TheRob

The New York Post (I know, I know) reported today that Tongen thought he had Lewy body dementia. Only his doctor would know for sure.

TV companies are gradually coming after the managers after years of cutting talent salaries. Make one general manager run two or three stations. Give the ND a new title and double the duties. Gray recently "promoted" a few news directors to be general managers, even though those people will continue to be their station's news directors. Meredith added "station manager" titles to a few sales directors and news directors recently.

The sales staff visits the newsroom:

"You're free, news director. Go on now. Get."

KSHB'S news director is leaving.

Here come the layoffs. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2019/5/6/breaking-cnn-to-to-cut-bodies

I remember a time when KCTV had no sports, or outsourced sports. Now they're throwing resources into a nightly sports show on KSMO.

I'm not sure what's happening at KTVI, but KPLR hasn't had any 12:00 newscast rundowns in the system this week. The aircheck recordings are blank. I assume KTVI's 11:00 news is just straight-up re-run on KPLR right now (the two were mostly the same anyway). I don't see evidence of anything else airing in its place.

I doubt Missouri has ever seriously entertained the idea of selling KOMU. That journalism program attracts students from all over the central U.S., students who are willing to pay out-of-state tuition to be a part of that professional network. Even KBIA expanded to a second radio station (bought from Stephens College). As hostile as Missouri's legislature is to education in general, I think they view the Mizzou journalism program with pride. --------------- At least they got some cake on the way out the door. "Good luck." (I have no idea why my two posts were merged)

KRCG in Jefferson City lost programming for about six hours Sunday afternoon, both over-the-air, and on cable/satellite. That outage included the NCAA Tournament games. https://sports.yahoo.com/mid-missouri-cbs-affiliates-tech-issue-prevents-elite-eight-games-from-being-aired-003055821.html

I'm here for the embezzlement. https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/cbs-credit-union-embezzlement-shuts-down-1203176576/

Latest on Circa: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/435957-sinclair-to-shutter-general-interest-website-circa

Cheers to making it through another Mardi Gras live pic without any FCC violations, although I was nervous about the presence of the nipple glitter sign.

KSHB's Cynthia Newsome has a recurrence of breast cancer. The prognosis looks positive.

Here is WCBI's coverage as the storm approached. They bolted at the 12:45 mark.

KSWO (Lawton-Wichita Falls) fired this meteorologist over her "Hang in there" scribble.

Replying to myself: mixed verdict for Benson: https://www.kcur.org/post/tv-reporter-lisa-benson-wins-retaliation-claims-against-kshb-loses-race-discrimination#stream/0

Ex-reporter Lisa Benson's discrimination lawsuit against KSHB went to the jury today. So far no verdict...

He put his employer in a poor light and deserved to be fired. I've probably done worse things on the air, but all of it happened before Twitter existed.