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The former news chief at WUSA Washington takes over Raycom’s Cleveland news operations, succeeding Dan Salamone.

The Phoenix Fox O&O online news service Fox 10 News Now is offering 7-8 hours of streaming news and features each day. The plan is to increase staff and offer 24-hours-a-day programming.

Raycom-owned WXIX Cincinnati was given the go-ahead to air an interview by a man accused of plotting to attack the U.S. Capitol. The man’s attorney had sought an injunction to prevent its broadcast.

The additions are part of the Media General CW affiliate’s news expansion brought about following the loss of CBS affiliation at the beginning of this year.

Whether in a tech-savvy metropolis or a city where the town square is still the communication hub, local news matters deeply to the lives of residents. Across three disparate metro areas in the U.S., nearly nine-in-10 residents follow local news closely — and about half do so very closely, according to a new, in-depth Pew Research Center study. About two-thirds of the residents in each city discuss local news in person a few times a week or more.

Fox-owned KRIV Houston (DMA 10) has added Lindsey Day as a weekend morning meteorologist. Her  first day will be March 16; she will contribute to various weekend newscasts. Most recently, […]

Los Angeles police officers were involved in another confrontation Wednesday on Skid Row after a man grabbed a KTTV camera and then scuffled with responding officers. Reporter Phil Shuman, photographer Ollin Martinez and producer Dan Leighton were investigating conditions on Skid Row. All three are OK.

Sunbeam Fox affiliate WSVN Miami has been teasing viewers with cryptic promos: “Something BIG is coming.” And for the past few weeks, anchors have been working against a green screen to hide what’s happening at the news studio. Here’s the scoop: The station is completing “a massive overhaul” of its news set — the first since debuting its working newsroom concept, “the newsplex,” in 1994, says Alice Jacobs, WSVN’s VP of news. It makes its debut March 8.

Sunbeam Fox affiliate WSVN Miami has been teasing viewers with cryptic promos: “Something BIG is coming.” And for the past few weeks, anchors have been working against a green screen to hide what’s happening at the news studio. Here’s the scoop: The station is completing “a massive overhaul” of its news set — the first since debuting its working newsroom concept, “the newsplex,” in 1994, says Alice Jacobs, WSVN’s VP of news. It makes its debut March 8.

Sources tell FTVLive that it appears cuts are happening at Scripps properties. They also say that Scripps will be putting a digital content person in the news director’s chair at some stations. It is first expected to happen at KNXV Phoenix before spreading to others.