Meghan Rafferty’s interim title as executive producer of “NBC Nightly News” is now permanent. Rafferty, who has been interim executive producer since Jenn Suozzo’s departure last month, got the nod from NBC News President ...
The folks at Hearst have decided they are big enough to have two executives share oversight of the company’s 33 television stations and two radio stations. Ashley Gold and Eric Meyrowitz each have the ...
Earlier this year, CBS reorganized its news and station operations into a single unit co-led by Wendy McMahon and Neeraj Khemlani. The reshuffling of executive responsibilities continues with the appointment of veteran news executive ...
“Good Morning America’s” new executive broadcast producer is a familiar face to the rest of the staff. The announcement of Christine Brouwer’s promotion may soothe some nerves at “GMA” (and by extension, ABC News) ...
Longtime CBS’er Al Ortiz has gotten the nod to serve as interim producer of the “CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell.” It’s a trip back to the program for Ortiz, who previously served as ...
While FOX rearranges the deck chairs on its KCPQ in Seattle, it has shelved two popular news franchises, with their fate seemingly up for grabs by the still-to-be-named managers. “Washington’s Most Wanted” and “The ...
Someone in Irving, TX still has faith in the News Nation experiment. Come Monday, Nexstar’s WGN America becomes News Nation with expanded news programming, some anticipated right-of-center talk and a newly-minted creative team assigned ...
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 ...
ABC News has recruited veteran TV producer David Hatcher as “ABC News Live” executive producer. His first priority in his new job is building out and overseeing the streamer’s morning news programming block, including ...
Sean McGarvy, who’s been the ND for Scripps’ WEWS in Cleveland for the past year and a half, has been tapped to fill the company’s vacant Senior Director of Content position. He’s also worked for ...
Tina Commodore, who’s been the ND for Cox’s KOKI in Tulsa, heads to Orlando where she’ll take over the newsroom for sister station WFTV. She joined KOKI as ND in November 2016, and assumed oversight ...
Jenna Gibson, an eight-year veteran of CBS News, is the division’s new managing editorial producer. What the hell does that mean exactly? Well kids, she will put on an extra hat, continuing to manage ...
Chad Pergram is now a congressional correspondent at Fox News Channel. The move comes as the House sends articles for impeachment against President Trump to the Senate for a trial. Pergram has been senior ...
Newsmax TV has tapped Elliott Jacobson as its news EVP of programming and chief content officer. Newsmax, the brainchild of Trump pal Christopher Ruddy, targets boomers as its core audience. Jacobson is trading in ...
MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle has been named senior business correspondent at NBC News, but she wants to take that role in a different direction. Ruhle wants to do the type of business-news coverage that’s ...
Frame it anyway you want. The recently announced scheduling shuffle at MSNBC results in Ali Velshi being relegated to weekend mornings starting in January. He currently anchors a weekday hour, preceded by a program ...
A NewsBlueser passed along news of a major shakeup in the anchor assignments at a station in Baton Rouge, LA. Try to follow along the musical chairs game that management at Nexstar-operated duopoly WVLA/WGMB ...
You can consider the changing of the guard is now underway at NBC, where Steve Burke (left) is stepping down as CEO of NBCUniversal on January 1st and handing over the reins to Jeff ...
Nexstar Media Group has promoted Paula Jackson to VP/GM of WJHL in Johnson CIty, TN, effective immediately. Jackson, a twenty-year vet of Nexstar stations in the market most recently was WJHL’s general sales manager. ...
This has been the autumn of discontent for investigative TV journalists. Ronan Farrow’s best-selling book “Catch and Kill” detailed his frustration with former bosses at NBC News over his failed attempt to break the ...
Madeleine Haeringer is back at NBC News after a three-year tour of duty with Vice News where she was the exec in charge of HBO’s “Vice News Tonight” before it went dark last month. ...
Fox News will move Mark Levin‘s Sunday night program from 10 p.m. to 8 p.m. starting this weekend as part of several changes to its lineup, The Hill has learned. Confirmed Fox News is moving ...
The clock will be flipped as Jack Bohrer takes over as the new executive producer of “The 11th Hour with Brian Williams.” He’s been on the other end of the day as “Morning Joe” ...
Two news manager moves at Scripps’ WXYZ in Detroit. Ronnie Love is the new morning executive producer, and Yve Jones has been named Real Time Manager. ND Rhonda Lavelle tells Rick Gevers that real ...
Paul Briggs is moving from a corporate job to become the new GM….or should we say vice president of Orlando TV for Cox Media Group at duopoly WFTV-WRDQ. In his new job, Briggs will ...
