Miami ABC affiliate cuts Panthers’ Stanley Cup celebration for local news
"Really WPLG Local 10? You bail on celebration to go to local news?"
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Portland, OR NBC affiliate apologizes after showing n-word photo during ‘The Good Stuff’ local news segment
This "Throwback Thursday" of user-submitted photos went very wrong for KGW.
Kirk Cousins rebukes ‘toxic’ nature of national news: ‘Local news is still somewhat pure.’
"When I watch it, I just feel like I’m at least getting some good quality news instead of just trying to incite people."
WFAA meteorologist Pete Delkus mocks heat index graphic error: ‘Everyone in McKinney is dead!’
"The heat index in McKinney is 10,000, what is that, 101,105? It's hot in McKinney!"
A local news segment on Snoop Dogg’s wine led to anchor Barbie Bassett being taken off the air
An attempt to quote Snoop Dogg appears to have led to Barbie Bassett being removed from the WLBT airwaves after 23-plus years there.
Journalism community mourns slain reporter Dylan Lyons, 24, killed while reporting on a murder
Lyons was fatally shot Wednesday afternoon, while colleague Jesse Walden was critically injured.
WBZ “most Massachusetts news report of all time” goes viral, featuring a vox pop on dinosaur extinction
"I don't like change. I tell my kids the dinosaurs didn't become extinct by accident, they saw the future and said, 'Screw this, let's go to the tar pit.'"
Prominent San Antonio news and sports figure Gary DeLaune has passed away at 88
DeLaune was one of San Antonio's most prominent news and sports figures over the past decades.
Fox 29 Philly’s Mike Jerrick says “We just got in footage of Ben Simmons leaving hastily out of Philadelphia,” shows washed-away dumpster
"We just got in footage of Ben Simmons leaving hastily out of Philadelphia, let's check that out."
Philadelphia ABC affiliate WPVI broadcast mooned by boardwalk jogger, prompting clever camera operator reaction
The post-mooning zoom fit with the broadcast, and it also might make it easier to identify the offender.
CTV Calgary’s newscast showed a parting shot of a nearby ice rink, which featured a skater falling over
This was quite the way to end the local news.
Here’s how local sports anchors are working despite no live events during coronavirus crisis
Some sports reporters have been folded into the news staff, while others have gotten creative in their segments
A Savannah runner has been banned from further races after smacking a local reporter’s butt
Alex Borzarjian was covering the annual Savannah Bridge Run for Savannah NBC affiliate WSAV Saturday when Tommy Callaway ran by and smacked her on the butt. That's now led to Callaway being banned from further races.
Mississippi meteorologist snapped his fingers at coworker on-air during tornado report, prompting Twitter commentary
"John! John! I need you off the phone, I need you to check radar, and I need you to look at this tornado warning up on ABC here and see if I need to be on it."
WTOL 11 tried too hard to be cool, from “slay all day” to “stay woke” to “weather’s going to be lit” (updated)
"Yeet! Stay woke, be on fleek, and get that Gucci breakfast." "GOOOOALLLLS! Say 'Bye, Felicia' to that testing stress! Weather's going to be turnt, right, Chris?"
Southern California chase ends with truck flipping, suspect taken down, and anchor’s Gus Johnson-level “Game over!”
"They are attempting a pit maneuver! Whoa, here we go! The vehicle flipped over, oh my goodness! Vehicle flipped over, westbound Lampson Avenue, CHP said 'Game over!'"
WGN’s attempt to crush news vans with a tank on live TV, in a “morning news primetime special,” had quite the result
Wisconsin local sports anchor hilariously reenacts highlights from the first half of Packers-Rams
"There's Aaron Rodgers, looking better than normal, I must say."
Dave Scott’s San Diego local news inflatable run segment, one of the worst ever, tops Reddit’s “cringe” subreddit
"Now, does that mean that everyone here becomes an inflatable today?" "Do they want to be inflatables?"
Philadelphia NBC affiliate chooses to air Roy Halladay giving up home runs during tribute segment
Viewers to NBC Philadelphia saw Halladay give up home runs instead of other footage.
Could The Athletic really work in “every” market?
In spite of challenges across the industry, The Athletic is optimistic it can make an impact.
Cleveland station takes a shot at Kyrie Irving in a new promo
Fox 8 tells Irving "You’re either with us or against us."
Nashville couple makes out on live TV after Predators win Stanley Cup Final Game 4
The couple was like the Energizer bunny, they kept going and going and going and going ...
Cow gets extremely personal with reporter for Hawaiian news station
A cow got very friendly with Jobeth Devera, a reporter for Hawaiian stations KGMB and KHNL.