By Paul Greeley NOTE: Local TV news operations provide valuable and meaningful information to large and small markets all over the country. But in addition to the serious side of breaking news, investigations, severe ...
By Paul Greeley An Atlanta television station is feeling some heat from college football fans after interrupting the Georgia-Alabama game on Saturday night over a tornado, according to the New York Post. During the ...
By Paul Greeley KARE, Tegna’s NBC affiliate serving the Twin Cities, is partnering with the Minnesota Timberwolves and DAZN, the team’s new local media rights partner, to simulcast 15 Timberwolves games for free over-the-air ...
By Paul Greeley The Atlanta Hawks and Atlanta News First (WANF) today jointly announced that Georgia Natural Gas (GNG) will serve as an official broadcast sponsor for Hawks game telecasts on ANF throughout the ...
By Paul Greeley WRAL, the Capitol Broadcasting NBC affiliate in Raleigh, and the Carolina Hurricanes have announced a new television partnership to bring select Saturday night games to WRAL and FOX 50 during the ...
By Paul Greeley Local TV stations in Ohio are broadcasting an ad from Democrat Brian Poindexter attacking GOP Rep. Max Miller (Ohio) despite Miller’s attorney threatening legal action, according to Yahoo. Miller’s lawyer, Alejandro ...
By Paul Greeley Nexstar announced that its television stations serving Michigan will air two exclusive live, multi-market telecasts of debates between the candidates for Governor of Michigan and the candidates for United States Senate. ...
By Paul Greeley WESH, Hearst’s NBC affiliate in Orlando expands its 7 p.m. newscast to a full hour. WESH 2 News at 7 p.m. was launched in 2023. At the time, John Soapes, WESH’s ...
By Paul Greeley WRCB, branded as Local 3, Sarkes Tarzian’s NBC affiliate in Chattanooga, is making some changes to its lineup, welcoming a new face, saying goodbye to a meteorologist named Skye, and relaunching ...
By Paul Greeley WCBS New York sat down with Zohran Mamdani, the city’s mayor, for an exclusive interview about his experience visiting New York City firehouses across the five boroughs as the city approaches ...
By Paul Greeley Patrick Osborn, weekend meteorologist at WABI, Gray’s CBS and CW affiliates in Bangor, Maine, had his regularly scheduled weather report sidetracked Sunday morning when he was suddenly struck by a fit ...
By Paul Greeley WBAY-TV will be saying goodbye to one of its meteorologists next month and has welcomed two new weekend anchors this month, according to the Green Bay Press Gazette. Meteorologist Emily Merz ...
By Paul Greeley A family of raccoons has become a regular presence at Nelson Auto Salvage, according to a post on social media by WSLS, Graham’s NBC affiliate in Roanoke. The animals began appearing ...
By Paul Greeley Joseph Olmo, a TV news anchor at WRC, the NBC-owned station in Washington, D.C., branded as NBC Washington, announced at the end of the broadcast that he is leaving the station, ...
By Paul Greeley WFAA and KXAS in the Dallas/Ft. Worth market are shaking up their on-air lineups, with one meteorologist returning home to a station he once interned for and another taking on a ...
By Paul Greeley Ryan Ermanni, a co-anchor for WJBK’s morning news, Fox 2 Good Day Detroit, lost his composure on live television when asked an innocent question by Deena Centofanti, his co-anchor. The anchors ...
By Paul Greeley KDVR, Nexstar’s Fox affiliate in Denver, branded at Fox 31, took their morning news crew up 14,130 feet to the top of Mt. Blue Sky, about 50 miles west of Denver, ...
By Paul Greeley Emergency crews responded to a professional tower climber who suffered a medical emergency while working on the broadcast tower of WTVO and WQRF in Rockford, IL. WTVO is the ABC and ...
By Paul Greeley KDKA, CBS Pittsburgh successfully debuted the region’s first state-of-the-art Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) news studio during its 4 PM newscast today, August 11, bringing a new generation of immersive ...
By Paul Greeley Major changes are underway for two of Huntsville’s television stations, according to AL.com, Alabama’s largest news site. Huntsville television station WAFF, Gray’s NBC affiliate, confirmed the consolidation of its news staff ...
By Paul Greeley On August 1, KRQE, Nexstar’s Fox affiliate in Albuquerque, ended its 72-year run as a CBS affiliate and became a full-time Fox affiliate, a brand it has been with since 2017. ...
