TODD OUT AT “MEET THE PRESS”
Kristin Welker takes over in December.
Category: Coming Soon
SCRIPPS PUTTING MONEY WHERE ITS MOUTH IS
Commits $10 million to better pay and plans to add personnel
GRAY PLANS EXPANSION OF ITS KANSAS CITY NEWSROOM
KCTV adding eight jobs to the roster
WTVJ REPOPULATES ITS SPORTS DEPARTMENT
Sort of…
AND NOW FOR HER REWARD
Sometimes, allowing yourself to be thrown to the wolves can be good for your career
(DRUM ROLL, PLEASE) AND THE NEW “GMA 3” HOSTS ARE….
You call that a drum roll?
TUCKER ON TWITTER
This should be interesting
COMING TO HOUSTON IN JULY
He’s replacing Jonathan Martin at KRIV
SHUFFLING ROLES AT CNN
Chris Licht continues to tinker with the lineup
CBS NEWS TO DEBUT A POLITICS-BASED PROGRAM ON STREAMING
“America Decides” debuts May 1
CNN MAKES IT OFFICIAL: BARKLEY AND KING TO TEAM UP
The weekly program debuts in the fall
GRAY PLANS DAILY EDITION OF ITS “INVESTIGATE TV”
Oddly enough, it will be called “Investigate TV +”
FORMER CNN MEDIA GUY FIGURES HE’S GOT ANOTHER BOOK IN HIM
Wonder what the topic might be?
HEARST INTRODUCES NEW CINCINNATI ANCHOR
He joins WLWT May 1
TV NEWS’ WORST-KEPT SECRET IS A SECRET NO MORE
Ana Cabrera completes her jump from CNN to MSNBC
MORE TALKING HEADS FOR NEWSNATION
Now up to nine bloviators
FINDING ANOTHER REVENUE STREAM
Are the people actually assigned the extra work getting compensated??
BARKLEY AND KING THISCLOSE TO A DEAL WITH CNN
The duo would front a weekly program with the network
BAY AREA…TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT
Disgraced former KTVU anchor starts his rehab tour
SCRIPPS NEWS GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT DOCUMENTARIES
A new unit in the company will create documentaries
A NEW NEWSROOM IS PLANNED IN BOISE
The station’s new owner has plans
COMING THIS WEEKEND…
MSNBC is banking a lot on Jen Psaki
IF NEWSNATION’S “THE HILL” INSPIRES DÉJÀ VU, THERE’S A REASON
Nexstar brings its online property to television next month
A FAMILIAR FACE RETURNING IN A NEW ROLE
He left as a morning anchor, he’ll return in the evenings
PHILLY GETS A NEW EVENING ANCHOR
He'll start this summer
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
An ”In Brief” special
A CINCY HOMECOMING
She’ll join the local Hearst station in April
HEARST HIRES A NEW ANCHOR IN KANSAS CITY
Be patient. She shows up in May, just in time for you know what
WHO’S ANCHORING WHAT AT KRIV?
They provide their own updates.
IS PSAKI READY FOR HER CLOSE-UP?
Former Biden spokesperson debuts weekly program in a few weeks.
“I’M STILL IN SHOCK, PINCH ME!”
We’ll pass, but it’s a dream come true for this young forecaster
A RETURN TO CINCY TV
He'll be WCPO’s weekend morning forecaster
A JOB ACTION COMING TO NBC
The layoff of seven employees last month triggered the protest
SHE’S OUT OF THE BUSINESS, HE’S IN THE ANCHOR CHAIR
She heads for PR and he takes up where she left off
MAHER WILL GO INTO “OVERTIME” ON CNN
Don’t you love corporate synergy?
