The E.W. Scripps Company will expand its commitment to Michigan audiences early next year by producing its own local newscasts at WSYM, its Fox affiliate in Lansing. The introduction of local news operations at ...
Telemundo is launching Radar2020, a new digital English-language news commentary show. Gabriela Fresquez, brought on board to work on the show, is the host. According to Telemundo, Radar2020 will “take a conversational and irreverent ...
With the pandemic introducing new uncertainties around this year’s voting process, the E.W. Scripps Co. is launching a wide-ranging editorial and promotional initiative to arm voters with the information and resources they need to ...
Broadcast TV stations groups — especially those network-affiliate stations — have, for decades, long complained about merger restrictions – according to MediaPost.com. Now with continued rising competition from digital platforms — local, national, and otherwise — ...
It’s a novel idea: un-apologetically do interesting stories that are news-worthy. The first thing you notice is the weather. That’s because, as according to the CronkiteNewsLab, on KSTP-TV’s Nightcast, it actually is first. Every ...
KRGV’s formerly independent Spanish-language digital subchannel is now an Azteca América affiliate – according to MediaMoves. As part of the change, management today launched HECHOS Valle newscasts, leaving behind its prior branded Somos El ...
There’s yet another major change coming to “CBS This Morning.” The show was rebuilt from the ground up after new honcho Susan Zirinsky took over the CBS News division in 2019. And now current ...
NewsNation may want to sit down for this. Harry A. Jessell, editor at large of TVNewsCheck has a few pointers – and by “pointers,” I mean knifey like things in the back. Nexstar’s NewsNation had ...
YouTube TV subscribers will lose 19 Fox regional sports networks owned by Sinclair Media as of October 1, as a result of failed renewal negotiations between YouTube parent Google and Sinclair – according to ...
Brand new local news hours are popping up like prairie dogs because there’s just so much news… and I’m sure – having nothing to do with the opportunity to sell more ad space to ...
Two weeks shy of a year after abruptly quitting Fox News Channel with a declaration that “truth will always matter,” Shepard Smith returns to television this week at his unexpected new home – according ...
NBCUniversal, which has made a series of moves aimed at keeping pace with the increasingly complex video viewing marketplace, has just released its first One Audience Trends Report – according to Deadline. The 15-page ...
RTDNA would like to ruin your day (hey, that rhymes!). For the first time since 2012, local TV news salaries fell in 2019. Following last year’s 3.1% increase, wages rose by 0.9%, but when ...
If a bailout is good enough for the auto and banking industries, why not local news. Locals aren’t even asking for billions of dollars and opposed to the bankers, this isn’t exactly hole that ...
From our ‘Why hasn’t this been happening for decades’ file… Univision News and Noticias Telemundo have joined FactCHAT, the first coalition of U.S. fact-checking organizations organized by the International Fact-checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter, ...
In a story, NewsBlues has been following, cuts from Meredith on a national scale just had a direct impact on the local scale. Namely WSMV in Nashville. This is a company that asked employees ...
Nexstar Media has announced that it has acquired WDKY-TV, the Fox-affiliated TV station in Lexington, Ky., from a Sinclair Broadcast Group subsidiary. WDKY-TV will be Nexstar’s first TV station licensed in Kentucky – according ...
Pink slips, goodbye notes and somber social media posts are going to be plentiful in Meredith newsrooms over the next few weeks. On Thursday, NewsBlues confirmed with the broadcast company that positions will be ...
It’s a scandal bigger than Watergate — according to the NY Post. Page Six has learned that Gayle King and her “CBS This Morning” colleagues were furious because “Today” bagged the first live interview ...
Not to worry Brian Kilmeade. Your make-up will be unaffected. Fox News Media is laying off employees in multiple divisions amid a restructuring of the company’s various businesses and platforms – according to TheWrap. ...
“Yes. Isn’t that incredible?” Esteban Creste, VP and news director at Univision’s New York station WXTV, is taking a well-earned victory lap. The station’s late news, Solo a las Once (Only at Eleven), won ...
Fox News will continue thriving even if Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump in November’s presidential election, Fox Corp. CEO predicts – this according to Deadline. “We’ve not only been strong but we’ve grown ratings ...
The Des Moines Register is reporting on the sadly un-shocking alleged treatment of female executives in local news. In a news story five years ago, “WOI to overhaul broadcast in 2015,” the Register reported ...
Hearst-owned ABC affiliate KMBC in Kansas City, Missouri, will debut a new newscast on co-owned CW affiliate KCWE. KMBC 9 News at Noon will be a one-hour local newscast airing weekdays starting Sept. 21 ...
The Meredith Corporation has announced that it will seek shareholder approval of an amendment to its charter that would increase options for a tax-efficient separation of the Company’s National and Local media groups while ...
Gray Television‘s WBRC-TV, branded as “FOX6,” has unveiled a new weekday anchor lineup in its evening and late newscasts as the station moves forward with the retirement of Janet Hall after 40 years of ...
OUCH! I’d never heard of UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock, but i just saw him get Matt ColdCocked by Sky News’ Kay Burley. Burley was all over social media after video circulated showing her ...
If you pull away all the aluminum foil, this guy just may have a point! A Columbia, Maryland man has filed a petition with federal regulators alleging Sinclair Broadcast Group has violated TV station ...
They’re rave reviews… but with a caveat. Robert Feder’s reputation is sterling and what he says carried weight in the world of journalism… buuuuuuut he’s also all-things Chicago, so take this with a ...
KENS5 Assistant News Director James Keith went on a Twitter blocking spree this weekend after criticism from local reporters and former San Antonio mayor Julián Castro over how the station handled issues of race in a ...
When entrepreneur Ted Turner first launched CNN in the early 1980s without any big name anchors, one of his credos was that the news would be the star of his then-revolutionary new network – ...
It worked for Hallmark, when they invented holidays to sell greeting cards. In a Cincinnati TV first, WCPO-TV will broadcast one hour of local news at 7 p.m. weekdays starting Monday, Aug. 31. The ...
After weeks of rehearsals, Nexstar Media’s new national newscast on WGN America is just about ready to go according to Multichannel.com. The crew is making last-minute adjustments to some of the graphics and fine-tuning ...
According to the Wall Street Journal, ViacomCBS is seeking around $5.5 million for 30-second commercial spots in next year’s Super Bowl, roughly in line with commercial prices in the 2020 game, according to people close to ...
ViacomCBS which has been looking to shed assets since its merger last year is in talks to unload tech website CNET to Red Venture, a digital-focused holding company, Deadline has confirmed. A deal could ...
According to Deadline, Byron Allen is acquiring Honolulu ABC affiliate KITV from SLJ Broadcasting for $30 million, boosting his Allen Media Group’s owned and operated big-four network affiliates to 16 stations in 12 markets. The acquisition, through AMG’s Allen ...
Brace yourselves Mexico because here comes the answer to your prayers… Brian Kilmeade. Fox Corp. is joining the parade of big U.S. media companies seeking to stream their best-known content abroad – according to ...
According to a new report from The New York Times’ Ben Smith, Nicolle Wallace was proposed as a replacement for her MSNBC colleague Chuck Todd as moderator of the Sunday morning news show Meet ...
There are firings around the country at NBCUniviersal, but one thing is for sure. When the new hires come at certain stations, they’ll be diverse! The NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations division today announced that ...
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. ...
