Homeless Teen Gets Full Music School Scholarship Thanks To WKMG Orlando
Michigan State’s WKAR Adds Comark 3.0 Solution
PBS member station WKAR Lansing, Mich., is on-the-air with a fully integrated ATSC 3.0 solution from Hitachi Kokusai Electric Comark. In late 2017, WKAR ordered a 20kW Parallax UHF transmitter system on channel D33 to replace its existing and aging DTV transmitter. WKAR’s Parallax transmitter was configured as a main-standby in 1+1 redundancy. The transmitter […]
KCCI Earns Two Regional Emmy Awards
WSB Forecaster Karen Minton Retiring
Jessica Dean Leaving KYW Anchor Desk
Jennifer Eagan will join Hearst’s ABC affiliate WCVB Boston (DMA 10) as a general assignment reporter on Monday, Oct. 22. Eagan has been a reporter in New England for more than a decade. Eagan joins WCVB from WHDH Boston where she was a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor for more than five years. Before that, she worked […]
Exclusives
Chip Brewster has joined Fox-owned WTVT Tampa, Fla. (DMA 13) as a features reporter. Effective Oct. 1, he will report for various newscasts, including the station’s recently launched 4 p.m. newscast. Most recently, Brewster was a features reporter for KPRC Houston. Prior to that, he worked as a field host, reporter and producer for WITI Milwaukee. […]
WLS Chicago Marks Its 70th Anniversary
The station group promotes him from financial controller at KCBS-KCAL Los Angeles to lead its CBS-CW duopoly in the state capital.
WTAE Chronicles Pittsburgh’s Natural Wonders
WWAY, WECT and WSFX in Wilmington, N.C., might be off the air soon due to damage from Hurricane Florence as their generators are running out of fuel to power transmitters.
WWMT Names Matt Johnson News Director
He joins from Sinclair’s CBS affiliate KRCG in Columbia-Jefferson City, Mo., and takes over news leadership in Kalamazoo on Oct. 10.
WTEN’s Elisa Streeter Retiring After 30 Years
KDFW Headline Causes Social Media Uproar
WCTI Evacuates Studio Over Florence
Rising water forced a North Carolina TV station to evacuate its newsroom in the middle of Hurricane Florence coverage. Hours before the storm made landfall Friday, workers at Sinclair’s ABC affiliate WCTI had to abandon their studio.
Detroit Public TV Relaunching Public Affairs Show
300 Cars In WBNS Distracted Driving Event
WDRB’s Bill Lamb Getting Kentucky Mic Award
Bill Lamb of Block Communications-owned WDRB Louisville, Ky. (DMA 49), will be presented the Kentucky Broadcasters Association’s highest award at its annual convention on Oct. 9. The Kentucky Mic Award is presented to those individuals who have made outstanding personal contributions to the broadcasting profession in Kentucky. It is presented only when contributions are deemed […]
Weigel Testing ATSC 3.0 In Chicago
Weigel Broadcasting, Chicago-based parent company of WCIU and a host of other stations and digital networks, just switched on the future of television. On Sunday, Weigel launched “Chicago 3.0,” an experimental next-generation full-power station broadcasting from Willis Tower.
KCCI News Director Dave Busiek To Retire
The news leader of Hearst’s Des Moines CBS affiliate will step down at the end of 2018 after 39 years at the station, 29 as news director.
