Fox’s Abernethy: Expanding News Must Avoid The ‘Ron Burgundy Shuffle’
With a 10 p.m. primetime hand back hanging over broadcast, Fox Television Stations CEO Jack Abernethy says producing more of the same local …
Layoffs, Low Ratings And A Lurch Closer To The Right: Is CNN In Crisis?
Welcome to the painful cable news reset of late 2022, a TV drama freighted with questions
about democracy, bias and the role of commercial …
Field And Remote Production’s Multiplying Options At NewsTECHForum
Leaders from Fox News, WPVI Philadalphia, Fox Television Stations and LiveU discuss how technologists and technology facilitating this …
HAVE A WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING
TVNewsCheck will not publish its AM, PM and Tech Thursday newsletters on Thanksgiving Day and Friday. We will return Monday, Nov. 28. …
Two WBTV Charlotte Staffers Killed In Helicopter Crash
WBTV Charlotte, N.C., meteorologist Jason Myers and Sky3 pilot Chip Tayag were killed in a helicopter crash early Tuesday afternoon. The …
WOI-KCWI Moves Samantha Mesa To ‘Good Morning Iowa’ Co-Anchor, Laryssa Leone To Weekend Mornings
Tegna’s Des Moines, Iowa, duopoly of WOI (ABC) and KCWI (CW) is moving anchor Samantha Mesa to mornings and anchor Good Morning Iowa …
CNN Recruits Insider Inc.’s Alex Charalambides As CTO
CNN hired Alex Charalambides, most recently chief technology officer at digital media firm Insider Inc., as its new CTO. Charalambides …
Edgardo Sanabria Mariani Named KASA News Director
Telemundo promotes him from assistant news director to lead journalism at its Albuquerque, N.M., owned station.
Caroline Collins Joins KRIV Houston As Anchor
Caroline Collins has joined Fox O&O KRIV Houston. Effective next month, she will anchor various station evening newscasts. Susan …
CNN Programming Chief Michael Bass To Exit At The End Of The Year
Michael Bass, CNN’s longtime programming chief known for his work through former president Donald Trump’s political career, will exit the …
Tony Chiavaroli Joins WIS Columbia Weather Team
Gray Television’s NBC affiliate WIS Columbia, S.C., has added Tony Chiavaroli to its First Alert Weather team. He joins WIS from WBTW …
WXIX’s New AM News Promos Are Catchy And Promising
WXIX in Cincinnati has some new promos for its morning news that are upbeat and entertaining enough to watch over and over. What if watching …
NewsTECHForum: Blowing Up The Newscast In Order To Save It
News, technology and media futurists from The Washington Post, NBCUniversal Local, E.W. Scripps, CBS News New York and Bitcentral frame out …
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a commercial producer/director, a creative services director, …
Why Misinformation Didn’t Wreck The Midterms
Misinformation about voting and election denialism didn't swamp the midterms as many experts had feared — and many election deniers on the …
Google News Equity Fund Announces 450 Newsgroup Beneficiaries
Google founded the Google News Equity Fund as a global commitment to provide financial support and opportunity to news organizations that …
US Moves To Shield Saudi Crown Prince In Journalist Killing
The Biden administration declared Thursday that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince should be considered immune from a lawsuit over his role in …
Talking TV: Fox’s LiveNOW And The Art Of DJing News
Andrew Craft, senior digital journalist with Fox’s LiveNOW streaming channel, shows TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp how to multitask as producer, …
Can Chris Licht Turn CNN Around?
Chris Licht faces an uphill battle at CNN. He got the CEO gig in the midst of a prickly merger between Warner Bros. and Discovery and right …
Tech Site Protocol Shutting Down
Protocol, the upstart technology news website launched by former Politico owner and publisher Robert Allbritton in early 2020, will shutter …
CNN To Carry Out Layoffs In Early December
Chris Licht, CNN’s CEO and chairman, held a town hall meeting with his staff on Tuesday, where he provided more details about the network’s …
Ex-Host Tiffany Cross Wanted To ‘Take Down’ MSNBC Before Exit: Source
Ex-MSNBC host Tiffany Cross learned that she was getting pushed out days ahead of her exit — and threatened to “go out in a blaze” and “take …
NewsNation Documentaries To Debut ‘Harvest’
As families across the nation prepare for the holidays, NewsNation Documentaries today announced the premiere of Harvest, a two-hour …
Minority Representation Increases In Newsrooms, But Still Lags General Population
Minority journalists represent a growing number of employees in TV and radio newsrooms, according to the most recent report from the latest …
CNN ‘Early Start’ Anchor Laura Jarrett Jumping To NBC News
She will be senior legal correspondent for NBC, covering the Supreme Court and Department of Justice, appearing on all NBC News programs and …
Library of American Broadcasting Foundation’s Giants Of Broadcasting & Electronic Arts Celebrates Industry Trailblazers
Among those on hand in New York on Monday for the annual event were, standing (l-r): JuJu Chang, Jack Goodman (LABF co-chair), Adam Symson, …
ABC News To Freeze Hiring
On Monday morning, ABC News boss Kim Godwin informed staffers on the network’s daily editorial call that ABC News will need to implement a …
Amna Nawaz And Geoff Bennett To Succeed Judy Woodruff As ‘PBS NewsHour’ Anchors
PBS NewsHour made the official announcement on Wednesday that Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett would succeed Judy Woodruff as co-anchors of the …
CNN Considers Outside Anchor To Boost Primetime
Executives at the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed news outlet are considering the prospect of hiring a host from outside the network’s roster …