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A LO-O-ONG JUMP TO CABLE

Ashley Strohmier, an anchor and reporter with NPG’s KMIZ in Columbia, Mo., will be joining Fox News Channel as an overnight anchor and correspondent ...

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TEXAS LIVESTREAM

A more substantive effort at informing voters is the plan to livestream the February 18 US Senate Democratic primary debate in Texas. Tegna’s KVUE ...

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HOUSTON PBS & YOUTUBE

Check out this news release posted Monday by Houston blogger Mike McGuff: “Houston Public Media announced today that it is now streaming live on ...

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THIS WEEK IN MONEY GRABS

Welcome Quincy Media’s KDLH, a sister station to KBJR in Duluth, MN to the ranks of newscasts seeking to cash in to an election ...

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A FORMER FOX NEWSER TO HEAD UP FACEBOOK NEWS?

It looks as if former Fox News executive producer Jennifer Williams has gotten the nod to head video strategy for Facebook News, Zuckerberg’s dedicated ...

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IT APPEARS TO BE VIRAL

If we didn’t mention in the previous story that WKYC is now calling it’s 6 PM newscast “What Matters Most,” we’re mentioning it now. ...

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SHE’S COMING HOME

Apollo Cox’s WPXI is bringing Angie Moreschi back home to Pittsburgh. Moreschi, who most recently worked in the PR department of a Tampa FL ...

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THE LAST THING NEEDED IN TV NEWS

The folks at Gray Television would like you to believe this is a good thing – that somehow viewers will be better served with ...

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WELL…IT’LL BE HERE SOMEDAY….

First it was November. Then it was January. Now we are told that the Black News Channel, the brainchild of former politician J.C. Watts ...

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MOVING UP IN THE GATEWAY CITY

Meredith’s KMOV in St. Louis has named Samantha Jones as the new principal co-anchor on weekday evenings. She moves into the chair after the ...

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NBC NEWS DIGITAL STAFF EMBRACES UNIONIZATION

The editorial staff at NBC News Digital overwhelmingly voted 90-40 to join the NewsGuild of New York. The new bargaining unit includes reporters, video ...

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“SOLIDARITY NOT SO MUCH”

We should find out sometime Friday the result of a union organizing vote among NBC News Digital employees. That vote, held a week ago, ...

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DID YOU CATCH IT?

We mentioned a few weeks back, KDAF (CW) Dallas formerly operated by Tribune and now by Nexstar was hosting the Dallas Holiday Parade. It ...

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ROSSEN CUTS A DEAL FOR COMEBACK

A year after he left NBC News because of a contract stalemate, Jeff Rossen has foun a new home for himself and his “Rossen ...

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A SECOND CHANCE, DOWN THE BLOCK

Six months after Lee Cruse was fired from Scripps’ WLEX in Lexington KY following comments he made two weeks prior that the station called ...

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BEHIND THE MIC TO FRONT OF THE CAMERA

Joshua Johnson said he is stepping down as host of the WAMU/NPR national radio show “1A” to join MSNBC as an anchor early next ...

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LOGAN TO TURN UP ON FOX NATION

Former “60 Minutes’ correspondent Lara Logan has signed on to Fox Nation, the streaming…and somewhat steaming…outlet of Fox News. Beginning in January she will ...

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MORE PAY TO PLAY….REALLY!!!??

Just what we needed. From Dallas, Unclebarky.com reports that NBCU‘s KXAS is taking a page from WFAA’s long-running “Good Morning Texas” money grab and ...

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THE BIG DAY IS HERE FOR NEWS JUNKIES

Public impeachment hearings start up this morning in the Capitol beginning at 10 Eastern time. ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS on Wednesday will preempt ...

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SPEAKING OF CATS AND DOGS

It’s that time of the year again when WFSB (CBS) is compiling a list of names to use for winter storms this upcoming season. ...

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CNN PUTS TWO MORE IN THE FIELD TODAY

Former Vice News Tonight correspondent Evan McMorris-Santoro has signed on as a New York-based correspondent with CNN McMorris-Santoro’s raised considerably with Vice News because ...

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ATLANTA-BOUND?

Speculation has been running rampant in both St. Louis and Atlanta that soon-to-be departed KMOV anchor Courtney Bryant is headed for Atlanta and a ...

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KTHV NEW METEOROLOGIST

Meteorologist Adam Bowles is leaving the Big Easy and headed to Arkansas. He posted the following on social media this week: ANNOUNCEMENT: All of ...

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HEARST MAY BE ON TO SOMETHING

If it works, bless’em. Hearst Television, with 26 TV markets reaching into 39 states, will for the first time extend its television and digital ...

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BRACE YOURSELVES FOR IMPEACHMENT COVERAGE

The current impeachment drama currently playing out in Washington is unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. That’s because this will be the first-ever social ...

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MOVING SOON….BUT WHEN?

That move by Norah O’Donnell from New York to the Nation’s Capital is supposed to be in a matter of weeks – maybe November. ...

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FORMER PITTSBURGH ANCHOR FINDS A MISSION

As it seeks to smooth over last year’s scathing Pennsylvania grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse, the Pittsburgh, PA Catholic Diocese is turning ...

