By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Everybody in broadcasting wants to know what Perry Sook thinks. As founder and chairman of Nexstar, the largest local broadcasting and media company in the United ...
By: Jessica DeWeese | jessica@newsblues.com The local news crisis in America has reached a historic low point, according to the Medill State of Local News Report 2025. The report from Northwestern University’s Medill School ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Stop scrolling and watch the news. That’s the message behind a new eye-catching promo for KSAT, Graham Media’s ABC affiliate in San Antonio. “You’re speaking to two ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two Border Patrol officers on October 10. WGN is Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Chicago. Although WGN is not ...
December college graduates. Now is the time to get yourself in front of hundreds of hiring managers as you start to look for your first job in TV News. At Talent Dynamics, our Nextgen ...
One of my best friends has a brain tumor. He happens to work in tv which is why you are reading this. Mike Bothwell is the Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition for Spectrum News, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Brendan Carr, Federal Communications Commission Chairman, announced a September Open Commission Meeting for Tuesday, September 30, 2025, that would consider, among other items, Modernizing Broadcast Ownership Rules. The Commission ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com NBCUniversal Local’s 11th annual Clear The Shelters pet adoption and donation campaign helped 160,165 pets find new homes and raised more than $628,000 for participating animal shelters ...
By: Jessica DeWeese | jessica@newsblues.com In a stunning move, KION, the Fox/CBS/Telemundo affiliate owned by News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) in Monterey, California, has shut down its local news operations after 56 years on ...
Sinclair, the parent company of WJAR in Providence has acquired the non-license operations of WLNE the ABC affiliate in Providence. The employees at WLNE learned about this late Thursday afternoon. The local market share ...
NOTE: This is from the latest edition of “The Topline” from TVND.Com, written by Kirk Varner. We’ve been talking with some people over the past few weeks about our nagging feeling ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Joany D’Agostino was under a lot of pressure, and she knew it. “I joked this had to be the best promo I ever made,” D’Agostino says. “When ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Comcast NBCUniversal and NBCUniversal Local announced that a total of $2.5 million has been awarded to 69 nonprofit organizations servicing one of the 11 NBC- and Telemundo-owned stations’ markets ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KUSA, soon to be Nexstar’s NBC affiliate in Denver, is airing 12 chapters of “Free Press, Free Country” during KUSA’s nightly newscast “Next with Kyle Clark.” One ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Nexstar Media Group, the leading local station owner, and its smaller rival, Tegna, have unveiled a definitive agreement for a merger, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Nexstar ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WANF, Gray’s independent station in Atlanta, branded as Atlanta News First, is expanding its news footprint with more reporters in the field and more local programming. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KTVT, CBS Texas announces that more than $120,000 was raised during “Loud For Love: A Night of Music, Hope, and Healing”, a benefit concert held on ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com During the school year in Rochester, in any given week, a teacher and a classroom of students are interrupted with a surprise. “That’s the fun part,” ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A serial killer was trying to cash in on his crimes. Until an investigation by WHNS, Gray’s Fox Carolina in Greenville, uncovered the plan and alerted ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Heather Gray is the new general manager for WRAL and WRAZ, Capitol Broadcasting’s NBC and Fox affiliates in Raleigh. Gray, a first-time TV station general manager, becomes ...
By: Jessica DeWeese | jessica@newsblues.com Gray Television and E.W. Scripps have announced a station swap that will see both broadcasters expand their regional influence while creating new duopolies in key mid-size and small markets. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com New TV job openings posted to News Blues include openings for a chief meteorologist, general manager, anchor/reporter, three executive producers and a creative services producer. These are ...
Veteran news anchor Larry Wentz, a trusted voice in Siouxland broadcasting for more than three decades, will retire from KTIV, Gray's ABC/CW affiliate in in Sioux City, Iowa.
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KCCI, Hearst’s CBS affiliate in Des Moines, finished the May 2025 ratings book winning the advertiser coveted demographic of Adults 25-54 from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. ...
By Sorboni Banerjee, Vice President of Talent Development Services at Talent Dynamics We show up. Hair and makeup done. Script marked. Smile ready. But some days, behind that studio-perfect exterior, we are quietly unraveling. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Draper Media, a leading local broadcaster based in Salisbury, Maryland, has entered into a purchase agreement to acquire five radio stations from Forever Media. The transaction includes WDEL ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In a study published back in January 2023, Thomas Patterson, Harvard Kennedy School’s Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, found that local public radio stations can ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Paramount Global subsidiary CBS and Gray Media have agreed to renew 52 of their 53 network affiliations. The one exception ...
By: Sorboni Banerjee Talent Coach Everyone wants the glow-up. The polished and poppin’ delivery. The sizzling on-air presence that turns heads and earns trust. But here’s the truth: you don’t wake up with six-pack ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com New TV job openings posted to News Blues include openings for a general manager, two news producers, morning news anchor, reporter, meteorologist and two creative services producers. These are ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com She was once atop the #1 TV morning news in Los Angeles. Then a life-changing shift took her off the air. For more than 20 years, Jillian ...
NOTE: This is from the latest edition of “The Topline” from TVND.Com, written by Kirk Varner. The announcement today that Wendy McMahon is stepping down from her post as President of CBS ...
After decades of serving the broadcast news business Sandra Connell is leaving Talent Dynamics next month. In June 2022, she sold the company to Glass City Talent, LLC owned by Patrick McCreery and Gary Brown. We are eternally grateful ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Russ Nelligan, Hearst’s new vice president of marketing, has been on the job since January and I wanted to see how he’s finding his new position. Nelligan takes ...