By Paul Greeley Chelsea Chandler, a familiar face in the Memphis TV market, is joining WREG, Nexstar’s CBS affiliate in Memphis, as an anchor and meteorologist for the “Daybreak” program. Chandler has spent 10 ...
By Paul Greeley Daniella Guzman, a TV news anchor at KPRC, Graham Media’s NBC affiliate in Houston, received free World Cup tickets and Bruno Mars concert tickets from the Harris County Sports and Convention ...
By Paul Greeley A local TV station in Miami, WFOR, the CBS-owned station, airs a story about a 70-year-old man living without air conditioning for more than a YEAR in the scalding hot summer ...
By Paul Greeley Dominique Dillon, a morning news anchor on WHBQ, Rincon Broadcasting’s FOX affiliate in Memphis, seemingly fell asleep during a recent live broadcast, according to Entertainment Weekly. In the viral clip, Dillon ...
By Paul Greeley Deena Centofanti, an Emmy award winning anchor/reporter who specializes in health reporting and anchors Good Day Detroit on WJBK, FOX 2 Detroit, the Fox-owned station in the Motor City, returned to ...
By Paul Greeley A Norfolk police officer had his camera rolling as he pulled a woman from a submerged car in a massive sinkhole, according to a story by Markeshia Jackson, an anchor/reporter at ...
By Paul Greeley Nexstar television stations serving Kansas will air an exclusive live, multi market telecast of a debate between candidates seeking the Democratic Primary Party’s nomination for Governor of Kansas. The debate, titled ...
By Paul Greeley Abbey Walton has been named a Client Content Host & Reporter for Talk of the Town on WTVF, Scripps’ CBS affiliate in Nashville. Talk of the Town is a long-running, popular ...
By Paul Greeley A social media dispute between two Ft. Myers news personalities has gained national attention. The argument began after an anchor for Hearst’s ABC and NBC affiliates in Ft Myers, branded as ...
By Paul Greeley Not many human beings can completely ignore a cockroach crawling around on your neck and chest. So, you have to hand it to Rachel Menitoff, a TV reporter for KTLA, Nexstar’s ...
By Paul Greeley WUPA, branded as CBS Atlanta, the CBS-owned station in Atlanta, launched CBS NEWS ATLANTA AT NOON, a new weekday live local newscast that expands the station’s news lineup and provides viewers ...
By Paul Greeley It’s heart-warming to witness the love extended to a local TV meteorologist who’s returning to work after spending three years away caring for her son with cancer. Sarah Wroblewski, a meteorologist ...
By Paul Greeley Kristen Kirchhaine joined WISN, Hearst’s ABC affiliate in Milwaukee, as its weekend evening meteorologist beginning in early August. Kirchhaine worked for WTMJ, Scripps’ NBC affiliate in Milwaukee, for five years. This ...
By Paul Greeley Nick Gunter left WSFA, Gray’s NBC affiliate in Montgomery, after nearly five years, according to AL.com. “It’s hard to put into words how grateful I am for this chapter,” Gunter said. ...
By Paul Greeley John Kukla, VP of creative services for the past 26 years at KDFW, the Fox-owned station in Dallas-Fort Worth, and his team at KDFW, created a one-minute promo welcoming all of ...
By Paul Greeley Emma Allen posted on social media that “After an incredible chapter in Allen, I’m excited to share that I’ll be heading home to Arkansas to join KATV (again) as a Broadcast ...
By Paul Greeley Knox, a three-year-old goldendoodle is a news hound. Knox’s obsession with journalism began when he was just a 4-month-old fluffball, according to Yahoo. Marc Sallinger has just been hired to anchor ...
By Paul Greeley KTVT, branded as CBS Texas, provided special coverage to mark the one-year remembrance of the Central Texas floods last 4th of July which killed 139 people. The station broadcasted live from ...
By Paul Greeley NBCUniversal Local’s LXTV Productions will premiere the half-hour special edition of its Emmy-winning lifestyle and travel program 1st Look Presents: Sail4th 250 – Celebration of America hosted by Jared Haibon, an ...
By Paul Greeley Abigail Velez, a reporter at KABC, the ABC-owned station in Los Angeles, attempted to ramp up the trash talk after the U.S. clinched first place in its group and a round-of-32 ...
