FAINTING METEOROLOGIST BLAMES HEAD INJURY
She'd had a previous heart-related on-air episode
Category: Following Up
RTDNA FOCUSES ON FLORIDA LEGISLATORS TO PASS AN OVERDUE ACT
The Journalist Protection Act (JPA) has languished since 2018
BALLY (SINCLAIR) FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY
The nation’s largest regional sports network owner officially goes belly-up
LAWSUIT FILED IN FATAL CHOPPER CRASH THAT KILLED CHARLOTTE FORECASTER
Contaminated fuel and improper maintenance cited in the action
STALKING CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST DOTHAN FORECASTER
He will return to work later this week
SHE’S GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME
It sounds like she came through with flying colors
MORE MURDER CHARGES LEVELLED AGAINST THE GUNMAN WHO MURDERED THREE, INCLUDING AN ORLANDO TV REPORTER
But a motive behind the 19-year-old suspect’s rampage is unclear
A DEATH IN FLORIDA IMPACTS EVERY NEWSROOM IN THE COUNTRY
Reporters nationwide in shock over the murder of Dylan Lyons.
WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMON…PART 2
Do they give grades in sensitivity classes?
THE LEMON APOLOGY TOUR CONTINUES
He returned Wednesday morning, but not before another apology
LEMON SQUASHED
He'll be back Wednesday and will be undergoing formal training
IT WASN’T THE STORY HE HOPED FOR
Dan Abrams REALLY didn’t like that “Washington Post” NewsNation profile
CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST MANHANDLED NEWSNATION REPORTER
Ohio’s AG says Evan Lambert was simply doing his job
OHIO AG TO LEAD PROBE INTO REPORTER’S ARREST
Multiple state agencies, including the Ohio State Highway Patrol and the Ohio National Guard, were involved in the arrest.
CONSEQUENCES
A rant leads to this…
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Those Cox stations dumped by Dish in November, we mean.
FORMER ABC NEWS PRODUCER ARRESTED ON CHILD PORN CHARGES
The FBI reportedly went looking for classified documents and found….something else
A HEARTY FAREWELL
Saying goodbye as she goes south and up the professional ladder
MISSING WISCONSIN ANCHOR RESURFACES, WEIGHING OPTIONS
He suddenly disappeared without explanation last summer
SPEAKING OF DON POSTLES…
We DID mention him earlier in this edition
YOUR AL ROKER UPDATE…
He’s feeling upbeat and grateful
COX TO DISH: “YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!”
Cox Media demands Dish retract alleged “false claims”
ROKER WAS RUSHED BACK TO HOSPITAL AFTER THANKSGIVING
He missed both the Macy’s Parade and last night’s tree lighting
KARI LAKE HAS STILL LOST THE ARIZONA GOVERNOR’S RACE
And the little remaining rational part of her as well.
IT WILL TAKE AWHILE TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WBTV HELICOPTER
It could be mid-December before an initial investigators’ report.
THE TEGNA-STANDARD MEDIA BALL BACK IN FCC’S COURT
Let’s see if anything actually happens
CNN NOW LOOKING OUTSIDE FOR NEXT PRIMETIME ANCHOR
Inside candidates have pretty much been non-starters
SUDDEN FIRING OF MSNBC HOST TRIGGERS HEATED RESPONSE
A group of black community leaders demand answers….now
WELL THAT JUST MAKES IT MORE OF A MYSTERY
Off the grid….or living with mom?
IS CUOMO GOING TO CHANGE THE GAME?
Well is he “attempting to appease everyone,” “sounding more like a coach of a failing minor league team than a news anchor” or “hardly splitting the difference between partisan sides?” These are just a ...
WINK BACK ON THE AIR IN FT. MYERS
Recovery from Hurricane Ian will be coming in slow increments as Florida looks to restore a sense of normalcy in the wake of last week’s brutal storm that swept across the state. One sign ...
