HE CALLS IT AN “UNACCOUNTABLE POWER GRAB”
Standard General boss slams the FCC in an op-ed
Category: Continuing Coverage
STANDARD-TEGNA GETS SUPPORT FROM UNEXPECTED QUARTER
A union local gives a thumbs-up to a deal that is all but DOA
THE CONSERVATIVE PRESS ON THE FOX NEWS MESS
What has right-wing media had to say about the revelations?
WHEN THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES…PART THREE
Murdoch admits his employees knowingly endorsed false election claims
IS THE STANDARD MEDIA-TEGNA DEAL DOOMED?
The FCC’s latest move could be the death blow.
JOURNALIST, 9-YEAR-OLD DEAD; 2 OTHERS HURT IN ORLANDO SHOOTING
A suspect is in custody
OHIO GOVERNOR PROVIDES ANOTHER DERAILMENT UPDATE
This time, no reporters were arrested
LET’S KEEP IT SIMPLE
Follow the money, because it isn’t about politics.
STANDARD MEDIA-TEGNA VS THE FCC: THE NEVER-ENDING STORY
More “for and against” while the commission clutches its pearls
CROSS THEIR HEARTS AND HOPE TO…..MERGE
Standard General takes the pledge. No layoffs after Tegna takeover. For now.
THE CASH REGISTER IS CLOSED
WSB cancels cash cow newscast
GIGI SOHN WATCH CONTD.
Don’t hold your breath
WILL THEY MAKE IT BY THE END OF THE YEAR PT. 2
A NewsBlueser tells us of bumps in the road in Detroit
A-A-AND HERE WE GO AGAIN
Cox goes dark on Dish
DO WE CONSIDER THIS THE START OF THE CHRIS LICHT ERA?
Stelter gone, Toobin gone, Harwood gone. So it was about time that CNN CEO Chris Licht started ADDING to the on-air staff. He landed some significant names. Onetime CBS and ABC News journalist John ...
THE OPPOSITION TO THE TEGNA DEAL MYSTIFIES SOO KIM
The $5.4 billion buyout of Tegna by Standard Media (with a financial assist from hedge fund Apollo Global) has come under fire from both unions and at least one competing media company. And that ...
A BROADCAST GROUP JOINS TWO UNIONS’ MOVE TO BLOCK TEGNA-STANDARD MEDIA DEAL
Evidently the memo penned last week by Standard Media CEO Deb McDermott reassuring the Tegna news staff that jobs won’t be cut post-merger is not holding much water with the Tegna unions. On the ...
GRAY DID SOMETHING ABOUT THAT JOB DESCRIPTION, THANK G-D.
Remember this job description from WITN in Greenville, N.C.? Well, it seems the HR caught on to the press it was getting for being utterly ridiculous and it’s been changed. The list of responsibilities ...
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO DR. OZ?
It’s getting out of control.
NOW AS FOR ALLISON GOLLUST….
Zucker didn’t name the “senior executive” in his memo, but Allison Gollust’s name quickly surfaced. She’s CNN’s evp and chief marketing officer whose history with Zucker goes back to his days running NBCUniversal, where ...
AND NOW WHO IS RUNNING THE SHOW AT CNN?
The fact that it took only hours to name Zucker’s replacements (yes, plural) at the top indicates this parting was days in the making. Left to right, Michael Bass, Amy Entelis and Ken Jautz ...
THE NON-COMPETE ENDED TUESDAY. RASCON’S NEW ASSIGNMENT
When retiring Houston anchor legend Art Rascon passed the torch on to his son Jacob during their joint appearance on Rascon pere’s last midday newscast for Disney‘s KTRK, it marked the official end of ...
THE RATINGS BUSINESS MONOLITH IS TEETERING
Once upon a time, newsroom personnel broke out in a cold sweat as those all-important rating periods approached. Careers rose and fell, producers were under the gun to make their programs and ratings-friendly as ...
WELL HE HAD TO BLAME SOMEBODY….
It’s the media’s fault that Donald Trump lost the convention ratings war to Joe Biden. Just ask him Trump’s speech at the RNC Thursday night drew 23.4 million viewers compared with Biden’s speech, which ...
TURNING ON THE LIGHT IN THE NEWSROOM
There have been a lot of negatives emerging in the world of race relations in America in the last few weeks – but in the right light, you will find the glimmer of a ...
STEEL CITY ANCHOR DIAGNOSED WITH COVID-19
Ryan Houston only recently arrived at Apollo Cox’s WPXI in Pittsburgh as the station’s newest anchor. Houston, who came to Pittsburgh last December from Scripp’s WCPO in Cincinnati, is now making news as one ...
COVID-19’S CONTINUING IMPACT
NBC News will air live primetime specials about the coronavirus pandemic Tuesdays at 10 p.m. beginning tomorrow night. The one-hour specials will air on NBC, MSNBC and NBC News Now and is planned for ...
TODAY IN COVID-19’S MEDIA IMPACT
Chauncy Glover, the 3 and 6 PM anchor at Disney’s KTRK in Houston has test positive for COVID-19 and is home an self-quarantining. —– Add “CBS This Morning’s” Anthony Mason to the list of ...
HOW STATIONS ARE COPING PT. 2
At Scripps’ KRIS in Corpus Christi, reporters have been paired with photogs whom they will work with exclusively. The teams have been assigned news vehicles and are not allowed in the building, being given ...
THE BEST-LAID PLANS…
CBS had hoped to roll out its CBSN Local streaming service in Chicago by the end of this month, basing it out of the newsroom of O&O WBBM.. Hello COVID-19, goodbye rollout. WBBM ...
THE VIRUS HITS FOX
Over the weekend, Fox News Media chief executive officer Suzanne Scott and FNC president and executive editor Jay Wallace notified the staff that two more Fox News employees had contracted COVID-19, bringing the total ...
CBS ADJUSTS
CBS O&O local anchors continue to help out the parent network news operation by doing fill-in anchoring on network newscasts while the network scrambles to deep-clean its midtown Manhattan facilities and find temporary homes ...
STEEL CITY ADJUSTMENTS
It’s not only that “abundance of caution” that is forcing tv newsrooms to adjust to this new and (we hope) short-term reality. In Pittsburgh, CBS-owned KDKA is going through an anchor shuffle that viewers ...
WE’RE ALL IN THIS
Stories like the preceding are happening in newsrooms from across the country. It’s almost too many to keep track of. From Washington, NC to Fargo, ND, from St. Louis to Portland, OR and points ...
