It’s the end of an era for celebrity news, according to TVline.com. A trio of E! entertainment programs — the long-running E! News, along with newer shows Pop of the Morning and In the ...
There’s good news and there’s some bad news when it comes to ad spending this summer. According to iSpot, automakers spent $223.5 million on national linear TV advertising in July, up nearly 18% compared ...
Everyone is struggling due to the economic impact of an unforeseen and unprecedented global pandemic… everyone who is not Sinclair. According to TVNewsCheck, Sinclair Broadcast Group this morning reported that its second quarter 2020 ...
Ana Patricia Candiani, main anchor at Telemundo’s KVEA in Los Angeles since early 2011, and Martín Plascencia, a reporter at the station for over 20 years, have been laid off. At least two other ...
You stay classy NBC! According to the Washington Post, Michael Jenkins, whom fellow sportscaster Dan Patrick once lovingly called “the sportscasting Ron Burgundy,” announced Monday that he was laid off by NBC Sports Washington. ...
Is it really a promotion when your workload doubles? According to Deadline, Nicolle Wallace’s Deadline: White House will expand to two hours and Chuck Todd’s MTP Daily will move to early afternoon as part of ...
An Alaska telecommunications company has completed a deal to sell its Anchorage TV station to a Georgia company that already owns an Anchorage channel and will now control the state’s two leading broadcast news ...
OK, is this based on an episode of ‘Succession,’ or will a future episode of ‘Succession’ be based on this. One has to be true. According to NPR, James Murdoch resigned Friday from the ...
There is apparently no great mask debate CNN, the likes of which you might observe on social media, or let’s face it (no pun intended) at your local supermarket these days. CNN is firmly ...
A lesser known character on The Simpsons, but nonetheless one that any enthusiast would know immediately, is Helen Lovejoy, wife to Reverend Timothy Lovejoy. She’s known as the town gossip and for her catchphrase, ...
Seven leading local television stations in Portland, OR, including KATU (ABC), KOIN (CBS), KGW (NBC), KPTV (Fox), KOPB-TV (PBS), KRCW-TV (CW) and KPDX (MyNet), today became among the first in the nation to begin ...
Who says only facts can be argued and not opinions. It’s almost like these people never heard of “alternative facts,” thank you very much Kellyanne Conway. According to Deadline, more than 280 journalists at ...
They’ll be no post game interviews for these poor souls. According to TheWrap, Fox Sports has laid off 50 to 100 staffers in what is being described as a restructuring and streamlining effort at ...
Could it be that “the swamp” is actually taking proactive action in order to protect reporters in the field? According to NextTV, the News Media for Open Government Coalition is renewing its call for passage ...
There’s always a fine line to skate when it comes to free speech and who you choose to give a platform to and in-turn hand a megaphone. This is a very relevant issue ...
There have been mass firings from newsrooms around the country. Ad revenue has been plummeting since March pretty march across the board. And yet, according to BusinessWire.com, TEGNA‘s Board of Directors Wednesday ...
Forget the global pandemic for a sec. How about this for a phenomenon – local news television viewership is at all-time high and yet organizations are desperate for advertisers to fill in the ...
Racial tensions were seemingly the rise at Fox News — and that was BEFORE the news about Tucker Carlson’s head writer dealing in outrageously racism in online forums and Carlson’s luke-warm at-best “apology” to follow. ...
KNBN in Rapid City, South Dakota has an immediate opening for a full time multimedia meteorologist. You’ll be on-air and must be able to develop video based content for all of Connect-Now’s distribution ...
Masked faces are the new norm in public, but coronavirus has also changed the face of production. It’s anyone’s guess when the bandages of this facelift come off, if ever. According to Variety, ViacomCBS ...
That episode of BBC‘s The (original) Office where Ricky Gervais guarantees his staff’s job security only to learn he has to fire some of them seems a tad less funny now. According to Deadline, ...
It may be re-packaged with some new chyrons and less impressive sponsors – but hey… at least it’s news you already saw on TV a few hours ago! Bottom line is they’re calling it ...
In a move that likely would not have transpired had the novel coronavirus not created a global pandemic ahead of a pivotal U.S. presidential election, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises has given the green light to ...
It’s quit literally the worst time in the history of television for networks to create new programming. Reruns are the norm in the age of coronavirus, but the news is still, well, new. The ...
The love affair between President Trump and Fox News may be officially over. The president’s once favorite home-court-advantage network has been a consistant Twitter target as of late. His most recent target being ...
It’s not a good time for print journalism to begin with. So it’s REALLY not a good time at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette where it’s being proven that a house divided against itself can ...
