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Topic Archive: Television
With its television revenue down $2.8 million already this year, Playboy Enterprises plans to offer 20 hours of softcore gay male programming to Time Warner...
Posted May 12, 2008 12:32 AM
Councilwoman Hahn responds on her blog to the Fox 11 report that sided with two cops suing the city and tied Hahn to the mother...
Posted May 9, 2008 05:25 PM
The host of the long-running "Connie Martinson Talks Books" gave nearly 3,000 tapes of her cable show to Claremont Graduate University. "It's a pretty extraordinary...
Posted May 7, 2008 09:20 AM
Today's slash of 80-90 employees, or 5% of the staff, is the third round of layoffs in a year at the Register's parent. Declining advertising...
Posted April 28, 2008 05:28 PM
Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcon will guest on Sunday's "KNBC News Conference," hosted by Laurel Erickson at 9:30 am on Channel 4. She wants...
Posted April 25, 2008 03:12 PM
Now in the anchor chair at Fox 11, Carlos Amezcua blasts his former station in the May issue of Tu Ciudad. "When Hal Fishman died,...
Posted April 24, 2008 12:10 AM
KNBC anchor Ana Garcia, producer Rebecca Nieto, VP/News Director Robert Long and (not shown) web managing Bonnie Buck talk about how the station covers news...
Posted April 22, 2008 01:10 PM
Pete Noyes, 77, has worked behind the camera in influential roles at, I believe, Channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 13 and most recently 11. A...
Posted April 19, 2008 01:10 PM
I scanned past this in my initial quick read of the Mirthala Salinas interview by Shawn Hubler in the new issue of Los Angeles magazine....
Posted April 16, 2008 08:59 AM
Fox 11 reporter John Schwada has posted quotes from a video where Sheriff Lee Baca tells a mostly black audience in Compton that some Latino...
Posted April 15, 2008 02:29 PM
Veteran Fox 11 reporter Christina Gonzalez filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city and the police department, saying she suffered "shock and injuries to...
Posted April 14, 2008 10:06 PM
He still makes appearances and will be talking about "KTLA's News at Ten: Sixty Years with Stan Chambers" tonight at 7:30 pm at the Beverly...
Posted April 14, 2008 07:24 AM
An LA Observed regular emails: Hey Kevin, It’s 8:35. For the past half hour, KCET is having a meltdown with Antiques Roadshow telecast (interspersed with...
Posted April 7, 2008 11:57 PM
Spens reported in the 1990s for KNBC, KCBS and KNX Newsradio and was known for wearing a trench coat and walking while delivering his televised...
Posted April 6, 2008 07:36 PM
Sen. Hillary Clinton used her entrance on "The Tonight Show" (Channel 4, 11:35 pm) to defuse the mocking over her tale about dodging gunfire in...
Posted April 3, 2008 09:08 PM
The Daily News and Variety report that Channel 2 anchors Ann Martin and Harold Greene are among the staffers who will leave the KCBS-KCAL stations...
Posted April 1, 2008 05:13 PM
Bunch of people let go today. If I get details I'll pass them on....
Posted March 31, 2008 07:20 PM
CBS executives are moving to the Studio City complex from Television City this weekend. The influx of all those suits figures to disrupt the Radford...
Posted March 26, 2008 12:25 PM
The news got out yesterday that Tribune would switch its San Diego affiliate to Fox from the CW Network. Now here's the memo explaining the...
Posted March 25, 2008 09:35 AM
CEO Sam Zell enjoyed the little dig his Chicago Tribune got in on the rival Sun-Times, which held a contest to let readers' express their...
Posted March 24, 2008 04:31 PM
Once around: Child advocate and former L.A. first lady Nancy Daly Riordan guests with Laurel Erickson on a special edition of KNBC News Conference, airing...
Posted March 21, 2008 03:53 PM
Note to KTLA: the TV station that Sam Zell's Tribune company owns in South Florida is moving in with the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel newspaper. Zell...
Posted March 19, 2008 09:12 AM
KNBC Channel 4 has tapped David Markland, a "city captain" at LA Metblogs, to write a couple of items a day under the California Faultline...
Posted March 16, 2008 05:40 PM
It's been a while since LA Observed readers first met math-challenged weather babe Jackie Johnson. If you have always craved just a little bit more,...
Posted March 4, 2008 10:55 PM
Channel 4's Ana Garcia began an undercover investigation tonight on veterinarians who take advantage of distraught pet owners to order unnecessary procedures and "hundreds of...
Posted February 25, 2008 11:21 PM
Vinnie Malcolm will be leaving the building at Channel 5. He may already be gone. Staffers aren't clear just how hard he was pushed, but...
Posted February 19, 2008 12:26 PM
Every network owned TV station in Los Angeles plus KTLA has switched live to the Simmons funeral. Channel 4 handled the bringing in of the...
Posted February 15, 2008 11:08 AM
Motorcycle officers working the route of the Randy Simmons funeral procession have marked their helmets with the radio designation of his SWAT unit: 41-D. Holy...
Posted February 15, 2008 10:30 AM
L.A. author, humorist and kitschy snapshot collector Charles Phoenix will share his vintage Valentine's Day slides with Martha Stewart on her syndicated TV show on...
Posted February 12, 2008 11:27 PM
The talent at Channel 11 has been strongly encouraged to blog for MyFox LA, the branding given the station's website. Reporter John Schwada has taken...
Posted February 3, 2008 12:41 AM
Television reporter James Hibberd is leaving TV Week to take a newly created slot on the broadcasting beat at The Hollywood Reporter, I'm told. The...
Posted February 1, 2008 05:44 PM
While the battered denizens at the L.A. Times wait to hear whether their next editor will be a patsy for the publisher or an actual...
Posted January 25, 2008 03:20 PM
As several KTLA staffers have emailed to remind me, the station had been blocking employees' access to LA Observed. Even while cooperating from time to...
Posted January 22, 2008 01:23 PM
The post-9/11 sensation and defrocked global terrorism reporter with the square-rimmed Lafont eyeglasses — dumped by NBC after she bombed as an anchor and criticized...
Posted January 16, 2008 08:53 PM
The internal watchblog that began after Dan Rather's career meltdown has disappeared from the list of CBS News blogs, and Rachel Sklar at the Huffington...
Posted January 3, 2008 03:32 PM
KNBC Channel 4 leads the TV stations with six Golden Mikes from the Radio Television News Association, including best newscast writing, documentary ("On the Verge")...
Posted December 27, 2007 11:15 AM
The Kings held a moment of silence before tonight's game to honor Stu Nahan, the former sportscaster at channels 4, 5 and 7 and sports...
Posted December 26, 2007 10:57 PM
I'm told by KCET that "Life & Times" will hold down its 7pm time slot until Dec. 28, then give way to Tavis Smiley. Stories...
Posted December 17, 2007 05:45 PM
Tonight's show at 7pm on KCET has Tom Brokaw looking back at the 1960s, Vicki Curry checking in on the Orange County Museum of Art's...
