We all know what’s led every newscast this week: this past weekends mass shootings in El Paso, Dayton and Chicago. And, by late Tuesday all the local angles of gun control, mental health awareness ...
As the war on social media rages while people look for answers to the weekends shootings in Texas, Ohio and Chicago, some reporters are pitching in to make a difference. Doing a story this ...
We guess she never read comics or did she? Hmm. During a recent news broadcast, one anchor noted the launch of San Diego Comic-Con, while specifying that her favorite Marvel Comics character was Superman, ...
Chicago viewers, there’s just one month left to the WLS-produced 7 pm newscast that’s been on Weigel’s WCIU for the past four years. “ABC 7 Eyewitness News on The U” fronted by news anchors ...
Nothing says “Hey, I know you love me,” like a video showing a fancy family vacation in France from a big-time Houston anchor. Sure, you can say people want that, and sure, it got ...
CNN and MSNBC said the word “racist” more than 4,100 times from July 14-21, according to The Hill citing a tally by Grabien Media, an online media production and news prep service. The tally is based ...
This long… Donald Trump’s claim that he spoke “very quickly” in an effort to quell the racist and xenophobic “send her back” chants at a rally last week prompted CNN anchors Don Lemon and ...
Last week, as the storm system that would later become Hurricane Barry formed in the Gulf of Mexico, the media hype was already beginning. The Weather Channel deployed a team of almost a dozen ...
If your summer broadcasts appear to be in the doldrums this month, check out what KVUE (ABC) Austin did with it’s morning team. Took ’em to a water park to try their hand at ...
Check out WABC (ABC) reporter Darla Miles on a recent live shot in New York. LIKE A BOSS: @DarlaMiles7 went viral this week when she blocked a man from walking in front of her ...
There are harrowing newscasts and there are harrowing newscasts. What do you do when an earthquake rocks the set? You do what any normal person would do. KCAL anchors Juan Fernandez and Sara Donchey ...
Nothing is more pesky on an anchor desk than a fly. Usually the insect is transported into the station when a photog stands in a doorway talking on his cell or a door is ...
The best thing about Democratic Debate round 2 was what happened behind the scenes. Former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper was entering the Miami debate hall when a security guard asked if he was there ...
Sometimes news is right under your nose. And when it hits you, you might want to spread the word. That’s why, from the beginning, NewsBlues has had an anonymous tipline. It’s untraceable and, if ...
NBCUniversal’s NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo are ramping up the hype leading up to the cross-network coverage of the first Democratic debate tonight and tomorrow night. To that end, the network is running a promo ...
Some eagle-eyed NewBluesers reported to us that over the weekend, there was a bit of a double-take here and there when current WCBS evening anchor Maurice DuBois turned up on the weekend edition “CBS ...
There’s a glimmer of hope out there for all you up and coming MMJ’s spending your day lugging around a camera, shooting a story and then editing to make your slot. Yes, through all ...
We’re handing out props to Casey Watson, a reporter for Gray’s WMBF in Myrtle Beach, SC for calling out the troglodytes who drunkenly harassed and pawed her as she attempted to do a live ...
Over the weekend, Univision was finally able to air, three months after the material was seized, the video of a contentious interview with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro that was confiscated after he cut it ...
Tuesday, we showed you how dozens of storm chasers rushed to the Texas/Oklahoma line in hopes of catching a glimpse of nearly a dozen or so tornadoes which touched down across the area. Many ...
The latest CNN Original series entry comes at us May 27th, at 9 pm ET/PT and you might be surprised. “Red State Blue State” hosted by comedian Colin Quinn, is an hour-long presentation of ...
Jedediah Bila’s return to Fox News is complete. She is moving from the crowded host pod at “The Five” to become the co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” joining Pete Hegeseth and a rotating ...
The alert went out from The Weather Channel on Twitter at 6:13 Thursday morning: Several hours later: Who in the hell would hack The Weather Channel? We’re told it was a “malicious software attack.”
Speaking of Fox News, Senator Amy Klobuchar agreed on Wednesday to become the second Democratic presidential candidate to hold a town hall meeting on Fox News Channel, and others are soon to follow. Senator Bernie ...
Ella Dorsey may want to re-think her possible candidacy for the top job at WGCL. Who needs the crap thrown out by far too many bonehead viewers.? Dorsey said she received death threats after ...
Gray’s KGNS in Laredo Texas, might be an NBC/ABC affiliate, but it is also aware of its large Hispanic audience. With that in mind, the station’s Telemundo sub-channel expanded its Spanish-language news coverage with ...
