A little thing like getting fired isn’t going to stop Sven Sundgaard from working. No, he’s not pulling a “Constanza” and still just… showing up. After receiving his pink slip, from KARE11 in Minneapolis, the weather ...
Well, Fox offices are staying closed for another month. This is odd (not odd at all) when you consider the amount of Fox News personalities regurgitating President Trump‘s call to “reopen the country” and urging people to get ...
Sven Sundgaard, a former meteorologist for KARE11 in Minneapolis, addressed his sudden departure for the first time Tuesday night. “Many have asked me about KARE11’s post regarding my employment and separation from employment,” Sundgaard wrote ...
A day after a major shift at NBCUniversal that left Andrew Lack on the unemployment line between Diamond and Silk, Comcast has announced that senior leaders, who make up the executive ranks, will be reducing their salaries by 20% ...
Tegna reports that its shareholders re-elected all 12 of the company’s directors at its annual meeting Thursday. This, in essence, is a rejection of a proxy challenge from Standard General, and its CEO Soohyung ...
In a story that’s recently “dropped,” ABC News reporter Will Reeve, was “caught with his pants down.” No, he wasn’t changing in a phone booth (Will is the son of Superman portrayer Christopher Reeve) – Ok, ...
Seven broadcast and media organizations have voiced support for Joe Fuchs and his WJFW-TV Rhinelander, Wis., which has been sued by the Trump campaign for airing an anti-Trump spot the campaign says is false and defamatory ...
In a story NewsBlues has been following, Fox News has parted ways with MAGA Nation shills Diamond & Silk after the duo peddled conspiracy theories regarding coronavirus, even doubting the authenticity of the death ...
In a story NewsBlues has been following, we can not confirm or deny if KTSM’s Patricia Maese is still employed. What we can mention is that Maese does not appear on KTSM’s ‘Meet the Team’ ...
Thanks to HBO’s ‘Succession,’ I actually understand the move allegedly being attempted by Standard General with Colleen Brown, Ellen McClain Haime, Deb McDermott and Soohyung Kim. According to Radio & Television Business Report, this Thursday morning at 8am, ...
Just watch any 80’s film set in high school. The bully doesn’t pick the tough guy to knock-down. He picks the easy target… the wounded gazelle. That’s what bullies do because deep down, just ...
Good Morning America anchor George Stephanopoulos announced that he has “cleared” the coronavirus after he tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies. He also said that he has signed up for a clinical trial to donate ...
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo has emerged from his all-too-familiar basement. He had been quarantining after testing positive for coronavirus three weeks ago. A CNN segment showed Cuomo’s reunion with his family, which occurred just a ...
It’s no laughing matter, but George Stephanopoulos and comedian wife Ali Wentworth, both of whom have tested positive for COVID-19, joined Jimmy Kimmel on Jimmy Kimmel Live, via video conference to give audiences a ...
Good Morning America‘s George Stephanopoulos announced that he has coronavirus. He had been caring for his wife Ali Wentworth as she recovers from COVID-19. Despite testing positive himself, the anchor said that he has not ...
The Trump campaign is suing NBC affiliate, WJFW-NBC in Wisconsin over their airing of a Democratic super PAC ad. The defamation lawsuit is over an ad by Priorities USA for alleging the president called the ...
Ajit Pai had a message for the media in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. In short: “thank you.” The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission tweeted his appreciation, “Grateful to America’s radio ...
It’s “no cakewalk” says Chris Cuomo, referring to his experience with the effects of coronavirus. Of course each case differs, with many describing it as just similar to a bad cold and others ...
NBC News employee Larry Edgeworth died last Thursday after testing positive for the coronavirus, according to the network. He worked in the equipment room of 30 Rockefeller Center, NBC’s headquarters in New York City, ...
Coronavirus is a fast-moving and challenging story for every newsroom. The Knight-Cronkite News Lab has curated some of the most useful resources found across the web reports TVNewsCheck. I worked with my narrative writing ...
CBS News foreign correspondent Seth Doane tested positive for the coronavirus, and on Monday reported from his home in Rome where he is in quarantine. “I started to have a little bit of a ...
