By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com New TV job openings posted to News Blues include openings by Gray, Hearst, Tegna, ABC, NBC, Cox and Nexstar in South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, New Mexico, Washington and ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KESQ, the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs, California, owned by Gulf California Broadcast Company, debuted its new set earlier this month. The new set was designed and constructed by ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The organization formerly known as Promax and now known as GEMA, Global Entertainment Marketing Academy, is continuing its annual awards program recognizing the efforts of local TV stations ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Much has been written recently about the burn out some people are experiencing in the local TV news business. An article posted by the Poynter Institute, ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In August, during a newscast on WTVO, the ABC affiliate in Rockford, Illinois, news anchor Jorge Rodas was escorted off the set by morning meteorologist Joseph Marino due ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Sometimes you can across a news story that shocks and saddens you yet demonstrates how brave and courageous people can be. Here’s a story by KXAS, NBC5 DFW, ...
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 ...
