By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com News Blues has a Job Openings section on its website that offers a direct link to several network and broadcast companies jobs page which are updated constantly. Here are ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The E.W. Scripps Company has completed its local TV station swap with Gray Media across five mid-sized and small markets, expanding Scripps’ presence in the Mountain West. Under the ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Wisconsin Public Service, in a record-breaking competition as fierce as the falcons themselves, 22,000 votes were cast to name this year’s peregrine falcon chicks after northeast and north-central Wisconsin ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Wes Rodda, the marketing director at KPRC, Graham Media’s NBC affiliate in Houston, posted on social media his thoughts about news and marketing. Rodda has graciously allowed News Blues ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Steve Pruett, executive chairman of the Cox Media Group, has a few encouraging comments he wants to pass on to broadcast professionals. Pruett has graciously given News Blues permission ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com NOTE: I got an email from Jill Collins, the office manager at KCAU for more than 25 years. News Blues used to publish open TV jobs every Monday and ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WCAU, the NBC-owned station in Philadelphia, branded as NBC10 Philadelphia, has named David Charns as an investigative reporter. A veteran journalist with 16 years of local news experience, Charns ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Casey Lynn Lyons was a TV reporter working at WCJB, Gray’s ABC affiliate in Gainesville when she met Dylan Lyons, a 24-year-old Spectrum News 13 reporter. Casey worked as ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Sheldon Ingram, a TV reporter at WTAE, Hearst’s ABC affiliate in Pittsburgh, will put down his microphone and reporter’s notebook and retire from WTAE after his May 29 broadcast ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com I have been a fan of NewsNation’s marketing efforts from the beginning. In 2021, for another publication, I interviewed Jonathan Killian, NewsNation’s VP of creative marketing and brand communication, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com John Dearing, the news director for WBOC, branded as CoastTV, in Salisbury, Maryland owned by Draper Media, and branded as CoastTV, will receive the 2026 Board of Governors Award ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Claudia Peppenhorst, a weekend morning news anchor and reporter at WAFF, Gray’s NBC affiliate in Huntsville, Alabama, posted on social media that, “Life is all about change, and it’s ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Paul Heggen joins WBTV, Gray’s CBS affiliate in Charlotte, where he will become a key member of the station’s First Alert Weather Team. Heggen most recently worked as Chief ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com NOTE: This is from Stacey Woelfel’s Substack column, The Last Editor by Stacey Woelfel. Stacey Woelfel spent 35 years on the faculty of the Missouri School of Journalism. And ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) has announced its 2026 Hall of Fame class, and NBC 5 Chicago (WMAQ-TV) / Telemundo Chicago (WSNS-TV) Senior Vice President of News ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Tim Hanlon is the founder and CEO of The Vertere Group, a consulting firm focused on helping forward-leaning media companies. Hanlon graciously agreed to allow News Blues to share ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Who are the new next gen journalists entering into the local TV news arena? Where are they coming from? What skills do they have? What are their expectations? Who ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com I am connected to 17,974 people on LinkedIn, many of whom are in the broadcast industry. So I get to see what these people post and it has become ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Kelsie Cairns joins Fox News Media as a digital reporter. Cairns most recently reported at WOLF, the Fox-owned station in Orlando. Cairns is a graduate of Penn State University. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jordan Norkus, an afternoon anchor on WIVB, Nexstar’s CBS affiliate in Buffalo, posted on social media that she is leaving the station Friday, April 17th. Thank you, Buffalo 💙🦬 ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com I have been writing about open jobs at local TV stations for more than 15 years, the last two for News Blues. And in that time, I have advised ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com NOTE: This is from Frank Macek’s blog, Director’s Cut. Macek is a Multi-Emmy Award-winning Director, journalist, and weather enthusiast at WKYC-TV owned by Nexstar Media Group in Cleveland, Ohio. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com NOTE: The following is the beginning of a comprehensive an article published by The Indiana Capital Chronicle, an independent, nonprofit news organization dedicated to giving Hoosiers a comprehensive look ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Chris Ford has 35 years’ experience in local TV news in a variety of roles from investigative producer to assistant news director and news director in markets all over ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Paramount’s broadcast network CBS will hand over the 11:35 p.m. Eastern Time slot to Byron Allen in mid-May upon the closure of its “Late Show” franchise, according to The ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Craig Jahelka, president of Draper Media, will retire effective May 1, 2026. Jahelka has spent nearly 50 years in the broadcasting industry, 18 of them with Draper Media and ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Justin Stewart has been named creative services director for KMBC, Hearst Television’s ABC affiliate in Kansas City. Stewart will lead brand strategy and marketing across broadcast, digital, social, streaming/OTT ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Shares of Nexstar Media Group traded sharply lower on Monday, the first full day of trading since a federal judge blocked the broadcaster’s $6.2 billion acquisition of peer TEGNA ...
