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 […]
Exclusives
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.
Elizabeth Klinge is coming home to Iowa after spending the last three years as an anchor-reporter at KOVR Sacramento, Calif. She will be co-anchoring the news at 5, 6 and […]
Telemundo’s KVDA San Antonio has named Ariel Rivera-Vázquez chief meteorologist, effective immediately. Delines Alonso, vice president of news, said: “We are honored to have Ariel as our chief meteorologist, he […]
Finding Common Ground In The Final Four… And Localism
The communal experience of watching the Final Four tournament reminds us of what can bind us, happily, as a culture. Local TV stations can tap into that vein everyday by mining and celebrating what is unique to their communities.
Job-switching barriers are routine at TV stations, even for workers not on the air. A proposed federal rule would curb the practice across all fields.
The Hearst ABC affiliate in Jackson, Miss., promotes the assistant ND to succeed the departing Rick McLaughlin.
Hearst Television’s NBC affiliate WVTM Birmingham, Ala., has promoted Ryan Hennessy to sports director. He will anchor the sportscast every weeknight at 10 p.m. beginning May 1, joining evening anchors […]
Sinclair Broadcast Group’s NewsON free streaming service said it added Capitol Broadcasting’s new streaming channel WRAL News Plus to NewsON’s channel lineup. WRAL news content is also available on the VUit and Local Now streaming news platforms.
Nexstar choses the stations’ digital reporter to succeed Sean Lafferty as head of journalism at the ABC-Fox duopoly in northwestern Pennsylvania.
Spending on TV has been climbing back toward normal in Milwaukee since the pandemic struck, and the stations are getting a windfall from a Wisconsin state Supreme Court race that will give the balance of power to either the Democrats or Republicans, depending on how the vote goes April 4.
TVNewsCheck’s Programming Everywhere event addresses the programming challenges local TV stations face to fill hours of openings in their schedule with content. TV marketers on site will “get stimulated with lots of concrete ideas to bring back and implement at their stations,” says Michael Depp, TVNewsCheck editor and a moderator at the conference.
Beginning Monday, April 3, Sinclair Broadcast Group ABC affiliate WJLA Washington will begin providing round-the-clock weather reports every 10 minutes on Hubbard Broadcasting’s all-news WTOP-FM there. Julia Ziegler, WTOP’s director […]
Bob Halloran, WCVB Boston’s longtime, award-winning sports anchor/reporter, has announced his plan to retire from the SportsCenter 5 team effective Wednesday, May 31. Halloran’s career spans 38 years in journalism […]
If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would you say? At KING in Seattle, Olivia Roberts, one of KING’s marketing producers, conceived and produced a campaign featuring three of the station’s women anchor/reporters writing a letter to themselves.