MORE COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL
Louisville station will add an A.M. hour
RE-ARRANGING THE DECK CHAIRS
Still another makeover at the FOX LA O&O
SCRIPPS PICKS UP A PARTNER FOR ITS FLORIDA NEWS OPERATION
Cox stations in Orlando and Jacksonville will join in the Scripps statewide news endeavor
MOVING SOUTH OF THE BORDER
No, not THAT border…the one up north
“NBC NEWS NOW” FILLS AN EMPTY HOUR
The streamer’s 8 pm slot finally gets a regular host
SCRIPPS MOVES ANCHOR TO CINCY FLAGSHIP
It's a big jump across the continent
CHARLOTTE STATION GETS AROUND TO NAMING ITS NEW ANCHOR
He announced his destination back in October
MOVING UP IN HOUSTON
Veteran Houston reporters earn weekend anchor duties
KCAL SET TO LAUNCH MARATHON NEWS BLOCK TOMORROW
The morning news will run 7 hours
THE SURRENDER OF THE NETWORKS IS ALL BUT COMPLETE
Their migration to streaming services is escalating
NEW YEAR = NEW ERA AT “NEWSHOUR”
Come January 2 a big change where change is unusual
FORMER COLUMBUS CHIEF MET JOINS DETROIT WEATHER GAGGLE
She is now one of 7 meteorologists on the staff
A FATHER-DAUGHTER ACT SOON TO DEBUT IN DETROIT
Dad’s local and daughter is national
FINALLY…A DETROIT LAUNCH
It will be the CBS O&O’s first full-bore newscast in decades….when it happens
WELL THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG, DID IT?
WBNS really wasted no time naming its new chief met
LONG STORY SHORT…HE GOT THE ANCHOR JOB
Philly station names Jim Gardner’s replacement
SCRIPPS NEWS PREPARES NEW YEAR’S DAY LAUNCH
DC bureau chief named as Newsy makes way for Scripps News
GRAY TO LAUNCH SPANISH-LANGUAGE NEWSCAST IN RENO
Hires a former CNN reporter to anchor the new newscast
GENERATIONAL SHIFT AT PBS AS DUO TO REPLACE JUDY WOODRUFF
To “News Hour” viewers, they are familiar faces.
VICE CAUGHT IN A VISE
Layoffs planned at youth-oriented media company
NOW THIS IS WHY YOU WATCH ELECTION COVERAGE, RIGHT?
Come fly with NBC News through their Election Night crib.
WEIGEL’S BACK AND SAN DIEGO’S GOT ‘IM
Resurfacing at San Diego independent
SUCCESSOR NAMED TO LONGTIME BIRMINGHAM METEOROLOGIST
The new chief met returned to Birmingham just this summer.
NBC HOPES TO WOO YOUNGER VIEWERS TO POLITICAL COVERAGE
Its targeted news streamer is going full bore on mid-term coverage
VETERAN ANCHORS NAMED FOR SOON-TO-DEBUT LA NEWSCASTS
KCAL & CBS Streaming Services expect to launch in December.
AS ATLANTA WEATHER VET PREPARES TO RETIRE, HIS REPLACEMENT IS NAMED
Burns counts down the days while Nitz is poised to step in
BERNARD’S REPLACEMENT HAS ALREADY BEEN NAMED
The new guy takes over in mid-November
CNN’S MEDIA BEAT REBUILD ADDS A FAMILIAR FACE
She’ll keep her current job with Axios as well.
CNN STARTS THE HYPE FOR ITS NEW MORNING OFFERING
Fully caffeinated and ready to go
CNN’S BIG REVEAL
The news we have all been waiting for.
ROMERO HOOKS UP WITH NEW COLLEAGUES. A LOVEFEST ALL AROUND!
There’s no such thing as too much hype. Right?
“NIGHTLINE” GOES STREAMING
“Impact X Nightline” debuts tomorrow on Hulu. ABC News’ late-night franchise “Nightline” is taking its first dip into the stream. The half-hour weekly version plans to directly target the interests and habits of people ...
A FAMILIAR FACE RETURNS IN MEMPHIS
It’s a return to Memphis television for Marcus “Doc” Holliday, who will become the sports director of Gray’s WMC on the retirement of Jarvis Greer, who retires at the end of the year. http:// ...
