Camille Edwards may be gone as WABC news director, but former sports reporter Laura Behnke’s lawsuit against Edwards and the station is still alive and moving through the system. Behnke and her attorney Dave ...
Shari Redstone, CBS’ main shareholder through her National Amusements, moved Tuesday to quell a rebellion at the media company, filing a lawsuit that accused the CBS board of directors of improperly trying to strip ...
Let the billable hours accumulate in Cleveland. A defamation and libel lawsuit filed against Scripps’ WEWS, Scripps itself and investigative reporter Jonathan Walsh will proceed after a judge’s ruling. Newburgh Heights Mayor Trevor Elkins ...
Corporate warfare is fun to watch as long as you don’t have any skin in the game. CBS was back in court Thursday trying to head off a big change in the company’s bylaws ...
On the legal front, last week was a very good week indeed for Fox News and its parent corporation 21st Century Fox. 19 job and sexual harassment cases were settled for a piddling $10 ...
Score one big one for the Redstones and start taking bets on the size of Les Moonves’s package – his exit package. His golden parachute Grow up. In what looks and feels like a ...
The sudden turn toward open warfare between CEO Les Moonves/the CBS Board and majority stockholder Shari Redstone/National Amusements is not unexpected, but it certainly escalated at a breath-taking pace. As both sides prepare to ...
It fell far short of the $60 million figure being thrown around last summer, so in a way, Fox News’ settlement of claims in at least 18 racial and sexual harassment cases might be ...
A high-powered NYC law firm representing 24 plaintiffs against Fox News cited an ‘irrevocable breakdown of the client-attorney relationship’ in seeking to drop private eye Rod Wheeler and wanna-be tv pundit Scottie Nell Hughes. ...
Back in January, we told you how Alix Kendall, anchor at Fox-owned KMSP in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN, got a $33,000 check from the city of St. Paul after she filed suit claiming her driver’s ...
Keep your fingers crossed that Sinclair has developed an aversion to bad PR about its heavy-handed tactics toward some employees and might be turning a new leaf. We get kinda optimistic as the weekend ...
Fox News, through a web reporter with only a passing acquaintance with facts, and a former homicide detective who claims he was set up by the web reporter and last, but certainly not least, ...
Honestly, the Charlie Rose stories just get creepier. Katherine Brooks Harris, Sydney McNeal and Chelsea Wei, who are all in their 20s, are suing Rose and his former employer CBS News for his “blatant ...
What do you do if your corporation’s top EVP of legal is on the bench because of a wall of lawsuits? If you’re Fox News, you hire another top litigator to be your general ...
The never-ending Andrea Tantaros lawsuit against the estate of the late Fox News boss Roger Ailes is still ricocheting around the Manhattan court system. And Mrs. Ailes would like it to stop. In March ...
Do you really think that Twitter-dreaming about sodomizing a high school student with a hot poker is a justification for firing? Well….we do. A St. Louis circus performer thinks otherwise. Jamie Allman lost both ...
Even though it is our opinion that this whole DOJ vs. AT&T’s $85 billion proposed merger with Time Warner is all about the Administration’s hostility toward Time Warner unit CNN, we can’t disagree with ...
Fox News just can’t seem to put Scottie Nell Hughes in the past. Which is kind of how we felt when she kept turning up back in 2016 as a fact-free Trump surrogate, first ...
This week in billable hours, Ben Amey, a former reporter for Hubbard’s WNYT in Albany, NY is suing Nexstar’s WTEN in the same market for negligence over a shoulder injury he claims was caused ...
Fox News primetime entertainer Laura Ingraham’s got great ratings, no sponsors (courtesy of a boycott) and now a lawsuit brought by a former employee. Karolina Wilson says she was having a great time working ...
An upcoming book contains new, and rather bizarre, details that might shed some more light on just how off-kilter the CBS-Viacom talks might be getting. According to Ken Auletta’s upcoming book, “Frenemies: The Epic ...
Despite Nexstar’s claims to the contrary, the former co-workers of deposed WHTM (Harrisburg PA) anchor Flora Posteraro back up her claim that she was the victim of a retaliatory firing because she spoke up ...
