TV STATION-TRUCK CRASH UPDATE
If you were up and at ’em Wednesday Morning, you probably noticed we were one of the first, if not the first to report ...
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ANCHORS AWEIGH!
Two Anchors from the Charleston West Virginia market are cooling their high heels after an apparent feud boiled over the top recently at an ...
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE
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 ...
“DON’T HAVE A COW, MAN”
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” ...
HOGAN RETURNS TO RALEIGH AIRWAVES
It was just a month ago that a bodysurfing accident left WRAL anchor Jeff Hogan paralyzed and facedown in the water off Wrightsville Beach, ...
SHARKS! KANGAROOS! KOALAS! CROCODILES!
Well, Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport, check out the latest from former Fox News Anchor Anna Kooiman. Kooiman moved to Sydney, Australia in September ...
LIKE THE OLD SONG SAYS: “USE WHAT YOU GOT”
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, ...
GRAY-RAYCOM SHOWING HOW TO GET IT DONE
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 ...
BY THE WAY…
The date on the Trump statement revoking Brennan’s statement is July 26th. Three weeks ago. It is a handy distraction from the Omarosa thing, ...
THE ETHICS RULES DON’T APPLY TO BILL SHINE
None of the rules apply to this guy. We can’t help but notice the softball pieces being churned out these days about Bill Shine, ...
FORMER TV REPORTER AVOIDS FELONY RECORD
A former Milwaukee television reporter has reached a plea deal for punching a reporter from another station at a Brewers baseball game. Former WITI ...
HR DOESN’T CARE ABOUT PEABODYS
Yesterday we told you about the abrupt departure of two news directors and shared the rather terse dismissal letter regarding Scott Levy, late of ...
NO MORE “WAITING FOR GREATNESS”
Last May, we told you the story of former NESN sports videographer John Martin’s battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS. Now he’s written ...
AN IDEA WORTH CONSIDERING
Fox News was coasting through another one of its huffing and puffing segments about big, bad Jim Acosta of CNN, when an actual thought ...
FORMER PALM SPRINGS ANCHOR SET TO HOST NEW SHOW
Way back in June we told you that longtime Palm Springs anchor Janet Zappala was stepping down from her evening anchor chores at Entravision’s ...
BLOGGER TO ANCHOR: “YOU MAD?”
The reporting of Bay Area blogger Rich Lieberman on last week’s botched coverage by KTVU of the fatal stabbing of 18-year-old Nia Wilson has ...
SHE GOT A LAW DEGREE, HOW?
The latest developments in the matter of the quickly-departed and not-missed-at-all Kimberly Guilfoyle is that the former Fox News anchor perhaps identified a little ...
SUPPORT LINES UP BEHIND BANISHED CNN REPORTER – MOSTLY
Only time will tell if getting booted from a public Rose Garden event is good for your career. But it sure as hell raises ...
THE WISHING WELL IS OPEN: SHOULD ROBERT CRAFT BUY COX’S WFXT?
Dad always used to tell us kids “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride,’ an aphorism we couldn’t understand at six years of age ...
SHUMANN TELLS HIS SIDE OF THE JACKET STORY
Former KGO sportscaster Mike Shumann is letting a Facebook post do all the talking. Shumann, who left the station in May after 24 years ...
WHO WILL TURN OUT THE LIGHTS AT WHTM?
The saga of Nexstar’s troubled WHTM in Harrisburg-York, PA just won’t quit. “The Philadelphia Inquirer” provides a scoring update on the station where at ...
WHEN EVEN “FOX & FRIENDS” GETS ALL JUDGY
How bad did it go in Helsinki? The Administration played a walkback two-step Tuesday as Mr. Trump told a hastily-assembled White House press corps ...
SINCLAIR ACTS GOBSMACKED
Pai’s recent discovery of Sinclair’s habit of “selling” stations to owners who then simply turn that facilities back to Sinclair to operate and his ...