A NEW LATE-NIGHT ANCHOR FOR INSOMNIACS
The hole at “Fox News @ Night” that was created when Shannon Bream was named the new permanent host of “Fox News Sunday” has been filled with a familiar face. Trace Gallagher, a charter ...
LICHT MAKES SOME FIXES AT CNN PRIOR TO THE MID-TERMS
Like cold patch in a pothole, CNN boss Chris Licht is doing some temporary fixes to the cabler’s primetime schedule as the mid-term election heats up. Jake Tapper has been….uhh….tapped to fill the empty ...
WELL, WE GUESS LIZ, BRIAN AND MIREYA WILL JUST HAVE TO WAIT.
http:// September 12? It’s the 22nd, and “Studio 13” has yet to show up. Oh, wait… A FOX 13 spokesperson says Studio 13 is still going to launch, but has not released a date. ...
IS THIS A NEW HEARST THING?
We couldn’t help but notice the three-anchor morning format when Hearst’s WTAE in Pittsburgh, PA introduced it earlier this year. After, all, following the abrupt departure of longtime anchor Kelly Frey last year following ...
CNN TO OVERHAUL MORNING PROGRAM
Sometime “later this year” (your guess as to the exact date is as good as ours), CNN plans to present us with a new, “reimagined” morning show featuring Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlin ...
IN CASE YOU’RE INTERESTED…
Lucky Nexstar news directors across the country couldn’t be more pleased to be running promos for any of the latest NewsNation program offerings, some of which compete directly with their newscasts. Like this one ...
SHUFFLING THE MORNINGS IN DA BURGH
Heather Abraham, after 12 years of working the dawn patrol at CBS-owned KDKA In Pittsburgh, first as a reporter and, by 2016, as co-anchor, is stepping away from the anchor desk….but not the station. ...
ANCHOR TEAM NAMED FOR STATEWIDE NEWSCAST
Left to right, Analia Fiestas and Carlos Zapata have been named news anchors and Karuska Matos will serve as meteorologist for a new statewide morning newscast that will air on all of Telemundo’s Texas ...
A NEWS QUIZ FOR HIGH SCHOOLERS? LET’S EXPAND THAT IDEA
Charter Communications’ Spectrum News Networks thinks what is needed is a quiz show to test high schools students’ news literacy. So today (September 7), “Spectrum News Challenge” will debut, hosted by Spectrum News 1 ...
NEWSNATION PLANS MIDDAY NEWSBLOCK
After being pushed out of primetime by the pending October addition of Chris Cuomo to the NewsNation prime-time lineup, Marni Hughes, a charter member of the Nexstar station’s news effort is experiencing something of ...
A NEW MARKET FOR TELEMUNDO
Birmingham, AL is getting its first Telemundo outlet as Gray announced that the Hispanic network’s programming will be offered on a sub-channel of the company’s newly-acquired WBTM, which is operated in conjunction with WBRC. ...
FROM ORLANDO TO JAX
Jacksonville weather fans, mark September 6th on your calendars. That’s the day David Heckard takes on the assistant chief meteorologist role at Graham Media’s WJXT in Jacksonville after several years in Orlando. http:// He’ll ...
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
Earlier this week, we reported to you that Columbus morning anchor and meteorologist Phil Kelly decided enough family time was enough and announced his return to Sinclair’s WSYX/WTTE in Columbus, OH after departing the ...
UNIQUE DOC LOOKS AT HIGH SCHOOL NEAR THE TEX-MEX BORDER
Tegna’s San Antonio station KENS is going the streaming route with a new documentary called “Border Cowboys.” The docu, debuting on the new KENS 5+ streaming app. focuses on the soccer team at Gladys ...
A NEW ANCHOR ASSIGNMENT FOR A FAMILIAR BIG APPLE FACE
Come September 12, when CBS flagship WCBS launches its new 9 AM newscast, it will be anchored by longtime station fixture Cindy Hsu. She’s excited. “I am excited to embrace this opportunity to support ...
