The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences unveiled nominations for the 35th annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards.Regional nominees are WTHR, WFAA, WISN, KXTX, WNBC, KING, KNXV and KXAS. PBS led networks with 43 nominations followed by CBS with 42. The awards will be presented Sept. 30 during a ceremony at Frederick P. Rose Hall at New York’s Lincoln Center.
Chuck Scarborough Marks 40 Years At WNBC
Emmy Award-winning news anchor and correspondent Chuck Scarborough is celebrating four decades as a reporter for WNBC New York. During his tenure at the station, he has reported on six mayors, seven Yankee Championships, two terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, multiple financial breakdowns and countless other triumphs and tragedies that have touched New Yorkers’ lives over the years. In the video above, he shares how he became a journalist, the story that was his most challenging and what he thinks about his past 40 years at the station.
Anchor Shakeup Coming At WNBC New York?
PromaxBDA Winners: General Branding/Image
WGRZ Buffalo, N.Y. took the Gold for its “WGRZ Storm Team 2 Ready for Winter” campaign. The Silver was won by WNBC New York’s “The Now.” And KMSP Minneapolis captured the Bronze for its “We’re Big Fans of Our Viewers” series of 17 spots.
Pioneering WNBC Reporter Bob Teague Dies At 84
Exclusives
WNBC’s Beck Wins 6th Sportscaster Of The Year
In NY, B’casters Fight For Piece Of Digital Pie
In the nation’s No. 1 market, local broadcasters are experimenting with mobile and streaming content in an effort to keep up with their newspaper competition — including giants The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, which have the advantage of drawing traffic from a global audience. Part one of a special three-part Digital DMA examining the complexity of the New York media market. Next week: newspapers.
WNBC New York Sets Olympics Coverage
Among the coverage slotted by NBC’s New York flagship are live reports from London by station sportscaster Bruce Beck and reporter Katy Tur and a special program, The Olympic Zone, to be hosted by David Ushery.
Shiba Russell Replacing Sue Simmons At WNBC
WNBC Saluting Sue Simmons All Day Friday
WNBC Studio Is A Room With An HD View
The new state-of-the-art studio in Rockefeller Center that houses the NBC O&O’s newscasts features a wide rooftop view of Manhattan behind anchors Darlene Rodriguez and Michael Gargiulo looking through what appears to be floor-to-ceiling windows. But those “windows” are actually five, adjacent 103-inch Panasonic plasma displays set on end and fed by a roof-top camera.
WNBC’s Sue Simmons Out After 32 Years
After more than three decades, NBC flagship WNBC New York is tossing anchorwoman Sue Simmons overboard. Last week, the station gave her the bad news that her contract would not be renewed — and come June, she’s history.
The NBC New York O&O can ring up an extra $2 million in ad revenue for the Super Bowl thanks to the New York Giants’ trip to the NFL Championship Game, industry sources say. The added revenue comes from jacked-up rates on local TV spots that are set aside by the NBC network for its stations.
WNBC Rebuilds News After Downsizing
More trucks, resources and a plan to add a helicopter signal the NBC O&O’s commitment to local news following the Comcast-NBC Universal merger.
Carlos Jimenez has been promoted to vice president of finance for NBC Owned Television Stations’ WNBC (NBC) and WNJU (Telemundo) New York. In his new role, Jimenez will oversee the financial […]
Covering the Occupy Wall Street story has been a challenge for local stations and Thursday was no different. Protesters, pedestrians and a heavy police presence triggered a scuffle for superiority on the sidewalks.
NY, DC Stations Take Stock 10 Years After
To commemorate the anniversary of the attacks, TV stations and cable news channels in New York and Washington are planning a host of special programs ranging from recollections to analysis of all that’s changed since 2001. The broadcast networks’ news departments also have a full plate of coverage planned. This is the second in a TVNewsCheck series this week on how broadcasters responded to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
NBC’s New York O&O has pulled the plug on its Daily Connection in favor of the syndicated America’s Court with Judge Ross. The courtroom show from Entertainment Studios began Monday on WNBC and other NBC Owned Television Stations. It debuted in several top markets last September.
Just about two years after NBC O&O WNBC New York got out of the 5 o’clock news business altogether, the station is going to launch a new newscast there in September.
NBC New York Nonstop, the 24/7 local information and lifestyle subchannel of NBC O&O WNBC New York, will premiere The Great American Health Challenge, a new, innovative docu-reality series that […]
