Exclusives
Traffic At The Top In Atlanta Ratings Race
Cox Media Group’s WSB has been the beast in Atlanta for many years, but the race is tightening. Fox-owned WAGA is coming on strong with its relentless local content strategy, and the other players are shaking things up, too.
The FCC has rebuked Meredith’s WPCH Atlanta and Georgia Television’s WSB-TV Atlanta for failing to include “certain requests to purchase political ad time” for non-candidate issue ads in their public files. The admonishment, which is a black mark that goes on their permanent records, resolves a half-dozen complaints filed by Issue One and the Campaign Legal Center dating from August 2017.
Needed: News Photog And Creative Services Dir.
New jobs posted last week on TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center are for Cox Media and Hearst stations in Georgia and Pennsylvania for a news photographer/videographer and a creative services director.
Gloria Lane, Atlanta’s First Female Anchor, Dies
WPXI News Director Leaves For WSB
Cox Media Group-owned WPXI Pittsburgh News Director Suzanne Nadell is leaving next month to take a similar position at Cox’s WSB-TV in Atlanta. Her replacement in Pittsburgh will be in-house: Managing Editor Scott Trabandt.
WSB’s Jim Strickland Retiring After 20 Years
WSB Names Sean Garcia Marketing Director
He moves from the Cox’s radio and TV properties in Orlando to succeed the retiring Steve Riley at its Atlanta ABC affiliate.
WSB Forecaster Karen Minton Retiring
Atlanta’s WSB Puts A Face On Who Is ‘Alt Right’
WSB GM Tim McVay Announces Retirement
He’s stepping down from the Cox Atlanta ABC affiliate and leaving broadcasting after 39 years in the business.
Beth Miller Walsh Named WSB Sales Director
The Cox Atlanta ABC affiliates promotes her to succeed the retiring Debbie Denechaud.
WSB Swaps ‘The Doctors’ And ‘Right This Minute’
Earlier this week, the Campaign Legal Center and Issue One, two political “watchdog” organizations, filed FCC complaints against two Atlanta TV stations, WPCH and WSB, alleging violations of the rules that govern the documents that need to be placed into a station’s public inspection file regarding political “issue advertising.”
WSB First TV Station To Get 1M Twitter Followers
WSB Adds ‘Right This Minute’ To Daytime In Fall
Cox Media Group’s ABC affiliate WSB Atlanta (DMA 10) is moving the syndicated viral video show Right This Minute to its daytime lineup beginning this fall. Right This Minute joins WSB’s daytime syndication and network lineup that includes Live with Kelly, The View, The Chew and General Hospital. “Channel 2 remains one of the top […]
WSB Interviews Ex-Wife Of Man Who Killed Son
WSB Names Wendy Corona Afternoon Anchor
Investigative Reporter Erica Byfield Leaving WSB
WSB Scares Public With ‘Flesh Eating Bacteria’
Weatherman Glenn Burns Returns To WSB
WSB’s Glenn Burns Recovering From Heart Surgery
WSB’s Jocelyn Dorsey Inducted Into GAB’s HOF
In Atlanta, WSB-TV Reigns In Social Media
When it comes to social media, the Cox-owned ABC affiliate is ahead of all the other news outlets in the country’s ninth largest market in both social actions and fan followers, according to Shareablee data. Fox O&O WAGA ranks second.
