WHY YOU NEVER WEAR PATTERNS
How many times have you heard it from those high paid consultants who stroll into your newsroom and tell you, “solid colors only.” They ...
Category: As Seen on TV
CAT STEALS THE SHOW
When you work from home in the Television News biz, you never know whats going to happen. Especially if you have a cat who ...
ASIAN REPORTERS FACING BIAS
Well, the Coronavirus is bringing out the good and the bad in some people. You’ve seen news reports where Asians across the Country claim ...
“IT”S VERY HARD FOR RICH PEOPLE TO RUN FOR OFFICE”
If you watched Sunday’s White House “briefing” on the COVID-19 emergency, you got perhaps 20 minutes of actual information and 60 minutes of self-pity, ...
WELL, SHE DIDN’T WANT TO BE ON TV
This is something we’ve all faced in the field: trying to convince someone to be interviewed for a story. I’ve heard all the excuses, ...
KUNG FLU FIGHTING
CBS News correspondent Weijia Jiang took to Twitter Tuesday to claim an anonymous “White House official” referred to COVID-19 as “Kung Flu” to her ...
ROKER’S HOME SHOW
Over at the “Today Show,” Al Roker was not going to let a coronavirus-inspired exile from 30 Rock get him down. Using an iPad ...
WHEN MORONAVIRUS STRIKES
You can’t fix stupid and it sure gets frustrating, especially when confronted with it while out doing your job. KTRK‘s morning reporter Miya Shay ...
THIS WEEK IN PANDEMIC CONSEQUENCES PT. 2
With the CBS Broadcast Center shut down because of two CBS employees tested positive for the coronavirus, the local station had to do a ...
COVERING THE CORONAVIRUS STORY RESPONSIBLY
First, cut back on the use of words like “deadly,” “horrific,” and “catastrophic.” That’s a pretty good start right there. News vet Al Tompkins ...
ANOTHER AWKWARD MOMENT WITH CHRIS MATTHEWS
Chris Matthews was nowhere to be seen during MSNBC’s coverage of the South Carolina primary this weekend, no doubt due to the latest charge ...
TV TOPS LIST
Market research firm GfK, in collaboration with TVB, announced preliminary results from the 2020 Media Comparisons Study that show American consumers spend more time ...
HICCUPS STRIKE DURING NEWSCAST
So what do you do when you are solo anchoring and the hiccups strike? Ask a floor guy to scare you? Put a tablespoon ...
BECK SPEAKS OFF THE CUFF
Syndicated radio host Glenn Beck was featured in a profile story this past weekend on ‘Full Measure, hosted by by investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson. ...
AN INSIDE SCOOP
WGN-TV Morning News Anchor Dan Ponce has been giving viewers in Chicago an up close look at what’s going on with the Coronavirus scare. ...
WELL, ON SECOND THOUGHT
The Washington Free Beacon has a sizzle video montage about Attorney Michael Avenatti once dubbed ‘Savior of the Republic’ by a CNN pundit. The former ...
I’D LIKE TO BUY A VOWEL
Giovanna Bechard, a former reporter for Portland Maine TV station WGME (CBS) won $10,000 competing on the game show Wheel of Fortune but fell ...
LAUGH COMRADE LAUGH
An anchor on Russian state TV lit up the Internet after she broke into a lengthy fit of laughter while attempting to inform viewers ...
AN IDEA WORTH CONSIDERING
Scripps’ Cincinnati flagship WCPO has launcheda major change in its policy on the use of police mug shots Since it was a “soft launch” ...
HOW ABOUT SOME GOOD NEWS?
We’ve all heard it before, from callers to the newsroom or from folks on the street: “You guys never show any GOOD news.” Check ...
THE DIVIDE
As the U.S. enters a heated 2020 presidential election year, a new Pew Research Center report finds that Republicans and Democrats place their trust in two ...
IMPEACHMENT RATINGS
Clusters of bored Senators may wander in and out of the Chamber during the impeachment proceedings in violation of their own rules, but out ...
HIS COLLEAGUES BEG TO DIFFER
It’s evidently a bit of a bitch when you are a Republican Senator facing an uphill re-election when the topic of the day is ...
A GROWING TV NEWS PRESENCE IN CHICAGO
One year after Univision’s WGBO launched a two-hour local morning news show in Chicago, the station is committing new resources and personnel to the ...
