by TV Video Clips | May 12, 2023 | News
CNN’s Republican Presidential Town Hall with former President Trump ranked No. 1 among all cable news broadcasts Wednesday in both total viewers and adults 25-54, and No. 2 in all of cable, behind only NBA Playoffs on TNT, according to Nielsen live plus same day data. Hosted by Kaitlan Collins, the Town Hall out of St. Anselm College in New Hampshire averaged 3.31 million total viewers from 8-9:15 p.m. ET. Fox News averaged 1.45 million and MSNBC averaged 1.4 million total viewers in the same time period. That said, Wednesday’s event came up short to CNN’s 2020 Joe Biden Town Hall, which averaged 3.465 million total viewers on Sept. 17, 2020.
by TV Video Clips | May 11, 2023 | News
Two WNBC New York television journalists are being promoted to new roles, starting in mid-June. Current weekend news anchor Gilma Avalos will move to a weekday schedule and co-anchor WNBC’s 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekday newscasts alongside Adam Kuperstein. She will also appear on the 1 p.m. daily edition of News 4 New York, available exclusively on the NBC New York News streaming channel. Veteran reporter and substitute news anchor Rana Novini will move into Avalos’ role as the solo weekend news anchor. She will lead the station’s 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts on Saturdays and Sundays and continue as a general assignment reporter during the week.
by TV Video Clips | May 10, 2023 | News
José Griñan announced his retirement from FOX 26 Houston Television KRIV after 30 years with the station. The station says he will continue to anchor mornings with Melissa Wilson at FOX 26 until the end of June 2023. “We will certainly miss him,” Wilson commented on the Mike McGuff Facebook page. “What a career,” FOX 26 morning anchor Sally MacDonald posted on Facebook. “Can’t imagine our mornings without him. Congratulations Jose!” Griñan was the first anchor on FOX 26’s morning newscast back in August 1993, back when the studios were located where Central Market is today on Westheimer. He came to Houston from KDFW 4 Dallas-Fort Worth (before it was a FOX station) where he was an anchor/reporter. Griñan’s bio says that he was one of the first journalists on scene of the Branch Davidian siege near Waco. Previously he served as a correspondent/host of “Crime Watch Tonight” and freelance reporter for CNN. Griñan was in Miami at WTVJ 6 Miami TV and WCKT Miami Television (now WSVN 7) with time at the Satellite News Channel in between.
by TV Video Clips | May 7, 2023 | News
Dallas Television gets a new anchor/reporter. Amelia Jones joins FOX 4 Dallas – Fort Worth Television as a reporter on May 8, 2023. Jones comes to FOX 4 from FOX owned sister-station FOX 6 WITI Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she was a fill-in anchor/reporter since October 2020. She previously worked as a morning news reporter for NBC 15 WMTV Madison, Wisconsin.
by TV Video Clips | May 6, 2023 | News
Fox News is still holding tryouts for the 8pm time slot left vacant when it fired Tucker Carlson last month. And the latest conservative media star to get a shot at what used to be the network’s most valuable primetime real estate is former Trump press secretary, and current Fox News host, Kayleigh McEnany. McEnany will anchor the 8-9 p.m. hour for at least a week, starting Monday, May 8. It could go longer.
