President Trump, frustrated with news coverage as he faces an impeachment inquiry, suggested on Thursday the idea of starting a new television network. The suggestion came after Trump attacked CNN, specifically CNN International, at a Medicare event in Florida. Trump said the news network is “so bad” and called it a “terrible thing for our country. We ought to start our own network and put some real news out there.”
Trump’s campaign likened CNN to a public relations firm for Democrats after rejection of its first advertisement, which discussed allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden that the network said had been proven false by several news organizations.
The 30-minute weekly show, hosted by Chris Stewart, anchor for Scripps’ national newscast The Now, will travel coast to coast and border to border each week to report from Main Street USA and talk to people about the issues affecting their lives.
Black News Channel’s Wordlaw On Tap For NTF
Gary Wordlaw, VP of news and programming at the soon-to-launch Black News Channel cable network, will discuss the new venture in the keynote interview at TVNewsCheck’s seventh annual NewsTECHForum in December.
KNTV Doc Marks 30th Anniversary Of Earthquake
Cynthia Cisneros Retiring From KTRK Houston
Exclusives
Neil Funk To Retire As Bulls Announcer
Journalists Need To Stand Up To Obfuscation
Margaret Sullivan: “As the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry ramps up, so, too, does the Trump disinformation campaign — spreading its fact-adverse surrogates throughout the media world in an all-out effort to sway public opinion. With the stakes so high, the media has to step up more than ever before to help news consumers — American citizens — figure out where they stand.”
WFTV’s Martie Salt Retiring After 29 Years
Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan has become an investor in the nascent cable news network founded by J.C. Watts Jr. and Bob Brilliante prior to its launch next month.
Journalists seeking to engage their audiences – their younger, increasingly diverse audiences — face a tough challenge. Local TV news is still the first source of news for more people each day than any other medium, and it remains the most trusted. But as TV viewership changes, newsrooms must adapt where and how they deliver news to reach broader audiences.
WLS Renews Sports Anchor Mark Giangreco
KING Earns National Emmy For Investigative Report
Nexstar’s WJHL Launches New Set And Studio
Fired WSOC News Director Files Suit
Former WSOC news director Julie Szulczewski says she was fired after seven years. She’s filed a a federal lawsuit in which she says the station and its parent company, Cox Media Group, pushed her out to bring in a younger, less qualified man and “keep the boys’ club” happy.
Primetime lineups on Fox News, MSNBC and CNN have all improved by double digits since the proceedings were announced.
How do news organizations find their footing when the ground starts shifting? Here’s a hands-on view into the process that’s unfolding as newsrooms at the Missouri School of Journalism begin exploring and launching over-the-top products and projects.
WKYC News Intros New Graphics, Breezy Vibe
WPVI Reporter John Rawlins Retiring After 38 Years
Openings For Newscast Director And News Director
New TV jobs just posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center are for a newscast director for Capitol Broadcasting’s WRAL in Raliegh, and a news director for Scripps’ KSHB in Kansas City.
Winning statuettes at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards is nothing new for the venerable CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes. The five won by the program on Tuesday brought its total up to 159 over its long run. But it’s rare that a former boss who lost his job during last year’s wave of #MeToo accusations gets acknowledged by the winners at the lectern.
As Tucker Carlson and Shepard Smith go public with a feud over President Trump’s latest troubles, Sean Hannity rides high in the ratings.