Posted December 14, 2007 06:24 PM
Veteran anchor-reporter Linda Alvarez is taking her leave of Channel 2 at the end of the month, concluding 14 years at the station. Here's the...
Posted November 18, 2007 11:36 PM
L.A. County Supervisor Mike D. Antonovich adjourned the Supes meeting with a motion to mourn the reduction of live news coverage at Channel 5. It...
Posted October 24, 2007 11:48 PM
Now that Rebecca de Mornay is on HBO all the time, it figures somebody would ask, "what became of the old Wally George 'Hot Seat'...
Posted October 19, 2007 12:49 AM
I missed this in the news last week. Or rather, let's say it got way underplayed — just a brief buried in the LAT Calendar...
Posted October 18, 2007 11:33 PM
The big three local network TV stations will still be in the Valley, but NBC made official what's been talked about for awhile: the station...
Posted October 11, 2007 09:32 AM
L.A. broadcasting fixture Gary Franklin died at 79, at home in Chatsworth. He first became known as a street reporter on KFWB, ending his reports...
Posted October 4, 2007 08:56 AM
KCAL9 and CBS2 anchor Dave Clark starts November 1 as anchor of the top-rated morning news at Channel 2 in San Francisco. His email to...
Posted September 29, 2007 09:45 PM
Blogger and former Daily Journal reporter Daniel Evans and his wife walked down to the corner store in Burbank tonight and spotted two TV news...
Posted September 25, 2007 11:55 PM
If Mirthala Salinas stays with Telemundo Channel 52 it will be as the station's general assignment news chaser in the Inland Empire, not as the...
Posted September 24, 2007 08:13 PM
At a Radio and Television News Association panel of news directors last night at UCLA, Bob Long of NBC 4 got most of the laughs...
Posted September 20, 2007 10:16 PM
He claims the network ruined his career. (You want to laugh, right?) Mark Lacter strikes the right tone: As defendants, the suit names CBS and...
Posted September 19, 2007 04:08 PM
Reporter Chip Yost simply asked if the self-professed pedophile Jack McClellan wanted to talk after his release from UCLA custody last night — and he...
Posted August 14, 2007 11:35 AM
Channel 5's Prime News plans to run selected old commentaries by the late anchor Hal Fishman all week. Tonight it was Hal weighing in on...
Posted August 13, 2007 10:29 PM
KTLA reporter Eric Spillman writes on his official blog that "My colleague Hal Fishman died prematurely. If he had gone in for some routine tests,...
Posted August 8, 2007 11:10 AM
KTLA's Prime News team remembered and praised their late anchor and managing editor Hal Fishman for the first half of the broadcast tonight. When they...
Posted August 7, 2007 11:00 PM
Anyone who has watched the regular KOCE reports from the Register newsroom in Orange County knows it's hard enough to get print schlubs to give...
Posted August 7, 2007 05:25 PM
The face of KTLA news died this morning at home, the station announced. Fishman was 75 and had suffered from colon and liver cancer and...
Posted August 7, 2007 08:12 AM
Doctors treating Fishman for yesterday's collapse found colon cancer that has spread to his liver, according to KTLA interim news director Rich Goldner on the...
Posted August 3, 2007 04:42 PM
Republicans in Los Angeles are being offered $15 to show up at an upcoming taping of the "Half Hour News Hour" on Fox. From the...
Posted August 3, 2007 04:24 PM
KTLA announced at the top of its 10 pm news — and on its website — that anchor Hal Fishman was in the hospital suffering...
Posted August 2, 2007 11:54 PM
Mirthala Salinas gets two months without pay for reading the news stories about Mayor Villaraigosa's marital breakup, but will keep her job at Telemundo 52....
Posted August 2, 2007 11:48 PM
Earl Ofari Hutchinson blogs at Friendly Fire: Telemundo officials say that they will make a decision within the next few days whether to fire Mirthala...
Posted July 22, 2007 12:59 AM
KTLA News Director Jeff Wald informed his department this morning that he's leaving the station to spend more time his family. Wald's wife died suddenly...
Posted July 17, 2007 11:25 AM
Telemundo has been covering the mayoral affair and media ethics dust-up involving its own reporter, and seems very interested in hearing what listeners think. At...
Posted July 4, 2007 10:15 PM
CBS2 anchor Paul Magers' former home in the Minneapolis area — called by one blogger a "grand-to-ostentatious Lake of the Isles mansion" — is in...
Posted June 11, 2007 09:21 AM
The Museum of Television and Radio in Beverly Hills (and New York) becomes the Paley Center for Media today. The New York Times reports: By...
Posted June 4, 2007 11:37 PM
KNBC's undercover camera has caught more car repair scammers. This time, Grover's web snared EZ Lube, "California's fastest growing lube and tune chain." Says the...
Posted May 17, 2007 02:58 PM
Fans of "The Sopranos" spent all day Monday comparing notes on what an exultant Tony Soprano screamed at the end of Sunday night's intense episode....
Posted May 16, 2007 10:54 AM
Bret Marcus, displaced by the cancellation of "California Connected," becomes Vice President of Programming, Publicity and Promotion at the local PBS station. Release after the...
Posted May 15, 2007 11:16 AM
Since January, KMEX here has been blanketing its Spanish-language audience with encouragement for green card holders who are eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship. Now...
Posted May 10, 2007 11:21 AM
Turns out that the Saturday night movie showcase that KCET launched recently — and that has been advertised over there on the right side of...
Posted May 9, 2007 05:25 PM
Those are reporter Christina Gonzalez's words on Fox 11 after she was shoved and laughed at by LAPD riot cops while coming to the defense...
Posted May 2, 2007 11:22 AM
PBS has picked up the first season of the series to be produced by KCET in association with Wired magazine. It premieres nationwide on October...
Posted May 1, 2007 02:58 PM
Tonight's show is the last, at least for now. "After five seasons and 154 shows from Yreka in the north to Baja in the south...
Posted April 27, 2007 03:12 PM
A local television legend of sorts, and LA Observed oldie but goodie, returned tonight to the Los Angeles airwaves — and now to the blogosphere....
Posted April 25, 2007 11:52 PM
It's Adam Gorfain, a 41 year old senior producer for "Dateline NBC" at the NBC News studios in Burbank, according to sometime NBC ABC independent...
Posted April 24, 2007 08:59 AM
Now that channels 2 and 9 reside in their new shared newsroom in Studio City, news director Nancy Bauer-Gonzales has removed the ban on eating...
Posted April 23, 2007 03:22 PM
Channel 2 staffers are buzzing about their new entertainment reporter, Christina McLarty, being the girlfriend of Girls Gone Wild bad-boy Joe Francis. He's been in...
Posted April 13, 2007 07:12 AM
The Chicago Tribune calls it an "epic corporate drama" that ends with the paper's parent company — owner of the Los Angeles Times and KTLA...
Posted April 2, 2007 07:09 AM
We told you last week that radio personality April Winchell had blown Bill O'Reilly's cover as a man of the people by exposing his rant...
