Somehow it finally got through to the folks at Nexstar’s NewsNation that if they want to be taken seriously as a news channel, they should try doing news. So, dumping the usual daytime schedule ...
Michael Valente has only been on the job at Hearst’s WTAE for two weeks, but they’ve been a couple of very busy weeks. Since joining the Pittsburgh, PA station, he’s done an interview with ...
The weather forecasting got a little TOO personal for two meteorologists at Nexstar’s WCIA in Champaign, IL After up to three inches of rain fell on Champaign overnight causing flash floods, one of those ...
CBS correspondent Jamie Yuccas has a new assignment in the city and a channel where she’s based. The national news personality will find a new home in the mornings at KCAL, the CBS affiliate ...
KJRH morning anchor Julie Chin spoke out exclusively to the TODAY show. Chin was seen across the internet having what doctors are now calling “the beginnings of a stroke” on live television. In an ...
Some very scary moments for KJRH anchor Julie Chin over the weekend when the Tulsa anchor began to stumble and falter over her words while delivering the Saturday morning newscast for the Scripps station. ...
Mission Broadcasting’s KRBC in Abilene, TX just completed a reassigning of anchors as Abby Green was moved off weekends after a year and a half and moved into the co-anchor chair of the weekday ...
Debuting this week on Telemundo’s WTMO in Orlando, FL are two new faces – Alexis Orengo as chief meteorologist and Jarymar Colón Díaz as weather anchor. Orengo started Monday and came after four years ...
It was a scary moment for two KSDK reporters out covering extreme flooding in the suburbs of St. Louis, MO. Reporters Sidney Stallworth (pictured right) and Mercedes Mackay (left) were on their way to ...
Chief meteorologist Travis Herzog was updating viewers on Disney’s KTRK in Houston on how the region’s extreme heat MIGHT trigger power outages when…. This happened. Ah, but the show must go on, as he ...
Mackenzie Bart is the newest forecaster to grace Dick Goddard Way, home of Nexstar’s WJW in Cleveland, OH She came to the station from down I-71 at Tegna’s WBNS in Columbus, OH where she ...
Tuesday at 3pm CT, KVUE, the Tegna station in Austin, Texas broke into programming. The breaking news – lead reporter Tony Plohetski in conjunction with the daily paper, The Austin Statesmen – had obtained ...
Brand new to the morning show at Hubbard’s KAAL in Rochester, MN is Jessie Klinger, who popped up for the first time Wednesday morning. The Minnesota native came to the station directly from the ...
This just in….Honestly, we can’t stop smiling. Someone finally stood up and said “Enough!” Our Hero of the Week is Chris Licht, the new boss at CNN, who has added a “Breaking News” guideline ...
Viewers of the morning news on Chicago’s WFLD (FOX) were stunned this week to see some clown waving around a gun behind a reporter doing a live shot. A live shot about gun violence!!! ...
Trying to make a point, Houston forecaster Lena Maria Arango, went on set recently to do the forecast without…..makeup! Arango, who joined FOX-owned KRIV last September as weekend morning meteorologist, was pivoting off Instagram’s ...
“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 ...