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.
During its months-long investigation, the TMJ4 I-Team regularly reported on Wisconsin’s overly complicated and neglected unemployment system, which collapsed under the pressure of the pandemic. It helped 83 people collect nearly $400,000 in unemployment back pay.
Monday Memo | WTMJ’s ‘Milwaukee Tonight’ Promises Good News
Research told WTMJ that their viewers want more positive news and the station’s response was the weeknightly Milwaukee Tonight. Local viewers and news directors across the country are already embracing it.
Exclusives
WHBQ Reporter Tony Atkins Moving To WTMJ
News Personnel Changes At WITI, WTMJ Milwaukee
WTMJ Names Jeff Kiernan Local Content Chief
Jeff Kiernan, who was a reporter and news director at the Scripps-owned Milwaukee NBC affiliate and WTMJ-AM in the 1980s and ’90s, is returning to the TV station as senior director of local content.
News Anchor George Mallet Out At WTMJ
WTMJ Adds Meteorologist Elissia Wilson
WTMJ, ‘Milwaukee Business Journal’ Partner
The Scripps NBC affiliate will join WTMJ-AM to round out the Milwaukee Business Journal’s broadcast alliance.
WTMJ Sales Dir. LeGrand Retiring After 40+ Years
After more than 40 years at Scripps-owned WTMJ Milwaukee (DMA 35), Mark LeGrand, the NBC affiliate’s director of sales is retiring, effective Feb. 3, 2017. During his career, the station […]
WTMJ Expected To Name George Mallet Anchor
WTMJ Decides On Anchors For 6 P.M. Newscast
WTMJ Anchor Tom Murray Leaves For Ministry
WTMJ Drops 3 P.M. News For New Syndie
The Milwaukee NBC affiliate is replacing its 3 p.m. weekday newscast with a new syndicated lifestyle/talk show hosted by Tyra Banks. FABLife premieres Monday at 3 p.m. GM Joe Poss said Thursday that the decision to drop the 3 p.m. newscast and add a syndicated show had been in the works since last year, before the station was acquired by E.W. Scripps Co.
WTMJ Reporter Tom Murray Leaving For Ministry
Exodus Begins At Scripps-Owned WTMJ
E.W. Scripps Co. has begun shuffling the deck chairs at its recently acquired Milwaukee NBC afiliate WTMJ, and a number of on-air people are among the key departures.
WDJT, WTMJ And The Battle For Third Place
WTMJ Anchor Mike Jacobs Bids Emotional Farewell
WTMJ Veteran Anchor Mike Jacobs To Retire
E.W. Scripps Co.-owned NBC affiliate WTMJ Milwaukee (DMA 35), announced Wednesday that anchor Mike Jacobs will retire at the end of May. The station said Jacobs is the longest-serving TV […]
WTMJ Anchor Proves Value Of Promo Depts.
The planned departure of Anne State from WITI doesn’t appear to have caused too many ripples among Milwaukee viewers, who nonetheless do have favorites among local on-air talent.
Guesstimating how many hours of television news air in Milwaukee is a how-much-wood-could-a-woodchuck-chuck calculation since it’s different for each station. By my back-of-envelope calculations, WITI has the most local news — a whopping 10.5 hours per day, if you count its two hourlong, sometimes topical chat shows Real Milwaukee and Studio A, and I reluctantly do.
Janet Hundley Joins WTMJ As News Director
The Journal Broadcast Group’s Milwaukee NBC affiliate hires her from WLS Chicago where she’s been assistant news director since 2002.
Being No. 1 Is Job 1 For New WTMJ GM
Joe Poss, the recently appointed successor to Steve Wexler as head of Journal Broadcast Group’s Milwaukee NBC affiliate, has a big item on his to-do list: hiring a news director.
Journal Names Joe Poss GM Of WTMJ
The station group promotes the GM of its Green Bay, Wis., duo to lead its NBC affiliate in Milwaukee.
Bill Berra Leaving Journal Broadcast Group
Bill Berra is stepping down as vice president of news for Journal Broadcast Group and WTMJ in Milwaukee next month.
WTMJ Joins The 4:30 A.M. News Race
Journal Broadcast Group- owned NBC affiliate WTMJ says it will expand its weekday morning newscast to start at 4:30 a.m., 30 minutes earlier than the current 5 a.m. The 4:30 a.m. Live at Daybreak starts Jan. 20.
That’s according to a Katz memo to its staff. Eight stations in six markets, including Milwaukee and Las Vegas, are involved in the move. Journal’s WTVF Nashville is already a Katz client. All the station will be attached to Katz’s Eagle unit.
WTMJ Apologizes, Issues Retraction For Story
WTMJ Loses TWC Cable Slot Post-Blackout
Although Journal Broadcast Group negotiated a new contract on the retransmission fee for its NBC affiliate — which most people in Milwaukee know as TMJ4 — Time Warner Cable replaced the news station’s channel 4 with the Game Show Network. Journal executives don’t like it, but have decided to roll with the punches. “This (blackout) was a great distraction ultimately for the viewers, so we made the accommodation,” Journal EVP Steve Wexler said.
