‘Tis The Season To Share Your TV Holiday Promos
December 15th, 2022 by Paul GreeleyIf your station has created some Happy Holiday promos (either on-air or on Facebook) that you’d like to share, please contact me at 817-578-6324 or [email protected]. We’d like to see what your station is doing this holiday season to spread love and good cheer.
WCIU CW26 Delivers 12,300 Meals By Bus To Hungry Chicagoans
December 14th, 2022 by Paul GreeleyWCIU (CW26) and WRME-LP (MeTV FM), Weigel Broadcasting stations in Chicago, held a food donation drive last weekend that asked viewers to “Fill A Bag, Fill A Bus” to help hungry Chicagoans. The drive filled a Chicago Transit Authority Bus with food each day.
The Big Story On WPVI Philadelphia’s ‘Action News’: Jim Gardner Retiring
December 13th, 2022 by Paul GreeleyMillions of viewers in Philadelphia have watched Jim Gardner deliver the news weeknights at 6 and 11 on Action News on WPVI over the past 45 years. If you do the math, that’s about 11,000 hours that Gardner has spent in their living rooms. Maybe that’s why many viewers think of Jim Gardner as, well, family.
How KARE Minneapolis Grew Its Late News Ratings In November
December 12th, 2022 by Paul GreeleyKARE Minneapolis grew its 10 p.m. newscast viewership 25% year-to-year in November. “It was pretty unusual to watch the 10 o’clock news double, triple and quadruple share from the lead in night after night,” says Bill Dallman, KARE’s GM.
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
December 11th, 2022 by Paul GreeleyNew jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a multimedia journalist/reporter, a news producer, a director of engineering and an account executive.
WPVI Philadelphia Names Brian Taff To Succeed Retiring Jim Gardner
December 6th, 2022 by Paul GreeleyBrian Taff has been named as the next anchor for the 6 p.m. newscast on 6ABC/WPVI-TV, the ABC O&O in Philadelphia. Taff will succeed lauded news anchor Jim Gardner when he retires later this month.
KCCI’s ‘Hunger-Free’ Telethon Raises Enough For A Million Meals
December 6th, 2022 by Paul GreeleyKCCI-TV’s third-annual Food Bank of Iowa Hunger Free Holidays telethon on November 29th raised $436,832 to help Iowans facing food insecurity – enough for more than a million meals.
Local TV Journalists Document Life In Ukraine
December 5th, 2022 by Paul GreeleyTwo local TV journalists from Lilly Broadcasting stations cross into Ukraine dodging missiles and eating in the dark at a cat café. The team reported live from locations in London, Poland and Ukraine and sent back stories about life there.
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
December 4th, 2022 by Paul GreeleyNew jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an opening for a broadcast IT specialist in the Research Triangle Park of Raleigh-Durham, N.C.
WAVE’s New Promo Says ‘We Are Your Voice’
December 2nd, 2022 by Paul GreeleyWAVE, Gray’s NBC affiliate in Louisville, has released a new 60-second news promo that reminds viewers that they are at the center of the station’s news coverage.