Brooke Baldwin has become the second CNN anchor to contract coronavirus. She posted on Instagram that she came down with “chills, aches, fever” and continued, “I’ve been social distancing. Doing ALL the things we’re being told ...
According to deadline.com Fox News is gearing up in the form of “in-office precautions” for in-office employees, to possibly target a May 4 return-to-work. “Setting a date” celebrations are usually reserved for brides-to-be, and ...
Gray TV, out of Atlanta, has announced the launch of Full Court Press Now across its local stations on 93 markets starting tonight, Monday. Hosted by Greta Van Susteren, Full Court Press Now is a ...
The Times They Are A Changing as Bob Dylan crooned – and it could certainly be applied to just about every industry these days, including news and the newsroom. But the first line of ...
It’s a quit the fracas between TEGNA and shareholder Standard General, led by Soohyung Kim, the financial group demanding seats on the company’s Board of Directors. The action has heated up with both parties pitching shareholders ...
According to the New York Times, Jason Kilar has been named as head of AT&T’s entertainment and news unit. . Kilar replaces John Stankey, who remains AT&T’s president. This comes right before the launch of ...
Chances are – your local newspaper already had some big decisions to make coming down the line. COVID-19 just floored the gas pedal on the road to those decision for many. According to a ...
Nielsen says it agreed to a multi-year renewal with the Sinclair Broadcast Group. The deal covers all of Sinclair’s 191 TV stations, 22 regional sports networks, Tennis Channel and several digital broadcast channels. In addition ...
With millions working from home, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the popularity of the video conferencing platform Zoom has … well, let’s just say its name is apropos. Stations all over the country ...
CNN Chief Jeff Zucker is sticking to his guns, despite growing support, including from CNN Anchor Don Lemon, to NOT to carry President Trump’s coronavirus press briefings live. The criticism is based on the ...
A few weeks back we reported that Nexstar CEO Perry Sook told shareholders in a conference call that that COVID-19 pandemic and a subsequent lockdown could be good for Nexstar. We don’t think it ...
While many are losing their jobs left and right, or at least learning that they are “non-essential,” Gray Television has announced major promotions. Sacha Purciful will be the general manager of KSLA, Shreveport, Louisiana, and ...
Trish Regan had the weekend (+Monday) to think about a lot. To be fair, we all did. We can’t leave our homes and this leaves plenty of time to discover new and exciting annoying ...
While it’s yet to be seen if Monday Night Football proceeds as planned (DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGER!), or follows a similar fate as the NBA and NHL, the victory for the final Monday in ...
With people self-quarantining at home to avoid coronavirus, TV viewing was up a whopping 85% in late March, compared to one year ago – this according to Samba TV, who also claims total viewing ...
Over the weekend, Tegna finally fessed up and admitted what we had been reporting all along – that it had a pack of suitors on its tail hoping for a corporate marriage. HAD. Past ...
We all know Bill Hemmer at Fox News. In January 2020 he took over Fox News’ 3 p.m. hour-long news slot. He was taking over from Shepard Smith, who resigned from Fox after reporting ...
Expect to see more of this, especially in smaller markets. Locally-owned WPSD in Paducah, KY is taking advantage of COVID-19 to lay people off. Sports reporter Blake Sandlin was among them Mom-and-pop operations and ...
The U.S. Supreme Court sided with Comcast in a high-stakes civil rights case Monday, ruling that media mogul Byron Allen must show race was the determining reason that the company refused to carry his ...
A lot of what people out there use the term “Fake News” based on how some outlets cover a story. Sure, the facts may be the same but the emphasis on some of those ...
The Tampa Bay Times has laid off 11 journalists, the newsroom’s executive editor said in a note to the staff on Wednesday. You have to wonder how many broadcast journalists will be cut during ...
Last week, as the spread of the COVID-19 virus continued, Colorado Governor Jared Polis temporarily banned gatherings of 250 or more, and over the weekend, the federal Centers for Disease Control offered a stricter ...
Win a suitor, lose a suitor. Tegna may need a scorecard to keep track. Yesterday, citing economic uncertainty because of the coronavirus pandemic, Gray Television withdrew it’s bid for a Tegna takeover. But out ...
Gray, Apollo Media and the Allen Media Group are all avidly pursuing the acquisition of Tegna. And now one of the company’s largest shareholders has circled around and is trying once more to place ...
