Menacing the media is a theme of President Trump’s rallies, but news organizations are anticipating an unnerving midterm election season, especially after a hostile crowd in Florida on Tuesday night.
Licensed to Pill is a one-hour special that exposes doctors betraying patients by prescribing addictive opioids to line their own pockets. It follows up on extensive investigations aired over the past year, during which time a federal raid, charges against doctors and action by Congress were all realized.
MARKET SHARE | DMA 58: LITTLE ROCK, AR
10 Things Learned In 10 Years As A News Director
BRAND CONNECTIONS
Jeff Fager, the executive producer of 60 Minutes, stands accused of making unwanted advances and enabling harassment by others in positions of power at the newsmagazine, according to Ronan Farrow’s report in The New Yorker. Fager firmly denied the allegations. He seems determined to defend both his own reputation and the esteemed 60 Minutes brand. But the accusations of misconduct came as no surprise to 60 Minutes veterans, who had long suspected that stories might be coming.
The U.S. Supreme Court may soon have the opportunity to shake up the consumption of news. At stake could very well be the online dissemination of broadcast news clips as well as a deeper understanding of how politics and news intersect. That’s because Wednesday, the media monitoring service TVEyes indicated in an application to the high court that it would indeed be petitioning for review of a recent appellate loss to Fox News.
Exclusives
CBSN Local services will feature local news content produced by CBS Owned Stations. CBSN New York will be first, launching during the fourth quarter of 2018.
MARKET SHARE | DMA 76: ROCHESTER, NY
Go Jump In A Lake: WHAM Reporter Complies
The BBC, Fox News and PBS are the most-trusted TV news brands in the U.S., according to Research Intelligencer by Brand Keys, which surveyed 4,012 viewers who rated broadcast and cable brands that they watch more than three times per week “to determine how much trust those brands engendered.”
MARKET SHARE | DMA 20: SACRAMENTO, CA
KCRA-KQCA Raise $700K For Wildfire Victims
DMA 35: CINCINNATI
WCPO’s Kathrine Nero ‘Blindsided’ By Dismissal
DMA 3: CHICAGO
Nowhere To Go But Up For WBBM News Boss
The on-screen banners known as chyrons were once flat, artless labels that were about as exciting as an airport arrival-and-departure board. But in an era of shrinking viewer attention spans, chyrons now not only tell viewers what the news is, they tell them what to make of it.
EXECUTIVE SESSION WITH ELLEN CROOKE
Tegna Wants Local News Binge Watchers
Ellen Crooke, VP of news at Tegna, says the company is doing a top-to-bottom overhaul of its approach to local news led by next-generation innovators with a digital mindset. The goal is drawing in younger viewers with binge-worthy investigative, episodic digital content that finds broadcast iterations afterwards.
DMAS 20 & 12
KTXL Meteorologist Peck Leaves For KING
SOCIAL SCORECARD | DMA 34
WCMH Scores Facebook’s Top Spot In Columbus
Nexstar’s NBC affiliate has more than a million Facebook actions over its next nearest competitor. David Ciliberti, WCMH’s news director, says finding the right stories that everybody connects to at the same time is the key to generating interaction. Michael King, WCMH’s digital director, says news tips, videos and pictures from Facebook users help the station stay ahead in the market. “By leveraging it on digital first, we associated our brand with the story before our broadcast competitors.”
DMA 21: ST. LOUIS
KMOV St. Louis Updates Branding, Graphics
DMA 51: NEW ORLEANS
WVUE Expands Its ‘Fox 8 Morning Edition’
Workplace culture at network news organizations has generally improved over the past several decades. But the vigilance of the #MeToo movement is taking no prisoners in a business that has long been a domain where men dominate the executive suites and female anchors, correspondents and even producers are often judged by their appearance.
DMA 25: RALEIGH, NC
