When news about the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas broke, local news stations from San Antonio and Austin rushed to the scene. Stations positioned reporters at Robb Elementary School where the shooting occurred, at the ...
Free-streamer “The Weather Channel en Español” launched this week on the 40th anniversary of Allen Media’s “The Weather Channel.” The first on-camera meteorologists to join “The Weather Channel en Español” are Albert Martinez, Henry ...
Two former Austin, TX anchors, Leslie Rhode (left) and Judy Maggio (right) have brought out an old idea, polished it up for the social media age and launched ATX Good News The site’s premise ...
KATU, the Sinclair station in Portland, Ore. is launching a 4pm show. The station has selected investigative reporter Wright Gazaway to co-anchor the show alongside Deb Knapp. Gazaway joined the station in 2020 as ...
One of North Carolina’s most popular consumer reporter is leaving. WRAL’s Monica Laliberte is going to work for the company’s parent company Capitol Broadcasting Company. She’ll be the director of communications and engagement. She’s ...
WDIV’s Victor Williams knows what he’s doing. He understands how to do something on TV and not make it entirely about himself. Williams was wrapping a story about free lessons for kids at a ...
Tired of sitting idly and fretting about how to stem its over-the-air audience drain and dreaming about luring millennials back to the tv set, Hearst has finally decided a better way is to bring ...
Texas meteorologist Max Crawford is fed up to here with not-so-well-meaning boneheads with access to a keyboard. http:// Crawford, who plies his trade at Gray’s KBTX in Bryan-College Station earns our respect for standing ...
WVIT reporter Jennifer Joas and her videographer found themselves under attack earlier this week in the parking lot of the Hartford (CT.) Police Department. Take a look. http:// The unidentified woman’s attack came out ...
Reporter Paige Hulsey of Meredith’s KMOV in St. Louis would have us believe this is a typical teen’s bedroom. Really? Her goal in having us suspend our grip on reality was to deliver one ...
CBSN Sacramento launched this week, featuring local news content produced by O&Os KOVR and KMAX. It is the 11th of ViacomCBS’ 13 local direct-to-consumer streaming news services and features a regular schedule of newscasts ...
In 2019, April Samp left WOI-TV, the now Tegna-owned station in Des Moines, Iowa. She had been with the station for close to seven year and nearly two decades in broadcast journalism. The single-mom ...
Saturday Night Live has been broadcasting much like your company – by digital teleconferencing, often in the Brady Bunch style multi-square grid. But over the weekend, in its cold open, it only required the ...
Deion Broxton, a reporter with Sinclair’s KTVM was reporting at Yellowstone National Park this week when he noticed a herd of buffalo creeping up on him. And while you can’t see the buffalo – ...
And consider all of the virtue signaling we’re getting from our network and local news types. We watched three local morning shows Tuesday morning spend an awful lot of time pointing out to us ...
We understand the role of anchor vs. producer. Almost like parts of an atom, they work together in-sync, but sometimes a proton drops out of orbit and crashes into an electron. The Producer writes ...
Days after Arizona Senator Martha McSally picked a fight with CNN reporter Manu Raju to juice her anemic fundraising, Texas Senator Ted Cruz felt the need to fan the flames and keep it all ...
Houston media blogger Mike McGuff noted this week that when former KPRC morning traffic reporter Jennifer Reyna posted her first 2020 Instagram post, it quickly amassed more than 11-THOUSAND views. We can think of ...
The country’s top transportation regulator on Thursday proposed tracking nearly every drone in U.S. airspace, a rule that would pave the way for companies like Google and Amazon to deploy commercial drones across the U.S. The rule, the ...
The marketing folks at WWBT (NBC) in Richmond, Va., must believe that you go big or go home. Check out this Hollywood style promo that ran according to station heads, ” a few times ...
Nick Vasos was feeling sick when he tried to ask his bosses if he could stay home Friday, according to his station, Nexstar’s WDAF in Kansas City. Maybe that’s why when he hit “send” ...
We’ve all been there…at the beginning of the career when we struggled to complete a task and kept having to try doing it again. All we needed was some encouragement. Like the encouragement that ...
Ashley Bianco, the staffer fired at CBS News after a determination she accessed ABC News footage while employed there that was later leaked, gave an exclusive interview to Megyn Kelly, saying she “never” leaked ...
Monday we told you how Memphis anchor Nina Harrelson had a message for the latest body-shaming bozo with access to a keyboard. Her story went viral, attracting the attention of the Networks. Harrelson, was ...
