THE MASKED ANCHOR
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THE STORY WENT VIRAL. THE FACTS DIDN’T GO WITH IT.
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 ...
WAS IT LONG HAULERS OR WAS SHE JUST SICK OF HER JOB?
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 ...
DAN HARRIS STARTED IN A SMALL MARKET JUST LIKE YOU
Here’s a look back at his experience.
TV NEWS EDITORIALS RETURN IN CINCY
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 ...
FRESH FACES ON TEXAS MORNING TELEVISION
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 ...
MIXED MESSAGES FROM THE MURDOCHS
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 ...
HATERS ARE GONNA HATE
“Matt, if I thought something was wrong with you, I’m not going to go on Facebook.”
ON THE MOVE
She’s heading to her hometown.
IN BRIEF….COMINGS BUT MOSTLY GOINGS EDITION
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 ...
MONSTER FLY INVADES NEWS SET
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 ...
THIS AIN’T YOUR AVERAGE BUREAU
WRAL outdid themselves.
SLOW NEWS DAY?
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 ...
TEXAS VIEWERS GET SCHOOLED IN NEWS LITERACY
KVUE is launching a new series.
PUTTING A BRAVE FACE ON THE MESS THAT IS NEWSNATION
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 ...
FINALLY, SOME ELBOW ROOM
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 ...
SNOWPOCALYPSE SHOWDOWN
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 ...
BUT THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SAFE SPACE FOR PEOPLE LIKE MARSHA BLACKBURN…
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 ...
SMILE DAMMIT…YOU’VE EARNED IT.
Be thankful that after FINALLY saying goodbye to 2020, your 2010 didn't start like one of these poor souls.
BECAUSE FOX, OAN AND NEWSMAX DON’T HAVE ENOUGH – OH WAIT…RESPONSIBLE!!!
“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 ...
WELL, HE TRIED
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 ...
A “LOOK-LIVE” TRIGGERS AN ANCHOR IMPERSONATION
The WGRZ-TV (Channel 2) sports department had to call an amusing audible by switching players at the last minute on the 6 p.m. news Wednesday
WHAT IF A BASEBALL NETWORK HAD NO BASEBALL TO PROGRAM?
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 ...
COURTING THE TINFOIL HAT VOTE
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 ...
LO AND BEHOLD – CABLE NEWS LOSES DNC OPENING NIGHT
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 ...
TOGETHER AGAIN
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 ...
SO HOW DID THESE ANCHORS FIND THIS FUNNY?
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 ...
TOO HOT FOR TIK TOK?
TIK TOK may be going the way of the dodo thanks to an unnamed certain someone. But we’ll always have its news bloopers:
CNN CAUGHT WITH PANTS DOWN
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 ...
REPORTER MUGGED ON-THE-AIR
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 ...
LEMON’S ALL OUT ASSAULT ON 45 TRENDS
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 ...
FAUCI TO INGRAHAM: NOT SO FAST
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 ...
A GLIMPSE BEHIND THE CURTAIN…THE SHOWER CURTAIN
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 ...
KELLYANNE, COVID-19 IS NOT A BAD SEQUEL
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 ...
WILLIE NELSON, AXS TV RAISE $500K
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 ...
AXS TV TO BROADCAST ‘COMEDY GIVES BACK’
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 ...
HOW’D HE DO THAT?
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 ...
AN EMOTIONAL HODA MOMENT
“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: ...
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 have a point. There is a lot less chance lets ...
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 is used to walking anywhere it wants. Check out what ...
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 people are boycotting their restaurants and using racial slurs towards ...
“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, obfuscation and media attacks. Including the above profound observation. What ...
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, “I’m not dressed for it”, “My makeup needs to be ...
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 face. This morning a White House official referred to #Coronavirus ...
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 to stream himself and a small television screen to show ...
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 was out at 6 AM doing a live shot when ...
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 little dancing for its morning newscast. Morning anchor Chris Wragge ...
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 of the Poynter Institute, who been through this before, has ...
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 of sexual harassment levelled last week against the past-his-sell-by-date host. ...
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 with television than all other ad-supported media platforms. The study ...
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 of peanut butter in your mouth? If you’re Evrod Cassimy, ...
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. Glenn Beck recalled his rapid rise and decline in the ...
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. His mother-in-law was aboard that Diamond Princess Cruise ship which ...
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 CNN and MSNBC darling is facing spending the rest of ...
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 short of making it to the final bonus round. Bechard, ...
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 of an increase in government subsidies to underprivileged people, a ...
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” with no hype – just a quiet introduction – not ...
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 out this idea from KTTV (FOX):
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 nearly inverse news media environments. Overall, Republicans and Republican-leaning independents ...
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 in the country, which is supposedly as disinterested as those ...
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 impeachment. CNN senior congressional correspondent Manu Raju walked up to ...
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 effort. Added to the weekday morning newscast is full-time meteorologist ...
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 the drone strike that eliminated Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, the ...
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 during an interview about foreign affairs, diplomacy, and security forces ...
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, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in a photo mix-up during ...
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 his wife, Jean, sat down for an interview with “Good ...
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 anyway. In case you missed it all those years ago, ...
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 broadcasting from it’s control room. and this is the third ...
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, and quite subliminal, photo op, Russian state media salivated over ...
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, including clips of a promo where the anchors rode horses. ...
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 the Savannah Bridge Run route. She is now speaking out ...
“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 a national investigative correspondent for Sinclair Broadcasting and given his ...
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. The incident occurred around noon Tuesday. The driver who hit ...
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 Cavuto isn’t Shep Smith. Now that Smith is gone, “Hanatics” ...
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 during a developing story live on air. But this one ...
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 assistant contradicted Schafernaker while he was live on the air ...
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 they said they didn’t know the identity of the Ukraine ...
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 24/7 cable news, CNN, found itself in sixth place, behind ...
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 7 to 9 am. The new program debuted five months ...
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 specialist on the National Security Council who listened in on ...
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 week. Nine more diplomats and national security officials — many ...
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 she was working. Sinclair’s WACH says their reporter Brittany Breeding ...
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 the Hartford mayoral race. When Eddie Perez, the former Hartford ...
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 tenants said has been without heating for months. Mike Rose ...
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 tried to nail his taped stand-up segment from Bryant-Denny Stadium. ...
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 morning newscast. “We’re going to kind of tag-team the weather ...
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 2019 Spokane mayoral race Tuesday. Current Spokane City Council President ...
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 fires since late last week. Forecasters say this round of wind ...
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. A lot of stations have contests now and staff lunch ...
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. I guess a CG Operator wasn’t paying much attention when ...
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 and their reporting efforts to social media, station staffers now ...
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 also being a volunteer fireman. TV Newscheck reports Todd Young, ...
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 with memo author Noah Oppenheim (as president of NBC News, ...
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 writes “A beautiful woman can change a rather mundane weather ...
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, local reporters are dummies and supposedly in awe when the ...
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 been at the top of the news for the past ...
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 of “World News Now” and “America This Morning” – or ...
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 Amadeo wasn’t expecting to have viewers in Southwest Georgia capture ...
