IS A PENNSYLVANIA ANCHOR CONSIDERING A CONGRESSIONAL RUN?
She’s been with a Hearst station for 26 years.
Category: Word on the Street
FOX NEWS ON YOUR RESUME? NOW IS NOT A GOOD TIME
Fox vets, past and present, air their grievances
NO WONDER HE’S SO CONFIDENT DESPITE BAD RATINGS
Speculation was rampant last week about the future of Chuck Todd at NBC News’ venerable-but-lately-ratings-challenged “Meet the Press.” With viewership of the Sunday morning program down 21% in the past year, his longtime producer ...
IT’LL BE EVEN BETTER THE SECOND TIME AROUND, DON’T YA THINK?
“The ‘bromance’ of Anthony Yanez & Owen Conflenti has become something of a legend.”
LONGTIME TV REPORTER IS NOW A JUDGE
She made a quick transition.
REDSTONE WANTS MERGER
Shari Redstone has long sought to combine CBS and Viacom. If she has her way, that could be just the start, according to Claire Atkinson at NBC News. Redstone, who is president of National ...
WON’T YOU TAKE ME TO “CRAZYTOWN”
By now, you’ve probably read or heard at least some of the salacious details about Bob Woodward‘s new Book on President Trump. “Aides routinely stole documents off President Trump’s desk. Military leaders ignored the ...
HOUSTON ABC GETTING NEW SHOW
The P-R People at Houston’s KTRK (ABC) were working overtime this past weekend with the announcement of a new show just a few weeks away. KTRK says it’s debuting “Eyewitness News at 3 PM” ...
WORD ON THE BAY AREA STREET
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman reports that he is now hearing that the vacant KGO weekend sports anchor gig is probably “someone you’re not seeing on the air now.” Lieberman’s source says the gig, ...
SOMETHING GOING ON AT NAHJ
Over the weekend, we received a copy of an email that was sent out late Friday. We’ll leave it here without further comment. June 22, 2018 Dear NAHJ members, The Board has received an ...
PENDING SINCLAIR SALE SHAKES UP DENVER
The stalled sale of Tribune Media to Sinclair Broadcast Group is, in turn, spawning quite a bit of speculation in the various markets that will be (or already are) affected by it. In Denver, ...
A CHANGE PENDING IN WACO?
Sources tell us that Raycom’s KXXV Central Texas News Now in Waco, TX is contemplating an anchor change as the May sweeps loom. We’re told that the 6 and 10 p.m. anchors will not ...
ONE-TIME HARTFORD REPORTER RESURFACES ON CAPITOL HILL
Former Hartford-New Haven reporter Jason Newton, who moved on after 3 ½ years from Nexstar’s WTNH to Nexstar’s DC Bureau 11 months ago, just resurfaced as a self-described “Washington Press Secretary.” Whoever he is ...
WAYNE MIGHT BE HEADED TO KRON?
An in-house whisperer tells Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman that talk around town is that ditched KTVU anchor Ken Wayne is headed to KRON. That would make sense with the opening created by the ...
FORMER WCBS REPORTER RUMORED HEADED TO PHILLY
A source tells us that Magdalena Doris is likely headed for Disney’s WPVI in Philadelphia, PA. Until last week, Doris had been the morning reporter for WCBS in New York – a stint that ...
MIA ROUNDUP
The buzz about the continued unexplained absence of anchor Rick Garcia on the KCBS news set is growing. It’s even become the source of some speculation on local talk radio in Los Angeles. His ...
PSSST! HEY!!! GOT A STORY?
We have a tipline. Anonymous. Untraceable. And a way to get the word out. It’s over there on the right hand column right under the video of the day. If you have something, send ...
CLOCK TICKING FOR KTVU ANCHOR
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman reports that KTVU’s Mark Ibanez would love to remain at the Fox O and O. He’s still at the top of his game after nearly 40 years as primary ...
McDONOUGH OUT AT “MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL”?
And perhaps there is a full “MNF” shakeup in the works. As the Manning talk heats up, there are background rumblings about Sean McDonough’s future as the play-by-play voice of “MNF”. Some of the ...
KTVU TRIED AND FAILED TO BRING BACK REPORTER
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman reports that Fox-owned KTVU recently tried to woo Sara Sidner back into the fold. But she evidently likes her job as CNN senior correspondent far too much and turned ...
ESPN EYES PEYTON MANNING FOR “MNF”
We’ll endorse the notion of hiring Peyton Manning to replace Jon Gruden in the “Monday Night Football” booth on ESPN. The onetime must-see game has become almost an afterthought in recent years, with the ...
IS CAROLYN JOHNSON CONSIDERING A BAY AREA RETURN?
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman has been hot on the trail of a story. Seems he got wind of some heavy courting going on between NBC-owned KNTV and former KGO anchor Carolyn Johnson. Lieberman ...
VETERAN REPORTER DUMPED AT RAYCOM’S WIS
The official bio of 33-year reporting veteran Jack Kuenzie is nowhere to be found on the website of Raycom’s WIS in Columbia, South Carolina. “This is not how I envisioned the end of ...
STILL ANOTHER OLYMPIC OUTLET FROM NBC
As if taking over NBCSN, CNBC, MSNBC and USA Network, not to mention NBC prime time, for the Winter Olympics in February wasn't enough, NBC also is ramping up the hype for a news ...
MURDOCH BUYING CNN? AAAUUUGGH!
As AT&T deals with an unprecedented demand from the Department of Justice that it divest CNN if it wants its proposed merger with Time-Warner to go through, we hear that Rupert Murdoch twice expressed ...
“TYPICAL. JUST TYPICAL.”
So tweeted sports reporter Pierre Noujaim at the end of yesterday when he reportedly left the Tegna KXTV newsroom in Sacramento CA. for the last time. He covered the Kings and other Northern California ...
ANOTHER EXIT AT WINK
When you write “Retirement is everything I expected” on your Twitter feed and your station bio page comes up as “Ooops… Error 404,” chances are good that you are gone. Such is the ...