By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WFTX, the Fox affiliate serving the Ft. Myers/Naples, Florida, market, was officially sold to Sun Broadcasting March 2, 2026. WFTX is managed via a shared services agreement by Fort ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Madison Myers, a Dallas native, and a graduate of the University of North Texas in Denton, just made the jump from KXXV, Scripps’ ABC affiliate in Waco, to KXAN, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Molly Hudson posted on social media that she’s headed home to Phoenix. Hudson is leaving KMTV, Scripps’s CBS affiliate in Omaha, for KNXV, Scripps’ ABC affiliate in Phoenix, branded ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Taylor Justice, who spent the past two years as a reporter with KFDM, Sinclair’s CBS, The CW Plus, and Fox affiliated stations in Beaumont, Texas, is joining the Jasper ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Leah Hope is an award-winning reporter for WLS, ABC 7 News in Chicago since 1997. On Jan. 2, a little before 1 p.m., Hope was covering the impending closure ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Bruce Hamilton, a Temple grad who anchored for a station here in Philly, but has spent the majority of his career in Jacksonville, the last 25 of which were ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Michelle Dapper has been promoted to sports director at KCRA, which is believed to be the first-ever female sports director at a TV station in the Sacramento market. “A ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Dan Schrack, a news anchor for WHAM, Deerfield Media’s ABC affiliate in Rochester, NY, shares his three expert strategies for sounding more confident when speaking to others. No ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Shelby Ebertowski, a meteorologist at KSAT, Graham Media’s ABC affiliate in San Antonio, says she’s engaged. Her now-fiance Seth Germundson got down on one knee Jan. 19 while ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com DaShawn Brown loves to tell a story. But the part of her job that requires being on TV every day? She’s kind of neutral about that. Brown, 40, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Got questions about getting hired in TV news? Bring them. News Blues is helping spread the word about this live webinar, which will be recorded, the results to be ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Every year, local TV stations around the country partner with community non-profits in their community to make a measurable, meaningful difference. The list of how exactly local TV ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Tim Smith, the chief meteorologist for KRGV, the ABC affiliate for the Lower Rio Grande Valley, is one of five finalists for the 2026 National Weatherperson of the Year ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com If I could give every college student one word of advice, it would be ‘internship’. Students who complete an internship for college credit within their chosen field may ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Raymond Silva, a longtime San Antonio TV director says his “tenure is coming to an end” as AI threatens positions like his. Silva, who’s been at KENS, Tegna’s ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Kirsten Stokes, a news anchor at WDAF, Nexstar’s Fox affiliate in Kansas City, competed in a beauty pageant that raises money for a great cause. Stokes, who holds ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Lora Lavigne, currently a WRAL weekend anchor and multimedia journalist, has been named a morning anchor, stepping into the role as Michelle Mackonochie transitions to WRAL’s evening newscasts, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Hanna Conway, A traffic reporter for KSTP, Hubbard Broadcasting’s ABC affiliate serving the Twin Cities area, announced that Friday will be her last day at the station after ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Meteorologist Jake Lambright shared his last weather forecast for Central Louisiana on Dec. 26 Lambright started at KALB, Gray’s NBC, CBS and The CW affiliates in Alexandria, Louisiana, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A news story posted on social media caught my eye. The post, by Ryan Takeo, the executive reporter at KSHB, Scripps’ NBC affiliate in Kansas City, was a ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Beginning Monday, Sydney Shadrix joins Nigel Robertson as co-anchor of both the 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts. “I am deeply honored to take on this role,” Shadrix said. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Dana Oleksuk has joined KSTP, Hubbard’s ABC affiliate in the Twin Cities, as a meteorologist. Oleksuk made her debut on Sunday, with her appearance coinciding with an announcement on ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WESH 2’s 40th Share Your Christmas food and fund drive, benefiting Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, raised a total of $887,888 and collected 82,746 pounds ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WSMV, Gray’s NBC affiliate in Nashville, is making an anchor lineup change that moves a familiar face to the mornings and brings a local favorite back to ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Darya Folsom, the Bay Area’s longest-running morning news anchor is off the air at KRON, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in San Francisco. For 27 years, she rolled out ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Michael Epps joins Spectrum Sports in Tampa as a sports reporter/anchor. Epps most recently served in the same role at WDKY, Nexstar’s Fox affiliate in Lexington. Epps is ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Nexstar CEO Perry Sook said he still fully expects the local TV giant’s pending deal to acquire rival Tegna will get approved despite some surprisingly adversarial comments recently ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com If you tune in to WBRE/WYOU, Nexstar’s NBC affiliate and Mission Broadcasting’s CBS affiliate in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to catch the early morning news show with co-hosts ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In an article about how a “Jacksonville TV MMJ Finds a Touching Angle for a Common Story Covered This Time of Year” published on News Blues on ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KRON, Nexstar’s CW Network and MyNetworkTV affiliate in San Francisco, is bringing back the iconic news segment People Behaving Badly after nearly a decade-long hiatus. Legendary ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Local TV news stations are now facing a stark message as their industry faces the same financial pressures as the rest of media: adapt or die. