We’ve been looking at the particulars of something called the Local Journalism Sustainability Act for a few days now, trying to figure out if this is the cure for the ailing local tv news ...
Scripps is moving its Newsy service out of Columbia, Missouri and into Atlanta, GA a move coming just before the streaming service relaunches as a free over-the-air channel. That relaunch is expected October 1st ...
Houston freelance reporter Hannah Mackenzie has accepted a full-time gig but not in Texas. She’ll be reporting for WLOS in Asheville, N.C. nightside. Mackenzie had been a reporter-anchor in Pensacola, Fla. for two years ...
In op-ed for the Daily Beast, a former Fox executive called Fox News bile and is still trying to figure out why Ruppert Murdoch won’t change course. Preston Paddon, who worked for Murdoch until ...
Any of us who spent time in tv management (news and otherwise) over the past several decades knows full well the growing dependence of local television on political ad money. At least every two ...
Take a look at this. Another news organization has popped up. The promise is that the content will be straight – no bias. Which is probably why it’s named Straight Arrow News. The man ...
WAFB reporter Kiran Chawla left the Baton Rouge station abruptly in June 2020. She never said why and for the most part, she stayed quiet for the past year. Until now. Chawla posted a ...
Make that purchase price $2.825 billion. Gray Television’s purchase of Meredith Corp.’s Local Media division was sweetened by an additional $100 million, triggered by an unsolicited bid by another party. And no, we don’t ...
WPXI weekend meteorologist is leaving. Danielle Dozier announced on Sunday evening that she’s leaving this week. She’s been with the station since April 2018. She’s going to another market but hasn’t said which one. ...
Fox News Channel has named the replacement for Jedediah Bila on Fox and Friend Weekend. Rachel Campos-Duffy will make her debut as the new host on Saturday June 12. She’ll co-host alongside Pete Hegseth ...
Sports anchor Mark Armstrong says he just knows his time is up. It’s not because his station in Raleigh, N.C. WTVD is about to fire him. Or because he has another job. It’s because ...
This time it’s Univision preparing to launch a 24/7 news outlet that will be available through the company’s free streaming service Prende TV. Do we see a pattern emerging as more companies create “national” ...
CNN will have a new owner for the second time in a few years. AT&T is spinning of its media assets, including CNN, in a deal with Discovery, which is led by David Zaslav. ...
Kim Godwin has promoted WABC reporter CeFaan Kim to the network within the first couple weeks on the job. She sent out this memo to the staff. He will be taking on a hybrid ...
We told you that longtime KDKA weekend anchor Paul Martino stepped away from the station after he was demoted to a full-time reporter role. The CBS Pittsburgh station has assigned his weekend spot to ...
A Tallahassee news director is coming clean about what it’s like to be a Black female news director. In a personal memo she posted to RTDNA’s website, WXTL ABC27 news director Vicki Bradley talked ...
For a cool $380 million, Byron Allen’s Allen Media 7 Gray Television properties. The seven stations – KVOA in Tucson, AZ; WKOW in Madison, WI; WSIL/KPOB in Paducah, KY- Harrisburg, IL; KWWL in Cedar ...
