Tamron Hall is ramping up for the debut of her new syndicated daily talker next month, but there’s one thing she can’t get out of her mind. “Megyn’s success or not, I already knew ...
We’re still working out some of the kinks as we migrate to a new server so today’s edition won’t look quite the same. We’re working on it and we thank you for your forbearance. ...
Albuquerque Journal reporter Angela Kocherga has been named a 2019 winner of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia Journalism School, which honors outstanding reporting in Latin America and the Caribbean. If her name ...
There were so many people alive on July 16, 1969, to witness the Apollo 11 moon launch. Many watched it live on TV. Millions of others stormed the Florida space coast to set up ...
The FCC on Wednesday announced new rules for children’s television, including pushing up the start time that broadcasters are allowed to air kids’ programming in the morning. The goal is to give broadcasters more ...
Last month, we ran a story on Sharyl Atkisson’s campaign to keep Wikipedia on the straight and narrow. In that story, we referred to Atkisson as a “former” journalist. She’s still working, so she ...
Bob Leider, the former general manager of WSVN (FOX) has died. You may remember Leider, stepped down as GM back in September of 2018. He remained with parent Sunbeam Television as VP and consultant. ...
We’ve all wondered what tv station GMs do all day behind their closed doors. We can make a pretty good guess at what William Sears Stebbins might have been up to back when he ...
Conspicuously MIA from “The Today Show’s” self-absorbed celebration of 25 years inhabiting Studio 1A is Matt….um….let’s see…it’s right on the tip of our tongue…..oh yeah…Matt Lauer. The revisionism of wiping Lauer from the history ...
So, for those of us who are a *tad* bit older than let’s say 75 percent of the current broadcast workforce, Monday was an anniversary of sorts. It’s when we all gathered around the ...
Well, if you’re running for the presidency of the White House Correspondents’ Association, you throw away the traditional clubby, low-profile method of campaigning and go for the jugular. “We as an organization need to ...
We all have those certain times in our careers we look back and remember. Maybe it was the News Director kicking a trash can after seeing a story on a competitor labeled ‘exclusive’ or ...
Since we have been following the work of Daniel Dale both in print and on social media for the past few years, we were very interested in his hire away from the “Toronto Star” ...
TEGNA station WFAA (ABC) photographer, Brandon Mowry, and KHOU (CBS) Kyle Porter, and John Sharify are bringing home the bacon after four NPPA Best of Photojournalism Awards. If you are counting, TEGNA stations have received Station of ...
The three broadcast networks who regularly do newscasts are devoting considerable time this week to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day – which is tomorrow. “ABC World News Tonight” anchor David Muir is presenting ...
There was some breathless chatter over the weekend about the hiring of a Lou Dobbs producer by CNN media watcher Brian Stelter for his Sunday morning program. “Hmph,” the chatter hmphed. “Stelter is one ...
KTAB (CBS) and KRBC (NBC) joined forces last week to host an hour-long special broadcast to raise money for the survivors of a devastating tornado. This was the first time the stations had come ...
Alex Sanz is the AP deputy director of news-gathering for the U.S. South, has been selected as a Silver Circle inductee by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Southeast chapter. If his name sounds ...
Scott MacDowell, a tv news vet, is moving up from Birmingham, AL to become the new news director at Lilly/SJL’s WICU/WSEE in Erie, PA. He’d been assistant news director for Nexstar’sWIAT in Birmingham for ...
Reporter Maria Menounos says the future is bleak for entertainment news on television in wake of new technology and mobile sites, reports Fox Business. Menounos, spoke to Yahoo Finance at the SALT Conference in Las ...
Monday, we posted information provided by a NewsBlueser from KCBS/KCAL in Los Angeles, CA regarding as email sent by a group of staffers to the SAG/AFTRA unit that represents them regarding ongoing contract negotiations ...
It was a big weekend for WCHS (ABC), which was recognized for the second year in a row as Television Station of the Year. The award was presented Saturday during the West Virginia Broadcasters ...
Check out this post to social media from Jennifer Hardy, News Director at WWSB (ABC). “As a manager, there are those exciting times you hire based on gut instinct because someone is new in ...
We know it’s early, but we want to get in our hints early and, most likely often. We want to be invited to the Fox News Christmas party. Because after a few drinks it ...
