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Karen Vigurs-Stack New Creative Services Director At WSPA

Karen Vigurs-Stack is the new creative services director for WSPA, Nexstar’s CBS affiliate licensed to Spartanburg, S.C.

KPRC Houston Adds Brittany Begley To Weather Team

Former WWF Wrestler Arrested In Wife’s Murder

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Jim Nantz And Tony Romo Finally Get A Great Game In Their 3rd Super Bowl For CBS

“What a thrill to be able to say that we witnessed an overtime Super Bowl game and what will go down in history as one of the greatest games of all time and the longest Super Bowl game of all time. That’s what I’m trying to process right now,” Nantz said after the Kansas City Chiefs 25-22 overtime victory over the San Francisco 49ers. “I’m thrilled for our team and thrilled for the sport. It was an unbelievably fitting finish to a remarkable football season.” Pictured: Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce with Jim Nance (George Walker IV/AP)

Rafael Sánchez Leaving WRTV Indianapolis

John Avlon Leaves CNN

Hank Bradford, Stand-Up Comic Turned Head Writer On Carson’s ‘Tonight Show,’ Dies At 88

AccuWeather Appoints Rushelle Bailey General Counsel

AccuWeather, a global provider of weather forecasting services, has appointed Rushelle Y. Bailey general counsel. In this role, Bailey provides strategic counsel to AccuWeather’s leadership and directs the company’s legal […]

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Tucker Carlson Proves Useful Idiot For Putin In Sycophantic Sit-Down

WISH Promotes Brady Gibson To News Director

Circle City Broadcasting moves him up from assistant news director to oversee journalism at its Indianapolis CW affiliate.

Colin Jost To Entertain At White House Correspondents Dinner

Elon Musk Opens New Front In Disney Fight

The billionaire’s willingness to pay legal bills for people who want to sue Disney is the latest foray against the company and CEO Bob Iger.

Jon Stewart Changed Latenight Comedy Once. Can He Have A Second Act In Different Times?

Stewart, who walked away from The Daily Show to much fanfare, returns to his old perch Monday night. He’s agreed to host each Monday through the election, and to executive produce the weeknight show for Comedy Central into next year to help it through another transition.

WISH Indianapolis Expands Its Medical Reporting Team

Dr. Janel Gordon, M.D., DipABOM, DipABLM, will join WISH Indianapolis’ medical reporting team as the WISH medical expert. Gordon is a triple board-certified family, obesity and lifestyle medicine physician. Her […]

David Barrett, Michael J. Hayes, Emily Barr To Honor Hearst’s Jordan Wertlieb

They will be the presenting speakers at the March 4 Broadcasters Foundation of America’s annual Golden Mic gala that will include a special tribute to long-time BFOA Chairman Phil Lombardo.

‘Days Of Our Lives’ Actress Arianne Zucker Sues Show’s Producer For Sexual Harassment

Zucker’s lawsuit claims that producer Albert Alarr enjoyed filming aggressive sex scenes and threesome sequences.

Fremantle Ups Kimberly Kleid To EVP Of Current Programming

She moves up from SVP, overseeing many of the syndication company’s games shows.

Rick Rogala Named GM Of WBNS Columbus

Tegna moves him from its Memphis duopoly to oversee its Ohio CBS affiliate.

Nick Saban To Join ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ As Analyst

Less than a month after Nick Saban retired from his post at Alabama, ESPN announced Wednesday the legendary football coach will be joining the network’s College GameDay cast as an analyst. He will also contribute to the company’s NFL Draft coverage and make appearances on SEC Network. (Kyusung Gong/AP)

In His Last Super Bowl, CBS’s Sean McManus Reflects On ‘The Ultimate TV Drama’

The CBS Sports chairman, who joined the network in 1996, spent a lifetime in control rooms that brought the biggest events to the nation’s living rooms.

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WYFF’s Jane Robelot Recognized For Her Lifetime Achievements In Broadcasting

Tony Romo, Once CBS’s ‘Golden Boy,’ Brushes Off The Backlash

Fox News’ Bret Baier Named Recipient Of Horatio Alger Award

BAFTA Chooses Courtney LaBarge Bell As North America Director

theGrio Launches Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship Celebrating Black History Month; Adrian Burrell Is Inaugural Recipient

In honor of Black History Month, the Allen Media Group platform theGrio is launching its inaugural Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship — an annual initiative aimed at providing a platform for Black filmmakers to share their compelling […]

RTDNA Foundation Announces 2024 First Amendment Award Honorees

The RTDNA Foundation today announced its class of 2024 First Amendment Award honorees, recognizing 13 individuals and organizations for their efforts to promote responsible journalism and preserve the constitutionally guaranteed […]

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Tom Skilling, A Chicago Weather Institution, Retiring After 45 Years At WGN

On Feb. 28, 2024,Tom Skilling, longtime WGN meteorologist, and possibly one of Chicago’s most recognizable broadcast personalities, will retire. How do you celebrate the retirement of a meteorologist who’s been doing the forecasts on your station for 45 years? You go all in.

L.A. Times SVP Julia Turner Resigns As Newspaper’s Turmoil Continues

Netflix’s Laura Delahaye Joins New Regency Pictures As Head Of Domestic Television

New Regency Pictures, which is behind Amazon’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith series, is staffing up. It has hired Netflix exec Laura Delahaye as head of domestic television. Delahaye was most recently director of overall deals, UCAN at Netflix, where she worked on series including The Fall of the House of Usher and The Queen’s Gambit, as well as Ozark’s third and fourth seasons. On the overall deals side, she worked with the likes of Jason Bateman’s Aggregate and Brad Falchuk’s Teley-Vision.

NPR’s Linda Wertheimer, One Of The Network’s ‘Founding Mothers,’ Announces Retirement

“I have had a great ride over more than 50 years – and now that ride is over,” Wertheimer wrote in a memo to staffers, in which she recalled being one of the first hires on the news side at the time of the network’s debut in 1971, when “the only part of the company that was fully staffed was top management and engineering.”