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 ...
Category: Corporate Chess
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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.. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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,” ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
MORALES OUT, “CHEESEBALL” IN AT “ET”
For some inexplicable reason, NBC felt it somehow had to hang on to Mario Lopez before his current gig, “Extra” moves to Fox in ...
FOX TO NEXSTAR: “WE’RE SO OVER YOU”
The gaggle of tv stations that Nexstar has to unload and were considered prime Fox bait are….well…up for grabs. Fox instead is going to ...
CONTINUED BELT-TIGHTENING THREATS CAUSE FEAR AT CBS
At CBS these days, the game is “Who’s In, Who’s Out” as the front office continues to talk about the need, the critical, essential, ...
COULD CURRY BE ON THE CBS PLATE?
Wouldn’t it be a hoot to have Ann Curry turn up opposite the newscast that dumped at the behest of a self-absorbed anchor later ...
CBS WOO’s KING
CBS is trying to lock up “CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King to a new contract as the network is looking to her to ...
GRAY SCHOOLS SINCLAIR
Cable news veteran Greta Van Susteren is trying out local TV by joining Gray Television, which owns stations in more than 90 markets across ...
UPHEAVAL IN NASHVILLE
It’s no surprise that Denise Eck is out as news director of Meredith’s WSMV in Nashville. Not after the drama of the past few ...
FORMER LOCAL TV EXEC NOW HEADS WEATHER CHANNEL
Former NBCUniversal and Nexstar Media Group executive Tom O’Brien is taking over immediately as president of The Weather Channel. O’Brien was a corporate officer ...
FNC NAMES NEW EXEC
John Finley is the new executive vice president of development at Fox News Channel In his new role, Finley will continue developing all new ...
TRIBUNE PROMOTES IN ST. LOUIS
Tribune has promoted KTVI/KRLR‘s Kurt Krueger, its station manager in St. Louis, to general manager and vice president. Krueger will oversee all aspects of ...
MEREDITH MOVES UP CORPORATE NEWS HONCHO
Less than a year after being named VP of News at Meredith Corporation, Gary Brown is moving to SVP of Content. That means that ...
TEGNA TEXAS TAPS TWO FOR GM POSTS
Tegna has named new GMs at two of the company’s Texas stations. Tim Thomas becomes president-GM of KWES in Midland-Odessa. In Beaumont, Paul Bergen ...
YES, IT WAS A DEMOTION
After all the dust settled following this week’s announcement of an executive shuffle at NBC News, one thing seems abundantly clear: NBC News president ...
ZIRINSKY TO REPLACE RHODES AS CBS NEWS BOSS
Longtime producer Susan Zirinsky is replacing CBS News President David Rhodes in March, becoming the first woman to lead the storied division in the ...
AND THE GUY MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED LES MOONVES IS…
Backchannel chat has let former Walt Disney Company COO Tom Staggs know that he’s a prime candidate to help the folks at Black Rock ...
OFFICE POLITICS
Three-time Chicago news director Carol Fowler is out the door at The Chicago Sun-Times after a scant 14 months as senior vice president, digital news products. According ...
FORMER ND GETS BUMPED UP AT NBC
Corrie Harding gets a new title at NBC News. He’s now VP/News Partnerships, up from Senior Director News Partnerships. Harding reports to SVP Dianne Festa. Many ...
MOVING UP AT HEARST
Travis Sherwin is moving within Hearst. He’s leaving WPBF in West Palm Beach, FL after almost two years as ND (and 20 with the company) ...
ADD ANOTHER HAT
Tegna vp Bruce Cummings, who’s been overseeing things at KBMT and KJAC in Beaumont, WCEN in Waco-Temple, KAGS in Bryan-College Station, KYTX in Tyler, ...
UNIVISION TAPS NEW LOCAL MEDIA BOSS
She’s already on the job. Diane Kniowski is the newly-named President and Regional General Manager of Local Media at Miami-based Univision. Her principal focus ...
FOX GOES INSIDE KTVU TO FIND ITS NEW GM
Mellynda Hartel, for the past four years the vice president and director of sales at Fox-owned KTVU-KTVU Plus is getting bumped up to the ...
A NEW “60 MINUTES” EP MAY SOON BE NAMED
Jeff Fager’s former position of executive producer of “60 Minutes” may soon be filled. We may learn sometime this week who the new EP ...
HEARST PROMOTES WINSTON-SALEM REPORTER
Winston-Salem reporter Jarred Hill is getting bumped up by Hearst, the parent company of WXII in Winston-Salem, NC, where he’s been reporting for the ...
NEWS DIRECTOR GETS A BUMP UP
Just ahead of the November book, stations across the country are jockeying themselves into place with a flurry of executive shuffles. We had a ...
TURNS OUT CNN MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPENDABLE
Remember all those public pronouncements of defiance when AT&T Chair Randall Stephenson said CNN was not for sale as his company was working to ...
IOWA GM ADDS A CORPORATE HAT
Jim McKernan is being promoted to regional vice president of Quincy Media Inc., effective January 1. He’ll continue as GM of the company’s Waterloo, IA, station, ...
CBS OPEN TO MERGER?
We wonder, as Les Moonves allies melt away on the CBS board and in the corporate suite, what the odds are today that CBS ...
NEXSTAR SENDS NEW GM HOME
Robert “Bob” Simone is the new vice-president and general manager of Nexstar’s WWLP in Springfield, MA. It’s a return to his hometown as he ...
CBS ADDS TO ITS WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS
After 13 years at the Fox News Channel, Fin Gomez joins the CBS News White House unit as a producer. Most recently, Gomez as ...
SINCLAIR HIRES MARKETING GURU AWAY FROM NBC
Jeff Carroll, until recently the VP of integrated marketing at NBCUniversal, is the new vice-president of marketing for Sinclair Broadcast Group. He’ll be working ...
SHAKEUP AND NEW DIRECTION AT CNBC
In the face of sagging ratings, resulting from tougher competition from Fox Business, CNBC Thursday announced a shakeup in the ranks and in its ...
CHICAGO NEWS VET GOES THE MANAGEMENT ROUTE
Rich Hillengas, an award-winning photographer and 36-year veteran of Disney’s WLS in Chicago , IL is the station’s new news operations manager. Hillengas came ...
LET THE SPECULATION BEGIN
Interim CBS INC CEO Joe Ianniello had barely hit “send’ on his first inter-office memo before the speculation started as to whom the permanent ...