THE MIKE SHUMANN STORY SHOULDN’T DIE
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman isn’t one to jump on a bandwagon. When everyone else was breathlessly reporting the alleged “stolen jacket’ incident that ...
WEINSTEIN ACCUSER CLAIMS SHE WAS DEMOTED AS A RESULT
Lauren Sivan, a freelance reporter for Fox-owned KTTV in Los Angeles says she’s been frozen out of assignments since she came forward last October ...
STILL ANOTHER ROADBLOCK THROWN UP TO STOP SINCLAIR-TRIB
There are a lot of “me-too”-ers clamoring to jump on the bandwagon to urge the FCC to delay…again…its long-delayed decision on the Sinclair-Tribune merger. ...
A LOYAL CHANNEL ONE USER MOURNS ITS PASSING
Last week we reported on the shuttering of Channel One, the classroom-oriented news operation run by Houghton Mifflin, largely due to several pearl-clutching parent ...
OOOOOOOOH….HE’S HERE!!!!
Talk about “Breathless in Atlanta!” This is about the third or fourth “confirmation” that former MSNBC and CNN anchor Thomas Roberts has been hired ...
SINCLAIR GETS DEFENSIVE
Sinclair Broadcast Group assures us that the “sky is not falling” because of its proposed, yet long-delayed, purchase of Tribune Media. The FCC’s voluntary ...
HOW NOT TO COVER NEWS PART 2
Last week we told you the story of how two “enterprising” reporters found themselves suspended at News Press & Gazette’s KYMA in Yuma, AZ. ...
CONFIRMING OLD NEWS….
It’s now official. Bill Shine, former Fox News executive, is the new White House Communications Director. It’s been all but a done deal for ...
FOR SINCLAIR-TRIB, THE QUESTIONS KEEP MOUNTING
The longer the Sinclair-Tribune deal drags on, the more that competitors and public-interest groups are picking up on some of the games the folks ...
ECONOMIC REASONS DICTATED FIRING, HIRING
Evidently the reason that Taryn Hatcher couldn’t talk about her new job upon her departure from Hawaii News Now last week is that the ...
THIS IS STILL A THING?
We really thought this silly contempt of court thing lodged against KWWL reporter Elizabeth Amanieh over a year ago was over and done with. ...
“HOW’S HE GONNA REACT WHEN THERE’S A SCANDAL?”
The long-awaited AT&T-Time Warner merger is complete And the CEO of the newly-dubbed WarnerMedia, of which CNN is a major component, is showing up ...
EX-FOX ANALYST: FOX HOSTS SOLD THEIR SOULS ‘SO CHEAPLY’
Where he once made his post-military living trashing all things Obama on Fox News, retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, now a FORMER Fox analyst, ...
“SCUSE ME WHILE I DISAPPEAR”
It was a quiet bow-out for Danielle Robay who signed off last week as co-host of “The Jam,” the news, talk and entertainment show ...
TOPEKA STATION QUICKLY FILLS SPORTS OPENINGS
Gray Television’s Topeka, KS-based WIBW wasted no time filling its two sports openings. This weekend Nicole Feyh debuted. Feyh is a Kansas graduate who ...
LEXINGTON ANCHOR’S RETURN PUT ON HOLD
Nancy Cox, anchor for Cordillera’s WLEX in Lexington, KY was hoping to get back into the anchor chair in July, following her recovery time ...
THE NEXT MOVE IS DISNEY’S
Nobody expects Disney to roll over and play dead as Comcast mounts what is effectively a bold, 11th hour bid for most of 21st ...
ARE HIS DAYS NUMBERED?
We’ve been reporting recently on the rumblings coming out of Black Rock and West 57th as ratings for the “CBS Evening News with Jeff ...
VETERAN PITTSBURGH REPORTER’S STATUS STILL UNCERTAIN
Pittsburgh area news watchers still have questions about the status of veteran KDKA reporter Dave Crawley who’s been MIA for the past ten months. ...
