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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Twitter is agog, the late-night hosts have a fresh source of material and cable news panels will be convening everywhere but Fox News, over the revelation that the third “mystery” client of Trump fixer ...
How does the job of “Media Prep Technician” sounds to you? What does a “Media Prep Technician” do? It says here: [R]esponsible for subject matter knowledge and problem solving in all areas of Studio ...
The University of Missouri School of Journalism is pondering a possible ban of Sinclair Broadcast Group from its student recruitment efforts at the school So far, 16 journalism school deans and department chairs have ...
Edward Lawrence, who has freelanced for….well…everybody, including NBC News, CBS News, MSNBC and Global News Canada is now a fulltime assignment reporter covering economic and political breaking news for Fox Business. He’ll work out ...
It was last November that a “Washington Post” article told the stories of eight women who accused longtime TV host Charlie Rose of making unwanted sexual advances, walking around naked in front of them, ...
Looks like St. Louis broadcast bonehead Jamie Allman not only lost his nightly “news” program on Sinclair’s KDNL, but now he’s taking one of those by-now-standard “Fox vacations” that hosts take after they’ve stepped ...
Newsmax is sending a clear message it intends to step up its game with the hiring of former Fox News executive Michael Clemente as the new CEO of its television arm, Newsmax TV. It ...
After just over three and a half years, Kenny Plotnik is out the door as vice-president and news director of NBC10 Boston, NECN and Telemundo Boston. The station staff got the word Monday morning ...
Take their word for it, Raycom’s WBTV in Charlotte, NC is heading down the nontraditional route with its latest offering, “On Your Side Tonight with Jamie Boll”, which debuts tonight at 7:30. The new ...
“Chicago’s Very Own” could be in a spot of trouble. As staffers at Tribune’s WGN nervously prepare for what appears to be the inevitable takeover by Sinclair, a competitor has the station in its ...
Bill Maher, no fan of snarky Fox News entertainer Laura Ingraham, came to her defense on his HBO program over the weekend. While calling her a “deliberately terrible person,” Maher faced down an audience ...
CNN International business anchors Maggie Lake and Richard Quest launched a weekly 15-minute streaming program from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The program airs Wednesdays and will feature exclusive access to ...
The so-called “promo announcements” that Sinclair Broadcast mandated its local anchors deliver convincingly – or else – blatantly adopted Trumpian talking points about “fake news” and biased reporting and, only retroactively tried to refine ...
It is fairly evident that Sinclair’s overall contempt for real journalism is a top-down philosophy. For an example, we can reach back to an email exchange in November between David Smith, Sinclair’s executive chairman, ...
John Berman is the official replacement on CNN’s “New Day” for Chris Cuomo as Cuomo departs for prime-time. But for the past couple of days, with Cuomo off, Jim Sciutto has been filling in ...
You don’t have to actually accept a job to work in this Administration. You could be on a Fox cable network or a Sinclair local station and you could become an ex officio advisor. ...
It’s vacation week for Fox News talker Laura Ingraham, although she didn’t know it last Thursday. And it is more than likely that she is spending this vacation week nervously monitoring the still-growing list ...
So how do you replace a legend like Don Imus? You make sure Juliet Huddy, who quietly left her anchor slot at Fox News in September 2016 with what was later revealed to be ...
Guess who’s taking a vacation this week? As the list of sponsors bailing on her Fox News entertainment hour hit (by some accounts) 17, Laura Ingraham announced she’s taking a post-Easter week off. It ...
When he stepped down from his post at Sinclair’s WZTV as the “dean of Nashville sportscasters,” Paul Jones declared he wanted to ‘find a new challenge and something that excites me and that I ...
Facing the possibility of a growing advertiser boycott, Fox News prime-time entertainer/agitator Laura Ingraham tried going the apology route. In recent weeks, right-wing pundits have found themselves stymied by the continued successful activism of ...
