So yesterday we reported on the Fox News ban on naming the whistleblower by hosts and guests. Our headline for the story was HOW LONG BEFORE THIS POLICY IS IGNORED? Answer: Oh, about a ...
Former Phoenix news director Dan Wilson has a new job. He’s working for the Phoenix Police Department, and sent me an interesting note about his new job, including a link to a video the ...
If it works and Zuck & CO fail to follow up on it, there should be hell to pay Lead Stories, one of the fact-checking organizations hired by Facebook after the 2016 election to ...
It was supposed to be a minor event, virtually a PSA to remind women to undergo regular breast cancer checkups. Ali Meyer, a reporter for Nexstar’s KFOR in Oklahoma City, received her first-ever mammogram ...
This week saw an outpouring of outrage directed at CNN’s hiring of former Wisconsin Republican congressman Sean Duffy as the outlet’s latest paid gasbag (a term we use no matter the affiliation of said ...
We know it’s tough times for much of the media these days, and the search for an audience of readers and watchers can lead down some interesting paths. But we’re still wondering why so ...
For those of us who have chased storms, you gotta admit, it is fun, the rush, the chance to see Mother Nature at her best or worst and hopefully all caught on camera. Unfortunately ...
Everyone who pays any attention to the machinations of network and local news remain transfixed over the revelation of Farrow’s “Catch and Kill,” especially the behind-the scenes maneuvering to kill Farrow’s Harvey Weinstein investigation. ...
A week after his arraignment on charges of simple assault and disorderly conduct, all charges facing popular Providence RI anchor Patrick Little were dropped. Little, a news anchor Nexstar duopoly WPRI-WNAC, was arrested after ...
Last spring we told you about the f-bomb inadvertently dropped by longtime New York meteorologist Chris Cimino. To recap, “Today” weather guy Al Roker did his standard throw to local and WNBC forecaster Cimino ...
Smith’s Fox News colleagues, current and former, were alternately gobsmacked and apprehensive about what comes next at the network Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto was left stunned and “shell-shocked” by Fox News Smith’s unexpected ...
Well the reviews are coming in on the new look and radical rebranding effort by Tegna’s newly-minted WKYC Studios in Cleveland. As we reported earlier this week, the old logo — a bold, italicized ...
We told you a couple of weeks ago that all indications pointed to the notion that Scripps’ KSHB had shown the door to arguably fractious sportscaster Dee Jackson after six contentious years. Now it’s ...
Folks in Southeastern Texas were left with a big mess after the floodwaters from Tropical Storm Imelda began to wash away. At least four deaths have been linked to the remnants of Imelda, which ...
Hours after he was released from jail on a $50,000 bond, meteorologist Mike Davis was fired by his employer, Dispatch-soon-to-be-Tegna’s WBNS in Columbus, OH. As we reported here Friday, Davis was arrested at his ...
A preliminary report offers little new information about the plane crash that killed the pilot and a New Orleans TV anchor last month. Nancy Parker was working on a documentary about pilot Franklin Augustus ...
Now that the standoff between AT&T and Nexstar is ready to enter its 7th week with no sign of any progress on either side, we thought we’d check to see what the two sides ...
WKRG’s (CBS) Mel Showers was honored by the National Association of Black Journalists Saturday night during the 44th Annual Convention. Mel received the 2019 Journalist of Distinction Award. As you all know, Mel Showers ...
Last week we reported that Hubbard’s WDIO was advertising for a news director, which likely meant the departure of previous ND Steve Goodspeed. What made the story interesting was that Goodspeed had been news ...
While most of the tv oracles last week dismissed the appearance of former special counsel Robert Mueller as “bad optics” while ignoring whatever facts Mueller corroborated, at least person feels vindicated. Eric Lichtblau, along ...
If you’re keeping track, tonight at midnight will mark the beginning of the fourth week that 120 Nexstar stations dropped of the DirecTV, U-Verse, DirecTV Now grid. And there is still no sign that ...
In Dallas Texas, community blogger and photographer Avi Adelman got a victory in court Monday. A federal judge allowed his civil rights case to go to a jury. If you work in the area, you ...
Just days after the man accusing Kevin Spacey of groping him a Nantucket bar in 2016 suddenly dropped his civil lawsuit against the Oscar winner, the criminal case now looks to be close to collapse due to a ...
It took 15 years, but CNN finally reached a tentative agreement with a union representing more than 200 camera operators, broadcast engineers and other technicians over a lawsuit first filed way back in 2004. ...
It’s time to move on for Sinclair’s WICS and their STILL-former meteorologist Joe Crain. In a joint statement posted to the station’s website, management and Crain announced they have resolved their differences. But the ...