COLLEAGUES, VIEWERS MOURN JOURNALISTS KILLED IN STORM
WYFF reporter and anchor Mike McCormick and photographer Mike Smeltzer are being remembered by friends, co-workers and industry colleagues as well a folks who ...
CAMPAIGN COVERAGE GETS A BIT INCESTUOUS
About a week ago we reported that South Carolina GOP gubernatorial primary candidate Catherine Templeton had set her legal dogs onto about 20 tv ...
KOMO, SINCLAIR TO PAY $40 MILLION IN CHOPPER CRASH SETTLEMENT
Two men who were injured when the KOMO news helicopter nose-dived off the station’s rooftop near Seattle’s Space Needle four years ago and crashed ...
CHICAGO STALKING TARGET ID’ED
When we told you yesterday about the Chicago sad sack who had been arrested for felony electronic harassment of a tv meteorologist and ordered ...
ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE PAC OPPOSES SINCLAIR-TRIB
A PAC founded by Ronald Reagan back in the 70’s is lining up to oppose the merger of Sinclair Broadcast Group with Tribune Media. ...
SINCLAIR WOOING FOX PERSONNEL
For a company that kept insisting it had no desire to compete against Fox News, Sinclair is doing its damnedest to recruit key Fox ...
IT’S WAGA AND WEEKENDS FOR KERRY CHARLES
Yesterday we told you about WGHP morning anchor Kerry Charles’ pending departure from Greensboro for Atlanta. But at the time, his exact landing spot ...
F&F STRIKES AGAIN
If anyone should know how the lowest common denominator that is cable news works, it would be the Three Dumbest People On Television (3DPOT) ...
THE SYMPTOMS ARE OBVIOUS. WHAT’S THE CURE?
“The Washington Post’s” Margaret Sullivan put together an extensive piece on NBC News’ terrible, horrible, no good, very bad month. Take a look at ...
PRESS FORWARD PUSHES FOR OUTSIDE PROBE OF NBC NEWS
Vester wasn’t the only person today calling for an outside investigation of NBC News in the wake of the “Matt Lauer matter” and her ...
NET NEUTRALITY EXPIRATION DATE SET
Mark June 11 on your calendar. Barring extraordinary action in the Senate or a citizen’s revolt (we’re kidding, Fox), landmark 2015 U.S. open-internet rules ...
“NO WRONGDOING” IN LAUER CASE. HEH!
It is so good to know that all is well at NBC News and absolutely everybody is in the clear. Following an internal investigation ...
THE BLOOM NOW COMPLETELY OFF THIS ROSE
The Charlie Rose sexual misconduct situation burst forth again with a new “Washington Post” story Thursday that unearthed more harassment claims, interviewed the victims ...
BUH-BYE CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA
That didn’t take long at all. It was just this past March that Britain-based Cambridge Analytica came under scrutiny after revelations that it had ...
ANOTHER VIEW OF THE BROKAW STORY
As a third woman comes forward, remembering that Tom Brokaw kissed her without permission 50 years ago, that letter signed by more than 100 ...
NBC NEWS PULLS A SINCLAIR
Pardon us, but if this is true, it stinks like yesterday’s fish left on a New Orleans sidewalk in August. In light of several ...
PRODUCER JAILED FOR HACKING WANTS BACK INTO JOURNALISM
Matthew Keys, a former web producer and network administrator for Tribune’s KTXL in Sacramento, who was convicted in 2016 on three counts of conspiracy ...
A RETURN TO CHICAGO TV (BRIEFLY) FOR DARLENE HILL
Longtime Chicago news anchor Darlene Hill showed up for her first TV appearance Tuesday since leaving Fox-owned WFLD last fall . She was a ...
“YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW”
With those words, Megyn Kelly delivered a strong caution Monday to the 100+ current and former female NBC News staffers, led by Andrea Mitchell, ...