Tegna’s corporate consolidation prom dance card is rapidly filling up. Now, media entrepreneur Byron Allen, the owner of The Weather Channel is knocking at the door. His offer is very similar both Gray Television’s ...
Not long after Gray Television went public with its $8.5 billion bid for Tegna, out of the woodwork came Apollo, seeking once again to grab the company with a matching offer. Except Apollo’s offer ...
They went eyeball to eyeball and it appears that the winner just MAY be consumers for a change. Well most consumers anyway. Sinclair Broadcast Group said it reached an agreement with YouTube TV to ...
MipTV, one of the leading international television conferences and markets, has been canceled due to concerns related to the coronavirus. The event was scheduled to take place March 30-April 2 in Cannes. Organizers Reed Midem ...
Back in prehistoric times, we didn’t get much training about live shots. Sometimes on a job interview, the cavalier ND would lean back in his chair after ripping apart your 3/4″ show reel and ...
Monday, the Television Bureau of Advertising released research conducted on eligible voters for state primaries in California, Colorado and North Carolina ahead of Super Tuesday, to gain an understanding of what media platforms may ...
Just in time for “Super Tuesday” ad spending that will only multiply through the year, Nexstar’s KTXL in Sacramento, CA, debuted a locally produced half-hour political affairs show yesterday morning, two days before “Super ...
Sinclair took a beating on the market this week after the release of its fourth quarter FY2019 results. Investors felt it wasn’t making enough money, driving down the stock as much as 16% during ...
The Broadcasters Foundation of America has announced Federal Communications Commission Chairman (FCC) Ajit Pai as the recipient of this year’s Lowry Mays Excellence in Broadcasting Award. The Award is bestowed annually on an individual ...
A couple more tv stations announced the addition of more newscasts to, you know, “better inform our viewers and deliver them the information they want when they want it because we’re on your side ...
68% of Americans use online news sites on a weekly basis, with 37% calling online their main source of news, but only 13% of consumers say they are currently paying for online editorial content, ...
“The Wall Street Journal” is reporting that Univision is in exclusive talks with a bidding group that includes a former Viacom senior executive for a sale that could value the Spanish-language broadcaster at close ...
Colorado is one step closer to becoming the fourth state to implement legislation that would protect against the unequal treatment of natural hair, behind California, New York and New Jersey. House Bill 20-1048, more ...
If you blinked you may have missed it but Wednesday was “National Weather’s Person Day”. I had never heard of it but yeah it’s a real deal according to Google. “National Weatherperson’s Day, also ...
In December, a jury ruled that US-based internet service provider Cox Communications was liable for the infringement of over 10,000 music copyrights by its users. The company was ordered to pay Universal, Sony and ...
Not even the venerable BBC is immune to belt-tightening. The Beeb announced that its news division will see about a 7 percent cut in job – amounting to 450 pink slips being handed out ...
The noisy cable “news” outlets seem to get all the press, but when it comes to revenue, mainstream broadcasters – especially at the national level – have the upper hand by a mile or ...
Clancy Burke is a morning reporter for Sinclair’s WKRC (CBS) Cincinnati and is also a YouTuber approaching half a million subscribers. Take a listen as she tells us about filling-in as the breaking news ...
Let’s take a look at the most recent stations looking to cash in in 2020 on that estimated $10 billion in political ad spending. Nexstar’s KRCW in Portland, OR. is adding a morning show. ...
After less than three hours of live coverage CBS, the network of Walter Cronkite cut away from the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump, yielding to daytime fare like “Dr. Phil” and “Judge Judy.” ...
CBS loudly touted that it will inaugurate nightly 10 pm newscasts at its CW affiliates in Detroit, Atlanta and Tampa. Each of the three markets is adding two or three multimedia journalists. The newscasts ...
Nerves are said to be getting a frayed in the Tegna front offices over the possibility of a takeover – hostile or otherwise – at the media company. Since 1997, venture capitalist Soohyung Kim ...
Seth MacFarlane, the creator of “Family Guy,” “American Dad!,” “Ted” and “The Orville” is leaving his longtime home at 20th Century Fox Television, which bet on MacFarlane when he was just a recent college ...
After 12+ years, NBC News is shutting down Peacock Productions, the nonfiction production unit that focuses primarily on documentaries, reality series and news specials. The jobs of 32 people in the unit are affected ...
ViacomCBS said it reached a new carriage agreement with Comcast that includes retransmission consent for 23 CBS-owned TV stations, including CBS-owned CW affiliates. The deal covers CBS’s cable properties and will make the streaming ...
