ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER NEWSCAST ADDED
This time it’s in Cedar Rapids, IA.
Category: More Commercial Potential
RICHMOND STATION TO ADD MORE COMMERCIAL AVAIL….UHHH…NEWSCASTS
WWBT to launch late afternoon and early evening half hours.
ANOTHER STATION PREPARES FOR A POLITICAL WINDFALL
This time, it’s in Orlando
MORE COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL IN KNOXVILLE
Major anchor shuffle coming to Gray station
ANOTHER “LIFESTYLE” PROGRAM, ANOTHER BLURRING OF LINES
Gray is bringing another one to Charleston, SC
HOUSTON STATION EXPANDING ITS SATURDAY AM NEWSCAST
Just in time for election season
WIS ADDING MORE COMMERCI….UH….NEWS IN THE FALL
Getting poised for that 2024 election $$$ windfall
GIVING THE “GIFT” OF MORE NEWS IN MIAMI AND BOSTON
Sunbeam’s stations adding a mid-morning hour.
GRAY LAUNCHES 4 PM NEWSCAST IN LANSING
By popular acclaim *cough*
SPEAKING OF PAY-TO-PLAY
(We were... somewhere in this column today…)
MORE COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL
Louisville station will add an A.M. hour
THE LATEST MONEY GRAB IS IN HOUSTON
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 ...
AND YES, THE BAY AREA DEMANDS MORE NEWS KA-CHING 2
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 ...
KENTUCKY GETS ITS FIRST 3 PM CASH COW….UHHH…NEWSCAST KA-CHING 3
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 ...
KEEP MILKING THAT POLITICAL CASH COW KA-CHING 1
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 ...
THE NEW NEWS IS THAT THERE IS MORE NEW NEWS
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 ...
TEXAS TO GET A STATEWIDE MORNING NEWSCAST
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 ...
AH YES….MORE POLITICAL AVAILS
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 ...
ALL ABOUT THE TIMING….
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 ...
HEARST ADDS AN HOUR IN ALBUQUERQUE
“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 ...
KIRO LAUNCHING 4 PM COMMERCIAL SLOTS WITH NEWS
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 ...
IN OTHER MONEY GRAB NEWS…..
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 ...
CBS PLANS A BIG CASH HAUL IN LOS ANGELES
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 ...
LESTER HOLT GETTING A DOUBLE PLAY IN LA?
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 ...
MORE RE-RACKS, MORE REPETITION…..MORE COMMERCIAL AVAILS
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 ...
MORE COMMERCIAL SPACE… I WONDER WHY
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 ...
IN BRIEF…MORE COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL EDITION
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 ...
SCRIPPS EXPANDING MORNING NEWS IN NYC
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 ADDS COMMERCIAL PODS
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 ...
THINK OF ALL THE AVAILS
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 ...
MORE NEWS AND SPORTS PROGRAMMING ON THE WAY
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 ...
SMELLS LIKE PAY TO PLAY, DOESN’T IT?
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 ...
BUT THINK OF THE COMMERCIAL INVENTORY
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 ...
IS THIS REALLY LOCAL?
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 ...
BEEFING UP THE SALES DEPARTMENT
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, ...
SETTING UP LATE-NEWS SHOP IN THE TRIAD
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 ...
HOW HANNITY WILL SHOW UP ON FOX NATION
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 ...
CHICAGO TO SEE LAUNCH OF MORNING SPANISH-LANGUAGE NEWSCAST
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. ...
THEY SWEAR IT’S NOT PAY-TO-PLAY
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 ...
MORE INVENTORY FOR SALES, MORE STORY RE-RACKS FOR VIEWERS
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 ...
WELL….RIGHT HERE….
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 ...
ANOTHER HOUR OF NEWS IN MILWAUKEE
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 ...
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FIRST AMENDMENT
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 ...
PHILLY CBS O&O DROPS PROMO FOR 4 PM NEWS
“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 ...
CHANGES COMING TO CHATTANOOGA TV NEWS
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 ...
ALL NEWS ALL THE TIME
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 ...
SINCLAIR HANDS NEW GM A HANDFUL
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 ...
GRAY RACES FOR NEW IDITAROD $$$$
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 ...
FT. MYERS STATION LAUNCHES 4-HOUR PM NEWS BLOCK
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 ...
“CBS SUNDAY MORNING” HEADED FOR NIGHT-TIME
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 ...
ANOTHER EXPANSION FOR KDFW’S “GOOD DAY”
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 EL PASO OFFERS NEW NEWSCASTS, WEBSITE AND MOBILE APP
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 ...
TELEMUNDO WISCONSIN EXPANDS – NOW
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 ...
FOX 4 IN DALLAS SUDDENLY TACKS ON AN EXTRA HOUR TO AM NEWS
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 ...
HEARST TO EXPAND ORLANDO NOON NEWS TO AN HOUR
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 ...