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com You’ll soon see a new face on the KMPH, Fox 26 News at 10. Madison Macay is making a move from Reno to Fresno to be a ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com When Ryan Kath, an investigative reporter for WBTS, the NBC-owned affiliate in Boston, was looking through the case file of a pizza shop owner accused of kissing a ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Even though more Americans now use streaming services – like Netflix – than subscribe to cable or satellite TV, most people who say they get news from television ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Eric Burris has been promoted to weekday morning meteorologist at WESH, Hearst’s NBC affiliate in Orlando. An Orlando native, Burris attended Seminole State College and the University ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Perry Sook, the CEO and chairman of the largest local television and digital media company in the United States, Nexstar, sat down for a series of interviews ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Aaron Parseghian joins WBZ, the CBS-owned affiliate in Boston as a Reporter/MMJ. Parseghian, who is a native of Boston, comes to WBZ from Tampa where he was ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Mike Monsell, the VP of Marketing at WPVI, the ABC-owned affiliate in Philadelphia, is now part of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Hall of Fame. Monsell, a ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com \Christy Shields turned a childhood fear of thunderstorms into a passion for understanding the science behind the weather. “I was afraid of thunderstorms growing up as a ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The FCC, led by Chairman Brendan Carr, has started a proceeding that will examine the relationship between networks and their affiliated stations. In a new proceeding announced ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com If you’ve ever watched a police pursuit in Los Angeles, chances are you’ve heard Larry Welk’s voice from above. Welk was in the helicopter for the very first ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com If you’re in Missoula, Montana today, it’s been declared Mark Heyka Day. Mark Heyka, a meteorologist with over 42 years of broadcasting weather forecasts, including 26 years ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Hugh Johnston is ready to go 12 rounds — maybe 15. The Disney CFO said on CNBC on Thursday morning that his company, in the midst of a ...
\By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Samuel Gardner III has more than 25 years’ experience in local and national TV news. He was an assignment editor at local TV stations, at CNN and ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jeff Derderian is a freelance investigative reporter for WTNH, Nexstar’s ABC affiliate in New Haven, Connecticut. “I try to do long-form stories that I enterprise on my ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KPRC, Graham Media’s NBC affiliate in Houston, is partnering with Grizzy’s Hood News, a dynamic independent outlet known for its real-time, social-first storytelling. The strategic content partnership aims at ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Sinclair, one of the U.S.’s biggest TV station groups, saw a significant drop in revenue and swung to a net loss for the third quarter of 2025. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KPRC, Graham Media’s NBC affiliate in Houston, announces that longtime morning anchor Owen Conflenti is leaving the station. Sean McLaughlin, KPRC’s GM, says, “We appreciate Owen’s many contributions ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Local TV news photographers are usually easy to spot in the newsroom. While the anchors and reporters are in suits and dresses, the photogs are in ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com NOTE: This is from the latest edition of “The Topline” from TVND.Com, written by Kirk Varner. News Blues does accept submissions for Guest Commentaries, but we reserve ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Everybody in broadcasting wants to know what Perry Sook thinks. As founder and chairman of Nexstar, the largest local broadcasting and media company in the United ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WVTM, Hearst’s NBC affiliate in Birmingham, is shaking up its weekday anchor lineups. Carla Wade will now co-anchor WVTM’s 5, 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts with ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KCCI, Hearst’s CBS affiliate in Des Moines, took home multiple wins at the Upper Midwest Regional Emmy® Chapter, The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Saturday night ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In September, a survey of 1,101 adults examined news consumer behavior in Chicago, but it can be taken as a microcosm for what is happening locally across ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WCCO, CBS Minnesota, the CBS-owned affiliate in Minneapolis, is making new programming changes to its afternoon and evening lineups. Beginning Monday, Sept. 8, the station will air ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The distance between Norfolk and the southern edge of the station’s coverage in the Outer Banks is 110 miles. The distance between Norfolk and the eastern ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Mike Jerrick will host MIKE, a late-night talk show on WTXF, FOX 29 this Fall, announced the station. Set to debut on September 8th, this locally-produced, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WZBJ24, Gray’s MyNetworkTV affiliate in Roanoke, is airing five Roanoke College home football games during the upcoming 2025 season. This year marks the first season of varsity ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com It was a Promax Station Summit favorite. You remember the concept. Four local TV stations’ creative services departments are given the same news story to promote. Each ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Kyle