IS TV VIEWERSHIP DYING?
This is a question many of us talk about daily. To the unemployed who can’t seem to land a job due to shrinking newsrooms, sure it is. Or is it? Forbes has an interesting ...
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TV TO PUBLIC RADIO
A new energy’s jazzing up Minnesota Public Radio airwaves. Angela Davis, an Emmy winner who spent more than two decades anchoring and reporting television news for WCCO (CBS) and KSTP (ABC), joined the station ...
LIFE AFTER CNN
You may remember Bill Tush, he was the guy 16 years ago who was at all the red carpets for CNN, talking with the stars and giving the dirt before it was hip to ...
WFLA ANCHOR ARREST
The Tampa Bay Times is reporting WFLA (NBC) Morning Anchor Marco Villarreal has been arrested. It happened Sunday night, according to jail records and the TV station. 37-tear-old Villarreal,was arrested on a charge of ...
DIVERSITY IN DENVER
You may recall this past August, when Denver longtime KUSA (NBC) anchor and reporter TaRhonda Thomas left the station to move with her family to Philadelphia. She landed at WPVI (ABC) in Philly earlier this year ...
AND ON THE UNDERCARD….WITH A NEW NAME
“Fightin’ Anchor” Chelsea Ambriz, she of the infamous West Virginia bar fight from last September, is trying to rehabilitate the career that ran aground as the result of the brawl. As we reported last ...
NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE
A little something called the Heimlich maneuver saved the life of KING‘s (NBC) Alex Rozier. The reporter took to social media praising the life saving procedure saying he choked while at a party. Folks ...
REPORTER VS. SNOWPLOW
Speaking of weather, we are in the middle of the winter and we thought we’d show you every reporters nightmare captured on cam a few weeks back. Laura Perrot — a reporter for WCAV ...
MONTANA SAYS PLEASE ID
A bill being considered by Montana lawmakers would require media outlets owned by out-of-state corporations to prominently identify their owners and their headquarters in large print on the front of their publications and on ...
TAKES A LICKIN’ BUT KEEPS ON TICKIN’
So, you old timers out there may remember the slogan above which was used for a watch brand. Unfortunately, a CBC reporter had to deal with a modern day version of that as some ...
VERNE LUNDQUIST HONORED
Verne Lundquist, was honored Tuesday at the Headliners Club in Austin Texas. Dozens turned out including KEYE (CBS) General Manager Amy Villarreal and CBS Sports guy James Brown. Money raised will fund creation of ...
OUT THE DOOR IN VEGAS
Tracie McKinney is out after six months as ND for Scripps’ KTNV in Las Vegas, NV. She was the interim ND for three months, filling in after Mike Dello Stritto left to return to Sacramento as ND ...
HEARST MOVES ORLANDO EXEC TO JACKSON, MI
Come March 4th, Rick McLaughlin will take the reins of WAPT, the Hearst station in Jackson MS. He’s moving into the top slot at the station from the number two position in the newsroom ...
MEDIA HIT LIST
Authorities arrested a United States Coast Guard lieutenant on drug and gun charges last week, but according to court documents, those charges were only the “tip of the iceberg.” Christopher Paul Hasson is accused ...
ON SET PROPOSAL
So, just last week was Valentines day and we predicted something mushy, er, romantic would happen at a TV station and yep it did, in Indianapolis. Love was on the set in the WTTV ...
CIRCUS FINAL SHOW
You probably covered this in your newscasts a few years back, when after a run of 146 years, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, known as “The Greatest Show on Earth,” came ...
REPORT: MOONVES DUMPED STOCK
CBS’ ex-boss Les Moonves and other top execs dumped a “suspicious” amount of stock — worth more than $200 million — as an epic sexual harassment scandal engulfed the company, according to fresh allegations ...
TAMPA FIRED ANCHOR AIRS DIRTY LAUNDRY
Former WTSP (CBS) news anchor Reginald Roundtree defended his career and ethics during a radio interview Monday, the first time he’s spoken publicly since he was fired from the TV station. Speaking on WFLA ...
