Big O Stephen Ostrosky is headed to the Big O to become managing editor for Hearst’s WESH-TV (NBC) in Orlando. He’s been the Assistant ND for WHAS-TV, Tegna’s ABC affiliate in Louisville for the ...
Updating an item from last week, regarding the ND opening at WEEK-TV in Peoria, Illinois, Lon Lucas is staying on as ND for a while but will eventually leave, as he wants to be closer ...
At KXXV-TV in Waco, Texas, Josh (tag) Eure (it) has left this Scripps owned station after one year as news director. He’s had a number of jobs at both local stations and networks during ...
Peoria, Illinois’ WEEK-TV is looking for a new news director to replace Lon Lucas. Lon was ND for about 2 1/2 years. He earlier was an Executive Producer in Las Vegas, and has also ...
Jeff Tavis is the new Digital Executive Producer for Scripps’ KSTU-TV (FOX) in Salt Lake City. He most recently was the Executive Producer of Digital Media and Special Projects for WPLG-TV (ABC) in Miami, where he began his ...
In Albany, at WRGB-TV, Perna Roberson is moving to the ND job at this Sinclair Broadcasting owned CBS affiliate. Perna’s been the Assistant ND for the past two years, and has also worked in Birmingham, Atlanta, ...
At Mobile, Alabama’s WALA-TV, 29 year veteran Randy Merrow has been promoted to news director. Randy’s been the Assistant ND more than 20 years. He started at the station as a senior producer. He ...
In Greenville, Mississippi’s WABG, WXVT, WNBD and WABG this Cala Broadcasting owned operation (which operates affiliates of all FOUR major networks) has filled its news director opening, and yet, it has not yet been ...
Tegna’s NBC affiliate in Seattle is building up with another key brick in the wall. KING-TV, has filled its vacant executive producer position by hiring Mason Waldvogel from KTUL-TV in Tulsa. He’s been the Assistant ND ...
At El Paso, Texas’ KTSM-TV, it’s vamos Victor Venegas. He’s has left this Nexstar owned NBC affiliate. He’d been the news director there since December, 2018, when he was promoted from Nightside Executive Producer. He’d earlier ...
At Lake Charles, Louisiana’s KPLC-TV, the new ND for the Gray Television owned NBC affiliate is Greg DeBrosse. Greg has been the Assistant News Director for Cox Media Group’s KOKI-TV in Tulsa for the last seven ...
It looks like David Jones is the next ND at WLNE-TV in Providence, Rhode Island. Jones comes from WNYT-TV, Hubbard’s NBC affiliate in Albany, NY. He’ll replace Kelly Johnson. Standard Media has also named Jennifer Hardy ND ...
At Providence, Rhode Island’s WLNE-TV, the Standard Media owned ABC affiliate is looking for a new news director. Kelly Johnston had been the ND for the last four years in her second tour of duty ...
At Ft. Wayne, Indiana’s WANE-TV, Jenna Huff is moving north (and closer to her native Michigan) as she’s been named ND for this Nexstar owned CBS affiliate. . For the last nine years, Jenna has ...
At Sarasota’s WWSB-TV (part of the Tampa marke), Jeff Schlesser moves within Gray to become ND for this ABC affiliate. It’s a return to Tampa for Schlesser, who spent eight years at WTVT-TV. He’s ...
At Dallas/Ft. Worth’s KXTX-TV, John Stone, who is the VP/News for sister NBC owned KXAS-TV, is assuming the ND role for this Telemundo affiliate. John has been the ND at KXAS since November, 2018, ...
At Corpus Christi’s KRIS-TV Mark Silberstein is filling the long vacant opening at the Scripps owned NBC affiliate. His title will be Senior Director of Content (think news director but with a longer title.) ...
John LaPorte has resigned as ND for Cox Media Group’s KIRO-TV (CBS) in Seattle after only about 14 months there. He’s returning to Milwaukee, where he spent almost nine years as ND at WITI-TV (FOX), ...
She’s got her work cut out for her. Noelle Kachinsky is leaving her job as the executive producer for Spectrum News in Charlotte to be a Media Specialist working closely with the Center for ...
