The Dispatch Broadcast Group has announced the sale of its television and radio properties to TEGNA Inc. of Tysons, Virginia. TEGNA owns 49 television stations in 41 markets and is the largest group owner ...
It’s too late for playoff fans in the affected markets, like St. Louis, but Spectrum Communications and Tribune Media have reached an agreement that will restore Tribune stations on Charter Spectrum Cable systems. The ...
Sam Nover was a fixture at Pittsburgh’s WPXI ( beginning back when it was still WIIC) – a career remarkable if, for no other reason, he was the last to interview Pirate legend Robert ...
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 ...
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 ...
Another news scuffle to tell you about, this one way down Texas way. Insiders at Morgan Murphy’s KAVU say a weekend director is recovering after allegedly being punched in the face by the Victoria ...
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. ...
Details are still coming in, but Tribune officials met with staffs in Dallas KDAF and Houston KIAH to announce they are “somewhat” ceasing operations at both effective November 6th. KIAH will expand 3-hours in ...
Dallas Texas TV is always interesting and Wednesday Morning was no different. Dallas Police are investigating a crash. Not just a fender bender during the morning commute but something bigger. A pickup slammed into KDFW‘s ...
Ever since Dallas KTVT (CBS) let Reporter/Anchor Jane Slater slip away back in 2014, she’s done nothing but rocket skyward, first going to the ESPN-owned Longhorn Network, then in 2016 joining the NFL Network. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Eric Bolling is coming back to tv this summer, but you’ll have to work a bit to find him. But when you do, you’ll find “America”, which is the name of his new program. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tim Maestas is moving across the street in Albuquerque in May to become news director at Hubbard’s KOB. He’s currently executive producer at Nexstar’s KRQE in the market, a position he’s held for the ...
A source reports to us that weekend meteorologist Jamie Martin of Spectrum News 13 in Orlando, FL is no longer with the station. His bio is MIA on the News 13 website He’d been ...
And how do you feel about noncompete agreements? As a general rule, management loves them and employs them to give themselves assurance that valued employees just don’t go hopscotching around newsrooms in the market ...
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 ...
Lis Wiehl, a former regular guest on internet personality Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News program, who then settled for a $32 million payout over sexual harassment charges she levelled against Billo, is now a legal ...
Earlier this month, “The Washington Post” reported that Mr. Trump has made more than 2,000 false or misleading claims in his first 355 days in office. Last night, amid server crashes and Twitter backlashes, ...
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 ...
Cheryl Wills will anchor Spectrum’s NY1’s first foray into late news when “NY1 Live At 10” is launched next Monday. “I think that this is going to be the show of record for what ...
Sources whisper to us that CBS is quietly floating the idea of correspondent Don Dahler as the possible replacement for the disgraced Charlie Rose. During the holiday week, he anchored Saturday morning and evening ...
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 ...
This is happening way too often these days. A WOIO news crew became the story when they were held up on Cleveland’s East Side Thursday afternoon. The three juvenile males who held guns on ...
Weekend and fill-in news/sports anchor Joe D’Ambrosio has given notice at WVIT NBC CT in the Hartford-New Haven market where he has worked since 1990. The longtime Connecticut broadcaster is also the “Voice of ...
PBS has found a companion show to go alongside Christiane Amanpour’s “Amanpour on PBS” to fill the slot left open with the firing of now-invisible and quickly-forgotten Charlie Rose. “Beyond 100 Days,” the BBC ...
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 ...
Once again proving there really is no statute of limitations on these kinds of charges, NBC News reported over the weekend that back in 1999, NBC paid severance to a female staffer who accused ...
Tavis Smiley’s PBS talk show has been taken off the air after an independent investigation uncovered “multiple, credible allegations” of misconduct by the host. “The inquiry uncovered multiple, credible allegations of conduct that is ...
We love nothing more than a live, hard-hitting interview by an undeterred anchor of a smug, unsuspecting politician. This wasn’t it. Fox News faux newsperson Dana Perino brought House Speaker Paul Ryan on to ...