Posted March 25, 2007 08:44 AM
Bob Woodward is the Washington Post editor who was not on the 4 o'clock news yesterday on ABC 7. Bob Woodruff is the former ABC...
Posted March 22, 2007 02:02 AM
Channel 7 morning news anchor Phillip Palmer goes under the knife tomorrow at St. Vincent's to donate a kidney to a friend, former KCAL news...
Posted March 13, 2007 05:35 PM
Joseph Russin joins KTLA News as executive editor of planning. "Russin's responsibilities will include overseeing news coverage on-air and on the web, planning feature stories...
Posted March 13, 2007 09:08 AM
Channels 2 and 9 news director Nancy Bauer Gonzales has gone on the warpath before against perfume and cologne in the office (as well as...
Posted March 9, 2007 01:49 PM
An LA Observed reader asks: "Why are there seven jobs for ABC 7 listed on JournalismJobs.com?" Dunno, but it's true and they are all for...
Posted March 8, 2007 09:05 PM
Tavis Smiley scores an interview tonight on PBS with Bruce Gordon, who resigned Sunday after just nineteen months as head of the NAACP. "A 64...
Posted March 5, 2007 09:31 PM
Excerpt at the Rip Post: Co-Anchor Michaela “Free Home Makeover” Pereira: This girl clearly needs help. I mean, she is not exactly de-icing the cool...
Posted February 22, 2007 11:42 PM
Time Warner will begin carrying KCAL 9 HD on Friday with the 5:30 pm broadcast in high-definition of the Lakers game at Indiana. It's channel...
Posted January 31, 2007 11:24 AM
Bob Carroll Jr. worked with writing partner Madelyn Pugh Davis for more than 60 years, including on all the television series that Lucille Ball starred...
Posted January 30, 2007 02:48 AM
KFWB and KPCC-FM each won six Golden Mikes to lead the pack at Saturday night's banquet of the Radio & Television News Association of Southern...
Posted January 29, 2007 10:53 AM
She actually calls it La-La Land on her Today Show blog. Later, the host fills in fans on a trip to Universal Studios and guest...
Posted January 25, 2007 12:35 PM
I watched Channel 5's "Prime News" at 10 pm to see how long they would go with real news before veering away to report on...
Posted January 24, 2007 10:16 PM
LA Observed contributor Jacob Soboroff caught up with local TV news legend Stan Chambers in Hollywood at KTLA's 60th anniversary bash. Click on the pic...
Posted January 24, 2007 04:11 PM
In a recent interview with FilmStew, Aaron Sorkin complained about the less-than-cheerleading coverage of "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" by writers at the Times'...
Posted January 16, 2007 09:52 PM
California Connected, produced at KCET, received the Alfred I. duPont award from Columbia University for "War Stories from Ward 7-D," called a "sobering report on...
Posted January 15, 2007 11:16 AM
The PBS series "Edens Lost and Found" does Los Angeles tonight at 10 pm on KCET. Jimmy Smits hosts the episode, which features TreePeople's Andy...
Posted January 11, 2007 10:50 AM
Noted, since it hasn't been included in the mentions here of Jim Lampley's arrest: "I am innocent of the charge of domestic abuse that has...
Posted January 5, 2007 12:09 PM
Michael Goodwin was convicted of murdering his former business partner, Mickey Thompson, and the racing legend's wife in 1988. Prosecutors will not seek the...
Posted January 4, 2007 03:50 PM
By last night's web stats run, more than 2,200 visitors had found their way to LA Observed by searching on Google for Stephanie Edwards. That's...
Posted January 4, 2007 09:30 AM
Ax falls at Channel 2/9: veteran reporter Paul Dandridge has been taken off the bio page, though his blog remains — last updated in August....
Posted January 3, 2007 05:20 PM
KTLA's own viewer forum filled up today with more comments about the Rose Parade broadcast than on any other topic in months. Most are strongly...
Posted January 1, 2007 11:56 PM
Ron Fineman lost his battle with colon cancer today. The founder of the television news website Ron Fineman's On the Record was taken off his...
Posted December 30, 2006 06:52 PM
Stephanie Edwards tells the Pasadena Star-News that she took the hint and declined KTLA's offer to reprise her limited role in KTLA's Rose Parade coverage....
Posted December 28, 2006 10:45 AM
Longtime local news figure Ross Becker is leaving NBC4 and the on-hiatus daytime show he anchored, The Local Story, for an anchor slot at...
Posted December 26, 2006 02:10 AM
KTLA's press release tries to make the upcoming coverage of the Rose Parade sound special: "Bob Eubanks and Michaela Pereira will be back as co-hosts...
Posted December 23, 2006 02:20 PM
KCAL-9 will once again air the yule log on Christmas morning, continuing a 40-year tradition (in New York — just three years here.) The log...
Posted December 22, 2006 05:34 PM
LARadio.com reports that Ron Fineman, the former TV reporter and producer whose On the Record is one of the original Los Angeles media websites, is...
Posted December 20, 2006 01:10 PM
This time it wasn't local, but still. While Paul Magers was reading a story last night about the heavy snowfall that blanketed New Mexico, the...
Posted December 20, 2006 12:43 AM
AmericanLife TV is a "network for baby boomers" showing up on the new channel alignment for Time Warner Cable. Its selling point is old series'...
Posted December 14, 2006 02:33 PM
No, Michael Richards did not attend a celebrity roast for Whoopi Goldberg in blackface. Nor did he pour a bottle of Aunt Jemima syrup over...
Posted December 5, 2006 03:37 PM
Last night's showing of "Roy Orbison and Friends" on KCET — the concert was recorded live at the Cocoanut Grove in 1988 — prompted this...
Posted November 29, 2006 02:53 AM
Bob Baker envisions Michael Richards' next apology, exclusively at Native Intelligence: November 21, 2006 From: Elliot Forget, senior partner, Dodge & Retreat Consulting To: Michael...
Posted November 21, 2006 07:59 PM
Brian Stelter is 21, attends Towson University near Baltimore, and through his blog has the ear of just about everyone who matters in television news....
Posted November 21, 2006 07:53 PM
Longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Ed Bradley died today of complications from leukemia. The first black White House correspondent for CBS News, he reported on the...
Posted November 9, 2006 11:36 AM
Contrary to speculation just about everywhere, The Hollywood Reporter's Ray Richmond blogs that Aaron Sorkin's show will run its full 22-episode season on NBC. The...
Posted November 7, 2006 04:23 PM
Fox News shouter Bill O'Reilly is back on his Times kick, this time alleging that the real circulation is about half of what the ABC...
Posted November 1, 2006 10:24 AM
This was the day that fans of the ABC soap "General Hospital" have looked forward to for a long time: the return of the female...
Posted October 26, 2006 10:51 PM
TMZ says that a camera crew working for E! Entertainment Television entered an open gate at Brad Pitt's Hollywood Hills compound on Oct. 19 and...