CNN contributor and recent Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum has checked himself into rehab for alcohol abuse after a recent incident in Miami. Gillum claimed he had fallen into a depression and alcohol abuse ...
After a tense few days the CBS Broadcast Center in New York is slowly coming back to life even after a fourth worker tested positive for coronavirus on Friday. But not before the coronavirus ...
We are fans of Baltimore Sun media columnist David Zurawik. Not only is he one of the last of a fast-disappearing print type – the media specialist, he offers some insights that might slip ...
For those who figured that Chris Matthews’ abrupt exit from MSNBC Monday night might mean a return to primetime tv for Brian Williams…. Fuhgeddaboudit! According to Page Six, Williams isn’t even on the list ...
Until now, WFSB was located at 333 Capital Boulevard in Rocky Hill. Now, in a touching tribute to the Meredith station’s late, beloved news anchor Denise D’Ascenzo, there is a new address. What a ...
Legendary WGN meteorologist Tom Skilling came through gastric bypass surgery Wednesday with a sunny outlook and a smile. He released a photo of himself on social media with a message from Bill Snyder, weather ...
The abrupt departure of longtime MSNBC host Chris Matthews Monday night, just two minutes into his final “Hardball”, might have come as a surprise to his co-workers and viewers. Matthews was, by and large, ...
If you judge this week’s Democratic presidential debate on CBS by the ONLY measure debates seem to be measured by these days – the ratings it gathered – it was a significant success. By ...
It was two years ago that Jeff Small, a former reporter for KSDK in St. Louis, was arrested after a traffic stop revealed several outstanding bench warrants and a small amount of drugs in ...
The Newseum closed the doors on its lavish District of Columbia digs at the end of 2019, the victim of hubris, overspending, overcharging and, in recent years, the nurturing of an official hostile attitude ...
A memorial service was held Wednesday for long-time WFSB anchor Denise D’Ascenzo. D’Ascenzo, who suddenly and shockingly passed away in December, was remembered by friends and family who gathered at the Connecticut Convention Center. ...
TV NewsCheck reports NAB, legal counsel for Pearl TV and the general counsel of Meredith met last week with staff of the FCC Media Bureau to discuss the transition to NextGen TV and recommend ...
From the beginning, NewsBlues has had an anonymous tipline. It’s untraceable and, if you’ve got a story, it’s a way to get the word out. You’ll find it over on the right hand column, ...
Back in October, we brought you the story of WAVE reporter Sara Rivest‘s grotesque and unsolicited encounter with a boneheaded Lothario while she was out doing a live shot during a Louisville festival. The ...
This week’s unchallenged top bonehead, Thomas Calloway, picked the wrong female reporter on whom to impose his twisted version of playful. Alex Bozarjian of Nexstar’s WSAV in Savannah, GA filed a sexual battery report ...
Rick Gevers reported over the weekend that Mike Tomko is leaving Sinclair flagship WBFF in Baltimore at the end of the year for a job outside of television. He’s been the ND there since ...
Indulge us and allow for some personal reflections upon the latest career arc of former Rapid City, SD news anchor Helene Duhamel. We told you yesterday that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem had appointed ...
We told you back in July that anchor Kate Tillotson was heading for the exit at Sinclair’s WWMT in Kalamazoo, MI when her contract ended in September. Here it’s nearly December and not only ...
Last week we told you the story of Bentonville, AR reporter Nkiruka Omeronye, of Nexstar duopoly KNWA/KFTA and her run-in with a judge who sentenced her to three days in jail for breaking the ...
We first told you last month that Circle City Broadcasting’s WISH-WNDY duopoly in Indianapolis was on the hunt for a multicultural reporter and was taking the search nationwide. Mission accomplished. Katiera Winfrey, who grew ...
It was embraces and tears when morning traffic anchor Alex Denis signed off eleven days ago from CBS flagship WCBS in New York. Her departure came as a surprise to many. She’s came to ...
Fox News and its CEO Suzanne Scott have defeated a $120 million lawsuit from an ex-staffer who alleged she was defamed when Scott denied knowledge of Roger Ailes’ sexual misconduct in an interview with ...
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 ...
