Kennedy Calls Media "Despicable"

WTLV Anchor Reads, Goes Into Labor

ABC News Admits Toyota Mistake

CNN Developing New Morning Show

Bleeding's still leading the local TV newscasts.According to a new study from USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, an average half-hour of Los Angeles local newscasts contains just 22 seconds of local government coverage.That includes stories about budgets, law enforcement, education, new ordinances, voting procedures, city and government actions and more, the study said. Coverage of local business and the economy, meanwhile, averaged just 29 seconds.

Forrmer CBS4 News managing editor Cesar Aldama, currently assistant news director for CBS-Owned stations in Philadelphia, was named Wednesday as the News Director of CBS4 News, succeeding Adrienne Roark, who was named news director of CBS-Owned KTVT and KTXA in Dallas, replacing Scott Diener who has move on to KCBS in Los Angeles.

Since Dan Rather used one of his trademark folksy sayings on “The Chris Matthews Show” Sunday, comparing Obama’s difficulty with pushing health care reform to being unable to sell watermelons on the side of the road with the help of a state trooper, he’s gotten plenty of criticism, mostly from the right.

CNN is more concerned about competition from social networks than other cable news networks, CNN U.S. president Jonathan Klein said here Wednesday. "The competition I'm really afraid of are social networking sites," he said in a keynote interview at Bloomberg BusinessWeek's Media Summit New York. They provide "an alternative that threatens to pull people away from us."

CBS CEO Leslie Moonves put two groups on notice Tuesday that they will be paying the network more in the future than they have in the past.  Advertisers will pay more in the form of higher prices for commercials. And the network’s local TV affiliates will pay more too, in the form of substantial portions of the retransmission consent fees they receive from cable operators--or they will risk losing their network affiliations.

Expect local television and radio revenues to continue their contraction until next year and then inch up for the next three years. All this will occur as local digital revenues will steadily and sharply rise.

Robert Halderman, the man accused of trying to extort $2 million from David Letterman, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan and will serve six months in jail.

Indianapolis - This is a sad day for all of us at Channel 13. We are mourning the death of our president and general manager Jim Tellus. Jim died of an apparent heart attack Monday night while attending a business meeting in Ohio.

Peter Maroney to KDVR-KWGN

Drudge Infecting U.S. Sente With Virus

Reporter Jamie Guirola departing WKMG

Hubbard Broadcasting Goes Hyper Local

WFOR Crew Attacked by Bees

Harry Smith Going Live With Colonoscopy

Philly Newser to be "Spiritual Director"

Amy Jacobson Gets Radio Gig

41M Viewers For Oscars

WBZ Sports Reporter Cut

WISC Reporter Heads to Prison Job

Have you seen Channel 9’s  promo directly attacking Channel 12? During the big Oscars telecast last night, Ch 9 aired a spot criticizing “the so-called Weather Authority” (their words, not mine) for not having its own live radar. It’s a direct assault on another TV station that I’ve seldom seen in my 25 years on the beat.

Anchors, station executives and agents speak of a landmark shift in local television. An increasing sentiment among on-air talent, burned by layoffs and corporate instability the last few years, sees them opting for the bird-in-hand nature of their current station-even if greater exposure and pay may await in a larger market.

At the same time, (WUSA-TV's) Scott Broom says, "one guy with a handheld camera is a lot less intimidating to a reluctant interview subject than a full crew. I find people are a lot more willing to talk and share information when they're confronted with a one-man band."

KC TV Pioneer Dies

AWRT Changes It's Name

Falcon Named News Boss at Univision

WFLD Not Renewing Nancy Loo's Contract

Media Stocks Hit 52 Week High

WBIR's Silva Jumps to WVLT

ESPN's Erin Andrews began tweeting Sunday and already has more than 2,000 follwers. "For my first tweet, I thought I would show a shot of my first real bruise from practice with Maks! Having fun!!"

WCCO-TV reporter Darcy Pohland was found dead in her Minneapolis home today, the station is reporting. She was 48. A 20-year veteran of the station, Pohland was the intrepid quadriplegic who never let being in a wheelchair keep her away from a good story or her beloved Gopher sports.

Still searching for a permanent host for “This Week,” ABC News is in talks with Christiane Amanpour, the CNN foreign correspondent known more for globe-trotting reporting than talking politics within the Beltway.

WPIX/Ch. 11 reporter Allison Kaden was hit by a car Thursday morning outside a Toyota dealership in Englewood, N.J., while reporting on the carmaker's troubles. The incident occurred off-camera while she was reporting for the "PIX Morning News." "She was taken to Englewood Hospital with minor injuries and was treated and released," the station said Thursday in a statement.

Craig Crawfore Quits MSNBC

Joe Franzgrote Passes

John King USA Launches March 22

KOHD Dropping Newscasts

Betty Nguyen From CNN to CBS

Randy Shandobil Retiring From KTVU

Tribune Sued by Creditors

Raycom Adds Neighborhood Web Sites

Orel Hershiser Joins ESPN

The cable network's prime-time lineup of Campbell Brown, Larry King and Anderson Cooper continued to struggle big time. CNN's prime-time audience fell 54% to 534,000 viewers, and the number of adults 25-54 was off 57% to 147,000 people compared with February 2009, according to Nielsen. All three of the hosts hit new lows in viewers. CNN finished well behind Fox News and also trailed MSNBC in the ratings race