A judge tossed a defamation lawsuit filed by a Providence, RI police officer against WJAR, several of its personnel and its former owner. Capt. Russell Henry claimed in his suit that he was defamed ...
Lauren Hills is another one of those former WPEC that Sinclair evidently has in its cross-hairs Hills was an anchor-reporter for the West Palm Beach station for a little over four years when she ...
Back when he was somebody, internet personality Bill O’Reilly famously touted a “No-Spin Zone” that, as it turns out, didn’t extend to his sexual harassment settlements. When O’Reilly lost his bid on Tuesday to ...
Fox lawyers certainly keep busy and the billable hours continue to mount up for 21st Century Fox. Now, three women who are already suing former Fox News host and current internet personality Bill O’Reilly ...
PBS snapped back at talk show host Tavis Smiley with a countersuit that, among other things, alleges Smiley violated the network’s morals clause and seeks $1.9 million in returned salary plus unspecified damages. PBS ...
The social media outpouring of support may have helped a former Harrisburg PA anchor move forward with a formal complaint against her former employer, Nexstar’s WHTM. Flora Posteraro has filed sex discrimination and retaliation ...
A-a-and another day, another former female colleague goes after internet personality Bill O’Reilly. This time, it’s former Fox News anchor Laurie Dhue, who is tired of Billo’s endless whining about FOX paying sexual harassment ...
Maybe if more communities followed the lead of Yuma, AZ, Jackson, WY and El Centro, CA, cable companies and station owners would quit playing games with consumers during these all-too-frequent blackouts over retransmission fees. ...
As the estate of the late Roger Ailes, longtime boss at Fox News, undergoes probate in a Palm Beach County court proceeding, who should pop up but former Fox co-host Andrea Tantaros? Tantaros wants ...
For better or worse, the federal trial pitting the Department of Justice agains AT&T over whether the company will be allowed to swallow up Time Warner is starting up this week. What was generally ...
Joel and Mary Rich, the parents of murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich, showed up on ABC’s “Good Morning America” to explain the impetus behind their lawsuit against Fox News. Fox, and particularly prime-time conspiracy ...
Fox News’ sometimes-casual relationship with the truth and affinity for conspiracy theories have landed it in hot way. Joel and Mary Rich, the parents of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich are suing Fox ...
Two tinfoil hat websites that try to pass themselves off as “news” organizations are getting hit with a lawsuit by a man who said his life was ruined after he became the subject of ...
We can probably look for the billable hours to add up as the State of Washington has done an in-your-face with the FCC by becoming the first state to enact its own net-neutrality requirements ...
Pitaro already has his first headache with a lawsuit filed over the weekend in Connecticut. In that lawsuit, former ESPN host and (gulp!) legal analyst Adrienne Lawrence stakes out her position with the very ...
“Fair Use” my…eye. Fox News is the winner in a ruling that should gladden the heart of station and news executives everywhere. In the decision, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals analyzes copyright fair ...
Tavis Smiley admits he had relationships with female colleagues over the years, and they’re none of your damned business anyway, because they were consensual But, according to him, PBS’ decision to drop his talk ...
AT&T lost a round in Federal Court when a judge denied the telecommunications giant’s request for access to internal Department of Justice documents related to its scrutiny of AT&T’s proposed merger with Time Warner. ...
There’s a lawsuit making its way through a federal court in Orlando, FL that involves the late Roger Ailes, his widow, Fox News and a once-closeted gay businessman who says he was outed because ...
The City of New York is evidently jumping feet first into the ongoing sexual assault lawsuit that former Fox News contributor Scottie Nell Hughes filed against the network and Fox Business program host Charles ...
So what reaction do you have when you hear that an 80-year-old is suing a 77-year-old for – wait for it – age discrimination!!!?? Thought so. And we won’t apologize for laughing out loud ...
It’s been nearly two years since former anchor Wendy Bell and Hearst’s WTAE in Pittsburgh had an acrimonious parting over an ill-advised Facebook parting. That was in March of 2016. In June of that ...
A bubbling question among longtime KDKA viewers in Pittsburgh, PA is the whereabouts of feature reporter Dave Crawley. Crawley, who is approaching a 30 year anniversary with the station this year, hasn’t been on ...
