SHUFFLES AT THE TOP AT NBC FLAGSHIP
Two number 2s bumped up and a number one goes up another notch
Category: Corporate Chess
A NEW TEAM OF EXECS WILL TRY TO REVIVE CNN’S MORNING SHOW
Two execs will take the place of one departed boss
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A “SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT” AND “SENIOR MANAGING VICE PRESIDENT?”
Five recently-promoted Gray Television executives may be able to tell us – someday
GRAY EXECUTES AN EXECUTIVE SHUFFLE
Two former tv newsers, one promoted out of Dothan station, another promoted up
CNN’S STRUGGLING MORNING PROGRAM HAS A NEW EP
He's a CBS News vet now with NewsNation
DIRECTV THROWS A MONKEY WRENCH INTO NEWSMAX’S STRATEGY
The satellite provider finds another conservative network to replace the dumped outlet
“DEFINITELY DON’T GO DO THAT.”
But he ignored his friend’s advice and now look
A PRE-HOLIDAY EXECUTIVE SHUFFLE
Gray promotes two
NBC NEWS NAMES A NEW SENIOR VP
She oversaw the network’s digital growth
CNN SHUFFLES WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS
Names a new chief correspondent and senior correspondent
VETERAN JOURNALIST MOVES INTO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
She’ll build relationships with organizations in the market
GRAY ADDS NEW DUTIES TO VETERAN EXEC
And he gets a new title
CNN NAMES A CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER
Position had been vacant since the shuttering of CNN+
JUMPING NETWORKS
Telemundo has raided Univision to nab John B. Pérez as its new senior vice-president of news production. Perez’ tenure at Univision spanned four decades, serving most recently as senior vice president of production and ...
THE NEW GUY IN HOUSTON
Well, since Tex the Dog left Graham Media’s KPRC in Houston this week and took his owner, station general manager Jerry Martin, with him, it was important for Graham to come up with a ...
ONE GUY “RESIGNS” AND EVERYTHING CHANGES
Following the resignation of Gray Television’s Senior Vice President-Local Media Tim Ingram to “pursue other opportunities” (*wink, wink*) the management landscape inside the company underwent an upheaval. Effective August 1st, Gray has streamlined the ...
NBC NEWS SHUFFLES AFTER PETE WILLIAMS DEPARTURE
Pete Williams’ exit this week as the justice correspondent for NBC News has triggered a number of moves in the network’s Washington bureau. Six-year network veteran Ken Dilanian takes over Williams’ slot at Justice. ...
IN BRIEF…MEET THE NEW BOSSES EDITION
A couple of new GMs tagged by the corporate suits. Scripps named Lisa Volenec as the new vice president and general manager for KMTV, in Omaha, NE, effective Monday, Aug. 22. That means she will ...
DISNEY SENDS A REPORTER CROSS-COUNTRY
North Carolina native and Raleigh reporter Tim Pulliam is waving goodbye to Disney’s WTVD in Raleigh-Durham, NC and is headed for La-La-Land and sister station KABC. His tweet was short and succinct: Pulliam’s FACEBOOK ...
ABC PICKS STATION VET TO HEAD UP ITS FLAGSHIP STATION
Marilu Galvez will be the new president and general manager of Disney’s WABC in New York, replacing Chad Matthews who was named president of ABC Owned Television Stations earlier this year. Galvez has been ...
ONE FAMILIAR FACE MAKES WAY FOR ANOTHER
Darren Kramer has been a late night news fixture at the anchor desk of Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford-New Haven for more than two decades. That is about to change. Kramer is stepping down from ...
AND THE SHUFFLING CONTINUES
Management keeps moving around the chess pieces in the CBS Stations Group newsrooms. The latest is the promotion of Mary Baynes to vice president and news director at KOVR/ KMAX in Sacramento, CA – ...
CBS NEWS HAS A NEW LONDON BUREAU CHIEF
Lately, the CBS News London Bureau has not been the happiest place on earth. The final months of departed bureau chief Andy Clarke were highlighted by acrimonious squabbles with parsimonious CBS News co-president Neeraj ...
LONGTIME ABC NEWS PRODUCER TO EP THE NETWORK’S MEDICAL UNIT
Effective immediately, Eric Strauss, a 25-year veteran of ABC News, is the new executive producer of the ABC News Medical Unit Network News President Kim Godwin announced the move in a memo to the ...