A-A-AND THE OTHER SHOE DROPS
It’s official. As we reported yesterday, Lynette Romero, who was hustled out of the studios of Nexstar’s KTLA a few weeks back, is soon to turn up on KNBC And it’s a pretty big ...
NEXSTAR’S LOS ANGELES DRAMA
Nobody has yet written a book on how to louse up the departure of a popular anchor who was going to the competition. Sounds like a good project for KTLA General Manager Janene Drafs ...
BACK IN THE WEATHER CENTER
We learned three months ago that Remeisha Shade was headed for FOX-owned KRIV in Houston, departing Scripps’ WEWS in Cleveland, OH after four years. The red carpet was rolled out for Shade in Houston ...
HE’LL HAVE TO ANSWER FOR ”DAYS OF OUR LIVES”
So what is former WTIC news producer Marcus Harun up to since he left the FOX-owned Hartford, CT station 3½ years ago? Well he moved on to NBC News and most recently…. http://
MORE GOOD NEWS FOR GABBY
We told you last week that Gabrielle Mediak was leaving Nexstar’s WIVB in Buffalo, NY after four years for another job in a slightly larger market. But she was coy about her destination at ...
THEY’RE INTERESTED IN NEWS – THEY JUST DON’T LIKE WHAT THEY’RE SEEING
Well in the latest of those studies trying to figure out what young people want out of news consumption, we find that while 79% of young Americans – that is to say those between ...
GRAY SET TO LAUNCH FIRST CLASS OF INTERNS
Gray Television, working through its WLBT in Jackson, MS is on the verge of launching its first session of the company’s brand-new Gray Media Training Center internship program. The diversity-oriented program, first announced last ...
CUOMO HIRE REPORTEDLY SPURS MINI-REBELLION AT NEWSNATION
We’ve seen several reports now that the internal reaction at Nexstar’s NewsNation to the hiring/rescue of disgraced anchor Chris Cuomo is less-than-enthusiastic. In fact, staffers are said to be resisting, if not outright refusing, ...
A NEW ROLE FOR AN ABC NEWS ANCHOR
The story earlier this month when Rhiannon Ally was named a co-anchor of ABC News’ “World News Now” and “America This Morning” was that the network intended to go with a three-anchor format on ...
STATING WHAT WE KNEW ALL ALONG
“They’re not re-signing me. So I am done at Channel 2,” former KTVU anchor Frank Somerville told the “Mercury News” this week. “I’ve given my heart and soul to Channel 2. I would give ...
EVIDENTLY, “ANOTHER DIRECTION” MEANS “MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY”
There is always more to these stories than we first hear, but this week’s shock news that veteran CTV anchor Lisa LaFlamme had been unceremoniously dumped by the network because it “had made the ...
HE’S GIVING BNC (NOW THE GRIO) A SECOND CHANCE
Now that the formerly defunct Black News Channel has been incorporated into Allen Media’s “The Grio,” it looks to replenish the ranks. And the first major hire is a familiar face to viewers who ...
THE INNOVATION LAB IS FILLING UP
Lost in the shuffle of yesterday’s news heralding the arrival of former DFW reporter David Schechter’s coming on board CBS News (as many expected), was news that the network’s Stations Division had hired an ...
POPULAR CLEVELAND MET RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL AFTER SEVERE BEATING
We told you last week the shocking story of how WOIO meteorologist Jon Loufman was attacked and severely beaten over the weekend at his home. Today there is good news to report. He was ...
WHY ALL THE NEWS EXPANSION? HERE’S A GOOD REASON
Yesterday we reported on two tv stations that are launching 4 pm newscasts to “better serve you the public…blahblahblah” and the plans to debut a marathon 7-hour morning newscast starting this fall on the ...
OF COURSE YOU RELEASE THE VIDEO. IT’S WHAT HAPPENED.
