viral moments ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WGN, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Chicago, begins the 16th season of Backstory with Larry Potash with all-new episodes on Sundays at 11pm starting September 7th. The new season ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com COZI TV, NBCUniversal Local’s national multicast network that delivers TV’s all-time best shows and pop culture favorites, has acquired the digital broadcast rights for the ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Mike Jerrick will host MIKE, a late-night talk show on WTXF, FOX 29 this Fall, announced the station. Set to debut on September 8th, this locally-produced, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com There isn’t a zanier morning news crew in local TV than the one at WGN. They’re my kind of people. “We can be unpredictable, irreverent, and unconventional,” ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Gray Media, WVUE, Fox 8 New Orleans and the New Orleans Saints signed a five-year extension to their long-standing broadcast partnership through the conclusion of the 2029 ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WGN, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Chicago, launched a new half-hour show, In Good Spirits, on WGN+, the station’s streaming app, this past weekend. In Good Spirits is streaming ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Meteorologist Jason Nappi has been a TV meteorologist since 2002 in TV markets from Louisiana to West Virginia, from Maine to New York and from Georgia to ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Beginning Sunday, May 18 at 8:30 AM CT, Chicago area viewers will get an exclusive, insider’s look at the hottest residential properties on the market as WMAQ, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KLST, Nexstar’s CBS affiliate in San Angelo, Texas, aired a half-hour special on Monday, April 14th at 6:30 p.m. and initial data shows a 12.3 rating and 32.5 ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com ‘An American River’ an hour-long documentary, shines a light on how most Americans live within a mile of a river, but unchecked factors such as climate change, raw ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com How many options are there to stream KFSN’s news live? Well, there’s Roku, Hulu, the station’s news app on your phone, Samsung TV, the station’s website, Apple ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Increasingly, local TV stations look to local programming options to air during the day instead of syndicated shows. The advantages of local TV station-produced programming is, depending on ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WDBJ, Gray’s CBS affiliate in Roanoke, begins “In Our Hometowns”, a new initiative dedicated to shining a light on the stories shaping our local communities. “In Our Hometowns ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The Delmarva Sports Network (DSN), a 24/7 live and local all sports TV station that covers the Salisbury/Ocean City, Maryland DMA as well as Kent County, Delaware and ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In an unusual, but innovative programming strategy, Gray Media is marking the 30th anniversary of the 1995 World Series winning Atlanta Braves by showing eight regular season games ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com On Friday, Valentine’s Day, February 14th, a crowd estimated at a million people lined the city streets of Philadelphia for the 8-mile Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl Parade ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WSFL, Scripps independent station in Miami, is launching a weekend version of Inside Soth Florida, which airs weekdays at 6 p.m. Inside South Florida is an original, local ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Elizabeth Vargas is approaching her two-year anniversary at NewsNation, and the network has a present already picked out. Starting Monday, February 17, Elizabeth Vargas Reports is getting a two-hour ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WGN, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Chicago, launched two new shows on its WGN+ TV streaming app. What a Day! streams weekdays at 2:00p.m. CT. The talk show recaps ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WAGA, FOX 5, the Fox-owned affiliate in Atlanta, has partnered with Radio One Atlanta to launch a 24/7 audio simulcast channel of the television station’s streaming content. Effective immediately, ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com On Saturday morning, February 8, at 10, WDSU will air the first-ever New Orleans Super Bowl Host Committee Parade, a groundbreaking Mardi Gras-style celebration. This historic event will ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WSB, Cox’s ABC affiliate in Atlanta, delivered 12-weeks of the biggest Southeastern Conference college football games of the season followed by live SEC GameDay on 2 post-game ...
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 There is no news more important than weather. It affects everybody all the time but differently depending on where you are. The weather can change from one day ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WISN, Hearst’s ABC affiliate in Milwaukee, is televising a half-hour special Tuesday night, October 15, titled ‘Project CommUNITY: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage’ on the final day of National Hispanic ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The Seattle Kraken arrive on free over-the-air live television as KING 5 and KONG announce the local broadcast schedule for regular season Seattle Kraken games. KING is Tegna’s NBC ...
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 Manager, News Blues Paul@newsblues.com 817-578-6324 Jeff Kreiner, long-time VP of marketing for CBS and other broadcast networks, and most recently executive producer for LMAO Productions, a comedy program, died ...
