THERE WILL BE NO NEWS IN ALPENA ‘TIL FURTHER NOTICE
Massive sick call forces cancellation
Category: The Water Cooler
HIGHLIGHTING ITS ALUMNI IN LOCAL TELEVISION
Quinnipiac University celebrates an apparent connection with Gray Television The old saying “You can’t go home again” evidently doesn’t really apply here. In fact, “You never really have to leave home” may be more ...
THE RUMORS ARE ALREADY SWIRLING ABOUT CHRIS LICHT
Less than a year into his run at CNN, the knives are out
SHE’S NOW REPORTING PHILLY SPORTS
College soccer standout and coach takes up local microphone
READY TO RETURN
NY1 Anchor has been battling cancer
TELEMUNDO ISSUING PINK SLIPS
Dozens axed and more may come
L.A. NEWSROOM OVERWHELMINGLY VOTES FOR THE UNION
Victory comes after a similar move failed more than two decades ago
HE’S HAD ENOUGH
Reporter schools boneheads about his hair
WHITHER A SAN FRANCISCO TV NEWS ICON?
A Bay Area blogger has some thoughts
DID YOU KNOW…??
Our friends at “The Laurel” have an interesting factoid to share.
NEW SEATTLE ANCHOR MIA
So is his voice
LICHT-LED LAYOFFS LEVEL CNN
Layoff notices started going out yesterday
AN INTERN MADE GOOD….VERY GOOD
It's full circle for Michelle Fisher
QUICKIES
Stuff it’s good to know.
WE HEARTILY AGREE – NOT THAT IT WILL HAPPEN BUT..
It's a great idea. Which explains why we aren’t bigshot tv news executives
RUSH TO JUDGEMENT
Media types seem eager to pronounce CNN’s new morning show DOA
PINK SLIPS BEING PREPARED AT CNN
Warner Discovery has to dig up money for debt service somewhere
ABC NEWS PRODUCER/REPORTER OFF THE GRID AFTER FBI RAID
It's a story worthy of 20/20 or Dateline
MAKING HISTORY IN MADISON
She’s the station’s first female sports director
AUTHOR, AUTHOR!!!
Ashley Baylor, a meteorologist with Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford, CT for the past three years. wants you to know she has a new sideline. http:// Before arriving in Hartford, she staffed the weather centers ...
STAGING A RETURN
Dan Clouse returns to Allen Media’s KIMT in Mason City, IA, this time as ND. He passed along this note which has more details and covers his background. He replaces Jaime Copley who left ...
A RETURN TO MORNING TV NEWS FOR SATX VETERAN
Marvin Hurst has been a staple of San Antonio television news ever since he joined Tegna s/t/b Standard Media’s KENS 17½ years ago. Hurst, who will continue to produce the station’s series “Kids Who ...
CHICAGO SPORTS GUY IS A STAND-UP KINDA GUY
Pat Tomasulo, the morning sports anchor at Nexstar’s WGN in Chicago, IL has another side he’d like you to know about. He’s got a side job as a stand-up comic and he’s just released ...
READY TO TIE ONE ON?
Hey tv news guys! Sartorially challenged? Tim Pham, morning anchor at Tegna-soon-to-be-Standard General’s KREM in Spokane, WA has got a deal for you! http://
ANOTHER ATTACK ON TV NEWS CREW IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
This is becoming a sad and frightening story we tell with increasing regularity. Kelly Werthmann, a reporter with CBS-owned KCNC in Denver went on Facebook to report on the latest incident. http://
THAT’S ONE BOOK ON HER RESUME
This is something we are seeing more of in recent times – a tv neweser publishing a book. In this case is it the consumer reporter for Disney’s WLS in Chicago, Samantha Chatman. This ...
THIS EAGLE CAM NSFW
This is the time of year when television stations around the country devote a portion of their morning newscasts to checking on the cameras monitoring the nesting habits of their local bald eagles – ...
THROUGH THE GEVERS GRAPEVINE
TV news industry stalwart Rick Gevers reports he’s been told that there is a new news director for locally owned WOAY in Oak Hill, WV. But, shhh it’s still a secret. Tyler Barker was ...
A SHOUT-OUT TO A BUFFALO REPORTER
We are never not gonna love tv newsers who aren’t afraid to come back at viewers who offensively offer their unsolicited advice in regard to 1) dress, 2) hair/makeup, 3) state of pregnancy, and ...
A JUMP FROM CBS NEWS TO ABC NEWS
Mireya Villareal is heading back to Texas, where it all began, but for this return she will be a correspondent for ABC News. She is jumping to the Disney network from CBS News, where ...