Mike Rindo worked as a news director in Kalamazoo/Grand Rapids, MI, Rochester, NY, and Eau Claire, WI, is now retiring after almost 20 years in his second career. He’s been the assistant chancellor for ...
Grover Murrell joins Cox Media Group’s WJAX/WFOX-TV (CBS/FOX) in Jacksonville, FL, as managing editor. He’s been working at Sinclair’s WZTV in Nashville as the Assignment Manager for that FOX affiliate. Grover’s also worked in ...
Casey Clark, has been named news director for Nexstar’s WJYZ/WMYT-TV in Charlotte, NC. (Nexstar acquired the station from FOX earlier this year.) Casey most recently was ND for Meredith’s KCTV (CBS) in Kansas City, ...
Kennan Oliphant is on the move within Scripps. He’s the new Assistant News Director for WXYZ-TV (ABC) in Detroit. It’s a return to the Motor City for Kennan, who earlier in his career worked ...
Nexstar’s KDVR/KWGN-TV (FOX/CW) duopoly in Denver has hired Sean O’Donnell as its next Digital Content Executive Producer. Sean’s been working for WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh (Cox/NBC) and earlier worked for another Cox station, WFXT-TV in ...
At LA’s KABC-TV, it’s congratulations-time to veteran ND Rob Elmore. He’s returning to Raleigh-Durham and ascending to the GM’s office at sister ABC o-and-o WTVD-TV, where he spent 17 years as ND before moving to KABC five years ago. Before ...
At KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, NM, Jess O’Neill returns to this Hearst owned ABC affiliate for his first ND job. Jess is currently the assistant news director at sister Hearst station WESH-TV (NBC), where, years ago, he was a ...
A former ND is moving to the big chair. Neal Boling has been promoted to GM for KHQ-TV in Spokane, WA. He’s been the station manager there for the last six years after four years as news director ...
At Orlando’s WTMO, Roberto Vizcon is out at this Telemundo affiliate after a little more than two years in his second stint at the station. The first time he was general manager. Current GM, Louis ...
At KAVU-TV in Victoria, Texas, James Munoz is adding news director to his resume at this Morgan Murphy Media owned ABC affiliate. He’s been anchoring there and will continue to anchor the 5:00 news. ...
At Charlotte’s WJZY-TV, Tina Luque, is leaving this newly-owned by Nexstar FOX affiliate (once a FOX o-and-o) after more than four years as news director. She’s been a news director at WTKR-TV in Norfolk ...
At Ada, Oklahoma/Sherman, Texas’ KTEN-TV, Joey Parker is the new news director of the Lockwood Broadcasting owned NBC/ABC affiliates. He most recently was the anchor and assistant ND at KMIZ-TV in Columbia, MO. Joey’s been ...
At Eau Claire, Wisconsin’s WEAU-TV, Janis Harper has started as the next ND for this Gray owned NBC affiliate. Janis left KTVA-TV in Anchorage, though did not know her destination. She left KTVA on the seventh anniversary ...
KKTV, Colorado Springs, CO…Lauri Martin is now the ND for this Gray Television owned CBS affiliate. She had been the assistant news director. The station’s website now lists Kerri Blanco as the GM. She had been the sales ...
At WDTV in Clarksburg/Bridgeport, WV, Michael Baldwin has been named ND for this Gray Television owned CBS affiliate. He’s been the Saturday evening anchor and nightside reporter for sister Gray station WXIX-TV (FOX) in Cincinnati. He’s also ...
After six months as news director at WGN-Channel 9, Dominick Stasi rounded out his new leadership team Wednesday at the Nexstar Media Group station. Managing editor Rick Strasser was named assistant news director, and executive producer Dana Ballard was named to ...
Steve Daniloff has left Nexstar’s WBRE/WYOU-TV in Wilkes-Barre, PA, after more than three years as GM. And in one more instance of a news director being promoted to GM. Scripps has named Tregg White as GM ...
In Watertown, New York, Jeff Nelson is being promoted to news director for the Gray Television owned CBS affiliate WWNY, effective August 5th. He’s currently an anchor AND the Assistant News Director there. Jeff ...
