And to another legend in DC, who is also stepping down, NBC4’s Wendy Rieger will anchor her last show this week. Rieger has gone through a lot in her 33 years at the station ...
Byron Allen’s efforts to acquire Tegna may be on a temporary hold at the moment, but that isn’t stopping his recent buying spree. His company’s portfolio, which includes The Weather Channel, will stand at ...
There’s a family feud at One America Network. Robert Herring, the owner of the network, is upset at his son for endorsing President Biden’s pick for lawyer and senior staffer at the FCC. Gigi ...
KOMO morning anchor Ryan Yamamoto is going home. And he made that very obvious on his social media account. Yamamoto isn’t too far as it is. Home is San Francisco. And he’s in Seattle ...
What was once one of the nation’s largest media companies is now a shell of its former self. And now the second largest media company in the country behind Nexstar is Gray. Gray Television ...
Gray Television has yanked its local content from rival group Sinclair’s NewsOn in favor of a steaming platform in which it has invested. The end of Gray’s association with NewsOn will actually comes at ...
WGN is losing a longtime anchor. Julie Unruh is signing off after 20 years at Nexstar Media station. Local blogger obtained an email she wrote to colleagues: “I’ve been proud to work alongside you ...
Here is the latest from Rick Gevers…. KOLR-TV, Springfield, MO…MARK PARRICK is joining this Mission Broadcasting owned but operated by Nexstar CBS affiliate. He’s been the Assistant ND for WDSU-TV (Hearst-NBC) in New Orleans ...
KENS in San Antonio has hired a handful of new on-air journalists. The latest addition is Sarah Duran. Duran was most recently a reporter for Spectrum News, in the same market. Her first day ...
WHIO, the Cox station in Dayton, Ohio, has a new boss. Laura Evans has been named news director effective November 8. Evans will lead the news operations for the brand. She comes from KING ...
Media entrepreneur Byron Allen is stepping up his pursuit of Tegna’s 66 television stations Allen is trying to raise $8 billion to beat out a consortium that includes Apollo Global Holdings (owners of the ...
KREM, the Tegna owned station in Spokane, Wash., is being investigated to airing porn in a video monitor during a weather toss. The station says it’s investigating how and who might have piped that ...
The former general manager of WDSU in New Orleans recently left to go to a bigger station in the number two market. Joel Vilmenay is now the GM of KCBS and KCAL in Los ...
The husband and wife combination KGW anchor and reporter Cristin Serverance and Dan Haggerty have left Portland, Ore. are gone. They’ve left the Tegna station after a few years to take jobs in Raleigh ...
Word was that Jeff Zucker, a master at “corporate managing up,” was planning to step down from the helm of CNN come December. Fuhgeddaboudit. We are now hearing that Zucker, who was also said ...
WSVN’s Diana Diaz left the Miami morning show to start a new gig last month and replacing her wasn’t going to be easy. She’d been waking up viewers in South Florida for decades. The ...
WTAE in Pittsburgh, PA has hired it’s former intern Ashley Zilka as a reporter. Zilka, who grew up in the area, comes to Pittsburgh from KSTP. Prior to Minneapolis, she did stints in Cincinnati, ...
It seems odd that a market the size of Cleveland, OH, with a hugely diverse population is just now planning to launch a Spanish-language television station. But there you are. And here comes Telemundo ...
It’s free, it’s over-the-air, it’s 24/7 and it’s coming soon. Scripps’ revamped and repurposed Newsy will launch in roughly 90% of U.S. television homes — and in all major markets — on Oct. 1. ...
Octavio Pulido has been promoted to lead anchor at Noticiero Telemundo Arizona at 10 p.m. He’ll replace Daniel Aguirre, who left the company in April. He’ll continue to co-anchor the 4 and 4:30 shows ...