It is so good to know that all is well at NBC News and absolutely everybody is in the clear. Following an internal investigation in the wake of the “Matt Lauer matter,” as NBC ...
The Charlie Rose sexual misconduct situation burst forth again with a new “Washington Post” story Thursday that unearthed more harassment claims, interviewed the victims and showed evidence that at least three news division managers ...
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 improperly obtained the personal information of millions of Facebook users, ...
As a third woman comes forward, remembering that Tom Brokaw kissed her without permission 50 years ago, that letter signed by more than 100 past and present NBC News female staffers seems to be ...
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 reports that several NBC News female staffers felt uncomfortably pressured ...
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 and criminal hacking, finished the last of his sentence on ...
Longtime Chicago news anchor Darlene Hill showed up for her first TV appearance Tuesday since leaving Fox-owned WFLD last fall . She was a guest on “Windy City Live” on Disney’s WLS. Although she’s ...
With those words, Megyn Kelly delivered a strong caution Monday to the 100+ current and former female NBC News staffers, led by Andrea Mitchell, Kelly O’Donnell and Mika Brzezinski, who signed a letter over ...
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 lengthy, and, at times angrily personal, denunciation of what ...
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, CA. No official word on what days or day part ...
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman reports that it becomes more likely with each passing day that KGO sportscaster Mike Shumann will lose his job. A harsh and sad ending to a 28-year career. Shumann ...
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 with it. CT-N provides daily coverage of activity at the ...
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, what with paranoia-inducing “Terrorism Alert Desk” segments and the daily ...
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 the several states working on their own net neutrality rules ...
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 aftermath of weekend tornadoes that hit the region. The final ...
“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 Materre. He’s been writing about his re-introduction to the city ...
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 pass, and even a pat on the back, in the ...
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 will be distributed through the Salvation Army to local resident ...
Like Tammy Wynette, the bruised and battered execs at Fox “News” are standing by their man. Sean Hannity may have cheated on them, led them down the garden path with his many debunked conspiracy ...
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 to Montana Republican Congressman Greg Gianforte, the guy who last ...
In happier times, Jacey Birch and Trent Aric seemed like the perfect beautiful South Florida media couple – she an anchor and he a meteorologist at Berkshire Hathaway’s WPLG in Miami. No more. After ...
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 week just down I-45 at Graham Media’s KPRC in Houston. ...
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 lacking in so many other avenues of live these days, ...
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 yeah, they want to know if the local station is ...
We only know of this happening at one Sinclair station. But if one is doing it, can others be far behind? Thanks to the anonymous NewsBlueser who clued us in. We are told that ...
Marissa Limon, who found herself on the street after she and several other staffers were axed by Entravision Laredo at the end of February in a cost-cutting move, is now across the street. Limon, ...
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, yet still controlled, to come back together to fulfill the ...
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 well with the general public. Inside the Sinclair walls, employees ...
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 showing CNN senior media correspondent Brian Stelter warning of fake ...
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 his contract was not renewed and lapsed at the end ...
Those Allied Progress ads opposing the merger with Tribune Media that were placed on four Sinclair stations starting airing this weekend – with a catch. Sinclair ran them on condition that the :30 spot ...
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 weekend for the Providence Journal in which he unloaded on ...
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 was held to consider ways to deal with Sinclair Broadcast ...
That Little Rock, AR teacher we told you about a month ago who tried to call out a local tv reporter and landed behind bars as a result, is back in the classroom. Mitchell ...
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 by longtime anchor Monica Malpass via Facebook “She grew up ...
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 merger on four Sinclair stations. They bought time on WJLA ...
Less than 24 hours after the National Press Photographers Association issued a stern rebuke to Sinclair for its for its anchor hostage video, the company pulled a promised $25,000 donation to NPPA. Ironic, since ...
As Sinclair anchors across the country anonymously griped and grieved over the embarrassment of performing a script that decried rampant “media bias,” one local Sinclair anchor is relatively ok with it. Michael Benny of ...
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 FCC to stop the Sinclair merger,” the ad from Allied ...
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 station group’s “obvious bias” and interference. Justin Simmons left KHGI ...
RTDNA has kind of slid in sideways in a stealthy manner to weigh in on the Sinclair flap. But its press release boldly celebrated “local and truly independent” news. Nowhere is the word Sinclair ...
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 Hoover, a longtime producer and on-air contributor for WGN’s top-rated ...
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 GM Robert Truman reads, in part “Please DO NOT answer ...
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 differ with Mr. Trump’s forced chuckle from Monday: “So funny ...
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 basic creeds of journalism ethics, and we claim it proudly. ...
Former Fox News analyst Ralph Peters noisily left the outlet last month, calling the network a “propaganda machine” for the Trump administration and accused the network of “wittingly harming our system of government for ...
Industry watchers have been saying for weeks it was coming, but we suppose most people have to see it with their own eyes. Or, in the case of local Sinclair anchors, be forced to ...
In the same seven-day span that Sinclair Broadcast Group treated its local anchor like marionettes, ordering them to read a corporate-produced script warning of the dangers of “one-sided news stories plaguing our country,” it ...
Right up through his recent retirement from the 6 & 11 PM anchor chair, former WXYZ anchor Stephen Clark said his post-retirement plans involved a move to Nashville so he could work on his ...