Jodie Heisner moves within Scripps to become the next news director for WEWS-TV, the company’s ABC affiliate in Cleveland. She’s been the Assistant ND for Scripps’ WXYZ-TV (also ABC) in Detroit since September 2018. ...
Kevin Roach of WKEF/WRGT-TV in Dayton, who’s been the ND since 2016, is moving within Sinclair to become the AM News Content Director for the company’s WJLA-TV (ABC) in Washington, D.C. He’s also been a news director ...
Paul Alexander starts June 15th as the next ND for KFDM-TV in Beaumont, Texas, Sinclair’s CBS affiliate. Alexander is the former ND in Corpus Christi and Brownsville. Paul began in sports, working as an anchor in Tucson, ...
Kyle Grimes will be the next GM for Hearst‘s WCVB-TV in Boston. It’s a big market leap for Grimes who has been the GM for Hearst’s WGAL-TV in Lancaster/Harrisburg, PA, since 2016. Before that, he ran WPTZ/WNNE-TV, Hearst’s NBC/CW ...
Rob Elmore, who’s been the VP/News for KABC-TV for the past five years, is making a return to Raleigh-Durham as GM for sister ABC station WTVD-TV. Before moving to KABC, Rob spent 17 years as the ...
Nexstar Broadcasting has promoted Marci Daniels to vice president and general manager of its broadcast and digital operations in Lansing, MI., overseeing WLNS. In her new role, she will also oversee Nexstar’s relationship with Shield ...
WOI-TV, in Des Moines, a Tegna owned ABC affiliate has hired Ryan Robertson as its next news director. Robertson is coming from KGWN-TV, the Gray owned CBS affiliate in Cheyenne, WY. He’s previously worked in Lincoln and ...
A one-time producer for Sacramento’s KTXL-TV is in hot water with the Feds. Matthew Keys was sentenced to two years for computer hacking after a 2013 indictment. Now the government says he violated the terms of ...
Julie Unruh, who’s been a top-notch general assignment reporter for WGN-Channel 9 since 2001, has been promoted to midday news co-anchor at the Nexstar Media Group station. She joins Dina Bair from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through ...
Stephen Crews has been promoted to news director for WTVY, a CBS affiliate in Dothan, Alabama, owned by Gray Television. Crewsspent 2 1/2 years as an ND for WDHN-TV, Nexstar’s ABC affiliate in Dothan ...
Casey Clark has left Meredith’s KCTV after about 18 months as news director according to rickgevers.com. His departure comes less than three weeks after a new general manager, Charlie Henrich, replaced Chuck Poduska, who retired ...
No, we’re not talking about Al Capone. But as reported by RobertFeder.com, four of The 50 Most Powerful Women in Chicago, according to the May issue of Chicago magazine, work in the media. So, as we ...
WHTM-TV, Harrisburg, PA…OLIVIA DANGLER moves within Nexstar to become the next ND for this CBS affiliate. Ironically, she replaces CJ HOYT, who, for a few weeks, was her boss at the new ND for WTTV (CBS) ...
Jessica Bobula moves from one Gray station to another as she takes over the newsroom at WITN in Greenville, NC. She was the Assistant ND at another Gray station, WIS in Columbia, SC, and ...
Jon Brines is the new Assistant News Director for Quincy Media’s WSIL in Carterville, IL (the Paducah/Cape Girardeau market.) He had been working for the past two years at Sinclair’s KTVL in Medford, OR. ...
David Baxley has been named news director for Nexstar owned WDHN in Dothan, AL. He’s currently teaching at Francis Marion University in Florence, SC. But he’s worked in TV markets both large and small, ...
Congratulations to Bridget Fargen who transfers within Gray Television to become the news director at WSAW in Wausau, WI. Since 2012, she has been the evening anchor at KOLN in Lincoln, NE. Added bonus for ...
Speaking of Altoona, (previous story) Steven Shaw moves from one Nexstar station to another as he’ll be the next ND for WTAJ in Altoona, PA. He’s leaving the company’s revolving door WOWK in Charleston/Huntington, ...