HEADED UP THE INTERSTATE
In an in-house move, Bill Siegel is moving up I-95 from Scripps ‘ WSFL in Miami to take over as GM at sister duopoly WPTV/WHDT in West Palm, Beach. Siegel had been vp/gm in ...
ABC NEWS GIVES VETERAN EXEC A BOOST AND A NEW TITLE
ABC News President Kim Godwin announced Wednesday that the newly created New York-based position of Executive Editor and Senior VP of ABC News will be filled by a familiar face around the office. Stacia ...
NOW IS THE PURGE OVER?
After four years at the helm of CBS-owned WJZ in Baltimore, Audra Swain is out as general manager. Before arriving at WJZ, Swain spent 17 years with Sinclair Broadcast Group, working her way up ...
STILL UP IN THE AIR…WHO REPLACES CUOMO? NOT WILLIAMS….NOT KING.
Ever since CNN’s unceremonious dumping of Chris Cuomo last November, the anchor chair in the cable network’s 9 PM slots has been occupied by a revolving cast of guest hosts…all of whom are more ...
COX NAMES A NEW TOP DOG IN DAYTON
Darren Moore, who started his Cox Media journey 26 years ago at WPXI in Pittsburgh, is the new vice president/general manager of CMG Ohio. In case you didn’t get that memo, CMG Ohio is ...
CBS NEWS MAKES SOME MORE CHANGES
The CBS News PR Department has been quite busy of late churning out press releases about new executives and division reorganization. In the latest move, Joel Goldberg is the new GM of CBS Newspath ...
TELEMUNDO DOES SOME SHUFFLING OF ITS OWN IN THE NEWS DIVISION
New Telemundo News division boss Patsy Loris is building her own senior management team at the network, and let us note that all three are women with deep experience. Veteran news executive Gabriela Tristán ...
HEARST FILLS WGAL GM POSITION
We told you earlier this week that Justin Antoniotti was being moved by Hearst from its WGAL in Lancaster PA to KMBC/KCWE duopoly in Kansas City, Mo. And today we can tell you that ...
THE CBS NEWS SHAKEUP CONTINUES….
She’s been with CBS News for close to 30 years and most recently has been its Washington Bureau Chief. And now Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews has been moved up and put in charge of all network ...
A CHANGE AT THE TOP OF TELEMUNDO’S NETWORK NEWS DIVISION
After half a century in television, the last six of them as president of Telemundo Network News, Luis Fernandez is retiring at the end of the year. Taking his place will be Patsy Loris, ...
NEW EP AT NIGHTLY NEWS
Meghan Rafferty’s interim title as executive producer of “NBC Nightly News” is now permanent. Rafferty, who has been interim executive producer since Jenn Suozzo’s departure last month, got the nod from NBC News President ...
HEARST NAMES SALES VETS TO STATION OVERSIGHT POSITIONS
The folks at Hearst have decided they are big enough to have two executives share oversight of the company’s 33 television stations and two radio stations. Ashley Gold and Eric Meyrowitz each have the ...
CBS CONTINUES ITS REORGANIZATION
Earlier this year, CBS reorganized its news and station operations into a single unit co-led by Wendy McMahon and Neeraj Khemlani. The reshuffling of executive responsibilities continues with the appointment of veteran news executive ...
A NEW NUMBER TWO AT GMA
“Good Morning America’s” new executive broadcast producer is a familiar face to the rest of the staff. The announcement of Christine Brouwer’s promotion may soothe some nerves at “GMA” (and by extension, ABC News) ...
CBS NEWS PICKS INTERIM EP FOR O’DONNELL NEWSCAST
Longtime CBS’er Al Ortiz has gotten the nod to serve as interim producer of the “CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell.” It’s a trip back to the program for Ortiz, who previously served as ...
AWAITING A MANAGEMENT REBOOT
While FOX rearranges the deck chairs on its KCPQ in Seattle, it has shelved two popular news franchises, with their fate seemingly up for grabs by the still-to-be-named managers. “Washington’s Most Wanted” and “The ...
MARK YOUR CALENDARS. MONDAY IS REBRANDING DAY AT WGN AMERICA
Someone in Irving, TX still has faith in the News Nation experiment. Come Monday, Nexstar’s WGN America becomes News Nation with expanded news programming, some anticipated right-of-center talk and a newly-minted creative team assigned ...
NEW PATH TO SUCCESS?: FROM STREAMER TO CABLE
MSNBC continues to fiddle with the fringes of its schedule as the core seems to have become more competitive and the network seeks to increase diversity. The latest change sees former Al-Jazeera English host ...