Tuesday at 3pm CT, KVUE, the Tegna station in Austin, Texas broke into programming. The breaking news – lead reporter Tony Plohetski in conjunction with the daily paper, The Austin Statesmen – had obtained ...
FORMER BNC EXEC LANDS AT CBS NEWS
Yet another staffer left high and dry by the shuttering of the Black News Channel in March has found a new home. Chloe Jones, who’d been an executive producer at BNC, is now with ...
WELL…NOW WE KNOW WHERE HE LANDED
Stephen Watson signed off last week as the main sports guy at Hearst’s WISN in Milwaukee, WI without giving a hint of the next step in his career. Now we know. Watson is joining ...
WRESTLING COMMENTATOR ‘UNLIKELY’ TO RETURN TO TV NEWS
Former San Antonio reporter is thriving in his new career with a microphone as an announcer for pro wrestling.
JUDGE LETS KARE REPORTER OFF THE HOOK
Following up on a story we first reported last week, a Hennepin County judge has ruled the KARE reporter Lou Raguse won’t have to testify in an upcoming fatal road rage trial. The Hennepin ...
WE STAYED TUNED…AND NOW WE KNOW
Last month, we reported the impending departure of Niyah Gonzalez from the anchor desk at Scripps’ KXXV in Waco-Temple-Killeen, TX, who implored us to stay tuned for the next chapter of her career. The ...
UPDATE: SEARCH FOR FREEWAY SHOOTER IN LA CONTINUES
Police continue to search for the gunman who followed, then shot at the car of a KTLA producer yesterday morning. The public is being asked to help with any information they might have. The ...
MOVING ON TO GRAY’S INVESTIGATIVE UNIT
Gray’s Investigate TV just got beefed up with the addition of two reporters, Joce Sterman (left), moving over from lead investigative correspondent for the “Spotlight on America” segment on Sinclair Broadcast Group’s The National ...
FORMER BUFFALO REPORTERS RETURN TO HELP COVER HORRIFIC TRAGEDY
Nationally, the monstrous racist mass shooting at the Tops supermarket in Buffalo, NY now commands less attention than “The Slap” at the Oscars and its trivial aftermath. But in Buffalo, a number of reporters ...
WORTH REPEATING
“Mass shootings have become America’s copy and paste tragedy,” Politico’s Tyler Weyant wrote. “We change the place, the town, the number of dead and injured. But the constant is lives lost, people who cannot ...
SHE LANDED IN PR
We told you last month that Sally Kidd ended her 17-year run as national correspondent for the Hearst Television stations, keeping her next destination a closely held secret. It’s not a secret any more. ...
TREVOR CALLED IT A SUPERSPREADER EVENT. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE
Host Trevor Noah drew laughs at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night when he cracked that the self-congratulatory evening was a superspreader event. No one is laughing now. Since the event just five ...
WTNH POLITICAL REPORTER WILL SUB FOR DUDCHIK FOR THE TIME BEING
Jodi Latina, the chief political correspondent for Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford, CT will be the fill-in host of “Capitol Report” while regular host Tom Dudchik takes time off to deal with the untimely loss ...
LONGTIME LOS ANGELES REPORTER TELLS STORY MEMOIR
Longtime Los Angeles reporter relives his greatest and most emotional moments for an autobiography.
CNN+ IS HISTORY, BUT DON’T COUNT OUT THE PROGRAMS THAT WERE ON IT
Warner Discovery’s decision to immediately shut down the three-week-old CNN+ may have come as a shock to its employees. But if anyone was paying attention to Wall Street which, rightly or wrongly, dictates these ...
GRAY NAMES DIRECTOR FOR MEDIA TRAINING CENTER
We told you back in February that Gray Television was setting up a training center to nurture budding journalists at the start of their career. It was a joint venture with Gray’s WLBT in ...
CAN THIS PAIRING SHUT THE REVOLVING DOOR AND BRING BACK THE NUMBERS?
