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IN BRIEF….MEET THE NEW BOSS EDITION

Jennifer Dahl was announced as the next ND for Meredith’s KPHO/KTVK in Phoenix, AZ. GM Kevin James told the staff in this email. It’s ...

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GONE IN WILMINGTON?

Morris Multimedia owned WWAY in Wilmington, NC has an ND opening posted on its website. Our records show Kevin Wuzzardo has been ND here ...

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SHE WAS RIGHT HERE!!!!

The ‘nationwide search’ for a new news director for Tegna’s WFAA in Dallas ended up…with someone already in the newsroom. Leslie McCardel has been promoted to ...

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MOVING UP IN MICHIGAN

Neille-Ann Giffune has been promoted to news director for Sinclair operated WEYI in Clio/Flint/Saginaw, MI. She’s been the Assistant News Director here for the ...

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NEWSROOM VET FINALLY GETS THE BIG CHAIR

Jim Wilson has been upped to ND for Tribune-soon-to-be-Nexstar’s WITI in Milwaukee, WI. Details here. He’s a 30 year veteran of the station, starting ...

GOIN’ SOUTH

Lane Kimble is leaving Rockfleet Broadcasting’s WJFW in Rhinelander, WI to be the Assistant News director for Gray’s KYTV in Springfield, MO. Lane’s been ...

DID HE EVEN UNPACK?

After just four months on the job, Adam Wilhelm has left Quincy Media’s WBNG in Binghamton, NY. He most recently worked for WOFL in ...

ANOTHER ND PLANS EXIT

Rebecca Gaylord is leaving Hearst’s KOCO in Oklahoma City, OK at the end of August. General Manager Brent Hensley shared the news in this ...

PERIOD OF STABILITY ENDING?

Becky Lutgen Gardner is leaving Sinclair’s KGAN in Cedar Rapids, IA but will stay through the transition. She’s been the news director here for ...

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BACK TO THE ROOTS

Michele Gors returns to a newsroom as she’ll take over this Quincy Media’s KTTC in Rochester, MN. Gors told Rick Gevers she’s from northern ...

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EUREKA! SINCLAIR SEEKS NEW ND

Sinclair Broadcasting’s KAEF in Eureka , CA is looking for a news director to replace Scott Rates who was both ND and anchor there. Sinclair’s ...

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MOVING UP AT NEXSTAR

Tonya Estes joins Nexstar’ s WCBD in Charleston, SC as its next news director. She’s been the Assistant ND for Hearst’s WPBF-TV in West Palm Beach, ...

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MOVING UP IN WEST VIRGINIA

Congratulations to ANNA BAXTER who has been promoted to ND for Gray’s WSAZ in Charleston/Huntington, WV. She’s been the Assistant News Director there, and has worked ...

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GETTING OUT IN WACO

Charlie Haldeman has decided to resign as ND for Scripps’ KXXV in Waco, TX. Here are two emails for you in one simple click: the ...

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NEW #1 in NORTHEAST PA

Keith St. Peter will join Nexstar operated WBRE/WYOU in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, PA next month as its next news director. Keith has been Managing Editor at WHIO ...

NEXSTAR SHUFFLES THE DECK

Dave Ciliberti is leaving WCMH in Columbus, OH, to take over sister Nexstar NBC station WFLA in Tampa. WCMH General Manager Ken Freedman told his staff ...

BACK TO MUSIC CITY

Steve Watt, who’s been the GM for Scripps’ KSHB in Kansas City since April 2017, is returning to Nashville as Director of Sales and ...

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 ...

MOVING TO THE TOP CHAIR

Brian Neal joins WLEX in Lexington, KY, owned by Scripps, as its next news director. He’s been the Assistant ND for Hearst’s WXII in ...

RESURFACING IN TALLY

Angela Green will be the new morning anchor at Scripps’ WTXL in Tallahassee. We told you a few weeks ago that Green was leaving her ...

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SCRIPPS NAMES NEW #1 IN CINCY

Mike Canan is the new news director for Scripps’ WCPO in Cincinnati. Canan’s been the interim ND there for the last month or so since ...

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REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD

David Williams reunites with Denise Vickers as he’s been named news director for Lockwood Broadcasting’s WFXG in Augusta, GA. He’s currently the ND for Gray’s KCBD ...

PACKING UP IN KNOXVILLE

Taz Painter’s leaving Tegna’s WBIR in Knoxville, TN in early August. General Manager David Hunt shared the news with the staff in this email. This ...

A HURRIED EXIT

Ryan Minnaugh has left his job as news director for Nexstar’s WFLA in Tampa. He’d been there just over one year following a 2 1/2 ...

