Houston be warned!! The folks at Telemundo’s KTMD have dragged out the shopworn “we are doubling down on our commitment to inform our audiences with our best-in-class journalism and hyper local weather forecasts,” to ...
NBC-owned KNTV, in San Jose is happy to announce it is succumbing to viewer demand and firing up at 30-minute newscast at 4:30 pm weekdays starting September 12. That’s at least eight minutes of ...
Isn’t it what Central Kentucky viewers have been demanding? Sure it is, and that’s why Morris Multimedia’s WTVQ in Lexington, KY this week launched a 3 pm newscast. We are assured that station manager ...
We should tell you up front there is a recurring theme to today’s column. And we can expect the theme to pop up more frequently as the financial pressure increases on local stations and ...
Buh-bye Drew Barrymore. Sayonara Dr. Phil. At least that’s the case in Denver, CO where, starting September 12, CBS-owned KCNC will dump the two programs and replace them with….news. The new news hours will ...
Starting September 26th, the five Telemundo Texas O&Os will launch a daily two-hour newscast. “Noticias Telemundo Texas” will appear weekdays on KXTX, Dallas-Fort Worth; WTMD, Houston; KVDA, San Antonio; KTLM, Harlingen-McAllen and KTDO, El ...
In the mythical place called KELOLAND, the television station that continues seeking to rename South Dakota, there is likely to be some extra political money floating around this year, with a controversial governor and ...
The folks at Gray’s WIS in Columbia, SC want you to know they’ve been long pondering the expansion of the 10 pm news half-hour they produce for the station’s CW subchannel. Forget that the ...
“Our viewers want trusted news and weather earlier in the day. We see a great opportunity at 11 a.m. to deliver even more breaking, local, state and national news stories that impact families in ...
In the latest grab for a chunk of the massive political dollars that will be flung around this mid-term, Cox Media’s KIRO in Seattle will launch a 4 pm news hour with all of ...
Gray Television’s WEEK in Peoria, IL is planning a whopping expansion of local news offerings in time for election season. No specific launch date has been announced but as part of its expansion, WEEK ...
KCAL, the CBS-owned independent in Los Angeles, CA, is going for the gold. For the first time in the station’s history, it is planning a morning news presences – and that presence is going ...
How do you replace Ellen DeGeneres, who for years had been the reliable lead-in to your 3½ hour news block? If you’re KNBC in Los Angeles, you serve up yet another newsblock. Think of ...
Hearst’s WTAE in Pittsburgh is the latest station to launch a 4 p.m. newscast starting Tuesday. And of course, you know what that means, don’t you? “The addition of this newscast means Pittsburgh’s Action ...
Pittsburgh’s KDKA-TV will add a fourth evening newscast at 7:30 p.m. weeknights, beginning Aug. 17. Meghan Schiller will anchor the half-hour of news, which will displace “Extra,” a syndicated newsmagazine. KDKA-TV general manager Chris ...
Hearst’s WTAE in Pittsburgh is expanding its noon newscast to an hour beginning next Monday. You’ll be told it’s to better serve the viewers and deliver stories blahblahblahblahblah… More local commercial for a major ...
New York local news viewers will see the return of two familiar faces after the first of the new year. Marysol Castro, who helped launch the “PIX 11 Morning News” in 2001 and returned ...
Nexstar proudly announced it is adding a 7 pm hour-long newscast to its newly-acquired KTXL in Sacramento, CA. They hasten to note that it is the ONLY 7 pm newscast in the market. It ...
Meredith’s KPTV in Portland, Ore.is launching a new newscast this week. “The 4 O’clock News” debuts this afternoon at….shocker! 4 p.m. The hour-long broadcast features anchors, Wayne Garcia and Nora Hart, and weather from ...
Central Pennsylvania’s Tribune-soon-to-be-Tegna-by-way-of-Nexstar’s WPMT is adding weekly sports and news shows debuting this weekend “FOX43 Sunday Sports Frenzy” is scheduled for Sunday nights at 11:00pm “We feel the time is right to give our ...
Gray’s WTOC in Savannah, GA solemnly promises us that the new 9 AM hour of morning programming they’ll be debuting in September will have a significant does of news in its mix. But a ...
WRAZ in Raleigh-Durham, NC, the sister station to Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL, is adding an extra hour of morning news to its weekday lineup. Starting June 3, WRAL anchors Ken Smith and Lena Tillet will ...
