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, ...
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, isn’t it? How ironic that it was a CNN reporter ...
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, the newly-minted communications director for the Administration – pieces like ...
A former Milwaukee television reporter has reached a plea deal for punching a reporter from another station at a Brewers baseball game. Former WITI reporter Adair “A.J.” Bayatpour would avoid a felony record under ...
Yesterday we told you about the abrupt departure of two news directors and shared the rather terse dismissal letter regarding Scott Levy, late of KCTV. Today, there is more to share regarding the unexpected ...
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 a book about his 19 years behind the scenes of ...
Fox News was coasting through another one of its huffing and puffing segments about big, bad Jim Acosta of CNN, when an actual thought popped up. “We should stop having reporters at those Trump ...
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 KMIT – part of an overall cost-cutting move – but ...
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 evidently raised the ire of veteran station anchor Pam Cook. ...
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 TOO closely with her mentor Roger Ailes. Guilfoyle’s exit was ...
Only time will tell if getting booted from a public Rose Garden event is good for your career. But it sure as hell raises your profile. Reporters continue to line up to support CNN ...
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 and hit us like a brick when we were in ...
Former KGO sportscaster Mike Shumann is letting a Facebook post do all the talking. Shumann, who left the station in May after 24 years on the job, and one week after he was accused ...
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 least 10 employees — seven women and three men — ...
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 he has full faith in US intelligence agencies and their ...
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 designation of the shady practice as potentially illegal sent blood ...
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 that eventually led to the firing of KGO sportscaster Mike ...
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 as one of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers. Sivan told TheWrap that ...
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. NABET-CWA, NTCA—The Rural Broadband Association, and Newsmax are among the ...
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 groups appalled at the two minutes of commercials that were ...
Talk about “Breathless in Atlanta!” This is about the third or fourth “confirmation” that former MSNBC and CNN anchor Thomas Roberts has been hired by Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta as its new main anchor. ...
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 merger review “shot clock” has been on pause since January ...
Last week we told you the story of how two “enterprising” reporters found themselves suspended at News Press & Gazette’s KYMA in Yuma, AZ. The duo, who weren’t named at the time, got into ...
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 some time now, but any reporting of the new assignment ...
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 at Sinclair HQ in Hunt Valley, MD are playing to ...
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 wound was still a bit raw for the woman she ...
We really thought this silly contempt of court thing lodged against KWWL reporter Elizabeth Amanieh over a year ago was over and done with. But no, the case, in which Amanieh is charged with ...
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 at various company centers to conduct “Get to to know ...
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, is making it a fulltime job to trash Fox News. ...
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 airing from 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday on ...
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 had been working at sister station KALB in Alexandria, La., ...
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 from a complicated back surgery this spring. Scratch that. While ...
Nobody expects Disney to roll over and play dead as Comcast mounts what is effectively a bold, 11th hour bid for most of 21st Century Fox. But so far, the silence has been deafening ...
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 Glor” continue to evaporate week-by-week. It even got to the ...
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. As we reported to you back in February, Crawley, who ...
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 only knew them through their reportage. The two were killed ...
About a week ago we reported that South Carolina GOP gubernatorial primary candidate Catherine Templeton had set her legal dogs onto about 20 tv and cable stations that were airing an attack ad from ...
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 into their cars will receive $40 million from KOMO, its ...
When we told you yesterday about the Chicago sad sack who had been arrested for felony electronic harassment of a tv meteorologist and ordered held without bail, we could tell you that the meteorologist ...
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. Citizens for the Republic has joined with the Coalition to ...
For a company that kept insisting it had no desire to compete against Fox News, Sinclair is doing its damnedest to recruit key Fox players –past and current – for an as-yet-unannounced network.. In ...
Yesterday we told you about WGHP morning anchor Kerry Charles’ pending departure from Greensboro for Atlanta. But at the time, his exact landing spot in the city had not been divulged. Today, thanks to ...
If anyone should know how the lowest common denominator that is cable news works, it would be the Three Dumbest People On Television (3DPOT) parked on the kurvy kouch at “Fox and Friends.” So ...
“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 what happened. Ronan Farrow, who was largely ignored when he ...
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 accusations against Brokaw. Press Forward, which was founded by female ...
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 will cease on June 11, and new rules handing providers ...