Matt King is apparently leaving WCNC in Charlotte, NC since the job is posted on the Tegna website. His departure comes as a new GM, Joan Barrett, is on the way. King has been ...
Jenelle Shriner moves within Gray Television to become news director for KOLD in Tucson, AZ. She’s spent the last 3 1/2 years as ND for Gray’s KPLC in Lake Charles, LA. Here’s the note ...
Rick Gevers tells us all to be on the lookout for new hires at two Nexstar stations. Both WTAJ (aka “The Dime” to station alumni) in Altoona, PA, and WDHN in Dothan, AL, are ...
Herb Dudnick died last week at the age of 86. Here’s the obituary. Dudnick is a former ND for KRON in San Francisco and worked briefly at ABC News. But he spent most of his long ...
Andrea Berry returns to NBC’s WCAU in Philadelphia as executive producer for the station’s 11 pm newscast. She’s spent the last three years as the weekend EP for WABC in New York. In addition ...
It’s a return to WBTW in Myrtle Beach, SC for Ryan Webb who will become news director on March 9th. He was an EP here for three years before a two year move to ...
Terry Cole, a former news director and general manager, died January 17 at the age of 63 in Rapid City, SD. A private funeral was held last Friday. He served as ND for at ...
Stacey Pattberg moved up from her job as Assistant ND at News 12 Connecticut to become ND. Stacey’s also worked at WTNH in Hartford/New Haven, CT. She replaces Dave Feuerman who retired at the ...
Helen Swenson has been named Vice President, Content for Spectrum News NY1, the 24 hour cable news operation in New York. Details in this news release. Swenson most recently was an Executive Producer for TEGNA, ...
Doris Lewis has been upped to ND at Scripps’ KGTV in San Diego, CA. GM Leon Clark shared the news with the staff. She’s worked there 20 years, having joined as producer in 2000, ...
Sarah Gray is moving down I-39 to become the next ND for WISC in Madison, WI. She’ll be only the FIFTH news director in the last 42 years for this Morgan Murphy owned station. ...
Kristen Hamilton moves within Sinclair to become the next news director for KGAN in Cedar Rapids, IA. She’s moving from Sinclair’s KHQA in Quincy, IL. Details in this memo from KGAN GM Glen Callanan. ...
Matt Waggoner has been named ND for Scripps’ KSHB in Kansas City, MO. That means he’s leaving Nexstar’s WTTV/WXIN in Indianapolis, IN after just one year as news director and shortly after the ownership ...
Tegna’s duopoly KIDY/KXVA in San Angelo/Abilene, TX has posted a job for news director. Both stations are FOX affiliates. Records show that Cody Broadway has been the ND there since March, 2018, when he ...
At Tegna’s WBNS in Columbus, Jennifer Nickels has been promoted to news director. A Columbus native, Jen has been the Assistant ND there since September 2016 and served as the interim ND since Steve Koles left ...
Mark Haggar has left Standard Media’s KLKN in Lincoln, NE after a remarkable 22 year run as news director. Standard Media acquired the station this summer and installed a new GM, which brings to ...
Val Thompson has resigned as news director for Lockwood Broadcast Group’s WCAV in Charlottesville, VA. He’s been the ND there since December, 2014, and first joined the station in 2012. Thompson has also worked ...
James Warner is off to Florida to become the Assistant ND for WOFL, the FOX o-and-o. This is his second tour of duty for this operation. He’s leaving KSWO-KAUZ in Lawton, OK/Wichita Falls, TX. ...
Quite a bit of movement this week on the news director front as Nexstar fills a couple of empty chairs. Nexstar’s WDAF in Kansas City has hired Sean McNamara as its next ND. Here’s ...
We’re a little tardy in telling you that Brandon Sherer started in October as the new ND for Morris Multimedia’s WWAY in Wilmington, NC. He most recently was the ND for Spectrum’s Central North ...
The search is on for a new news director at KTVE/KARD in Monroe, LA. KARD is owned by Nexstar, which operates Mission Broadcasting owned KTVE. Andy Pederson has decided not to renew his contract ...