ABC NEWS PUMPS UP ITS STREAMING SERVICE
ABC News has recruited veteran TV producer David Hatcher as “ABC News Live” executive producer. His first priority in his new job is building out and overseeing the streamer’s morning news programming block, including ...
CLEVELAND ND GOING CORPORATE
Sean McGarvy, who’s been the ND for Scripps’ WEWS in Cleveland for the past year and a half, has been tapped to fill the company’s vacant Senior Director of Content position. He’s also worked for ...
COX MAKES AN IN-HOUSE MOVE
Tina Commodore, who’s been the ND for Cox’s KOKI in Tulsa, heads to Orlando where she’ll take over the newsroom for sister station WFTV. She joined KOKI as ND in November 2016, and assumed oversight ...
MOVING UP AT CBS NEWS
Jenna Gibson, an eight-year veteran of CBS News, is the division’s new managing editorial producer. What the hell does that mean exactly? Well kids, she will put on an extra hat, continuing to manage ...
FOX PRODUCER PROMOTED TO CORRESPONDENT
Chad Pergram is now a congressional correspondent at Fox News Channel. The move comes as the House sends articles for impeachment against President Trump to the Senate for a trial. Pergram has been senior ...
NEWSMAX NAMES A NEW EVP
Newsmax TV has tapped Elliott Jacobson as its news EVP of programming and chief content officer. Newsmax, the brainchild of Trump pal Christopher Ruddy, targets boomers as its core audience. Jacobson is trading in ...
NEW ROLES AT THE PEACOCK
MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle has been named senior business correspondent at NBC News, but she wants to take that role in a different direction. Ruhle wants to do the type of business-news coverage that’s ...
THE MSNBC SHUFFLE
Frame it anyway you want. The recently announced scheduling shuffle at MSNBC results in Ali Velshi being relegated to weekend mornings starting in January. He currently anchors a weekday hour, preceded by a program ...
ANCHOR SHAKE UP IN BATON ROUGE, LA
A NewsBlueser passed along news of a major shakeup in the anchor assignments at a station in Baton Rouge, LA. Try to follow along the musical chairs game that management at Nexstar-operated duopoly WVLA/WGMB ...
ANYONE HEARING FOOTSTEPS AT 30 ROCK?
You can consider the changing of the guard is now underway at NBC, where Steve Burke (left) is stepping down as CEO of NBCUniversal on January 1st and handing over the reins to Jeff ...
ANOTHER NEXSTAR MOVE
Nexstar Media Group has promoted Paula Jackson to VP/GM of WJHL in Johnson CIty, TN, effective immediately. Jackson, a twenty-year vet of Nexstar stations in the market most recently was WJHL’s general sales manager. ...
ARE INVESTIGATIVE STORIES A HASSLE?
This has been the autumn of discontent for investigative TV journalists. Ronan Farrow’s best-selling book “Catch and Kill” detailed his frustration with former bosses at NBC News over his failed attempt to break the ...
BACK TO 30 ROCK
Madeleine Haeringer is back at NBC News after a three-year tour of duty with Vice News where she was the exec in charge of HBO’s “Vice News Tonight” before it went dark last month. ...
FOX NEWS CHANGES
Fox News will move Mark Levin‘s Sunday night program from 10 p.m. to 8 p.m. starting this weekend as part of several changes to its lineup, The Hill has learned. Confirmed Fox News is moving ...
MOVING TO THE NIGHT SHIFT
The clock will be flipped as Jack Bohrer takes over as the new executive producer of “The 11th Hour with Brian Williams.” He’s been on the other end of the day as “Morning Joe” ...
A SCRIPPS SHUFFLE
Two news manager moves at Scripps’ WXYZ in Detroit. Ronnie Love is the new morning executive producer, and Yve Jones has been named Real Time Manager. ND Rhonda Lavelle tells Rick Gevers that real ...
GOING LOCAL FROM CORPORATE
Paul Briggs is moving from a corporate job to become the new GM….or should we say vice president of Orlando TV for Cox Media Group at duopoly WFTV-WRDQ. In his new job, Briggs will ...
FORMER NEWS DIRECTOR NOW DIRECTS “NEXT GENERATION” TV
Former tv news director Kerry Oslund is the newly-named vice president of strategy and business development for Scripps. Oslund, who ran tv newsrooms in Atlanta, GA and Portland, OR in the course of a ...