Posted October 25, 2006 10:50 AM
Ross Becker's "fluid format" half-hour news show "The Local Story" ran most of the summer on KNBC, then dropped back into a new life as...
Posted October 23, 2006 02:45 PM
Jacob Soboroff just got a new HD video camera and went over to the Cornfield state park downtown yesterday to try it out. Walking the...
Posted October 18, 2006 05:39 PM
NBC 4 was first to go with the story last night, but today's Times and Daily News have many more details on the Grand Jury...
Posted October 4, 2006 02:25 AM
Channel 4 got pretty excited tonight about an Ana Garcia investigative report that Troy Edwards, a deputy mayor under Jim Hahn, ran up $18,000 in...
Posted October 3, 2006 10:23 PM
"Being a TV host is the least of what I do," the Crenshaw district-based media force tells Patrick Goldstein in Sunday's LAT Calendar. The smooth-talking...
Posted October 2, 2006 10:25 AM
FTVLive cites inside sources at KNBC saying layoffs are to follow a merger of assignment desks at the NBC newsroom in Burbank. Sources say that...
Posted October 2, 2006 09:54 AM
Ralph Story was a big deal on local television in the 1960s and 70s. He was the features reporter for "The Big News" on Channel...
Posted September 26, 2006 10:29 PM
Perhaps bracing for a premature end to his team's baseball season, Dodger Thoughts' Jon Weisman has launched Screen Jam. I'll let him explain: As readers...
Posted September 18, 2006 05:39 PM
NBC 4's Joel Grover looks to have another installment of his Jiffy Lube expose coming tonight at 6 and 11 pm, according to the station's...
Posted September 18, 2006 04:44 PM
The guest list for Sunday's NBC4 Newsconference might seem like a non sequitur, but there is a theme to it: "courage, fearlessness and leadership" for...
Posted September 8, 2006 02:28 PM
Dan Rather's farewell retrospective on CBS couldn't even make the cut on the Friday evening before Labor Day. In Los Angeles and New York, the...
Posted August 31, 2006 04:23 PM
Looks like there's no room for "The Local Story: Summer Edition," which has been running at 3 pm on Channel 4 since July. It was...
Posted August 31, 2006 02:17 PM
TVNewswer caught CBS giving Katie Couric a little help to look thinner. Compare her first official network photo at this year's TV upfronts from May...
Posted August 29, 2006 11:26 PM
NBC4 yesterday ran a half-hour special report on the political fight over the future of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Didn't see it, but...
Posted August 22, 2006 04:11 PM
Writers in the newsroom at KCBS and KCAL left their desks about 3:30 pm Wednesday and took an unscheduled break together in the courtyard before...
Posted August 18, 2006 07:39 AM
The LAT announced in yesterday's TV Times that the weekly guide to what's on television will no longer come with Sunday papers. If you are...
Posted August 14, 2006 04:52 AM
On his blog over at TV Week, Christopher Lisotta is letting readers vote on the dumbest question asked during the the Television Critics Association pressfest...
Posted July 25, 2006 12:29 PM
The Hollywood Reporter's Ray Richmond generously blogs for newbies his ten unwritten rules for getting along at the Television Critics Association's group grope in Pasadena...
Posted July 19, 2006 09:28 AM
Channel 4 unveils "The Local Story: Summer Edition" at 3 pm., with L.A. news veteran Ross Becker anchoring. Toni Guinyard, formerly of KCET's "Life &...
Posted July 10, 2006 11:35 AM
The television academy's new selection system had an effect. TNT's mini-series "Into the West" received sixteen Emmy nominations, followed by Jack Bauer and "24" with...
Posted July 6, 2006 10:17 AM
After losing out on Jerrold Perenchio's Univision auction last week, disappointed executives at Grupo Televisa said they would step back and reflect on their next...
Posted July 5, 2006 10:44 AM
Channel 2 photographer Bryan Frank had one of those weeks where you drive and drive and drive, and never get anywhere. As he blogs it,...
Posted June 20, 2006 02:53 AM
Channel 2 photographer Bryan Frank had one of those weeks where you drive and drive and drive, and never get anywhere. As he blogs it,...
Posted June 20, 2006 02:53 AM
The longtime producer of Lakers broadcasts became a household name in Los Angeles through mentions on the air by Chick Hearn. She has been let...
Posted June 16, 2006 11:34 AM
MSNBC is getting a divorce from the Connie Chung-Maury Povich team. The Saturday chat experiment "Weekends with Connie and Maury" didn't work out and will...
Posted June 16, 2006 10:52 AM
Kate Aurthur has been writing for Calendar, Vanity Fair, Slate and the New York Times. Her father Robert Alan Aurthur was a producer and writer...
Posted June 8, 2006 01:18 PM
Some of you may remember the New Year's thread when KTLA dumped longtime Rose Parade host Stephanie Edwards out in the rain and gave Michaela...
Posted June 5, 2006 11:16 PM
Seems to me that Michael Walker is doing the whole book-blog synergy the right way, and creating a readable and valuable Los Angeles neighborhood website....
Posted June 1, 2006 07:05 PM
Channel 2 won't be number one at 11 much longer if they keep getting flummoxed by local geography. The picture pretty clearly shows you where...
Posted May 30, 2006 03:07 AM
The congressman from the Valley who used to Jdate—and maybe he still does—turns up as a "Jeopardy!" question....
Posted May 25, 2006 03:14 PM
Not since the days of Jerry Dunphy has Channel 2's news topped the local ratings, but the station says that the new book out today...
Posted May 25, 2006 02:55 PM
Couldn't she be, I don't know, a little less happy? Billboard at Melrose and La Cienega, from Defamer:...
Posted May 24, 2006 03:40 PM
Earlier this month, NBC4's hidden-camera reporter Joel Grover aired "Is Your Mechanic Cheating?," a two-part series that showed Jiffy Lube mechanics charging for services they...
Posted May 24, 2006 10:55 AM
In addition to host Lisa McRee's web reports from the show's road trips, the "California Connected" crew at KCET is also posting to a newsroom...
Posted May 23, 2006 02:31 AM
Channel 4 on Monday ran a news story about Diana York Blaine, a USC women's studies professor, posting three topless photos of herself in her...
Posted May 10, 2006 11:55 PM
♦ Answer: Mayor Villaraigosa, Sheriff Baca, Lakers owner Jerry Buss, Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, Magic Johnson, Natalie Cole, Johnny Grant and Councilman Tom LaBonge. Question:...
Posted May 8, 2006 03:16 PM
The show backed and aired by California's public television stations returns for its fifth season tonight at 8:30 on KCET. Lisa McRee remains as "California...
Posted May 5, 2006 12:15 PM
Pay site FTVLive is reporting, based on unnamed sources, that KTLA's longtime Prime News executive producer Gerry Ruben has been replaced by Rick Goldner, currently...
Posted May 5, 2006 11:20 AM
Updated below The on-air feud that erupted during Monday's march coverage between KFI shout hosts John & Ken and Fox-11's Tony Valdez is heating up...