Chicago media watcher Robert Feder notes that the newly-minted anchor team of Joe Donlon and Irika Sargent will mark the 14th anchor change at CBS-owned WBBM in 22 years. That rivals the Cleveland Browns’ ...
TORNADO WIPES OUT STATION’S TRAFFIC CAMERA
We showed you yesterday how Tegna-soon-to-be-Standard General’s KVUE in Austin, TX was covering a series of tornadoes in and around Round Rock, north of the city. But to follow up, one of them struck ...
PRISON STILL LOOMS FOR JOURNALIST
It may seem on the surface that Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikovagot off lightly for her startling on-air protest against the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine. Ovsyannikova was arrested shortly after her action, but ...
HALL NOW OUT OF UKRAINE; STILL RECOVERING
FOX News correspondent Benjamin Hall has been moved out of a Ukraine hospital and to an undisclosed location to continue his recovery from serious injuries he sustained while covering the Russian invasion of the ...
NEWSWORTHY WEEK AT TEGNA’S BUFFALO STATION
The same week as the sale was announced, this station announced they’d be filling the vacant news director spot with one of the station’s old new directors… This is good news because Jeff Woodward, ...
A NEW GM IN YAKIMA
Station says “we expect to raise the bar for the whole market.”
HE CALLS IT A “HAIL MARY” PASS. WE HOPE IT WORKS
Andy Parker, who recently announced a run for Congress on a strong anti-gun platform, is now turning his attention to something far more personal. Parker, whose daughter Alison Parker and her photographer Adam Ward ...
CNN NAMES A NEW COMMUNICATIONS BOSS
In the wake of Allison Gollust’s not-unexpected “resignation” as chief marketing officer for CNN, James Anderson of current corporate parent Warner Media is taking on additional duties. The word “interim” is attached to Gollust’s ...
FORMER FOX NEWSER FINDS A NEW HOME
“I don’t want to feel like I am betraying a trust that I had by being a Fox News contributor.”
MEANWHILE, CHRIS CUOMO WANTS HIS SEVERANCE CHECK
Meantime, former CNN prime-time centerpiece Chris Cuomo is wondering where his $18 million severance check is. It was Zucker who canned him after discovering he helped cover up his embattled brother Andrew Cuomo‘s sex ...
CBSN, AFTER ALL THOSE YEARS AND ROLL OUTS, IS NO MORE
CBS is calling its streaming platform something else.
PHILLY ANCHOR LEGEND PASSES THE LATE-NIGHT TORCH
Philadelphia anchor legend Jim Gardner may be sticking around Disney’s WPVI as the 6 PM anchor until the end of the year, but last night, his late news replacement showed up, one day after ...
NEWS 12 INSIDER: ‘IT WAS A CORPORATE AND TOXIC WORK CULTURE’
The cuts were one thing…
BIRMINGHAM STATION FINALLY REPLACES ANCHOR WHO DIED SUDDENLY
When TV anchor Christopher Sign died by suicide, the Birmingham station and many journalists across the country were devastated and shocked. Sign was never replaced on ABC33-40 in the evenings. The station had fill-ins ...
WHERE SHE’S LANDING
A few days ago we told you that WJW meteorologist Melissa Mack was leaving the station where she had worked off and on since 2006, and switching careers so she could spend more time ...
THEY WERE THISCLOSE
Yesterday we told you that the trio who preside over ABC’s “The View” are getting restive over the long wait to name a replacement for the departed Meghan McCain. Evidently, the problem is finding ...
FORMER DAYTON MET LANDS IN CLEVELAND…FINALLY
It’s been a ride.
BROADCASTERS COMMIT TO HURRICANE RELIEF
As recovery efforts continue in tornado-devastated Western Kentucky, broadcasters are mounting efforts to furnish financial aid to the victims of the devastating storms. Hearst’s Louisville station, WLKY, announced that its efforts have so far ...
