SINCLAIR “STIRRS” UP STREAMING
Sinclair Broadcast wants to “Stirr” up streaming. The nation’s largest owner of television stations launched a free, ad-supported streaming service Wednesday drawing on local ...
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SWEDISH SPORTSCASTER ARREST
He spent his life in front of the camera for Swedish public television, and now his viewers are stunned to hear of the accusations ...
FCC IMPACTED BY SHUTDOWN
The ongoing feud between Democrats and the President is impacting the FCC. Funding for a portion of the federal government expired on December 21, ...
CHANGES AT CBS NEWS-MORE
So Monday, we reported that CBS News head David Rhodes stepped down. Ya, that’s the guy who closed all the CBS Newspath offices forcing you ...
TRIBUNE STATIONS GO DARK ON CHARTER
If you are getting static or dead air on your Tribune station channel on your Charter cable system, you aren’t alone. Deadline reports after ...
PIONEER CONSULTING COMPANY SELLS HQ
Sometime later this month, a little piece of history changes hands as the Marion, IA headquarters of Frank N. Magid Associates is sold by ...
CBS FOOTS THE BILL FOR MOONVES LEGAL COSTS
We told you earlier this week that the CBS board said ousted chief executive Les Moonves “will not receive any severance payment,” slamming the door on ...
BOARD: MOONVES TO GET NO SEVERANCE
Les Moonves will NOT get his enormous, $120 MILLION severance package, because the CBS Board of Directors has determined they had a right to fire ...
WFOR/WTSP WIN AWARDS
The 16 winners of the prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards were announced Tuesday and WFOR (CBS) Miami was a recipient. The station was honored ...
COURT TV REBOOT
Court TV is being revived, after dying in 2007 when its supply of high-profile trials ended. Katz Networks said Monday it will start the ...
BUSH FUNERAL
You probably caught some or all of the 2 ½-hour memorial Wednesday of 41st president George H.W. Bush as all feeds and many Networks carried ...
NEXSTAR-TRIBUNE DEAL PUSHBACK
As you can imagine, some of the same media consolidation critics who slammed the Sinclair-Tribune deal in Washington will target the just-announced Nexstar-Tribune deal, ...
ANCHOR: AGE DISCRIMINATION?
A longtime Tennessee news anchor is suing her former employer over alleged age and gender discrimination, saying management replaced her with a younger woman ...
TRUMP TV?
President Trump took to social media Monday suggesting CNN may need some competition on the world stage. ….and false way. Something has to be ...
CHICAGO HOSPITAL SHOOTING
Four people were shot and three are dead, including the gunman, after a shooting at Mercy Hospital on the city’s South Side, Chicago police ...
ACOSTA VS. TRUMP
A Judge will rule today on CNN’s request for a temporary restraining order restoring Jim Acosta’s daily briefing pass. President Donald Trump has the ...
WSJ EDITOR-AT-LARGE SET FOR TV DEBUT
Gerry Baker is finally getting the tv program for which he left his top job at the “Wall Street Journal” last June. Starting November ...
CALIFORNIA FIRES
The stories of the California wildfires are being told through video diaries by survivors, vivid updates from reporters, and wall-to-wall live coverage by local ...
ACOSTA VS. TRUMP
So in our latest update, CNN Reporter Jim Acosta has had his media credentials to the White House pulled. Things got rough Wednesday when ...
FOX NEWS GOES OUT ON LIMB
If you were switching channels last night, you probably saw FOX News reporting first that the Democrats had taken control of the House. At ...
DON LEMON LATEST
CNN isn’t commenting about Don Lemon’s statement that “white men represent the biggest terrorist threat in the country.” Lemon’s statement, on his show Monday, ...
TRUMP RAMPS UP ATTACK ON PRESS
Despite calls for him to cool his overheated rhetoric after the deadly synagogue shooting and pipe bomb mailings, President Trump on Monday continued his assault on the ...
CNN NY OFFICES EVACUATED
A sprawling investigation continues to unfold as authorities scrambled to respond to a series of suspicious packages. A package was addressed to former CIA ...
MAN SHOT AT FOX STATION
A security guard opened fire on a man who was attempting to break in to a Fox affiliate television station in northwest Washington, D.C. ...
COVERING NEWS IN THE TRUMP ERA
A panel of journalists with experience covering politics in the era of President Donald Trump shared their thoughts about covering the Trump White House ...
NEWS CREW BECOMES THE STORY
In Houston Texas, Police say a man is behind bars after allegedly attempting to carjack a TV news crew and assaulting a police officer ...
SAY HELLO TO MICHAEL
If you had the day off Wednesday, watching Hurricane Michael slam ashore near Panama City Florida sure beat learning how to make scrambled eggs ...
