Jana Shortal, a Minnesota television personality known for using her platform to attack conservative figures and weigh in on cultural controversies, has been pushed out of her longtime broadcast-TV slot. KARE 11 announced that “Breaking The News,” the commentary program Shortal has hosted for more than a decade, will disappear from the station’s traditional television schedule. The show is being relegated to KARE 11’s streaming platform while an expanded local newscast takes over its former time. Conservative radio host Clay Travis wasted little time pointing out the development.
“Breaking The News” has aired on the Twin Cities NBC affiliate immediately after its weekday 6 p.m. newscast for more than 10 years. Beginning Monday, September 28th, KARE 11 will expand that newscast to a full hour, eliminating Shortal’s program from the broadcast lineup. A streaming version will begin airing weekdays on KARE 11+ at 5:30 p.m. on October 5th. The program was previously reduced from 30 minutes to 20 minutes, although the online version will return to a 30-minute runtime.
Shortal had recently criticized Travis over his $10 million challenge involving the defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces and a state-champion boys’ high school basketball team. Travis offered the money to the winner if the Aces agreed to play a team selected by him, arguing that the game would demonstrate the physical differences between male and female athletes. Shortal called the proposal a “thinly veiled sexist joke” and said Travis and OutKick treated women’s sports as a joke. The Aces never publicly accepted his offer.
Travis revisited that clash in a September 21st post on X, identifying Shortal as “the Minnesota newsperson who said I was sexist.” He also pointed to her reaction to the recent controversy involving ESPN reporter Holly Rowe and University of Texas quarterback Arch Manning. Travis said Shortal demanded that reporters who laughed at Manning’s comments be forced to apologize. His post linked directly to the report announcing that her program was being removed from broadcast television.
That controversy began after an artificial intelligence-generated video falsely depicted Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian slapping Rowe following the Longhorns’ victory over Ohio State. Manning mentioned the fake clip during a press conference, called it “hilarious,” and laughed along with several people in the room. He later issued an apology after the predictable backlash, and Rowe publicly accepted it following a private conversation. Shortal was among the media personalities who treated the incident as a serious example of sexism rather than an ill-advised joke about an obviously fake video.
KARE 11 and its owner, TEGNA, announced Shortal’s removal from the broadcast schedule Monday evening. As Bring Me The News reported, the station portrayed the decision as part of a broader push to produce more programming for connected televisions, streaming applications, and mobile devices. That corporate explanation doesn’t change the results for Shortal, with her show losing its established television audience and being moved to an online platform that viewers have to deliberately seek out.
KARE 11 said it currently produces approximately 18 hours of original streaming content every week. Station executives also claimed that streaming watch time doubled during the past year, including a reported 104% increase in minutes watched during 2025. KARE 11 President and General Manager Doug Wieder credited original programs such as “Breaking The News” with helping produce that growth. The station didn’t release broadcast ratings for Shortal’s program or explain why a show supposedly driving its digital success could no longer retain a place on television.
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