We ran across an item recently that described how Tegna (someday Standard Media) station WNEP in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, PA was offering up daily doses of the station’s newscasts from the 1980’s. Twice daily, the archived ...
We were working at station in the Upper Midwest 27 years ago when we heard of the disappearance of Jodi Huisentruit, morning anchor in Mason City, IA, just a couple hours east of where ...
It was on this date, April 1, 1985, that the world was introduced to Hayden Siddhartha “Sidd” Finch, a baseball pitching prospect in the New York Mets organization, profiled in Sports Illustrated. Finch could ...
Nexstar’s KTAB in Abilene, TX celebrated its 40th year on the air. And what made it especially poignant is that the last member of the original KTAB staff is still with the station. Bob ...
You know how it goes. 3-day weekend, nothing in the file for Tuesday. You have to get creative in the Morning meeting as the Hurricane is only going to carry your A-Block so far. ...
Last week’s 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing was especially poignant for Devin Scillian, anchor at Graham Media’s WDIV. Back in 2003, Scillian, who dabbles in music quite extensively, juggling it with his ...
We admit it – we’re a devoted fan of TCM and we absolutely make it our business to tune in whenever the cable move network decides to run its library of the 7 Torchy ...
WXIN (FOX) in Indianapolis, took to the road to produce its morning newscast in a town about about 20 miles from Indianapolis recently. Not an easy task to take a station’s morning newscast out ...
We were rummaging around the NewsBlues archives on a recent rainy day and ran across this little gem. Set the Wayback Machine for January 18th, 2002 and read on. “ROGER AILES WANTS YOU” “If ...
Few news directors (to our knowledge) have been the subject of a documentary. Check out the second item in this story to learn more about a film covering the career of legendary Iowa newsman ...
Over the weekend, the “Miami Herald” gave us a treat by digging back into its archives and reprinting several archive articles about our old boss, Ralph Renick, beginning with one that covered his dramatic ...
Down in DFW, Uncle Barky dug back through the files and found a story that might have come out of the McCarthyist 50’s but, this being Dallas, TX, was still relevant in 1981. His ...
Back in 2016, when Donald Trump was the presumptive presidential nominee of the Republican Party, he told CNN in a phone interview that he would not ban reporters from briefings if he became president. ...
..then check out this video posted to social media by staffers at WBBM (CBS) Chicago. It appears a few millennial’s had never encountered, get this, a 3/4″ deck. An older staffer had to show ...
WZZM (ABC) signed on today way back in 1962. The Grand Rapids Michigan station hosted a young Congressman by the name of Gerald R. Ford to check out their brand spanking new facility. WZZM ...
If you didn’t have a chance to be on the front lines like some of us during Hurricane Harvey then boy do we have a movie for you. “Harvey” is scheduled to premiere September ...
If you are a die-hard “Simpsons” fan, that two-decade old dispute between you and your Production Director is over. Matt Groening, “The Simpsons” creator admitted fans weren’t pulling a “Billie Jean” if they ...
We don’t know what prompted ESPN’s Keith Olbermann to drop this two-decade old never-aired commercial on us, but we’re kinda glad he did. Both this one and this one were among five spots that ...
One year after Hurricane Harvey smashed through Texas, there are still people seeking permanent housing, others are battling PTSD and other disorders and the storm and how it was handled has become a political ...
Speaking of Lou Dobbs and his concern for the lack of decorum and deference on the part of journalists toward the president…. Back in 2012, Neil Munro, formerly of “The Daily Caller” (the same ...
The real-life inspiration for Ron Burgundy is trying his hand at comedy. Former Detroit news anchor Mort Crim, who retired from WDIV in 1997 and has earned the honorific “legendary,” is set to guest ...
All of the gas expelled this week as conservative bloviators waxed indignant over the ejection of Sarah Sanders and company from a Virginia restaurant nagged on us until we were reminded that…. Back in ...
1948 was pretty much a landmark year in television. It was when the fledgling medium really started to become widely available throughout much of the country. The latest to observe 70 years on the ...
Over the weekend, CBS O&O WBZ in Boston celebrated its 70th birthday, the culmination of a months-long celebration of the station’s storied history, an on-air that required some diligent searching of pre-digital era records ...
Tribune’s WPIX is celebrating 70 years on the air in New York City. The station first launched as the city’s first independent television station on June 15, 1948. Back when the price of a ...
Years ago, CBS News built a reputation with an ongoing series called “Eye on America,” which featured long-form reporting on vital domestic issues. From 1991 to 2006, the ongoing series was a daily staple ...
WBZ has been making quite a show of its 70th anniversary. Recreating vintage promos, an avalanche of archive clips, endless reminiscences. . And this is “Legendary Anchors Week.” Jack Williams, Liz Walker, Bob Lobel, ...
A six-decade history of broadcasting ends at the close of 2017, as KCCO in Alexandria, MN signs off for good. The station, which began life 59 years ago as KCMT until it was ...