HERE COMES HURRICANE MICHAEL
A tropical weather system rapidly strengthened Monday into Hurricane Michael and is likely to keep growing stronger ahead of an expected strike on Florida’s Panhandle by ...
CBN ON THE MOVE
(CBN) has launched the CBN News Channel, a 24-hour Christian news network. CBN News Channel will cover breaking news and live events, along with ...
KAVANAUGH: MEDIA GOLD
The networks’ news departments are prepping their coverage for the Brett Kavanaugh hearing this morning as both the Supreme Court nominee and Christine Blasey Ford testify ...
“THE BIG GET”
Did you catch the interview seen around the world Monday Night? Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had one main message for viewers with Fox News’s ...
SCRIPPS: MORE POLITICS COMING
If you have a Scripps owned TV station in your market, get ready to see more political news. In a statement via PR Newswire, ...
SHE’S COMING
How big is Hurricane Flo? So big that a life-threatening storm surge was being pushed 300 miles ahead of its eye, swirling clouds that ...
MOONVES OUT
Embattled CBS CEO Les Moonves has stepped down from his post, Broadcastingcable.com reported Sunday — just hours after new sex abuse allegations were leveled against ...
TRIBUNE WORKIN’ IT
For Tribune, things may have fallen apart with Sinclair and sure lawyers for both media giants are racking up the billable hours, but that ...
BREAKING: MAN SLAMS PICKUP INTO TV STATION
Dallas Texas TV is always interesting and Wednesday Morning was no different. Dallas Police are investigating a crash. Not just a fender bender during ...
FAKE NEWS SOWING CONFUSION
Everyone from President Donald Trump to the Pope to Bugs Bunny it seems has hollered how “Fake News” is impacting politics and individuals. Now ...
SINCLAIR VS. TRIBUNE: ROCK ‘EM SOCK ‘EM ROBOTS
Well, much like a bad knock-knock joke, Sinclair has responded to Tribune‘s One Billion Dollar Lawsuit. Problem is, the suit is anything but a ...
FCC: SINCLAIR-TRIBUNE DEAL-NO BIAS
The Federal Communications Commission’s Inspector General says there was no evidence of impropriety relating to the proposed – and now DOA – merger of ...
DGA ABANDONS WJLA REPRESENTATION ROLE
The Directors Guild has withdrawn its representation of the eight employees it had represented at Sinclair’s WJLA in Washington, DC. Such a move is ...
D.C’S NEWSCHANNEL 8 GETS A NEW IDENTITY.
They promise it will be “highly graphical.” “Richly informative.” “Continuous.” Feeling lightheaded yet? Say buh-bye to a well-known DC news brand. WJLA announced Monday ...
KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY
After two years of working for sister stations KNWA-KFTA in northwest Arkansas, Hilary Hunt is resurfacing on Nexstar’s KARK-KLRT combo in Little Rock, AR ...
THE WHITE HOUSE PULLS A 180. FLAGS LOWERED TO HONOR SLAIN JOURNALISTS
In a rare 180° turn, Mr. Trump this week reversed himself and ordered U-S flags to be lowered to half-staff “as a mark of ...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER 1950-2018
Less then two weeks after he wrote a letter that was, in effect his goodbye, Fox News contributor, author and syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer ...
REALLY??!?!?
We were mystified a week ago over the story of Lauren Olesky, the West Palm Beach meteorologist whose nervous manhandling of a Rubik’s Cube ...
STATION’S ACTIONS IN DEADLY STANDOFF UNDER SCRUTINY
What has been bubbling under in Orlando-area media and law enforcement circles for several days following a police standoff that left an officer gravely ...
NEXSTAR NAMES NEWS VET TO NEW POSITION
Veteran news executive Dan Salamone is the first holder of Nexstar’s newly-created title of director of local content development. As such, he’ll oversee the ...
ZUCKERBERG FEELS THE HEAT ON CAPITOL HILL
Facebook doesn’t just want you to share your family pictures, your recipes and your cat pictures. They want to be a prime source of ...
SINCLAIR CEO APOLOGIZES TO STAFF…KINDA
Evidently it’s just “extremists” who “do not like what they hear or see” who are “bullying” beleaguered Sinclair Broadcast Group. At least that is ...
HOMELAND SECURITY COMPILING DATABASE OF JOURNALISTS AND ‘MEDIA INFLUENCERS’
From our government’s “Move along, nothing to see here” Department, comes word that the Department of Homeland Security (the name has always caused us ...
NOW THE HEAT IS ON SINCLAIR’S NEWS EMPLOYEES
The ongoing outcry over Sinclair Broadcast Group’s mandated anchor “promo announcements” decrying “fake news” are in turn turning an ever-brighter spotlight on the Maryland-based ...
