A TEAR-INDUCING ON-CAMERA REUNION
Reporter breaks away to hug her son.
Category: As Seen on TV
NEWSMAX SEEMS TO BE GETTING DESPERATE
Going to some interesting lengths to bring in cash
A NEW ANCHOR TEAM DEBUTS
Both are newcomers to the station
HORRIFYING MOMENTS ON AN L.A. NEWSCAST
Fortunately, it ended well
NASHVILLE STATION’S EXPOSE USED BY JIMMY KIMMEL TO DUNK ON TENNESSEE CONGRESSMAN
Tennessee investigative legend’s airport chase highlighted
LITTLE ROCK CHIEF MET SUFFERS MINOR STROKE ON-AIR
Assures viewers that “I am doing well”
FORMER FOX POLITICAL EDITOR SAYS IT OUT LOUD
It's only about ratings in Murdoch world
TRAPPED IN A SNOWSTORM’S AFTERMATH
Palm Springs asst. news director shares his story
FELINE FOLLIES IN THE WEATHER CENTER
Those early morning outdoor live shots can get…. weird
WHEN POLICE OVERREACT
Shortly after the arrest, Governor DeWine said Lambert had “every right” to be there, and that police were “wrong” to arrest him.
UNWANTED INTRUDER INVADES BOSTON REPORTER’S LIVE SHOT
It livened up an otherwise routine live shot
VEGAS STATION SPLITS ANCHOR DUTIES
They will both co-anchor with station vet on the early newscasts
CBS NEWS DETROIT AKA WWJ NEWS DROPPED MONDAY NIGHT.
The long wait ends
A SHUFFLE IN RALEIGH-DURHAM
Two years after signing on as a reporter, she now holds down an anchor chair
FORMER CONGRESSMAN LANDS PUNDIT GIG UPON EXIT
And guess where???
ABOUT THAT SPORTS GUY COVERING A BLIZZARD…
His morning cantankerous act went viral because news orgs missed the point
HER BIG DEBUT ON CBS NEWS
Natalie Morales joined the news division November 1
REPORTER CUTS LIVE SHOT SHORT TO HELP STABBING VICTIM
Everybody appears to be OK
CNN THIS MORNING LAUNCHES WITH COFFEE, SMILES AND A TOUCH OF BITTER LEMON
We saw more international news than is usual on morning tv
ICYMI, CNN’S NEW MORNING SHOW DEBUTED TODAY.
Curtain up on “CNN This Morning”
A NEW PLAYER NOT-SO-QUIETLY MOVES INTO DC NEWS MARKET
Nexstar plants its flag in the nation’s capital.
DES MOINES TV REPORTER COMES OUT AS TRANSGENDER
She plans to continue her career in Des Moines
WHY DO WE KEEP SAYING LIVE SHOTS DURING HURRICANES ARE DUMB?
Here’s why: http:// Does someone have to die doing these stunts before this stops? Oh wait….a death could be a real ratings grabber.
NEWSNATION BUMPS ENTERTAINMENT TO ZERO IN ON HURRICANE IAN
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 ...
A BAPTISM OF FIRE IN HIS NEW JOB
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 ...
BRINGING THE WEATHER INSIDE
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 ...
JAMIE YUCCAS NAMED NEW KCAL, CBS MORNING NEWS ANCHOR
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 ...
GREEN BAY ANCHOR CONTINUES TO RECOVER FROM CONCUSSION
“It’s been a long four months. A long four months. Longer than I thought it was going to be."
AN ON-AIR FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN ROBIN ROBERTS AND NEW ABC7 METEOROLOGIST DANI BECKSTROM IS ADORABLE
This is what happens when you show up as yourself on TV.
TULSA ANCHOR JULIE CHIN: ‘I FELT GREAT THAT MORNING’
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 ...
A STROKE ON LIVE TV
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. ...
ABILENE ANCHOR SHUFFLE
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 ...
TWO NEW FORECASTERS IN ORLANDO
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 ...
ST. LOUIS REPORTERS RESCUED FROM FLOOD WATERS
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 ...
REPORTING ON POSSIBLE POWER OUTAGES WHEN…THE POWER WENT OUT
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 ...
CLEVELAND STATION ALMOST OVER-WELCOMES A NEW METEOROLOGIST
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 ...
OF COURSE YOU RELEASE THE VIDEO. IT’S WHAT HAPPENED.
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 ...
SOMEONE NEW HAS BEEN ADDED IN ROCHESTER
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 ...
BREAKING THE “BREAKING NEWS” ADDICTION
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 ...
THIS IS ANOTHER TRAGEDY WAITING TO HAPPEN
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!!! ...
HOUSTON FORECASTER GOES MAKEUP-FREE: “YOU ARE ENOUGH”
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 ...
TWIN CITIES REPORTERS SAYS AN END IS IN SIGHT FOR HIS CANCER BATTLE
He’s hoping to return to the newsroom.
EVIDENTLY WHAT YOU WANTED WAS NO CO-ANCHOR
“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 ...
IT MAY WELL BECOME MORE COMMON
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 ...
NEWS NATION TRIES OUT A BOARD GAME-THEMED PROMO
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 ...
WISELY AVOIDING THE FRIDAY NIGHT HOTSPOTS…
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 ...
DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME
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
MAINE ANCHOR SPEAKS OUT AGAINST FLORIDA “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL
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. ...
I’M NOT CRYING, YOU’RE CRYING!!
Cincy anchor plans April retirement.
IT’S LIKE RIDING A BICYCLE
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 ...
HEY, SHE’S A PROUD MOM
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 RADIO PERSONALITY TAKES ON A TV GIG
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 ...
SATX TRAFFIC ANCHOR STEERS HIS WAY INTO A SNOWBELT RADIO GIG
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 ...
GEORGE WILL TURNS UP AS NEWSNATION’S NEWEST BIG NAME
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 ...
WE SAW IT ON FOX NEWS…SORTA
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 ...
IN THE NEWS…
The View still needs a new host.
KALAMAZOO STATION BRINGS CHEER
It’s not all doom and gloom.
THE MASKED ANCHOR
The promo won an award.
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 ...