BROKAW COMES OUT SWINGING WITH FEMALE COLLEAGUES’ BACKING
As a small army of current and former NBC News woman colleagues come to the vigorous defense of Tom Brokaw, Brokaw himself has penned ...
A FAMILIAR FACE TAKING OVER KRON ANCHOR CHAIR
Sources tell us that it’s official – former KTVU anchor Ken Wayne is headed for the anchor chair at Nexstar’s KRON in San Francisco, ...
SHUMANN’S DAYS NUMBERED?
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman reports that it becomes more likely with each passing day that KGO sportscaster Mike Shumann will lose his job. ...
CONNECTICUT LAWMAKERS STILL FRETTING OVER CT-N’S FUTURE.
Connecticut’s statewide version of C-SPAN, CT-N, is causing no small amount of anguish among state lawmakers, who still can’t figure out what to do ...
GREEN BAY VIEWER PUTS THE FINGER ON ANOTHER SINCLAIR PROBLEM
The “Minneapolis Star-Tribune” set out to do one of the by-now-standard stories profiling the Sinclair Broadcast Group’s corporate heavy hand in its local newsrooms, ...
RIP NET NEUTRALITY. FOR NOW
ICYMI, net neutrality is now dead, officially, to the FCC and its courageous chief lobbyist and chairman. If you don’t live in one of ...
GREENSBORO TORNADO RELIEF EFFORTS RAISES $170K
We told you last week about the 13-hour telethon that Tribune’s WGHP conducted to raise money for the Salvation Army relief efforts in the ...
DONLON DEBUTS TONIGHT IN CHICAGO
“Chicago’s Very Own” unveils its Portland, OR import tonight at 5 as Joe Donlon makes his much-anticipated debut on Tribune’s WGN, sitting alongside Micah ...
LET THE HANDWRINGING BEGIN
Is he is, or is he ain’t a journalist? It was inevitable that when his subservient bosses at Fox News gave Sean Hannity a ...
GREENSBORO STATION HOSTS TORNADO RELIEF TELETHON
In the wake of a deadly round of weekend tornadoes and severe weather, Tribune’s WGHP hosted a 13-hour telethon Wednesday to raise money that ...
IN HANNITY’S CASE, THERE WAS NO BULLET TO DODGE
Like Tammy Wynette, the bruised and battered execs at Fox “News” are standing by their man. Sean Hannity may have cheated on them, led ...
FROM THE “ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SINCLAIR” DEPT…
Robert Smith, the other, even less-visible, of the brothers who control Sinclair Broadcast Group, has donated more than $10,000 over the past two years ...
THOSE WERE THE DAYS…
In happier times, Jacey Birch and Trent Aric seemed like the perfect beautiful South Florida media couple – she an anchor and he a ...
FORMER DALLAS REPORTER SURFACES IN HOUSTON
Brittany Jeffers’ exit last month from CBS-owned KTVT in Dallas was a pretty quiet one with no destination mentioned. Destination identified. Jeffers started this ...
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, INDEED
One thing you have to say about the still-alive-and-threatening Sinclair Broadcast Group acquisition of Tribune Media, it has inspired a spirit of bipartisanship sorely ...
SENATORS OVERREACH ON SINCLAIR
We’re not sure what a dozen Senators expect the FCC to find in Sinclair stations news scripts, but they’re demanding an investigation anyway. Oh ...
IS SINCLAIR BACKING OFF A BIT?
We only know of this happening at one Sinclair station. But if one is doing it, can others be far behind? Thanks to the ...
LIFE AFTER BEING DUMPED
Marissa Limon, who found herself on the street after she and several other staffers were axed by Entravision Laredo at the end of February ...
GETTING UGLY IN THE CBS-VIACOM TALKS
It wasn’t supposed to be this hard. All Shari Redstone wanted was for the two companies she ordered torn asunder once upon a time, ...