Developing: Late Friday (3/27), a Sacramento federal district judge sided with the direct broadcast satellite provider — putting a pause on the full integration of TEGNA into Nexstar, for now. Nexstar had prepared for ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Six stations with different owners posted TV news promos on social media advertising everything from investigations, breaking news image coverage and newscast image. These promos are from stations in ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com NOTE: This is from Stacey Woelfel’s Substack column, The Last Editor by Stacey Woelfel. Stacey Woelfel spent 35 years on the faculty of the Missouri School of Journalism. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Often, frustrated consumers who’ve tried everything to resolve their problems in a dispute turn to their local TV news for help. And in many cases, one phone call from ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Once the primary source of community news and information, local TV news stations are struggling with their own tough story, one marked by declining ratings, stagnant revenue growth and ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Nexstar Media Group will operate TEGNA as a subsidiary business while a handful of lawsuits play out in court, according to sources familiar with the company’s plan and statements ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WCIV, Sinclair’s ABC affiliate in Charleston, South Carolina, aired a documentary, Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop, which chronicles one family’s 12-year battle with severe mental illness and ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Most Americans are willing to shell out for a digital converter box to maintain access to free, over-the-air local television stations, according to a new consumer survey released this ...
Nexstar has completed its purchase of Tegna. The 6.2 billion dollar deal was approved by the FCC and DOJ on Thursday. You can read the FCC filing here: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-267A1.pdf “This transaction is essential ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jennifer Dale, the VP of Recruiting for Gray Media, announces the launch of its Gray Media Training Program, a unified internship framework across our stations nationwide. “Today I’m excited ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WGN, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Chicago, announced the debut of a new half-hour special “Who Killed Jennifer?”, a true-crime program on April 7 on the free WGN+ app as ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com One of the largest AI data centers in the country is being developed in rural Pennsylvania, about 30 miles northwest of Johnstown. Valory Myers, a morning news anchor and ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Gray Media pulled more than 200 of its local television stations from satellite provider Dish Network after the pay television company made an unusual demand to the broadcaster during ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Tom Sredenschek is retiring as sports director at WTXF, Fox 29, the Fox-owned station in Philadelphia, after 40 years in the business. In that time, Sredenschek covered the weird ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com This week, I’ll be sharing some new TV news promos posted on social media. Local TV creative services, marketing executives and news staff around the country have been posting ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Eash Walia, a TV reporter for KBZK, Scripps’ CBS affiliate in Boseman, was on a long-planned family vacation which quickly turned into a firsthand experience of escalating conflict in ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Nexstar Media Group has eliminated creative services positions at stations across its portfolio, according to accounts shared on social media by affected employees, and as reported by Newscast Studio. ...
After 32 years on the air at KATU, meteorologist Rhonda Shelby announced her retirement from the station. Shelby started as the community relations director before transitioning to the weather team. “I’ll miss the people ...
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s effort to bolster local TV stations just produced a major victory for DuJuan McCoy, an African-American TV station operator/owner in the Indianapolis market, broadbandbreakfast.com reported the news. In a decision ...
WFXT announced today that Sheri Spear will take on the role of Chief Meteorologist for the station. The station says she will continue to anchor the station’s morning weather segments while taking on the ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com I have nearly 18,000 people connections on LinkedIn, the majority of which are in the broadcasting business. And every day, I see posts about open TV jobs at local ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jeriann Ritter, a meteorologist for WHO, Nexstar’s NBC affiliate in Des Moines, has confirmed her devastating ALS diagnosis in a heartbreaking interview with her network. Ritter told WHO13 colleague ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WGN, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Chicago, cut nine on-air personnel Monday in its latest round of layoffs, including entertainment critic and reporter Dean Richards and sports anchor Chris Boden, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Aaron Mason, the news director at WKBW, Scripps’ ABC affiliate in Buffalo, went on a nine-day vacation to Puerto Vallarta with friends on February 20th and got caught up ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com NOTE: This is from Stacey Woelfel’s Substack column, The Last Editor by Stacey Woelfel. Stacey Woelfel spent 35 years on the faculty of the Missouri School of Journalism. And ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com More than 50 years ago, seeing a Black woman deliver the weather on television was nearly unimaginable. But June Bacon-Bercey changed that reality — and the face of broadcast ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Viewers watching television on WZVN, the ABC affiliate in Ft. Myers, often see a ‘super tease’ when the 6 a.m. or the 11 p.m. news begins. These super teases ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Every local TV news employee should be interested in how Gray Media news managers answer questions about what it’s really like to work in a newsroom—and what hiring managers ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Nexstar’s television stations serving Illinois will carry an exclusive live multi-market telecast of a debate between the leading candidates running for the Democratic Party nomination for United States Senator ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Local television broadcaster TEGNA is bringing personalization and interactivity to its news-focused smartphone apps, according to The Desk. The new app experience is rolling out this week ...
