And, in the end, James Pitaro might be grateful for the continued presence of former ESPN chairman George Bodenheimer as he takes over the reins of the challenged sports outlet. Earlier this week, there ...
Philadelphia’s Telemundo62 (WWSI) is bringing on anchor Syrmarie Villalobos and weather anchor Alondra Anaya to front two new newscasts, the 60-minute “Primera Edición” at 6 AM and “Telemundo62 al Mediodía at Noon.” Villalobos comes ...
So far, the unanswered question is what will Whit Johnson’s wife, KCBS reporter Andrea Fujii, do? She’s been with KCBS since 2012 and the couple have two daughters and a dog. She joined KCBS ...
Sources relay to us that WCPO in Cincinnati had several layoffs this week and decided not to renew the contract of one of its “Good Morning Tri-State” anchors. Chris Riva anchored his final show ...
Uh-oh….this does not look like a planned exit. Just a day after Univision bailed on a proposed IPO and named a new chief financial officer, and just months after he signed a new two-year ...
How badly does Fox Sports want Peyton Manning as the key player on its brand spankin’ new $3 billion “Thursday Night Football” package? Enough to pay him up to $10 million a year. Of ...
Another day, another broadcast guy getting into politics because, what the hell, it beats actually working, right? This time it’s in St. Louis, where FOX Sports Midwest Broadcaster Jim Hayes is running for first ...
After spending a night behind bars, Charlotte morning anchor Terrance Bates is out and about. Bates, who does mornings on Bahakel’s WCCB, was arrested by police on a charge of “assaulting a female.” The ...
For the first time since Hurricane Harvey, KHOU’s “Great Day Houston” is airing live. Deborah Duncan hosts the morning program at the Tegna station. The venue is the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo all ...
A longtime CTV anchor-correspondent suspended in January over allegations of workplace harassment is no longer with the network. CTV cut ties with Paul Bliss after it completed an internal investigation into the charges. Those ...
Comcast customers In Pennsylvania, New Jersey and 14 other states from New England to Virginia will soon see a boost in their internet speed thanks to several new upgrades to the cable giant’s broadband ...
Now there is a headline we had little hope of ever running in the foreseeable future. But industry lobbyist and FCC chair Ajit Pai has announced an almost $1 billion aid package to help ...
Aesia Toliver is one of the newer faces on Norfolk teevee news, showing up just recently at Nexstar’s WAVY as a reporter who, like the rest of the team is “on your side”. But ...
Patrick Webre has got his work cut out for him – if he actually intends to do his job. Webre is the newly-appointed chief of the FCC‘s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau. That’s the ...
At first glance, it seems so simple, you might wonder why you never thought of it. Than you take a look at the media landscape today and realize the huge flaw. Lawyer and media ...
Once upon a time, Lou Dobbs was a rather well-respected business news reporter and anchor. Once upon a time. Even after moving over to Fox Business News from CNN in 2011, Dobbs maintained an ...
Jenna McLaughlin joins CNN as its new national security reporter based in the Washington, DC. bureau. She’s coming from “Foreign Policy Magazine, where her focus was on Russian meddling in the US election. She’s ...
The reliance of teevee stations on the obscene amount of political $$$ spent during a campaign cycle is ultimately doing great damage to the country. Where we live, we are being subjected daily to ...
NBC News’ mean girl sat down for a second time with Russia’s mean strongman, the results of which will dribble out at strategically convenient times in the coming days. The first excerpt of the ...
Robert Feder brings us word of a Chicago alderman’s plan to launch One Illinois, a statewide, nonprofit digital news outlet, in April. Founder Ameya Pawa plans a Kickstarter campaign and will accept contributions from ...
Now that Jonah Javad and Nalina Shapiro are caravaning to Dallas, where Javad is taking up a sports job at Tegna’s WFAA, let the speculation begin as to their replacements at WGRZ (Javad’s old ...
Honestly, we thought it was miracle enough when Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson actually acknowledged that their flogging of Glenn Haab’s story of being manipulated by CNN was based on a lie created by ...
Those of us who remember the old “Firing Line” show with conservative writer William F. Buckley as host remember it as a program that featured erudite guests of all political stripes and consistently intelligent ...
Dad used to tell us with monotonous regularity “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.” His folk wisdom came to mind as we saw all of the wishing on right-wing websites recently, wistfully and ...
The RTDNA (Radio Television Digital News Association) is encouraging journalists to unite and post the poster you see here across their social media platforms. The organization has had enough When sitcom-star wanna-be and NRA ...