FOX ANCHOR: DIRTY SECRET
There’s always something interesting to say the least said on the daily Fox and Friends Morning Show. If they aren’t plugging each others books, or exchanging gifts they sometimes tell their dirty little secrets ...
ND MAKES CROSS-COUNTRY MOVE
Cheryl Carson will start February 18th as news director for Sinclair Broadcasting’s WJLA-TV (ABC) in Washington, DC. She spent the last three years as ND for Tegna’s KING/KONG in Seattle and worked there for ...
ND ISSUES SUPER CHALLENGE
We all know that the night of the Super Bowl is usually huge when it comes to the numbers of viewers. Some keep the TV on as their party rages and the keg empties, ...
REPORTERS DETAINED & HANDCUFFED
A pair of Columbia South Carolina TV reporters were detained Tuesday and handcuffed by security officers at a troubled public housing complex where two men died this month. Jenna Kurzyna and Susan Ardis from ...
KDKA LOOKING FOR CHYRON PERSON
A Pittsburgh TV station has fired the employee responsible for adding a “Known Cheater” graphic under Tom Brady during footage of him speaking at the Patriots send-off rally on Sunday. @KDKA throwing the shade at Brady ? pic.twitter.com/ZPs7gLU8Lf ...
THE CASE OF THE MISSING SPORTSCASTER
More than a month after sportscaster Anthony Amey left Cox-owned WSB in Hotlanta after nearly nine years, viewers are still evidently wondering what happened to him and we’re getting questions. Somehow, they missed it ...
BUMPED UP AT NBC REGIONAL SPORTS OPERATION
Kevin Cross, a Chicago native who has spent his entire tv career in the Windy City, is the new senior vice president/general manager of NBC Sports Chicago. It’s a promotion for Cross, who most ...
KDFW MORNING SHOW UPDATE
KDFW (FOX) has named veteran reporter and overall nice guy Brandon Todd to be the permanent co-anchor of the station’s 4 to 6 a.m. portions of weekday morning show in Dallas Texas. He joins Hanna ...
REPORTER LOSES COOL ON AIR
Philadelphia station WTXF (FOX) sent reporter Chris O’Connell to New Orleans for Sunday’s NFC divisional game between the Eagles and the Saints. As part of his live shot, the station had O’Connell report from ...
NEXSTAR GOES ALL OUT FOR NEW YEARS EVE
Not sure if you saw it but the folks at Nexstar pulled off a herculean task this week utilizing their stations in 21 markets and 5 states to broadcast a massive New Years Eve ...
A CHRISTMAS STORY
So, hopefully, everyone had a nice Christmas, even those who had to put in a day at the office. Not sure about you, but for some reason, an empty newsroom at 8:30 AM Christmas ...
COMINGS AND GOINGS
WTNH in New Haven has hired meteorologist Ashley Baylor from Nexstar sister station WAVY in Norfolk/Hampton Roads Virginia. Before working at WAVY, she spent 4 years at WWLP in Springfield, MA. ———— After 22 ...
GOTTA BECAREFUL WITH WEB PHOTOS
A federal judge ruled Esquire’s parent company is liable for copyright infringement for publishing a photo snapped by a guest showing President Donald Trump crashing a wedding at Trump National Golf Club. On Monday, ...
WELL, HE TRIED…
The mayor of Newburgh Heights, OH was so offended by a WEWS investigative report on his village’s billing practices that he convinced a couple of councilman to join in a lawsuit against the station, ...
CBS SETTLES CHARLIE ROSE-RELATED HARASSMENT LAWSUIT
The three women who accused former “CBS This Morning” host Charlie Rose of sexual harassment have reached a settlement with CBS. Brooks Harris and Chelsea Wei, who worked with Rose at “CBS This Morning,” ...