Across the pond a news reporter found herself on live TV at the wrong time — and now she’s a viral sensation thanks to her escape. During Sky News’ ongoing coverage of Brexit on Monday, ...
A video monitor that is 23 feet wide. Another 16×9 monitor wall and a 15-foot by 8-foot LED floor. Just some of the highlights of the new 3,600-square-foot studio rolled out by NBC Sports ...
The reviews are in….Al Roker’s new glasses get a thumbs-up from people who actually pay attention to this kind of stuff. He puts on a new pair of fashion eyewear and social media hearts ...
Josh Charles is playing hubby to Gretchen Carlson. The Good Wife vet will recur in Showtime’s forthcoming limited series The Loudest Voice, starring Russell Crowe as Fox News founder Roger Ailes. Charles will portray Casey Close, the spouse ...
A young political reporter, who’s both reported and made the news, got a big surprise Thursday during a visit to the University of North Texas. Eleven-year-old Phoenix Legg has met a President, interviewed Washington ...
This week marks the 40th anniversary of C-Span, aka television for political junkies. “The New York Times” gives us a look back at the quiet beginnings, to the days when C-Span’s staff could fit ...
Macon, GA morning anchor, “Survivor 38” contestant Rick Devens was voted off the island, but what the hell, it was a dream come true. And the way that “Survivor” plays with the rules, he ...
Tears were copious on the set when anchor Brittany Pelletz announced her imminent departure from Nexstar’s KTAB in Abilene, TV where she has anchored for the past five years. She’s going home to Florida. ...
Now that the over-crowded field of Chicago mayoral candidates has been whittled down to 2, perhaps we can dream of similar trimming of a significantly over-blown Election Night open from Fox-owned WFLD in the ...
Meteorologist-turned-math-teacher Lisa Vaughn (left) found herself back at the KRIV anchor desk last week. Houston blogger Mike McGuff says she’s doing some freelance for the Fox o&o. You’ll recall that Vaughn left KRIV last ...
CNN seemingly can’t get out of its own way these days, especially when it comes to political coverage. Its recent efforts to jump-start the 2020 election cycle with town halls featuring unannounced candidate Howard ...
We have to hand it to “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace. By now he is keenly aware that a huge chunk of Fox News viewers tune in to have their beliefs and fears ...
Ah, the dangers of being too entertaining. It was a rather slow Monday at KSWO, the Gray station in Lawton, OK, so someone got the bright idea of a brain teaser quiz. “Mind Mixer.” ...
CBS Sports reporter Tracy Wolfson wasn’t going to let the madness of the Super Bowl’s ending stop her from getting an interview with Tom Brady. Twitter users kept an eagle eye on Wolfson, who ...
Now here’s a wall with a real purpose – serving as a backdrop for NBC News correspondent Miguel Almaguer’s “Nightly News” standup Viewers were treated to Almaguer walking along the wall and then got ...
All the Emmys, Dupont, Awards, Reporter of the Year recognitions and other industry accolades won’t shield you from repercussions if you have a problem that might have a sexual component. That lesson was repeated ...
In the wake of the media feeding frenzy off a “Buzzfeed News” report that claimed Mr. Trump directed his former lawyer Michael Cohen to commit perjury before Congress – a report later rebutted by ...
For the first time in its 20-year history, “Fox and Friends” on Thursday took the kurvy kouch act to a live, and evidently hand-picked, audience in an unusually raucous edition , and the three ...
Will this ever stop? Recycling politicians – particularly failed and second-chance-seeking politicians- is becoming an all-too-familiar ploy of the 24/7 cable networks in their desperate effects to fill up airtime with anything but substantive ...
This must be a first….taking the nightly newscast on the road to cover dysfunction. And that is exactly what NBC News did Wednesday night. Anchor Lester Holt was in the field outside the Capitol ...
It was curiously anti-climactic after all the buildup – the network hand-wringing over whether to grant prime air time, then the demand for equal time from Democratic leaders, then the hand-wringing over that. The ...
A somewhat uncharitable viewer of Tribune’s WGN undoubtedly thought [s]he was being clever when sending morning meteorologist Morgan Kolkmeyer side-by-side pictures of her and 70’s teen heart-throb Shaun Cassidy to point out the uncanny ...
Starting yesterday in Boston, Hearst’s WCVB launched a new evening news show — anchored by Maria Stephanos and Ben Simmoneau, with chief meteorologist Harvey Leonard — at 4:30 p.m. on weekdays. The broadcast replaces ...
