WJZY ‘Goes Big,’ Taking Its 5 P.M. News On The Road
WJZY Charlotte, N.C.’s Queen City News Hometown initiative takes its 5 p.m. news on the road every Wednesday. You can say you’re the hometown station, but being out in neighborhoods doing the news speaks volumes.
Embracing Collaboration, News Groups Push Past Conventions
Executives from Telemundo, Scripps News, CBS News and Stations, Gray Television and SciLine shared the collaborations they’re undertaking and the places they’re taking news content beyond the conventional newscast in a panel at last week’s Programming Everywhere event at the NAB Show.
Politics isn’t the only giant news story in our nation’s capital. In recent days, the newsrooms were all over the $6 billion sale of the NFL’s Washington Commanders. It’s been a bleak period for the D.C. sports teams, including the underperforming Commanders, Nationals, Capitals and Wizards, but the locals hope the new Commanders owner will shake things up for the better.
Matt Laubhan, chief meteorologist at WTVA Tupelo, Miss., knew he was seeing a killer tornado. “At that moment, viewers needed somebody to hold their hand and get them through it,” he says.
Exclusives
FTS to distribute its local news content across Amazon devices.
Ramirez ascends to newly created role leading news operations at the NBC-Telemundo duopoly in Chicago, with Akemi Harrison promoted to news director.
Hubbard Television Group’s ABC affiliate KAAL Rochester, Minn., said that Emmy-winning journalist Robin Wolfram will return to the news desk Monday, May 1, joining long time news anchor — and […]
WAVE’s ‘Cocaine Bear’ Documentary Proves Truth Is Stanger Than Fiction
WAVE Louisville, Ky., produced a documentary that took advantage of the hoopla surrounding the fictional movie, Cocaine Bear. In the incredible true story WAVE tells, the bear isn’t even the main character.
KYW Philadelphia is showing off new branding. Known as CBS Philadelphia, the station is erasing its “Eyewitness News” branding and going with “Finding Heart in Every Beat.”
WPVI Highlights Women In Its Newsroom The Viewers Never See
WPVI Philadelphia turned the cameras on the women behind the scenes in the newsroom as part of Women’s History Month. “They are the foundation of Action News,” says Thomas Davis, WPVI’s VP and news director.
Beginning Monday, the Gray NBC affiliate and The Tribune will share some content and collaborate on stories and special projects.
As issues of access to safe drinking water make headlines across the United States, ABC Owned Television Stations are producing a three-part documentary series with ABC News and National Geographic […]
Josh Morgan has been named news director of Gray Television’s Kansas City CBS affiliate KCTV. He joins from Atlanta News First, where he’s been for the last two years, most recently as managing editor.