GERALDO APOLOGIZES
Not too long after Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera tore into “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade early Friday morning over his support of ...
WE’D LIKE TO SEE MORE OF THIS…
Retired General Wesley Clark rang in the New Year in fine style during a CNN interview segment. When a cell phone began insistently ringing ...
THIS WEEK AMONG THE REAL “PROFESSIONALS”
Maybe we’re supposed to blame vacation relief for this. But we won’t. Fox News on Monday confused CNN anchor Chris Cuomo for his brother, ...
MEET ALEX TREBEK
Alex Trebek is getting candid about another side effect in his ongoing battle with cancer: depression. The L-A Times reports the “Jeopardy!” host and ...
BLOOPER FROM BEYOND
It’s a new year right? How bout we dredge up something kinda funny from the last decade. It’s making the rounds again on Twitter ...
KCTV NEW SET
Things are a changing in Kansas City at Meredith owned KCTV (CBS). The station unveiled its new set Wednesday after a few months of ...
WELL, THEN, IT MUST BE TRUE
As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov returned home from his visit with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office last week and that marvelous, ...
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!
Disney’s KGO in San Francisco is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year and produced a fun look back at the news operations in the 70s, ...
BONEHEAD INVADES REPORTER’S SPACE
Alex Bozarjian, a reporter for Nexstar’s WSAV in Savannah, GA was assaulted on live television Saturday morning as she reported on the race at ...
“DON’T MESS WITH ME”
It’s been nearly two years since reporter James Rosen left Fox News in the wake of sexual harassment allegations. Rosen toils these days as ...
ANCHOR ACCIDENT
According to KNXV (ABC), the stations weekend morning anchor and reporter Marc Thompson was injured Tuesday when he was hit by a car in Scottsdale. ...
CAVUTO SNAPS BACK AT ANGRY FOX FANS
Former Fox News anchor Shep Smith usually didn’t engage with enraged Foxfans who went after him when he didn’t toe the Hannity/Carlson/Ingraham line. Neil ...
THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMM
We’ve all made flubs, ad-libbing on the fly when a prompter fails or during breaking news when information is being fed in your ear ...
SIRI ARGUES WITH FORECASTER ON-AIR
Siri decided to offer its own take on the weather to BBC meteorologist Tomasz Schafernaker while he was on the air. Voicebot reports the voice ...
A HALL-OF-FAME SEGMENT
In a lengthy and rambling interview on “Fox & Friends” last Friday, Mr. Trump accused the Three Dumbest People on Television of lying when ...
FOX NEWS WINS IMPEACHMENT. FOX HOSTS WISH THEY DIDN’T
The headline reads Fox News Maintains Ratings Lead Over CNN, MSNBC for Third Day of Trump Impeachment Hearings And in fact, the pioneer of ...
LET’S TRY THIS AGAIN
Estrella TV is giving morning television news another go with “En La Mañana,” airing live from EstrellaTV’s Dallas television studios Monday through Friday from ...
THIS WEEK IN IMPEACHMENT
We can look forward to three days of witnesses beginning today starting with Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman later this morning. He’s the top Ukraine ...
A TALE OF TWO STORIES
The impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is into its public phase and the pace will pick up this week after two sessions last ...
FRAT BOYS GONNA BE FRAT BOYS…UNFORTUNATELY
The University of South Carolina is investigating members of a fraternity who a television reporter says made sexist and offensive remarks to her while ...
ATTEMPTING A DO-OVER?
A Connecticut NewsBlueser sends us a rather interesting tale about what happened when, on October 29th, NBCU’s WVIT held a debate among candidate’s for ...
REPORTER ATTACKED
In New York, an Upper West Side landlord attacked a television news crew on camera when they tried to ask him about the building ...
LEARNING FROM THE BEST
We told you Wednesday how following LSU’s wild 46-41 victory over Alabama on Saturday, WRBL (CBS) reporter Jack Patterson found himself frustrated as he ...
GOOD QUESTION….
Chicago media watcherr Robert Feder wants to know: Are two meteorologists better than one? Alicia Roman has joined Andy Avalos on NBCU’s WMAQ’s weekday ...
FROM ANCHOR DESK TO CITY HALL
Spokane Washington has a new Mayor today and she’s someone a lot of folks already know. Nadine Woodward, a former TV anchor won the ...
