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 ...
From the beginning, NewsBlues has had an anonymous tip line. It’s untraceable and, if you’ve got a story, it’s a way to get the word out. You’ll find it over on the right hand ...
President Donald Trump has nominated FCC commissioner Michael O’Rielly for a new, five-year term. O’Reilly’s term expired at the end of June 2019, but commissioners can continue to serve until the close of the ...
NAB President and CEO Gordon Smith Wednesday issued the following letter to the NAB Show community regarding plans for NAB Show in light of coronavirus concerns: Dear NAB Show community, As you know, we ...
We’re just as interested in the profit motive as the next guy, and we certainly hope this coronavirus emergency can be contained as quickly as possible. But when you have Nexstar CEO Perry Sook ...
Miami-based Spanish language broadcaster Univision is being acquired by two private investment firms, ForgeLight and Searchlight Capital Partners, and will enter a new era led by Wade Davis – longtime media executive, former Viacom ...
“Since Standard General invested in TEGNA in 2019, TEGNA has campaigned energetically – and wastefully – in defense of a long-term track record of underperformance. Instead of moving with urgency to explore all avenues ...
Sinclair Broadcast Group has settled the lawsuit stemming from its failed $3.9 billion takeover of Tribune Media. The merger was scuttled after the FCC referred it to an administrative law judge, making it untenable. ...
Another large investor in Tegna wants the TV station operator to pursue a merger or sale, arguing a tie-up could be very valuable at a time the industry is facing a wave of consolidation, ...
From the beginning, NewsBlues has had an anonymous tipline. It’s untraceable and, if you’ve got a story, it’s a way to get the word out. You’ll find it over on the right hand column, ...
With ESPN already starting the process of potentially another major shakeup on “Monday Night Football,” CBS’ Tony Romo is now even better positioned to eclipse John Madden’s game analyst record of $8 million per ...
A former television reporter appealed on Monday a civil court ruling ordering him to pay damages to Japanese #MeToo symbol and journalist Shiori Ito in a high-profile rape case. Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a former Washington ...
Former Fox News reporter and occasional “F&F” fill-in host Courtney Friel has a memoir coming out, and in it, she writes that before he was president, Donald Trump told her she was “the hottest ...
Three Mexico-based journalists laid off after the closure of the “New York Times en Español” have been hired by Telemundo in advance of the 2020 elections. Left to right, Natalia Gutiérrez joined the Telemundo ...
A few States had elections Tuesday night and of course what better way to satisfy TV news and production crews than with free dinner as the final ballots rolled in. They say the best ...
We’ve all been there. You are about 2.5 years into your stay at a station and you are starting to get burned out. All the stories feel the same, you work to make them ...
Norah O’Donnell, the former “CBS This Morning” host who is getting paid at least $7 million a year by CBS News boss Susan Zirinsky to revive the perennially third-ranked newscast — is getting hammered ...
In a joint teleconference broadcast live from the Four Season’s Hotel in New York’s Financial District Monday, the Black News Channel (BNC) and the National Newspaper Publishers Association announced the official launch date and ...
Max Goldberg, IJN Publisher 1943-1972, will be posthumously inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of Colorado Hall of Fame, Class of 2019. Max Goldberg was the “father of Channel 9,” (KUSA) (NBC) the first network ...
Well, the Corporate folks have been preaching “digital first” for the past few years and a new survey out is showing they aren’t far from the mark. Consumers are nearly as likely to turn ...
Our 92-year-old mother had some choice words this week for Nexstar, which owns the CBS affiliate she was devoted to and which has been dark for….well, it’s a month now. And with no end ...
Our man on the scene in San Francisco, Rich Lieberman reports CBS O&O heads are going to KPIX in an attempt to jump-start things. The long time blogger by the Bay offers a few ...
Media Confidential points out CBS’ heavily-promoted debut Monday of Norah O’Donnell as the new anchor and managing editor of the network’s flagship CBS Evening News failed to break CBS’ long run in third place ...
You may recall, we told you Tuesday newly minted CBS Evening News Anchor and Managing Editor Norah O’Donnell was in Houston, continuing the victory tour with various CBS stations. Upon returning to NY, O’Donnell ...
It’s been a well kept secret since 2017 but ratemystation.com is making headlines as it’s review base grows. 27-year-old Valeria Sistrunk came up with the idea after working at a few stations. You can ...
There are about 58 million Hispanics in the U.S. – about 18% of the population, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. About 40 million people in the U.S. speak Spanish at home, according to a Pew ...
While I worked at The Blaze a few years back producing various shows I found it interesting to see how folks who basically had only social media and blogging backgrounds with no TV or ...
Major public broadcasters and an established broadcast engineering firm have formed a partnership that plans to build single frequency networks in markets across the country and lease them to broadcasters implementing ATSC 3.0-based services. The ...
Marquee Sports Network, the TV venture the Chicago Cubs and Sinclair Broadcast Group announced three months ago, on Tuesday named Michael McCarthy the channel’s general manager. McCarthy has been a consultant for the Cubs since ...
Former Media General and Young Broadcasting (remember them?) executive Deb McDermott is back in the game. Standard Media, of which McDermott is CEO, is buying two of the last three Citadel Communications stations, shelling ...
