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Steve Pagliuca, chairman of Boston 2024, a group that is working to bring the Summer Olympics to that city, and Chris Dempsey, co-chair of No Boston Olympics, will face off […]

Even as digital becomes an increasingly essential part of Americans’ news diets, local TV continues to be one of the most-turned-to sources for news. In 2014, it even grew its average viewership, driven by early morning, noon and late evening broadcasts.

While covering Autumn Veatch, the 16-year-old who survived plane crash in rural Washington, KIRO reporter Gary Horcher noted what he called “an unsettling observation” about how the major networks attempted to get exclusives with Veatch’s family by offering them hotel rooms, food and other gifts. “I’m a local reporter, and the currency I trade is built on relationships — on trust — on belief that I’m their advocate. I’ve never offered anything more in exchange for information, or an interview.”

Changes are coming to the weekday and weekend Today in Iowa newscasts on Quincy Newspapers-owned NBC affiliate KWWL Cedar Rapids, Iowa (DMA 90). Ally Crutcher, who has been interim co-anchor […]

Veteran WRAL Raleigh, N.C., anchor Lynda Loveland moves from WRAL’s morning newscasts to join the station’s evening news team. Loveland takes the desk with co-anchor Gerald Owens for WRAL News […]

While the Federal Aviation Administration is still working on final rules for flying commercial drones in U.S. airspace, at least one local TV newsroom has figured out how to legally use camera-equipped drones for news. Last Thursday, ABC O&O KGO San Francisco went live with a drone owned and operated by Las Vegas-based ArrowData, one of the first operations in the country to receive the requisite exemption from the FAA to use drones for electronic newsgathering or “aerojournalism” as the company calls it.

Weigel Broadcasting’s CBS affiliate WDJT Milwaukee (DMA 35) has added Mark Hanner as assistant news director. Hanner comes to WDJT with more than 30 years of television newsroom experience. He […]

Angelique Lizarde will be returning to Cordillera Communications-owned NBC affiliate KVOA Tucson, Ariz. (DMA  71) as a weekend news anchor, effective Aug. 3. Lizarde previously was a multimedia journalist at […]

CBS-owned WFOR Miami (DMA 16) today announced that Rudabeh Shahbazi will join CBS 4 News This Morning (weekdays 5-7 a.m.) beginning Monday, Aug. 3. Shahbazi was most recently a multimedia […]

EastIdahoNews.com launched last week on the shoulders of a longstanding leader in music and talk radio, Riverbend Communications. Michael Depp looks at the company’s ambition to widen its revenue streams through the site and the early lift it has gotten through on-air promotion and viral stories.

The Cordillera Communications-owned CBS affil in Missoula, Mont., hires Jerry Giesler, formerly ND at WACH Columbia, S.C.

Ross Palombo will join Fox O&O KTVU San Francisco (DMA 6) as weekend co-anchor for KTVU’s Mornings on 2, effective Aug. 5. He will also serve as a political and […]

This week’s Social Scorecard  looks at San Diego (DMA 28), where NBC O&O KNSD holds a commanding lead in both social actions and fans/followers, according to data from Shareablee. “We’re paying very close attention to the data, acting on that and always optimizing,” says Sean Monzet, its director of integrated media.

Marc Sternfield, assistant news director at the Tribune-owned Salt Lake City Fox affiliate, gets bumped to the top slot as ND Renai Bodley leaves.

Rob Elgas will join ABC O&O WLS Chicago (DMA 3) as a reporter and fill-in anchor effective July 7. Elgas joins WLS from WMAQ Chicago where he anchored the early […]

Grant Paulsen has been hired to cover the Washington Redskins for Fox O&O WTTG Washington, contributing to all newscasts and Fox 5 Redskins Game Time. Paulsen currently co-hosts a daily […]

Hearst moves her from KOAT Albuquerque, N.M., to lead the news department at its NBC affiliate in Birmingham, Ala.