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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kathleen Johnston has joined Indiana University as a visiting professor of practice. She’s worked for CBS News, CNN, and WTHR in Indianapolis as well at two ...
The new news director at Chicago’s WGN is Jennifer Lyons, who replaces…herself as news director for this Tribune station. That’s right…Jennifer, who left her ...
Stephanie Wheatley has been promoted to ND for Sinclair Broadcasting’s KSNV in Las Vegas. She’s been the Assistant ND there and replaces Mark Neerman who left ...
Dave Kaplar will be the next ND for Gray Television’s WOWT in Omaha, NE. Here’s how General Manager Andrew Stewart told his staff. Dave most recently was ...
Mark Rigsby has been on the job since May as news director for WABG/WXVT/WNBD/WABG in Greenville, MS, a grouping owned by Cala Broadcast Partners. Mark ...
Melissa Hendrix-Beach is being promoted to news director for KWES in Midland/Odessa, TX. She’s been the Assistant News Director and replaces Michael Thompson who is returning ...
Susan Farley is being promoted to news director at Rockfleet Broadcasting duopoly WVII/WFVX in Bangor, ME. She’s been the Assistant News Director there since 2016 but has ...
Matt Johnson will be the next ND for Sinclair’s WWMT in Kalamazoo/Grand Rapids, MI. He’s coming from sister-station KRCG in the Jefferson City/Columbia, MO market, ...
Congratulations to Yvonne Simons who returns to the ND chair at Sinclair’s KATU in Portland, OR. Simons has spent the last four years as the Assistant ...
Deana Reece, the news director for Nexstar’s WTWO in Terre Haute since January, 2014, died suddenly Thursday morning of an apparent heart attack. Nexstar’s VP/Local ...
Congratulations to TRACI ZERAVICA who’s been promoted to Director of Content and Marketing for parent company Cowles. She’s been the ND at KHQ-TV in Spokane, WA for ...
The management structure at Tegna’s WKYC in Cleveland, OH is undergoing some earth-shaking changes. Adam Miller has been named Director of Content for the station. ...
Scott Levy, who’s been the news director for Meredith’s KCTV in Kansas City since August, 2016, has left the station. The other Meredith news directors ...
Jessica Bobula returns to Raycom Media as the new Assistant News Director for WIS in Columbia, SC. Jessica moves from Tegna’s KXTV in Sacramento, CA where she was executive ...
Several time news director B.J. Finnell returns to Hartford as the Director of Brand and Creative Development for Tribune’s WTIC. He’s a former ND at WVIT in ...
This week in news directing began with a bang… First: From Seattle, KIRO News Director Jake Milstein is leaving the Cox owned station later this week ...
Janet Hundley has been named VP/News for WVIT, the NBC owned station in Hartford. Here’s the note from General Manager Susan Tully (herself a former ND ...
Congratulations to Matt Van Slyke who gets his first ND job at Morgan Murphy Media’s duopoly KAPP/KVEW in Yakima, WA. He’s been the Assistant ND at KSBY in ...
Two management promotions at Sinclair’s WKEF in Dayton: Becky Gulden becomes Assistant ND. She had been an EP there. And Reba Chenoweth becomes an EP, she had ...
Andrea Parquet-Taylor has been named VP/Station Manager for KTVT/KTXA in Dallas/Ft. Worth. She’s been the news director at this CBS owned duopoly since January, 2017, and ...
WMBF in Myrtle Beach, SC, has filled its Digital Content Manager opening by promoting Brad Dickerson. He’s been a digital content producer for that ...
Veteran broadcaster Dick Reingold is headed to WHEC in Rochester, NY, as its next general manager. Here’s the official word. That ‘official word’ has details on ...
Jeff Bardach is leaving Griffin Communication’s KOTV in Tulsa, OK. Todd Spessard, Griffin’s VP of Content, explained that Bardach is moving home to help with ...
Oscar Garcia is leaving Tegna’s KIII in Corpus Christi. TX after two years as news director. Oscar previously worked at KFOX in El Paso as an executive producer ...
Kay Norred moves to Nexstar’s WFXR in Roanoke, VA as news director. She’s been the ND at another Nexstar operation, WRBL in Columbus, GA, for almost ...
Mark Silberstein starts today (Monday) as the next news director for Nexstar’s WETM in Elmira, NY. Mark most recently has been the senior producer at ...
Chuck Carter returns home to Philadelphia as EP for Fox’s WTXF. He had been the Assistant News Director for WTNH in Hartford/New Haven. Earlier in his ...
One time Chicago (CLTV) and Cleveland (WEWS) news director Jill Manuel is launching a new venture in Chicago, called JCat Group. Jill elaborated in this note: I ...
Chris Slaby joins Block’s WAND in Decatur, IL, next month as the station’s new assistant news director. He’s been working as a producer for Scripps’ WRTV in ...
Jim Bob Breazeale is joining Sinclair’s KGBT in Harlingen, TX, as its Assistant News Director. He’s been an EP for sister station KEYE in Austin, TX. He’s also ...
WALB in Albany, GA welcomes Jordan Barela as its news Digital Content Manager. Jordan had been working as Digital Manager and reporter for the Thomasville Times, ...
