Slur Or Slip Up? Meteorologist Is Fired, City Is Roiled
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Did a TV meteorologist broadcast a racial slur or simply flub a line? That polarizing question has reverberated in this upstate New York city and beyond […]
WGN Chicago Presenting Mayoral Forum
Tribune-owned independent WGN-TV Chicago (DMA 3) will air a Chicago mayoral candidates forum this Thursday, Jan. 10, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. live from Steinmetz College Prep in Chicago. WGN […]
Afua Owusu Named EP Of WCIU’s ‘The Jam’
Weigel Broadcasting’s independent WCIU Chicago (DMA 3) has hired veteran local TV news producer Afua Owusu as the executive producer of the its news and lifestyle morning show, The Jam. […]
Gannett, owner of USA Today and the nation’s largest newspaper chain, has instructed its head-hunting firm to look for candidates outside the newspaper industry as it searches for a new CEO. The incumbent, Robert Dickey, 61, announced last month that he will step down in mid-May.
After all that media drama, President Trump’s first Oval Office primetime address served no purpose but to get him on his true home: TV.
Exclusives
The major news networks differed sharply in how they covered Donald Trump address from the Oval Office on Tuesday to make a case for tough immigration laws and more than $5 billion in funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Following President Trump’s address on a southern border wall Tuesday night, broadcast and cable networks moved swiftly to correct or challenge some of his statements. This came after earlier unusual debate over whether they should show his talk at all.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer say they will respond to President’s Trump Tuesday speech on his proposed border wall. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox broadcasting, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network and MSNBC all said they would air the rebuttal.
Bret Baier has signed a new multiyear deal with Fox News Channel, where he will continue as anchor and executive editor of Special Report (weeknights 6 p.m. ET) and chief political anchor […]
College Students Plan To ‘Youth-Anize’ TV News
Sponsored by TVNewsCheck and the Broadcast Education Association, the Disrupt the News challenge seeks entries that generally stick to the programming flow of a local TV newscast, but make the format more attractive to younger audiences, especially millennials.
Why CBS News’s David Rhodes is being replaced by broadcast news legend Susan Zirinsky.
WHEC Meteorologist Fired Over Racial Slur
Susan Zirinsky, the incoming president of CBS News, earned a huge round of applause at the 10 a.m. editorial meeting on Monday at CBS News headquarters on West 57th St. She stressed the “gold standard” of CBS News, a division built by Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite. And she read from the script that Cronkite delivered on the night that President Richard Nixon resigned in August 1974.
Representatives for ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox Broadcasting, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, MSNBC and NBC confirmed plans to air President Trump’s address on the southern border wall live at 9 p.m. ET. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer say Democrats should be given time to respond after Trump’s address.
President Trump has asked the broadcast networks to clear 9 p.m. ET Tuesday, during which, based on his tweet, it is presumed he will make good on his threat to declare a state of national emergency to build his southern border wall.
No, CBS and Viacom won’t merge (but Verizon will be a buyer), Netflix growth will slow as Disney goes OTT, a tech giant will gobble up a major studio, Sean Hannity will leave Fox News and more bold forecasts.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The first black Republican woman in Congress is joining CNN as a commentator after being unseated by a Democratic challenger in November. Former U.S. Rep. […]
NBC’s California O&Os Launch Lifestyle Show
Small Town Oil Boom Documentary Airs On PBS Tonight
WSB’s Jim Strickland Retiring After 20 Years
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A $750 million defamation lawsuit filed against CBS by the brother of JonBenet Ramsey has been settled. The Daily Camera reports court records show that a Michigan Circuit […]
Rhodes is stepping down following a troubled year that saw morning anchor Charlie Rose and the top executive at 60 Minutes lose their jobs following misconduct reports and ratings issues at its top shows. Zirinsky, who started work at CBS in the Washington bureau as a 20-year-old in the early 1970s and is currently the executive producer at 48 Hours, will take over in March.
Student journalists who create the best new approaches or formats for local TV news in broadcasting will be awarded monetary prizes.
Beginning today, Gray Television’s Fox affiliate WBRC Birmingham, Ala. (DMA 43) is extending Good Day Alabama from 9 to 10 a.m. CT exclusively on streaming services. “The launch of Good […]
The Tampa ABC affiliate’s assistant news director takes over the reins at the Scripps news operation. She succeeds Matt Brown, who was promoted to VP-GM of Scripps-owned WTXL Tallahassee, Fla.
Stations Use Megaphone TV To Amplify Ratings
TV station groups all across the country, like Tegna, Cox, and the ABC-owned stations, are using Megaphone TV’s live polling, live voting and live trivia on social and on-air to drive and hold viewers during their newscasts. “We look at it as something that helps us connect with our viewers and helps our viewers connect with us, and it gets our viewers to be heard,” said Rhonda LaVelle, WXYZ Detroit’s news director.
