“The Morning After” on Nexstar’s KDAF in Dallas morphed into “Inside DFW” this week, The newly-revamped AM program from 9-10 AM promises that is it “YOUR show about YOUR city” and solicited viewer ideas ...
We reported to you last December that on Christmas morning in Hartford, CT, WFSB reporter and fill-in anchor Ayah Galal made history anchoring the morning show in a hijab. Barely four months later, in ...
As Nexstar’s NewsNation scrabbles to find an audience, it has adapted the board game Scrabble (see what we did there?) to lay out the central theme of its new promo series, with the game ...
When you are the new kid in town, it sometimes takes time and a certain amount of missteps before you can find your way around. Unless you are treated to the grand tour by ...
Storm chasing looks like so much fun in the movies. Real life is a little bit different as a crew from Hearst’s KCCI in Des Moines, IA experienced this week
Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, passed earlier this month, is spawning imitators in legislatures around the country. The measure prohibits teaching and discussions about gender identity and sexual orientation in the state’s primary schools. ...
Chicago viewers might have done a double-take when tuning in Disney’s WLS in Chicago this week, and seeing Ryan Chiaverinni turn up doing sports. The current “Windy City Weekend” host last did sports at ...
And there is nothing like making your mom go viral. Which is exactly what WSYX reporter Myles Harris did this week when his mom drove up to greet him while he was out on ...
Atlanta morning radio personality Jenn Hobby has joined Cox-owned WSB to host “The Daily Two,” a sponsored segment focused on entertainment and things to do that airs for two minutes after the station’s noon ...
KSAT’s morning traffic anchor gave TV a try for a hot minute. In little under a year, Samuel King is leaving San Antonio to go back to public radio, this time in Minnesota. He’ll ...
NewsNation made a significant hire on Monday. Political commentator and columnist George Will is joining the network as a commentator. The Washington Post and Pulitzer Price winner was called “perhaps the most powerful journalist ...
Yesterday marked a year since a mob stormed the US Capitol in a vain effort to overturn the results of the November 2020 election. By and large, broadcast and cable news outlets spent quite ...
A couple of days ago, Nexstar’s KFOR in Oklahoma City, OK reported that so many people in the state were overdosing on the anti-parasite drug ivermectin that emergency rooms and ambulance services were backed ...
A few months back we ran a couple of stories about the MIA Christy Kern, who was the 4 PM anchor on Nexstar’s WIVB in Buffalo. First she went missing for about four weeks ...
At one point in our tv news career, we worked for Ralph Renick, the guy who invented the tv news editorial when he reigned supreme at WTVJ in Miami. The history of editorials on ...
Locally-owned KRGV debuted a new morning anchor team this week. Trey Serna and Sandra Rodríguez are replacing Michael Scott and Gabriela Garza on the 4:30 to 7 AM dawn patrol at the Rio Grande ...
Tucker Carlson on FOX News Wednesday night “As a channel, CNN shouldn’t have a position on whether you should take medicine or not, because it’s a news channel,” Carlson said. “It’s not a health ...
Starting June 21st , Scott Flannigan takes over as news director at NPG’s KMIZ in Columbia, MO. He most recently was with Meredith’s (soon-to-be-Gray’s) KCTV in Kansas City, MO. He replaces Curtis Hancock who ...
When an insect claimed a front row seat at the WGN anchor desk Thursday morning, anchors Pat Tomasulo and Robin Baumgarten got to work. Gotta love the sound effects. Have a great weekend. We’ll ...
If you didn’t know this was a sweeps month, you will shortly. Country superstar Garth Brooks was getting some free airtime on the KSL morning newscast to promote his upcoming Salt Lake City concert ...
You would think that with numbers hovering in the area of what a 125+ sized market would consider ok, the suits in Irving Texas would be stepping back to take a cold, hard look ...
For you insomniacs out there, if you’ve ever watched ABC News’ “World News Now” and “America This Morning,” you might have wondered in the past how they managed to do the programs from what ...