WSYX in Columbus, OH is showing off its new set – a large, curved wall backed with color changing background and accented with frosted panels, faux white stacked stone walls and rectangular frames with ...
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 ...
Tuesday morning was not business as usual on the set of “Good Day LA.” KTTV anchor Tony McEwing sat at the anchor desk in the place of longtime anchor Steve Edwards, and delivered the ...
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 ...
Former Fox News anchor Juliet Huddy claims President Trump once made a pass at her in an elevator at Trump Tower, then commented on “hitting on her” during her morning show. Because when you’re ...
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 ...
Psst…Hey!. Vice Media fired three employees and took “disciplinary action” against an unspecified number of others on Thursday as part of its investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and “inappropriate conduct.” Who got fired? ...
“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 ...
And in the last item today from the “Dumb-Ass Male Behavior in the Workplace” beat, Teddy Davis, a senior producer for CNN’s weekend show “State of the Union” was fired after the company investigated ...
We couldn’t help but be gobsmacked over the weekend when we saw that the one of the most recent alternate-reality tweets emanating from 1600 Pennsylvania made the claim that the infamous “Access Hollywood” ...
You don’t have to wait until Sunday to read the “New York Times Magazine” profile of Fox News conspiracy theorist Sean Hannity. It’s online now. Hannity is now passing himself off as an “opinion ...
Well why would you go to a party where you aren’t wanted? The White House Christmas party is scheduled for Friday at 2 PM, but CNN is taking a pass. “CNN will not be ...
OK, CNN isn’t exactly going all-in on Van Jones’s newly-announced talk show. “Jones will return to CNN with his unique take on the forces that elected Donald Trump, the anti-Trump “resistance” movement and ...
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 ...
And the “restructuring” continues at NBC Sports Chicago, where last week a host of producers, some executives and the White Sox beat writer were dropped. Robert Feder reports that the most recent to ...
We were wondering how long it would take a stateside TV operation to make a more permanent presence in Puerto Rico to cover the heroic, but under-supported efforts of the island to recover from ...
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 ...
Jason Mojica, the executive producer of Vice Media’s documentary films unit, has been suspended in the wake of a sexual harassment allegation. The charge appeared in an online article last week, in which several ...
Gretchen Koenen, an MMJ with Nexstar’s KSNT in Topeka, KS was wrapping up a live shot Wednesday night and starting a Facebook Live feed when she was approached by a stranger. And the incident ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Must be the New England water. Two idiots within 24 hours of each other caused minor panic at two television stations with bomb threats that turned out to be hoaxes. In Burlington, VT, Gray’s ...
The Baltimore Sun's David Zurawik brings to our attention a report on Sinclair's WBMA in Birmingham, Al about the Roy Moore case. A lazy MOS-based piece that was picked up by Breitbart and featured ...
CONNECTICUT GOVERNOR CHASTISES STATE LAWMAKERS The Connecticut Public Affairs Network, which until last week ran the state government affairs channel known as CT-N, pink-slipped 22 employees this week. Some had been with the ...
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. ...
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 ...
As Senate Democrats continue to write letters to FCC Chair Ajit Pai demanding a further delay in a decision regarding ownership caps, Pai is insisting in a “New York Times” op-ed that the caps ...
This makes us feel better and it should you as well. 21st Century Fox absolutely pinky swears to UK regulators that if they allow the acquisition of Sky TV, it will not result in ...
Colony Capital has lost interest in acquiring The Weinstein Company, less than a month after announcing it would provide a cash infusion for the company and explore buying it. They must have read Ronan ...
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 ...
When NBC fires up its coverage of the PyeongChang, South Korea Winter Olympics, its cable networks will be getting a huge chunk of programming. NBCSN will have 368.5 hours of the 450 hours of ...
Sinclair’s KSNV, the “Los Angeles Times”, the Associated Press, ABC News, and the “Washington Post” have joined together to sue the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. The news organizations claims that the LVMPD is ...