Gray Television today announced today “a significant expansion” of its national investigative team called InvestigateTV. Gray promoted Lee Zurik from director of investigations to vice president of investigations. He oversees the National Investigative Team in addition to anchoring and reporting at WVUE New Orleans. Zurik has …
Years ago, when I worked for Frank N. Magid Associates, Frank had a continuing project called “the newscast of the future.” It eventually became an inside joke because we all knew that none of our clients actually wanted a newscast of the future. Newscasts had become …
Media buying executives say there are no longer any daily broadcast primetime shows, other than the NFL, that can be considered appointment viewing or must-buy for their advertiser clients. With viewership seriously diluted by the growing oversaturation of programming brought about by the rapid and steady …
SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) — If you’ve turned on a television in the last three years, chances are you’ve been inundated with advertisements for sports betting, and not only during game broadcasts. Commercials featuring an emperor addressing the masses, a woman urging bettors to “make it rain” …
“The one conversation I do remember us having is ‘Do we really like that? Is that a word?’” Allison McGinley, news director at Graham Media Group’s WKMG in Orlando, doesn’t remember who came up with the name “Solutionaries” for the station’s experimental new digital project …
The search to nail down a new currency of TV measurement is fully underway with NBCUniversal last week announcing it had more than 100 proposals in hand to create alternate measurement systems; WarnerMedia jumping into the fray with its own ideas; and industry giant Nielsen …
“Good Morning America” co-host Michael Strahan is going to space next month. Strahan, who turned 50 on Sunday, will join Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of astronaut Alan Shepard, on the Dec. 9 mission aboard the New Shepard, a spacecraft named after her father and …
Email is a powerful marketing tool. And email with signatures can be a great way to add a personal touch. If you’re new to email signatures, you may be wondering what they are and why your brand needs them. And if you use corporate signatures …
The changes in the digital ecosystem over the past few years have many brands scrambled. Privacy regulations, coupled with the approaching disappearance of third-party cookies, leave businesses with fewer alternatives for customer data collection. “You’ve known this change is coming, yet delivering results was required to …
Newsroom leaders working through those changes will consider the long-term impact on news operations in a panel, News Operations in a Changed World, opening TVNewsCheck’s NewsTECHForum conference on Dec. 14 at 9 a.m. ET presented both in-person at the New York Hilton and virtually. Fabian Westerwelle, …
BEIJING (AP) — China and the U.S. have agreed to ease restrictions on each other’s journalists amid a slight relaxation of tensions between the two sides. The official China Daily newspaper on Wednesday said the agreement was reached ahead of Tuesday’s virtual summit between Chinese leader …
On March 4, citing pandemic-related economic hardship, the Sinclair Broadcast Group laid off 5% of its workforce, including four on-air personalities from its NBC affiliate in Las Vegas, KSNV. It was only the latest in a series of newsroom purges like it. Since 2008, newsroom employment …