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RESURFACING IN ROCHESTER

Steve Koles has re-emerged as the new news director for Nexstar’s WROC in Rochester, NY. Koles most recently worked as ND for WBNS in Columbus, ...

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IN BETWEEN GIGS

Amy Waldman, most recently ND for New York’s WPIX, is serving as the interim director for the New York chapter of NATAS. Amy left ...

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INTERNAL HIRE IN LA

At Los Angeles’ KNBC, Renee Washington has been promoted to news director. She’d been the Assistant ND there since last fall, when she crossed the ...

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MOVING UP IN PORTLAND

Greg Retsinas moving into the big office at Tegna’s KGW in Portland, OR. He’s been at the station for five years in digital roles. ...

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IN BRIEF…THE EXECUTIVE EDITION

Veteran news director Nancy Bauer heads east as an inter-Scripps company move to become ND for KTNV in Las Vegas, NV. She’s spent the last two ...

TEGNA TURNOVER

Another Tegna station, another news director opening as Linda Kotsaftis is leaving KUSA in Denver, CO. She’s a 20 year veteran of the station and has ...

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IN-HOUSE MOVE FOR NEWS VET

A veteran news manager takes his SIXTH job (by our count) with the same company. And he’s never had to move. Chip Mahaney is leaving his ...

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BUMPED UP IN DFW

Carolyn Mungo, who’s been ND for Tegna’s WFAA in Dallas since early 2012, is now the station manager there. Her promotion was announced along with ...

THE NEXSTAR SHUFFLE

Kyle Brinkman moves within Nexstar to become news director for WSPA in Greenville/Spartanburg, SC. He’s spent the last 2+ years as ND for the company’s ...

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OUT THE DOOR AND HEADING WEST?

John LaPorte, who’s been VP/News for Tribune’s WITI in Milwaukee since September, 2010, is leaving that FOX affiliate. That’s according to this note from General ...

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NEW DEUCE IN CHARLOTTE

There’s a new Assistant ND for Gray Television’s WBTV in Charlotte. Molly Kelleher has been promoted to fill the vacancy created when Kim Saxon was promoted to ...

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INTO THE SNOW BELT

Adam Wilhelm joins Quincy-owned WBNG in Binghamton, NY as news director. He most recently worked for WOFL-TV in Orlando, and has also worked at stations in Atlanta, Miami, ...

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ED WICKENHEISER, RETIRED TV NEWS EXEC

A veteran news director who spent more than 20 years as ND for one station lost his battle with cancer this week. Ed Wickenheiser was ...

GOIN’ TO MEMPHIS

Adam Henning will be the next ND for Cox owned WHBQ in Memphis, TN. Details in this official news release. We told you last month ...

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MOVING TO THE MOUTNAINS

Samantha (Sam) Cohen will be the next Chief Content Officer for Rocky Mountain Public Media in Denver, CO, a PBS news operation. CEO Amanda ...

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SCRIPPS BUMPS UP CINCY NEWS MANAGER

Molly Miossi has been promoted to Senior Manager of Editorial Operations at Scripps’ WCPO in Cincinnati. She returned to her hometown of Cincinnati back in 2016 ...

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FORMER CNNer JOINS LOCAL CABLE NEWS

News 12 Westchester has a new assistant news director. Pauline Chiou joins the Altice owned 24 hour news operation from CNN International, where she was ...

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LARRY PRICE, FORMER NEWS DIRECTOR AND AP EXECUTIVE

Larry Price died over the weekend at his Rhode Island home. He was 71 and passed away with his family, including his wife of 49 ...

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ON TO CABLE

Stan Kowalski will run Altice-owned News 12 cable news in The Bronx/Brooklyn cable news operations. He’s spent the last eleven years as the Assistant ND ...

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ANOTHER ND ASCENDS

Todd Mokhtari heads down I-5 to become GM of the NBC stations in San Diego, KSND/KUAN. He’s an NBC veteran, having spent the last seven ...

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MADE IT MA. TOP OF THE WORLD!!!

Congratulations to 27 year station veteran Dave Overacker who’s being promoted to ND for Hubbard Broadcasting’s WHEC in Rochester, NY. He most recently has ...

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STILL IN THE GAME

Craig Hume is headed north to be ND for Hubbard Broadcasting’s KAAL in Rochester/Austin, MN. Here’s the station’s news release. Many of you know Craig, ...

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ANOTHER ND TO EXIT THE BUSINESS

Scott Saxton will leave this Gray Television’s WECT in Wilmington, NC when his contract expires in May. Saxton says he and his wife have bought ...