IN BRIEF…THE TEXAS SHUFFLE EDITION
This has been a busy week for Texas media blogger Mike McGuff and here is a quick rundown of what he’s been on top of. Anchor-reporter Aaron Wright announced his pending departure from Tegna’s ...
THIS ASSUMES THEY CARE
We’ll have to see…
THERE’S MORE TO THIS YOUNG JOURNALIST’S STORY YOU SHOULD KNOW
This week it was announced that Hearst’s WTAE in Pittsburgh, PA. had promoted Elena LaQuatra to be permanent morning traffic anchor and noon news anchor. She’s been with the station for three years and ...
IS THE CUOMO FAMILY PICKING SIDES?
As suspended CNN anchor Chris Cuomo bemoans his embarrassment and an internal investigation gears up, already there is speculation as to his fate. Critics from both left and right are calling for his firing ...
WHAT GIVES IN SAN FRAN?
It’s common ground for reporters to travel with security.
NO EARLY RELEASE FOR FORMER TV WEATHERMAN
Former WBNS meteorologist Mike Davis saw his petition for early release rejected by a Columbus, OH judge. Davis is serving a 4- to 6-year sentence after pleading guilty last year to charges involving child ...
FORMER ANCHOR FINDS LOVE…AND MUCH-NEEDED SUPPORT
I have cancer. Do you want to go out with me?
BIDEN’S FCC CHAIR NOMINEE ACTUALLY SEEMS CONSUMER-FRIENDLY
The Biden Administration finally turned its attention toward the Federal Communications Commission, nominating a former FCC Chair’s assistant to a long-empty seat and moving to take the “acting” off Jessica Rosenworcel’s acting FCC Chair ...
BACK ON THE JOB AFTER MEDICALLY ENFORCED ABSENCE
WPXI reporter Mike Holden has been out on medical leave since early September. He was fighting a potential case of popliteal artery entrapment syndrome. It didn’t allow him to walk, run or put weight ...
THE WORLD AWAITS FOR YOUTUBE TO TAKE ACTION
We’re still waiting to see if YouTube once again drops the hammer on Steven Crowder, who this week launched a viciously racist attack on San Francisco tv reporter Betty Yu. We already have a ...
NO LONGER INTERIM
Finally….FINALLY…Jake Wiederrich has been named VP/News Director for FOX-owned KCPQ/KZJO in Seattle. He’s been the Assistant ND there for the last three years and has effectively been news director since March when former news ...
WEST VIRGINIA ANCHOR GONE AFTER NOT GETTING THE SHOT
But it raises questions for many.
WINGNUT WHO ATTACKED MSNBC REPORTER ARRESTED IN OHIO
54-year-old Benjamin Dagley, identified as the “crazy man” who violently attacked MSNBC reporter Shaquille Brewster earlier this week and eluded police for several days is under arrest. Dagley was arrested Thursday by U.S. Marshals ...
A NEW MORNING FACE IN FT. SMITH
She started as a traffic anchor at the station.
AFTER BRAIN SURGERY, ANCHOR SAYS “SHE’S GONNA CHASE LIFE“
“There’s just a lot of things that come into focus very sharply.”
AUDIO OF FOX 26 REPORTER BEING SUSPENDED RELEASED
James O’Keefe, the founder of the Veritas Project, has released the audio of Fox 26 reporter Ivory Hecker being suspended. This happened after her botched live shot Monday night in which she called the ...
HE WILL “FOCUS ON HIS HEALTH”
Midweek we told you about KTVU anchor Frank Somerville‘s Sunday night struggle to anchor the Bay Area station’s late newscast. Now he is on an “indefinite leave of absence.” Somerville went MIA from the ...
LIGHTFOOT GETS SERVED
It was just a week ago today that we bestowed our coveted (not really) Bonehead Award on Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot who heavy-handedly (we can’t stop) declared that henceforth she would only grant interviews ...