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Category: Happening Now
FT. MYERS METEOROLOGIST READY TO HANG IT UP
It’s been 29 years on the job.
NORTH CAROLINA ANCHOR ADDS AUTHOR TO HER BIO
She self-published a children’s book.
YOUTUBE COMIC MOCKS HOUSTON TRAFFIC REPORTER
We wonder who’s next??
BEAST MODE COVERING THE STORM IN TEXAS
KENS fearless leader news director Jack Acosta posted a photo so viewers know how hard his crew is working to keep the public informed during historic winter weather in San Antonio, Texas. We want ...
COVID CAN’T STOP SEVERE WEATHER COVERAGE IN TEXAS
This crew stayed overnight.
WHEN ASKED WHY HE LEFT…
That’s never good.
ON THE “BURNING BRIDGES” BEAT
“I’d rather work with a talented a**hole than a nice person without talent.”
SCRIPPS SHOWS SOME “SPINE”
The national “If You Give a Child a Book…” campaign will distribute more than 165,000 books to kids in low-income households across the country this school year after raising $825,369 during its annual fundraiser ...
MEET THE NEW ND IN LA
At KABC-TV (ABC, obviously) in Los Angeles, Pam Chen has been promoted to News Director. She first joined KABC in 2004, and has served as Assistant News Director since 2004. Pam’s career path is detailed ...
WELL, THAT WAS QUICK
John LaPorte has resigned as ND for Cox Media Group’s KIRO-TV (CBS) in Seattle after only about 14 months there. He’s returning to Milwaukee, where he spent almost nine years as ND at WITI-TV (FOX), ...
ACTION TAKEN AS CLOCK TICKS ON TIKTOK
Tech finds a way. That’s what they do after all. TikTok has launched its first TV app on Amazon Fire TV devices. “More on TikTok” features curated video playlists and compilations from the mobile ...
TRUMP FLAGGED BY TWITTER FOR “FAKE NEWS”
Donald Trump throws around the term “fake news” as it were a roll of paper towels at a disaster relief press conference. But it was the president who made Twitter history with for some ...
DID “AMERICA’S VOICE” JUST GO PARTISAN?
President Trump has always had a turbulent relationship with the media, but it’s been a back-and-forth between two very distinct sides, even when concerning outlets that traditionally go softer on the president. Those lines ...
JOE & MIKA LAND BIDEN FOR BIG SIT-DOWN
Former Vice President and current Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, will appear on MSNBC’s Morning Joe today to address Tara Reade‘s sexual assault allegation. The network made the announcement yesterday. The Biden campaign has denied Reade’s allegation, but ...
CLEVELAND STATION BRINGS SCHOOL HOME
Gray Television’s CW affiliate WUAB Cleveland (DMA 19) is partnering with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) and Cleveland Teachers Union, Local 279, to bring students a daily televised virtual classroom. The show is ...
WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN
NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt will be leading an experimental version of his newscast that will be geared towards children and teens. Of course teens always love being grouped-in with a demo that ...
PENSACOLA STATION HALTS PRODUCTION
Two Channel 3-WEAR employees in Pensacola, Florida have tested positive for COVID-19. According to the station’s twitter post, production has been suspended on the newsroom, “We will be working with our sister station WPMI in ...
CBS L.A. STATIONS PRESENT “L.A. STUDENTS MOST IN NEED” FUNDRAISER
CBS Television Stations’ Los Angeles properties CBS 2, KCAL 9 and CBSN Los Angeles have partnered with iHeartRadio Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Chargers and the Los Angeles Unified School District to present “L.A. ...
FROM ALL OF US AT NEWSBLUES…
It’s not just about barbecues and lake outings. Labor Day celebrates and honors the American labor movement and the power of collective action by laborers, who are essential for the workings of society. Beginning ...
GETTING A DESK JOB IN NYC
After nearly 9 years on the street, reporter Dan Bowens is moving to a spot on the anchor desk at Fox-owned WNYW in New York. Bowens will anchor the weekend 6 and 10 p.m. ...
WE’RE BACK. NOW THIS
After a short holiday break, we’re happy to be back in harness here at NewsBlues International Headquarters. We hope you’re holiday was a good one and that 2019 holds all good things for you. ...
ALASKA EARTHQUAKE
Plenty of images coming out of Anchorage Alaska following a powerful earthquake there this morning. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake has rocked buildings in Anchorage and caused lamp posts and trees to sway, prompting people to ...
MISSING IN KENTUCKY
Former KGO-AM/San Francisco host and ABC O&O KGO-TV anchor Ray Taliaferro has been reported missing, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The 79-year-old was the host of KGO radio’s overnight show from 1977 through 2011, ...
