NBC O&O WMAQ Chicago will broadcast a new special The Deadliest Year on Saturday, June 3, at 6 p.m. An investigation led by NBC Chicago reporter, Regina Waldrop, and LX visual storyteller, Jalyn Henderson, […]
The cable news channel is also moving Trey Gowdy’s weekly program to 9 p.m. on Sundays.
George Watson, a former Washington bureau chief, White House correspondent and vice president for ABC News, died Thursday, a network spokesperson announced. He was 86. After serving as a correspondent and bureau chief in Moscow and London, where he covered major events in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Watson returned to the U.S. in 1975 as ABC News’ White House correspondent. A year later, he was named Washington bureau chief and vice president, a role he held two different times, spanning 12 years total.
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Meridith Mulkey today was named sports director for hearst Television’s ABC affiliates KHBS-KHOG, Fort Smith, Ark. She joined 40/29 News as sports anchor/reporter in July 2022. “Since her arrival, Meridith has excelled […]
Hearst Television’s ABC affiliate WCVB Boston has hired Angel Salcedo as a sports reporter beginning Monday, June 5. He joins WCVB’s lead sports anchor Duke Castiglione and sports reporters Josh Brogadir […]
The Associated Press announced today the launch of an artificial intelligence-powered search experience on AP Newsroom, the global news agency’s single platform for multimedia content. The platform also now offers […]
David Leavy, a top executive at Warner Bros. Discovery, as been named COO of CNN Worldwide. Leavy will oversee commercial, operational and promotional activities across the network. The move is effective on June 20. Leavy currently is chief corporate affairs officer for Warner Bros. Discovery, and will maintain public policy and social responsibility oversight on behalf of Warner Bros. Discovery. He has been with Discovery for 23 years.
Dedrick Russell is returning to Gray Television’s CBS affiliate WBTV Charlotte, N.C., as executive producer of community content where the station says “he will have an integral role in the […]
Facebook parent company Meta is threatening to remove news content on its platforms Instagram and Facebook in California if the state legislature passes a new proposal that would make tech companies pay publishers for news content. “If the Journalism Preservation Act passes, we will be forced to remove news from Facebook and Instagram rather than pay into a slush fund that primarily benefits big, out-of-state media companies under the guise of aiding California publishers,” reads a statement posted to Twitter by Meta spokesperson Andy Stone.
WYFF held a fundraiser to benefit the Spartanburg Soup Kitchen on Wednesday, May 24. This event also celebrated the memory of WYFF News 4’s Mike McCormick and Aaron Smeltzer, two journalists who died five years ago while covering a storm.
Top-ranked Fox News and third-place CNN saw substantial year-over-year audiences losses, while MSNBC gained viewers from 2022. All three networks shed viewers from April.
Kennedy, hosted by Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, will air for the last time June 1 on Fox Business Network, with reruns of the Larry Kudlow show Kudlow moving into the 7 p.m. ET slot Monday through Thursday starting June 5.
Kendall Heath, who had been leading the Sunday public affairs show as interim EP following the sudden death of Dax Tejera, has been promoted to executive producer of politics.
NEW YORK (AP) — Journalist Lisa Ling, who left CNN after her “This is Life” documentary series was canceled, has joined CBS News as a reporter, the network said on […]
Gray Television’s CBS affiliate KCTV Kansas City has signed Jillian Carroll to a multiyear deal to join KCTV 5 News at 9:00 A.M. Carroll joins co-hosts, Bill Hurrelbrink and Grace […]
Telemundo’s KASA Albuquerque, N.M., has added Adrián Miró to the weather team of the Spanish-language station. Miró joins anchors Alejandro Contreras and Mayra Aguilar and reporters Sergio Guerrero and Deyaneyra Perea. His debut on-air […]
The network is trying to protect a source who disclosed details of an FBI probe into a Chinese American scientist. That scientist, Yanping Chen, is suing the FBI for damages, claiming that the leaked information was part of a campaign to damage her after federal prosecutors ended their six-year investigation of her without bringing charges. Chen also subpoenaed Fox and Catherine Herridge (pictured), now of CBS — to force her to disclose the source of several 2017 stories.
Bret Baier, chief political anchor at Fox News Channel, will moderate the third installment of The Senate Project series, which features senators from different ends of the political spectrum debating key issues. Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) are featured. It takes place Monday, June 12, at 11 a.m. ET at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston. The event will run live, commercial-free on Fox Nation and will air on Fox News Channel Sunday, June 18, at 10 p.m. ET.
The conflict echoes the media giant’s First Amendment fight against Ron DeSantis over the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