Posted May 4, 2006 03:24 PM
Franklin Avenue points to a feature on the Channel 2 website detailing (in video and photos) the construction of a new broadcast center at the...
Posted May 3, 2006 09:18 AM
David Jackson is leaving the KCAL-9 news after tomorrow, says Ron Fineman's On the Record, citing sources: "One source says they are told that this...
Posted April 25, 2006 12:07 PM
Dual get-tough memos to the staff from honcho-in-chief Nancy Bauer Gonzales hit desks today at CBS-2 and KCAL-9. The first responds to this week's criticism...
Posted April 12, 2006 11:57 PM
Tribune publishing chief Scott Smith sent out a reminder today that the company ethics code "applies to all Tribune editorial personnel—print, broadcast and interactive." They...
Posted April 11, 2006 11:01 PM
Light posting this weekend, but first... ♦ Michael Sonnenschein exits as co-editor of FishbowlLA. He bids farewell on the blog, and Claude Brodesser gives marching...
Posted April 7, 2006 05:57 PM
Three Los Angeles TV stations are fingered in a Center for Media and Democracy report out today critical of news operations that package video releases...
Posted April 6, 2006 11:20 AM
We may never know if it was a missile, a flare or something else that the pilot of American Airlines flight 612 saw come up...
Posted April 5, 2006 11:00 PM
Poking around the KNBC website I came across a story and videos about the coming launch of News Raw, "a new concept in news programming"...
Posted April 5, 2006 10:36 PM
Scary talk about bird flu, a third deputy sheriff dies, Cecelia Estolano for CRA chief, Los Angeles lawyers breaking away and a little online dust-up...
Posted March 31, 2006 02:43 AM
NBC4 gave its website a new design, adding more video and simpler navigation. Local news also got a boost in emphasis, which is good for...
Posted March 30, 2006 02:25 AM
Cary Baker of Sherman Oaks emails that his "KTLA Morning News" on Channel 5 this morning was replaced the first hour by a pitch for...
Posted March 28, 2006 01:35 PM
I just caught up to the official KTLA blogs written by four of the station's top news anchors. In theory they represent an admirable step...
Posted March 20, 2006 12:03 PM
City News Service is reporting that Sam Chu Lin, a former CBS News correspondent who reported most recently for Fox 11, died Sunday in Burbank....
Posted March 6, 2006 10:26 PM
If nothing else, Christopher Arellano has found a way to deflect scrutiny from the $200,000 he has taken from UTLA. But the Times and Daily...
Posted March 2, 2006 11:52 PM
Two more developments on the ethics front involving Channel 5: Channel Island, the Los Angeles Times TV blog, reports that Morning News anchor Michaela Pereira...
Posted March 2, 2006 11:46 PM
James Gilden writes The Daily Traveler blog at LATimes.com, but being a Tribune cousin didn't inhibit him from taking a fair shot at the Channel...
Posted March 2, 2006 10:21 AM
Channel 5 is promoing up close and personal time with Corina Villaraigosa on tonight's Prime News at 10 pm. They call it the first prolonged...
Posted February 27, 2006 09:03 AM
When last we spoke of Desiree Horton, the former Channel 5 pilot who blogs at The Adventures of Chopper Chick!, she had requested that fans...
Posted February 10, 2006 01:59 AM
An exclusive on the new boss at "California Connected," a $15 million payday for three LAPD cops, Rocky's legal memo to the police commission and...
Posted February 10, 2006 01:20 AM
Claude Brodesser at Fishbowl LA has the stats: Almost twice as many people watched "American Idol" (28.3 million) than saw the Grammy Awards (15.1 million)...
Posted February 9, 2006 05:57 PM
Los Angeles billionaire A. Jerrold Perenchio is apparently ready to put Univision Communications up for sale and cash out, the New York Times reports based...
Posted February 8, 2006 01:53 PM
⇒ Truthdig.com's Blair Golson contends that Times editor Dean Baquet would not meet with representatives of the United Farm Workers union to hear their challenges...
Posted February 6, 2006 05:14 PM
Eyewitness News goes hi-def, James Frey has a few words for the LAT, the Downtown News loses patience with Villaraigosa and a former mayor goes...
Posted February 6, 2006 02:31 AM
Jack Weiss makes his ambition more or less official, Anthony Pellicano comes back to town, the Ambassador gets a proper send-off, Channel 13 News adds...
Posted February 3, 2006 08:56 AM
Ohhh, now I think I know why the county Department of Health Services suddenly switched gears and yesterday released the name of the popular Olvera...
Posted February 2, 2006 04:20 PM
Franklin Avenue has further details, including that KTLA paid $5,000 for the video of that Chino shooting by a sheriff's deputy and managed to get...
Posted February 1, 2006 10:35 AM
Last night on "Prime News" Jamie Chambers went on and on about how difficult it was for him to watch a videotape showing a San...
Posted January 31, 2006 10:55 AM
Ron Fineman.com has always had a bit of a thing about sexually provocative TV news shows and reporters, especially Channel 13 and Lauren Sanchez. The...
Posted January 31, 2006 12:43 AM
Since the last time I looked, CBS 2/KCAL 9 has added The Reporter's Blog by veteran Paul Dandridge and In the Field by news photographer...
Posted January 28, 2006 01:21 AM
Antonio maps out his war plan for conquering the school board, Rocky takes it on the chin (twice), gang war in Watts and every Oscar-eligible...
Posted January 27, 2006 02:54 AM
This morning's news that The WB and UPN will come together and spin off the new CW network (to air on KTLA here, apparently) caught...
Posted January 24, 2006 01:00 PM
The Radio & Television News Association of Southern California (RTNA) handed out the year's Golden Mike awards on Saturday night. Here's the full list. A...
Posted January 23, 2006 12:59 PM
Eric Lynxwiler and I are supposed to be in a segment of Channel 7's Eye on L.A. today at 6:30 pm. Hard to tell what...
Posted January 21, 2006 12:28 PM
You can end the week with a Wall Street Journal look at Dave Dreier, a thousand Valleyites out of work, possible trouble for Ron Deaton...
Posted January 20, 2006 01:59 AM
Steve Grace is retiring as president of Channel 36, the citywide educational access channel, and is being succeeded by new general manager Carla Carlini. She...
Posted January 18, 2006 11:13 AM
In the morning news rodeo, op-ed newcomer Erin Aubry Kaplan dumps on Herb Wesson, what the Golden Globes could do to slow immigration, why you...
Posted January 18, 2006 01:32 AM
The Colin Campbell Network blog has some details: According to sources close to the production, a team of ESPN executives from the East Coast informed...
Posted January 17, 2006 01:11 PM
My choice is Defamer. The scene, the parties and the gossip viewed from slightly askew. They also anoint Isaac Mizrahi as the new king of...
Posted January 17, 2006 12:43 PM
Interesting piece on local alt-weekly lore in today's Pasadena Weekly. Nigey Lennon, who spent a decade writing for the old L.A. Reader along with her...