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
Thursday is Thanksgiving Day. We hope you have a happy and safe one getting to and from wherever you plan to spend the holiday and the long weekend ahead. NewsBlues will be taking a ...
UPDATED!!! THE JUDGE HAS RULED!!!!
“I will order defendants immediately restore Mr. Acosta’s hard pass.” Judge rules in favor of CNN in this initial proceeding and White House MUST restore Jim Acosta‘s press pass IMMEDIATELY. U.S. District Court Judge ...
KEILAR TAKES OVER “RIGHT NOW”
Brianna Keilar assumes the lead role on CNN’s 1 PM (ET) hour “Right Now” today. It will be a quiet hand-off of the hour from Wolf Blitzer to Keilar. Fear not – Wolf will ...
THINGS TO WATCH THIS ELECTION DAY
How is turnout in your town? Other things you will want to keep in mind. More votes already have been cast in Georgia, an epicenter of election-suppression complaints, than in the entire 2014 vote. ...
“SICKENING,” “RACIST,” “A NEW LOW”
The reviews are in for a campaign closing web ad offered up Thursday by the Tweeter-in-Chief. The ad, which makes that Willie Horton campaign ad from the 1988 Presidential campaign look statesmanlike, shows Luis ...
BREAKING NEWS: ANOTHER SHOOTING
At least 8 people were killed and three officers injured responding to an active shooting incident at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday, KDKA (CBS) and CNN reported. KDKA was live and feeding Networks. #BREAKING: ...
ACOSTA ON THE HOT SEAT
A CNN White House correspondent cursed out a former Trump White House staffer Thursday night on Twitter after drawing online sneers for a complaint about the noise levels at the president’s rally in Missoula, Montana. Jim Acosta tossed ...
PANAMA CITY STATION GOES ONLINE FOR THE DURATION
Nexstar’s Panama City, FL station WMBB suffered extensive building damage from Hurricane Michael to the extent that it is temporarily homeless. The station news crew started streaming news from the parking lot in front ...
WILL TV NEWS BRING DOWN A BISHOP?
Last August, Charlie Specht, an investigative reporter for Scripps’ WKBW in Buffalo, NY, did a three-part series outlining alleged mismanagement in the Diocese of Buffalo, where Bishop Richard Malone, a former auxiliary bishop in ...
WHERE IS JOURNALIST JAMAL KHASHOGGI?
Well at least now we know the relative value of a journalist’s life. Not more than $110 billion. Even as Senate Republican Bob Corker expressed the belief that leading Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was ...
BREAKING: ANOTHER SHOOTING
Details still coming in from WJZ (CBS) Baltimore. Reported shooting at a Rite Aid Distribution Center in Harford County Maryland. CBSN was quick to take WJZ’s signal live. Local EMS sent out a tweet ...
SHE’S HERE
The hurricane-preparedness plans of local tv stations are out of storage as newsrooms across the Carolinas deploy to cover Hurricane Florence, which is now a Category 1 storm that is carrying massive amounts of ...
BREAKING: MAN SLAMS PICKUP INTO TV STATION
Dallas Texas TV is always interesting and Wednesday Morning was no different. Dallas Police are investigating a crash. Not just a fender bender during the morning commute but something bigger. A pickup slammed into KDFW‘s ...
MOTHER OF MERCY! IS THIS THE END OF RATINGS AS WE KNOW THEM?
One of the world’s biggest hedge funds now owns a big chunk of the parent company of the Nielsen ratings service and is urging the company to put itself on the block. Elliott Management ...
ANOTHER HEADACHE FOR SINCLAIR
A couple of Democrats on the House committee that oversees the FCC is urging the commission to investigate reports that Sinclair conspired to raise ad rates with other broadcasters. Reps. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) ...
ANOTHER ND IN THE WIND
Jennifer Lyons is stepping down as ND for Chicago’s WGN after four years in the top job and almost 25 years at that Tribune owned station. In her four years, she guided Chicago’s busiest television news ...
NEXSTAR BUYS TWO MORE
Nexstar, which has already achieved the prized “scale” and evidently wants more, announced the purchase of two more television stations. It’s buying KRBK, the FOX affiliate serving Springfield, Missouri from KRBK LLC, and WHDF, ...
FACEBOOK SUSPENDS “INAUTHENTIC” ACCOUNTS
Facebook would like to be your principal news source, but until it can clean up the army of “fake news” trolls – mainly originating in Eastern Europe, it really cannot be trusted for anything ...