CBS MAKES SOME KEY MOVES
As the “CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell” prepares to move from Manhattan to Washington, DC, the news division has named Jay Shaylor as the program’s new executive producer. Shaylor is moving over from ...
SCRIPPS MAKES SOME MOVES
Jace Larson was promoted to National Director of Content. Larson was working at KMGH and now oversees content with Scripps’ National News Team in Denver. Katherine Price is the new Director of Local OTT. She ...
CNN SHUFFLE
CNN International correspondent Matt Rivers is the newest member of the network’s Mexico City bureau after four years in Beijing. On one of his last major assignments in China, Rivers investigated the detention of ...
UNIVISION MOVES UP VETERAN EXEC
Univision is beefing up its news division as it closes in on co-hosting with ABC, its first Democratic presidential primary debate. María Martínez-Guzmán has been promoted to svp and executive news director of the ...
MAKEOVER AT “CBS THIS MORNING”
The behind-the-scenes shuffle amped up at “CBS This Morning” with the appointment of a new director (Shanta Fripp), a new managing editor (Claudia Milne) and a new senior broadcast producer (Jon Tower). Fripp moves ...
NEW TOP DOG IN PHILLY
Brandin Stewart is the new GM at CBS-owned KYW in Philadelphia, replacing Brien Kennedy who took a quick exit from the station last month.. And hey, what better qualification? “My parents are from West ...
A RETURN TO ABC NEWS
Marie Nelson is headed back to ABC News to become svp, integrated content strategy. “Marie will work closely with leaders across the news division to strengthen our brand with multicultural audiences,” news division president ...
FROM PHOTOG TO THE BIG DOG
Mike McClain, who began his career as a news photographer, and worked his way up to news director for three network owned stations, is the new GM for Fox’s WOFL in Orlando. More details ...
MOVING UP AT TELEMUNDO
Delines Batlle-Alonso is moving up the Telemundo food chain as she departs the assistant news director job at WNJU in New York to become VP of News at KVDA, the group’s San Antonio outlet. ...
AN IN-HOUSE MOVE
Gray’s WAVE in Louisville, KY has named Dan Fabrizio as news director. It’s an inter-Gray move for Dan, who’s spent the last eight years as ND for WSAZ in Charleston/Huntington, WV. He’s also been an ...
KEEPING IT IN-HOUSE
A transfer between Scripps stations leaves Eric Gaylord as the new ND for KPAX in Missoula, MT. He’s been the ND at sister station KRTV in Great Falls, MT, since June, 2017. Eric began as a photographer, ...
HERE WE GO AGAIN…
CBS is once again preparing to make an offer for sister media company Viacom in the coming weeks, following a meeting of CBS directors last week in which a potential deal was discussed. If ...
COX ND TRIFECTA ACHIEVED
Cox executed a significant shuffle this week among its news executive ranks. Misti Turnbull is joining the corporate staff at Cox Media, and thus leaving her job as news director of the company’s Atlanta station, ...
MOVING UP IN GRAY
Tim Coles is the new general manager/general sales manager of Gray’s WBKO in Bowling Green, Ky. For the past four years, Coles has been a couple of time zones away performing the same role ...
SINCLAIR TAPS NEW NORFOLK GM
Sinclair Broadcast Group has named John W. Miller Jr. general manager of its MNT affiliate WTVZ in Norfolk, Va. Miller has been a director of political sales at Cumulus Media since 2017 and president-CEO ...
TEGNA NAMES TEXAS ND
Erin Wencl, a 12-year veteran of the tv news wars, is the new news director at Tegna’s KAGS in Bryan-College Station, TX. Let the flowery press release speak for itself. “Erin’s outstanding experience and ...
OTHER MEREDITH MOVES
In addition to Hanson’s promotion, Meredith also named new station managers in Las Vegas and Phoenix In Phoenix, AZ, Bianca Esparza Pap will be KTVK/KPHO’s station manager. She was most recently the marketing director ...
NEW NIGHTLY EP AT NBC NEWS
Matt Frucci is the new executive producer of “NBC Nightly News Weekend.” Frucci is currently senior executive producer of “MSNBC Weekends,” When he makes his move he will take over for Wesley Oliver, who ...
POWER SHIFT IN THE OFFICES AT WEST 57TH
The CBS News shuffle continues with the elevation of Eva Nordstrom from “CBS This Morning” managing editor to executive producer of special events. Fun fact: CBS News now has women as its president, evening ...