A member of the WCAU (NBC) First Alert Weather Team is starting her New Year off with a couple big personal announcements. Weekday morning meteorologist Brittney Shipp kicked off 2020 with an elopement to Paris alongside ...
Mission Broadcasting said its stations in 18 markets are no longer being carried by Dish Network because of a retransmission consent dispute. The stations were removed by Dish without warning Friday night, Mission said. ...
A federal judge will not temporarily exempt freelance journalists and photographers from a broad new California labor law, saying they waited too long to challenge restrictions that they fear could put some of them ...
If only all media were as conscientious as Spotify. The music and podcast streaming service said Friday that it won’t run political advertising in 2020 – because it doesn’t have a way to “validate ...
New WKBW GM Marc Jaromin didn’t waste much time in putting his stamp on the Scripps Buffalo station. Just in time for Christmas, he cut the personal assistant to two previous general managers and ...
Several firms have expressed interest in acquiring Univision Communications Inc., according to The Wall Street Journal citing people familiar with the matter, a deal that would give the Spanish-language broadcaster’s private-equity owners a long-sought exit. ...
NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations Wednesday launched a massive back- and front-end reconstruction of its NBC and Telemundo station digital products. TVNewsCheck.Com reports the new content management system (CMS) was designed and built in less ...
ABC News is hooking up with Apple News on coverage of the 2020 presidential election, starting with plans for a Democratic debate on Feb. 7 in New Hampshire. For that event, Apple News will ...
Billionaire presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg is refusing to buckle under pressure and change the rules of engagement for his news outlet’s political reporters—who are forbidden from investigating him or any other Democratic White House ...
CNN ratings have continued to plummet with the company averaging a nearly three-year low in viewership last week. Media Confidential reports the network hit a five-year low among the key 25-54 demographic while it ...
RTDNA has a good read this week about an overhaul of a University Journalism curriculum. This semester’s incoming journalism students at the University of Missouri are enrolled in nearly 50 sections of new classes under a ...
This is an interesting attempt to help dilute some of the fake news stories out there. Our-Dot-News is offering an extension to help rank news articles like the nutrition facts you see on food. ...
An organization that is trying to bolster the struggling local news industry said Monday that it will help fund the hiring of 250 journalists across the country next year. That’s a sharp increase from ...
No, this isn’t for the annual cookie drive from that wacky sales lady or someone asking for a random donation. The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) has a day of giving coming up ...
Scripps plans to launch a local news operation at WSFL in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale market, a station itg acquired from Tribune in September. The launch will likely occur next spring. The station will continue ...
The suits at ABC are reportedly freaking out trying to find the identity of the leaker behind the Amy Robach tape — after the alleged source posted a letter online slamming the network under the name ...
Back in the day when we had to walk through ten feet of snow to get to the newsroom and the GM never paid us much attention except to call us the wrong name ...
As large broadcasting companies re-think their relationship to ratings ( and one, Nexstar, has already jumped ship), signs of tougher times ahead are showing up for Nielsen. After posting a third quarter net loss ...
The Black News Channel, an original 24/7 news offering aimed at African American viewers was supposed to launch in 8 days. Instead, in an 11th-hour decision, BNC, co-founded by former Republican congressman J.C. Watts, ...
The endless parade of police blotter stories, puppy mill tear-jerkers and marathon weather coverage even on warm, sunny days no longer seems to satisfy the local viewer. A new “State of Public Trust in ...
CBS and Viacom Wednesday announced senior leadership appointments across ViacomCBS’ revenue lines. The appointments, effective upon closing of the deal to combine CBS and Viacom, will enable ViacomCBS to drive strong, multifaceted opportunities with ...
Well, we told you Friday what was going on with the NDA’s at NBC in the wake of the Farrow report now Fox employees want the same. At least six former Fox News employees ...
The following was on Nexstar’s Media release page Monday in case you missed it. Nexstar Media Group, Inc. announced Monday that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc., will begin to immediately transition its advertising ...
Wednesday we told you NBC News renewed the contract of its controversial president Noah Oppenheim, and he looks poised to succeed chairman Andy Lack despite weathering a slew of #MeToo scandals at the TV ...
Two New York lawmakers are proposing a requirement that any cable TV company operating in New York offer a local news channel with “news, weather and public affairs programming,” according to The NY Times citing ...
