“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 ...
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:// ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: [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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Following the retirement of veteran sportscaster Dan Roan from Chicago’s WGN (Nexstar) after 38 years, the new guessing game is who of TWO…count ’em TWO…successors to the local sports legend is the top dog. ...
After five years in the weather center at Tegna’s s/t/b Standard Media’s WMAZ in Macon, GA, Courteney Jacobazzi is headed up I-75 to Atlanta and her new job at The Weather Channel http:// We ...
Back in 2011, Trill Gates traded in the newsroom for the classroom when she left the anchor desk to become a librarian and teacher for the Anchorage School District. She’s making a return trip ...
Chris Wallace, who fled FOX News for CNN only to find that the company’s woefully miscalculated CNN+ would collapse in less than a month, is getting a new lease on life from the company ...
Pittsburgh’s latest news anchor shuffle was left one move short when Janelle Hall was moved off the evening news at Hearst’s WTAE to return to mornings – at her request, we’re told. The suits ...
Drawing its first four hires from local stations around the country, CBS News announced the launch of a locally-oriented investigative unit to be based at its local news innovation lab in Dallas. Stephen Stock ...
The station’s Chief Legal Correspondent Katie Barlow will anchor the 30-minute weekly program Sunday evenings at 11:30 p.m. In the course of the program, Barlow will interpret and explain what’s happening in the courts ...
Debut day draws closer for Emileigh Forrrester, soon to be co-anchoring the evening news at Nexstar’s WHNT in Huntsville, AL. She’s coming from Gray’s WALB in Albany, GA in a move so face she ...
The breathtakingly swift reaching of a $44 billion deal between billionaire Elon Musk and a flaccidly-defiant Twitter board weighs on the mind of many a journalist as we wait to see just what a ...
It was a pretty big deal last year when Leah Rahimi became the first woman to host a Monday-through-Friday daytime shift on a Chicago radio station. She’s about to notch another first on her ...
As Bay area sports news veteran Mark Ibanez continues his quick march towards a March 31st “retirement” at FOX-owned KTVU, there are reports that his successor will be the guy he’s worked with for ...
The much-anticipated latest streaming service has its debut scheduled. CNN+ will officially launch on March 29, Deadline reports. CNN’s new subscription service will feature much of the talent already part of the cable network, ...
WNJU 5 and 5:30 anchor David Rodriguez is taking on an additional role as the Telemundo station’s chief investigative reporter as part of the investigative unit’s relaunch in late April (We know…just in time ...
The weekday AM and PM editions of Sinclair’s “The National Desk” will be joined Saturday, March 5 by an evening weekend edition. “TND Weekend Edition” will be anchored by Eugene Ramirez, who will continue ...
Another news viewing option is coming to Pittsburgh March 14, when Cox-owned WPXI rolls out a 6:30 pm newscast…on Sinclair’s WPGH. WPXI veteran anchor David Johnson will sit alongside Liz Kilmer for the new ...
Another mid-market metrologist has made a network jump to Fox weather. Kelly Reardon is leaving WWLP in Springfield, Ma., (ranked Market 11) in two weeks and is going to start giving national forecasts as ...
Telemundo has completed the lineup and is ready to launch its new weekday afternoon entertainment talk show “La Mesa Caliente.” Myrka Dellanos and Giselle Blondet, last seen in various roles on Univision network program ...
While MSNBC continues to wrestle with the notion of how to conduct business in the post-Rachel Maddow world (we know she’s still with the network but, c’mon man – her substitutes’ numbers are down ...
The previously announced fourth hour of “Morning Joe” is now set to debut on April 4th on MSNBC. Unlike the “Today Show”, the hours are not going to be split up among the members ...
Stephanie Ruhle, a six-year veteran of NBC News, has been named the new anchor for the 11 PM program that was hosted by Brian Williams until his departure in December. Ruhle, who is also ...
Robert Costa recently collaborated with the legendary Bob Woodward on a book about the last few months of the 2020 presidential campaign and former President Trump‘s final weeks in office, called “Peril.” That was ...
Following the departure last month of Julie Unruh from the midday anchor desk at Nexstar’s WGN, Patrick Elwood has been named as her replacement, Elwood, who has been with WGN since 2013 after walking ...
They spent two decades ringing in the New Year at Disney’s WLS in Chicago….but come this New Year’s Eve, Janet Davies and Mark Giangreco will help with the countdown to 2022 at NBC’s WMAQ. ...
The Washington Post’s Jeremy Barr broke a big one late Monday: FOX bosses laid the blame at City Hall’s doorstep, saying “this mandate by the Mayor prohibits unvaccinated employees from working at Fox New ...
Familiar faces will populate the new 4 PM hour being planned by CBS-owned WBBM in Chicago. Weekend anchor Jim Williams, a Chicago news vet, will be teamed with reporter Marie Saavedra on the new ...
