WDRB Adds Chris Sutter To Weekend A.M.News
Fox affiliate WDRB Louisville, Ky. (DMA 48), has hired Chris Sutter as the new co-anchor of its weekend edition of WDRB in the Morning. Sutter, who will be sharing anchor duties […]
WDRB Drops Use Of ‘Breaking News’ Tag
The Louisville, Ky., Fox affiliate is running a promo that says: “You hear the term, ‘Breaking News’ quite frequently these days. It’s a marketing ploy to convince you that at television station is better at bringing you the news first, as it happens. The problem is, it’s just not true.”
WDRB Hires Columnist John David Dyche
Louisville TV News Focuses On Crime
Is Louisville more or less safe than it used to be? If you watch local television news, you’re more likely to think that Louisville is less safe. This is partially because the local TV outlets— WAVE, WHAS, WLKY, and WDRB — spend an extraordinary amount of time covering crime stories despite the preponderance of other, more newsworthy topics.
WDRB-WMYO Sets Major Building Expansion
The Block Communications Fox-MNT duopoly in Louisville, Ky., will begin an 11,000 square foot addition in March, with completion expected by next January.
WDRB to Add Weekend Morning Newscasts
The Block Communications Fox affiliate in Louisville, Ky., will launch a three-hour newscast on Saturday and Sunday starting Jan. 19.
Exclusives
The new evening broadcast will be produced by Block Communications’ WDRB which operates WBKI under a SSA.
Charges Dismissed Against Ex-WDRB Sportscaster
Paper’s Paywall Fires Up Louisville Stations
In a sports-crazy town that can’t get enough of its annual horse race or the exploits of its local college teams, the Courier-Journal‘s recent paywall launch has the market’s TV stations looking for ways to steal its readers away, including WDRB’s hiring away two of the paper’s top sports columnists.
The Block Communications station will provide technical, master control sales, promotion, accounting and HR for LM Communications’ newly-purchased CW affiliate in Kentucky.
Time Warner Cable Inc. removed WDRB (Fox) and WMYO (MNT) from its Louisville channel lineup at 12:01 this morning. Block Communications Inc., which owns the stations, has been in negotiations with the MSO in an attempt to reach a carriage rate agreement.
Block Communications-owned Fox affiliate WDRB Louisville, Ky. (DMA 48), today hired Lawrence Smith as a general assignment reporter. Smith, who was most recently dean of students at Southern Baptist Theological […]
Courtney Anderson Joins WDRB Sales Staff
Courtney Anderson has been named account executive in the sales department of Block Communications’ Louisville, Ky. (DMA 48) duopoly of WDRB (F0x) and WMYO (MNT). Prior to joining WDRB-WMYO, Anderson […]
WDRB Adds Utah Scientific Routing, Switchers
Controversy Over WDRB Anchor’s Woods Remark
Michael Sizemore Joins WDRB-WMYO As AE
Michael Sizemore has been named account executive in the sales department at Block Communications’ duopoly of WDRB (Fox) and WMYO (MNT) Louisville, Ky. (DMA 50). Prior to coming to WDRB-WMYO, […]
The Block-owned Fox affiliate WDRB Louisville, Ky. (DMA 50), has made three additions to its news department staff. Steve Andress took the position of sports reporter/anchor on Aug. 25. He […]
Block Communications-owned Fox affiliate WDRB Louisville, Ky. (DMA 50), announced that Sterling Riggs, most recently a nightly news and sports anchor and senior producer for KTEN Denison, Texas, will be […]
After 47 years in the journalism business, Barry Bernson, who has co-anchored WDRB in the Morning since 2003 on the Block Communications-owned Fox affiliate in Louisville, Ky. (DMA 50), has […]