INSIDE SINCLAIR, ALL IS NOT WELL
It appears that the increasingly shrill and insistent tone of Sinclair Broadcast Group’s defense of its media-bashing promos is not only not registering terribly ...
SINCLAIR DECLARES WAR ON CNN
Simultaneous to Sinclair’s faux apology to its employees is a 3+ minute video produced for Sinclair by just-hired “crisis management”specialists 5WPR attacking CNN by ...
SF ANCHOR STICKING AROUND A BIT LONGER
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman reports that while Steve Aveson is out the door at Nexstar’s KRON, he’s not quite OUT. THE. DOOR. While ...
SINCLAIR PULLS A FAST ONE
Those Allied Progress ads opposing the merger with Tribune Media that were placed on four Sinclair stations starting airing this weekend – with a ...
ONETIME SINCLAIR ANCHOR : COMPANY USING LOCAL ANCHORS – TO SOW DISTRUST
Adam Bagni, formerly an anchor for WJAR, a legacy television station in Providence, Rhode Island now owned by Sinclair, penned an op-ed piece this ...
WGN ON-AIR JOURNALISTS MEET WITH UNION RE: SINCLAIR
The apparently inevitable takeover of Tribune’s WGN by Sinclair triggered a meeting between the station’s journalists and union reps. Robert Feder says the meeting ...
TEACHER WHO THREATENED REPORTER BACK AT WORK
That Little Rock, AR teacher we told you about a month ago who tried to call out a local tv reporter and landed behind ...
FORMER NYC AM REPORTER LANDS BACK HOME
As we told you last month, Magdalena Doris has resurfaced in her hometown at Disney’s WPVI in Philadelphia. She was welcomed to the team ...
SINCLAIR FOE MAKES AD BUY ON SINCLAIR
Yesterday we told you about the campaign by Allied Progress, a liberal watchdog group that wanted to place ads voicing opposition to the Sinclair-Tribune ...
THEY’RE THAT KIND OF COMPANY
Less than 24 hours after the National Press Photographers Association issued a stern rebuke to Sinclair for its for its anchor hostage video, the ...
A LONE ANCHOR (SO FAR) OK WITH SINCLAIR
As Sinclair anchors across the country anonymously griped and grieved over the embarrassment of performing a script that decried rampant “media bias,” one local ...
PRESSURE ON SINCLAIR INCREASES; BOYCOTT LOOMS; SMITH RESPONDS
CNN’s Brian Stelter reports that a liberal consumer watchdog group is making what it calls a “six-figure ad buy” to condemn Sinclair. “Tell the ...
HE’S NOW A “FORMER” SINCLAIR PRODUCER
A morning show producer at Sinclair’s Kearney, Nebraska station, resigned at the end of last month over his concerns about what he called the ...
RTDNA BOLDLY GOES WHERE MOST OF US HAVE BEEN
RTDNA has kind of slid in sideways in a stealthy manner to weigh in on the Sinclair flap. But its press release boldly celebrated ...
WGN FEELS DEFIANT, APPREHENSIVE, QUIET
Yesterday, we told you of a Seattle anchor, KOMO’s May Nam, expressing her defiance of the Sinclair mandated “promos” Today’s dissent comes from Jeff ...
A WARNING OF “HUGE IMPLICATIONS”
Out in Portland, OR, the GM at Sinclair’s KATU wanted everyone to either be on board or shut the hell up. The memo from ...
ON THE OTHER HAND…
Not everyone in the Sinclair universe went gently into Scott Livingston’s dark night. Mary Nam, evening anchor at Sinclair’s KOMO in Seattle, begged to ...
SCRIPPS CINCY STATION PUSHES BACK ON SINCLAIR “PROMO”
The Sinclair promo prompted a quick response from Scripps’ WCPO in Cincinnati: “Act independently,” posted news director Chip Mahaney. “That’s one of a few ...