We can’t kick a whole lot about the latest 3 PM newscast to pop up on a local television station. Instead of a lot of hot air about “viewer demand,” “public service” and “the ...
CBS news chief political analyst and senior correspondent John Dickerson is the new host of the network’s primetime streaming show. CBS News Prime Time with John Dickerson will stream Monday-Thursday at 7pm starting tonight. Dickerson, ...
Another talent was sent home from CNN. White House correspondent John Harwood tweeted on Friday that it was his last day at the cable newser. Harwood said he was “proud of his work” and ...
The FCC approval process for Standard Media’s acquisition of Tegna is moving at a pace a snail could surpass. We’re not saying that is a bad thing – but after the comparatively swift approval ...
When the commercials you run are deemed more trustworthy than the newscasts you produce, it’s safe to say you have a significant problem. Brand researcher Brand Keys released a survey this week that noted ...
It was a roll of the dice when Hena Doba left CBS News five years ago to take a job with something called Cheddar, a financial news streaming service now owned by Altice. Today ...
Does Gray Television have a “thing” against downtown facilities? Last month, we told you that the company’s KMOV was leaving its downtown St. Louis building in favor of a planned facility in the suburb ...
WRAL is losing its morning anchor who was once the station’s youngest reporter. Mikaya Thurmond will leave the Raleigh, North Carolina station and head to a place unknown. Thurmond announced her departure on social ...
Sinclair Broadcast Group as new Vice President of finance. Stephen Clare has been named to oversee the company’s financial planning and analysis as well as business development departments. Clare comes from Audacy, where he ...
Earlier this week, ten stations in the CBS group, all independents and CW affiliates, launched nightly newscasts. To go along with the expanded newscasts, airing on WLNY New York, WPSG Philadelphia, KTXA Dallas-Fort Worth, ...
CNN chairman Chris Licht kept it mostly in the house as he named his new leadership team for the network’s news and business sides. CNN’s 4,000 employees were told yesterday that Virginia Moseley would ...
It was probably beginning to feel a little lonely at Standard Media’s and Tegna’s respective HQs as opposition to the proposed acquisition of the latter by the former grew. Now civil rights group “Arc ...
Last week, we told you KYW in Philly got a new GM. The GM she replaced is heading to Nexstar to oversee a handle of stations. Brandin Stewart is now the senior Vice President ...
Forget about the press releases that loudly proclaim “we’re seeing an increased demand for local news” and “smart reporting that keeps you safe and saving money” The reason tv stations are the country are ...
It’s a photo worth a thousand words. WABC had its first in-person reporter morning editorial meeting since COVID shut down the newsroom more than two years ago. Longtime New York reporters Stacey Sager, Lauren ...
Almost from the time it was announced that the Black News Channel was shutting down earlier this year, Byron Allen’s name has repeatedly been mentioned as a possible savior of the cable channel. The ...
Even as the objections mount against the proposed Standard Media/Tegna merger, (mainly due to the looming presence of bankroller Apollo Global) there are some voices being raised in support of the move. Soo Kim, ...
Seniority doesn’t matter when it comes to shedding those executives involved in the CNN+ mess. The latest to take the fall is Rebecca Kutler, a 16-year veteran of CNN. She started out as a ...
We’ve been talking an awful lot in recent months about “The Great Resignation” -the unusually large number of exits from what used to be destination markets and the distressing number of exits from the ...
When news about the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas broke, local news stations from San Antonio and Austin rushed to the scene. Stations positioned reporters at Robb Elementary School where the shooting occurred, at the ...
Back in 2016, it was then-CBS CEO Les Moonves who declared the high-stakes presidential election “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” Now Chris Ripley, CEO of Sinclair ...
Come the second half of the year, the word “Tegna,” a mostly-failed anagram for Gannett, will be tossed onto the scrap heap of brand names like “New Coke,” “Windows Vista” and “Flooz” (don’t ask). ...
It’s been an unsettling couple of weeks for the employees of CNN what with the merger of Warner and Discovery, the shutting down on the barely-month-old CNN + and a new boss in the ...
Streaming service CNN+ could not have launched at a worse time. Just after it’s guiding light, Jeff Zucker was ejected from the presidential suite and just before Discovery+ absorbed parent company Warner Media. And ...
The news hit Sunday night. Former WUSA anchor Bruce Johnson died of a heart attack at 71. In 2018, the broadcaster was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He took some time off to undergo chemotherapy ...
While hundreds of tv newsers have been left stranded and out of work by their former employer, the Black News Channel has formally filed for bankruptcy. In its filing, the Tallahassee-based network listed $10 ...
How do you launch a multi-million dollar, mega-hyped and promoted streaming news channel and not have deals in place with tv platforms like Google TV, Android TV and the biggest of them all, Roku ...
Today there is a huge unemployed TV talent and TV producer pool living in Florida. Probably too many to fill the current vacant positions in local news and other network bureaus located across the ...
The investigative unit at Univision’s WLTV in Miami, FL is no more, the apparent victim of budget slashing following Univision’s merger with Televisa. Gone are (left to right) anchor and investigative reporter Ivan Taylor, ...
Our parent company Reel Media Group works with podcast groups to help talent learn how to become more comfortable on camera. The truth is, everyone needs to be on camera now, so we’re sharing ...
Bonuses and student loan repayment are two of the carrots being held out by Morgan Murphy Media as it embarks on a program to counter the drain of young talent in the tv news ...
We’re old enough to remember when the television industry was a money machine. It was also a time when broadcasters constantly whined about the time, expense and effort of keeping meticulous open records about ...
Here’s more news out of Austin. At KXAN, there’s no comings just goings. Veteran reporter Robert Hadlock, who is the longest continuously serving news anchor in the city, is going to retire this summer. ...
After a long search, KYW in Philadelphia has named a new president and general manager. They have recruited WTSP‘s Kelly Frank to come run the CBS station that had come undone a couple years ...
KGW anchor and the host of The Story Dan Haggerty left the Portland, Ore. station last year for a job at WRAL in Raleigh to raise his kids closer to family. The station finally ...
We need more anchors like WEAR‘s Joe Solarski. For any young reporters reading this, this is a perfect example of holding the powerful accountable. Solarski works for the Sinclair station in Pensacola, Fla. They ...
The newscasts that were once produced at Estrella-owned KRCA in Los Angeles, are now coming to viewers from a studio in Mexico City. As a result, about two dozen LA-based staffers, some of whom ...
KDKA is beefing up its weather team. For the first time in a long time, we are reporting on a hire but its not to replace anyone who’s left. The CBS station in Pittsburgh ...