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“DIGGING DEEPER” THROUGH CHEMISTRY. SURE, OK

Houston blogger Mike McGuff notes that Graham Media’s KPRC expanded its 4 PM news this week by another half hour so that that station ...

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THREE FAMILIAR FACES ADD BENCH STRENGTH TO WJW

When you come down to it, ALL reporting should be, by definition, investigative reporting. But what the hell, we’ll play the marketing game and ...

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NBC O&OS DUMP RATINGS

More than a few smaller market stations did this years ago, more as a matter of economics than anything else.. Now the big boys ...

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ST. LOUIS LOUIE

Savannah Louie started this week at Tegna’s KSDK in St. Louis. Soon, she will be the new face on the 4 AM anchor spot ...

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ATLANTA SHUFFLE

The AJC’s Rodney Ho reports that Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta is moving around the newsroom chess pieces to fill empty spaces left by the ...

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HE WAS WAITING IN THE WINGS….

Just days after Chief Meteorologist John Cessarich announced his plans to retire next November from Hearst’s WYFF in Greenville, SC, his replacement was named. ...

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VICE NEWS TONIGHT LIVES ON

When “Vice News Tonight” ends its HBO run next month, it will head to millennial-centric Viceland, a joint operation of Vice and A&E Networks. ...

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A RETURN TO LITTLE ROCK

Tegna’s KTHV is bringing back meteorologist Sarah Fortner to Little Rock. Fortner was with the station for four years, between 2012 and 2016 before ...

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WE HOPE HE WEARS THE HAT

Get ready for still another talking head on cable (not)news. Mark McKinnon is joining CNN as a still another bloviating gasbag. McKinnon, one-time advisor ...

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WKYC BRINGS ON INVESTIGATOR

Investigative reporting Rachel Polansky is leaving the Gulf Coast and Waterman’s WBBH in Ft. Myers, FL after three and a half years, and heading ...

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ANOTHER QB HEADS FOR THE BOOTH

His NFL career easily eclipsed that of Ryan Leaf, but now Leaf and former New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez are part of the ...

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TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT

Another era of the “CBS Evening News” begins this evening as Norah O’Donnell takes over the anchor chair and managing editor duties. We’ve enjoyed ...

RESURFACING IN TALLY

Angela Green will be the new morning anchor at Scripps’ WTXL in Tallahassee. We told you a few weeks ago that Green was leaving her ...

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FREE TV

A streaming service that offers free broadcast TV to cord-cutters is winning support from some big media players, five years after a similar venture ...

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STELTER PLANS A BOOK ON….WHAT ELSE????

Also going the literary route is CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter. Stelter’s planning to write an epic that will examine the relationship between Fox ...

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OH, THE IRONY!

Russell Crowe is Roger Ailes, Sienna Miller is Elizabeth Ailes, Seth MacFarlane is former Fox News PR chief Brian Lewis and Naomi Watts plays,to the ...

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WE HAVE A LAUNCH DATE

If you’re like….well NObody we know, you’ve been sweating bullets to find out when Norah O’Donnell assumes the chair at the “CBS Evening News” ...

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LIFE AFTER THE NFL

Up Cleveland way, Josh Cribbs, one of the more admired Cleveland Browns of the expansion era, and his writer, producer and activist wife, Maria, ...

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CBS EXEC TO HELM O’DONNELL’S EVENING NEWS

CBS News’ executive vice president of news Kim Godwin will be at the helm when the network launches the “CBS Evening News with Norah ...

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HAVE YOU DONE GOOD WORK?

It’s duPont Columbia Awards time. The Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award honors excellence in broadcast and digital journalism in the public service. Dedicated to ...

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THE RETURN OF COURT TV

Wednesday, May 8th will mark the return of Court TV, and former Orlando anchor Vinnie Politan, for one, is excited. “I’ve been waiting 10 ...

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GEARING UP ANOTHER ALL-NEWS CHANNEL

Another day, another new 24/7 news channel – one we first told you about back in December. Black News Channel is set to launch ...

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KING STICKING AROUND “THIS MORNING”

We are told that Gayle King is thisclose to re-upping to continue her duties as co-host of “CBS This Morning.” With a current contract ...

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THIS YEAR’S WORST KEPT SECRET

To the surprise of absolutely no one, NBC announced that Jenna Bush Haggar is going to replace the departing Kathie Lee Gifford in that ...

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KGBT NEW NEWS DIRECTOR

Insiders at KGBT (CBS) say a new boss is coming to town. Amy Rasico-Ahn Sullivan has been named News Director. She’s leaving KVII (ABC) Amarillo ...

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CNN & MSNBC WILL AIR AD THAT FOX NIXED

CNN and MSNBC were quick to underline an unspoken contrast between them and Fox News Channel, by announcing they would air a commercial for ...

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KHOU STATION TOUR

Anchor Len Cannon of Houston CBS station KHOU took viewers on a tour of its new digs recently. You’ll remember the station had to ...

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OH BOY!! ANOTHER GASBAG

Lately, cable news networks seem to be snapping up washed-up politicians as bloviators faster than K Street can recruit them to subvert the public ...