SINCLAIR’S DEFENSE AND ITS NEW BESTIE
Remember when Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner happily advertised the deal his father-in-law’s campaign struck with Sinclair Broadcast Group way back during the 2016 election ...
ANOTHER COMPANY IMPLICATED IN GROWING CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA PROBE
Instead of putting the Cambridge Analytica problem behind his company, Facebook guru Mark Zuckerberg seems to be increasingly engulfed by it. Zuckerberg, who has ...
SCHOOL SHOOTING SURVIVOR’S DAD ADMITS ALTERING CNN EMAIL
The fever swamp of right wing websites led by the Fox News primetime entertainment block, have been flaying CNN’s town hall on gun control ...
SINCLAIR TRIES TO PULL A FAST ONE
It initially seemed to be a gobsmacking surprise move. Sinclair Broadcast Group said it planned to spin off both WPIX in New York and ...
FLORIDA MAN SUES; CLAIMS AILES AND FOX NEWS OUTED HIM
There’s a lawsuit making its way through a federal court in Orlando, FL that involves the late Roger Ailes, his widow, Fox News and ...
PREDATOR ALLEGATIONS FOLLOW FORMER DES MOINES MET
Rumors and social media accusations had been swirling throughout the weekend, but we’re not about rumors here. Now, the rumors have become real as ...
FCC’S PAI UNDER SCRUTINY
About damn time. Industry lobbyist and putative FCC Chair Ajit Pai is getting a closer look from the FCC’s independent watchdog over his dealings ...
TODD MISSES ROGER AILES
Could we be returning to the 19th century form of media? NBC’s Chuck Todd thinks so and he makes a good case for it. ...
MEDIALINE RELAUNCHES TALENT SHOWCASE WITH REEL MEDIA GROUP
Medialine, one of the leading job search engines in the broadcast industry, is teaming up with Reel Media Group to expand its offerings to ...
GEORGIA ANCHOR PONDERS POLITICS; STATION SCRATCHES HEAD
Mallory Hagan, evening anchor at Nexstar’s WRBL in Columbus, GA is considering giving up the anchor chair for a political career. And her station ...
IT WAS HIS SWANN SONG
Conspiracy-theorizing anchor Ben Swann has been fired by Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta, four days after the station suspended him for the second time. Swann ...
SCRIPPS TURNS OFF THE RADIO
When you hear someone talking about selling off assets to concentrate on the “core business”, it’s an open question as to whether the core ...
FORMER TAMPA REPORTER A VICTIM IN KABUL TERROR ATTACK
Glenn Selig, who spent ten years as an investigative reporter for WTVT in Tampa, FL, was one of 22 people killed during a siege ...
CAPUS EXIT SHOCKS CBS STAFFERS
Steve Capus suddenly stepped down yesterday as executive producer of the “CBS Evening News,” a job he held for the past four years. In ...
MAN THREATENS TO KILL CNN EMPLOYEES
Meredith’s WGCL reported last night that the FBI arrested a Michigan man who made nearly two dozen phone threats to CNN’s Atlanta headquarters last ...
FOX NEWS SPIKED TRUMP-PORN STAR STORY PRE-ELECTION
Just weeks before the 2016 election, Fox News spiked a story about an extramarital affair involving then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and porn star ...
TELEMUNDO TAPS NEW MIDDAY ANCHOR
Telemundo wasted no time naming an anchor for its new midday newscasts. Felicidad Aveleyra got the nod and will be at the helm when ...
CONSTITUTIONAL ILLITERACY
Time for another First Amendment lesson… Days after a blistering book (“Fire and Fury” by Michael Wolff) took shots at his administration, Donald Trump ...
KDFW ADDS TO WEATHER TEAM
Fox-owned KDFW in Dallas-Ft. Worth is bringing on a new face to join incumbent meteorologists Dan Henry, Evan Andrews, Ali Turiano and Jen Myers. ...
WILL THE TRUMP-MEDIA WAR INTENSIFY?
The short answer – Hell, yes. This unconventional presidency has done its bit to spawn unconventional coverage. Who started the war is a question ...
COMCAST HIKES CABLE COSTS AND FEES AGAIN
When we return to the NewsBlues regional office in the New Year, we’ll be looking for this bit of good news from our friends ...
NBC TIGHTENS SEX HARASSMENT POLICIES
In the aftermath of the whole sorry Matt Lauer mess, NBC has issued strict new policies to deal with sexual harassment issues. Among the ...
UPDATE: SINCLAIR AWARDS BONUSES
9,000 full and part-time employees of Sinclair Broadcast Group are getting $1,000 end-of-year bonuses, the result, says Sinclair, of the recently passed “tax reform” ...