The faceless third largest shareholder of Tegna wants two seats on the corporate board and, ideally, would like to force a sale. Standard General LP, which owns a 9.8% stake in Tegna, is said ...
A mere six months after reports surfaced that Meredith Corporation was exploring the sale of its 17 television stations, the company appeared to have done a 180°. At an NAB panel featuring three CEOs ...
Shari Redstone has no plans to launch a conservative news channel to compete with Fox News, reports The NY Post citing reps for the billionaire media heiress. The Hollywood Reporter reported Tuesday, Redstone, who serves ...
I remember a News Director I worked for early on required us to take a different route to work everyday. He said, “you never know what you are gonna come across that in turn ...
With all the recent mergers going on in the industry, it’s no coincidence that older workers, those over 40 in many cases are being left out in the cold, replaced by younger cheaper models. ...
People are making money off Marijuana in bakeries, with T-shirts, baseball caps in Colorado and elsewhere so why not in the TV Business? Enter stage right,”Weedeezy” an animated TV series that creators say is ...
It’s a good thing it’s football season. The prospect of subscribers missing out on their weekly dose of college and professional football helped end a couple of battle between station groups eager to jump ...
TVNewscheck.com reports the minority owned and operated Black News Channel (BNC) said business magnate Shahid “Shad” Khan is now a partner in the fledgling network. “Khan is deeply committed to the network’s mission of ...
After ceasing sales of print newspapers, Starbucks announced Tuesday that it will offer customers free digital access to several newspapers for a limited time. Starbucks customers using the free in-store Wi-Fi at the coffee ...
Six Texas broadcasters joined the TAB Board of Directors in September, filling vacancies resulting from retirements, resignations and term limits. They join 31 other directors representing Radio and Television stations in various market sizes ...
Today’s jaw-dropper comes from a CNBC story about the line of succession at WarnerMedia, the AT&T conglomerate that includes CNN, HBO, Turner Broadcasting and Warner Brothers. The current boss of WarnerMedia is John Stankey, ...
A year ago we wondered about the fate of Chicago’s WGN (Independent) once the Nexstar-Tribune merger was finalized. Well, here we are and Perry Sook, the chairman and CEO of Nexstar — now the ...
Disney opted for no disruption in service to AT&T customers, reaching an agreement in principle on a new retransmission consent and carriage deal that would keep networks including ABC, ESPN and the Disney Channel ...
The folks at Nexstar are having a conference call later today to gloat over the successful completion of their acquisition and absorption of the former Tribune Media stations and the equally successful shedding of ...
“The Wall Street Journal” reported this week that AT&T is considering whether to “part ways” with DirecTV, just four years after buying the satellite company. There is nothing definite in the works just yet, ...
The Federal Communications Commission on Monday approved Nexstar’s merger with Tribune Broadcasting. It makes the new company the biggest local TV station owner in the United States. The newly combined company will have to divest ...
It is one of the most noticeable trends in local television news in Buffalo and elsewhere. To borrow a phrase from WKBW(ABC) promotional campaign, women reporters are everywhere. Of the last 23 new reporting ...
Nearly two months after 17 Meredith stations in 12 markets went dark on DISH, the truce has been signed. The two sides reached an agreement, the terms of which are none of your damned ...
After KTRK (ABC) debuted its new set in 2015, the Walt Disney Television station donated its old one to the Dr. Kirk Lewis Career & Technical High School in Pasadena Texas. Blogger Mike Mcguff reports ...
It’s not a bloodbath…for now. But Cox Media Group, owner of 14 television in 10 markets, is planning roughly 87 layoffs at its campuses in the Dunwoody and Sandy Springs areas of Atlanta. CMG ...
So two members of CBS royalty paid a visit to San Antonio’s KENS (CBS) last week. CBS News President Susan Zirinsky & Former CBS Evening News Anchor Scott Pelley visited the Alamo City and ...
A conservative television network is suing Rachel Maddow for calling it “paid Russian propaganda.” One America News seeks $10 million in a federal suit filed Monday in San Diego. The family-owned network is challenging ...
It’s here. The annual RTDNA/NAHJ Journalism Conference is underway and GM’s, ND’s and other station members are converging on San Antonio for five days of discussions, meet and greets and resume sharing. This years ...
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. has announced a new partnership with Broadcast Music Inc. and Belmont University’s Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business to air a new singer/songwriter series featuring a daily broadcast of ...