Carmean has been promoted to Vice President of News and Content for WTTG FOX 5 DC and WDCA FOX 5 Plus, announces Senior Vice President and ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Starting August 18, WSB is shaking up its daytime programming lineup. The Drew Barrymore Show starts at 10 a.m. on Channel 2. The show is ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Clear The Shelters, NBCUniversal Local’s nationwide pet adoption and donation initiative – which has helped nearly 1.2 million pets find new homes and raised more than $5 ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Hearst Television has established a fellowship honoring Suzanne Grethen, a Hearst Television executive who led the company’s promotion and marketing efforts for more than a dozen years ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Hal Eisner, KTTV, Fox 11’s anchor and reporter, sits down for an emotional and revealing farewell interview after decades in broadcast journalism. “I like this ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In January, Allen Media Group, announced that local weather coverage would be provided by the Allen-owned, Atlanta-based The Weather Channel going forward. This set off an uproar ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In New York City, an ambitious new initiative, Journalism For All, that aims to grow and support high school journalism across the city, is underway this year ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Bill Ritter is stepping away from his nightside anchor duties at WABC, the New York ABC- owned station after more than 25 years. “After more than 25 years ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Josh Helmuth, the morning news anchor and co-managing editor at KRDO, the News-Press & Gazette’s ABC affiliate in Colorado Springs, recently showed a slideshow to newsroom staffers ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KCAL and KCBS, branded as CBS Los Angeles is partnering with LAist, an award-winning member-supported public media organization to provide significantly enhanced local news coverage for Angelenos. The ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Marisa DeCandido, a consultant at Magid focusing on Brand Strategy and Innovation, posted an article on December 30th detailing the 5 things local newsrooms should let go of ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Elizabeth Garcia is the new Assistant News Director at WJZ, the CBS affiliate in Baltimore branded as CBS Baltimore. Garcia was most recently the morning news director ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Kirk Varner announced he will retire at the end of January in 2025 after five and a half years as news director at KSTP, Hubbard’s ABC affiliate in ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WAVY, Nexstar’s NBC affiliate serving the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, is once again returning to its “10 On Your Side Coats for Families” drive, dedicated to keeping ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Molly Hawley is the new sales manager at WDAF, Nexstar’s Fox affiliate in Kansas City. Hawley is returning to her hometown after serving as sales manager at KMOV-TV ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In the local TV news business, on-air talent come and sometimes, they go. Sometimes, circumstances mandate that they just disappear from the air waves, their picture is scrubbed ...
Stephanie Wade joins WLS, the ABC O&O in Chicago as a general assignment reporter. Wade has freelanced at the station since 2021. Wade is a graduate of DePaul University. Stephanie Wade is represented by ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Megaphone TV is thrilled to announce Andrew Davis’s appointment as its new Manager of Ad Growth. Davis will drive advertising and sponsorship revenue for Megaphone TV’s clients by leveraging ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com New TV job openings posted to News Blues include openings in Houston, Dayton and Albuquerque. These are FREE job openings posted to News Blues for a week ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Most people think of Larry Potash as the morning news anchor on WGN in Chicago where he’s held court over a newscast not like any other in ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KESQ, the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs, California, owned by Gulf California Broadcast Company, debuted its new set earlier this month. The new set was designed and constructed by ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com John Hendon, assistant chief photographer for WYFF, Hearst’s NBC affiliate in Greenville, South Carolina, has been named to the prestigious Silver Circle of the National Academy of Television ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Andrea Henderson, a reporter/anchor for KDVR, Nexstar’s Fox affiliate in Denver is moving time slots from 7 at night to 4:30 in the morning. Previously, Henderson co-anchored 2Prime ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com As students return to the classroom in schools over the country, local TV stations have been stepping up to organize and host drives to collect money for ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Two news franchises airing weekly on KABB, Sinclair’s Fox affiliate in San Antonio, are shot entirely on iPhones with one also edited on the iPhone. “I’m coming up on ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com American streamers may not love watching commercials, but they are more than happy to watch content with advertising if it means they wind up paying less for a premium ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KADN and KLAF, Allen Media’s Fox and NBC affiliate in Lafayette, LA., announce a major shift from viewers in the late local news in the May 2024 ratings, ...
NBC10 Boston is losing a reporter to a new industry. Kathryn Sotnik got her start 18 years ago in Atlantic City, New Jersey as a small town general assignment reporter. She’s worked her way ...
In West Palm Beach, the Hearst station took the win for most unique website users in November. WPBF took the win and the station’s digital manager Brandon Lopez says he is proud of the ...
ABC News has hired a new person to join the corporate PR team. Alison Rudnick will join as Vice President of corporate communications. She comes from CNN, where she was Vice President of communications ...