Posted January 12, 2006 02:24 AM
CBS2 anchor Kent Shocknek blogs a little something on the station website almost every day. Earlier this week he had some fun with the governor's...
Posted January 11, 2006 06:11 PM
Former Channel 5 pilot/traffic reporter Desiree Horton lives in Chatsworth and has a blog: The Adventures of Chopper Chick! She posts about flying on traffic...
Posted January 10, 2006 09:45 PM
Patt Morrison takes sides with Stephanie Edwards on the LAT op-ed page and proposes an equitable solution at next year's Rose Parade: Stephanie in the...
Posted January 5, 2006 01:12 AM
Stephanie Edwards emailed the Times' Scott Collins [Scott Collins wrote the story but I'm told that Edwards emailed Susan King] to scoff at the suggestion...
Posted January 3, 2006 11:29 PM
Yes it rained—and hard—on the Rose Parade, but KTLA figured out a way around the tension in the booth between longtime hosts Bob Eubanks and...
Posted January 2, 2006 11:52 AM
Newest adds at the bottom... ⇒ KNX 1070 reporter Michael Linder's website details his background as a KTLA reporter, creator of "America's Most Wanted" and...
Posted December 30, 2005 01:44 AM
In case the whole wintry Christmas thing in Los Angeles isn't faux enough for you, KCAL-9 added an hour to its new tradition of airing...
Posted December 24, 2005 01:58 PM
Few culture war causes strike me as more dishonest and less trivial than the Fox News-promoted meme that liberals are anti-Christmas. (Excuse me while I...
Posted December 20, 2005 09:27 AM
Lisa Guerrero used to be a sports reporter for KCBS and KTTV here, then for the "Regional Sports Report" on Fox Sports West. She was...
Posted December 9, 2005 04:07 PM
Starting January 3, the West Coast will get a live version of World News Tonight with newly named co-anchors Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff. The...
Posted December 5, 2005 10:22 AM
♦ Alex Padilla on Monday endorsed Eric Garcetti as his successor in the City Council president's chair. Let the record show that on May 27, LAObserved...
Posted November 22, 2005 01:40 AM
Readers of the TV news website RonFineman.com voted Channel 7's Marc Brown and Michelle Tuzee the best anchors in town. Wasn't close. They beat the...
Posted November 18, 2005 07:13 PM
It was only last January that ex-Channel 5 anchor Sharon Tay landed a hosting gig at MSNBC. Well, TVNewswer reports today that MSNBC At the...
Posted November 15, 2005 05:44 PM
Just days after Michael Jackson referred to wine as "Jesus Juice," Los Angeles-based CBS News producer Bruce Rheins and his wife, actress-writer-producer (and fine art...
Posted November 7, 2005 09:00 PM
Connie Chung and Maury Povich were local TV news fixtures in Los Angeles before going on to better—or at least other—things. Chung came to Channel...
Posted November 7, 2005 01:16 AM
♦ A senior Times editor says the paper checked out Mickey Kaus' second-hand report of a big Halloween gang rumble in Brentwood—just a few blocks from...
Posted November 4, 2005 01:56 AM
Tuesday's Correction of the Day out of the New York Times (about the non-word trustiness) is riffed on during tonight's 8:30 pm re-airing of the...
Posted November 3, 2005 02:59 PM
Jennifer York, KTLA's airborne reporter for thirteen years until 2004, has an honored place in the lore passed down to the new recruits around...
Posted October 14, 2005 11:52 PM
Kennedy was a producer and writer for KCBS and KCET and started the program "Life & Times" at the latter station. He died Oct. 5...
Posted October 13, 2005 02:42 AM
On the first night of the recent Topanga Fire, when Eyewitness News went off the air to make room for the network, ABC7 viewers were...
Posted October 9, 2005 11:43 PM
Follow-ups, catch-ups and clearing off the desk for Columbus Day... ♦ Sunday's L.A. Times fronts a Steve Lopez column about his violin-playing street person, Nathaniel Anthony...
Posted October 9, 2005 01:15 PM
♦ Adelphia blames equipment failure related to the Topanga fire for depriving thousands of their "Desperate Housewives" fix. ♦ Mayor Villaraigosa's plan for improving schools falls into...
Posted October 4, 2005 01:40 AM
Sounds like a lot of viewers in Adelphia territory got the español version of ABC last night. A reader emails: My boss came into work...
Posted October 3, 2005 12:28 PM
Kim Day got the offer she couldn't refuse to leave as head of LAX personally from Mayor Villaraigosa's in-house counsel Thomas Saenz and deputy chief...
Posted October 1, 2005 10:43 PM
Don Adams, Agent 86 on the "Get Smart" TV show created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry in 1965, died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai. He was...
Posted September 26, 2005 03:32 PM
What a landing! Flight 292 is safely down. The pilot kept the plane in perfect control — so perfect that the nose stem left where...
Posted September 21, 2005 04:43 PM
Happy Wednesday... ♦ DWP workers got the big raises they were demanding: up to 28% over five years. The Council voted 10-3 to go along. DN,...
Posted September 21, 2005 12:55 AM
Mixed-media artist Lisa Salem, who began walking Los Angeles streets in May with a digital video camera attached to a baby stroller, has found a...
Posted September 20, 2005 09:23 PM
A sampling of starters for the day... ♦ Simon Wiesenthal died in Vienna at age 96, the center on Pico Boulevard announced. Standing ovations in every...
Posted September 20, 2005 01:54 AM
Mark Treitel, one of the writers chosen to shoot an NBC pilot for the Bravo reality show Situation: Comedy, guest-blogs about it all today at...
Posted September 9, 2005 11:48 AM
Channel 2 morning news anchor Kent Shocknek pokes a sharp blog stick at rival NBC for excising rapper Kanye West's remark that "George Bush doesn't...
Posted September 7, 2005 08:48 PM
• Screenwriter Tom Benedek shoots his own unproduced scripts—literally, with a .45-caliber pistol—and mounts them as art. His exhibition "Shot by the Writer - Works on...
Posted September 7, 2005 02:15 AM
• More former press deputies in the Hahn administration have landed jobs. Elizabeth Kaltman is now the communications director for City Council member Wendy Greuel,...
Posted September 2, 2005 04:54 PM
Good lede by Matt Meyerhoff on this week's L.A. Business Journal front-pager about TV huckster Ron Popeil, who is now 70 years old, cashing out...
Posted August 29, 2005 12:17 PM
The reporter noted for her Michael Jackson coverage emailed a fan club that she was dropped by Court TV last week. Here's an excerpt of...
Posted August 29, 2005 11:05 AM
• KCAL and KTTV each won nine local Emmy Awards on Saturday night. Among the top honors, KCBS won for best daytime newscast ("CBS2 News" at...
Posted August 29, 2005 01:22 AM
The New York Times' most gonzo Los Angeles correspondent hasn't had a byline in the paper since April 14, prompting colleagues, rivals and competitors to...