Former tv news director Kerry Oslund is the newly-named vice president of strategy and business development for Scripps. Oslund, who ran tv newsrooms in Atlanta, GA and Portland, OR in the course of a ...
As the “CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell” prepares to move from Manhattan to Washington, DC, the news division has named Jay Shaylor as the program’s new executive producer. Shaylor is moving over from ...
Jace Larson was promoted to National Director of Content. Larson was working at KMGH and now oversees content with Scripps’ National News Team in Denver. Katherine Price is the new Director of Local OTT. She ...
CNN International correspondent Matt Rivers is the newest member of the network’s Mexico City bureau after four years in Beijing. On one of his last major assignments in China, Rivers investigated the detention of ...
Univision is beefing up its news division as it closes in on co-hosting with ABC, its first Democratic presidential primary debate. María Martínez-Guzmán has been promoted to svp and executive news director of the ...
The behind-the-scenes shuffle amped up at “CBS This Morning” with the appointment of a new director (Shanta Fripp), a new managing editor (Claudia Milne) and a new senior broadcast producer (Jon Tower). Fripp moves ...
Brandin Stewart is the new GM at CBS-owned KYW in Philadelphia, replacing Brien Kennedy who took a quick exit from the station last month.. And hey, what better qualification? “My parents are from West ...
Marie Nelson is headed back to ABC News to become svp, integrated content strategy. “Marie will work closely with leaders across the news division to strengthen our brand with multicultural audiences,” news division president ...
Mike McClain, who began his career as a news photographer, and worked his way up to news director for three network owned stations, is the new GM for Fox’s WOFL in Orlando. More details ...
Delines Batlle-Alonso is moving up the Telemundo food chain as she departs the assistant news director job at WNJU in New York to become VP of News at KVDA, the group’s San Antonio outlet. ...
Gray’s WAVE in Louisville, KY has named Dan Fabrizio as news director. It’s an inter-Gray move for Dan, who’s spent the last eight years as ND for WSAZ in Charleston/Huntington, WV. He’s also been an ...
A transfer between Scripps stations leaves Eric Gaylord as the new ND for KPAX in Missoula, MT. He’s been the ND at sister station KRTV in Great Falls, MT, since June, 2017. Eric began as a photographer, ...
CBS is once again preparing to make an offer for sister media company Viacom in the coming weeks, following a meeting of CBS directors last week in which a potential deal was discussed. If ...
Cox executed a significant shuffle this week among its news executive ranks. Misti Turnbull is joining the corporate staff at Cox Media, and thus leaving her job as news director of the company’s Atlanta station, ...
Tim Coles is the new general manager/general sales manager of Gray’s WBKO in Bowling Green, Ky. For the past four years, Coles has been a couple of time zones away performing the same role ...
Sinclair Broadcast Group has named John W. Miller Jr. general manager of its MNT affiliate WTVZ in Norfolk, Va. Miller has been a director of political sales at Cumulus Media since 2017 and president-CEO ...
Erin Wencl, a 12-year veteran of the tv news wars, is the new news director at Tegna’s KAGS in Bryan-College Station, TX. Let the flowery press release speak for itself. “Erin’s outstanding experience and ...
In addition to Hanson’s promotion, Meredith also named new station managers in Las Vegas and Phoenix In Phoenix, AZ, Bianca Esparza Pap will be KTVK/KPHO’s station manager. She was most recently the marketing director ...
Matt Frucci is the new executive producer of “NBC Nightly News Weekend.” Frucci is currently senior executive producer of “MSNBC Weekends,” When he makes his move he will take over for Wesley Oliver, who ...
The CBS News shuffle continues with the elevation of Eva Nordstrom from “CBS This Morning” managing editor to executive producer of special events. Fun fact: CBS News now has women as its president, evening ...
Diane Hannes has been named president and general manager of WVIT-WRDM, NBCUniversal’s stations in Hartford, CT, replacing the departing Susan Tully, who is moving to Texas. Hannes departs WMAQ-WSNS Chicago, where she’s been VP ...
Nexstar’s WCMH in Columbus, OH, has promoted Brianne Betts to assistant news director. Betts has worked for WCMH for eight years. She started as a producer, was promoted to EP in 2015, and then Senior EP ...
What had been speculated about for days, weeks and even months, becomes official this morning. Gayle King, the network’s $11 million woman, will be the sole survivor of the current “CBS This Morning” crew. ...
