Godwin had expected to push ABC News’ burgeoning streaming business and enjoy some of the things ABC could offer that CBS News could not, such as the nation’s most-watched evening and morning news programs, World News Tonight and Good Morning America. But a lawsuit filed last week alleging that form GMA executive producer Michael Corn sexually assaulted two different ABC News staffers during his tenure and that ABC knew about the claims for some time has set off a different sort of news cycle of which the new president may not be in full control.
Unmanned Cameras Capture Hurricane Ida’s Fury
Still reeling from a massive decline in ratings, the firing of sports anchor Mark Giangreco, the cancellation of Windy City Live and the layoffs of more than a dozen staffers, ABC-owned WLS Chicago just lost its No. 2 news executive. Sarah Dunlap Burke resigned Friday after seven years as assistant news director at ABC 7. She is expected to be named vice president and news director of WCBS New York, where she once worked as executive producer.
Hearst-owned CBS affiliate WLKY Louisville will add one hour of local news to its morning lineup at 9 a.m. on Sept. 7. Viewers can now stay informed from 4:30 to […]
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KTTV Dedicates Month-Long Focus To ‘Back To School’
Under the umbrella Destination Education, KTTV Los Angeles is airing a series of reports that delve into how this school year is unlike any ever experienced in the nation’s second largest school district.
Swink, who has been with the show since 2010, is filling the top job following the departure in April of Michael Corn. Swink had been senior broadcast producer of the show, where she has been overseeing the GMA second hour. She originally joined the show as a writer.
The veteran journalist is moving from WVLT Knoxville, Tenn., to oversee journalism at Meredith’s South Carolina Fox affiliate.
ABC News President Kim Godwin told staffers on a conference call Thursday that she has requested an independent investigation into how the network handled allegations of sexual assault against the former executive producer of Good Morning America. The comments came a day after a lawsuit was filed that alleged the producer, Michael Corn, sexually assaulted a current ABC News staffer and a former staffer in separate incidents.
WKYT Starting New Morning Show, ‘Everyday Kentucky’
TVNewsCheck‘s Michael Depp talks with Branden Frantz, president and GM of Hearst’s WLWT Cincinnati, about the station’s revival of editorials in a period of stark political divisions and tenuous media trust among viewers.
One of the challenges for local TV newsrooms as they embrace the digital age is balancing broadcasting and narrowcasting: one size fits all versus one size fits me. Websites and apps allow for a degree of personalization that TV has never been able to match. But that may be about to change.
Networks mobilized on Thursday to cover what was described as a “complex” attack outside the Kabul airport, showing pictures and video of the carnage that killed a number of U.S. service members and left scores of others injured.
Politico, the 15-year-old digital media company covering politics and policy, is being sold to German publishing giant Axel Springer. The price was more than $1 billion, according to a source familiar with the terms. Axel Springer also will also acquire the remaining 50% share of its joint venture Politico Europe, and the tech news website Protocol from current owner Robert Albritton.
Nexstar-owned NBC affiliate WDTN Dayton, Ohio, has appointed John Seibel evening co-anchor. He will take over the role from Mark Allan, who’s retiring on Sept. 2 after more than 25 years at […]
NBCUniversal pay Maddow $30 million annually while ending her daily show next year and giving their top star a more flexible schedule than ever before.