By Paul Greeley My LinkedIn feed is populated with college journalism grads proudly announcing their first TV job at local TV stations all over the country. I don’t know any of these students who ...
By Paul Greeley Duston Nolan, a morning news TV anchor for KWQC, Gray’s NBC affiliate in Davenport, Iowa, gave a tearful goodbye on the air on Friday. The farewell went viral and was picked ...
By Paul Greeley Cam Williams, a recent graduate from the University of Oklahoma, joins KYTX, CBS19, Tegna’s CBS affiliate In Tyler, serving East Texas, as a sports anchor and multi skilled journalist. Laid Off ...
By Paul Greeley Jamie Apody, longtime Philly sports reporter, is expanding her role at WTXF, FOX29, the Fox-owned station in Philadelphia, returning to the anchor chair for the first time since she departed WPVI, ...
By Paul Greeley Glen Walker, a midday anchor who was laid off three months ago by KTLA, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Los Angeles, returns to the airwaves on Wednesday, June 10, as a roving ...
By Paul Greeley In the roughly three months that DuJuan McCoy’s Circle City Broadcasting has owned the ABC affiliate serving Indianapolis, the company has made a full-court press to the local press about its ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WMAQ, branded NBC 5 Chicago, will return its popular, Emmy-nominated luxury real estate series Open House Chicago for an expanded third season featuring 20 brand new episodes, delivering even ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Lisa Meadows, a meteorologist at WCCO, the CBS-owned station in Minneapolis, is part of the Upper Midwest’s biggest search-and-rescue team, according to The Minnesota Star Tribune. On any given ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Byron Allen’s “Comics Unleashed” opened to soft national ratings in its new 11:35 p.m. slot on CBS, trailing its broadcast competitors and falling well below the audience levels previously ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com My LinkedIn feed is populated with college journalism grads proudly announcing their first TV job at local TV stations all over the country. I don’t know any of these ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Doug High, TV news anchor at WTVQ, Scripps’ ABC affiliate in Lexington, has a big schedule change for his broadcast day, he announced on social media. Since 2010, I ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com John Zeigler has been named chief meteorologist at KARE, Tegna’s NBC affiliate in Minneapolis. “John is the perfect person to lead forward and carry on KARE 11’s strong legacy ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Following a month-long approval process by the Federal Communications Commission, Gray Media finalized an $80 million deal to acquire WDRB-TV, bringing it under the same ownership as WAVE-TV. In ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Andrew Douglas posted on social media that “after 18 years of early alarms, pre-dawn drives to the station and delivering the morning news to Memphis and the Mid-South, I ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Joanne Feldman has taken over as chief meteorologist at WAGA, Fox 5, the Fox-owned station in Atlanta, the station announced Wednesday. Feldman, a fixture at WAGA-TV since 2007, replaces ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Lexi White is joining WWLP, Nexstar’s NBC affiliate in Springfield, Massachusetts, as a news reporter. White, a former part-time assignment editor at WTNH, Nexstar’s ABC affiliate in New Haven, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Three local CBS TV stations in California, in partnership with the San Francisco Examiner, will host a live California gubernatorial debate on Thursday, May 14, offering undecided voters another ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Who are the new next gen journalists entering into the local TV news arena? Where do they come from? What skills do they have? What are their expectations? Who ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Gray Media and WDBJ, Gray’s CBS affiliate in Roanoke, are launching the Star-Spangled Sing-Off, a contest that invites Americans to send in their best acapella rendition of “The Star-Spangled ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Cynthia Izaguirre, the 51-year-old veteran anchor on the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts on WFAA, Tegna’s ABC affiliate in Dallas, is still trying to live down an infamous ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The ‘live shot’ is a fundamental part of local TV news where reporters take viewers to the scene of the story. In any local TV newscast, they’re ubiquitous. Historically, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Marc Blaine is the new co-anchor at WTAJ, Nexstar’s CBS affiliate serving the Johnstown–Altoona–State College market in Central Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the WTAJ News team, Blaine served as an ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jorge Perez, an engineer at KTVT, the CBS-owned station in Dallas, has been at the station for 30 years. So to honor his work over the years, the station ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A local reporter in Miami was threatened with jail time after he asked the mayor a question in a public park. Jeff Weinsier, a TV reporter for WPLG, an ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WRTV, the ABC affiliate in Indianapolis owned by Circle City Broadcasting, is adding three new locally focused shows starting Saturday, May 9th. The new programs include Business, Equity & ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jason