THE BIG 25
Belinda Jensen has been believing and selling the weather at KARE (NBC) for 25 years now, first as a weekend forecaster and now as chief meteorologist. She’s also been the Twin Cities station Saturday ...
SINGING REPORTER
WXII (NBC) reporter Meredith Stutz took holiday song requests while covering Winter Storm Diego in Mount Airy, North Carolina. This may be the best live shot from the winter storm so far. Watch out Jim Cantore…can you ...
FORMER BIRMINGHAM WEATHER GUESSER JAILED
Last spring, Nexstar’s WIAT in Birmingham, AL dumped Mark Prater after he spent ten years at the station. He spent part of this week behind bars, jailed on a felony stalking charge. Prater is ...
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
A very large opossum walked right through a reporter’s live shot last week about holiday traffic for the Thanksgiving Day weekend. Thankfully, WCBS‘ Jenna DeAngelis was unaware of the unscripted cameo. Opossum crashes WCBS reporter Jenna ...
WHEN THE SECOND ACT IS POLITICS
Former Chicago feature reporter and AM traffic anchor Dawn DeSart found herself making news last week. The former staffer at NBC O&O WMAQ was part of a “political tsunami” that carried seven Democrats — ...
ELECTION LEFTOVERS
Veteran journalist María Elvira Salazar’s maiden political outing ran aground in Miami on Tuesday. She lost the race to replace Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in Congress to Democrat Donna Shalala, a former President of the University ...
REPORTER HAS A NOSE FOR…MUSIC?
Reporters are said to have “a nose for news” but how about music? WGNO (ABC) reporter Kenny Lopez may also have a future in the music business. Well, maybe. A bit of clowning around ...
AND THEN THERE IS THE NEW BOSS
Petelin was not the only new face coming to KDKA at the end of the week. As we reported to you last Friday, Kathy Hostetter, who’s been the ND for Dispatch’s WTHR in Indianaopolis, ...
THIS DRESS CODE IDEA IS GIBBERISH
As we watched all of the pre-game, halftime and post-game football programs this past weekend, we couldn’t help but observes that EVERY on-set male was….gulp…wearing a tie. “How,” we asked ourselves, “can the audience ...
HEADING WEST
Casey Clark will move west to become the ND for Meredith’s KCTV in Kansas City. Here’s the note from GM Chuck Poduska to the staff. Casey has spent the last 2+ years as ND for Hubbard’s ...
ANOTHER CANCER BATTLE FACES TWIN CITIES ANCHOR
KARE-11 anchor Randy Shaver is once again battling cancer – 20 years after his first go-round with the disease. He tweeted out the news: This time prostate cancer. 20 years ago it was Hodgkin’s ...
THERE SHE IS, MRS. GEORGIA WITH THE FORECAST
Liana Brackett is a meteorologist for The Weather Channel. She is also Mrs. Georgia America 2018 and will compete in the Mrs. America pageant on August 25. She won the title in her first-ever ...
WHAT??! NO HAZARD PAY?
This is what a “less-than-lethal” impact round can do to you. It was sustained by KATU photojournalist Ric Peavyhouse while he covered a protest in Portland, Ore. on August 4th during which the right-wing ...
WE INTERRUPT THIS NEWSLETTER FOR BREAKING NEWS….
ABC News has a name and a logo for its soon-to-be-unveiled third hour of “Good Morning America.” “GMA Day” will eventually replace “The Chew” at 1 PM weekdays. WHEN that happens is still a ...
LES WHO?
Some folks will go to great lengths to pretend they never knew him.
HANSEN TEARS JERRY JONES A NEW ONE
Dallas sportscaster Dale Hansen is a national treasure. We are frequently reminded of that when one of his local sports commentaries on Tegna’s WFAA bursts into the national conscience. His latest commentary aimed squarely ...
CALIFORNIA FIRES FORCE TV STATION EVACUATION
Sinclair’s KRCR in Redding went off air last week as anchors were forced to evacuate their studio live on air while they reported on an approaching wildfire “Right now, we are being evacuated,” anchor ...