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VETERAN GM STEPS DOWN, BRACES FOR HEALTH BATTLE

Les Vann, who’s spent the last years two years as GM of Meredith’s WHNS in Greenville, SC, told his staff this afternoon that he ...

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IT’S NEXSTAR

We told you last week that veteran tv news executive Kirk Varner was headed for Minneapolis and the ND chair at Hubbard’s KSTP. Let ...

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IN-HOUSE PROMOTION IN EAU CLAIRE

Kristen Shill is being promoted and will replace Dan Schillinger as the ND for Quincy owned WQOW in Eau Claire, WI. She’s currently the Assistant ND ...

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VARNER LANDS IN THE TWIN CITIES

Kirk Varner heads north to become the next news director for Hubbard Broadcasting’s KSTP in Minneapolis. Here’s the news release distributed moments ago by the ...

NEWS VET STEPS DOWN IN SPARTANBURG

Kirk Varner has announced that he is stepping down as news director of Nexstar’s WSPA/WYCW in the multi-hyphenated Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville/Anderson market. Kirk has been with ...

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A NEW DEUCE IN ALBANY

Darcy Bonfils has joined Hubbard’s WNYT in Albany, NY, as its assistant news director. She’s worked in New York City, most recently as an EP ...

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A LEFT FIELD PICK FOR ND

John Kirby is the new news director for Nexstar’s KREX in Grand Junction, CO. Kirby has what you could easily call a non-traditional background ...

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LONGTIME ND HANGS IT UP

Dan Schillinger is retiring after a long career, the last five years of which were spent at Quincy owned WQOW in Eau Claire, WI. He’s ...

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A NEW ND AT PIX COMING IN NYC

Vickie Burns has been named news director for Tribune’s WPIX in New York City. According to her Linkedin page, she worked as a consultant for ...

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THE EXIT DOOR KEEPS SWINGING

This time it’s Dean Elwood, the soon-to-be former VP/News for Tegna’s KFMB in San Diego. He’s gone at the end of this month. Here’s ...

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CROSSTOWN MOVE

LA’s NBC-owned KNBC has filled its morning executive producer opening by luring Valerie Gratias from cross-town rival KTLA. She’s been the AM EP for the ...

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AND THE EXIT PARADE BEGINS….

From the “Maybe it’s not you, it’s us” department…. Tiffani Lupenski has parted ways with Tegna’s KSDK in St. Louis. She was ND there ...

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THE SINCLAIR SHUFFLE

Amy Sullivan will be the next news director for Sinclair’s KGBT in Harlingen, TX. She is currently ND for sister station KVII in Amarillo, TX. ...

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MOVING UP IN NORTH CAROLINA

Jamie McCutcheon has been promoted to news director for Sinclair’s WCTI/WYDP in New Bern, NC. She’s been the interim ND there since Eric Olsen left to ...

OUT THE DOOR IN VEGAS

Tracie McKinney is out after six months as ND for Scripps’ KTNV in Las Vegas, NV. She was the interim ND for three months, filling in ...

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WE FIGURED THAT WOULD HAPPEN

Meredith’s Atlanta station, WGCL has a new Assistant News Director –and it should come as no real surprise. As we told you several weeks back, ...

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A CHEESEHEAD ONCE MORE

John Laughrin proves you CAN go home again as he returns to his native Green Bay as ND for Scripps’ owned WGBA in Green Bay, ...

PATTI McGETTIGAN, LONGTIME NEWS EXECUTIVE

Veteran news director Patti McGettigan died Saturday afternoon in Memphis, just two months after she took a medical retirement from Cox-owned WHBQ. McGettigan was first ...

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FORMER KCEN ANCHOR TONY HENNES

We sadly report the passing of former KCEN (Temple, TX) News Director and Anchor Tony Hennes. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because we ...

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LIFE POST-RAYCOM

Tammy Phillips joins Nexstar Media Group as Senior Corporate Recruiter for News and Marketing. She most recently had held a similar role for Raycom Media before ...

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ANOTHER ND EXITS THE BUSINESS

Chad McCollum is leaving Nexstar ‘s KSEE/KGPE duopoly in Fresno, CA after six years as ND (and 12 at the stations) to take a job ...

ND MAKES CROSS-COUNTRY MOVE

Cheryl Carson will start February 18th as news director for Sinclair Broadcasting’s WJLA-TV (ABC) in Washington, DC. She spent the last three years as ...

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MOVING TO ANOTHER PART OF THE SPECTRUM

Bridget Foster will be the next ND for Spectrum News in Raleigh, NC. She’s spent the last seven years as an executive producer for Spectrum’s ...