Now there is something you don’t see all that often said about the sewer of social media. But Univision anchor Jorge Ramos offered up his heartfelt testimonial while discussing his network’s deepening collaboration with ...
We don’t normally make a thing of ratings but it is interesting to note that after a flurry of startling changes at CBS-owned WBBM in Chicago, the station began the May ratings sweep no ...
While we’re on the subject of anniversaries, “Happy 30th” to CNBC, the first and, until Fox Business came along, foremost, uncritical mouthpiece for Wall Street and Big Business in general. Earlier this week, the ...
Tempting if one can set up the office in the Virgin Islands. We mean, Erie is nice enough but….oh, that Caribbean. And as far as we can see, Tim Mello is still the news ...
Yesterday, we ran an item provided by several NewsBluesers that David Pingalore, sportscaster at Tribune’s KTLA in Los Angeles, was apparently headed for Denver. Hold the phone. Pingalore, who came to LA after being ...
Winners of the 2018 Florida Associated Press Broadcasters Association Pro Contest have been announced in Orlando, Florida. Thirty-seven radio and television stations submitted 581 entries in the contest, which featured news and sports stories ...
We now appear to be at the hand-wringing stage of the CBS-Gayle King contract negotiation. Page Six reports that some staffers are sweating bullets as the days slip by with no new deal announced ...
Our two-week-long national nightmare is over. Judge Jeanine will be back Saturday night. The reason for her two-week unplanned vacation, although still unacknowledged by Fox News because, well, you know, it’s none of your ...
Hats off to Rich Coppola, marking 30 years as sportscaster at Tribune-soon-to-be-Tegna’s-via-Nexstar WTIC in Hartford-New Haven, CT. Coppola broadcast his first report for the station three decades ago. Over the course of his long ...
On Thursday, the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters (LAB) named WAFB (CBS) as it’s Television Station of the Year (Large Market) for 2019. This is WAFB’s fourth consecutive year to win the statewide honor, which ...
If you have nothing better to do on weekends than pore over the voluminous and increasingly unhinged tweetstorms emanating out of Washington DC, perhaps you have come to the same conclusion that “The Washington ...
Our Wednesday story on the #SeeHer initiative and Meredith Corporation’s involvement in it left the impression that the lawsuit brought by former KCTV anchor Karen Fuller was still pending. In fact, Fuller and the ...
It hasn’t been up and running for six months but NBC News’ streaming service has already undergone a name change. When it re-launches in early May, what we have known as NBC News Signal ...
The 2015 on-air murder of tv reporter Alison Parker and photographer Adam Ward was horrific enough. But the ghouls of the Internet can’t help but pick over the memories of the slain WDBJ staffers ...
Andrea Lutz was recently promoted as the anchor for the Montana Television Network’s evening newscast on Montana CW, which airs statewide. “I am thrilled to be anchoring and leading a newscast that is focused ...
A commercial promoting an Oscar-nominated anti-Nazi documentary was rejected by Fox News Channel, which deemed the ad “inappropriate.” “It Can’t Happen Here” is a short documentary about a 1939 American Nazi Party rally at ...
Up in Hartford-New Haven, WTNH sports director John Pierson does seem too upset that the competition showed up. Particularly since he’s a certain new WTIC photographer.
Chicago’s Robert Feder notes that Disney’s WLS isn’t just Chicago’s top-rated television station. With employees related to three prominent Democrats, it also may have the most politically connected newsroom in town. Morning news anchor ...
In Houston, all of the Houston stations were quickly on the Officer involved shooting that occurred Monday afternoon. They were already in their 5 PM newscasts when Five police officers were injured during a firefight ...
With heavy heart, we pass on this update from Houston blogger Mike McGuff on “Covering Katy” a nine-year-old hyperlocal news site created by former KIAH reporter Dennis Spellman. Last year, Spellman told mikemcguff.com that ...
NBC News has brought former ABC News London-based correspondent Molly Hunter to its Chicago bureau. “Please join me in welcoming Molly back home and to her new NBC News Family,” NBC News svp of ...
In our story last Wednesday about veteran Atlanta education reporter Donna Lowry signing on with Georgia Public Broadcasting, we also mentioned she was replacing Lisa Rayam and that “Rayam is expected to continue working ...