Posted August 24, 2005 05:13 PM
• Channel 2 won't renew the contract of political editor Linda Breakstone after eleven years, RonFineman.com reports. No additional details, except that political reporter Dave Bryan...
Posted August 24, 2005 01:26 AM
I can sorta see why they break in for Amber Alerts, but in these days of narrowcasting and hyper-targeted cable niches why would Comcast interrupt...
Posted August 15, 2005 12:12 AM
Whatever may or may not be going on between Dodgers pitcher Derek Lowe and Fox Sports West Dodgers reporter-anchor Carolyn Hughes is breaking out as...
Posted August 3, 2005 12:28 AM
Anchor-reporter Carolyn Hughes has been taken off Dodger coverage at Fox Sports West during an investigation of her relationship with pitcher Derek Lowe, the pay...
Posted July 29, 2005 02:24 AM
In response to mounting losses, TV Guide is going to get harder to hold—and run fewer TV listings. Variety reports that Gemstar-TV Guide will spend...
Posted July 27, 2005 02:42 AM
According to to the pay site RonFineman.com, Channel 2 was thinking seriously of taking Jim Hill out of the sports anchor slot. Hill didn't want...
Posted June 28, 2005 02:49 AM
Mondays are always so busy... • This news won't help the layoff jitters sweeping the LAT's newsrooms this week. Tribune Company stock was downgraded Monday to...
Posted June 20, 2005 08:08 PM
• Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa took the official oath privately in his office, with Corina and children Antonio Jr. and Natalia Fe attending. It doesn't take effect...
Posted June 17, 2005 02:11 AM
Longtime award-winning L.A. reporter Warren Wilson announced his retirement from KTLA yesterday. When we last heard from him, Wilson had hired Melanie Lomax to press...
Posted June 14, 2005 11:31 AM
Maria Shriver tells the New York Daily News' Lloyd Grove that she had no contact with anyone at NBC about the Schwarzenegger biography by Laurence...
Posted June 7, 2005 12:57 PM
Laurence Leamer, author of Fantastic: The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger, lost a shot at promoting the book on "Today" because of Maria Shriver, according to...
Posted June 5, 2005 11:54 PM
Here are some items from the week. Posting over the weekend will be sporadic at best. • Los Angeles magazine celebrated this month's comedy issue last...
Posted May 27, 2005 06:36 PM
In addition to editor Katrina Dewey, whose resignation letter was posted on L.A. Observed last Friday, four other veteran staffers are about to leave the...
Posted May 24, 2005 12:51 AM
Michele Ruiz, anchor of the "Channel 4 News" at 6 p.m., announced today she is leaving the station, according to TV Week. She came to...
Posted May 12, 2005 08:55 PM
The television program produced by KCET and three other public TV stations in the state begins its fourth season on a new night — Fridays....
Posted May 5, 2005 12:40 PM
• Longtime Channel 7 weatherman Johnny Mountain joins the rival Channel 2 news on May 8. He will work the news at 5, 6 and 11...
Posted May 4, 2005 10:39 PM
Gourmet editor and former L.A. Times food editor and critic Ruth Reichl doesn't really look like this. It's one of the disguises she used as...
Posted April 19, 2005 12:24 AM
Curtis Vogel, whose complaint about an affair apparently led to the firing of three KNBC staffers, including his wife Kyung Lah, emails RonFineman.com: I won't...
Posted April 4, 2005 02:19 AM
Friday's New York Post Page Six picks up the story we had Tuesday on the three KNBC news staffers fired over an affair that somehow...
Posted March 24, 2005 11:47 PM
Weekend reporter Sam Hall Kaplan has left Fox 11 News after ten years. In an emailed column scheduled to run in the April 4 Downtown...
Posted March 23, 2005 08:29 PM
Ron Fineman follows up today with reporting on his scoop last week that KNBC reporter Kyung Lah and "Today in L.A." producer Jeff Soto got...
Posted March 22, 2005 02:04 AM
Industrious readers have been emailing that KTLA morning anchor Cher Calvin's banned-by-management website lives on in the cache of various Internet search engines. But now...
Posted March 11, 2005 09:19 AM
I caught up last night with E! News for the first time in months. To my surprise, Giuliana DePandi is back in the host's chair...
Posted March 11, 2005 12:51 AM
Cher Calvin's short stint so far as Sharon Tay's replacement co-anchoring KTLA's morning show has not met with much approval at RonFineman.com. The TV site...
Posted March 9, 2005 12:32 PM
LAT investigative reporter Gary Cohn emerges from the Schwarzenegger-groping beat to chip in a piece in today's paper about KTLA entertainment reporter Zorianna Kit grazing...
Posted March 1, 2005 02:01 AM
RonFineman.com is asking his readers to vote over the next week on the best storm gear on local TV news. Leslie Miller—from Channel 7, top...
Posted February 17, 2005 11:00 PM
Tonight on Channel 5's News at Ten, co-anchor Leila Feinstein narrated a story about her mother, a child psychologist, going to Thailand to work with...
Posted February 9, 2005 11:01 PM
E! Entertainment Television is planning a daily reenactment of the Michael Jackson trial when testimony begins up in Santa Maria. Today E! announced that the...
Posted February 9, 2005 10:45 AM
John Beard: The Wall Street Journal devotes most of a TV column to the Fox 11 anchor's cameo appearances on series such as "24" and...
Posted February 3, 2005 12:05 AM
Members of the Radio & Television News Association of Southern California dined last night in Universal City and handed out this year's Golden Mike awards....
Posted January 30, 2005 07:36 PM
Johnny Carson: No shortage of appreciations and retrospectives online and on the air for the late-night pioneer who died Sunday at home in Malibu (of...
Posted January 23, 2005 09:20 PM
The former top news executive at CBS (1982-1986), Fox and Channel 2 here has been on something of a kick about liberal media bias lately...
Posted January 13, 2005 01:27 PM
Three network execs and producer Mary Mapes lost their jobs after an independent report concluded that a bogus "60 Minutes Wednesday" story on President Bush's...
Posted January 10, 2005 01:25 PM
Yes, the USC Trojans won the Orange Bowl in a rout, 55-19, and locked up a national title. Hard to miss among the illustrious alumni...
Posted January 5, 2005 12:29 AM
Friday is Sharon Tay's last day at Channel 5, says Ron Fineman. The longtime KTLA Morning News co-anchor is headed to MSNBC to co-host an...
Posted January 4, 2005 07:07 PM
A roundup of items in the news: Prostate cancer: Channel 7 weatherman Dallas Raines disclosed his disease on the air and underwent surgery today. The...
Posted January 3, 2005 10:06 PM
Franklin Avenue puts out the word that KCAL Channel 9 will adopt a New York television tradition by airing a crackling fireplace on Christmas morning....
Posted December 16, 2004 04:39 PM
On her blog, radio personality and voice actor April Winchell has posted an MP3 file of an on-air tiff (audio she wants you to listen...