LOCAL TV OWNERS UNDER DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE INVESTIGATION
The Justice Department is investigating whether local television station owners including Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media violated antitrust laws, according to the Wall Street Journal. Investigators are examining whether local station owners coordinated ...
SOCIAL MEDIA’S STRUGGLES TRIGGER DISTRUST OF ALL MEDIA
As outfits like Facebook, Google, Twitter and other Silicon Valley tech companies continue dabbling in what they think is news, they are finding they have to compromise on their early, absolutist view of free ...
COHN WILL EXTEND HER “SPORTSCENTER” STREAK
Twenty-six years ago, Linda Cohn anchored her first “Sportscenter” on ESPN when women working in sports were curiosities. That 26-year streak, a record for “Sportscenter” hosts, is only going to get longer as Cohn ...
GMA, VIEW CO-HOST LEAVING THE PROGRAMS
Paula Faris and ABC News announced Wednesday that she’ll be departing “The View” and “Good Morning America Weekend.” She’s staying with ABC News, however and will begin a new role with ABC News that ...
THE WALKBACK IS ALREADY UNDERWAY
The disastrous reviews from the reliably pliant Fox News staff set the White House scrambling in full damage control mode. In his first public statement since his WTF presser following the “summit” with Russian ...
CWA WEIGHS IN ON KAVANAUGH SUPCO NOMINATION
Not that it will make a dime’s worth of difference, but the Communications Workers of America is firmly declaring that D.C. Appeals Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh should not be allowed to join the Supreme ...
FORMER OBAMA AIDE MOVES FROM CNN TO ABC
Stephanie Cutter, the former Deputy Campaign Manager for Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign is taking her talent for bloviating to ABC News, exiting CNN after five years. We’re informed that Cutter will be contributing ‘political ...
A VIOLENT WHITE SUPREMACIST WITH A SECURITY CLEARANCE – UNMASKED
An aerospace engineer and UCLA doctoral candidate who led a double life as a white nationalist has been exposed through the efforts of Pro Publica and the documentary series “Frontline.” What’s more, it was ...
BOLLING ON THE ROAD
Former Fox News host Eric Bolling has a new show called “America” on something called CRTV (Conservative Review TV) and he’d like more people to know about it. So he is hitting the road ...
TRUMP TAKES A SHINE TO FORMER FOX EXEC AS PRESS BOSS
There is no doubt that Bill Shine will fit like a glove in this White House. Shine, the former Fox News executive who was Roger Ailes’ right-hand man knows how to deal with a ...
IS KHOU PLANNING TO BLOW UP ITS MORNING SHOW?
We’re hearing from Houston blogger Mike McGuff that the job posting for the traffic reporter position at Tegna’s KHOU is creating some buzz in the market – maybe some of it a nervous buzz. ...
STATE ATTORNEYS-GENERAL MOVE TO STOP SINCLAIR-TRIB MERGER
The FCC is being asked by several states to deny the proposed merger of Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and her counterparts in Iowa and Rhode Island petitioned ...
QUESTIONS ARISE OVER NAHJ’S SILENCE ON BORDER POLICY
It appears that the National Association of Hispanic Journalists is in hot water with some of its membership over the group’s silence on how to cover family separations at the border. “Some members are ...
ACCUWEATHER RESTRUCTURES AND SLIMS DOWN
In the wake of CEO Barry Lee Myers, brother of AccuWeather founder Joel Myers, being named by the Trump administration as the new head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (pending Senate ...
MEDIA CONTINUES ITS FOCUS ON THE BORDER AND THOSE CHAIN LINK CAGES
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow broke down in tears on-air last night over a report about the Trump administration operating “tender age” shelters for migrant babies and toddlers. Maddow choked up while reading the first lines ...
CNN BEEFING UP ITS MUELLER PROBE TEAM
CNN has added two veteran reporters to the staff, both of them law enforcement coverage specialists. The additions will help the network bolster its coverage of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation into Russian interference ...
A FAREWELL TOUR THAT’S A BIT PREMATURE
Retiring WRAL morning anchor Bill Leslie is making the rounds of the Raleigh-Durham market this week, handing out merch, glad-handing, signing autographs and telling war stories to all who will listen. We’re pretty certain ...
ANOTHER TV-NEWSPAPER TEAM-UP
Out in Utah, the Salt Lake Tribune and Tribune’s KSTU have launched a content sharing partnership. As part of the agreement, both outlets will highlight joint projects across all platforms, collaborate on newsgathering and ...
FOX NEWS IS ALL IN ON KOREA SUMMIT
While the other broadcast and cable networks have yet to announce their plans, Fox News is planning on making a Singapore splash with their live coverage of the United States summit with North Korea ...
