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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
For some inexplicable reason, NBC felt it somehow had to hang on to Mario Lopez before his current gig, “Extra” moves to Fox in the fall. So, after months of rumors, it is being ...
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 focus on quote “getting better terms on the deals it ...
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, life-saving NEED to cut $100 million in expenses. We’ll say ...
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 brought down by his serial harassment of women? And, even ...
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 be a pivotal player in a turnaround of the news ...
Cable news veteran Greta Van Susteren is trying out local TV by joining Gray Television, which owns stations in more than 90 markets across the United States. Van Susteren will be chief national political ...
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 years that included a discrimination lawsuit against the station by ...
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 of the Nexstar , initially joining as EVP, Digital Media ...
John Finley is the new executive vice president of development at Fox News Channel In his new role, Finley will continue developing all new programs, series and documentaries for Fox News and will now ...
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 the Tribune duopoly . “Kurt has local expertise, strong relationships ...
Less than a year after being named VP of News at Meredith Corporation, Gary Brown is moving to SVP of Content. That means that not only will Brown be in charge of overseeing the ...
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 replaces Bruce Cummings as gm as KBMT/KJAC. Thomas comes to ...
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 Andrew Lack got demoted. Other executives got shiny new titles ...
Longtime producer Susan Zirinsky is replacing CBS News President David Rhodes in March, becoming the first woman to lead the storied division in the network’s history. Rhodes publicly broke the news in a tweet, ...
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 move past the Les Moonves era. Staggs left Disney two ...
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 to veteran Chicago media observer Robert Feder she came up on ...
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 of us know Corrie, who’s a former news director in ...
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) to become the executive producer for the company’s investigative unit based ...
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, KIDY in San Angelo and KXVA in Abilene adds another ...
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 is on Univision’s Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Dallas, Houston ...
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 big chair. She’ll become the station’s new vice president and ...
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 will be and right now, the odds-on favorite is “48 ...
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 past three years. Starting Wednesday, Hill will be based in ...
Just ahead of the November book, stations across the country are jockeying themselves into place with a flurry of executive shuffles. We had a couple of moves by Meredith yesterday. We’ll start today with ...
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 swallow up the cable network’s parent Time Warner? A quote ...
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, KWWL where he’s been for more than six years. He’s ...
We wonder, as Les Moonves allies melt away on the CBS board and in the corporate suite, what the odds are today that CBS and Viacom eventually do the bidding of majority stockholder Shari ...
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 transfers from the GM post at sister station WLNS in ...
After 13 years at the Fox News Channel, Fin Gomez joins the CBS News White House unit as a producer. Most recently, Gomez as the lead producer for Fox News’ chief White House correspondent ...
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 to advance audience engagement, increase revenue and further the company’s ...
In the face of sagging ratings, resulting from tougher competition from Fox Business, CNBC Thursday announced a shakeup in the ranks and in its approach to news coverage. Nik Deogun is departing at the ...
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 to WLS from St. Louis and KTVI back in 1982. ...
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 replacement for Les Moonves might be. Ianiello, who had been ...
