No --most news directors are not out of the building half of the week. Yes, News directors have meetings and can't always be in the newsroom. But, to not be in the building because you are working out of a bureau so you don't have to commute is ridiculous. In a market like Flint/Saginaw, a news dire...

WNEM News Director Jayne Hodak was at the Masters this past week. The word at the station is she used media credentials to go but didn't provide one iota of coverage for the station. :roll: She would be the first to nail anyone at the station if they were to do it. Not shocking that she is that hypo...

It is how Scripps work. Same environment at WXYZ with Mike Murri Old boys club who are pigs. If anyone questions it, they are the ones that in the wrong. Remember all that crap that went down at WXYZ - lawsuits etc and Murri still has a job because he is the same way. Yes man to corporate and do wha...

As someone who worked with Gray HR-- both of the accounts are accurate. Jayne and Pete did not get along -- he wanted her gone. Gray also did not think she had done much to improve the station. Jayne was a tyrant but she was able to blame Pete for a lot of it to save herself. The digital platforms w...

Rochester, Minnesota --- lol even worse than Rochester, New York.

The former ND is Rhonda LaVelle who is now the GM in Rochester. That's why the story is not about Detroit She was a terrible ND and sounds like a similar GM. She yelled and screamed at everyone. She didn't know news at all until the competition had it. One time a reporter got the sister of a victim ...

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2023/9/11/bounced-in-rochester Not shocking that former WXYZ News Director is firing anyone who stands up to her. As a GM, she fired a popular anchor and had a screaming match with him in the newsroom. Nice to see some things don't change with her from her time at W...

Wow. what a feature softball light interview. Pretty disappointing to say the least. Does anyone know the background on how channel 4 got the interview? I had heard after ML Elrick's more truthful column on what Beatty really is all about, her team shopped around the interview to show the "other" si...

They should still be coaching but yeah I don't think alot of coaching is happening anywhere anymore. Mostly, because there isn't enough staff to get the job done. Curious to see how things will shake up at WNEM with the so called investigation into the ND there. Jayne shouldnt't been given another c...

It was nice to Al Allen back on Fox 2 for part of their anniversary coverage. Remember when reporters just came in and did their job- cover the story and not make it about themselves all of the time. It's insane how much it has changed. Erica Francis is too much. It's always about her. She wears too...

Seems like a lot of changes going on at WJRT. I know the revolving door blame was placed on former ND but looks like new ND has a lot of the same issues. I was curious to see how it would go with Gray selling them and becoming Byron Allen. A little rough so far. However, I did catch a new reporter o...

I know there are a lot of changes happening at WLUC with some long-term names leaving/retiring this year but I watched them for a few days last week when I was Up North and I have to say their morning show talent was overall pretty good. I know they are young-- the Meteorologist Jen was solid and ea...

The day before Emily was supposed to start -- she got an offer somewhere else out of state and told Wilx she was leaving. Whole plan blew up on them. A year getting paid to do nothing at WILX completely worthless. So, back to Darrin whose retirement happened before Emily was even in the picture. Loo...