Robert Sarabia is the new president-GM of KVDA in San Antonio, TX. For the past six years, he’s been vp of sales at sister station KTMD in Houston. Before joining KTMD and NBCUniversal, Sarabia ...
Since the CBS search committee looking for a new permanent CEO can’t make up its mind and has kicked that particular can down the road, acting CEO Joe Ianniello, whose contract was extended last ...
The rebooting of “Today’s” fourth hour continues, with the return of Joanne LaMarca to NBC News to become the program’s new executive producer. LaMarca, who left NBC News back in 2017 to “take some ...
Maybe it’s the ongoing human resources problems that’s scaring off potential replacements for the unlamented Les Moonves (see above). Maybe it’s the prospect of dealing with majority stockholder Shari Redstone. Maybe it’s just not ...
Another departure announced from the fourth hour of “Today.” This time it’s executive producer Tammy Filler, who leaves after 16 years at NBC News, and with “Today.” For the past two years, she’s run ...
Kim Saxon moves up from assistant news director at Gray’s WBTV in Charlotte, NC to the main chair on May 25th. That’s the day after current news director Dennis Milligan steps down from the ...
News Corp Chief Executive Robert Thomson Tuesday night, took aim at the media’s apparent mocking of Middle America and The New York Times’ “muck-spreading,” while ramping up his criticism of big tech companies. Thomson ...
So what happens in the wake of Paul Ossmann’s sudden and unceremonious dismissal from the weather center at Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta? Atlanta media watcher Rodney Ho decided to weigh in on the new ...
The stamp denoting Susan Zirinsky’s presence at the helm of CBS News continues to make marks. Longtime senior producer Judy Tygard will succeed Zirinsky herself as executive producer of “48 Hours.” Tygard will oversee ...
Tatiana Argüello becomes the president and general manager of Telemundo’s KDEN in Denver, CO on May 6. She’s moving over from her current job as director of local and regional sales for the NBCUniversal ...
The boys’ club that has been network news for so many decades appears to be cracking at an even faster rate. With women at the top of CBS News and Fox News Channel, the ...
The drama at CBS News is only going to increase in coming weeks at new boss Susan Zirinsky puts her stamp on the organization. The latest move comes behind the scenes with the naming ...
We are hearing from NewsBluesers that the word at Graham Media’s WKMG in Orlando, FL is they are shopping around for a new weekend weather forecaster. It gets a little trickier from there. Some ...
A NewsBlueser wonders if one of the more head-scratching rumors bouncing around West 57th is true? While all of the proposed changes involving Gayle King’s contract and the ”CBS Evening News” dilemma have yet ...
That’s probably the number one concern as CBS and Viacom fire up their remarriage talks again. The way was paved to resume talks when Viacom settled a contract dispute with AT&T that averted a ...
“Cinderella,” ”The Simpsons,” ”Star Wars” and “Dr. Strange” can all now be found at the House of Mouse. And the money machine that is Fox News Channel is now the cornerstone of the new ...
For some inexplicable reason, NBC felt it somehow had to hang on to Mario Lopez before his current gig, “Extra” moves to Fox in the fall. So, after months of rumors, it is being ...
The gaggle of tv stations that Nexstar has to unload and were considered prime Fox bait are….well…up for grabs. Fox instead is going to focus on quote “getting better terms on the deals it ...
At CBS these days, the game is “Who’s In, Who’s Out” as the front office continues to talk about the need, the critical, essential, life-saving NEED to cut $100 million in expenses. We’ll say ...
Wouldn’t it be a hoot to have Ann Curry turn up opposite the newscast that dumped at the behest of a self-absorbed anchor later brought down by his serial harassment of women? And, even ...
CBS is trying to lock up “CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King to a new contract as the network is looking to her to be a pivotal player in a turnaround of the news ...
Cable news veteran Greta Van Susteren is trying out local TV by joining Gray Television, which owns stations in more than 90 markets across the United States. Van Susteren will be chief national political ...
It’s no surprise that Denise Eck is out as news director of Meredith’s WSMV in Nashville. Not after the drama of the past few years that included a discrimination lawsuit against the station by ...
Former NBCUniversal and Nexstar Media Group executive Tom O’Brien is taking over immediately as president of The Weather Channel. O’Brien was a corporate officer of the Nexstar , initially joining as EVP, Digital Media ...
John Finley is the new executive vice president of development at Fox News Channel In his new role, Finley will continue developing all new programs, series and documentaries for Fox News and will now ...
Tribune has promoted KTVI/KRLR‘s Kurt Krueger, its station manager in St. Louis, to general manager and vice president. Krueger will oversee all aspects of the Tribune duopoly . “Kurt has local expertise, strong relationships ...
