NBC’S Boston O&O WBTS has hired Matt Prichard as NBC10 Boston television political reporter. Prichard, an award-winning journalist who has been covering news and politics for more than a decade, will begin his new role on Monday, Aug. 7. Prichard comes to Boston from KUSI San Diego television where he was a weekend anchor and weekday reporter.
Deevon Rahming is joining KHOU 11 Houston television via TEGNA sister-station KARE 11 Minneapolis, Minnesota where he’s a reporter. Rahming joined KARE 11 in January 2020 from ABC 15 News WPDE Florence, South Carolina where he had been a multimedia journalist since December 2017. The Florida State University grad interned with WSB Atlanta television and worked as a production assistant for Fox 4 News WFTX Fort Myers, Florida. The Florida Keys native also worked as a WINK News production assistant while in high school.
Award-winning news executive and producer Meagan Harris has been named vice president and news director at CBS Stations’ local businesses in Dallas-Fort Worth, including KTVT (CBS), KTXA (independent), the CBS Texas streaming channel and CBSTexas.com. Harris, who will assume her new role on Monday, June 5, has spent most of her 20-plus year journalism career working in Texas, including 10 years in the Dallas-Fort Worth market. Most recently, she has served as the news director of NBCLX, a multiplatform national news network that targets millennials and features live newscasts that originate from KXAS, the NBC O&O in Fort Worth.
Eric Adjepong invites three chefs from Hawaii to take on Alex Guarnaschelli in a competition celebrating the uniqueness of Hawaiian food. They will have to impress judges Roy Yamaguchi and Sheldon Simeon to beat Chef Alex and claim their prize. It happens at 8pm ET tonight on the Food Network.
It’s a tug of war for first place between ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today in the key advertiser demo of Adults 25-54. This development has now extended into the fifth week, with NBC’s morning show emerging victorious in this go around. Today earned its largest lead over GMA in the demo in nine weeks, beating ABC News’ morning show by +42,000 A25-54 viewers. GMA still came out on top in total viewers for the week of May 8. Third place CBS Mornings, for the week of May 8, dropped by -3% in total viewers compared to the previous week to stand at 2.35 million total viewers on average, and saw a double-digit fall of -10% in the A25-54 demo to stand at 490,000 viewers.