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AND IN FCC NEWS
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 ...
NAB 2020 CANCELED
NAB President and CEO Gordon Smith Wednesday issued the following letter to the NAB Show community regarding plans for NAB Show in light of ...
ONE CEO SEEMS TO HAVE THOUGHT THROUGH THE CORONAVIRUS ISSUE
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 ...
SOLD!
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 ...
BATTLE LOOMS AFTER TEGNA SMACKDOWN
“Since Standard General invested in TEGNA in 2019, TEGNA has campaigned energetically – and wastefully – in defense of a long-term track record of ...
SINCLAIR PAYS TRIBUNE
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 ...
TEGNA CHANGES ON THE WAY?
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 ...
SO….WHADDAYA KNOW?
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 ...
MNF FOOTBALL SHAKEUP
With ESPN already starting the process of potentially another major shakeup on “Monday Night Football,” CBS’ Tony Romo is now even better positioned to ...
THIS WEEK IN LITIGATION
A former television reporter appealed on Monday a civil court ruling ordering him to pay damages to Japanese #MeToo symbol and journalist Shiori Ito ...
AND ANOTHER ONE STEPS FORWARD
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 ...
TELEMUNDO BEEFS UP ITS ELECTION COVERAGE TEAM
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 ...
AH ELECTION NIGHT PIZZA
A few States had elections Tuesday night and of course what better way to satisfy TV news and production crews than with free dinner ...
AVOIDING BURNOUT
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 ...
NORAH HAS YET TO MOVE THE NEEDLE
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 ...
BNC LAUNCH DATE
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 ...
DENVER LEGEND HONORS
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 ...
DIGITAL FIRST
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 ...
THIS WEEK IN CORD-CUTTING
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 ...
KPIX IS A MESS
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 RATINGS ARE IN FOR CBS
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 ...
CBS PEP RALLY
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 ...
RATE A TV STATION
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 ...
BILINGUAL JOURNALISM FINDS ITS VOICE
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 ...
WANNA BE A TV PUNDIT?
While I worked at The Blaze a few years back producing various shows I found it interesting to see how folks who basically had ...
IN OTHER ATSC 3.0 NEWS
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 ...
MARQUEE SPORTS NAMES MANAGER
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 ...
A PLAYER ONCE MORE
Former Media General and Young Broadcasting (remember them?) executive Deb McDermott is back in the game. Standard Media, of which McDermott is CEO, is ...
ESPN AND CAESAR’S: A MATCH MADE IN VEGAS
ESPN is joining forces with Caesars Entertainment to bring sports betting news and entertainment content to fans around the world. Media Confidential reports the ...
CHECK OUT THIS NEW SET
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 ...
HE’S BAACK
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 ...
TEGNA STEPS UP
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 ...
NEW OWNER PREPARES FOR THE TAKEOVER
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 ...
GUESS THEY NEEDED THE MONEY TO MAKE THE RENT
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 ...
BURYING THE LEAD
With much fanfare, CBS News trumpeted its bolstered coverage of the White House with the assignment of Ben Tracy as still another White House ...
CNN DECONSTRUCTION
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 ...
LOGAN ON THE MOVE
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 ...
INTERACTIVE JOURNALISM
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 ...
THINGS ARE A CHANGIN’ AT WHAS
The all female leadership at WHAS (ABC) Louisville Kentucky is making history. President and General Manager Christy Moreno and News Director Julie Wolfe joined ...
DEFINITION OF JOURNALIST IS CHANGING
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 ...
CHANGES WITH COX
Some changes with Cox Enterprises you may not have seen. Cox said last week Apollo Global Management will buy a majority interest in Cox ...
NEWSROOM BURNOUT
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 ...
CBSN RECOGNIZES WRITERS’ UNION
The WGA East has been recognized voluntarily by CBSN, the digital arm of CBS News. Kudos to CBS. CBSN agreed to recognize the union ...
STATION FEATURES DRONE SEGMENT
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 ...
WHOA, DID YOU SEE THIS?
Some guys in Dallas Texas have launched a product line that benefits not only local businesses but TV station Production Departments and at least ...
CHATTANOOGA NEW GM
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 FRUITS OF COLLABORATIVE JOURNALISM
What happens when a print reporter and a tv reporter are thrown together in a new partnership aimed at innovation? Such an experiment is ...
DALLAS REPORTER NOW AUTHOR
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 ...
WE STILL WANT OUR TV NEWS
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 ...
SCRIPPS AWARDS
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 ...
DALLAS ANCHORS GIVING IT ALL
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. ...
ABQ ABC NEW GM
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 ...
CALL IT WHAT IT IS – INTERVIEW SHOPPING
It has been noted more than once over the past couple of years that Mr. Trump has made a habit of granting interviews to ...
SINCLAIR’S BIG DREAMS BEING STIFLED – FOR NOW
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 ...
TRIBUNE HAS NEW SUITORS
There is something about Tribune Media that Administration fanboys find irresistible. First it was Sinclair, whose inability to be straight with an extremely pliant ...
APPLAUSE FOR COX
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 ...
A MILESTONE FOR RTDNA
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, ...