SHE DID WIN THE TALENT COMPETITION, THO
If you look at the LinkedIn profile of Isabelle Hanson, you won’t find her job as a reporter and weekend anchor at Gray’s KFVS in Cape Girardeau, MO at the top of her work ...
MORT CRIM STAYS CLASSY
Will Ferrell’s portrayal of Ron Burgundy in the movie “Anchorman” wasn’t just created out of thin air. Burgundy was modeled after one of the 70’s legendary local anchors – Mort Crim of KYW in ...
DID BRIAN WILLIAMS PRICE HIMSELF OUT OF A JOB?
We honestly can’t think of any network or media organization that started rubbing its corporate hands the moment it was announced that Brian Williams was leaving MSNBC at the end of his contract next ...
CORPORATE GETTING INVOLVED AT KTVU?
Bay Area blogger Rich Lieberman tells us that his sources say a FOX Senior management team was recently formed at corporate headquarters to conduct an onsite probe on what exactly is going on at ...
DENVER CBS O&O PROMOTES NEW NEWS BOSS
The makeover at CBS News’s local stations continues with the naming of Kristine Strain as the new news director at KCNC, CBSN Denver and CBSDenver.com. She’s been the number two at the station for ...
NIELSEN UNDER FIRE
Take a look at the numbers
MOVING FROM WEEKENDS TO THE DAWN PATROL
Sanika Dange is joining the weekday morning crew alongside Jason Guy, Michelle Imperato, Sheldon Dutes and meteorologist Kellianne Klass at Hearst’s WESH in Orlando. She’s moving to co-anchor chair of the dawn patrol after ...
SEATTLE REPORTER ON THE MEND
Jesse Jones, the consumer advocate reporter for Apollo Cox’s KIRO in Seattle, is on the mend from we would consider a rather serious operation. Jones has been a familiar face at KIRO for six ...
WE’RE WITH HIM
It was horrifying enough back in August of 2015 to endless replays of the on-air murder of reporter Allison Parker. To have it ghoulishly live on with YouTube videos and other online outfits is ...
CLEVELAND ANCHOR MOVE SPARKS SOME ANGER
15 years after abandoning mornings for the evening shift at Scripps’ Cleveland flagship WEWS, it’s back to the dawn patrol for veteran anchor Danita Harris. And, she tells us, she couldn’t be happier! “I ...
WHERE WILL HE LAND?
The way things looks right now, if MSNBC executives can ever come to some sort of conclusion to a schedule shuffle, the possible acquisition of Shepard Smith WON’T include a prime-time slot for him. ...
THE CELEBRATIONS CONTINUE….
From St. Louis comes a heaving sigh of relief and hope for the New Year with the disappearance of Sinclair’s “chief political analyst” Boris Epshteyn from the local airwaves. Scott D. Pierce: Big, bad ...
UMMMMM……
For some reason, someone saw fit to post the entire footage from former WPBF reporter/anchor Farron Salley‘s DUI arrest online. The incident occurred just over a year ago, when Salley was pulled over by ...
CYBER ATTACK CONTINUES IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST NEWSROOMS
A cyber attack that struck more than ten Cowles Media tv stations in Idaho, Montana and Washington state continues to cripple newsroom operations. The “very sophisticated” attack had journalists at the stations, which include ...
A RETURN IN THE WORKS?
It’s been six years since Bob Sirott left the anchor chair at Fox-owned WFLD in Chicago and two years since he and his wife, former anchor Marianne Murciano were dropped by Cumulus Media’s WLS ...
AN IDEA WORTH EXPANDING
Enterprise journalism too often goes by the wayside amid corporate mergers, newsroom downsizing and consultant/corporate meddling. So it is refreshing to see Scripps placing a focus on enterprise reporting through a new partnership with ...
HOW LONG BEFORE THIS POLICY IS IGNORED?
CNN is reporting that the brass at Fox News Channel has been repeatedly warning its hosts and personalities to refrain from identifying the whistleblower – Rand Paul notwithstanding. That whistleblower, whose complaint ramped up ...
FARROW FALLOUT CONTINUES AT 30 ROCK
MSNBC host Chris Hayes was the first high-profile NBC News employee to push back against his embattled bosses Andrew Lack and Noah Oppenheim nearly two weeks ago. Now, Rachel Maddow has unloaded on the ...
OH PLEASE…..
At Tegna’s WKYC in Cleveland, they are thrilled….ABSOLUTELY THRILLED…to welcome Emily Mayfield to the “news” team as a “special correspondent.” “We are thrilled to welcome Emily to the 3News family,” said noticeably verklempt gm ...