ALS FORCES VETERAN ANCHOR TO RETIRE
Nearly a year after she announced her diagnosis with ALS, WAFB anchor Donna Britt made a second announcement. She is stepping down from the Raycom station in Baton Rouge, LA. Britt joined the WAFB ...
WSJ BOSS HEADS FOR FOX BUSINESS
Gerald Baker, the Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief who’s got a reputation for being quite a pain in the…..keyboard….of reporters trying to do an honest job of covering news, is leaving the Murdoch paper to ...
KTVI REPORTER CHARGED WITH ASSAULT AT BALL GAME
Nicholas Thompson who, for the moment anyway, is a producer and reporter at FOX-owned KTVI in St. Louis, was evidently drunk when he got into an altercation with police after refusing to leave Busch ...
“SHE HAS GROWN AND EVOLVED.” HEH
And that, says the corporate version, is why MSNBC continues to put up with the fallout from Joy Reid’s past history of blog idiocy and the continued “drip, drip, drip” of those posts. On ...
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
Yesterday, we ran a story about the ongoing ratings slide for the “CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor” and some of the internal angst and anger over that slide. Today, we need to correct ...
ANOTHER MADE-UP TWITTER FEUD
America’s Tweeter-in-Chief is manufacturing a feud with ABC in the wake of Roseanne Barr’s firing for the latest in her ongoing series of racist, conspiracy-mongering tweets. For the second consecutive day, Mr. Trump aimed ...
“YOUR VOICE OHIO” TRIES TO RESTORE TRUST IN MEDIA
Public trust in media is probably at an all-time low, and that lack of trust not helped by daily attacks from a certain Twitter-addicted official whose charges alternately are rooted in a grain of ...
SC ANCHOR AND PHOTOG KILLED COVERING STORM
WYFF weekend anchor and reporter Mike McCormick and cameraman Aaron Smeltzer were killed Monday while covering severe weather in the outer bands of Subtropical Storm Alberto. The two staffers for the Hearst station in ...
EXITING THE BUSINESS FOR A HIGHER CALLING
Eleven years after she started her second go-round with Gray’s WITN in Washington, NC, Lynnette Taylor announced her departure from the station, her native North Carolina and the tv news business. Taylor has been ...
ROSS RETURNS TONIGHT
ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross returns to the airwaves tonight with a story that will air on “20/20.” The report is an investigation into murders committed by individuals who had been mandated to ...
“GMA” EXPANDING. “THE CHEW” SPIT OUT
After seven years, “The Chew” has been digested and disposed of in the appropriate manner. In its place on ABC will be a third hour of “Good Morning America.” That extra hour will air ...
EMPHASIZING ISSUES, NOT CAR CRASHES OR SPORTS SCORES
Now this is what a station should be doing if they were rewarded with a windfall from last year’s spectrum auction. WLVT, a PBS station located in Allentown, PA, 90 miles east of Philadelphia, ...
THE ROYAL WEDDING AS LOCAL STORY?
When you have a guy who speaks British like a native, of course you’re going to send him to the Royal Wedding. Of course, WDIV’s Tim Pamplin IS a native Brit and the Graham ...
FT. WAYNE STATION DEMANDS PAC’S SPOT BE PULLED
Quincy Media’s WPTA in Ft. Wayne, IN is strenuously objecting to a political commercial in which a PAC used footage from the station’s newscast. The television ad was paid for by the Senate Majority ...
SENATE VOTES TO PRESERVES NET NEUTRALITY
By a 52-47 vote, the Senate Wednesday delivered a rebuke to industry lobbyist/FCC chair Ajit Pai, as it set the ball rolling to keep in place so-called “net neutrality” rules that prevent internet providers ...
FEWER COMMERCIALS? WE’RE IN.
We’ve never gotten used to the idea of commercial breaks that run up to four minutes or more. While it’s handy for getting chores done around the house or make bathroom breaks less frantic, ...
YEAH, VIEWERS DO NOTICE THE INANITIES
We could let the week go by without noting that there are viewers out there who pay attention to what they’re seeing on newscasts and, like us, when they see stuff that is intelligence-insulting, ...
SINCLAIR DISAPPEARS
Don’t panic. It’s just gone for viewers who watched Sinclair stations via PlayStation Vue. Sony’s live streaming site this week started pulling Sinclair stations off the channel lineups posted at Vue’s site. Previously, subscribers ...
JACKSONVILLE SPORTS VET KICKED TO THE CURB
It’s 37 years and out the door for Jacksonville, FL’s longest serving sports anchor. Sam Kouvaris is gone after he and Graham Media’s WJXT couldn’t agree to terms on a new contract. That contract ...
