Adweek’s annual TV Hot List wrapup includes Bridgerton, The Crown, Ted Lasso, Casey Bloys, Courtney A. Kemp, Sterlin Harjo, Tucker Carlson and Stephen Colbert.
By noon ET today, the just-launched streaming weather service claimed the No. 1 spot on the Apple App Store’s ranking of free apps.
Fox Weather launched Monday after months of headline-making hires. Meteorologist Britta Merwin spoke ahead of the streaming platform’s premiere and said “of course” the outlet will be covering climate change, in contrast to the speculative jokes people first made when it was announced that Fox News Media was launching a weather service as its eighth platform.
Nexstar moves him up from assistant ND to oversee journalism at the MNT affiliate, online and through its 24/7 streaming app.
Exclusives
Telemundo’s KASA Albuquerque, N.M., has named Mayra Aguilar has been named news anchor for its Noticias Telemundo Nuevo México newscast. Aguilar joins anchor Alejandro Contreras and reporters Sergio Guerrero and […]
Nearly a week after announcing he had tested positive for a breakthrough coronavirus infection, Fox News host Neil Cavuto on Sunday pleaded with viewers to forget politics and get vaccinated.
Stars Align For Stephen Arnold Music, Cox’s WFXT And WHBQ
The professionals at Stephen Arnold know news music. The creatives at Cox’s TV stations in Boston and Memphis, not so much. The two groups found the perfect collaborative synergy with Stream, a new news music package both stations are using.
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a general sales manager, a digital executive producer and a general manager for Nexstar and Lockwood stations, and an All Things Considered host at Illinois Public Media.
Both ABC and the former top producer of its Good Morning America have asked that a sexual-assault lawsuit filed against both of them be dismissed, citing New York’s statute of limitations on harassment claims and alleging the plaintiff in some parts has made charges that are inapplicable.
A week after suffering a major cyberattack over the weekend, Sinclair Broadcast Group said it is still working to restore disrupted systems. “A large portion of other programming has and is airing as scheduled, and all our news stations are providing news programming to our viewers,” the company said.
Norah O’Donnell’s days at the top spot at CBS Evening News may be numbered as cost-slashing execs at the broadcasting giant quietly search for her replacement amid sagging ratings. The 47-year-old anchor — who landed the evening slot in 2019 — now stands vulnerable to the network’s bean counters as her ratings have stayed stubbornly stuck in third place, according to sources close to the situation.
There is a small wave of TV journalists who have resigned or been dismissed in recent weeks over their opposition to vaccination requirements. These journalists aren’t much different from other workers who have opposed employee vaccination mandates, except for one thing: They’re among the best-known people in their communities as a result of beaming into homes for years or even decades. Because of their high profiles, the fired journalists have captured local headlines and in some cases have become heroic figures to local vaccine resisters.
TVNewsCheck‘s Michael Depp talks with Aisha Mills, host of the new show AMplify on Black News Channel, about where her show will sit amid the bombastic offerings in cable’s nightly news landscape and her vision for programming that illuminates our better selves.
What’s the biggest threat to the future of local TV newsrooms? The long-term challenge may be how to build a sustainable model around a new generation of consumers who will never watch a linear newscast at 5, 6, or 11. But news directors and their bosses are increasingly concerned about a more immediate problem: the pipeline of talent for both sides of the camera is drying up.
Fox Weather, built with help from Fox News and Fox’s local TV stations, launches at a stormy moment in the field of weather media, and the company’s entry into the space isn’t to be taken lightly. Fox has over the course of the last few decades made a business of building operations in markets previously believed to be overserved.
Cox Media Group’s Fox affiliate KOKI Tulsa, Okla., has named longtime news reporter and weekend evening anchor Sara Whaley to weekday evening anchor, effective immediately. Whaley will co-anchor Fox23 News […]
Telemundo’s KTAZ Phoenix has named Jackie López multimedia journalist for Noticiero Telemundo Arizona. The newscast airs Monday through Friday at 11 a.m., 4, 4:30, 5 and 10 p.m. and on weekends at 5 […]
Hearst NBC affiliate Greenville, S.C., has appointed Nigel Robertson to join Carol Clarke as co- anchor of the 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts. The news follows long-time anchor Michael Cogdill’s […]
Copyright Office To Study News Aggregation & Digital Media’s Use Of Content From Traditional Sources
CBS TV Stations boss Jennifer Mitchell is offering her and the company’s “full support” to its KPIX San Francisco on-air reporter Betty Yu after an attack Wednesday by a conservative YouTube host. Just back online after a one-week suspension from the Google-owned platform for violating YouTube’s hate speech policy in a tirade against the trans community, Steven Crowder used a segment on In-N-Out Burger shuttering its only Bay Area outlet over vaccination status requirement to mock and belittle Yu.
The job of the modern TV-news anchor may have less to do with TV as information junkies get their fixes and facts from a wider array of media venues. The days of watching a popular anchor like Dan Rather solely on a broadcast program like venerable CBS Evening News are quickly fading. The rise of streaming video has created new opportunities for journalists and the venues they fill with content.