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MOVING UP IN JAX

Joe Inderhees has been promoted to news director for this Tegna duopoly WTLV/WJXX in Jacksonville, FL . He’s been the Assistant ND, first joining the ...

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BYE-BYE TO THE BIZ

Bryan Luhn has left KRIV, the FOX o-and-o in Houston, to take a job out of TV. He says it’s with Myriad Global Media, a media ...

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NOW IT CAN BE TOLD…

We told you last week that the ND opening in Scripps KMTV in Omaha, NE would soon be filled… and….it is…by GEOFF ROTH. This is ...

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BACK HOME IN INDIANA

Warren Stewart returns to his home region as the next news director for WEVV in Evansville, IN, owned by Bayou Broadcasting. Here’s the news ...

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ON THE MOVE

Two items of note today. First, a news director opening at a top 15 station, with news that CHERYL CARSON has left Tegna’s KING-TV (NBC) in Seattle after ...

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TEGNA SENDS ND BACK TO BANGOR

Mike Redding returns as ND for Tegna owned WLBZ/WCSH in Bangor/Portland, ME. GM Brian Cliffe told the staff. Mike was ND there from 2013-2016 before transferring ...

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ON THE MOVE

Rick Gevers has a few moves of note this week. Mark Ginther started this week as Sinclair‘s Director of News and Operations. Mark has ...

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THAT WAS PREDICTABLY QUICK

As we indicated last week, the open news director job at Scripps’ WFTS in Tampa wasn’t open for long. Sarah Moore will be that station’s ...

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SCRIPPS PROMOTES AFTER PICKING UP SOME GRAYCOM STATIONS

Scripps on Wednesday picked up KXXV/KRHD in Waco-Temple-Bryan, Texas, and WTXL in Tallahassee, Fla. from Gray as that company completed its absorption of Raycom. ...

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HEADED FOR HAWAII

Janice Gin is headed to the islands as she takes her first news director’s job at KITV in Honolulu. Here’s the story from the station’s ...

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NEWS VET FACES HEALTH BATTLE

News director Patti McGettigan is leaving Cox’s WHBQ in Memphis on a medical retirement. She’s battled breast cancer for years and survived a heart attack this ...

RECOVERING FROM RAYCOM

Susana Schuler stays in Alabama but moves 90 miles north to become general manager for Hearst’s WVTM in Birmingham. All the details in this news ...

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TRIBUNE MOVES SEATTLE ASSISTANT TO INDY #1

Matt Waggoner, currently the Assistant News Director for Tribune’s KCPQ in Seattle, has just been named news director for the company’s WTTV/WXIN in Indianapolis. ...

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 ...

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MOVING UP IN MILWAUKEE

Jessie Garcia is being promoted to a position called broadcast director at Scripps’ WTMJ in Milwaukee Diane Irving held that position before leaving in October, and she ...

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VETERAN NEWS EXEC DEPARTS BATON ROUGE

GARY WORDLAW is leaving Nexstar operated WVLA/WGMB in Baton Rouge, LA for a new job that we hope to be able to share with you ...

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MOVING UP AT NEXSTAR

Victor Venegas has been promoted to news director for Nexstar owned KTSM in El Paso, TX. He’s been the Nightside EP there. His GM, David ...

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) ...

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HELP WANTED

Tegna owned and operated WCHS/WLBZ in Portland/Bangor, ME are advertising for a new new news director. The records show that Karen Araiza had been the ...

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LEAVING SIN CITY FOR THE HEARTLAND

Scott Fitzgerald heads across the country to become ND for Scripps owned KJRH in Tulsa, OK. Scott is currently the ND for KRNV/KRXI, a FOX/NBC ...

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REUNITED

Mark Casey continues to build his management team at Scripps’ KNXV Phoenix, adding Stacey Roberts as Assistant News Director. She’s spent the last 17 years at ...

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IT’S THE MIDDLE OF THE BOOK. OF COURSE THERE’S A RESIGNATION

Mitch Jacob, the news director for Sinclair’s WJLA in Washington, told the staff yesterday afternoon that he’s resigning. This email explains the reasons behind ...

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IS THE JOB OPEN OR NOT? (YES….YES IT IS)

Yve Jones is leaving Hearst’s WAPT in Jackson, MS. Hearst news executives have been asked to confirm the vacancy and were slow to respond ...

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FROM TUPELO TO COLUMBIA

Michael Raffaele joins Sinclair’s WACH in Columbia,SC Broadcasting as news director. He most recently was the ND for WTVA in Tupelo, MS…leaving there in September ...