That seems to be the direction that an age discrimination lawsuit by three former staffers of Meredith’s WSMV in Nashville is taking. In a recent court filing, Meredith claimed that one of the three, ...
Just how long has one-time Fox News host Andrea Tantaros’ sexual harassment lawsuit against the company been going on? Still another amended complaint is being unveiled, this one alleging that Fox News had a ...
It happens north of the border too. Paul Bliss, a prominent anchor and political reporter on CTV has been suspended after harassment claims were made against him in a blog post. In that post, ...
Muhamad Hassan, a veteran photographer for CBS-owned WFOR in Miami, has settled his lawsuit which alleged the station demoted him for fat-shaming investigative reporter Jim DeFede. The pre-Christmas settlement is just now coming to ...
The lawyers might start rubbing their hands together in anticipation of this one. “The Wrap” has done an analysis of weekday cable programming and have come up with this: CNN has significantly fewer women ...
Wanda Byrd, who is black and says she’s been with TBS for 13 years, is suing the outlet and sister company CNN, claiming she is a victim of discrimination. Byrd, described in legal papers ...
Watch the billable hours add up. David Goodfriend’s Locast.org isn’t a new idea. A few years back, it was Aereo’s turn in the barrel for daring to offer a cable alternative by retransmitting local ...
An attempt to tie alt-right darling website Breitbart into a lawsuit brought against James O’Keefe’s bumbling Project Veritas has evidently failed – allowing a huge sigh of relief to escape from the folks at ...
Still another settlement in still another “nonsense” sexual harassment lawsuit (as Rupert Murdoch would put it) as Fox News wrote a check to Julie Roginsky. Roginsky, a former political talking head with the network ...
And still more of what Rupert would term “nonsense” as two former Fox News employees, who received settlements after complaining about Bill O’Reilly’s sexual harassment, are suing the network and the Internet personality for ...
Busy days in Hunt Valley, Maryland. As the Sinclair Broadcast Group prepares for the conclusion of its merger bid with Tribune Media, things just got a little more interesting with the filing of a ...
Page Six reports that New York viewers won’t be seeing Laura Behnke doing the weekend sports on ABC flagship WABC anymore. She left the station Tuesday at the end of her contract and as ...
Executives at a low power teevee station in Podunk, Anywhere, USA know this isn’t an appropriate question during a job interview. So why, evidently, did an NFL Network executive think it was OK? “I’ve ...
The roster of boneheads caught up in sexual harassment actions just keeps getting longer. The latest is the result of a lawsuit filed by former NFL Network wardrobe stylist Jami Cantor and has resulted ...
A lawyer for a former CNN producer says his client was NOT let go over sexual harassment allegations. CNN recently terminated Teddy Davis, a senior producer on Jake Tapper’s “State of the Union” following ...
Score one for the good guys – and the First Amendment. Reporter Phil Williams of Scripps WTVF in Nashville won’t have to turn over investigative documents to District Attorney General Glenn Funk. The Tennessee ...
AT&T and Time Warner have told a federal court and, by extension, the Justice Department and Trump Administration, that the fed's case against their proposed merger is "improper selective enforcement of the antitrust laws." ...
WABC ND HIT WITH SECOND DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINT Laura Behnke (right), WABC’s weekend sports anchor and reporter, has filed a complaint with the New York Station Division of Human Resources for gender and race discrimination ...
Well wouldn’t you know it? No sooner do the AT&T brass throw their support behind CNN boss Jeff Zucker that the Trump Department of Justice sues to block the proposed merger with TimeWarner. ...
Fox News anchor Kelly Wright is in the middle of a lawsuit against his employer over racial discrimination. And now he appears to be willing to put himself in the middle of the Murdochs' ...
21st Century Fox is vehemently denying a witness’s allegation that the company bribed FIFA officials to win TV rights for international tournaments. The allegation came in federal court yesterday from Alexander Burzaco, a ...
The folks at Fox seem to have a tough time with ethical boundaries. A former sports marketing executive testified Tuesday that Fox Sports paid bribes to soccer officials to retain broadcast rights. The ...