By Sorboni Banerjee, VP of Talent Development at Talent Dynamics If you’ve been grinding in the field, chasing stories in the rain, sweating through live shots, and talking your way into one more soundbite, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST), today announced the appointment of Bill Nardi as Vice President of Station Operations, responsible for overseeing the day-to-day broadcast operations of the ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WISN, Hearst’s ABC affiliate in Milwaukee, has been recognized as ‘Large Market Station of the Year,’ for the 10th time out of the last 11 years by ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Fox Television Stations’ LiveNOW recorded its best quarter in history, delivering over 500 million video views on YouTube, according to Comscore. In Q1 2025, LiveNOW ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Kirk Varner has started a daily free newsletter, TVND.com, that “speaks to news leadership about the practical execution of local TV news,” he says. “It’s basically a ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A WJZY reporter and photojournalist were caught in the middle of a shooting Wednesday while covering an unrelated story. WJZY is Nexstar’s Fox affiliate in Charlotte branded ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WCCO, branded as CBS Minnesota, the CBS-owned affiliate in Minneapolis, used real people in its winter weather promos with the motto, ‘Be prepared to get out there.’ “Our ...
First Coast News (WTLV/WJXX), Tegna's NBC and ABC affiliates in Jacksonville, has officially named Lewis Turner as its new Chief Meteorologist, marking the beginning of a new era in Jacksonville weather coverage.
By: Heather Dunn, VP of Placement Services for Talent Dynamics Back in the ’90s, I remember helping a friend ship gift-wrapped VHS tapes to news directors in hopes of getting noticed. While the tools ...
By: Jessica DeWeese | jessica@newsblues.com Nexstar Media Group is drawing scrutiny after directing its 160+ local television stations to air segments supporting deregulation of FCC broadcast ownership rules—an effort some insiders are calling a ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com New TV job openings posted to News Blues include openings at Disney, Nexstar and Sinclair. These are FREE job openings posted to News Blues for a week ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Three years ago, the management team at WJZY, Nexstar’s Fox affiliate in Charlotte, did some focus group testing, shortly after Nexstar took over the station. “We showed the ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com For the first time in nearly seven decades, Miami television viewers will have to tune to a new station to watch programs from ABC, according to a story ...
Gray Media’s Local News Live is making a significant expansion, now airing in 46 television markets and reaching over 19 million households, according to Nielsen.
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WFOR CBS Miami is set to unveil its state-of-the-art AR/VR (augmented reality/virtual reality) studio on Sunday, March 16 at 7:30 PM, ET, redefining how sports and weather are ...
By: Jessica DeWeese | jessica@newsblues.com Sinclair, Inc. has reached a deal to sell five of its local television stations to Todd Parkin, a seasoned media executive with a background in advertising sales and operational ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WMAQ, NBC 5 Chicago and Telemundo Chicago, will commemorate Women’s History Month with dedicated feature stories highlighting the achievements of local leaders and organizations who are already ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Did you know that you can subscribe to News Blues for under $6 a month when you subscribe for 6 months? News Blues posts over ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com On January 31, 2025, a Learjet 55 operated by Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, shortly after takeoff, crashed in a neighborhood of Philadelphia, killing everyone on board and ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Veteran anchor John Huck has announced he is leaving KVVU, Gray’s Fox affiliate in Las Vegas posting on his LinkedIn page that, “After 37 years in television ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Many words come to mind when remembering former KDKA-TV talk show host and weather forecaster Jon Burnett. He was authentic, original, talented and compassionate, according to a ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Adrienne Roark is exiting her top leadership post at CBS News after just a half-year in the job. She joined the company in the summer of 2021. ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jym Ganahl, a longtime TV meteorologist before retiring in May 2024 from WSYX (ABC6), has died, according to the Columbus Dispatch. He was 76 years old. Ganahl passed ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com After 29 years at KABC, ABC7, the ABC-owned affiliate in Los Angeles, Ellen Leyva announces her retirement. “Yes, it is bittersweet for me indeed,” Leyva says. “You would ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com New TV job openings posted to News Blues include openings in sales in South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida and Massachusetts. These are FREE job openings posted to News Blues ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The Super Bowl is this Sunday and features the Philadelphia Eagles against the Kansas City Chiefs. Millions of Americans will tune into the 2025 Super Bowl on Sunday ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Flora Posteraro, former news anchor and reporter in Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Wilkes-Barre and Johnstown, sat down for an extended interview with Ellen Kolodziej, a reporter at WTXF, Fox 29 ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Local television broadcaster TEGNA has laid off nearly two dozen journalists who worked on the company’s national fact-checking team, according to The Desk. The layoffs impact reporters, ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The idea that an accurate weather forecast helps viewers decide what clothes to wear is a clear benefit not many would argue against. And no matter where you live, ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Kevin Spencer, the 34 year-old WMAQ Chicao employee in the IT department has been found dead, according to a post on the station’s website. Here’s what was posted: ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com In a starling announcement, Allen Media is reversing its decision to lay off the local TV meteorologists and replace them with local weather coverage from The Weather Channel in ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WKYC’s President & General Manager Micki Byrnes announced to staff today that she’ll be retiring in April from the Cleveland station. “After 48 years in local television, it’s ...
CNN is preparing to lay off hundreds of employees as part of a major transformation to align with its focus on a global digital audience, according to sources familiar with the changes.
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com For those local TV meteorologists facing uncertainty about their jobs at Allen Media with the announcement of a new local weather initiative with The Weather Channel, a couple broadcast ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Annie Szatkowski is promoted to Weekday Morning Anchor at FOX Affiliate WJZY in Charlotte. Szatkowski most recently served as the station’s Monday through Friday Noon and 4pm Anchor/Reporter. Szatkowski, who is ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com New TV job openings posted to News Blues include openings for creative services producers, news producers, news directors and weather forecasters. These are FREE job openings posted to ...