And while the future of one New York local news director takes an upward swing, another ND’s future is…not as rosy. The abrupt departure last Thursday of Dave Davis as president and general manager ...
18 years is a long time to be an understudy in any profession. This week, Vonn Jones gets his chance. He’ll take over on March 1st as news director at Hearst’s KETV in Omaha, ...
Reporter Mike Faulk, of the “St. Louis Post-Dispatch”, was one of dozens of people the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department arrested during a protest in downtown St. Louis following a not guilty verdict in ...
A very obvious buyer for some of the properties that Sinclair Broadcast Group plans to divest in order to gain approval for its acquisition of Tribune Media has emerged. And yes, it’s 21st Century ...
Industry lobbyist and FCC Chair Ajit Pai will take the podium at the CPAC conference at the end of the week, his first as chair of the telecommunications industry’s deregulation subsidiary. It was at ...
Mark Senator Marco Rubio as a yes and scratch Florida Governor Rick Scott from the guest list for Wednesday night’s town hall “Stand Up: The Students of Stoneman Douglas Demand Action” that CNN will ...
CNN has invited President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Rick Scott, the state’s senators Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio, and Rep. Ted Deutch to participate in a town hall to be broadcast live Wednesday night ...
Graham Media’s KPRC in Houston, TX added a local, and immediate, touch to its coverage of the Parkland, FL school shootings, Former reporter Jennifer Bauer, who moved to Florida with her husband last summer, ...
Two weeks ago, we added our endorsement of KARK news director Austin Kellerman’s well-reasoned request for a Little Rock, AR radio station to drop its inane and overtly testosterone-y “Babe Bracket.” It’s 2018. Now ...
And here we are again. Another week, Another school shooting – 18 of them since the start of the new year and we are only halfway through February. This time it was the stations ...
Egros keeps that kind of nonsense up, he might find himself in the same situation as the juveniles at Boston sports radio station WEEI. WEEI will suspend its live programming Friday as its staff ...
Well, sure, Scott. Scott Livingston, vice president for news for Sinclair Broadcast Group, wants us all to relax and chill a bit over the news that the Hunt valley, MD.-based giant asked top managers ...
Robert Feder nailed it with his call that Joe Donlon would be imported from Portland, OR’s KGW and instantly transformed into one of “Chicago’s Very Own” at Tribune’s WGN. The station announced Tuesday that ...
They’re keeping it in the family at the Sun-Times in Chicago as Jennifer Schulze, former news director at Tribune’s WGN, becomes executive producer – new media for the Sun-Times. She’ll report to Carol Fowler, ...
For the second year running, the Administration has submitted a budget in which funding for public broadcasting is $0. It is more than likely that PBS was not surprised to see the proposal to ...
For ten days now, 450,000 Spectrum customers who get their local TV channels from Northwest Broadcasting are without programming. Sick of their residents being treated by both Spectrum and Northwest like something sifted out ...
Sinclair’s contempt for ethical boundaries is clearly on display in a recent letter received by the company’s news directors and newsroom managers. “Please take the time to evaluate the importance that the Sinclair PAC ...
Among the new economies being practiced by Meredith Corporation as it takes over Time, Inc. is the elimination of 600 jobs at Time’s Tampa-based customer service department. Meredith plans to phase out operations over ...
A veteran Miami news producer who now works at Sunbeam’s WSVN has been suspended while the station investigates a video in which her dispute with a neighbor erupts into profanity and the use of ...
10 former Medill School of Journalism students released an open letter this week accusing Prof. Alec Klein, director of the Medill Justice Project, of “harassing” and “predatory” behavior. Employees also signed the letter, which ...
Five journalism organizations across the country received a total of $2.6 million in grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to help strengthen quality journalism and innovation in local television newsrooms ...
Well-traveled anchor Mike Barz is traveling again, this time from Tribune’s Denver, CO duopoly KDVR-KWGN to Nexstar’s WISH in Indianapolis. He’d been in Denver just shy of three years. In Indianapolis, he will co-anchor ...
You have to wonder whatever made the folks at the Newseum imagine that, in a city overflowing with FREE attractions, people would pay $25 to see Al Neuharth’s typewriter? For ten years, the Newseum, ...
Greta Van Susteren, who’s hit for the circuit in the cable news world, having worked at Fox News, CNN and MSNBC, is taking a bit of a hook with her next job. She’s getting ...
Don’t you love it when you find yourself a pawn in the $$$ games that broadcast groups and cable/satellite providers play come retrains negotiation time? This time it’s Charter Communications and Northwest Communications. 11 ...
