Telemundo’s KSTS San Jose, Calif., has appointed Estephany Haro assistant news director, effective April 8. In this capacity, she will manage daily news operations, including sports, weather and breaking news […]
ZTransform, a technology systems and solutions provider serving the broadcast, corporate new media, sport venue, education and government sectors, has named Bob Hawkanson SVP of sales for North America. With […]
Karen Gadbois has kept The Lens alive as other newsrooms have crumbled. Her next move is important not just for her outlet, but a whole industry.
Max has handed a straight-to-series order to The Pitt, a new medical drama starring and executive-produced by Noah Wyle. Fellow ER vets John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill are also on board as EPs. The Pitt, which has received a 15-episode order, is described as “a realistic examination of the challenges facing health care workers in today’s America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh.”
Anthem Sports & Entertainment said that it hired Greg Drebin as head of content and marketing for its AXS TV and HDNet Movies networks. Drebin, most recently EVP of worldwide marketing, publicity and research at Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution, will look to expand viewership and improve the demographics of the two channels.
Can a political-news contributor succeed after anchors at two prominent political-news program protest her hire? Ronna McDaniel was supposed to be the new star contributor at NBC News. Now her position there is looking increasingly untenable.
CBS Shows Some Love To Its Station’s News Producers
When CBS heard from their stations’ news producers that they weren’t being heard, the network leadership dove in deeper to find out why, and how they could be better.
Steve Harvey is joining Dr. Phil McGraw’s Merit Street Media with Harvey taking an equity stake in the new network. As part of the deal, Merit Street acquired 300-plus episodes of Harvey’s NBC-produced daytime talker, Steve, which originally aired on TV stations from 2017-19. Harvey also hosts syndicated game show Family Feud as well as a celebrity version on ABC primetime. He’s also hosted his nationally syndicated morning radio show, The Steve Harvey Morning Show, since 2000.
Hart rose from the open mics and comedy clubs of his native Philadelphia to become one of his country’s most recognizable performers — honing a signature style that combines his diminutive height, expressive face and motor-mouth delivery into an arena-packing stand-up act. He became the latest recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in a raucous ceremony at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday.
Former NBC News Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd criticized his network Sunday for hiring former Republican National Committee head Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor, saying on the air that many NBC journalists are uncomfortable with the decision. Todd said many NBC journalists are uncomfortable with the hiring because some of their professional dealings with the RNC during McDaniel’s tenure “have been met with gaslighting, have been met with character assassination.”
Rashida Jones, the cable network’s president, seeks to address employee and talent backlash over the appointment of Ronna McDaniel as an NBC News contributor.
Over four decades, she rose to executive producer and helped secure interviews with presidents and other leaders in politics and the world of ideas.
Disney and its current CEO, Bob Iger, have secured the backing of Iger’s onetime boss, former Chairman-CEO Michael Eisner. In a statement posted to social media, Eisner didn’t name Nelson Peltz, whose Trian Fund Management is mounting an offensive to win two seats on Disney’s board at the April 3 annual shareholder meeting. But the longtime media exec wrote that “bringing in someone who doesn’t have experience in the company or the industry to disrupt Bob and his eventual successor is playing not only with fire but earthquakes and hurricanes as well.”
Andrew Tiffen has been named president and COO of The Tiffen Co. The appointment marks 86 years and three generations of family ownership of the renowned firm specializing in the […]
The media mogul and other top executives were involved in covering up decades of illegal news-gathering tactics, alleges a new add-on to the royal’s legal filing.
He succeeds Mike Neale who’s retiring after 27 years at the station. Also, Stu Swaziek is promoted to sales manager
Audrey Prywitch joined Nexstar’s KTVI-KPLR as assistant news director in 2001 and has been news director since 2008. Before that, she worked at CBS affiliate KMOV.
Shari Redstone looks like she remains firmly opposed to breaking up Paramount Global. Redstone, president of National Amusements Inc. — the controlling shareholder of Paramount Global — was “unconvinced” by Apollo Global Management’s $11 billion offer to buy Paramount’s film and TV studio, the Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources. Instead, per the FT report, Redstone is continuing to negotiate a deal with Skydance’s David Ellison, in partnership with RedBird Capital and Tencent, to sell NAI (and then merge Skydance with Paramount Global).
Chuck Scarborough, WNBC New York anchor, marks a stunning 50 years at the station March 25. The station will celebrate his landmark anniversary with a range of programming events, including a 30-minute special. Scarborough, who is 80, anchors the 6 p.m. news with Natalie Pasquarella.