NBC News’ Tom Llamas Will Add New Streaming Option to the Evening-News Fray

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorJulio Vaqueiro will be the next anchor of Telemundo’s signature evening newscast “Noticias Telemundo,” filling a role that had previously been held by Jose Diaz-Balart.Vaqueiro had been anchoring the NBCUniversal-backed network’s late-night newscast, which airs at 11:35 p.m. eastern.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor“America Strong” has been a long-running segment on ABC’s “World News Tonight.” Now it has become an editorial initiative across the news division.ABC News expects to take the segment, which showcases Americans who confront and persevere against obstacles, often in small towns and less covered spaces, to more of its programming across September, with profiles of people helping one another against challenges brought on by the pandemic.“After a very difficult year

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBC News is an enterprise built on 30-minute and 60-minute increments of TV journalism. Executives are starting to think about longer blocks of time.As the Toronto International Film Festival continues into this weekend, Noah Oppenheim, president of NBC News, and Liz Cole, president of the still-young NBC News Studios, will be there.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCBS Sports and Nickelodeon will expand the work they do to link younger viewers to the National Football League, working to build on a kids-focused Wild Card game broadcast that gained traction earlier this year.As part of the activity, Nickelodeon will telecast another NFL Wild Card game on Jan. 16, alongside CBS Sports’ usual coverage that day.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorESPN said it would place sports host Max Kellerman in a new mid-afternoon program after taking him off the popular hot-talk show “First Take” last month, unveiling a daytime schedule it hopes will keep viewers interested for a longer period of time.Kellerman’s new program, “This Just In,” will debut September 14 at 2 p.m., and offer news, opinion and analysis of trending sports headlines as well as looking ahead at potential sports news from the evening ahead.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorSusan Zirinsky, the former CBS News chief and longtime leader of its “48 Hours,” is refashioning herself as a streaming-video maven.Zirinsky will lead the new See It Now Studios, a new production unit that will create news, documentary and unscripted programming for the Paramount Plus streaming-video hub, the CBS broadcast network and other networks owned by parent company ViacomCBS.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMadison Avenue is returning to the Super Bowl — with a vengeance.NBC Sports has fewer than five 30-second slots left to sell in its coming 2022 broadcast of Super Bowl LVI and is seeing some sponsors agree to pay as much as $6.5 million for them, along with a similar investment in other NBC inventory, according to Dan Lovinger, executive vice president of sports ad sales at NBCUniversal.

The Wanted have returned after a seven-year hiatus, promising new music and a performance at the Royal Albert Hall on September 20, amid Tom Parker’s brain tumour battle.Their performance is for band member Tom’s charity concert ‘Inside my Head’, of which all proceeds made will be split equally between Stand Up to Cancer and The National Brain Appeal. A video posted on the band’s official Twitter page Wednesday, confirmed the news.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorOn Sunday, Scott Pelley gets a full hour to tell a story which has gripped him for 20 years.In the season premiere of “60 Minutes,” the correspondent gives viewers a dramatic look at the firefighters who responded to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11, complete with actual recordings of emergency calls made during the horrific event.

Rylan Clark-Neal has confirmed he will be back on the radio waves from Saturday following a ten-week absence.The 32-year-old presenter took time away from his hectic work schedule in order to focus on his mental health.

Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletterChef Nick Nairn has paid tribute to the “humbling” local response after a fire ripped through his Bridge of Allan restaurant.Fire crews were called to the blaze at Nick’s on Henderson Street shortly after 8.15pm on Saturday and found a well-developed fire from the kitchen.The efforts of cool headed staff and a quick thinking off-duty police officer ensured that diners were evacuated out of the property within 90

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorProcter & Gamble is throwing what it hopes will be a touchdown pass to the NFL.The consumer-products giant has tapped the football league to push one of its biggest marketing initiatives in years.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCBS News wants to spread some of its venerable newsmagazine “Sunday Morning” to other days of the week.Starting September 7, the entire CBS morning schedule will be treated as a larger franchise, with weekdays and Saturdays featuring some of the in-depth and longform features for which the Sunday show — a TV-news institution — is best known.The weekday program, which features Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil and new co-host Nate Burleson, will be retitled “CBS

tweeted to let viewers know he was unharmed, saying, “Appreciate the concern guys. The team and I are all good!”Watch below.

Shaquille Brewster, an NBC News and MSNBC correspondent, was doing a live shot on the Hurricane Ida aftermath in Gulfport, MS, when a man jumped out of a white pickup truck and ran toward him and began shouting something at him.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorWhen she worked at CBS News as a senior executive, Kim Godwin was known to be eager to gain more control of a large news operation. Now that she’s arrived as president of ABC News, she has it — and a lot more.From the day she took the top role at the Walt Disney-backed news division, Godwin has been navigating tricky terrain.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAn ABC News producer who has worked for years at “Good Morning America” has alleged that the show’s former top executive sexually assaulted her and another female staffer, and she claims the network did little to reprimand or punish him.In a suit filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Kirstyn Crawford, a producer who works with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, alleges that Michael Corn, the former top producer at “Good Morning America,”

Lloyd Dobyns Jr., the Peabody Award winner who once served as an anchor and correspondent for NBC News, died on Sunday in Mebane, North Carolina, after suffering complications from a series of strokes, his son Ken Dobyns tells AP. He was 85.