A couple of weeks back we told you about the ICE agent out in Wichita, KS. who tried to ingratiate himself with KAKE news anchor Deb Farris by sending her sensitive law enforcement material. ...
We’ll just leave this right here for the conspiracy theorists to pounce on.. Michael V. Walter, the government scientist who runs BioWatch for the Department of Homeland Security, accidentally left a packet of documents ...
We’re still trying to figure out exactly what happened to trigger the immediate resignation of James Parker as news director at Nexstar’s KCAU in Sioux City IA. What we do know is that we ...
When sweeps time rolls around, it’s infectious. Even other media can’t help but get involved in some way. Exhibit A is this informal and oh-so-unscientific poll asking us to vote on our favorite Pittsburgh ...
Behind-the-scenes staffers on WNYW’s highly rated “Good Day New York” are being asked to take a pay cut of up to $7,000 – each – to settle a long-running contract dispute. Segment producers are ...
George Mallet’s second sojourn on Milwaukee lasted less than two years. Mallet confirmed over the weekend that he was invited to pursue other opportunities by management at Scripps’ WTMJ at the end of the ...
Any doubts as to the most favored cable channel in the White House and in certain Capitol Hill quarters were erased when some of the folks at Fox News had a crack at it ...
In other real estate news, it’s apparently none of your damned business who the buyer is or what they are paying for it, but Tegna’s KHOU announced that it is selling the historic Allen ...
Allow us to second the motion of KARK news director Austin Kellerman in Little Rock, AR. Time for a local radio station to dump its moronic (our word) Babe Bracket, an embarrassingly-dated attempt at ...
The former Miss Connecticut (2016) Alyssa Rae Taglia has officially had the morning traffic clicker handed to her at Nexstar’s WTNH in New Haven, CT by longtime News 8 personality Terresa Dufour. Dufour is ...
Starting this weekend, you might think you stepped into a time machine if you watch “Good Morning America.” Sam Champion returns to the “GMA” weather center as Ginger Zee starts her maternity leave and ...
Our guess is that the reason FCC commissioner Brendan Carr took his argument for net neutrality’s demise to a Belgian conference is to reduce his chances for being laughed out of the room. Laughed ...
If you’re up in the Boston area and heard the rumors about longtime WHDH anchor Christa Delcamp heading for Cox-owned WFXT, hold that thought. She’s gone from the Sunbeam station after 14 years, that’s ...
It’s a school night, you’re not going anywhere. So you might as well grab some popcorn and a six-pack to settle back and watch tonight’s “State of the Union” coverage. In general, coverage will ...
Bloviator/contributor/commentator/gasbag (pick one) Ryan Lizza is back on CNN after a 7-week sojourn to sexual harassment limbo. CNN banished Lizza from the airwaves after Lizza was terminated in December by his principal employer “The ...
The suits at Tribune’s WGN knew five months ago that anchor Mark Suppelsa was putting away his anchor suit and IFB at the end of the year. And still, no replacement in sight. And ...
We were just thinking the other day that there were just not enough gasbags holding forth on those CNN shoutfests and….lo and behold… Steve Cortes is joining CNN as a contributor and political commentator. ...
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is facing federal charges after KAKE news anchor Deb Farris told local police he was sending her sensitive law enforcement material and text messages that were sexual ...
Meredith’s WGCL reported last night that the FBI arrested a Michigan man who made nearly two dozen phone threats to CNN’s Atlanta headquarters last week, threatening to kill news network employees. Brandon Griesemer was ...
Last November, NBC Sports host Bob Costas sat on a roundtable discussion in Maryland and predicted the downfall of NFL football over issues of player safety. “The cracks in the foundation are there,” Costas ...
The government shutdown enters Day Three and the ever-helpful folks at CNN, MSNBC and, occasionally, Fox News, have deployed their “count-up” clock to remind us that Congress essentially took the weekend off and left ...
Just when you thought cable news and its denizens couldn’t get any more moronic, along comes this gem. At least seven members of a cable television crew were arrested after they tried to sneak ...
Nathan Hodge, Moscow bureau chief for the “Wall Street Journal”, is joining CNN as Moscow bureau chief. The hire comes as a result of the nonstop Russia-related news, the network said In addition, CNN ...
Oh goody, two of the cable news channels have added still more clutter to their over-crowded lower third screen. An unasked-for countdown clock ticking off the minutes and hours to a government shutdown now ...