CUNY TAKES IT BACK FROM CHARLIE ROSE
Back in 2010, the City University of New York gave Charlie Rose a lifetime achievement award, not knowing that his greatest, albeit most infamous, ...
THRUSH KEEPS JOB; LOSES WHITE HOUSE
In other talented bonehead news, reporter Glenn Thrush won’t be fired from the New York Times following sexual harassment allegations against him. But he’s ...
10K JOBS LOST IN DISNEY-FOX DEAL?
As some Congressional voices are being raised in concern over the proposed Fox-Disney deal, it is worth noting that the Administration fully supports the ...
NET NEUTRALITY: SEE YA
The champagne glasses were clinking last night on K Street in the District as telcom industry lobbyists celebrated pending demise of net neutrality. Actual ...
BREAKING: DISNEY BUYS MOST OF FOX
The Walt Disney Co. announced its acquisition of a major portion of 21st Century Fox in a deal that dramatically remakes the entertainment landscape ...
REALITY SHOW REDUX
Omarosa Manigault lasted half a season on the inaugural run of “The Apprentice” back in 2004 before being fired by Donald Trump. Omarosa Manigault ...
Being singular about plurals
Mrs. B wants you to take a look at this: “The rumors were true,” she said of the split after an introduction that described ...
ANOTHER CNN CONFRONTATION
Maybe New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand had her own #metoo moment Tuesday. It may have come via one of those “modern day presidential” tweets. ...
TRUMP ACCUSERS APPEAR ON MEGYN KELLY
Three women who accused President Trump of sexual misconduct during the 2016 campaign showed up on “Megyn Kelly Today” as they intensified their efforts ...
TRUMP IGNORES TERROR ATTACK TO BITCH ABOUT THE TIMES
Despite a terror bombing attempt just off Times Square, heightening tension with North Korea and spreading wildfires in California, a New York Times story ...
LIZZA FIRED, SUSPENDED
The guy who cut short Anthony Scaramucci’s tenure at White House Communications Director with a bombshell interview has been cut loose by the magazine ...
NAPOLI MANAGEMENT ACQUIRED BY BLUE EQUITY
Napoli Management Group, the 24-year-old broadcast talent reps agency has sold a majority stake to Blue Equity Group. Beverly Hills-based Napoli Management is one ...
NO, IT’S NOT A LAYOFF, BUT HE’S GONE
Longtime WAFF anchor Mark Thornhill is gone from the Huntsville, AL station in what station management calls ‘a personnel matter.’ Thornhill, who’d been with ...
D’ANTONIO SET TO RETURN FROM MEDICAL LEAVE
Pittsburgh viewers who have been missing morning reporter Christine D’Antonio on CBS-owned KDKA have one week to go. She’s been out on medical leave ...
REPLACEMENT SET FOR RETIRING RALEIGH ANCHOR
Jeff Hogan is moving south from Columbus, OH and Dispatch’s WBNS to take over the anchor chair at Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL in Raleigh, NC ...
A DECADE AND OUT FOR KTRK CONSUMER REPORTER
Blogger Mike McGuff posts that Patricia Lopez is leaving Disney’s KTRK this week Those of you who actually watch “The View” may remember that ...
SERIO MARKS 20 YEARS AT THE WEATHER DESK
Sue Serio has been calling the weather for 20 years at Fox-owned WTXF in Philadelphia The “Good Day Philadelphia” forecaster said she has been ...
KADN-KLAF
Bayou City Broadcasting’s KADN/KLAF in Lafayette, LA has a posting for news director on its website. Chris Welty, who was an anchor/reporter there, assumed ...
SNOW DAY IN SAN ANTONIO
San Antonio TX made national headlines last week when snow fell on the city – an occurrence as rare as civility in Washington these ...
KOTB IS LAUER REPLACEMENT “FOR FORESEEABLE FUTURE”
Hoda Kotb finds herself sitting in a very visible chair, as NBC announced that she will co-anchor “The Today Show” for the ‘foreseeable future.” ...
NBC NEWS FIRES SENIOR STAFFER
TVNewser is reporting that NBC News has fired longtime senior director of news engineering and technical operations Larry Gaetano after an internal investigation. Gaetano, ...
THURSDAY VOTE COMING ON NET NEUTRALITY
The FCC of former Verizon lawyer and now Commission Chair Ajit Pai is refusing to cooperate in the New York Attorney General’s investigation into ...
O’REILLY SUED… AGAIN
Internet personality Bill O’Reilly’s apparent strategy of insulting and casting aspersions on those with whom he settled harassment complaints is not going well. ...
ONE WEEK TO LAUNCH
We are now in the final seven-day countdown to the launch of NewsBlues 2.0. The sweat is forming on the brows of the developers ...