ESPN is joining forces with Caesars Entertainment to bring sports betting news and entertainment content to fans around the world. Media Confidential reports the deal includes building a new ESPN-branded studio at The LINQ ...
Hearst’s Kansas City ABC affiliate, KMBC 9 News, has debuted a new set from Devlin Design Group. Newscast Studio reports KMBC wanted the set to feature a variety of venues for story telling along with a strong visual connection ...
Billy Bush has found a new TV home. The former Today host will anchor Extra Extra, a new iteration of the syndicated entertainment show, which will debut this fall when Extra moves to Fox, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The job ...
TEGNA Inc. Monday announced the company has entered into a definitive agreement with Cooper Media to acquire leading 24/7 multicast networks Justice Network and Quest. According to a news release, TEGNA will pay approximately ...
John Cochrane will be the next GM for Lockwood Broadcasting’s soon-to-be WCAV in Charlottesville, VA once the company completes the purchase from Gray TV. Cochrane is currently GM of Lockwood’s WSKY Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News, Va. He ...
No sooner did CNN move into its shiny new digs at Manhattan’s Hudson Yards than the company (and parent monolith WarnerMedia) announced that it was selling its share of the complex. That’s a cool ...
With much fanfare, CBS News trumpeted its bolstered coverage of the White House with the assignment of Ben Tracy as still another White House correspondent. But the lead was buried (for us, anyway) at ...
You didn’t think they were getting all new furniture did you? The signs of CNN’s move of its Manhattan base of operations from Columbus Circle to the Hudson Yards are visible for all to ...
Seems like it was just yesterday we reported that former CBS News foreign correspondent Lara Logan quietly left the Network last year and gave several controversial interviews regarding alleged bias within the Big Eye. She ...
If you’ve been out lately, you probably have noticed a lot of people around you striking the pose, head down reading or listening to whatever may be on their phone. It’s that very reason ...
The all female leadership at WHAS (ABC) Louisville Kentucky is making history. President and General Manager Christy Moreno and News Director Julie Wolfe joined WHAS in late 2018 and are transforming the station into ...
So, recode.com reports last month alone, 2,000 people working at media publications lost their jobs. Such layoffs were only the most recent in what has been a years-long trend of media job insecurity. But new data ...
Some changes with Cox Enterprises you may not have seen. Cox said last week Apollo Global Management will buy a majority interest in Cox Media Group’s broadcast television stations, including the company’s radio, newspaper ...
We’ve all been there, especially after a big news event that includes days of wall to wall coverage, cut-in’s and all the rest. But as a news manager or reporter, how do you overcome ...
The WGA East has been recognized voluntarily by CBSN, the digital arm of CBS News. Kudos to CBS. CBSN agreed to recognize the union and enter into negotiations for a first-time contract after more ...
If your station has a drone, you know it’s like owning a corvette but not being able to drive it due to to nit-picky regulations. The FAA has some pretty tight regulations across the ...
Some guys in Dallas Texas have launched a product line that benefits not only local businesses but TV station Production Departments and at least one Broadcast company is taking notice. Rev Up is a ...
Sinclair Broadcast Group has selected the new GM of its ABC and FOX affiliates serving the Chattanooga, Tenn., market, as well as Sinclair’s JSA for the market’s affiliate of The CW. Since 2012, Todd Ricke has ...
What happens when a print reporter and a tv reporter are thrown together in a new partnership aimed at innovation? Such an experiment is underway at WLBT, the Raycom station in Jackson, MI, where ...
Longtime KXAS (NBC) Dallas entertainment reporter Bobbie Wygant has been in the business for 70 years. She recently published a memoir, “Talking to the Stars,” detailing her career and the celebrities she’s interviewed. The book starts ...
Maybe it’s because viewers require the visual stimulation. Maybe it’s because they need the direction that many anchors helpfully dish out: “Look at this video!” “You have to see this to believe this!” “Watch ...
The Scripps Howard Awards, one of the nation’s most prestigious American journalism competitions, will accept entries from Dec. 1 to Feb. 8 for reporting and storytelling that gives light and changes lives. The Awards’ ...
It’s “Giving Tuesday” which is a movement to create an international day of charitable giving at the beginning of the Christmas and holiday season. In Texas, the main anchors of the Dallas stations are ...
Hearst Television has promoted Lori Waldon, KCRA (NBC)-KQCA’s (MyNetworkTV) news director and the regional director of news, to president and general manager of the company’s Albuquerque property. Waldon will oversee KOAT’s news team effective January 1. “Lori is an accomplished, award-winning journalist ...
It has been noted more than once over the past couple of years that Mr. Trump has made a habit of granting interviews to media outlets he deems friendly – Fox News far outdistancing ...
Sinclair Broadcast Group has not given up on its dream of becoming the biggest media group in the land. It’s looking at cable sports (see the next story) and it still is casting a ...
There is something about Tribune Media that Administration fanboys find irresistible. First it was Sinclair, whose inability to be straight with an extremely pliant FCC ultimately to the failure of its attempt after well ...
Cox Media is garnering some well-deserved praise for a plan to expand its participation in a program that has already connected over 400,000 low-income Americans to the internet. Connect2Compete is the industry program providing ...
Members of RTDNA elected the organization’s first African-American leader at the conference last week in Baltimore. Terence Shepherd will be Chair-Elect for the next year, and Chair the year after. He’s the ND at WLRN ...