CALIFORNIA FIRES
As fires now burn in North and South California, News crews are starting to get weary. Some have been on the scene of different ...
HALLOWEEN FUN
Well, it’s a day in newsrooms where folks relax a bit and depending on where they work, come to work in a Halloween costume. ...
OH REALLY?
The World Series is now one for the history books. The Washington Nationals are now the champs after defeating the Houston Astros Wednesday night. ...
NEXSTAR REBUILDS IN PANAMA CITY
A year after Hurricane Michael forced the staff at Nexstar’s WMBB in Panama City, FL, to move their newscast into the station’s parking lot ...
WEARING TWO HATS
KSWO (ABC) in Lawton, Oklahoma is airing a promo for Matt Dipirro, the station’s chief meteorologist, that features the local fire chief praising Dipirro ...
NBC NEWS HOST BREAKS WITH THE BOSS
The boss’ six-page memo excoriating the reporting and character of “Catch and Kill” author Ronan Farrow be damned. MSNBC host Chris Hayes has broken ...
TOP FEMALE METEOROLOGISTS
TheThings.com, a pop-culture website, has put out it’s list of the Top 20 Female Meteorologist on-air in local TV markets. The Things Jeff Harper ...
SOMETIMES THE LOCALS ARE JUST BETTER
It was supposed to be a series of sitdown softballs for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo when he visited Nashville on Friday. After all, ...
FARROW’S REVELATIONS
Tomorrow you can line up at the bookstore to pick up your copy of Ronan Farrow’s “Catch and Kill” and read first-hand what has ...
A NEW FACE FOR INSOMNIACS
Kenneth Moton is moving up from his fill-in role on the overnight and dawn patrol programs at ABC News to become the permanent co-anchor ...
HEY GIMMIE MY WIG
The moment a Georgia reporter had her wig pulled of by a handsy lemur was captured on live TV. WALB (NBC) Chief Meteorologist Yolanda ...
TAKE A “LUNCH BREAK”
What may be the final piece of the puzzle for Tegna’s radical makeover of the look and content of WKYC in Cleveland rolled out ...
THE KISSING BANDIT UPDATE
Tuesday we told how a Kentucky reporter was outraged over an on-the air kiss. Police have identified a man who kissed her on the ...
REPORTER KISSED ON AIR
On Friday, you may have been watching WAVE (NBC) when one of the reporters was kissed by a stranger on live television. Some might ...
MAKING A MURDERER CONFESSION
It was one of the most watched shows on Netflix and featured clips from numerous Wisconsin area news stations during it’s two season run ...
NOT THE RING BEAR-ER
WBIR (NBC) had a Beary good story over the weekend. A bride and groom’s wedding photoshoot had an unexpected appearance by a ring “bear-er” ...
HE DIDN’T, BUT THEN HE DID. SURPRISE!
Some news accidentally leaked out of one of Chris Cuomo‘s nightly shoutfests on CNN. Calling one of Cuomo’s “imterviews” raucous tends to become an ...
WHAT THE HELL WAS CNN THINKING?
We’re still scratching our heads over what passes for the thought processes of CNN bookers and their producer bosses in the wake of their ...
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE
(P)OOPS! While shooting a follow-up story about the pigeon poop problems at a very busy Chicago Transit Authority station, as WBBM’s Lauren Victory was ...
OH MY
Despite its best efforts, America could not shame Sean Spicer out of joining Dancing With the Stars. So there was the former White House press secretary ...
A WISE CHOICE OF SURNAME
The name Stokes is a familiar one in Cleveland, OH and another generation of Stokes has now shown up on the Cleveland airwaves. Alex ...
AH, THOSE WACKY VIEWERS
A weekend news anchor and reporter in Portland, Oregon, is doubling down on her preference for high-waisted pants after a male viewer told her ...
MAULED BY CHILDREN
This is one of those clips that will age well on Twitter and beyond. A few weeks back sports anchor Troy Lynch, who works ...
“HI THERE”
As Hurricane Dorian continues to churn in the ocean marching towards the Coast, we haven’t seen too many of those, “I’m barely able to ...
THAT WAS CLOSE
Lots of TV reporters have hilarious stories to tell about wild weather ruining their prepared pieces-to-camera but few are quite as, em, electrifying as ...
“SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST TOO STUPID TO BREATHE THE SAME AIR WE BREATHE”
Dallas sportscaster Dale Hansen is a legend and a gift. He just keeps proving it night after night on Tegna’s WFAA and his latest, ...
35 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
KAVU (ABC) Sports Director Don Brubaker is celebrating 35 years. Don joined the station August 27-1984. “It means longevity, consistency, and I still enjoy ...
AIKMAN UNLEASHED
Well, Fox Sports announcer Doug Gottlieb wanted attention and he got it. Retiring cause rehabbing is “too hard” is the most millennial thing ever ...
SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR LAWSUIT
A nonprofit open government group is suing San Francisco Mayor London Breed and city police after failing to get access to records about a ...
THE FOX NEWS-OVAL OFFICE LOOP
And here we have another example of the Fox-Trump loop that drives far too much of the news cycle these days. Tuesday morning, Brian ...
A HIGH-PROFILE SUB
Chicago-based NBC News correspondent Ron Mott showed up over the weekend filling in at the anchor desk for Dick Johnson on NBC-owned WMAQ. Mott, ...
HUH?
The journalist ejected from an event where CNN political analyst April Ryan was the keynote speaker told his tale Wednesday night, saying he was injured by Ryan’s ...
A FAMILIAR FACE (TO SOME) RESURFACES ON CBS
Many Americans got their first look at Maria Elena Salinas yesterday morning when she debuted on “CBS This Morning” Salinas, who signed on to ...
INTERESTING TWIST ON MASS SHOOTINGS
We all know what’s led every newscast this week: this past weekends mass shootings in El Paso, Dayton and Chicago. And, by late Tuesday ...
MASS SHOOTINGS
As the war on social media rages while people look for answers to the weekends shootings in Texas, Ohio and Chicago, some reporters are ...
DALLAS ANCHOR TAKES SUPER HERO HEAT
We guess she never read comics or did she? Hmm. During a recent news broadcast, one anchor noted the launch of San Diego Comic-Con, ...
IT’S DAYS ARE NUMBERED
Chicago viewers, there’s just one month left to the WLS-produced 7 pm newscast that’s been on Weigel’s WCIU for the past four years. “ABC ...
MISS ME YET?
Nothing says “Hey, I know you love me,” like a video showing a fancy family vacation in France from a big-time Houston anchor. Sure, ...
RACIST RACIST RACIST
CNN and MSNBC said the word “racist” more than 4,100 times from July 14-21, according to The Hill citing a tally by Grabien Media, an online ...
HOW LONG IS 13 SECONDS?
This long… Donald Trump’s claim that he spoke “very quickly” in an effort to quell the racist and xenophobic “send her back” chants at ...
NEW ORLEANS MEDIA TAKES IT ON THE CHIN
Last week, as the storm system that would later become Hurricane Barry formed in the Gulf of Mexico, the media hype was already beginning. ...
IT’S SUMMER, WHY NOT?
If your summer broadcasts appear to be in the doldrums this month, check out what KVUE (ABC) Austin did with it’s morning team. Took ...
REPORTER DIRECTS FOOT TRAFFIC
Check out WABC (ABC) reporter Darla Miles on a recent live shot in New York. LIKE A BOSS: @DarlaMiles7 went viral this week when ...
TAKING COVER FROM THE QUAKE
There are harrowing newscasts and there are harrowing newscasts. What do you do when an earthquake rocks the set? You do what any normal ...
THE FLY
Nothing is more pesky on an anchor desk than a fly. Usually the insect is transported into the station when a photog stands in ...
ARE YOU A POLITICIAN OR A REPORTER?
The best thing about Democratic Debate round 2 was what happened behind the scenes. Former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper was entering the Miami debate ...
PSST, HEY YOU, YEAH YOU
Sometimes news is right under your nose. And when it hits you, you might want to spread the word. That’s why, from the beginning, ...
NBC HYPES THE FIRST DEBATE
NBCUniversal’s NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo are ramping up the hype leading up to the cross-network coverage of the first Democratic debate tonight and tomorrow ...
SPOTTED IN THE APPLE
Some eagle-eyed NewBluesers reported to us that over the weekend, there was a bit of a double-take here and there when current WCBS evening ...