Posted December 14, 2004 09:10 PM
I've mentioned before the strange fascination that some L.A. Observed visitors have with TV news women, in general, and especially with Gretchen Carr, the former...
Posted December 10, 2004 12:34 PM
David Goldstein at CBS 2 apparently had the story last night (it's in the Daily Breeze today). A 78-year-old Lancaster man walked into the LAX...
Posted December 10, 2004 11:56 AM
Beth Sweeney won the popular vote (10,399 to 8568), but at the conclusion of The Audition channel 5's Supreme Court of judges tapped Ross King...
Posted December 1, 2004 11:26 PM
Channel 5's news operation has had better months. Already in November, there have been reports that Lynette Romero and Marta Waller are out as co-anchors...
Posted November 28, 2004 11:28 PM
Documentary filmmaker and L.A. native Philip Rodriguez's on-screen interviews in Los Angeles Now include Eli Broad, Phil Jackson, Salma Hayek, Yxta Maya Murray, Michael Ventura,...
Posted November 27, 2004 02:38 PM
Today's L.A. Times Calendar runs a brief confirming Ron Fineman's report that KTLA suspended Sam Rubin for criticizing the "Morning News" set on the air....
Posted November 24, 2004 12:06 PM
RonFineman.com says that KTLA suspended entertainment reporter Sam Rubin yesterday for making derogatory comments about the new set on "The Morning Show." It would be...
Posted November 23, 2004 10:36 AM
The former anchor on channel 5's "News at Ten"—now Mindy Stearns—plays one of the "millionaire's wife" roles on the upcoming TBS reality show, "The Real...
Posted November 22, 2004 08:58 PM
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kevin Ross is in hot water for making comments about pending cases on KCET's "Life and Times" program and for...
Posted November 17, 2004 05:56 PM
Brandwynne, the assistant news director at Channel 5, gave $2,000 to Sen. Barbara Boxer's reelection fund, RonFineman.com says. The pay site also cites a newsroom...
Posted November 9, 2004 09:09 AM
RonFineman.com reports that Lynette Romero will not return from maternity leave as Hal Fishman's co-anchor on channel 5's "News at 10." He doesn't know of...
Posted November 2, 2004 04:34 PM
This is so lame it hurts to even hear about it. Ron Fineman.com reports that Jackie Johnson, the new weather reader (bio) on KCAL-9, gave...
Posted October 18, 2004 11:53 PM
In most news organizations, Tim Rutten writes in his Times media column, the allegations about a network star like Bill O'Reilly—accused of sexually harassing a...
Posted October 16, 2004 12:21 PM
This was the longtime channel 5 traffic reporter's last day up in the helicopter. She is leaving the station. Fans of her spots on the...
Posted October 15, 2004 03:09 PM
That's the title of Court TV's new show based on access to the files of the Los Angeles County Coroner's morgue, located at 1104 N....
Posted October 15, 2004 11:25 AM
The Radio and TV News Association and councilman Dennis Zine have negotiated 20 parking spaces for media vehicles around City Hall and Parker Center. RTNA...
Posted October 13, 2004 03:51 PM
"Life and Times" has a segment slotted in tonight on Penny Grenoble O’Malley, author of Malibu Diary: Notes from an Urban Refugee. She is the...
Posted October 11, 2004 01:58 AM
Analyzed at Cinemocracy: You’ve got a three-act structure (four if you include the vice presidential encounter), recurring characters, and a narrative line driven by the...
Posted October 5, 2004 10:30 AM
Former channel 4 weathercaster Christopher Nance alleges that the station, which fired him in 2002, discriminated on the basis of race (he's African American) and...
Posted September 22, 2004 10:03 PM
Jay Leno phoned up the LA Weekly's Nikki Finke to talk about media and politics after she wrote about him and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Weekly...
Posted September 15, 2004 02:54 PM
Giselle Fernandez left the anchor chair on the KTLA Morning News in August 2003. Her web site Casa Giselle updates her whereabouts, including a name...
Posted September 13, 2004 12:01 AM
KCAL-9 news photographer Bryan Frank blogs about his work and life (with his wife) at beFrank. He gives an interesting glimpse at the unpredictable day...
Posted September 9, 2004 12:26 PM
The blog kottke.org reports a tip it got on the eventual fate of reigning Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings, whose multi-month run resumed on the air...
Posted September 8, 2004 11:52 AM
Sure the media (and of course, we bloggers) wrote about them a lot, but Paul Colford writes in the New York Daily News that the...
Posted September 3, 2004 10:28 AM
KMEX channel 34 won the most (seven) local Emmy awards over the weekend, followed by Fox 11 (six). Individual winners include Diego Carro of KVEA/KWHY...
Posted August 30, 2004 09:59 PM
Some things to note from while I was gone: • Larry McCormick: The co-anchor of the KTLA "News at Ten Weekend Edition" began at channel 5...
Posted August 30, 2004 12:37 AM
Television Week editor Alex Ben Block accepted an invitation into the Fox News lair of Bill O'Reilly and lived to tell about it. It was...
Posted August 9, 2004 11:02 AM
The same night that Bill Clinton guests on "The Daily Show," his favorite fiction author is being featured on "Life and Times" on KCET. Walter...
Posted August 9, 2004 10:36 AM
New York real estate lawyer John Odoner hopes to launch Jewish Television as a 24-hour digital cable channel early next year, the New York Times...
Posted August 9, 2004 09:46 AM
That Valley man who was freed from jail on a murder rap after his alibi checked out — thanks to footage from HBO's "Curb Your...
Posted August 5, 2004 12:43 AM
The headline is from Franklin Avenue, the blog by Michael Schneider and Maria Villar that is having a good week. Their top item today is...
Posted August 4, 2004 06:58 PM
Dave Lopez of Channel 2 was voted the best local TV field reporter by readers of Ron Fineman's On the Record. Lopez finished ahead of...
Posted August 3, 2004 02:02 AM
MSNBC's gang of convention bloggers is a strange group. It crosses the spectrum from Pat Buchanan to Willie Brown and includes Ron Reagan and a...
Posted July 27, 2004 11:56 PM
Channel 2 is adding a new weatherman to its morning news, Ron Fineman reports at his site. It's John Elliott, formerly of MSNBC, and his...
Posted July 27, 2004 12:20 AM
Tonight's Nightline will take a vacation from war and politics to ride some 25-foot waves at Maverick's Beach up near San Francisco. The show's note...
Posted July 23, 2004 12:59 PM
Mediabistro has put up pictures from the site's July 7 TV party in Hollywood. There are revelers from KTLA, KTTV, NBC, Bravo, E! and others....
Posted July 21, 2004 05:44 PM
Philip Bruce, news director at Channel 28's "Life and Times" program, takes over as supervising editor for California at NPR West, the Culver City operation...
Posted July 10, 2004 12:15 PM
The top editorial in today's L.A. Times, headline Show Riordan the Door, urges Gov. Schwarzenegger to use the latest blooper by Richard Riordan