DOBBS UNHINGED
We ran across an op-ed that asked the question “At What Point Does Lou Dobbs Become an Actual Liability For Fox?” In recent months Dobbsy has suggested the White House assign someone to slap ...
NBC NEWS SHUFFLES, EXPANDS D.C. BUREAU
A new round of promotions and additions was announced for the Washington D.C. Bureau of NBC News. NBC News vet Tony Capra is the newly-minted director of newsgathering for the division. Capra’s been with ...
MEMPHIS REPORTER CAPTURES LIGHTNING STRIKE
Chris Luther of Raycom’s WMC said station staff think the TV station was struck by lightning. WMC Chief Meteorologist Ron Childers confirmed the station took a direct hit from lightning. The signal froze for ...
COLUMBIA, MO REPORTER UNDER FIRE; STATION APOLOGIZES
A lesson in the perils of using Facebook as a news source: Kelsey Kernstine, a reporter for News-Press and Gazette’s KMIZ in Columbia, MO found herself in deep water last week when a misread ...
CHRIS WALLACE PUTIN IN TIME WITH RUSSIAN LEADER EXCLUSIVE
Evidently, Mr. Trump’s favorite news channel is a favorite of Russia’s Vladimir Putin After next week’s Putin-Trump summit in Helsinki, Finland, Putin will sit down with Fox News’ Chris Wallace for an exclusive one-on-one. ...
CNNer WHO RESIGNED OVER RETRACTED STORY NOW RUNNING CBSNEWS.COM
Lex Haris, the former head of “CNN Investigates” is now the interim head of CBSNews.com. His appointment was made without fanfare in an internal memo announcing six new job appointments. Haris was one of ...
ILLINOIS REPORTER/ANCHOR MEETS HIS WATERLOO
Collin Dorsey recently signed on as an anchor at Quincy Media’s KWWL in Waterloo, IA. He previously was at Wheeler Broadcasting’s WSIL in Carbondale, IL, where he started as a reporter and eventually became ...
“SNAKES. WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE SNAKES?”
All KTHV sports anchor Hayden Balgavy wanted to do was have a good time covering the College World Series in Omaha, NE. Then he got spooked by a python that was being held by ...
WKMG TO EXPAND MORNING NEWS OFFERINGS
We reported it yesterday, now it is confirmed that Graham Media’s WKMG in Orlando, FL is launching a new 9 AM newscast on July 2. “News 6 at Nine” will be hosted by Candace ...
TV VIEWERS IN ONE MASSACHUSETTS COUNTY CAN’T GET MASSACHUSETTS NEWS
Berkshire County, Massachusetts is the westernmost county in the state. For years it has been included in the Albany, New York DMA. Despite frequent battles over the years with other cable operators, things were ...
A “MOST SURREAL” ASSIGNMENT
CBS News foreign correspondent Ben Tracy recently was one of under two dozen media personnel on hand in North Korea to witness what the North Koreans claim is the destruction of their main nuclear ...
WELL. AS LONG AS IT’S FOR A CAUSE
This morning, after much fanfare, at Tegna’s WTLV in Jacksonville, “First Coast News” anchor Lewis Turner shed his much-discussed beard. But since sweeps is over, it was best to put a community service face ...
TIME TO GO STRATEGIC
Tara Puckey will be the first director of strategic initiatives for RTDNA Pucky will assist the RTDNA and RTDNF as well as Dan Shelley in cultivating and managing business partnerships. We used to call ...
FORMER AUSTIN ANCHOR TAKES PR JOB
Seven years after leaving the anchor desk at KVUE in Austin, TX, Olga Campos has entered the wonderful world of PR. She’s joined marketing and public relations agency Bloom Communications as Community Development Director. ...
