Providence, R.I., residents enjoy access to Boston and New York, while the market offers its own unique aspects.
Fox News topped its rivals in the March and first-quarter 2024 ratings by a wide margin, but MSNBC and CNN showed the biggest growth versus the same period a year ago. The past month saw major events like Super Tuesday and President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. Although the numbers aren’t giving the networks the blockbuster audiences of the 2020 cycle, the networks have for now staved off the large double-digit declines of recent years.
NAB Show Offers An Expansive Gen AI Primer
One look at the schedule for the 2024 NAB Show and you might be convinced that artificial intelligence (AI) offers the solution for all that troubles today’s media businesses. Planned […]
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CBS has retained Gray Television’s in-house news research and consulting group, Strategic Insights & Activation Team, to provider it with market research and news consulting services for all 14 CBS owned and operated television stations.
Vice was once promised to become the brash young voice of news. But wild expenses, shady deals, and greed turned it into “a fucking clown show.”
WBRC Birmingham, Ala. meteorologist-reporter Fred Hunter is stepping away from the studio after 27 years of forecasting and delivering Absolutely Alabama to viewers throughout the state. Hunter has been with […]
The Marion County Record’s parent company and Eric Meyer, its editor and publisher, accuses the city of Marion, the Marion County Commission and five current and former local officials of violating free press rights and the right to be free from unreasonable law enforcement searches guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit also notified the defendants that Meyer and the newspaper plan to add other claims, including that officials wrongly caused the death of Meyer’s mother the day after the raids, which the lawsuit attributes to a stress-induced heart attack.
Gray Television CBS affiliate KCTV Kansas City is adding to its growing weather team, welcoming Melissa Meeder to the First Warn 5 Weather team. She will join First Warn 5 […]
Sinclair Broadcast Group today announced that Matthew Galka will join the company’s Washington, D.C., Bureau as a national correspondent. Galka will provide reporting for The National Desk, Sinclair’s nationally syndicated […]
KTAZ Phoenix and KHRR Tucson, Ariz., part of NBCUniversal Local’s Telemundo Station Group, today appointed Gilberto Dorrego lead anchor for Noticiero Telemundo Arizona, debuting today at 5 p.m., and named José Ángel Galavis senior multimedia journalist and Javier López Álvarez multimedia […]
Cesar Conde, a leader with an MBA but a limited journalism background, is facing the toughest scrutiny of his career.
The media coverage of polls that show President Biden lagging behind former President Trump appears to be getting under the president’s skin. While campaigning around the country, Biden has often complained to rooms full of donors about the coverage of polls, including how often the press focuses only on low survey numbers while ignoring more favorable ones.
Harry Smith is signing off from NBC News after 12 years. The beloved correspondent received an emotional sendoff during Friday’s Today show, where his colleagues got choked up sharing kind words about their time together.
Guinness World Records saluted Alhart last year for the “longest career as a television news broadcaster.”
In a notorious high-security prison, Evan Gershkovich of The Wall Street Journal stays connected with supporters through letters as they keep up the pressure for his release.
Televised political combat existed in earlier times, like Shana Alexander and James Kilpatrick’s “point-counterpoint” segment on “60 Minutes” in the 1970s. Politics and journalism had its share of cross-fertilization with figures such as George Stephanopoulos and the late Tim Russert. Yet the idea of building rosters of paid political contributors took off with cable news. MSNBC, CNN and Fox News Channel are, in large part, political talk channels and seek experts to help fill the time. News streaming has similar needs. Being on call to opine can be lucrative work; several reports had NBC agreeing to pay McDaniel $300,000 a year.
For Bolstering Local News, Weather Remains The Most Powerful Tool
How a station handles weather — and the caliber and connectedness of weathercasters in a local market — are critical to a successful news reinvention.