It seems the timing is fitting to say it… to say something – and that’s what hundreds of media professionals are doing collaboratively. According to the Los Angeles Times, more than 320 scholars and ...
Even if his first rally after the break-out of COVID-19 wasn’t the success he was looking for, President Trump did hand an inadvertent assist to Fox News. The channel pulled in its highest-ever prime-time ...
All those firings had to free up some room in the budget after all. According to Axios, CBSN, the 24/7 digital streaming news service for CBS News, is expanding internationally to pull in more ...
It was back to work for two-thirds of the on-air team at CBS This Morning. According to NewsCastStudio.com, it was a return to Studio 57 on June 22, albeit without all of its normal crew and talent. ...
WPVI, ABC’s Philadelphia O&O, took viewers down memory lane over-the-weekend with an hour-long special celebrating its 50 years branded as Action News. The station was mired in last place in the news ratings in ...
In a story NewsBlues has been following, Voice of America seems to be very quickly showing every indication of becoming the Voice of Trump. According to NPR, President Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Agency for Global ...
If you STILL work for CBS these days, just be happy with the transfer to Anchorage! Enough heads have rolled at Chopping Blocks Stations that a “shuffle” should be the least of your worries. ...
KCTV appears to have junked its “Better Kansas City” lifestyle show in favor of a regular newscast at 9:00 a.m.. The newscast uses the existing talent from both Better Kansas City and KCTV’s morning ...
At the end of the day, you answer in one way, shape or form to those who pay your bills, be it your boss or your sponsors. Non-ad revenue based media outlets rids ...
If only we can report what we’d LIKE to happen. According to Techdirt.com, NBC reported that Google had “banned” two well known websites from its ad platform, The Federalist and Zero Hedge. The story ...
According to Robert Feder, don’t look for WMAQ-Channel 5 to replace the late Dick Johnson as weekend news anchor at the NBC-owned station any time soon. That’s the official word one week after Johnson died of pulmonary fibrosis ...
FOX 26 KRIV morning traffic anchor Chrisdyann Uribe has left the station after her contract ended. “I moved to Houston exactly 3 years ago and found a city with a huge heart and lots of passion,” ...
The protests around the country are enough to ignite strong opinions on any side. Social media friend lists are literally being purged, as people are distancing themselves over differing opinions regarding the news cycle. One thing ...
The promotion for it couldn’t have laid out a more peaceful protest. In fact, it literally reads “Keep it peaceful” and “social distancing encouraged.” Doesn’t exactly sound like a planned terrorist operation going down outside one ...
Don’t call it a comeback! Don’t call it a comeback especially if he’s off the air after he started on June 2. That’s not quite the case for Bill O’Reilly just yet. but ...
KTRK ABC13 community reporter Juan Beltran‘s bio has been removed from the station’s website. Beltran and KTRK assignments editor Chaz Miller were hired as community journalists in early 2019. Miller still remains with the ...
An abridged version of what a large portion of Fox News‘ hosts have been pedaling for the last three months: The extreme downplay, to the point of dismissal, of the coronavirus and its impact ...
There are 50 states and 50 governors (51 with Puerto Rico) examining 50 different line graphs. Upticks, downswings and death tolls are all in consideration regarding when to return to work. For ...
Sticks and stones may break their windows, but it doesn’t seem names will hurt CNN – and it’s not from any lack of effort by President Donald Trump. Tuesday, CNN announced it had its best ...
GCI subsidiary Denali Media Holdings has announced the sale of its NBC affiliates in southeast Alaska to Gray Television. The sale includes KATH and KSCT stations in the Juneau and Sitka markets. Denali Media ...
Under Susan Zirinksky‘s reign at CBS News, more heads are rolling than under King Joffrey’s in the realm. Yet, unlike executives at NBCUniversal, Fox Corp. and ABC parent company Disney, top executives at ViacomCBS have not taken reduced salaries amid the ...
More than three years after Bill O’Reilly was fired from Fox News amid sexual-harassment allegations, the “no spinster” is returning to television. Upstart OTT network The First will run his show starting tonight. No ...
Remember when Captain Hook would shudder in fear from the approaching tick-tick-tick of the crocodile nemesis who turned him into a “Hook”? Well, if you’re a loyal MSNBC viewer, get ready to get your ...
ViacomCBS has honored George Floyd, with a blackout video that lasted eight minutes and 46 seconds – the length of time the Floyd suffered a knee to the back of his neck, resulting in ...
In addition to eliminating the positions of legendary investigative reporter Pam Zekman and at least five other on-air employees, the mass layoffs at CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2 cost the jobs of numerous other staffers. Wendy Widom, ...