MEET THE NEW BOSS
Diane Hannes has been named president and general manager of WVIT-WRDM, NBCUniversal’s stations in Hartford, CT, replacing the departing Susan Tully, who is moving to Texas. Hannes departs WMAQ-WSNS Chicago, where she’s been VP ...
MOVING UP IN COLUMBUS
Nexstar’s WCMH in Columbus, OH, has promoted Brianne Betts to assistant news director. Betts has worked for WCMH for eight years. She started as a producer, was promoted to EP in 2015, and then Senior EP ...
THE CBS SHUFFLE GETS REAL
What had been speculated about for days, weeks and even months, becomes official this morning. Gayle King, the network’s $11 million woman, will be the sole survivor of the current “CBS This Morning” crew. ...
TELEMUNDO SHUFFLES GM
Robert Sarabia is the new president-GM of KVDA in San Antonio, TX. For the past six years, he’s been vp of sales at sister station KTMD in Houston. Before joining KTMD and NBCUniversal, Sarabia ...
IF YOU CAN’T REPLACE ‘EM, PAY ‘EM MORE
Since the CBS search committee looking for a new permanent CEO can’t make up its mind and has kicked that particular can down the road, acting CEO Joe Ianniello, whose contract was extended last ...
THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG
The rebooting of “Today’s” fourth hour continues, with the return of Joanne LaMarca to NBC News to become the program’s new executive producer. LaMarca, who left NBC News back in 2017 to “take some ...
HELP WANTED: CEO FOR MAJOR MEDIA COMPANY. WE’RE STUMPED!
Maybe it’s the ongoing human resources problems that’s scaring off potential replacements for the unlamented Les Moonves (see above). Maybe it’s the prospect of dealing with majority stockholder Shari Redstone. Maybe it’s just not ...
ANOTHER EXIT FROM “TODAY’S” FOURTH HOUR
Another departure announced from the fourth hour of “Today.” This time it’s executive producer Tammy Filler, who leaves after 16 years at NBC News, and with “Today.” For the past two years, she’s run ...
AN ORDERLY ASCENSION IN CHARLOTTE
Kim Saxon moves up from assistant news director at Gray’s WBTV in Charlotte, NC to the main chair on May 25th. That’s the day after current news director Dennis Milligan steps down from the ...
NEWS CORP CEO LASHES MSM
News Corp Chief Executive Robert Thomson Tuesday night, took aim at the media’s apparent mocking of Middle America and The New York Times’ “muck-spreading,” while ramping up his criticism of big tech companies. Thomson ...
ATLANTA’S FAVORITE NEW GUESSING GAME
So what happens in the wake of Paul Ossmann’s sudden and unceremonious dismissal from the weather center at Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta? Atlanta media watcher Rodney Ho decided to weigh in on the new ...
“48 HOURS” GETS A NEW EP
The stamp denoting Susan Zirinsky’s presence at the helm of CBS News continues to make marks. Longtime senior producer Judy Tygard will succeed Zirinsky herself as executive producer of “48 Hours.” Tygard will oversee ...
NEW DENVER TELEMUNDO GM
Tatiana Argüello becomes the president and general manager of Telemundo’s KDEN in Denver, CO on May 6. She’s moving over from her current job as director of local and regional sales for the NBCUniversal ...
THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’
The boys’ club that has been network news for so many decades appears to be cracking at an even faster rate. With women at the top of CBS News and Fox News Channel, the ...
NOW IT’S O’DONNELL IN THE HOT SEAT
The drama at CBS News is only going to increase in coming weeks at new boss Susan Zirinsky puts her stamp on the organization. The latest move comes behind the scenes with the naming ...
ORLANDO SHUFFLE?
We are hearing from NewsBluesers that the word at Graham Media’s WKMG in Orlando, FL is they are shopping around for a new weekend weather forecaster. It gets a little trickier from there. Some ...
A HEATED WATER COOLER AT WEST 57TH
A NewsBlueser wonders if one of the more head-scratching rumors bouncing around West 57th is true? While all of the proposed changes involving Gayle King’s contract and the ”CBS Evening News” dilemma have yet ...
WHO GETS TO BE THE BOSS?
That’s probably the number one concern as CBS and Viacom fire up their remarriage talks again. The way was paved to resume talks when Viacom settled a contract dispute with AT&T that averted a ...
DISNEY CLOSES ON FOX FILM PRODUCTION UNIT
“Cinderella,” ”The Simpsons,” ”Star Wars” and “Dr. Strange” can all now be found at the House of Mouse. And the money machine that is Fox News Channel is now the cornerstone of the new ...
