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 ...
And another one bites the dust. Steve Edwards, the longtime mainstay of “Good Day LA” on Fox owned KTTV, Los Angeles, was fired Monday. News director Kris Knutson informed that staff of the dismissal ...
As he gradually tries to make his way back into the public consciousness and seek meaningful employment, Billy Bush was the perfect guy to pen a “New York Times” op-ed titled “Yes, Donald ...
New York State attorney general Eric Schneiderman, FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel and twenty-seven senators are calling on the FCC to delay its vote on repealing its net neutrality rules next week, citing concerns ...
When you report a story that stops people in their tracks and that story helps drive a significant drop in the stock market, you’ve got a story of consequence. And when it turns out ...
Meredith Vieira — who co-hosted the "Today" show with Lauer for six years — recalled discovering a bag of sex toys in Lauer's office during a May 2016 segment of her talk show. Lauer ...
We’re gonna go out on a limb and say that Megyn Kelly’s oblique invitation to Lauer to come on her 9 AM show will go unacknowledged. Kelly made it clear any of the ...
Of course, it wouldn’t be teevee news if there weren’t speculation about the replacement with the warm body still in the room. So the names being bandied about include Anderson Cooper, the “pre-eminent ...
As we were going to press this morning, a true shocker came over the wire. NBC has fired Matt Lauer. Seems he had his own Weinstein-Ailes-O'Reilly problem. NBC took swift action hours after receiving ...
Seems the Tweeter-in-Chief has some followers among some deplorables in foreign capitals, and they’re taking cues from his recent attacks on CNN’s reporting of conditions in their country. Newsweek reports Ahmed Abu Zeid, the ...
Kris Kobach is the Kansas Secretary of State and a vice-chair of the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity. So why is he writing and getting paid for, columns for alt-right outlet Breitbart? On Tuesday, ...
Monica Lewinsky had the perfect reaction to HLN’s announcement of an upcoming two-hour special titled “The Monica Lewinsky Scandal”. The anti-bullying activist smartly corrected HLN’s announcement on Twitter, crossing out ‘The Monica Lewinsky Scandal’ ...
This one should be riveting as it unfolds in court. The Federal courtroom in Nashville will be the setting when a lawsuit filed by three popular former WSMV news people is heard. Former longtime ...
The “Washington Post’s” Paul Farhi must have been tickled pink to think he had a grabber of a story on a slow holiday weekend when he breathlessly reported that Friday’s “Morning Joe” on ...
So if you are among the lucky ESPN employees who managed to avoid being pink-slipped in the upcoming holiday down-sizing, here’s your reward: You get to attend a two-hour presentation at the network’s ...
A former production department employee at Raycom’s WAFB in Baton Rouge is being charged with two counts of video voyeurism after he visited the station and an employee discovered the man’s cell phone was ...
@realDonaldTrump @FoxNews is MUCH more important in the United States than CNN, but outside of the U.S., CNN International is still a major source of (Fake) news, and they represent our Nation to the ...
Megyn Kelly has her own Charlie Rose story to tell – one that left her more than a little pissed off and betrayed when it happened one year ago this week. “I asked Charlie ...
You may not know who Glenn Thrush is, but he is one of the latest to get swept up in sexual harassment allegations. In an article for "Vox”, reporter Laura McGann interviewed a ...
Montana Republican congressman Greg Gianforte falsely stated that Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs had initiated physical contact and that the “liberal media … is trying to make a story”, according to the police incident report ...
We will admit we never got that “thing” so many people have about Maria Bartiromo. In fact, the most memorable thing we can recount about her is that “The Ramones” recorded a song about ...
A few years back, HLN revamped its programming schedule to emphasize news during the day and true crime and investigation at night. The general format remains the same but the network is doing ...
Welcome to our first digital age news room feud: Buzzfeed vs. CNN. In this corner, CNN with 400 employees and multiple networks and digital platforms. And in this corner, Buzzfeed, a scrappy operation ...
Leeann Tweeden, the news anchor for "McIntyre in the Morning" on KABC Radio in Los Angeles, says back before he was the junior Senator from Minnesota, Al Franken groped her while she was sleeping ...
Russia’s Parliament on Wednesday approved legislation requiring foreign media organization’s to label their news product as the work of a foreign agent. This is in direct retaliation for the US requiring RT, the ...
Really, after sponsoring and airing the city’s Christmas parade for 43 years, did the Greater Raleigh Merchants Association think Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL would just slink away after losing out to Disney’s WTVD? The parade ...
How does Shep Smith stay employed? God bless him for it, though. Yesterday Smith spent an inordinate amount of time dismantling his own network’s current pet Clinton conspiracy story – the “Uranium One” agreement. ...
First it’s Neil Cavuto, who says he’s “just not interested” in doing a sit-down with the Chief Executive because it "probably would not add" value. "It’s true, no presidential interview request into the White ...
VOLVO DROPS HANNITY – HANNITY DROPS MOORE Well, it’s probably only a matter of time before we start reading about, and seeing diehard Sean Hannity fans running their Volvos into concrete walls or ...
With half the staff it once had, CT-N, the Connecticut public affairs network that provides live coverage of the Connecticut legislature is back on the air with reduced programming 13 recently pink-slipped employees got ...
Tonight at 6:30 eastern on the Fox News Channel, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum will host a town hall meeting on tax reform with House Speaker Paul Ryan. Baier will precede the town hall ...
At least six sponsors have pulled their advertising from Sean Hannity’s Fox News conspiracy-themed entertainment hour following his kid-gloves treatment of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. E-Trade, Nature's Bounty, 23 and Me, Eloquii, Realtor.com ...
Remember the ol’ days about 14 months ago, when Fox News was hugely skeptical and highly critical of Donald Trump? To quote Hillary Clinton, “What happened?” Don’t ask us. Ask Trump buddy and determinedly ...
It seems even if 21st Century Fox had manned up and moved to fire Bill O’Reilly before his new contract kicked in, they wouldn’t have been able to. O'Reilly had a clause in his ...
Fox News chief conspiracy theorist Sean Hannity took more time yesterday to announce his employer’s latest hire than he spent on election coverage Tuesday night. Election coverage lasted all of six seconds in Hannity’s ...
Why anyone would expend time and energy refuting a little pisher like Fox News entertainment host Tucker Carlson we’ll never know. But here is CNN “officially” harrumphing against Carlson’s charge that the network is ...
The networks and Texas local television have done themselves proud in their coverage of the Sutherland Springs, TX massacre over the past couple of days. Especially the local stations in San Antonio. As ...
A lack of funding and continuing interference by the state General Assembly over editorial control has forced the Connecticut Public Affairs Network to suspend operations of CT-N. The network was founded in 1999 to ...
