Nexstar’s CBS affiliate WBTW Myrtle Beach-Florence, S.C., has named Patsy Kelly co-anchor of News 13 at 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m. Kelly currently anchors WBTW’s 9 a.m., noon and 4 […]
Fox-owned KRIV Houston has appointed Will Kunkel sports director, effective September and will serve as sports anchor for the evening newscasts alongside Anthony Antoine, Caroline Collins and Rashi Vats. Most […]
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AI And The Future Of Local TV News
With its seemingly boundless applications for news, AI is likely to deepen the divide between best-in-class and worst-in-class station owners. The better ones will recognize its capacity to augment and expand their reporting capacities.
Nexstar moves him up to oversee journalism at the CBS-CW duopoly in upstate New York.
She moves from a corporate role at Tegna to oversee journalism at its ABC affiliate in the state capital.
News-Press & Gazette’s NBC-Fox affiliate KTVZ Bend, Ore., has made two additions to its weather team: John Carroll and Eric Oren. They will make their on-air debut the first week of […]
Known for his work in producing and reporting the award-winning series The Land of 10,000 Stories on KARE Minneapolis, renowned video storyteller and teacher Boyd Huppert will be the 2023 recipient of the annual John F. Hogan Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association.
Rob Hughes will join ABC O&O WLS Chicago as a weekend anchor/weekday reporter. His first day will be Monday, Aug. 21. “Rob is a skilled and experienced anchor as well […]
Northeastern Fellows Poised For ‘Most Ambitious’ Crack At Reinventing TV News
Northeastern University’s Reinventing Local TV News Project will place fellows at three major-market stations — WCBS New York, WCVB Boston and WLS Chicago — for a year-long effort to build radically new models for digital news storytelling.
Scripps-owned ABC affiliate WFTS Tampa has hired Allison Godlove as the new co-host for Tampa Bay’s Morning Blend airing weekdays at 10 a.m. She joins the show on Tuesday, July […]
WTLV-WJXX’s Testimonial Promos Are ‘Show-Stopping’ Spots
WTLV and WJXX, Tegna’s NBC and ABC affiliates in Jacksonville, Fla., turned to their viewers’ testimonials in a powerful new promotional campaign.
The product, Google Genesis, pitched as a helpmate for journalists, has been demonstrated for executives at The New York Times, The Washington Post and News Corp, which owns The Wall Street Journal.
It seems like every year, and it pretty much is, the latest RTDNA/Newhouse School at Syracuse University Survey shows another record-high amount of local news. Both local TV and radio stations reported double digit increases in the minutes of local news they broadcast in a given day: 18 minutes more per weekday for TV and 21.2 minutes for radio.
Leaders from Graham, Tegna, Cox and Gray told a TVNewsCheck webinar last week that station projects with a strong local value proposition — and a deeper collaboration between the newsroom and creative services — can yield remarkable audience engagement.