Yes, we have been experiencing our share of “Milk!, Bread!, Toilet Paper!” panics this winter in our particular show zone. And you would think after a nearly a year of this thanks to the ...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, for instance, called out Greene’s “loony lies and conspiracy theories,” branding her a “cancer for the Republican Party.” The Wall Street Journal editorial board, meanwhile, said, “If the House ...
“I think occasionally, when you can, you want to have some newsmakers on who can express to you how they feel about the media, particularly if they feel like the media got it wrong ...
Newly-christened senior political pundit (political writers did the christening, not us) Geraldo Rivera is a longtime Trump pal who has evidently decided it’s time to lay a little reality on the outgoing (in most ...
Seems like this could be a “Saturday Night Live” sketch or something… What does a baseball network show when there’s no baseball? In the case of Marquee Sports Network, the answer is football. According ...
Polls will tell you how many democrats plan to vote along party lines and the same for republicans. They rarely tell you what the guy at the corner of the bar, who seems all ...
From Democrats and Republicans rallying against Donald Trump’s handling of the pandemic to the emotional moment of silence for George Floyd to Michelle Obama’s memorable “It is what it is” speech, it was all about the ...
Reunited and it feels so… awkward being six feet apart. After nearly five months apart due to the pandemic, both in work from home sets or in flash studios, CNN’s New Day anchors John Berman and Alisyn Camerota reunited back ...
A. It was intentional and they’re morons. B. It was unintentional and they’re morons. According to AL.com, a member of the Harlem Globetrotters released a video (below) Saturday evening accusing two Birmingham-based TV anchors ...
Talk about a #1 story. During a live shot in Santa Monica, CNN’s Sara Sidner was reporting on an increase in coronavirus cases in the area. One person may have had enough of the story and ...
A CNN reporter in Brazil was engaged with her anchor, when a thief apparently decided not to wait until the story was complete. It all happened during a live broadcast. Bruna Macedo and her ...
Host of ‘CNN Tonight,’ Don Lemon earned himself a trending hashtag on Twitter after a rant for the ages. It all started with an all-too-common in 2020 look into the camera and “now the ...
Fox News‘ Laura Ingraham chose the wrong guest for which to make a her “scientific” point. Dr. Anthony Facui had heard enough when the host compared the response to coronavirus to that of ...
Central California KCRA – reporter Melinda Meza was bringing her at-home live shot to a climatic close when viewers got a glimpse behind the curtain…the shower curtain. No word on if the man was ...
Is it “media bias” to point out disinformation? We are living in an age when major outlets are literally making the call to cut-away from the president of the United States during a ...
At Home With Farm Aid, the live virtual performances featuring Willie Nelson, his Sons Lukas & Micah, Dave Matthews, Neil Young, & John Mellencamp, and produced by AXS TV on April 11 helped raise over ...
It’s a powerhouse line-up including the likes of Jim Gaffigan, Ken Jeong, Adam Sandler and Marc Maron and it’s all “four” a great cause, to benefit the COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund, which aids working ...
CAUTION!! Geeky stuff ahead! “Today” host and weather guy Al Roker love gadgets and the situation forced by his isolation from the 30 Rock studio due to coronavirus concerns has allowed him to do ...
“Today” co-anchor Hoda Kotb broke down in tears on Friday after she interviewed New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, who made a $5 million donation to help coronavirus victims in Louisiana. Watch it here: ...
How many times have you heard it from those high paid consultants who stroll into your newsroom and tell you, “solid colors only.” They have a point. There is a lot less chance lets ...
When you work from home in the Television News biz, you never know whats going to happen. Especially if you have a cat who is used to walking anywhere it wants. Check out what ...
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 people are boycotting their restaurants and using racial slurs towards ...
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, obfuscation and media attacks. Including the above profound observation. What ...
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, “I’m not dressed for it”, “My makeup needs to be ...
