West Coast TV Openings In News And Sales
New ads posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings in San Francisco and Reno in news and sales posted by NBC and KTVN.
“The wonderful thing about doing innovation in student newsrooms is that the students don’t say ‘That’s not how we do things here’ or ‘We tried that once and it didn’t work.’ ”
Five takeaways from newsrooms that are starting to re-invent local TV journalism.
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KPTV Portland Adds 4 P.M. Newscast
The 4 O’clock News debuts Monday, Sept. 9, at 4 p.m. The hour-long broadcast features anchors, Wayne Garcia and Nora Hart, and weather from Chief Meteorologist Mark Nelsen.
Charlotte’s WBTV Launches 2 New Lifestyle Shows
WLWT Adds Steven Albritton To Anchor Desk
KSDK Adds Savannah Louie To ‘Today In St. Louis’
WBNS Meteorologist Arrested On Child Porn Charges
WFLD’s Larry Yellen Announces Retirement
WGCL Names Shon Gables Permanent P.M. Anchor
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro has a new book to promote, but her employer isn’t making it easy on her. During a radio interview with Sebastian Gorka on Tuesday, Pirro said that Fox has restricted her outside media appearances to promote the book, Radicals, Resistance, and Revenge: The Left’s Plot to Remake America.
On Wednesday, ABC News President James Goldston announced Julia Redpath has been named the executive producer of Sunday morning current affairs This Week.
A sobering trip inside Louisiana State Penitentiary frames Friday’s Dateline NBC report about 1990s-era “tough on crime” legislation and what it has meant for society today. The show is repeated Sunday night on MSNBC, along with a Holt-moderated town hall meeting from inside another well-known prison, New York’s Sing Sing.
Full Court Press with Greta Van Susteren debutes Sept. 8. It’s cleared in over 76% of the country in major markets including New York, Washington, Los Angeles and all of Gray’s 93 markets.
WTIC Turning Hartford Into A ‘Drone Zone’
I contend that just about every news story, from live breaking news to routine news packages, can benefit from the perspective that drones can provide. But having the ability, the timing, the training and the equipment to include drone footage into daily news coverage is not easy. “I have a drone that is basically in a little briefcase and it is in the back of my car so it is on scene just as quick as I am,” says Fred Matthis, WTIC Hartford, Conn., drone operator.
Margaret Sullivan: “President Trump requires no translation or interpretation when it comes to his plan for going after national news outlets as Campaign 2020 kicks into high gear. On Monday, he made his intentions clear in a couple of rambling, overcapitalized tweets: ‘Our real opponent is not the Democrats, or the dwindling number of Republicans that lost their way and got left behind.’ No, he wrote, ‘our primary opponent is the Fake News Media.’ ”
Thomas Roberts Leaving WGCL Atlanta Anchor Slot
As Hurricane Dorian headed toward the Florida coast, reporters for news networks and local stations fanned out along the state’s southeastern coastline but also were adjusting their plans to cover the devastation and relief efforts in the area so far hardest hit: the Bahamas.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the White House to restore the hard pass of Playboy’s correspondent Brian Karem, whose credentials were suspended after an incident in July in which he got in argument with former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka following a Rose Garden ceremony.
Beginning this weekend, Sept. 7 and 8, Tribune Media’s Fox affiliate WPMT York, Pa. (DMA 41), will add two new local news programs to the lineup, Fox43 News Featured and […]
WRBW Orlando Rebranding, Adding Newscast
The Dorian footage from the Bahamas was a devastating reminder why local TV stations devote so many hours to covering hurricanes. The stations are supposed to provide community service, and none is greater than protecting the public. WFTV Orlando, Fla., meteorologist Brian Shields put it bluntly Sunday morning, telling viewers that his job was to keep them safe.