The FCC is investigating whether Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. misled the government agency during its unsuccessful attempt to buy Tribune Media Co. last year, reports The Wall Street Journal. In a June 25 letter to ...
We’re hearing in some quarter that he is shocked….shocked, we tell you, and hurt, even, that he was left out of the 25th anniversary celebration of “Today’s” street-side studio. A celebration of a studio, ...
You may recall WPBF (ABC) News anchor and reporter Farron Salley was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence back in December. It all went down December 15th when Salley was pulled over by a Palm ...
The guessing game is already well underway as to who will replace Sarah Sanders? We know this much – despite their bantering, it won’t be Sean Hannity or Laura Ingraham. Crappy pay being the ...
The Wolfe media dynasty is approaching the door into history. And Tegna’s buying binge continues. Selling price: $535 million. The Wolfe family’s media company influenced Ohio’s capital city for more than a century. Tegna ...
Monday, we told you about Joe Crain, a popular meteorologist who has been absent from local television newscasts since criticizing a corporate weather-alert brand last week, prompting an advertising boycott, social media protests and a ...
As colleagues and the community continue to try and process the shockingly unexpected death of popular WPLG reporter-anchor Todd Tongen, the big question remains; How? Still unanswered is the cause of the 56-year-old Tongen’s ...
A former Bloomsburg PA radio personality suing television stations, political activists and others over what he says was a smear campaign isn’t happy. He will not be allowed to keep secret his current work ...
Tegna’s KARE got so excited over its hiring of the Twin Cities market’s first Hmong-American anchor it kind of lost sight of a host of other changes that station is making. True, the hiring ...
Remember that Dayton Ohio forecaster we showed you the other day? The one, who finally got fed up with viewers calling to complain about weather cut-in’s during the “Bachelorette.” Jamie Simpson WRGT (FOX) let ...
After 15 years of delivering the news at Graham Media’s WPLG in Miami, Laurie Jennings (left) signed off last night, shedding a few tears in the process.. It will be a seamless, albeit temporary ...
Meteorologist Mike Maze will continue in the lead role he assumed at Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL in Raleigh-Durham back in February after the sudden – and still unexplained – departure of longtime chief Greg Fishel. ...
Back in April, on the eve of May sweeps, Scripps’ KSHB in Kansas City, MO, bid a hasty farewell to the married anchor team of Mike Marusarz and Rhiannon Ally, in an unexpected housecleaning. ...
A Macon Georgia TV news anchor was among final contestants on the last episode of the reality show “Survivor,” which aired Wednesday night on CBS. Rick Devens, a morning anchor for WGXA news in Macon, was ...
Well folks, Kristen Nicole, the soon-to-be-former news anchor at Fox-owned WFLD in Chicago, IL isn’t just returning to Lexington, Kentucky, as reported here last week. While we speculated then that viewers might have to ...
This week’s “CBS Evening News” will be anchored by John Dickerson, lately displaced from the “CBS This Morning” set and “60 Minutes”- bound. You won’t be seeing Norah O’Donnell in the chair until later ...
As we reported yesterday, roughly 100 employees have accepted CNN’s voluntary buyout package. Among those heading for the door are several CNN executives. VP and west/midwest bureau chief Pete Janos, a 34-year veteran who ...
There were high fives all around the KARE newsroom Saturday when anchor Randy Shaver announced he had beaten cancer for the second time The Minneapolis newsman was first diagnosed with Stage IV Hodgkin’s Disease ...
With the strains of “I’ve Gotta Be Me” undoubtedly playing softly in the background, Oprah Winfrey offers up her reasons for departing “60 Minutes.” She just couldn’t be herself. In a new interview with ...
The long absence of Natasha Zouves from the KGO newsroom in San Francisco is over. (May book) Zouves returned to work Monday, nearly nine months after a workplace accident in which she slipped on ...
Worth your time is Atlanta tv-radio writer Rodney Ho’s conversation with the departing Sharon Reed. Reed, co-anchor at Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta, surprised her colleagues last week by announcing that she is leaving the ...
Audrina Bigos, a reporter at CBS-owned WBBM in Chicago, is back on the job in the newsroom after an extended medical leave that began last November. She’s happy. “I’m happy to be back and ...
We told you a week ago that former news director (KXAS, Dallas/Ft. Worth) turned general manager (WVIT, Hartford) Susan Tully will leave the NBC o-and-o next month, very early in the sweeps period, mind you, to return ...
Call it a bonus for losing. Former CBS CEO Les Moonves’ punishment for losing his job after trying to lead a failed effort to pull the corporation away from the Redstone family was to ...