Thirteen CBS O&Os will soon turn up on Sinclair’s NewsON streaming service. Among the stations jumping on the NewsON platform are outlets in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco. Thrills and ...
When NBC announced that its long-running soap opera “Days of Our Lives” was to be bumped in favor of a newly-created “NBC News Daily,” an hour produced by its NBC News Now streaming hub, ...
Investigate TV is Gray Television’s branded investigative reporting unit that it acquired when it absorbed Raycom awhile back. And Gray is showing its commitment to the project. Gray is beefing up staffing for Investigate ...
Coming October 4th, it is a revival in St. Louis as Tegna’s KSDK re-launches it’s noon newscast, last seen in 2017. As before, Ryan Dean (right) will co-anchor the restored program and will be ...
Court TV, the only multi-platform network devoted to live, gavel-to-gavel coverage, in-depth legal reporting and expert analysis of the nation’s most important and compelling trials, announced today a new original true-crime series hosted by ...
With all the COVID-19-related problems at the CBS Broadcast Center in midtown Manhattan that we’ve been chronicling here, it is perfectly reasonable that other CBS stations would be preparing for the possibility that they ...
Now that many of you are working out of the home, what do you miss most about being in the office? What DON’T you miss? Little random things pop up working out of the ...
Six television networks began showing President Donald Trump’s briefing on the coronavirus outbreak late Monday, but only Fox News Channel stuck it out to the end nearly two hours later. According to The Associated Press, ...
A number of stations are also expanding their news coverage during the COVID-19 public health emergency. NBC-owned WMAQ has expanded its 6 p.m. weeknight newscast to a full hour. The additional half-hour bumps the ...
Blaze Media has announced the US launch of Blaze Live, its ad-supported, 24/7 digital linear streaming channel, distributed via Pluto TV. The news and entertainment channel will feature an array of first-run content from ...
This week, NBC-owned stations in eight of the nation’s biggest markets replaced what would have normally been the first 25 minutes of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” with more local news. At the same ...
The PGA Tour has inked a nine-year media rights package with incumbent broadcasters CBS Sports and NBC Sports, while carving out a new over-the-top package which places streaming exclusivity in the hands of ESPN+, ...
If NBCUniversal is anxious about how coronavirus may affect its plans for the Olympic Games, it is trying not to show it, The NY Times reports. “The Olympics are obviously on everybody’s mind,” Brian Roberts, ...
Fox Corporation Monday announced it has completed the previously announced purchase of Seattle stations KCPQ-TV FOX 13 and KZJO-TV MyNetworkTV 22 as well as Milwaukee station WITI FOX 6 from Nexstar Media Group . ...
Sinclair went eyeball-to-eyeball with YouTube over the issue of compensation for the 21 regional sports networks it bought from Disney last year. YouTube promptly informed its subscribers that the RSNs would be dropped beginning ...
NFL owners and the NFL Players Association are likely nearing a collective bargaining agreement after owners approved the terms Thursday. Media companies and the NFL have been waiting for the CBA’s approval before negotiating new ...
Chicago TV Critic Robert Feder says folks in the windy City weren’t to thrilled with the launch of the Marquee Sports Network. He writes: “The Chicago Cubs and Sinclair Broadcast Group had more than ...
The nation’s only African American news network, based in Tallahassee, launched nationwide Monday. Founded by chairman J.C. Watts Jr. and CEO Bob Brillante, the Black News Channel (BNC) represents the African American community in mainstream media. The network ...
Comcast’s NBC and Sky will soon attempt to overturn three decades of CNN dominance in international television news, jointly launching a new channel hoping to get a slice of the global news audience. NBC ...
Today is debut day for “What’s New” on Tegna’s WKYC in Cleveland, the latest station experiment in calling news anything but. So what’s new? We’re told that Jay Crawford and Betsy Kling will take ...
Nexstar Media Group, which bought Tribune Media in September, is launching a nightly three-hour national newscast on cable channel WGN America based in Chicago. Competing with established cable news networks such as CNN and ...
MSNBC talent and staffers are bracing for a major 2020 shakeup amid discussion of moving ratings-challenged Chuck Todd to a morning slot and execs talking with Fox News escapee Shepard Smith. The goal of any ...
Fox Television Stations (FTS) Tuesday debuted Fox Soul, a live, interactive and advertisement-supported OTT streaming channel, positioned for the African American viewer. The channel’s programs aim to “celebrate black culture and highlight the real ...
