Category: Just In

KD HIRES AN ND

Kathy Hostetter, who’s been the ND for Dispatch’s WTHR in Indianaopolis, is leaving  to become ND for KDKA in Pittsburgh, the CBS o-and-o in the Steel City. Kathy’s been ND in Indy for about ...

HOPE HICKS TO NEW FOX

Former top Trump adviser Hope Hicks has been named executive vice president and chief communications officer for the post-Twenty-First Century Fox-Disney merger company dubbed “New FOX.”  In January 2015, Donald Trump chose Hicks, who ...

AN INDY ND EXITS

Kerri Cavanaugh is leaving Tribune’s WXIN/WTTV after more than five years as ND to become a Senior Consultant for Magid.  The move allows her to move to Florida to be closer to family there. ...

CLEVELAND NEWSMAN DICK FEAGLER

Former WKYC anchor-commentator and longtime Cleveland journalist Dick Feagler has died, according to several sources. Feagler also was a lead columnist for The Plain Dealer. He famously wrote about simpler times in a classic ...

SINCLAIR HIRES ANOTHER TRUMP ADMIN STAFFER

Kaelan Dorr, who worked for the Trump campaign as a deputy communications adviser and later joined the White House as director of congressional communications, is Sinclair Broadcast Group’s new “executive political producer.” Dorr will ...

DO YOU KNOW WHO THEY ARE?

We’ll pass along this item from RTDNA executive director Dan Shelley, who recently received a plea for help from the Library of Congress. Hi Dan— And hello from the Library of Congress.  We need ...

WHY INDEED?

A local viewer emailed the following to “Pittsburgh Post-Gazette” tv beat reporter Rob Owen, asking a question that has plagued viewers AND news directors through the ages. “Why is it that it seems local ...

CHIEF MET OUT THE DOOR IN BIRMINGHAM

Mark Prater, chief meteorologist for Nexstar’s WIAT for the past 8 years, was unceremoniously shown the door this week. Prater and WIAT news director Rob Martin declined to comment on the circumstances surrounding Prater’s ...

O’REILLY’S RETURN TO TV

Tonight! One Night Only! Coming to a high-numbered cable channel on your set!! The return of Bill O’Reilly. O’Reilly will provide analysis for the cable news channel Newsmax on Pres. Trump’s first State of ...

“MODERN-DAY PRESIDENTIAL”

Really? “Shithole” countries. Now if you haven’t been paying attention for the past 40 years (and evidently 62 million people either weren’t, or endorse this swill) the latest slur thrown out by this “modern-day ...

AND LAUER’S REPLACEMENT IS…

Hoda Kotb has been named Today co-anchor, joining Savannah Guthrie, the NBC morning show unveiled Tuesday. She’ll join Savannah Guthrie for the 7-9 AM hours of the show, replacing Today veteran Matt Lauer who was ...

WELL THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG…

Karl Mann, we hardly knew ye. And Mann, Peoria-area television news viewers probably don’t know you were ever on the air. Just weeks after Mann was hired to be the new anchorman at Sinclair’s ...

SPICER HAS HIS OWN BOOK DEAL

Former White House Press Secretary (and Easter Bunny at the Dubya-era Easter Egg Roll) Sean Spicer also has a book deal. And why not? He had a glorious six-month run as press secretary and ...

KALODIMOS MIA ON WSMV NEWSCAST

Veteran anchor Demetria Kalodimos was a no-show on the 5 PM newscast for Meredith’s WSMV in Nashville Monday. She was on the schedule, but not on the set. But with three weeks remaining on ...

WHO DO YOU TRUST?

  Media stumbles like ABC News’ Brian Ross’ poor initial reporting on the Michael Flynn case give a hostile Administration ammunition in its ongoing war with the media, provide “opinion” radio hosts endless fodder ...

WHAAAAAT????!?!?

“Town Hall”????!!  “TOWN. HALL” What the hell, why not just call it “Radio Show” and be done with it?   We knew that Minnesota Public Radio was going to rename “Prairie Home Companion” in ...

OLBERMANN DONE

Keith Olbermann declared yesterday that he is "retiring from political commentary in all media venues." Wait, you didn’t know that Olbermann was still commentating somewhere out there? He’s been at it online for GQ ...

FCC TO BLOW UP NET NEUTRALITY

The rabidly anti-consumer, public-interest-hostile FCC is set to jettison net neutrality, a move that will delight mammoth ISPs around the country and send your internet bill up. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will ...

MAKE OR BREAK FOR CT-N?

  Connecticut state representative Bob Godfrey(D), one of the lawmakers originally involved in the creation of CT-N, says he intends to file legislation that either gives the public affairs network full control of its ...

SQUAWK BOX ENJOYS NEW DIGS

  CNBC’s “Squawk Box” is really on the street in their new studio home. Midweek, the folks at CNBC unveiled a new street-level set at the NASDAQ overlooking Times Square. The new set is ...

ALLENTOWN INDIE UNWRAPS NEW SET

  Maranatha Broadcasting’s WFMZ, an independent station in Allentown, PA is showing off a new Devlin Design Group creation – the station’s first new set in ten years. It competes nicely with anything its ...

21ST CENTURY FOX STILL BULLISH ON SKY DEAL

At the company’s annual stockholders’ meeting, Fox executives were all “thumbs-up“ regarding their oft-delayed acquisition of Britain’s Sky TV, save for one final hurdle – a review by the UK Competition and  Markets Authority, ...

“MOUNTAIN” BRANDING

It’s a new set for Gray’s WYMT in Hazard, KY and the emphasis is on the station’s surroundings in the Kentucky mountains. A faux stone finish and a large video wall that shows off ...

WELL, IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA

Fox news entertainment host Sean Hannity is backtracking and now asking his Keurig-smashing bobble-heads to stop the madness. Hannity would have us believe his decision was based on sympathy for the Keurig Company which ...

E.W. SCRIPPS HAS A NEW CFO

Lisa Knutson will permanently step into the role of executive vice president and chief financial officer of E.W. Scripps. She’s been filling the position since the former CFO, Tim Wesolowski, left in early October. ...

WEMPLE ASKS, WE’LL ANSWER

As we delve further into the alternative universe of Fox News prime-time and early-morning entertainment programming…   “The Washington Post’s” Erik Wemple asks a very good question: “Why has Fox News abandoned Benghazi?” Let's ...

FORMER ANCHOR WINS VA HOUSE SEAT

Former television anchor and Democrat Chris Hurst, whose girlfriend Alison Parker was killed on live television in 2015, has won the race for the 12th district of Virginia's House of Delegates. Parker and her ...