Earlier this week, we showed you how his former station had recently profiled retired anchor Bill Markham’s courageous battle with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), known widely as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Sadly, he lost that ...
Nearly 20 months after losing its long-time home at 1945 Allen Parkway to flooding during Hurricane Harvey, KHOU (CBS) has been broadcasting from its new permanent studios for few months. Following the hurricane, the ...
It has a snowball’s chance in hell of getting through the Senate but yeah, we’ll play along and cheer the House passage of a bill designed to restore Net Neutrality. There. Cheer over. The ...
It was just about three years ago that CNN fired Donna Brazile as one of their army of talking heads for tipping off the Hillary Clinton campaign about debate topics. And now she’s found ...
CNN CEO Jeff Zucker and his apologists have apparently had enough of stepping all over their nether regions in attempting to justify the hiring of a former Trump DOJ official and GOP operative. Instead, ...
It was Mark Twain who, after reports surfaced that he was on his deathbed in 1897, was famously misquoted as saying “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” (Twain’s actual response to the ...
Last week we told you former CBS foreign correspondent and 60 minutes star Lara Logan had put her cards on the table calling out her mainstream media friends for learning towards the left. “This ...
KPNX (NBC) reporter Bryan West has admitted a problem with alcohol. This comes comes after a nine-day sentence for nearly running people over during a drunken road romp in August. West’s confession can be ...
Former CBS News foreign correspondent Lara Logan appeared on “Hannity” Wednesday evening to expand on her recent remarks characterizing the media as “mostly liberal.” Logan went on to detail precisely who she believes is targeting her. ...
So, last Thursday the State Department announced that a former Fox News reporter would lead its agency in charge of efforts to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation. Lea Gabrielle was named special envoy and ...
In Mobile Alabama, WKRG (CBS) held a telethon fundraiser Monday to support fallen Mobile Police Officer Sean Tuder‘s family. Tuder was shot and killed last week in the line of duty. WKRG raised $35,875 ...
Ongoing pressure from the public and the local NAACP chapter has led Kevin Steincross of Tribune’s KTVI to step away from his anchor duties for the station, while he works to rebuild public trust ...
Now hear this from WBBM Chicago reporter Audrina Bigos. After being off the radar since November, she wants you to know the deal….up to a point. “I’m currently on a medical leave and look ...
Last month, we brought you the story of the weekend arrest of Scott Madaus, a reporter for Cox-owned WHBQ in Memphis, TN. Madaus was picked up on domestic violence charges on December 15th. According ...
Two days ago, we told you that Indianapolis, IN sportscaster Tricia Whitaker couldn’t WAIT to tell us where she was headed after leaving Tribune duopoly WXIN-WTTV in December. The seemingly interminable wait is over. ...
Sinclair’s WJAR in Providence, RI came out on top when Superior Court Judge Melissa Long threw out a lawsuit accusing WJAR reporter Parker Gavigan of defaming and embarrassing a former judge in a story ...
The saga of the meteorologist fired over the use of a racial slur on air took a big twist Wednesday. High-profile weatherman Al Roker came to the defense of former WHEC (NBC) meteorologist Jeremy Kappell after ...
We’re betting that newly-installed WSMV GM Rene LaSpina showed up for her first day of work at Knob Road in Nashville, TN with her sleeves already rolled up, ready to clean up the mess ...
As the New Year opened, we relayed a report from a tipster that all was not well at Sinclair-controlled WTAT in Charleston, SC, what with the recent loss of the GSM and a number ...
“The Big Bang Theory” star Kunal Nayyar donated $5,000 to the family of a California news anchor who was found dead just after Christmas. On Sunday, 37-year-old Nayyar, gave the largest-yet donation to a GoFundMe account to ...
While an autopsy has been completed, the cause of LA anchor Chris Burrous’ death is still undetermined. It could be weeks for the actual cause of death to be uncovered. Colleagues and competitors spent ...
Armstrong Williams, political commentator/entrepreneur/author/radio-tv host and CEO, weighed in this week with an opinion column focused on the proposed Nexstar-Tribune merger, making the case that the necessary spinoff of tv stations to complete the ...
CIA Director Gina Haspel briefed members of Congress Tuesday on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and Saudi Arabia’s involvement. While Senate leaders declared they were convinced that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince was behind Khashoggi’s ...
Yesterday we told you of the lawsuit filed by former Nashville anchor Demetria Kalodimos against her former employer, Meredith Broadcasting and WSMV for age discrimination. Kalodimos was unceremoniously dumped by the station after 34 ...