Erika Facey-Palmer is the new Manager of Content at Circle City’s WISH in Indianapolis. Her appointment was announced by news director Al Carl, who wasn’t done yet. He also announced that Katie Simon is ...
Matt Stanley moves from one Gray TV owned station to another as he becomes ND for WMBF in Myrtle Beach, SC. He’s been the Assistant ND for Gray’s KSLA-TV in Shreveport, LA, for the ...
Former Phoenix news director Dan Wilson has a new job. He’s working for the Phoenix Police Department, and sent me an interesting note about his new job, including a link to a video the ...
Gray Television made a couple of executive moves at two of its stations. David Hughes is the new GM for WVIR in Charlottesville, VA. We told you a few weeks ago that he was ...
Jim Tortora returns to a newsroom as the Assistant News Director at WHEC, the Hubbard owned station in Rochester, NY. Tortora most recently was news director at WROC in Rochester, NY, a job he left ...
Bryan Luhn‘s foray into the world of corporate communications was short-lived. He’s joined Houston’s KPRC (Graham Media) as EP of Special Projects, where he will lead the investigative team and promotable stories production. Luhn ...
In Tampa, Michelle Calachino moves up from her current role as controller for CBS-owned WTOG to become general manager. Calachino succeeds Stan Gill, who retired earlier this year following six years at WTOG and ...
Colin Benedict is stepping aside as news director of WISC in Madison, WI to concentrate on his other job…that of VP/News for parent company Morgan Murphy Media. That leaves a pretty attractive opening…there have ...
Josh Eure will be the next ND at Scripps’ KXXV in Waco, TX. He previously worked in Baltimore, Miami, Atlanta and Phoenix among other locales. His complete background is detailed on his Linkedin page. ...
Chris Myers, who was the deputy bureau chief of the CBS News Bureau in Los Angeles, died last Thursday. CBS News President Susan Zirinsky shared the news in this email. It had been reported last ...
We’re a little tardy in reporting Tyler Barker‘s promotion to news director for locally owned WOAY in Oak Hill, WV, which he tells me happened in May. He’s been the interim news director since ...
Zoltan Csanyi-Salcedo returns to the Rio Grande Valley as the ND for Manship owned KRGV in Weslaco, TX. He’s been ND at KYTX in Tyler, TX, for just nine months…but before that he spent ...
The ‘dean’ of Seattle news directors announced her resignation today after six plus years as ND and additional time in three different stints at the station. Erica Hill-Rodriguez will leave Nexstar’s KCPQ in Seattle ...
Kelly Peterson is stepping down as ND for Nexstar’s WFRV in Green Bay, WI due to a family illness. She’s been the ND here for about nine months, succeeding Kevin Osgood who left the station ...
Hallie Chouinard is the new News Director for Scripps’ KRTV in Great Falls, MT. Chouinard was working as an EP for Spectrum Cable News in Tampa for the past 5+ years. At KRTV, she ...
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 ...
Mike Schram returns both to Minnesota and Hubbard Broadcasting as he’ll run the newsroom for WDIO in Duluth, MN. Earlier in his career Mike was the ND for Hubbard’s KAAL in Rochester/Austin, MN. Most ...
Another former ND, Glen Moberg, died last week, also of cancer. He’s a former ND and anchor for WSAW in Wausau, WI, and also worked for many years at WAOW in Wausau, and spent ...
We are very sorry to pass along the news that a veteran news director…who retired in 2015…has lost his battle with cancer. Chuck Bark, who spent more than ten years as ND for WBRZ ...
Megan Jurgemeyer has been promoted to news director at Tegna’s KUSA in Denver, CO. She’s been the managing editor for the last four years and has worked at KUSA since 2013. Megan also worked at ...
WTOL in Toledo, OH is a Tegna station with a first time ND. Lauren Weppler has been promoted from her old role as Assistant ND. She’s been at this CBS affiliate since April 2006, ...
Dana McDaniel is leaving Tribune-soon-to-be-Nexstar’s WDAF in Kansas City to return to California as Director of Content for KFMB, Tegna’s CBS affiliate in San Diego. McDaniel’s previously had been ND at KTVU in Oakland/San Francisco, ...
