DENVER FORECASTER SEES A SHIFT IN HER SHIFT
Back to the nighttime forecast center for KUSA’s chief meteorologist
Category: Pre-Sweeps
A CHARLOTTE SHUFFLE
Gray station moves around the chess pieces
NEW FACES ON SAN ANTONIO TELEVISION
One is coming back to the city, another is new.
HOW DO WE KNOW NOVEMBER IS COMING?
We don’t rely on calendars. We rely on press releases about longtime tv newsers setting their retirement for somewhere around November 30-December 1. And pictures of newly-constructed or under-construction news sets just waiting to ...
ANOTHER KIND OF “ME TOO”
We told you earlier this week that NBC’s WTVJ in Miami was rearranging the duties of chief meteorologist John Morales and making him the station’s designated “Hurricane Specialist.” “Hold my beer,” muttered the suits ...
SHAKEUP IN SATX
She was once Miss San Antonio. Now Alanna Sarabia is set to be the evening traffic anchor at Tegna’s KENS in San Antonio. Earlier in her career she hosted “San Antonio Live” on WOAI ...
MOVING UP IN MIAMI
Berkshire Hathaway’s WPLG in Miami has promoted Alex Finnie to co-anchor of the station’s weekend evening newscasts. She joins Andrew Perez on the anchor desk for the Saturday and Sunday 5, 6 and 11 ...
HERE COMES NOVEMBER
Sweeps must be just around the corner because local stations are doing some tinkering with their look, their content and their talent lineup. Down in N’Awlins, Hearst’s WDSU has shuffled its anchor pairings for ...
SWEEPS MUST BE COMING
November approaches so that likely explains how Scripps’ WEWS in Cleveland has latched onto the “medical debt erasure” story just in time for sweeps. Investigative reporter Jonathan Walsh is fronting this latest version of ...
NEW ANCHOR TEAM TO DEBUT IN CINCY
Starting next month, Ashley Kirklen and Steven Albritton will co-anchor “WLWT News 5 at 5:30 p.m” weekdays while Albritton will solo anchor “WLWT News 5 at 10 p.m” on MeTV Cincinnati. Kirklen joined the ...
WE’D CALL THIS “STATE OF THE ART”
A 24-foot wide floor-to-ceiling video wall. An 84-inch wild touchscreen panel. An 1,800 square foot studio Lit columns, frosted and backlit panels and a glass “walkway” in from the video wall. WXTV, the Univision ...
RALEIGH-DURHAM GETS A NEW FACE TO WAKE UP TO
Starting today, Bill Young pops up as the new morning co-anchor at Nexstar’s WNCN (licensed to Goldsboro, devoted to the Raleigh-Durham market). It’s a shift turnaround for Young, who was evening and midday anchor ...
AS SWEEPS LOOM…..
You can tell we’re getting close to May. The sweeps stunting is ramping up. For instance, it’s “Be Nice To Your Local Affiliates” week on the CBS afternoon yakker “The Talk.” Two New York ...
HEARST ANNOUNCES NEW WEEKENDERS IN DA BURGH
Reporter Brittany Hoke (left) has been bumped up to weekend evening anchor at Hearst’s WTAE in Pittsburgh. She’ll sit alongside Ryan Recker and they will be joined by meteorologist Alex Alecci, (right) a new ...
KATIE COURIC BOOKED FOR “MURPHY BROWN”
We were among the many who eagerly anticipated the return of “Murphy Brown” to the airwaves with its history of sharp writing, biting humor and talented actors. “Murphy Brown” is back. We’re still waiting ...
SHHH….KHOU ROLLS OUT SATELLITE STUDIO
Here’s something you don’t see every day: A television station rolls out a new personality, piece of gear, updated studio and doesn’t make a big noise about it. And yet, that is exactly what ...
IS THIS THE “NEXT-GEN” NEWS SET?
Nod yes, quickly – we don’t want to hurt any feelings. Sinclair flagship WBFF in Baltimore got a complete studio makeover which, they tell us, puts the latest technology to work while embracing and ...
JUST IN TIME FOR NOVEMBER
Graham Media’s WJXT in Jacksonville has rolled out its new set and we have to admit, even our jaundiced eyes are impressed. Of course, the ubiquitous video wall is present, but since it’s seamless, ...
A ROVING REPORTER NO MORE
Up in Milwaukee, Tribune’s WITI rolled out Carl Deffenbaugh this morning as the station’s newly-anointed morning show co-anchor. Deffenbaugh spent much of his career covering sports before landing in Milwaukee two years ago as ...
THE WHEELS ON THE BUS GO ROUND AND ROUND
We can’t help it, when we saw this story, we just started imagining the entire news crew singing this while on tour. Forget traditional introductions. When Nexstar’s KARK in Little Rock brought on new ...
GRAY’S WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA STATIONS GET A MAKEOVER
A new look has come to “KOTA Territory News” and sister station KEVN in Rapid City, SD. Gray, which also owns KSFY in Sioux Falls and whose purchase of KDLT in the same market ...
GETTING READY FOR NOVEMBER
Nexstar has moved its Mobile, AL station WKRG to a temporary set, in preparation for new set. They’d like you all to take note. Now the guessing game begins, according to our NewsBlues correspondents. ...