POLITICIAN GOES PROFANE- STATION GULPS AND RUNS THE AD
Maybe this is how political ads should be – the candidate standing in front of the camera with no gimmicks, saying what’s on his mind in plain speaking fashion. Or not. Pat Davis, an ...
LESS FACE TIME FOR KC STALWART
It was just under four years ago that Kansas City tv veteran Joel Nichols joined the lineup of “KC Live” on Scripps’ KSHB in Kansas City. Last week he indicated on Facebook that his ...
MR. WOLFORD HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
Chalk up another firing to cost-cutting. After 13 years at the anchor desk, Las Vegas anchor Steve Wolford was shown the door at Scripps’ KTNV. Wolford has nearly 40 years of experience on his ...
CINCY STATION CONFRONTS BONEHEAD AND HIS COLLECTION OF LAWN JOCKEYS
A suburban Cincinnati man found himself the center of some unwanted attention when Maytal Levi, a reporter for Raycom’s WXIX, confronted him about the collection of Confederate flags and lawn jockeys with Afro wigs ...
LONE US REPORTER ON HAND FOR SYRIA STRIKE
For those of you who track these things, CBS News correspondent Seth Doane was the only U.S. teevee network correspondent on the ground in Syria at the time that missiles were landing last Friday ...
ST. LOUIS RADIO STATION FIRES BONEHEAD TALK SHOW HOST
That St. Louis radio/TV host who lost his slot on Sinclair’s KDNL earlier this week over an indisputably sick tweet about his desire to sexually violate Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg also lost ...
UH…GUYS THAT’S NOT SYRIA
Tuesday night on the “CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor,” the topic was the United States weighing the possibility of military action in Syria in response to a chemical attack on Damascus. The graphic ...
BIRMINGHAM ANCHOR UNDERGOES TESTS AFTER HEALTH SCARE
Birmingham, AL anchor Beth Shelburne of Raycom’s WBRC is keeping her viewers informed of her health situation after she suffered what appeared to be a heart attack on Monday. As of Thursday, she’s still ...
TRUCK SLAMS INTO HARTFORD TV STATION
One of two vehicles involved in a morning rush accident in Hartford Connecticut Tuesday morning went sailing into part of the Fox 61 (WTIC) building. Anchor Tim Lammers told viewers of the accident during ...
SD CONSUMER WATCHDOG IS OUT THE DOOR
We had this one ready for yesterday, but it got overlooked in the editing process. Better late than never. Or something. KUSI’s consumer reporter Michael Turko did his last desk-pounding last week. He spent ...
BETTY ANN BOWSER
Betty Ann Bowser was one of teevee news’ pioneers. Her career started at WAVY in Norfolk, VA in 1966 and by the early 70’s she was one of only two women in the newsroom ...
LEAVING THE BUSINESS FOR SOMETHING ELSE
Tomorrow is Ken Brewer’s last day calling the weather shots on Nexstar’s WISH in Indianapolis, something he’s been doing for the last 17 years. He sent out his thanks to viewers already. “I want ...
ANOTHER VOICE JOINS THE CHORUS AGAINST SINCLAIR-TRIB
“The Los Angeles Times” is joining the growing list of media outlets, individuals and citizens’ groups voicing loud and insistent opposition to the merger of Tribune Media with Sinclair Broadcast Group. No, it’s not ...
CNN LONDON – THE NO-FUN ZONE
If you want to pretend you’d remain cool, calm and collected if Jennifer Lawrence walked into your office, keep up the delusional front. A recent visit by Lawrence to the London Bureau of CNN ...
WKMG LAUNCHING A NEW WEEKEND NEWSCAST
A lot of local weekend news around the country really consists of very little news and a lot of feature stories re-purposed from the weekday newscasts. Graham Media’s WKMG in Orlando, FL has come ...
SNOWBOARDING WITH CASSIDY
Cassidy Quinn, a reporter for Tegna’s KGW in Portland, OR and prolific YouTube vlogger, took viewers along via “Facebook Live” as she snowboarded down a mountain near Pyeongchang, South Korea. “This is playing and ...