Meteorologist Reid Kisselback is leaving WNYT NewsChannel 13, this according to the Albany Times Union newspaper. He announced on Tuesday on the noon news as well as in a post on Instagram. Kisselback got ...
The Federal Communications Commission approved the transfer of five tv station licenses to Sinclair. The company has operated the stations through a shared services agreement, but did not own them. The stations ...
After almost 1o years as an anchor/reporter in Kansas City, Kevin Holmes is leaving the station to be the main anchor at KARE 11 in Minneapolis. The station made the announcement yesterday, Holmes ...
This week former KTLA News Director, Jason Ball talks to Hal Eisner who has just wrote a book about his life in news which spans 58 years in both tv and radio. Eisner retired ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Harry Boomer, a 2007 Broadcasters Hall of Fame Inductee, shared career advice and stories with high school journalists on Saturday, Jan. 24 in the cleveland.com newsroom as part ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jana Shortal, a reporter for KARE, Tegna’s NBC affiliate in the Twin Cities, was pepper sprayed in Minneapolis just after ICE agents shot and killed a second person ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Chris Tomer is the new chief meteorologist for WBNS, Tegna’s CBS affiliate in Columbus, Ohio beginning Feb. 9. Tomer, a Columbus native, will lead weather coverage on WBNS’s ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com November is National Adoption Month and WTVR, Scripps’ CBS affiliate in Richmond, devotes 30 days during the month to help find 30 kids a loving family. Bill Fitzgerald, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WMAQ, Chicago’s NBC-owned affiliate, branded as NBC 5 Chicago, fired sports anchor Mike Berman who had been with NBC Chicago since 2016. He declined to comment. Lou Canellis, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jeriann Ritter, a meteorologist at WHO since 2004, addressed concerns her fans have been having about her health after she appeared to have trouble speaking during recent ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Tim Wieland, the regional GM at both KCBS in Los Angeles (CBS LA) and KCNC in Denver, (CBS Colorado), posted on social media a new promo that he says ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Sandra Maas was awarded $1.775 million from an appeals court in San Diego on Tuesday after a years-long case where her lawyers argued she was being paid less ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Ryan Shoptaugh, a meteorologist at KENS, Tegna’s CBS affiliate in San Antonio, had his title changed to Tegna Multi-Market Meteorologist in December 2025. The new title means is ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com For many families, returning to the classroom after winter and summer breaks can bring more than new backpacks and fresh notebooks, it can bring nerves. With studies indicating ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Khalil Maycock, a TV reporter from WJXT in Jacksonsville, Fla., has joined WDIV, Graham Media’s NBC affiliate in Detroit, according to Deadline Detroit. A 2018 graduate of the ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com If I could give every college student one word of advice, it would be ‘internship’. Students who complete an internship for college credit within their chosen field may ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com CBS Stations has promoted Scott Warren, president and general manager of KPIX, CBS Bay Area, to regional president and general manager of Northern California, overseeing CBS Bay Area ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Vince Lattanzio, a veteran multimedia award-winning journalist and newsroom leader, will be the new news director at WMAQ, NBC 5 Chicago, starting Monday, January 12th, announced Sally Ramirez, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Carly Smith has been promoted to chief meteorologist at KIII, Tegna’s ABC affiliate in Corpus Christi, effective January 2026, following the departure of longtime chief Alan Holt. Holt ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Harry Sullivan, a former morning anchor at WVLT, Gray’s CBS affiliate in Knoxville, is returning to the station with new duties, says the station. Sullivan, who stepped away in ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Rick Lewchuk, founder of Film At 11 Marketing, and former creative marketing head at CNN Worldwide, recently posted on social media that new creative from Kris Ellison Baete ...