FOX Weather, the hugely-hyped streaming offering from the Murdochs, is taking another step closer to becoming a cable channel. Beginning this weekend, it will be simulcast on FOX Business Channel, giving it exposure to ...
Viewers of FOX-owned WJBK in Detroit are more than likely to see some unfamiliar faces turning up in the near future on the station’s newscasts It is being reported that longtime anchor Huel Perkins, ...
Most recently, Glenn Jones has been interim CEO and Chief Experience Officer for the Bermuda Tourism Authority, where he held a variety of leadership roles since 2015. But now he is headed back to ...
Come Monday, October 25th, FOX Weather, the Murdoch’s streaming entry in the weather wars, will debut on some electronic device near you. The company continues to beef up its staff ahead of the launch. ...
We told you yesterday that CBS is retiring the seven-year-old CBSN brand in favor of CBS NEWS – and let’s face it, they came up with CBSN back then because they weren’t absolutely sure ...
Larry Kudlow and Kennedy will still be offering up their spin on current events, but the execs at FOX Business Network have decided to let sister network FOX News do the heavy lifting on ...
If you have been anxiously awaiting Univision’s launch of a weekend morning news program, wait no more. “Despierta América en Domingo” premieres this Sunday at 8 am. The new morning show is hosted by ...
One familiar face will be joined by a new face when Hubbard’s WNYT in Albany, NY unveils its new AM news lineup on September 27th. Longtime sports reporter Chris Onorato (he’s been with the ...
Tom Llamas‘ daily streaming newscast launches next Monday, so it’s probably a good thing the powers-that-be came up with a name. “Top Story with Tom Llamas” will stream live from 7 to 8 p.m. ...
Graham Media’s KSAT in San Antonio is dipping its toes into the digital waters with the launch of a weekly digital newscast. Alicia Barrera and RJ Marquez have been tapped to front the streaming ...
Starting next Monday, Hearst’s WLKY in Louisville, KY will tack on an additional 9 AM hour to its morning block, which will then run from 4:30 AM to 10 AM – which of course ...
A couple of familiar faces are about to show up mornings at Gray’s WXIX in Cincinnati….and a familiar one is headed for the door. In a reassignment of their duties, reporters Lauren Minor (left) ...
Well over two months ago, Rita Garcia left FOX Los Angeles O&O KTTV and the morning anchor chair at “Good Day LA” for the fabled “new adventure.” The heavy betting at the time was ...
Familiar faces in new places and new faces in familiar places are in store in the next few weeks at Hearst’s WCVB in Boston. Familiar face Erika Tarantal is moving to the co-anchor chair ...
In May, Tracy Davis left NBC-owned WMAQ in Chicago to become vice president of news at sister station WVIT in West Hartford, CT. And now, WMAQ has hired Akeemi Harrison, currently assistant news director ...
Later this year, we can expect FOX Weather to offer itself as a streaming alternative to…well….you know who. And they trotted out six meteorologists/presenters to show they aren’t kidding around. The six will front ...
It’s buh-bye to the dawn patrol and hello to the PM anchor desk for Lori Stokes at Fox-owned WNYW in New York City. http:// Her co-anchor for the past four years, Rosanna Scotto, is ...
We sometimes wish we had access to CNN International. A lot of its offerings sound far more interesting than the endless parade of bloviating panels emanating from the mothership for the domestic audience. Starting ...
Following up on a recent NewsBlues story, Pennsylvania native K.C. Kantz is joining Standard Media’s WLNE in Providence, Rhode Island. He will pair with veteran anchor Doreen Scanlon and meteorologist Chelsea Priest starting Monday, ...
We’ve seen several stories in recent months such as this one that indicate former Trump Administration Cabinet officials are giving corporate headhunters headaches due to their apparent unemployability. But that’s not always the case. ...
The Hispanic network Univision is expanding its morning franchise, “Despierta America” to Sundays. The new program will debut in the 4th quarter of 2021. The program is the top-rated Spanish-language program in the country ...
It was almost exactly a year ago that we told you that Nicole Koglin was bidding a tearful farewell to the tv news business and Milwaukee’s FOX O&O WITI to “spend more time with ...
MSNBC continues to fiddle with the fringes of its schedule as the core seems to have become more competitive and the network seeks to increase diversity. The latest change sees former Al-Jazeera English host ...
’60 IN 6,’ a 60 Minutes venture for “a new generation of users” on streaming service Quibi launches with two episodes June 14 – according to Quibi. After premiere day, Quibi will offer a new ‘60 IN ...
With the Class of 2020 unlikely to be able to celebrate their graduation, a huge television special is being planned that will air on the big broadcast networks–ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC–and digital platforms ...