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After a year of feuding with Donald Trump, Univision is finding that Republicans are unwilling to appear on the network, according to Enrique Acevedo, the anchor spearheading Univision’s coverage of the Trump administration.

NEW YORK (AP) — ABC News said three of its Twitter accounts were hacked Thursday morning, sending out profanity-filled tweets to its millions of followers. The tweets have since been […]

President Donald Trump labeled reports from two of the major broadcast TV networks on alleged ties between individuals linked to his campaign and the Russian government as “totally biased and fake news” Thursday morning, continuing his tirade against allegations that his election team colluded with the Kremlin.

In TV’s scorched-earth morning-TV wars, Madison Avenue is placing more stock in broadcast TV’s third-place show — a signal of growing confidence in CBS’s CBS This Morning. While advertisers continued in 2016 to commit more dollars to the show’s two main rivals — NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America — the ad-revenue take at the CBS show rose more on a percentage basis last year, according to data from Standard Media Index.

NEW YORK (AP) — ABC News’ Diane Sawyer is reprising her interview with Caitlyn Jenner, with the former Olympic gold medalist slated to talk about her first couple of years […]

The morning program shows slight gains among total viewers this season, while ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today dip versus a year ago

According to Fox News Channel, Kelly no longer has ties to the 21st Century Fox owned cable news outlet. But a spokeswoman for the popular anchor says she is still working out final details with her soon-to-be-former employer.

The lawsuit claims reporting caused $1.9 billion worth of damage to meat-product maker Beef Products Inc.

One of three anchors on CBS This Morning, Rose had a heart valve replaced on Feb. 9. His return next Monday was announced on the show today. He will resume work on his PBS interview show a few days later.

NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack said on Tuesday that the president’s attacks on some media outlets won’t deter his organization from doing its job. NBC News was one of the organizations specifically cited by Trump last month in his tweet about the “fake news” media that is the “enemy of the American people.” Said Lack: “We’re not the opposition party and we’re not in a popularity contest with this administration or any other administration.”

CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley is emerging as a blunt evaluator of President Donald Trump. After Trump’s claim of underreported terrorist attacks last month, Pelley said on his newscast that “it has been a busy day for presidential statements divorced from reality.” The one-liners are sharp in a way that’s unusual for the evening news, and they set Pelley apart from his rivals.

While ratings for the evening newscasts on ABC, CBS and NBC are down compared to February 2016, the venerable PBS NewsHour is growing.

Just like their evening news counterparts, the three network morning shows have also lost more than 1 million viewers in the last year. In 2016, the three shows averaged 13.903 million viewers. Last month, the average was 12.766,000, a loss of 1.137 million viewers, or 8%.

Journalist and co-anchor of Noticiero Univsion María Elena Salinas will be inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Broadcasting Hall of Fame at the 2017 NAB Show Television Luncheon on Monday, April 24, […]

The usual declines aren’t happening. All three cable news networks see significant advertising gains in January, and broadcast news has benefited as well. Chalk it up to all the Trump drama.

Univision’s newsmagazine Primer Impacto (First Impact) welcomes a new co-host: Michelle Galván will join Pamela Silva Conde at the anchor desk beginning Monday, March 13. Primer Impacto airs Monday through […]

The shell of the new 475,000-square-foot NBCU Telemundo headquarters in Miami is up and its completion is about a year away. When done, the new facility will position the various broadcast and cable entities in the division for a future in 4K HDR thanks in large part to the core IP infrastructure planned for the facility.

ABC’s David Muir, CBS’s Scott Pelley and NBC’s Lester Holt sat down last week in New York with Variety for a candid conversation about the news business. Among their observations: Pelley: “Our job is unchanged. Find the facts, present the truth, let the audience know what our process is.” Muir: “I think one of the challenges we’re facing right now is that what the president says is often different from what his staff members will tell us.” Holt: “Sometimes I think about our short attention spans these days, it’s like the evening news shows were kind of ahead of their game. Now, 30 minutes is actually a pretty good time.”

Noah Oppenheim is taking over as president and current head Deborah Turness becomes the first president of NBC News International. NBC News has launched a new venture that will be called Euronews NBC, which Turness will oversee, reporting to NBC News Chairman Andy Lack.

President Donald Trump managed to avoid questions about hot-button issues facing the White House — such as the future of national security adviser Michael Flynn and a North Korean missile launch — in a news conference Monday with Canadian Prime MInister Justin Trudeau.

Dr. Richard Besser, ABC News’ chief health and medical editor, is leaving to become president-CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Besser joined ABC News in 2009. and has provided medical analysis and reports for all ABC News programs and platforms.

Three days after CBS News got blindsided when Josh Elliott announced on-air that he was leaving the CBSN anchor desk, and issued a statement saying Elliott “is going to be taking field assignments and reporting longform pieces as well” across various platforms, CBS News says Elliott is out.

CBS and PBS host Charlie Rose’s heart surgery on Thursday “went very well” and the 75-year-old news veteran is “excited to return soon,” CBS News tweeted Friday morning.

CBS This Morning co-host Charlie Rose will undergo heart surgery on Thursday. He’ll be having a heart valve replaced.

RTDNA’s Mike Cavender: “President Trump’s latest charge against the media is that we’re covering up terror attacks around the world by not reporting or under-reporting some of them. Trump’s accusations are just another in a long list of attacks on the news media; attacks which have no basis in fact. The president’s war on the press has reached a point of being ridiculous and even damaging to our system of a free and open press.”

After the dramatic departure of Tamron Hall from Today, TV insiders are buzzing that Megyn Kelly could next unseat Savannah Guthrie as the star co-anchor with Matt Lauer. Multiple sources say that Kelly is likely to take the lead role with Lauer when she starts in September. Guthrie, who recently signed a new long-term deal with Today, could be bumped to another role or even take over Hall’s 9 a.m. slot

The National Association of Black Journalists is slamming NBC for Tamron Hall’s abrupt departure on Wednesday, accusing the network of  “whitewashing” to make way for Fox News star Megyn Kelly’s arrival.

Noticiero Univision Edición Nocturna, the latenight edition of Univision’s national newscast, is airing live from Washington at 11:30 p.m.  for the first 100 days of the Trump administration. Enrique Acevedo, […]

The sizeable audience may reflect how President Trump handled Tuesday’s announcement, using his skills honed as a reality TV host on The Apprentice to showcase Neil Gorsuch. Unlike past such announcements, this one wasn’t leaked earlier to reporters and was made in primetime.

Candidate Donald Trump’s attacks on Megyn Kelly may have had a higher profile, but few reporters took as much flak from the future president as NBC News reporter Katy Tur. His public lashings on Twitter and at rallies seemed to become obsessive. “The hotter the temperature, the cooler I am,” she says.