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The news veteran and former KNXV news chief will join Raycom’s Tucson CBS affiliate on Oct. 5.

Tegna-owned NBC affiliate WLBZ Bangor, Maine, will no longer produce a 6 p.m. weekday news show beginning Oct. 8. The 6 p.m. newscast will instead originate in Portland, Maine, on co-owned NBC affil WCSH, as do WLBZ’s weekday morning, noon, 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. broadcasts.

Fox Television Stations-owned KDFW holds a clear lead in Dallas-Fort Worth’s social media scene based on data from Shareablee. The station has had nearly 9.2 million social actions in the last six months and is closing in on a million fans/followers. Its newsroom says the foundations for such a strong social platform go back nearly two decades before there was a “social” media.

Cox-owned ABC affiliate WFTV became the first Orlando, Fla., station to use drones in news coverage last Friday. The Federal Aviation Administration last week approved a petition by WFTV and other stations in the Cox Media Group to fly the drones.

Jon Kelley, anchor of Good Day Chicago on WFLD, announced Thursday that he is leaving the Fox O&O on Dec. 1. “I have decided it’s time for me to embark […]

The pope is about to make a historic visit to the U.S., with a stop off in Philadelphia. But, the TV coverage might be a bit lacking. The union representing the roughly 75 photographers and technicians at KYW overwhelmingly voted Tuesday to strike over stalled contract negotiations. The news comes a day after roughly 65 photographers and technicians at WCAU notified station management that they are exercising their right to terminate a collective bargaining agreement in 10 days and set a Sept. 21 strike date.

As it opens a new $3 million, 15,000-square-foot building, Nexstar will add 30 employees to support an expansion of its local news programming under the WFXR news brand that launches Oct. 1.

Jeffrey Marks, president-GM of WDBJ Roanoke, Va., says that while representing the station to the world after two of his journalists were gunned down was tough, “I think 99% of reporters on stories like these do show compassion.” But, he added, holding up a mike to one side of the story and then the other side of the story doesn’t suffice. “We have to work diligently to provide history and perspective.”

ABC O&O KGO San Francisco is one of the first local news operations in the United States to put footage from a remote-controlled aerial drone live onto the air. Find out how they did it from Ken Miguel, special projects producer at KGO, and Ron Futrell, sales and marketing director at ArrowData, which supplied the technology.

Fox-owned WTXF Philadelphia (DMA 4) has hired Kathy Orr as weather anchor for the station’s 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts, effective Sept. 20. Most recently, Orr was chief meteorologist […]

Tegna-owned CBS affiliate KHOU Houston (DMA 10), is expanding KHOU 11 News at 4 p.m. to one hour beginning Sept. 14. Beyond news, weather and sports coverage, the program will […]

The Milwaukee NBC affiliate is replacing its 3 p.m. weekday newscast with a new syndicated lifestyle/talk show hosted by Tyra Banks. FABLife premieres Monday at 3 p.m. GM Joe Poss said Thursday that the decision to drop the 3 p.m. newscast and add a syndicated show had been in the works since last year, before the station was acquired by E.W. Scripps Co.

NAB, RTDNA and NATAS are accepting online and offline contributions to support the families of the two WDBJ Roanoke, Va., journalists killed in August. Those wishing to contribute to the Alison & Adam Memorial Fund can do so at http://www.nab.org/donate.

Three of Gray Television’s Charleston-Huntington, W.Va. (DMA 66) NBC affiliate WSAZ’s evening newscasts will feature slightly different anchor teams beginning Monday, Sept. 14.  All familiar faces, some in different places. […]

The news veteran is returning to the CBS Philadelphia O&O to lead the news efforts there and at co-owned WPSG.

It’s a local news tradition: reporters going live from where not much is happening, so that “BREAKING NEWS” can be flashed across the screen. Because even in 2015, the old-school practice of a real person in a real place for the sake of a “live shot” is still the gospel of broadcast journalism.

Fox-owned KRIV Houston (DMA 10) today promoted Nate Griffin to general assignment reporter after two years as a sports contributor. Effective Sept. 8, Griffin will report for the weekday morning […]

Beginning Monday, Sept. 21, Block Communications-owned Fox affiliate WDRB Louisville, Ky. (DMA 49), will add a second half-hour of midday news to its Monday through Friday schedule with the debut […]