FCC COMMISSIONER SLAPPED WITH A WARNING
Yes, FCC commissioner Michael O’Rielly violated the Hatch Act with his remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February. That’s the final word from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, which issued ...
YEAH, FOLKS, IT’S A PRETTY COMMON PRACTICE
Anybody remotely familiar with the workings of both network and local tv newsrooms knows that one of the common practices is to prepare “obit pieces” on prominent newsmakers of all stripes so that when ...
HMMMMM……
You have to love the ABC News graphic headline on Tuesday’s “World News Tonight.” “Dangerous Tornado Watch” As opposed to benign tornadoes, which we can confidently ignore. Or maybe the watch itself was dangerous. ...
WHCA NAVEL-GAZING INCLUDES POSSIBLE CHANGE TO DINNER FORMAT
Has anybody checked with Michelle Wolf what the view under the bus was like? Since this “celebration of the First Amendment” was evidently supposed to be held under a caution flag, the WHCA is ...
ABC NEWS SIGNS FORMER FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT
After five years as a Fox News West Coast-based national correspondent, Will Carr joined ABC News as a correspondent based in Los Angeles. He started Monday and will be in place in LA in ...
SATX REPORTER TARGET OF NETFLIX COMIC’S RANT
KSAT’s David Elder enjoys his “fun ’n’ games” beat as a lifestyle reporter for the Graham Media San Antonio station. For some reason, Joel McHale, host of a Netflix weekly program named, oddly enough, ...
MEMO TO THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS’ ASSOCIATION:
Americans were treated to a profane, insult-laden, often inappropriate monologue Saturday night. But enough about the POTUS in Michigan. How about the White House Correspondents Dinner? Next year, hire a musical act to entertain ...
TWIN CITIES ANCHOR SMACKS DOWN TWITTER TROLL
We have to wonder about the basement-dwelling losers who seem to think they have a calling to insult tv newspeople about things that have nothing to do with their abilities to report the news. ...
SAY IT AIN’T SO, TOM
Tom Brokaw is probably the last network news anchor to achieve the iconic status reserved for the Cronkites, Brinkleys and Jennings. So it is a bombshell to see this elder statesman of tv news ...
NOBODY ASKED HER BUT….
Former Pittsburgh anchor Wendy Bell thought you should know that, as a woman and a victim of sexual harassment who lost her job when she blew the whistle on her harasser, she’s fully supportive ...
A FAMILIAR FACE TAKES OVER KENS 10 PM ANCHOR DESK
Veteran anchor Deborah Knapp, who’s spent more than three decades at anchor desks in Philadelphia and San Antonio has been awarded permanent residency of the 10 PM anchor desk at Tegna’s KENS in San ...
NBC QUIETLY SENDS MEMO DEFENDING REID’S HACKING CLAIMS
MSNBC personality Joy Reid probably figured her December apology for a series of 11-12 year-old homophobic entries on her now-discontinued blog would have put the story to rest. Wrong. A whole new series of ...
SURE. THERE’S NO CONFLICT
The FCC’s #1 lawyer says there was no ethical issue raised by the attendance of the Commission’s three Republican members at this year’s Conservative Political Action Caucus (C-PAC) convention. Even though CPAC is an ...
MORNING CHANGES IN COLUMBIA, SC.
When Grace Joyal exits the morning anchor desk after five years at Bahakel’s WOLO, two people are stepping up to take her place. Claire Richardson and Curtis Wilson will become the new anchors of ...
CRYPTIC POST SIGNALS KTVU ANCHOR DEPARTURE?
“Seems I got to have a change of scene” “’Cause every night I have the strangest dreams.” Ken Wayne, a fixture at Fox O&O KTVU in Oakland, CA for the past 26 years is ...
TELEMUNDO NAMES NEW BOSSES
Veteran media executive Ronald Day is the new executive vice president of programming for Telemundo, one of three executives just hired by the Hispanic network. He previously served as an executive producer for NBC ...
CHICAGO NEWS DIRECTOR TAKES ON “FACEBOOK LIVE” PROGRAM
Matt Piacente, news director of Fox-owned WFLD, stepped out from behind the curtain Tuesday to host a new daily live video on Facebook for the station. According to Robert Feder, Piacente was clearly channeling ...
FORMER LITTLE ROCK ANCHOR BACK IN HARNESS – FOR NOW
Former KARK anchor Jancey Sheats (2005-2015) seems to be growing a career as a temporary fill-in at the Nexstar station in Little Rock, AR. She’s sitting in on the morning program through May while ...