The concept of hubbing station and newscast operations grows to an absurd degree with the news that EstrellaTV is launching local newscasts in the Houston, Dallas and Miami today…all of them actually produced out ...
Let’s be honest. Adding newscasts is NOT about additional news coverage. It’s about re-racking stories endlessly while providing cheap programming and more commercial avails for the sales department to flog to advertisers. That said, ...
Tribune’s WGHP in Greensboro, NC is getting into the late news business. An 11 PM newscast is set to debut on the station May 1. When it makes its bow, the station will be ...
Fans of presidential advisor Sean Hannity’s daily rants on his syndicated radio show (he calls them monologues, but if you’ve ever heard a joke….oh, never mind…) will soon get to actually WATCH him do ...
We’re told this is a first in the Windy City. Starting next Monday, Univision’s WGBO is firing up a Spanish-language morning newscast. “Primera Hora” (“First Hour”) will air from 5 to 7 a.m. weekdays. ...
Raycom’s WOIO in Cleveland, OH rolled out its new 9am show called “Sunnyside Up,” which has been available on “digital only” for a year. It’s not a traditional newscast, though it has Jeff Tanchak ...
The continual fermentation bubbling in local television’s creative minds have collectively decided that there is money to be made with new newscasts at 3 pm, 11 am and 9 AM You really believe the ...
In Harrisburg, PA, Tribune’s WPMT is adding a 9 a.m. hour starting September 17th. Amy Lutz will anchor. The station’s morning block will run a whopping six hours, beginning at 4 am. A decade ...
Hearst’s WISN in Milwaukee is adding an hour-long newscast to the schedule beginning September 10 and so far we haven’t seen one single quote about how “this is to better serve the needs of ...
Interesting argument for a revenue grab: A Little Rock broadcaster has filed an appeal that says its free-speech rights were violated when a judge barred it from airing ads that criticized an Arkansas Supreme ...
“Dr. Phil” is moving to 3 pm to make way for KYW’s new 4 pm hour starting next Monday. The launch will leave WTXF, the Fox O&O as the only station in the market ...
Sarkes Tarzian’s WRCB is playing chessmaster with both talent and its daily news schedule before falls rolls around. On the talent side, reporter Tim Pham will cut back on some reporting duties so that ...
Minneapolis Fox duopoly KMSP-WFTC is expanding daily news production and will soon be pumping out a whopping 11 hours of local news, five days a week. Tim Blotz and Naomi Pescovitz have gotten the ...
Teansie Garfield is the new general manager for Sinclair’s KRCR/KRVU/KUCO/KKTF in Chico-Redding, CA and KAEF/KECA/KEUV in Eureka, CA. That’s a handful, even in a couple of small markets. For the past year, she’s been ...
Iditarod is a uniquely Alaskan experience – every March, locals drop everything to focus on the 1,000-mile, eight-to-nine day dogsled race spanning from Anchorage to Nome. Coverage of the race has long been a ...
Waterman’s WBBH in Ft. Myers, FL is jumping ahead of a lot of tv stations, becoming one of the first in the country to commit to a four-hour afternoon block of news. The new ...
Television’s most-watched Sunday morning program is going to try something new. Night-time and in person. CBSX, or CBS Experiences, is a brand-new unit of the company that is behind the planning of “An Evening ...
Acting on the assumption that you can never have too much of a good thing – which, of course, requires that you regard “Good Day” as a good thing, Fox O&O KDFW in Dallas ...
Telemundo’s KTDO in El Paso, TX is launching two new newscasts on Monday, June 11. The two half-hour will air at 4 and 4:30 PM weekdays. In addition, the station is rolling out a ...
Later this morning, Weigel’s WYTU, the Telemundo station in Milwaukee, debuts “Noticiero Telemundo Wisconsin” at 11. Jocelyne Pruna, who co-anchors Telemundo Wisconsin’s 10 pm weeknight newscasts and is also a reporter for sister station ...
If you Dallas readers tuned in to KDFW’s “Good Day” morning newscast at 4:30 this morning, you missed the first half-hour. The brand-new, extra half-hour that was tacked on to the Fox-owned station’s morning ...
Skeptical looks aside, Jason Guy and Michelle Imperato are revving up for more air time. Unlike Dallas (see above) the newsroom (including Guy & Imperato) at Hearst’s WESH in Orlando, FL has more than ...
