On Thursday evening, on live TV, longtime WNBC-4 news anchor Sue Simmons made a somewhat surprising confession. Back in the '80s, she said, she would on occasion drink cocktails before anchoring the news. Eventually she stopped, she continued to explain, because she noticed the alcohol was making her eyes red.
The admission came Read More
And so the sometimes tumultous transformation of local TV news continues.
Today, NBC Universal executives in charge of local programming officially announced the hosts of their new daily lifestyle show, LX New York, which on September 14 will replace the 5 p.m. news on WNBC-4.
Out: longtime, seasoned journalists Sue Simmons and David Read More
Last month, The Observer reported that NBC Universal was working on developing a daily lifestyle show which could, as soon as this fall, replace 5 p.m. newscasts at NBC stations around the country.
Today, NBC made it official.
According to the press release, the daily, hour-long "daily information, lifestyle and entertainment show" will debut on September Read More
Could the station that 30 years ago gave birth to the "Live at Five" news format now be plotting the eventual demise of the early evening news genre?
Rumors are currently swirling at WNBC-4, NBC's flagship station in New York, that executives at NBC Universal are considering the creation of a daily 5 p.m. lifestyle show Read More
The New York Post: Last night, the President and First Lady arrived in England, bringing along hundreds of security guards and lots of vials of Barack Obama's blood. No, this isn't some kind of remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, though the British press is trying to play it that way. And that's a Read More
The space, which decades ago served as the studio for Read More
The previous afternoon, Mr. Meeks, along with thousands of others, had taken his first (and Read More
