WHAS Louisville Reporter Elle Smith Wins Miss USA Title

Joshua Johnson’s New NBC News Streaming Show Debuts Monday

Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews Promoted At CBS News, Search For New D.C. Bureau Chief In Works

Ciprian-Matthews will be executive vice president of newsgathering, overseeing all of the network’s bureaus and reporting worldwide.

BRAND CONNECTIONS

Lee Enterprises Fights Back Against Hostile Takeover Bid

Chris Cuomo’s Off-Air Role: Brother Andrew’s Strategist

Transcripts released Monday, Nov. 29, shed new light on CNN anchor Chris Cuomo’s behind-the-scenes role advising his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in the face of sexual harassment allegations that forced him from office.

How To Build A Newsletter Strategy

In the latest of TVNewsCheck‘s How To video series, Ken Haddad, digital special projects editor at Graham-owned WDIV Detroit, breaks down successful approaches to developing newsletters that connect with audiences and build meaningful — and revenue-generating — audience engagement. Watch more How To videos here.

 

Fox News Anchor Chris Wallace Reveals Private Battle With Skin Cancer

Inside A Divided Politico: Playbook Drama, ‘Woke Police’ Fears & Union Fights

Nearly two dozen current and former Politico staffers told The Daily Beast of a series of burgeoning conflicts within the iconic Beltway publication.

KXLY News Director Takes Over For Morning Team On Thanksgiving

Stephanie Linton Named WESH News Director

The veteran TV news executive moves north to Orlando, Fla., from Hearst Television’s WPBF West Palm Beach.

Nov. Sweeps: WLS Wins Late News In Chicago

KRON Security Guard Dies Protecting Crew From Robbery

Kevin Nishita, a security guard who was shot while protecting a KRON crew during an attempted armed robbery on Nov. 24, has died from his injuries.

Former Trump Adviser Steve Cortes Out At Newsmax

Tensions have long simmered between the cable channel and Cortes, a diehard Trump loyalist whose public criticism of Newsmax’s vaccine policy may have been the last straw.

MARKET SHARE MONDAY MEMO

FBI Raids City Offices Hours After WWL Airs Investigation

WWL’s investigation exposing corruption in a New Orleans city agency triggered a raid by the FBI to seize records just hours later. The three-part investigation, Hidden Dangers, reveals how months of painstaking, dogged detective work uncovered a practice literally ready to explode. And linear TV news viewers tuned in at the appointed time to watch.

NEWSTECHFORUM 2021

Remote Production And The Future Of News Storytelling

Executives from ABC News, Fox’s KDFW Dallas, Newsday and Avid will share how they’re reimagining news production and storytelling in a post-pandemic world at TVNewsCheck’s NewsTECHForum conference on Dec. 14. Register here.

Fox Weather Partners With FlightAware To Add Weather Travel Info

Gray Pulling Local Station News Content From Sinclair’s NewsOn

Gray Television said it will be removing its local content from Sinclair’s NewsOn, one of a number of platforms streaming local news to out-of-market viewers. Gray is an investor in VUit, a local news streaming platform launched last year by tech firm Syncbak, and is focusing out-of-market streaming efforts there.

WAPT Jackson Combines Evening, Morning News Teams For Single-Take Promo

NewsNation Touts Growth, Unbiased Reporting In Thanksgiving-Themed Promo

WLUK Green Bay’s Pete Petoniak Hospitalized With COVID

Meteorologist Sherry Hughes Leaving WCPO Cincinnati

Scripps-owned ABC affiliate WCPO Cincinnati announced that meteorologist Sherry Hughes is leaving the station this week. She has been a key member of the station’s 9 First Warning Weather Team […]

Emotional Dick Vitale, Battling Cancer At 82, Returns To Call College Basketball For ESPN

The two top teams in college basketball met Tuesday night as No. 1 Gonzaga faced No. 2 UCLA, but the highlight of the evening was legendary ESPN broadcaster Dick Vitale returning to call the game after battling two separate forms of cancer this year, with his latest diagnosis coming just last month.

NETWORK RATINGS ROUNDUP, NOV. 15-21

5 Million Saw Carlson’s Rittenhouse Chat

Tucker Carlson reached 5.05 million viewers for his Kyle Rittenhouse interview on Monday, the Fox News Channel opinion host’s largest audience since the night of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Fox News Channel was the most-watched cable news channel in primetime last week, averaging 2.89 million viewers. And Fox broadcasting was the top-rated network in primetime last week, averaging 5.4 million viewers. NBC had 4.8 million, CBS had 4.5 million, ABC had 4.1 million, Univision had 1.5 million, Telemundo had 1 million and Ion Television had 880,000.

Tucker Carlson Praises Kyle Rittenhouse As A ‘Sweet Kid’ In Sympathetic Interview

Biden’s Low-Key Media Strategy Draws Allies’ Concern

So far in his tenure, the president has given far fewer one-on-one interviews than his two predecessors. Some Democrats are asking if he could be making better use of his White House pulpit.

Michael Strahan To Be Next Space Tourist

Good Morning America co-host Strahan will join Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of astronaut Alan Shepard, on the Dec. 9 mission aboard the New Shepard, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin spacecraft named after her father and the first American in space.

Doug Hill, Former WJLA Chief Meteorologist, Dies

Kevin Lightfoot Named WCBS New York Assistant News Director

CBS-owned WCBS New York has appointed Kevin Lightfoot assistant news director of the O&O as well as co-owned independent WLNY and their digital platforms. He joins with nearly 20 years […]

WGCL Atlanta Anchor-Reporter Ashley Thompson Leaves

WTAE Pittsburgh Reporter Katelyn Sykes Leaving After 6+ Years