KDFW’s Fil Alvarado Retires After 33 Years
The Need For Fox News In A Time Of Chaos
Jay Ambrose of Tribune News Service: Just as our democracy needs liberal and conservative politicians to fight off the worst of each other, we need TV commentators who do the same.
La.’s 1st TV Station, WDSU, Celebrates 70 Years
My first job at a TV station was as a writer/producer in promotions at WDSU. Then, in 1988, the station was located in the French Quarter. The historic building stretched an entire block from Royal to Chartres streets. The front entrance sat in a beautiful courtyard, said to be the most photographed in the city.
Exclusives
Last year was a wild ride in the TV news business. Shocking reports in the wake of #MeToo forced the industry to vomit out more sexual harassers. Some high-profile programs suffered ratings consequences. Meanwhile, TV news executives licked self-inflicted wounds, and, once again, viewers said so long, for now at least, to a super-successful TV news host who tried to change the daypart and network simultaneously.
WPTA Work Safety Investigation Gets Legislature’s Attention
A 23-year-old was killed in an industrial accident. Her employer had intentionally disabled safety features on the press she operated, and was fined just $6,300. WPTA’s investigation revealed that the fines for death on the job in Indiana were so low, “it doesn’t cost that much to kill someone.”
January always lifts off like a rocket. The NFL playoffs start this weekend … Golden Globes are this Sunday … CES starts next Tuesday … and it’s pretty certain there will be some surprise announcements.
NewsNet follows a traditional “news wheel” format, with headlines at the top of each half hour, followed by a national weather overview, sports, and feature stories from across America. It’s distributed over-the-air by a network of affiliates, streams to mobile apps available for iPhone and Android, and will be launching OTT apps for Roku, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV later this month.
Fox News Channel will present an exclusive interview with President Donald Trump tonight, Monday, Dec. 31, during the network’s All-American New Year special co-hosted by Pete Hegseth & Lisa “Kennedy” Montgomery that airs at 10 […]
Reporters will be the guests of honor at the New Year’s Eve party in New York’s Times Square on Monday, in what organizers said was a celebration of press freedom after an unusually deadly year for journalists at U.S. news outlets.
Fade To Black: Remembering Those Who Died
In 2018, TVNewsCheck reported the deaths of outstanding men and women who shaped television as actors, lawmakers, producers, business people, journalists and on-air personalities. Here’s a look back at some of those influencers.
Chris Burrous, KTLA Anchor, Dies At 43
It’s been an exhausting time for news. It was the year of the endless push alerts, the Friday-night news dumps, the breaking news on Twitter. Good riddance. Instead of reprising every headline that made 2018 a maddening year for journalism, we’ve boiled it down to seven themes, big-picture trends that capture the year that was. These ideas dominated our media moment in 2018, and no doubt will continue to shape things as we move into the new year.
Steve Simon Returns To KIAH As News Director
After leaving Houston for Dallas in 2013, Steve Simon has returned to H-Town to be news director at Tribune’s CW affiliate KIAH.
While Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity will end 2018 as cable news’ most popular personality for the second year in a row, he’s been slumping in the ratings since the midterm elections and ominous stories related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of the president.
WJBK To Stream Meteorologist’s Funeral
WCVB Sets Newscast Changes In New Year
The Hearst ABC affiliate in Boston will launch NewsCenter 5 at 4:30 PM on Jan. 1. In addition, anchor Doug Meehan is named the third anchor of Weekday EyeOpener and reporter Jennifer Eagan will now co-anchor of Weekend EyeOpener.
KPRC Celebrates 70 Years As Houston’s First Station
Every corner of the media industry was touched by 2018’s frenetic pace of change. The streaming wars escalated. So did a very different kind of war: President Donald Trump’s assault on news outlets he doesn’t like. Meantime, a wave of media consolidation continued to build, and all sorts of websites explored new subscription-based business models. Lest we forget all that’s happened since January, here’s a look back.
The chief catalyst for technology-driven changes in consumer news habits? The rise in on-demand and OTT viewing as the most direct threat to traditional live linear viewing. Here are five critical things TV news leaders and executives need to understand and respond to now to insure their content remains relevant in this new, disrupted viewing ecosystem.
The Top 18 Media Grinches Of 2018
It’s time for the Grinchy Awards, given to the year’s worst actors in the news media and anyone else who interfered with a free press.
NewsTECHForum Videos Bring You Up To Date
After closing out a successful sixth NewsTECHForum in New York, TVNewsCheck presents videos of the many sessions, presentations and case studies so that if you couldn’t attend, you can get caught up now.
