Politics Four Local Stations Score Obama Interviews By Merrill Knox on Dec. 8, 2011 - 10:29 AM President Obama is doing another round of regional interviews today, sitting down with anchors from four stations — one each from Indiana, Nevada, Tennessee and Maine. The anchors are Debby Knox, from WISH in Indianapolis; J ...
CBS Affiliates | Reporting | ShopTalk Reporter Mike Matthews Cut Loose at WREG By Merrill Knox on Oct. 4, 2011 - 10:32 AM Mike Matthews, a local government reporter who joined WREG in 1997, has been let go from the Memphis CBS-affiliate. “We’re not leaving because we want to,” Matthews wrote on Twitter. “The station felt it wa ...
FOX Affiliates | Top 10 WREG’s Omari Fleming Joins WTXF in Philadelphia By Merrill Knox on Sep. 29, 2011 - 2:48 PM Omari Fleming has signed on to be an anchor and reporter at Fox owned-and-operated WTXF in Philadelphia. Fleming has been a weekend anchor and general assignment reporter at WREG, the CBS-affiliate in Memphis, since 2001. He ancho ...
ShopTalk | TV Biz In Memphis, WMC Achieves Ratings Success Not Seen in 15 Years By Andrew Gauthier on Mar. 4, 2011 - 11:28 AM Memphis’s WMC has reason to pop the champagne this weekend. The NBC-affiliate did a clean sweep in February with all of its newscasts finishing #1. The station says that it’s the first time the feat has been achieved i ...
NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk WMC Report on Local Teen Pregnancy Epidemic Lands on ‘Today’ By Andrew Gauthier on Jan. 19, 2011 - 10:32 AM Memphis NBC-affiliate WMC reported last week that 90 students at a local high school are either pregnant or have recently given birth. The staggering figure caught the attention of “Today” producers and the show aire ...