It wasn’t enough that KMSP news reporter Courtney Godfrey lost the lower part of her left leg in a boating accident last summer. The Minneapolis reporter was then shocked to learn that the boat’s ...
Station managers lobbied behind the scenes against it and few working teevee journalists were willing to risk management wrath to go on the record supporting it. But the state of Utah now has a ...
Alexis Orengo joins “Noticiero Telemundo 39 a las 11 am” on KTVX and will also deliver local weather forecasts during the weekday early morning news cut-ins. He started this week. Pablo Sánchez Nuñez will ...
On the first day she walks into her new office at Disney’s WABC, newly-named president and GM Debra O’Connell will get to confront the human resources train wreck left behind by her predecessor, Dave ...
Working in this Administration is, at this point, better characterized as being cast for a part. The latest example, of course, is the improbably-named Caroline Sunshine, late of the Disney Channel’s “Shake It Up”, ...
A quarter century is enough for San Antonio’s Steve Browne, the longtime weather guesser at Graham Media’s KSAT. No more vegetable garden. Wave buh-bye to the critter cam. They’ve got him through May sweeps, ...
Terrance Bates returned to the studio this morning to anchor the news on Bahakel’s WCCB in Charlotte, NC after assault charges were dropped against him Bates was arrested on March 6th and spent a ...
News director Gilberto Companioni was among a group of people “realigned” out of a job Tuesday as Telemundo began to put its stamp on recently-acquired WTMO in Orlando. WTMO was one of 13 ZGS ...
Joe Antonelli is the new vice-president and general manager of Scripps’ WGBA/WACY duopoly in Green Bay, WI. He’s coming from sister station WFTX in Ft. Myers, FL, where he’s been director of sales for ...
Amid much fanfare, John Fugelsang was heralded as the main host of the “Page Six” syndicated gossip/”news” program last fall. His exit was considerably quieter. Fugelsang is already gone and, for the rest of ...
We normally don’t cover the food fights between the cable news outlets. The charges, countercharges and insults are as enlightening and mature as a spitting contest between a septuagenarian President and a septuagenarian former ...
PBS finally made official what has been fact for a year and a half. Going forward, Judy Woodruff will be the solo anchor for the “PBS News Hour.” That’s been the case ever since ...
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman has the lowdown on the exit of Nexstar’s KRON evening anchor anchor Steve Aveson who is being shown the door at the end of the month when his contract ...
Perhaps Aveson should rally social media to his side. After former noon anchor Flora Posteraro announced her forced departure from Nexstar’s WHTM last week, Harrisburg, PA area social media went to work. To date, ...
The top Democrat of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), says whistleblowers are alleging a plot to remove the current CEO of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the agency which controls ...
And speaking of Cambridge Analytica, its CEO Alexander Nix was suspended Tuesday after he was recorded bragging that his company had managed to influence more than 200 elections around the world. Britain’s Channel 4 ...
Retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters did not feel the need to sugar coat his exit as a longtime Fox News “strategic analyst.” Peters, a decade-long fixture at Fox News, quite Tuesday, denouncing ...
The disappearance of a web bio for WXYZ morning anchor Malcolm Maddox appears to confirm what some folks on the Tipline told us over the weekend. The morning anchor for the Scripps’ Detroit station ...
Another former Fox News anchor is moving up in the State Department. Heather Nauert, the former Fox News anchor who never gained the trust of Rex Tillerson, is now the fourth-ranking person in the ...
Maybe this is a hint of where Tegna intends to take its “Daily Blast Live.” You’ve been warned. The former executive producer of the “Jerry Springer Show” has been hired as the KUSA-produced show’s ...
One of the few actual journalists at Fox News is sticking around. Shep Smith just signed a new multi-year deal to continue as Chief News Anchor and Managing Editor of Breaking News. No, nobody’s ...
“The New York Times” has finally taken notice of what some others have noted for some time. Foxnews.com has a heavy-breathing obsession with female sex offenders – especially teachers. “Through the first half of ...
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, ...