“Bravo’s Play by Play” host Jerry O’Connell would like to be the guy who replaces Kathie Lee Gifford when the cork is put back in the winefest that is the fourth hour of the ...
Iconic New York newsman Ernie Anastos is marking 40 years of doing television news in the Big Apple. He did the usual tour of other markets early in his career, with stops in Boston, ...
The Harlem Globetrotters will once again make an annual appearance in Milwaukee on New Year’s Eve with perhaps a new Globetrotter? WTMJ (NBC) reporter Shaun Gallagher is quickly becoming a viral sensation after perfectly ...
Friday’s Alaska 7.0 magnitude earthquake knocked Anchorage tv stations off the air and forced staffers to improvise to get the news out. Social media became a significant outlet. Denali Media’s KTVA was reporting from ...
So will Anna Paulina someday come back as a Fox News talking head? Or will her Thanksgiving gratuitously over-the-top insult of Hillary Clinton prove her undoing? Her apology tour is underway. “Yesterday on Fox ...
The judge’s decision in the Acosta/CNN vs. White House pushed the once-rational Lou Dobbs ever closer to the edge. Minutes after the ruling by the TRUMP-APPOINTED Judge Timothy Kelly, Dobbsy took to Twitter. “Outrageously ...
Fox Business anchor Stuart Varney was evidently Thursday so excited about his failed interview with Kimbal Musk that he decided to revisit it later on his program Musk, a member of the Tesla board, ...
Small hint….CNN’s Anderson Cooper is the ONLY cable news anchor to show up in the top five. He came in second and was followed by ABC’s David Muir and Robin Roberts. And the winner ...
Fox News reporter Ed Henry used an ingenious and, at Fox News, unassailable comparison to defend former First Lady Michelle Obama in her assertion about her anger at Mr. Trump for his spearheading of ...
Michigan voters went to the polls last week to decide, among other things, the fate of the state’s Proposition One, which would legalize recreational marijuana use. If this graphic is any judge, the celebration ...
Pete Hegseth would dearly love to be a member of the Administration’s cabinet, but, for now, he’s willing to settle for being one of its staunchest supporter on the weekend edition of the kurvy ...
That controversial ad unveiled by the Tweeter-in-Chief last week tying cop-killer Luis Bracamontes to the migrant caravan in Mexico and then draped around the neck of the Democratic Party got an official airing last ...
Vytas Reid, chief meteorologist for Sinclair flagship WBFF in Baltimore, was rattling off weather stats during his segment Thursday afternoon he suddenly fell. It provided some anxious moments. The newscast moved along with no ...
Don’t look for Oprah Winfrey to be back on “60 Minutes” any time soon. She’s taking a leave from the program after a year of doing occasional pieces, to hit the campaign trail for ...
It apparently was Talent Roundup Day at Tribune’s WGNO in New Orleans last week and News With A Twist reporter Kenny Lopez took the honors. We’re sure the last surviving member of the Bee ...
Miranda Combs, investigative reporter at Gray’s WKYT in Lexington, KY, was in Washington DC this week for the signing of a measure that would help curb the opioid crisis in state’s like Kentucky that ...
Make that the FOUR Dumbest People On Television. Tuesday morning, the denizens of the “Fox and Friends” kurvy kouch sent out intrepid reporter Griff Jenkins to hide in the bushes at the border near ...
“Sixers Outsiders,” a new program that will air after most Philadelphia 76ers games (excluding West Coast games and Christmas) launched this weekend on NBC Sports Philadelphia. The program is hosted by Tyrone Johnson and ...
Tribune’s longtime Chicago morning anchor, Larry Potash, is getting a shot at prime time where he’ll have a chance to share his love for historical quirks and oddities. Starting October 28, and for four ...
“This is probably the craziest thing I ever done in my entire life,” WGNO reporter Adam Bowles claimed. We have to agree. Bowles went along when a New Orleans area company was called out ...
Ever wonder what a meteorologist does when the graphic computer crashes and there is a gang of time to fill? You go old school….just like they did it back at the dawn of television ...
If you’re a Philadelphia Eagles fan (and we know quite of few of them), you are feeling pretty anxious about the lackluster start to the Super Bowl Champs season to date. Former Eagles linebacker ...
KOVR reporter Dina Kupfer and her crew had just finished a live shot on domestic violence awareness when they were approached by a man who grabbed their camera off the tripod after a brief ...
So you thought it was an odd bit of casting that Russell Crowe will play Roger Ailes in an upcoming Showtime mini-series based on the unauthorized biography of the late and disgraced Fox News ...
