Straight-ticket voting change could surprise voters
In an effort to clear up confusion, the legislature passed a law earlier this year that requires voters to select each candidate they wish for at-large county council and town council seats.
In an effort to clear up confusion, the legislature passed a law earlier this year that requires voters to select each candidate they wish for at-large county council and town council seats.
Republican Eric Holcomb and Democrat John Gregg are going into the last two weeks of their contentious campaign for the Indiana governor’s office by facing each other in a final televised debate Tuesday evening.
Indiana Public Broadcasting’s political reporter, Brandon Smith, will take over the show in December.
With less than four weeks to make their case to voters, Republican Todd Young and Democrat Evan Bayh are in the throes of one of the most competitive U.S. Senate races in the country.
A tsunami of change is headed toward the decades-old, largely unchanged system for calculating television ratings
The sale to Pacific Restaurant Partners could grow the chain internationally to hundreds of locations over the next four years.
The deal with an Arizona-based private-equity firm could take the small Indianapolis-based chain to 200 restaurants within the next four years, including locations in Japan.
Shella will cap his 40-year career with coverage of the 2016 election, saying it is a “really good time to sign off.”
WISH-TV political reporter Jim Shella has spent 40 years in the news business—most of it at the Indiana Statehouse—and 25 years as host of “Indiana Week in Review” on WFYI.
It’ll be the third consecutive year in which most corn farmers will spend more than they’ll earn. A glut of corn has depressed prices to a decade-low. It’s a similar story for soybeans, the second most common Midwest crop.
Les Vann is leaving after two years on the job and as WISH’s parent, Media General, is in the midst of being acquired. He was named “General Manager of the Year” in January by a trade publication.
The recent live-from-Broadway broadcast of “She Loves Me” is far from the only from-the-stage television available.
Cumulus hired its first Indianapolis market manager in 3-1/2 years, and the succeeding tweaks in WJJK’s playlist and on-air presentation have vaulted the local station to the No. 1 spot.
WHMB is entering its 29th consecutive year broadcasting high school sports. That’s the longest streak in the state, and station officials think it might be the longest in the nation as well.
The culture wars of the ’60s were fought in legislative chambers. Today, summary justice is handed down by unelected judges.
WRTV Channel 6 General Manager Larry Blackerby confirmed Friday to IBJ that Todd Connor is no longer with the station.
Political observers say Indiana’s newly minted Republican gubernatorial nominee has an uphill battle in the next 100 or so days if he wants to beat Democrat John Gregg in the Nov. 8 election.
The station is set to send six staffers to Rio for 3-1/2 weeks to cover more than a dozen Olympians with Indiana ties.
Eric Halvorson, who lost his job at WISH-TV late last year after 32 years an anchorman and reporter, has been hired by the Kroger Co.
The Federal Aviation Administration last month approved new regulations that TV industry experts say will open the floodgates for drone use in news reporting.