THEY GET THE JOBS PERMANENTLY
Or as permanent as anything might be in tv news. While Hearst’s WTMJ scours the nation looking for a new morning meteorologist to replace the just-promoted Brian Niznansky, Tom Durian and Symone Woolridge have ...
CUOMO TO NEWS NATION. BUT WHERE?
Chris Cuomo heading to Nexstar’s NewsNation was very likely a sealed deal the day it was announced that Dan Abrams would devote an hour of his nightly program on the cable outlet to an ...
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD….
When Christi Paul exited CNN last month after a nine year run, we reported that Paul said at the time “I just could not be who I needed to be for my family.” We ...
LOG-ROLLING IN OUR TIME
Log-rolling: [from a former American custom of neighbors assisting one another in rolling logs into a pile for burning] : the exchanging of assistance or favors specifically : the trading of votes by legislators ...
HER RETURN STIRS SOME EXCITEMENT
Five years after she forsook KMIZ and Columbia, MO for the bright lights of St. Louis and a morning anchor slot at Gray’s KMOV, Marissa Hollowed is returning to the NPG station and the ...
IT’S OFFICIAL. ALLEN MEDIA WINS THE BLACK NEWS CHANNEL SWEEPSTAKES
Now we get to see just how entrepreneur Byron Allen intends to revive the moribund Black News Channel As we have reported, Allen and his Allen Media group have been the most-mentioned and most ...
WAGA PLANS A TALK SHOW
FOX-owned WAGA in Atlanta, GA recently found itself with a programming hole with the cancellation of the syndicated yakker “The Real.” So the station turned to noon anchor and reporter Portia Bruner to helm ...
CHANGES TO A BOSTON ANCHOR DESK
NBC’s WBTS in Boston, MA (aka NBC10) is a station in search of ratings And to that end, the station has paired the newly-hired Priscilla Casper with station vet Colton Bradford on the 4 ...
CBS DETROIT ANNOUNCES NEW PERSONNEL HIRES
Building a news operation from scratch is a daunting task and in Detroit, WWJ/WKBD VP/GM Brian Watson and news director Paul Pytlowany are doing just that at the CBS O&O. Anchors Shaina Humphries and ...
FORMER KARE INTERN RETURNS AS ITS NEWEST ANCHOR
Six years ago, Morgan Wolfe wrapped her internship at KARE (Tegna…Standard Media….yada yada yada..) and embarked on a career that eventually led to her becoming a TikTok pioneer, amassing 7 million views and 60,000 ...
AN ANCHOR SHUFFLE IN ATLANTA
At Tegna’s (someday Standard Media’s) WXIA, veteran prime-time anchor Jeff Hullinger (right) is being moved to weekends, making way for Ron Jones (left) to expand his portfolio to include his current 11 pm anchor ...
LESTER HOLT GETTING A DOUBLE PLAY IN LA?
How do you replace Ellen DeGeneres, who for years had been the reliable lead-in to your 3½ hour news block? If you’re KNBC in Los Angeles, you serve up yet another newsblock. Think of ...
ONE BIG NAME GOES…ANOTHER ARRIVES
No sooner did Greta Van Susteren decamp from Gray Television for Newsmax than another name popped up to take her place. Ernie Anastos is the host of “Positively America With Ernie Anastos” which debuts ...
NEW ANCHOR TEAM/NEW NEWSCAST IN LOUISVILLE
To go with its brand-spankin’ new weekend 9 AM hour-long newscast (and all those commercial avails ready for the flood of mid-term election $$$) Hearst’s WLKY in Louisville, KY is creating a new anchor ...
THE STATION ALSO FILLS A HOLE IN ITS WEATHER DEPARTMENT
Josh Nichols has been tapped to fill one of the two open weather slots at Scripps’ WKBW in Buffalo, NY, starting next week. According to News Director Aaron Mason, Nichols will work part time ...
