Fox Weather continues to grow its availability with inclusion now on Vizio WatchFree+. Fox Weather Channel, which started as a streaming app, is now available on Roku, Amazon, Fox station digi-nets, Fox Business Network weekends and other traditional pipelines.
CNN promotes Shimon Prokupecz to CNN Senior Crime and Justice Correspondent. Prokupecz is an Emmy award-winning journalist. Prokupecz began his CNN career in 2013 as the justice producer in Washington, D.C. before relocating to the CNN New York bureau. He was at the forefront of reporting for CNN from the Uvalde, Texas school shooting and the New York City subway shooting.
WDIV-TV Local 4 in Detroit is airing a prime-time special this Friday. Called “Going 4 It: The Inside Story of the Rise of WDIV” the special will air at 9pm. It will feature TV clips of long-ago icons like comedy-dispensing weathercaster Sonny Eliot and legends Mort Crim and Carmen Harlan. It’s all part of WDIV-TV’s 75th Anniversary!
KPRC 2 Houston names Bernice Kearney news director. She was news director at Graham Media’s KSAT 12 in San Antonio previously. Kearney will start on November 21st. She has been with KSAT-TV since 1993, working her way up from producer, senior producer, executive producer assistant news director and then being appointed news director in 2013.
Rudabeh Shahbazi and Kalyna Astrinos have been named anchors of the new local morning news franchise launching on Los Angeles CBS owned station KCAL and the CBS News Los Angeles streaming channel in December. Shahbazi will join Jamie Yuccas for the 7-10 a.m. portion of KCAL’s planned seven-hour, 4 to 11 a.m. weekday block. Astrinos will anchor KCAL’s 4 to 4:30 a.m. newscast and additionally serve as the station’s morning traffic anchor.
Casey Webb makes the trip to Tampa for the ultimate Cuban platter at Florida’s oldest restaurant, a stop at a speakeasy with a secret and 20 minutes of cookie combat with the Cookie Munchers Challenge. The episode will air on 10/25 at 9pm. Food Network and Cooking Channel programs are available in full-resolution HD from TV Video Clips.