NAPOLITANO POURS SOME GASOLINE ON THE FOX NEWS FIRE
The civil war inside Fox News Channel between the straight news side and the prime-time “opinion programs” has been ramping up in recent weeks, and becoming more public. Now, longtime Fox judicial analyst Andrew ...
SINCLAIR AND AT&T NEAR A DEAL?
After an 11th-hour extension last Friday, Sinclair stations remained on AT&T‘s DirecTV platforms through at least the weekend and tensions seems to have eased, even as the talks go on. Sinclair pulled its hyperbentilating ...
IMELDA CHASES OUT KBMT
Tropical Storm Imelda has been drenching East Texas and keeping rescue crews busy, with some localized areas getting more than 40 inches of rain in the last three days and the rain is still ...
STAND UP FOR NEXSTAR
Nexstar’s 120 television stations in 97 markets went back up on DirecTV at the end of last week, just in time for the company to show off its latest innovation: the daily playing of ...
SEPARATED AT BIRTH? (UH-UH)
Hey, we can walk into a movie theater and suspend belief for two hours of a CGI orgy just as well as the next guy. But c’mon…. Chris Pine (who did NOT make us ...
(NOT) ON YOUR SIDE AND (NOT) LOOKING OUT FOR YOU
We were at a family reunion this weekend in a town where the local tv station is owned by Nexstar. And family members who had driven into town and were staying at a hotel ...
SOMETIMES IT’S A DISH BEST SERVED COLD
It’s been 28 years since former KARE sportscaster Tom Ryther was given the boot in what he calls a “youth movement” by then-news director Janet Mason. But it still stings Ryther, and it’s still ...
A SACRAMENTO RESURFACING
Former news directors can be like bad pennies. They just keep turning up when least expected and in unlikely locales. For instance, Jill Manuel, a former television news executive in Chicago and Cleveland, is ...
MAKING HIS PITCH
We have to say that this is one of the more…..err…..passionate reels we’ve come across in a long time. He’s even put a little imagination into his website handle.
EXECUTIVE SHUFFLE AT MSNBC
The moribund numbers at MSNBC post-Mueller has led to a shake-up in the executive suites. SVP of Programming and Development Jonathan Wald and MSNBC executive editor Dan Arnall are taking over the daytime lineup ...
SELLING THE CROWN JEWELS
The shrinkage continues at CBS-owned WBBM in Chicago. Not only is there downsizing of personnel. Now the station is looking to rent out its former street-front studio in the Loop. Once touted as the ...
PELLEY POINTS THE FINGER
Former “CBS Evening News” anchor Scott Pelley claimed on CNN‘s “Reliable Sources” on Sunday that he lost his job as anchor of the network news program because he “wouldn’t stop complaining to management” about ...
SHE REPORTS, SHE ANCHORS, SHE SINGS
By day, Natalie Davis is the co-anchor of the morning news program at Gray’s KWCH in Wichita, KS. It’s a job she’s held since January, 2018 after arriving from Kansas City, MO and KCTV ...
KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY
Peggy Kusinski, a sports reporter at NBC-owned WMAQ in Chicago, is breaking her 16-year-old son into the business on the new media side. Jason Kinander, a junior at St. Ignatius College Prep, is a ...
DOIN’ IT DOGGY….ER…PADDLE
This could have gone better. Or not. Either way, WNBC anchor David Ushery has some ‘splainin’ to do FOR this Tuesday morning flub. Co-anchor Stacy Bell did her best…up to a point.
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
No doubt you watched the Texas Tech-Virginia thriller last night which ended in overtime. Virginia beat Texas Tech 85-77 to win its first NCAA men’s basketball title a year after becoming the first No. 1 ...
STAFF GOES BLUE FOR STAFFER
In case you missed it, March was Colon Cancer Awareness month. This cancer has hit close to home to folks at WKRG (CBS). Their Assignment Editor, 45-year-old Jennifer Rogers, was diagnosed with metastatic colon cancer ...
A LIFE AFTER A LIFE AFTER
Colleen Dudgeon, former news director of CBS-owned WBBM in Chicago was the first woman ever to hold that job at any network-owned station back in the 80’s and early 90’s. She was at the ...
“BOTH SIDES” JOURNALISM ISN’T HELPING
We’ve been hearing this for some time in various corners of the Internet and in bars where journalists hang out late at night for ongoing bitch sessions. “B-b-but,” we can hear the stammer. “Aren’t ...
KEEPING HER OPTIONS OPEN
Being the newly-minted fourth, or co-co-co-co-anchor of “CBS News This Morning” doesn’t mean that Bianna Golodryga is giving up her contributing and fill-in anchor role at CNN. She’s hanging on to that gig, having ...
