Sinclair Tweaks Station Website Template

Is Sinclair tweaking the design of its stations’ websites? If WJLA Washington’s site is any indicator, it looks like that may be the case. The group began revamping select station websites back in August, and now has pushed out some design and layout updates, starting with its D.C. ABC affiliate.

KCNC’s Vic Lombardi Expected To Leave

DMA 75: SPRINGFIELD, MO

KYTV Captures The Ozarks In New Set Design

DMA 43

Anchor Bill Young Leaving KOKH Oklahoma City

DMA 30

Reporter Debra Bogstie Leaving WVIT Hartford

MARKET SHARE (DMA 42: NORFOLK, VA)

WAVY-WVBT Add Drone To Aerial News Coverage

NETNEWSCHECK SOCIAL SCORECARD (DMA 74)

KETV Tops Omaha’s Social Media Market

Hearst-owned ABC affiliate KETV leads Omaha local media on both total actions and fans/followers, according to data from Shareablee. It edges out Gray’s NBC affil WOWT in both categories, dominating both Facebook and Twitter.

Female Meteorologists Obsessed With Same Dress

Hearst Stations Expand Election Coverage

The station group’s Commitment 2016 initiative includes local, regional and national debates and adds new features including “8 Issues/8 Weeks,” a cross-platform push to frame issues and candidates’ positions, and “Candidate Accountability,” which will explore whether candidates up for reelection kept campaign promises. Above, KCCI Des Moines, Iowa, anchors Stacey Horst and Steve Karlin interview Martin O’Malley at the Nov. 14 Democratic debate.

MARKET SHARE (DMA 49: LOUISVILLE, KY)

WLKY Flies To D.C. To Honor Veterans

MARKET SHARE (DMA 36:CINCINNATI)

WCPO Travels 10,000 Miles For Rhino Story

DMA 53

WKBW Buffalo Said Adding Anchor Ashley Rowe

DMA 9: ATLANTA

WGCL Adds Six ‘Just A Minute’ Commentators

DMA 19

Reporter Mario Boone Leaves WFTV Orlando

DMA 13: DETROIT

Karen Drew Named Anchor Of WDIV’s ‘First At 4’

Graham Media’s NBC affiliate WDIV Detroit (DMA 13) has appointed Karen Drew as the new anchor of Local 4 News First at 4. Beginning Dec. 21, Drew will anchor the […]

MARKET SHARE (DMA 11: TAMPA, FL)

WUSF Airs Special About Florida’s Wild Side

DMA 47: JACKSONVILLE, FL

WJAX-WFOX Get Permission To Fly News Drone

DMA 25: RALEIGH-DURHAM, NC

WRAL News App Now Supports Apple Watch

The WRAL News app from the Capitol Broadcasting Co. CBS affiliate in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., has been upgraded to push content to the Apple Watch. WRAL News app users can access […]

MARKET SHARE (DMA 6: SAN FRANCISCO)

KRON Offers Bird’s Eye Views With Drone

MARKET SHARE (DMA 72: DES MOINES, IA)

WHO Gives Each GOP Presidential Candidate An Hour

DMA 6: SAN FRANCISCO

KRON Launches Drone Following FAA Approval

Media General-owned independent KRON San Francisco (DMA 6)  has a brand new tool to use for newsgathering and to enhance storytelling — a drone. QuadCopter4 debuted in the station’s continuing […]

DMA 15: MINNEAPOLIS

KMSP Reporter Arrested During Protest

DMA 138: COLUMBIA, MO

How KOMU Uses Social In Public Affairs Show

The University of Missouri’s NBC affiliate in Columbia is using social media to produce a public affairs segment, uncovering new story ideas, angles and sources. “We’ve learned to really embrace the use of social media, not just as a place where you put your story when it’s done but the place where your story can start,” says Annie Hammock, the station’s  interactive director.

MARKET SHARE (DMA 37: GREENVILLE, SC)

WYFF Named ‘Best News’ In S.C. By AP

MARKET SHARE (DMA 28: SAN DIEGO)

KUSI Scoring With High School Sports Coverage

DMA 19: ORLANDO, FL

WFTV’s Welch, WESH’s Brewer Departing

DMA 44

Jim Sinkovitz Retiring From WGAL Harrisburg

DMA 17

KDEN Denver Promotes Pamela Padilla To Anchor

NBC-owned Telemundo affiliate KDEN Denver (DMA 17) today promoted Pamela Padilla to news anchor, effective immediately. Padilla joined KDEN in February as a multimedia journalist. In her new role, she […]

MARKET SHARE (DMA 47: JACKSONVILLE, FL)

WJXX-WTLV On Aircraft Carrier For Veterans Day

NETNEWSCHECK SOCIAL SCORECARD (DMA 16)

WSCV Leads Miami’s Local Social Players

NBC O&O WSCV rules the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale local social media market in terms of overall social actions, according to Shareablee data, though Univision’s WAMR-FM crushes the competition with the market’s most fans/followers.

DMA 8: BOSTON

Joy Lim Nakrin Gone From WFXT News

DMA 3: CHICAGO

WLS Chicago Adds Will Jones To Reporting Staff

DMA 22: CHARLOTTE, NC

Sweeps Story May Have Saved Reporter’s Life

DMA 72: DES MOINES, IA

KCCI Anchor Kevin Cooney Prepares To Sign Off

MARKET SHARE (DMA 51: NEW ORLEANS)

WWL Catches Judges Beaching It On Taxpayers’ Dime

MARKET SHARE (DMA 12)

Earthshaking Promo From KTVK Phoenix

DMA 22

Brien Blakely Joins WJZY’s ‘Good Day Charlotte’

Fox-owned WJZY Charlotte, N.C. (DMA 22), has hired Brien Blakely as weekday anchor of Good Day Charlotte alongside Page Crawford and Barbara Lash, effective Jan. 11, 2016. Most recently, Blakely […]

DMA 5: DALLAS

You’ll Never Look At A News Promo The Same Again

MARKET SHARE (DMA 8: BOSTON)

WCVB’S Karen Holmes Ward Honored

MARKET SHARE (DMA 25: RALEIGH, NC)

AP Names WRAL Top News Operation, Again