Knowles, currently the longest serving investigative reporter at WLS, the ABC-owned station in Chicago, does so many news stories that the station needed 60 seconds for a promo ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Austin Pollack is a storyteller. That’s the title on his LinkedIn profile, Storyteller. He practices his storytelling craft for WTVF, Scripps’ CBS affiliate in Nashville. Here are a couple ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com After 236 days in the neonatal intensive care unit, Sharifa Jackson, a reporter at WPVI’s Action News, the ABC-owned station in Philadelphia, and her husband are finally home with ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KCCI, Hearst’s CBS affiliate in Des Moines, has been officially recognized as the Certified Most Accurate Weather Team by WeatheRate, an independent research company. “I am honored the meteorologists ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Richard Roeper, two-time Emmy Award-winning journalist, veteran film/media critic and popular, local and national media personality is joining WMAQ, NBC 5 Chicago, as its Entertainment & Culture Contributor beginning ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Ashonti Ford, a TV news anchor at WBMA, branded as ABC 33/40, Sinclair’s affiliate in Birmingham, signed off by sharing a quote attributed to the founder of the Muslim ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Erin Myers, a reporter at KTLA, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Los Angeles, was teasing her upcoming story in the morning news about a earlier bear encounter in the neighborhood, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Longtime personality Darla Montgomery, who joined KADN, Allen Media’s Fox affiliate in Lafayette, Louisiana, will move into Marcelle Fontenot’s spot on the anchor desk said Jim Parker, KADN ‘s ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A popular recurring news segment on WPVI, the ABC-owned affiliate in Philadelphia, is “One Tank Trip“. The segments feature short, drivable, and budget-friendly day trips around the Philadelphia region. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WAVY, Nexstar’s NBC affiliate in Portsmouth, Virginia, aired a story honoring Black History Month of a local resident who alerted America to the presence of the Russian satellite Sputnik ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Aaron Mason, the news director at WKBW, Scripps’ ABC affiliate in Buffalo, went on a nine-day vacation to Puerto Vallarta with friends on February 20th and got caught up ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Andy Alcock, a reporter for KMBC, Herst’s ABC affiliate in Kansas City, was live on the scene and had just wrapped up his 5 p.m. live shot discussing the ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jonah Kaplan, a reporter at WCCO, the CBS-owned affiliate in Minneapolis, is joining CBS News as a correspondent. “This is a dream job only made possible by the countless ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WGN-TV Family Charities, a fund of the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, presented four local charities with checks totaling over $81,000. In November 2025, Chicago’s Very Own WGN-TV hosted its ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Shelby Ebertowski, a meteorologist at KSAT, Graham Media’s ABC affiliate in San Antonio, says she’s engaged. Her now-fiance Seth Germundson got down on one knee Jan. 19 while ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com You see them whenever the weather is bad, like now. TV meteorologists or reporters outside in hurricanes, snowstorms, and the pouring rain, getting wind blown and knocked down, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Melanie Black — who left WHDH, Sunbeam’s independent station in Boston, a couple of months ago — began her new role at FOX Weather on Thursday. Black was ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WGN, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Chicago, is launching a brand-new political show, “The Point” to air weeknights at 6:45 p.m. Starting on Monday, January 26th, the show will ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jaelyn Borresen, a TV meteorologist at KELO, branded as KELOLAND, Nexstar’s CBS, MyNetworkTV, and CW affiliates in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was on stage performing as part of ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Hanna Lopez, a reporter/MMJ at WGBA, Scripps’ NBC affiliate in Green Bay, posted on social media that her executive reporter Bruce Harrison asked if she wanted to try ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com An Iowa journalist showed up to what she thought would be a regular day on the job, only to be surprised by her partner who got down on ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Del Rodgers’ last day as a sports journalist at KCRA was December 1st after 28 years. His farewell message about why he covered high school sports in small ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Beth McDonough, a former TV reporter at KMSP, the Fox-owned affiliate in Minneapolis, says she lost her job after she woke up in jail after her ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com There are dozens of Spanish shipwrecks loaded with gold, silver and precious stones along Florida’s coast waiting to be discovered. Treasure hunters just found one. Who hasn’t ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two Border Patrol officers on October 10. WGN is Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Chicago. Although WGN is not ...
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, ...