The hammer just dropped at CBS as the entertainment and news divisions were the subject another round of layoffs following the merger with Viacom. The layoffs come about a month after ViacomCBS’ cable said goodbye ...
WarnerMedia‘s Jim Cummings and CNN network president Jeff Zucker just sent employees their vision for the remainder of the calendar year. Very few CNN staffers are expected to return to their offices, with just ...
According to Robert Feder, the legendary Pam Zekman, one of Chicago television’s premier investigative reporters, was among at least a dozen employees at WBBM-Channel 2 who lost their jobs in sweeping companywide layoffs at CBS, sources ...
Amazon has an annual shareholders meeting this week. On the agenda – investors plan on demanding the company address worker safety issues after at least eight warehouse employees have died of COVID-19. Amazon has taken an interesting an possibly never-before-seen ...
It’s official. We are living in the Matrix. The Chinese state news agency Xinhua has added a 3D AI news anchor to its roster and she makes a LOT less than you… and it willing ...
Altice USA’s News 12 Networks, the hyperlocal news group serving the New York tri-state area, today appointed Jacques Natz general manager. Natz reports to Eric Harris, chief operating officer of Altice News. A veteran ...
ABC News is dedicating three days of special coverage to the coronavirus as it has reflected, exposed or exacerbated racial and socioeconomic divides. Starting Wednesday, Pandemic — A Nation Divided, will appear across the network’s platforms. ...
TV networks are upping the plugs to compensate for the steep drop in paid advertising. It’s 32% more promos to be precise with over a half million airings from April 18 through May 17. ...
Ronan Farrow is knee deep in controversy, rather than exposing one. No, it’s not the Frank Sinatra story (just Google it!). According to Page 6, Farrow has been forced to defend his Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
CBS Television Stations and CBS Interactive have launched CBSN Dallas-Fort Worth, the 10th of ViacomCBS’ 13 local direct-to-consumer streaming news services. CBSN Dallas-Fort Worth features anchored programming and coverage of breaking news in ...
Some bigger names in NBC Sports are about to see smaller numbers in their checks. Mike Tirico, Al Michaels, and Dan Hicks are just some of the NBC Sports personalities who will take a pay cut for the rest ...
Vice Media is laying off 55 U.S. staffers and about 100 more internationally as it faces uncertainty due to COVID-19 according to Deadline.com. In an internal memo from CEO Nancy Dubuc, it stated that the moves ...
E.W Scripps’ Court TV said it is launching a SiriusXM channel on May 15. “Court TV is committed to providing outstanding legal coverage and journalism across a variety of platforms and we’re thrilled that Court ...
Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded the credit outlook of Diamond Sports Group, the consortium led by Sinclair Broadcast Group that owns the 23 regional sports networks, formerly run by Fox. So what the hell does that mean? It means that the ...
According to a new study, advertisers say they expect to spend 33% less on upfront television buys in 2020 compared to last year. Advertiser Perceptions has been conducting surveys of advertisers and media buyers every two ...
A New York State filing has been updated by ViacomCBS and it spells bad news for many employees. 450 Positions have been eliminated. The original update on April 29 added 333 non-union employees in New York City to ...
“An extremely challenging business environment.” That’s the reason Meredith Corp. gave the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in delaying its quarterly earnings report, which was due Monday. According to The Des Moines Register, the Iowa-based media ...
CBS News CFO Charlie Pavlounis is on his way out – According to Variety. CBS News President Susan Zirinsky told staffers in a memo Tuesday. “I have no doubt Charlie will continue to explore his passion for combining ...
When the ad bucks stop here, that means means pink slips come next. According to RobertFeder.com, employees at NBC-owned WMAQ and Telemundo Chicago WSNS are bracing for imminent layoffs. David Doebler, president and general manager of the stations, announced a ...
Sinclair has been found to have hidden the fact that some of its TV news content was paid advertising. In turn, the station group has agreed to pay a fine of $48 million, as enforced by ...
Pat LaPlatney, Co-CEO of Gray Television, says the company is doing what it can to take care of its employees and advertisers as it pushes through an invariably tough second quarter and most likely beyond. In ...
Gray Television has announced that Jama Killingsworth, Kerri Blanco, Tim Walker, and Jacque Harms will lead Gray’s stations in the Huntsville, Colorado Springs, Hattiesburg, and Meridian markets respectively. That brings the number of new GM positions filed by Gray, ...
Well, Fox offices are staying closed for another month. This is odd (not odd at all) when you consider the amount of Fox News personalities regurgitating President Trump‘s call to “reopen the country” and urging people to get ...