Katie Couric returns to the Peacock Network for ONE NIGHT ONLY as co-host of the Opening Ceremony for the Pyeongchang Olympics on Feb. 9. alongside Mike Tirico Couric surprised a group of reporters during ...
Jeffrey Small, a former reporter for KSDK in St.Louis and a former spokesman for the city of Ferguson, MO was charged yesterday with felony possession of methamphetamine and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia. A ...
We get a few more of these bonehead moves and we’ll end up ignoring it if the real thing ever happens. Last week, it was Hawaii’s emergency services that scared the hell out of ...
Our very best wishes to Sacramento sports anchor Gary Gelfand. Gelfand, of Tribune’s KTXL, is on medical leave after being diagnosed with leukemia, according to a station Facebook post. This is his second go-round ...
While cable news “entertainment” gasbags tie themselves into knots trying to decide whether to defend “modern-day presidential” vulgarisms or go along with an unconvincing denial, local teevee newsrooms are directed by Administration-friendly corporate bosses ...
Traveling down I-44 to Oklahoma City, the Lost Ogle blog reports that Tribune’s KFOR has lost its sugar daddy that covered the station’s Chopper Four nut. The Bob Moore Auto Group “respectfully” yanked their ...
The mystery surrounding the hiring of Katie Welshofer at Tegna’s WGRZ in Buffalo has been solved. The cable news anchor and YouTube comedienne will do some exclusive digital content and add “some entertaining content ...
A small army of personnel from the various outlets of the NBC Sports Regional Channels is being dispatched to PyeongChang, South Korea for Winter Olympic coverage. They’ll augment the NBC crew covering the Winter ...
As the FCC prepares to implement the process of flattening net neutrality rules, and several states across the country, Nebraska and California among them, consider implementing their own net neutrality regulations, it now appears ...
A bad reaction to medication is being blamed for the weekend disappearance of Texas A&M sports reporter Courtney Roland. Roland was reported missing by her roommate Sunday evening, triggering search efforts throughout the Houston ...
Minnesota Public Radio evidently has not seen the last of fired radio host Garrison Keillor. Keillor, terminated by MPR in November after allegations of “inappropriate behavior” by a person who had worked with him, ...
“The Circus” will be coming back to town come April, but minus one of its founding and most recognizable ringmasters. When the Showtime political talker comes back in April, Mark Halperin will be gone. ...
Amanda Davis, the morning anchor for Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta, suffered a massive stroke at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport late yesterday afternoon. She was rushed to the hospital, but to no avail. Last night ...
Mark your calendar. This might have been the year in which it finally dawned on network executives that paying something akin to a small nation’s gross national product to a teevee anchor is just ...
In the aftermath of the whole sorry Matt Lauer mess, NBC has issued strict new policies to deal with sexual harassment issues. Among the new rules is one that REQUIRES employees to report any ...
Elizabeth Vargas, co-anchor of ABC News’ “20/20” for the past 14 years, will leave the network when the 40th season of the newsmagazine wraps in May. She’s leaving for “other opportunities.” *wink, wink* She ...
We last watched a New Year’s Eve Countdown Show way back when Dick Clark was able to do them on his own steam and hadn’t become a prop for Ryan Seacrest. So we won’t ...
Harris Faulkner has been a mainstay with Fox News for 12 years and the past 18 months have been rather rough ones. That Ailes–O’Reilly–Shine–Bolling thing you know??? But the “Outnumbered Overtime” host does see ...
What a way to mount a defense against sexual misconduct. Suspended PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley went on “Good Morning America” Monday and flatly said, “PBS made a huge mistake.” Smiley said the ...
Omarosa Manigault lasted half a season on the inaugural run of “The Apprentice” back in 2004 before being fired by Donald Trump. Omarosa Manigault Newman lasted a little longer as a White House aide ...
Starting January 20, Neil Cavuto fans will have more than even they can handle as the host expands his Saturday presence on Fox News Channel to two hours. That’s in addition to the 15 ...
Minutes before students at West Virginia University were due to hold a news conference on campus, Matthew Fouty was removed as general manager of the university’s radio station, WWVU and temporarily reassigned. Kim Harrison, ...
Tom Ashbrook, the host of “On Point”, one of National Public Radio’s most successful programs has been placed on leave while he’s investigated for allegations of wrongdoing including engaging in “creepy” sex talks and ...
The first in a series of reports on sexual assault at the U.S. Air Force Academy aired on “CBS This Morning” Monday and it explains something viewers saw on Norah O’Donnell’s face and heard ...