Less than a year after being named VP of News at Meredith Corporation, Gary Brown is moving to SVP of Content. That means that not only will Brown be in charge of overseeing the ...
Tegna has named new GMs at two of the company’s Texas stations. Tim Thomas becomes president-GM of KWES in Midland-Odessa. In Beaumont, Paul Bergen replaces Bruce Cummings as gm as KBMT/KJAC. Thomas comes to ...
After all the dust settled following this week’s announcement of an executive shuffle at NBC News, one thing seems abundantly clear: NBC News president Andrew Lack got demoted. Other executives got shiny new titles ...
Longtime producer Susan Zirinsky is replacing CBS News President David Rhodes in March, becoming the first woman to lead the storied division in the network’s history. Rhodes publicly broke the news in a tweet, ...
Backchannel chat has let former Walt Disney Company COO Tom Staggs know that he’s a prime candidate to help the folks at Black Rock move past the Les Moonves era. Staggs left Disney two ...
Three-time Chicago news director Carol Fowler is out the door at The Chicago Sun-Times after a scant 14 months as senior vice president, digital news products. According to veteran Chicago media observer Robert Feder she came up on ...
Corrie Harding gets a new title at NBC News. He’s now VP/News Partnerships, up from Senior Director News Partnerships. Harding reports to SVP Dianne Festa. Many of us know Corrie, who’s a former news director in ...
Travis Sherwin is moving within Hearst. He’s leaving WPBF in West Palm Beach, FL after almost two years as ND (and 20 with the company) to become the executive producer for the company’s investigative unit based ...
Tegna vp Bruce Cummings, who’s been overseeing things at KBMT and KJAC in Beaumont, WCEN in Waco-Temple, KAGS in Bryan-College Station, KYTX in Tyler, KIDY in San Angelo and KXVA in Abilene adds another ...
She’s already on the job. Diane Kniowski is the newly-named President and Regional General Manager of Local Media at Miami-based Univision. Her principal focus is on Univision’s Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Dallas, Houston ...
Mellynda Hartel, for the past four years the vice president and director of sales at Fox-owned KTVU-KTVU Plus is getting bumped up to the big chair. She’ll become the station’s new vice president and ...
Jeff Fager’s former position of executive producer of “60 Minutes” may soon be filled. We may learn sometime this week who the new EP will be and right now, the odds-on favorite is “48 ...
Winston-Salem reporter Jarred Hill is getting bumped up by Hearst, the parent company of WXII in Winston-Salem, NC, where he’s been reporting for the past three years. Starting Wednesday, Hill will be based in ...
Just ahead of the November book, stations across the country are jockeying themselves into place with a flurry of executive shuffles. We had a couple of moves by Meredith yesterday. We’ll start today with ...
Remember all those public pronouncements of defiance when AT&T Chair Randall Stephenson said CNN was not for sale as his company was working to swallow up the cable network’s parent Time Warner? A quote ...
Jim McKernan is being promoted to regional vice president of Quincy Media Inc., effective January 1. He’ll continue as GM of the company’s Waterloo, IA, station, KWWL where he’s been for more than six years. He’s ...
We wonder, as Les Moonves allies melt away on the CBS board and in the corporate suite, what the odds are today that CBS and Viacom eventually do the bidding of majority stockholder Shari ...
Robert “Bob” Simone is the new vice-president and general manager of Nexstar’s WWLP in Springfield, MA. It’s a return to his hometown as he transfers from the GM post at sister station WLNS in ...
After 13 years at the Fox News Channel, Fin Gomez joins the CBS News White House unit as a producer. Most recently, Gomez as the lead producer for Fox News’ chief White House correspondent ...
Jeff Carroll, until recently the VP of integrated marketing at NBCUniversal, is the new vice-president of marketing for Sinclair Broadcast Group. He’ll be working to advance audience engagement, increase revenue and further the company’s ...
In the face of sagging ratings, resulting from tougher competition from Fox Business, CNBC Thursday announced a shakeup in the ranks and in its approach to news coverage. Nik Deogun is departing at the ...
Rich Hillengas, an award-winning photographer and 36-year veteran of Disney’s WLS in Chicago , IL is the station’s new news operations manager. Hillengas came to WLS from St. Louis and KTVI back in 1982. ...
Interim CBS INC CEO Joe Ianniello had barely hit “send’ on his first inter-office memo before the speculation started as to whom the permanent replacement for Les Moonves might be. Ianiello, who had been ...