The verdict is in regarding the first quarter and it’s not good news for cable providers. It seems there’s been more snipping than at rabbi briss training. “Traditional” pay TV subscriptions fell by a record-setting 1.8 ...
The E.W. Scripps Company reported operating results for the first quarter of 2019 and the news was enough to make shareholders say “EW.” Net loss: $11.8 million, or 15 cents a share. That’s on ...
According to Robert Feder, Jim Rose, the longtime sports anchor at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, scored a 9 out of 10 Thursday on Room Rater, a Twitter account that rates the backdrops of at-home live shots. “Light and bright. Tulips ...
Dish Network Corp. has reported earnings dropping faster than a dish at a Greek wedding. Net earnings plummeted to $73 million, from $340 million a year ago. The company said its earnings were impacted ...
Americans continue to give the news media a solid grade overall for coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 69% of U.S. adults saying the media have covered the outbreak very well or somewhat well. ...
A new study from Comcast echoes a popular sentiment of many Americans living through COVID-19: “The days are blurring together.” That’s how the cable and broadband giant described it in a blog post Wednesday, noting that ...
Sinclair Broadcast Group will be writing a check with nine zeroes and that’s not all. As the result of a civil penalty, Sinclair will cough up $48 million, the largest sum ever imposed on a broadcaster ...
Nexstar isn’t letting a little thing like a global pandemic halt its plans to compete with the big kids. With election 2020 very much on the horizon, the media company is proceeding with a ...
Local advertising is down a whopping 6%. However, Gray Television has reported positive net income in the first quarter, reversing a year ago loss, but warned that the COVID-19 pandemic was having a negative ...
ABC‘s owned TV stations have launched a campaign to boost the local businesses in their markets hit hard by COVID-19. The #BeLocalish campaign aims to help showcase the businesses and suggest ways the community ...
Michael Jordan is used to winning. So, when 99% of the country is losing during the coronavirus pandemic – losing money, losing jobs, losing sanity, losing lives… it’s not exactly a shock that one ...
Andy Lack is out, leaving news executive Noah Oppenheim in limbo according to The Daily Beast. The power shift, which brings CNBC under the news division umbrella (previously outside Lack’s purview) and reporting to CEO ...
In what could set a very interesting precedent, an AccuWeather broadcaster, laid off because of the COVID-19 pandemic, has filed a lawsuit arguing the decision was a violation of her contract. Laura Velasquez is ...
Station group Howard Stirk Holdings is settling for a Hundred Grand bar minus the chocolate and adding a whole lot of dough. HSH and owner Armstrong Williams have agreed to pay $100,000 and adopt ...
Andrew Lack, chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, is exiting as part of an internal shuffling at NBCUniversal. Cesar Conde, who heads up Telemundo and NBC’s businesses outside North America, will take over as ...
We’ve all seen the “RTs are not an endorsement” type sentiments in journalists’ Twitter bios. But the disclaimer wasn’t enough to prevent Minnesota Meteorologist Sven Sundgaard from being fired – according to AlphaNewsMN.com The reporter for KARE11 had reposted a ...
Nicolle Wallace is by no means a Democrat. The host of MSNBC‘s ‘White House’ is the former White House communications director for George W. Bush and a senior adviser for John McCain’s presidential ...
Former CNN host Piers Morgan is taking a break from his role on “Good Morning Britain” while he awaits the results of a COVID-19 test according to CNN. Morgan said he noticed a “mild” ...
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that NBCUniversal is looking to axe a significant portion of staff across its media and entertainment divisions, citing people familiar with the matter. NBCUniversal is taking a huge financial hit from the coronavirus outbreak. The ...
According to Poynter, ABC’s “World News Tonight” has become the No. 1 show in America. Fox News just had its best month ever in primetime. “Morning Joe” just had its best ratings ever. The ...
NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell apparently sees “very, very encouraging” early signs from Peacock, but also sees “significant adjustments” being made to the expense side of the Comcast division in light of COVID-19. According to Deadline.com, Shell delivered these comments during his first appearance ...
Nielsen is used to reporting the bad the news for others, but in this case the company reports a first-quarter loss and says it’s because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also expects revenue to be ...
As Viacom and CBS continue their relationship, they’re cutting off more and more friends who are now wondering WTF. More staffers were laid off Wednesday at various divisions at divisions, not limited MTV News. Great! ...
E.W. Scripps believes it has the answer for viewers to navigate the new age of coronavirus as a means to recover from self-quarantining by grabbing “The Rebound.” No, it’s not snagging someone who is ...