As the White House on Monday backed off in a legal dispute with CNN over the press credentials of White House correspondent Jim Acosta, the White House announced new rules of behavior for reporters, ...
The war of words between the Administration continued Thursday as CNN’s vp of Communications Matt Dornic slammed WH Press Secretary Sarah Sanders of using a doctored video to justify the yanking of the press ...
SOMEONE at NBC thought it was a good idea to accept a check from the Trump Campaign and schedule that fact-challenged political commercial tying a convicted cop killer to the migrant caravan and then ...
Spectrum’s NY1 scooped everybody thanks to reporter Myles Miller, who was the first to ID Cesar Sayoc as the suspect arrested by the FBI in connection with the spate of mail bombs and the ...
Such is the case with Megyn Kelly, once not so long ago a Fox News prime-time star who succumbed to the blandishments of Andy Lack who told her that he sharp-elbowed style would work ...
Megyn Kelly‘s departure from NBC’s Today show is in motion. People Magazine reports via a Today show source. “She is expecting to leave the Today show at the end of the season in December.” “We began discussions earlier this ...
As the list grows of individuals and organizations pulling out of Saudi Arabia’s big deal “Davos in the Desert” continues to grow, the Saudi government appears to be honing in on who will be ...
You’ll recall Sunday, we were the only site to tell you about a blow up which turned violent in Victoria, Texas. Newsblues.com FIRST reported the flare up between newly arrived KAVU (ABC) main anchor Joshua ...
According to insiders, it was business as usual Monday at KAVU (ABC) but faint whispers regarding a Texas-sized dispute that turned ugly could be heard from staffers between stories. On Sunday, Newsblues.com FIRST reported ...
Close to a month ago we reported to you the departure of weekend weathercaster Beth McLeod from Raycom’s WOIO in Cleveland, OH. She’d been with the station for ten years, coming to Cleveland from ...
We are now marking two weeks since KPSP anchor Kris Long disappeared from the airwaves following a rather intemperate Facebook posting he published in support of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, using the time-honored ...
If the morning proceedings with Dr. Ford were relatively low-key, the afternoon appearance by nominee Brett Kavanaugh was a study in contrast. Alternating between tears and rage, Kavanaugh vehemently denied Dr. Ford’s retelling of ...
Wonder however much you want at why Jeff Zucker manages to hold on to his job at CNN. We’re even more gobsmacked at why Andrew Lack is still employed by NBCUniversal as chairman of ...
That is how program co-host Gayle King put it on Thursday’s edition of the “CBS Morning News,” with this week’s ouster of CEO Les Moonves and “60 Minutes” Executive Producer Jeff Fager. She and ...
For the second time in a year, “CBS This Morning” co-host Norah O’Donnell got to be the voice of the network in explaining the disgrace and departure of a fellow employee and, in this ...
“The Kneeland Project“, an innovative newsroom leadership initiative celebrated its 20th anniversary late last week. Dozens of journalists from across the country were in Austin, Texas for several days of seminars. The Longtime news director ...
Once again this reporter was the first to bring you breaking news regarding the layoffs at Tribune-owned KDAF (CW33) Dallas Thursday. The staff was completely caught off guard by the decision, which when these ...
If you were up and at ’em Wednesday Morning, you probably noticed we were one of the first, if not the first to report what was going down at KDFW (FOX) in real time, ...
Two Anchors from the Charleston West Virginia market are cooling their high heels after an apparent feud boiled over the top recently at an event geared at all things, ending domestic violence against women. ...
Engineers at WWTV (CBS) spent their Labor Day, laboring to get the stations on-air signal back. It all began last Friday (August 31st) when the former home to the local CBS in Traverse City, ...
If you are a die-hard “Simpsons” fan, that two-decade old dispute between you and your Production Director is over. Matt Groening, “The Simpsons” creator admitted fans weren’t pulling a “Billie Jean” if they ...
It was just a month ago that a bodysurfing accident left WRAL anchor Jeff Hogan paralyzed and facedown in the water off Wrightsville Beach, NC. A month of therapy and Hogan is returning to ...
Well, Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport, check out the latest from former Fox News Anchor Anna Kooiman. Kooiman moved to Sydney, Australia in September of 2016 to be with her Aussie husband’s family. She ...
Fans of Sonny Apkan may remember his 2004 hit “Use What You Got” and that’s what Jacksonville’s WJXT an independent station with a news-format schedule, had to do, putting its new digs to heavy use covering ...
If Sook is looking for guidance, he need look no further than how Gray-Raycom is speeding toward merger approval by shedding stations where market conflicts exist. Tegna is buying up WTOL in Toledo, OH, ...