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 face. This morning a White House official referred to #Coronavirus ...
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 to stream himself and a small television screen to show ...
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 was out at 6 AM doing a live shot when ...
With the CBS Broadcast Center shut down because of two CBS employees tested positive for the coronavirus, the local station had to do a little dancing for its morning newscast. Morning anchor Chris Wragge ...
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 of the Poynter Institute, who been through this before, has ...
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 of sexual harassment levelled last week against the past-his-sell-by-date host. ...
Market research firm GfK, in collaboration with TVB, announced preliminary results from the 2020 Media Comparisons Study that show American consumers spend more time with television than all other ad-supported media platforms. The study ...
So what do you do when you are solo anchoring and the hiccups strike? Ask a floor guy to scare you? Put a tablespoon of peanut butter in your mouth? If you’re Evrod Cassimy, ...
Syndicated radio host Glenn Beck was featured in a profile story this past weekend on ‘Full Measure, hosted by by investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson. Glenn Beck recalled his rapid rise and decline in the ...
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. His mother-in-law was aboard that Diamond Princess Cruise ship which ...
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 CNN and MSNBC darling is facing spending the rest of ...
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 short of making it to the final bonus round. Bechard, ...
An anchor on Russian state TV lit up the Internet after she broke into a lengthy fit of laughter while attempting to inform viewers of an increase in government subsidies to underprivileged people, a ...
Scripps’ Cincinnati flagship WCPO has launcheda major change in its policy on the use of police mug shots Since it was a “soft launch” with no hype – just a quiet introduction – not ...
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 out this idea from KTTV (FOX):
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 nearly inverse news media environments. Overall, Republicans and Republican-leaning independents ...
Clusters of bored Senators may wander in and out of the Chamber during the impeachment proceedings in violation of their own rules, but out in the country, which is supposedly as disinterested as those ...
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 impeachment. CNN senior congressional correspondent Manu Raju walked up to ...
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 effort. Added to the weekday morning newscast is full-time meteorologist ...
Not too long after Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera tore into “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade early Friday morning over his support of the drone strike that eliminated Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, the ...
Retired General Wesley Clark rang in the New Year in fine style during a CNN interview segment. When a cell phone began insistently ringing during an interview about foreign affairs, diplomacy, and security forces ...
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, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in a photo mix-up during ...
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 his wife, Jean, sat down for an interview with “Good ...
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 anyway. In case you missed it all those years ago, ...
Things are a changing in Kansas City at Meredith owned KCTV (CBS). The station unveiled its new set Wednesday after a few months of broadcasting from it’s control room. and this is the third ...
As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov returned home from his visit with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office last week and that marvelous, and quite subliminal, photo op, Russian state media salivated over ...
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, including clips of a promo where the anchors rode horses. ...
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 the Savannah Bridge Run route. She is now speaking out ...
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 a national investigative correspondent for Sinclair Broadcasting and given his ...
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. The incident occurred around noon Tuesday. The driver who hit ...
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 Cavuto isn’t Shep Smith. Now that Smith is gone, “Hanatics” ...
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 during a developing story live on air. But this one ...
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 assistant contradicted Schafernaker while he was live on the air ...
In a lengthy and rambling interview on “Fox & Friends” last Friday, Mr. Trump accused the Three Dumbest People on Television of lying when they said they didn’t know the identity of the Ukraine ...
The headline reads Fox News Maintains Ratings Lead Over CNN, MSNBC for Third Day of Trump Impeachment Hearings And in fact, the pioneer of 24/7 cable news, CNN, found itself in sixth place, behind ...
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 7 to 9 am. The new program debuted five months ...
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 specialist on the National Security Council who listened in on ...
The impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is into its public phase and the pace will pick up this week after two sessions last week. Nine more diplomats and national security officials — many ...
The University of South Carolina is investigating members of a fraternity who a television reporter says made sexist and offensive remarks to her while she was working. Sinclair’s WACH says their reporter Brittany Breeding ...