Chicago viewers weren’t too happy a couple of weeks ago when Disney’s WLS dumped “Windy City Live” contributor Ji Suk Yi for what they claimed were “cost-cutting reasons.” She’s resurfaced at another location. Yesterday ...
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman reports sources have told him that veteran Bay Area anchor Jessica Aguirre will be signing a short-term contract and is staying put at NBC-owned KNTV. Lieberman reports the deal ...
The CBS-BBC synergy just keeps growing. Seven months after trumpeting a content-sharing agreement, the two news organizations announced they will jointly open a news bureau in Johannesburg, South Africa. CBS News executive vice-president Ingrid ...
Let the countdown begin for ESPN’s new morning show. “Get Up” debuts on April 2 and is the long-awaited (by some anyway) new program centered around Mike Greenberg (late of “Mike & Mike”) who ...
It is a cold case mystery that in June will mark its 23rd anniversary. The disappearance of 27-year-old Jodi Huisentruit, then a morning anchor at KIMT in Mason City Iowa, is a puzzle that ...
MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle has apologized for her boneheaded mocking last week of CNBC anchor Larry Kudlow. Kudlow, upon being named the new White House chief economic advisor, said “However things work out, it ...
As many expected, dyspeptic CNBC senior contributor Larry Kudlow has been tapped to replace Gary Cohn as the top White House economic adviser So is this proof of CNN’s Brian Stelter’s theory of a ...
Six days ago, we brought you the story of Charlotte morning anchor Terrance Bates. Bates, morning anchor at Bahakel flagship WCCB, was arrested by police on a charge of “assaulting a female.” He’s been ...
Weather anchor/reporter Meredith Mitchell disappeared from Tegna’s KTHV in Little Rock back in late 2017 with no explanation. She’s ba-ack as reported on Facebook. Mitchell is now working for Nexstar’s KLRT/KARK.
When the latest nor’easter hit New England last week, as expected, local stations went big in their coverage of the event None bigger than Sunbeam’s WHDH in Boston. How big did they go? They ...
Whether life gets more difficult for industry lobbyist/FCC chair Ajit Pai as the result of Sinclair’s recent shenanigans is something we couldn’t care less about. It does, evidently, concern a segment of media business ...
After FCC staffers examining the Sinclair-Trib deal had a little talk with attorneys for both companies, Sinclair is going back to the drawing board to do a little fine-tuning. “Participants discussed FCC policies and ...
A state bill that would severely limit the scope of non-compete agreements in personal service contracts was overwhelmingly approved in the Utah State House last month. And it’s moving through the Beehive State’s Senate. ...
By his own admission, Anthony Scaramucci is on the list that bans certain former White House staffers from entering the White House without special permission – even as some reports have him on a ...
He’ll always have Kelly Ripa. Just days after his accuser went public with details of alleged sexual harassment, Ryan Seacrest got a much-needed show of support from his morning co-host There is mounting pressure ...
We got a really detailed email yesterday from a reader whose eye was caught by the story of Mike Deeson, former investigative reporter for WTSP and his lawsuit against the city of Tampa. Deeson ...
Yesterday we ran a story that reported Los Angeles Olympic fans were upset that KNBC had dropped Olympic coverage in favor of that most Los Angelean of pastimes – a car chase. Many viewers ...
There were no tv cameras present when the Utah State House voted yesterday to limit noncompete clauses in contract. Supporters of the bill claim that teevee management ordered the vote not be covered. The ...
An independent investigation’s report has concluded that fired NPR executive Michael Oreskes was repeatedly warned about his behavior toward women, but ignored the warnings and kept up his boorish behavior. The report found that ...
A response that became a meme. Back in January, Chicago fashion blogger Hoda Katebi was a guest on WGN’s morning show, being interviewed by co-anchors Larry Potash and Robin Baumgarten when the discussion turned ...
Former KCCI meteorologist Frank Scaglione is denying public accusations that he used social media to pursue sexual relationships with underage boys. Through his attorney, Scaglione issued a statement that read, in part, “Mark Twain ...
We reported to you several weeks back that this was in the works and now it’s happening. Christa Delcamp is headed to O&O NBC10 aka WBTS in Boston. Delcamp parted ways with Sunbeam’s WHDH ...
This is how sensitivity training goes when the participants are blockheads you pay to yell for a living. Boston sports radio station WEEI suspended live programming on from 6 AM to 6 PM so ...
If you have lemons, make lemonade. Which is why P.F. Chang’s, the Asian restaurant chain took advantage – at least in the Chicago area – on WLS’s goof last week which when viral. You ...
We’re catching up with former news anchor Chris Hurst, who’s starting out in his new day job as a Virginia State Delegate. Hurst, a former anchor at Gray’s WDBJ in Roanoke, VA, left that ...
Former CNN marketing and publicity exec DeWayne Walker saw his $50 million lawsuit get tossed by a federal judge Wednesday. The judge granted a summary judgement in dismissing the case. Walker sued CNN, Time ...
Yes, Dan Patrick did talk briefly with ESPN about a possible return to the mothership in Bristol. But that was just days before former ESPN president John Skipper did his abrupt disappearing act on ...
Following up on our story yesterday about Charter Communications’ intent to expand its Spectrum News Channel operations into at least five more markets, a source directed us to a job posting already up for ...