Univision, trying desperately to stay afloat, is hoping to break into the English-language market with new programming. To that end, the network last week rolled out the news program “Uvision” that airs Monday through ...
We’re not unfamiliar with all-female anchor teams. We have one here in Da Burgh, at Hearst’s WTAE and it has become our go-to morning newscast, although we are not averse to channel-surfing after the ...
“First Move with Julia Chatterley” is wrapping up its debut week as the new morning offering on CNN International. “First Move” is presented live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and ...
A Wilmington, North Carolina reporter made some looters famous while covering the aftermath of Hurricane Florence Saturday. They may not want this attention, however. People were breaking into a closed Family Dollar store and WECT (NBC) ...
Oh, you crazy Weather Channel! On the one hand, you give us incredible innovations like the virtual storm surge video seen here. On the other hand…..this. As for the former, a year ago, this ...
As Hurricane, then tropical storm and now tropical depression, Florence zeroed in and soaked the Carolinas over the weekend, the number of political ads airing on stations doing wall-to-wall coverage of the storm spiked. ...
Les is gone, but what about his wife, Julie Chen? The above quote is her sign-off on last night’s episode of “Big Brother” so, as a couple, they’re apparently tight. They haven’t gone to ...
As cable news ratchets up its coverage of the imminent approach of Hurricane Flo later this week, live shots abound, and everybody has a crack at a slice of that 15 minutes of fame. ...
On the same day the FBI arrested a Los Angeles man for threatening the lives of journalists at the Boston Globe ( calling them the “enemy of the people”), the fellow who evidently inspired ...
This has to be seen to be believed. KRDO reporter Krystal Story and crew were live on the air reporting on a fatal shooting when a bonehead plowed through the crime scene, grazing the ...
The Melvin family showed up on the street outside 30 Rock as Craig Melvin signed off one of his three jobs at the network. Melvin stepped down as “Saturday Today” co-anchor. “For the better ...
“The Today Show’s” Al Roker is not a restrained personality. And he has always been quick with an ad lib – often far less than G-Rated. So when Roker’s big-screen monitor started glitching during ...
Fox O&O WNYW in New York had a bumpy night two nights ago as the station lost Internet access, reportedly due to construction issues. With the control room and studio essentially useless, the station ...
C-SPAN is the last refuge of reasonably intelligent discourse on its phone-in shows. The refuge appears to be under siege. “The Washington Post‘s” Paul Waldman was guesting when a man named Christopher called in ...
OK, we get it…Chicago has a distinctive skyline. The Willis Tower. The Hancock. The CNA Tower. Metropolis. But does EVERY tv station have to use it as a studio backdrop on newscasts? Evidently, yes. ...
Really, it’s just too easy. Ainsley Earhardt wants to be a journalist. “I mean, I want to be a journalist, I want to ask tough questions,” Earhardt told “Business Insider” for an October 2017 ...
While everybody, rightly, went out of their way to pay tribute to the Queen of Soul on her passing Thursday, leave it to Fox News to provide an inadvertent laugh for the sharp-eyed in ...
David Chancellor is the new morning co-anchor alongside newcomer Alex Del Cid at Sinclair’s WOAI in San Antonio. He started this morning. In making the move, Chancellor leaves behind 24 years of covering sports, ...
NBC News took advantage of some infrastructure left behind by resident at that New Mexico compound that was raided by authorities last week to give viewers an inside glimpse of the place. Gadi Schwartz, ...
So far, the only person of note who approves of Laura Ingraham’s headlong descent into what can only be described as unfiltered white nationalism is….David Duke. Even Ingraham is now trying to walk back ...
A Chicago viewer with far too much time on his hands recently wrote to Tribune’s WGN demanding that anchors stop thanking reporters who are live in the field after they finish. The morning crew ...
Well here’s one way to get around visually-challenging phone interviews. It’s not perfect, but when NBC’s Lester Holt recently did a phone interview with Eric Riddick, who’s been jailed for 26 years for a ...
Remember when Rudy Guiliani was coherent? Well….compared to recently anyway. Even Fox News is getting a little irritated with his ramblings, walkbacks, flip-flops and sheer nonsense. Guiliani called in to “Outnumbered” Monday afternoon to ...
There’s a bit of history being made in the Buffalo market at Tegna’s WGRZ. Meteorologists Maria Genero and Heather Waldman are now sharing forecasting duties at 5, 5:30, 6, 10 and 11 p.m. following ...