It doesn’t take much to fascinate a weary nation tired of political infighting and other daily pressures but a black cat stole the show during the Cowboys-Giants game Monday night. The announcers had fun, ...
KOVR (CBS)/KMAX (CW) reporter, Angel Cardenas made quit an impression at the annual Sacramento International Car Show over the weekend. So much so, that he has reportedly been fired. Viewers were outraged after he ...
Project Veritas, whose founder, James O’Keefe, describes himself as a “guerrilla journalist” is back, this time targeting CNN. He built up the release on social media with an “#ExposeCNN” hashtag, and Monday published the ...
Courtney Kube is a reporter who covers national security and the Pentagon for NBC News. She is also a mom. Wednesday she brought her kids to work with her and one of them did ...
Denver TV reporter, Mekialaya White of KCNC (CBS) fame, snapped a photo of a wrong-spell billboard and posted it online, but didn’t exactly say why. #Denver is wildin’… #unlimitedmassages @Visible ? credit: @WalshCBS4 pic.twitter.com/H6lua30VwL ...
Don’t know if you saw this one late last week, but a reporter was a bit too close to a fire during a live shot. KNSD‘s Steven Luke was reporting from Riverside County on ...
“Stretch” and “Ad-lib” are words we’ve heard in our ears from the control room as mayhem is striking and your prompter goes out, or a piercing feedback tone comes through your IFB as you ...
The blondifully-vapid Tomi Lahren issued another one of her ridiculous tweets and it was too much for even her female colleagues at Fox. The pride of Rapid City (SD) Central tried to be clever ...
One of the longest carriage disputes in the history of carriage disputes ended as FIOS and The Weather Channel finally put an end to their four-year-long spat as TWC announced a June 24th return ...
CBS launched its second OTT local news service, this time out in Los Angeles. CBSN Los Angeles, like its older sibling, CBSN New York, features 24/7 anchored programming, coverage of live breaking news events ...
The hedging of bets over the future of local broadcast news continues, this time in Tampa/St. Petersburg FL. Scripps’ WFTS is launching a streaming-only newscast beginning next month. “ABC Action News Streaming Now” premiers ...
Maybe it’s to subtly remind us that sometimes our life choices are pretty much black and white. Maybe it’s cheaper. Whatever, the idea that the NBC Peacock has reverted to black (ok, dark blue) ...
Sioux Falls South Dakota television station KDLT, owned by Red River Broadcasting, cancelled its newscasts yesterday as floodwaters surrounded the station’s building in the southwestern section of the city. Video posted on Twitter by ...
Tonight at approximately 11:14 pm on TNT, Minneapolis reporter Jana Shortal will be featured as part of CNN’s Great Big Story’s “SHINE” series Shortal, a very familiar face to Twin Cities viewers as a ...
We kind of enjoyed it when, a couple of years ago, cable networks adding actual content to their ever-present chyrons. What was once intrusive and annoying became instructive as the networks used the chyrons ...
Spectrum News 1 SoCal has launched a partnership with the “Los Angeles Times” and is now airing a new program produced by the newspaper. It’s being done in a studio that the Times built ...
While the area around Cambridge Bay, in the far northern reaches of Manitoba, Canada was dealing with temperatures ranging from -2° to -25° earlier this week, Cambridge Bay itself was burning up at more ...
With the New Year, comes a sense of renewal, refreshment and revival. Unless it’s cable news. The awfulness of the 24/7 networks rivals some of the excesses we endure at the local level with ...
Launched only this past summer, Raycom’s Investigate TV is now available on the Roku streaming channel, and Amazon Fire with Apple TV coming soon. The idea is simple: maximize the impact of Raycom’s investigative ...
It is an inarguable fact that the reason for Fox News Channel’s prime time dominance is its ability to corner the market in the “60-to-dead” demo as we used to call it. We stopped ...
Just weeks ahead of the mid-term elections, ABC NEWS LIVE and CBSN have been added to the Hulu lineup. They join Cheddar, a start-up that launched earlier this year, to comprise three streaming news ...
Are boneheads drawn to social media, or does social media make people boneheads? Chicago viewers lost it over a social media post on Disney’s WLS Facebook page that appeared to make light of the ...
Hey, who knew that last week was “International Babywearing Week?” Stop it. No, you didn’t. Up in Minneapolis, meteorologist Susie Martin did, and on October 5th, she wore her son while doing the forecast ...
Tegna’s “Daily Blast”, a daily half-hour that airs on the company’s various platforms in its 36 markets hosted one of the more interesting discussions last week. Unfortunately, you may not have access because the ...