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THE OPPOSITION TO THE TEGNA DEAL MYSTIFIES SOO KIM
The $5.4 billion buyout of Tegna by Standard Media (with a financial assist from hedge fund Apollo Global) has come under fire from both unions and at least one competing media company. And that ...
HAVOC INSIDE WETM. NEXSTAR, LET’S DO BETTER.
This small market newsroom is crumbling… but what’s being done?
BYRON ALLEN READIES HIS SHOT AT REVIVING THE BLACK NEWS CHANNEL
Almost from the time it was announced that the Black News Channel was shutting down earlier this year, Byron Allen’s name has repeatedly been mentioned as a possible savior of the cable channel. The ...
“EVEN ENCORES HAVE TO END”
And even anchor icons eventually decide enough is enough. Dave Courvoisier returned to Las Vegas airwaves as evening anchor at Scripps’ KTNV just under two years ago. Back in 2017, Courvoisier left Nexstar’s KLAS ...
IN BRIEF…NEW HORIZONS EDITION
Nexstar’s WJBF in Augusta, GA has posted an opening for news director to replace Scott Elledge, who has been the ND here for a long time. He reportedly has a new job lined up….but ...
MAKING A CROSS-COUNTRY MOVE FOR FAMILY
It’s back to Orlando for KPIX anchor Len Kiese, who signed off from CBS-owned KPIX in San Francisco mid-week. http:// Kiese came to the Bay Area from WFTV in Orlando in April of 2020. ...
SPORTSCASTER DEPARTS KARE
The news got out long after the departure of Andy McDonnell as weekend sportscaster at Tegna-someday Standard Media’s – KARE in Minneapolis. After a little over two and a half years with the station, ...
AND ANOTHER ONE GONE IN ROCHESTER
Just days after his news director left Nexstar’s WROC in Rochester, NY, morning/midday anchor Mark Gruba signed off after ten years with the station to…..spend more time with his family? Gruba’s career in tv ...
WELL…NOW WE KNOW WHERE HE LANDED
Stephen Watson signed off last week as the main sports guy at Hearst’s WISN in Milwaukee, WI without giving a hint of the next step in his career. Now we know. Watson is joining ...
A CHANGE IN STORE FOR DALLAS ND
Laurie Passman, who’s been VP/News for CBS owned KTVT in Dallas for the last four years, is moving to a new…and yet to be revealed…role at the station. She sent this very detailed and ...
A ONE-TANK TRIP TO “TEN OHIO DISASTERS”
Until he retired in 2016, Neil Zurcher traveled the blue highways of Ohio in his vintage Nash Metropolitan finding “One-Tank Trips” that Ohioans on a budget could enjoy. He did those reports for WJW ...