A CANDIDATE FOR THE FEBRUARY BLOOPER LIST
Tulsa, OK sports reporter/anchor Harold Kuntz was ready to do his segment on Griffin Communications’ KOTV 9 p.m. newscast on sister station KQCW when he learned his beloved Philadelphia Eagles had won the Super ...
HOLT WANTS MORE DIVERSITY AT WKRN
A year after she stepped away from the anchor desk at Nexstar’s WKRN in Nashville, veteran anchor/producer/reporter Anne Holt decided the time was right to dress down her bosses over the lack of diversity ...
WHEN ONE GETS PROMOTED, SOMEONE GETS…GONE
Newton’s Third Law is regularly demonstrated in the teevee business. A week ago, we reported to you that Amanda Porterfield was promoted at Weigel’s WDJT in Milwaukee, WI to the weekday noon and 4 ...
TEEVEE PHOTOGRAPHER PUTS FAMILY FIRST
Chad Darnell, assistant chief photographer, at Paxton’s WPSD in Paducah, KY. is a guy who’s got his priorities in order. Just after Darnell dropped his daughter off at Marshall County High School Wednesday morning ...
KOMO CREW RATTLED BY WRONG-WAY DRUNK DRIVER
It could have been ugly for a news crew from KOMO in Seattle, WA the other night. They were on their way back from an assignment when a bonehead driving a Ford Ranger came ...
UNIVISION DUMPS TWO – COST CUTTING?
Univision’s morning show “Despierta América” is minus two air personalities with the dropping of Lourdes Stephen and Orlando Segura Stephen was a 15-year Univision veteran. Both hosted specialty segments on the AM program. A ...
OH, SURE YOU CAN LAUGH ABOUT IT NOW
The new reigning queens of morning television paid a visit to Jimmy Fallon the other night to promote NBC coverage of the Olympics, their morning show and to share a couple of laughs. The ...
KIDS, SHE IS A PROFESSIONAL…
You gotta love those anomalous weather events that tempt reporters into stunts like frying an egg on the sidewalk on a hot August day, doing a standup outside in a hurricane so they can ...
FORMER FOX ANCHOR LABELS FOX NEWS “TRUMP NEWS NETWORK”
Is Fox News now the “Trump News Network?” Andy Levy is a former co-host of Fox News Channel’s now-canceled tepid attempt at late-night humor “Red Eye,” and he seems to think so Andy now ...
CBS EVENING NEWS WITH JEFF GLOR DEBUTS MONDAY
In case it slipped by over the long holiday weekend (it certainly eluded us), the Glor era begins next Monday as Jeff Glor takes over anchor chores on the “CBS Evening News”. Maybe ...
KISS FRONTMAN MISBEHAVES – GETS BANNED FROM FOX NEWS
Yes, it’s true. Gene Simmons, the perpetually adolescent lead singer of nostalgia rock act Kiss has been banned for life from Fox News. His picture posted at the security entrance and everything. Simmons, ...
‘SCUSE ME WHILE I REAPPEAR
With barely a ripple, anchor Don Postles of Nexstar’s WIVB in Buffalo, NY slipped back into his usual anchor chair after an unexplained absence of several weeks. Whatever the still-officially-unexplained reason, it appeared to ...
TUBA SERENADE
Tubas aren’t your normal accompaniment to a fine dining experience. What if the tuba is played by the dude who does the weather on your local tv station? The time: Tuesday night. The place: ...
VIN SCULLY HAS SUNDAYS FREE
Over the weekend at the Pasadena Civic Center in California, the legendary Vin Scully was the main attraction at something called “An Evening With Vin Scully.” And, as you might expect with a Hall ...
FIRE FORCES EVACUATION AT WRAL
Something like this can certainly mess up planning for the late newscast. A fire Friday night in Raleigh, NC forced the evacuation of the newsroom at Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL. The alarm went out ...