They’re putting the band back together at Paxton Media’s WPSD in Paducah, KY , where PERRY BOXX rejoins BILL EVANS for their third partnership. But the roles are reversed this time: Bill’s the boss (GM) and ...
Rick Boone has left WNKY-TV in Bowling Green, KY a duopoly owned by Marquee Broadcasting after just four months on the job for this start-up news operation. Rick most recently worked as a reporter ...
John Scherer remains at KXLF/KBZK in Butte/Bozeman, MT but has been re-assigned to other duties here after more than 12 years as ND. He’s also worked in Madison, WI, and for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. ...
Tim Larson left KRDO in Colorado Springs this week after eleven years as GM for this News, Press & Gazette operation. He spent another two years running NPG’s Idaho Falls, ID, station. Tim was ...
Ian Rubin is headed to Cleveland as news director for Raycom Media’s duopoly WOIO-WUAB. Here’s the news release, courtesy of General Manager Erik Schrader. Schrader’s spent the past 14+ years as news director for ...
Susan Sullivan, who’s run the newsroom at WNBC in New York for the past seven-plus years, is moving within NBC (even the same building) to a standards and practices role for NBC News. She ...
A Little Rock radio station will continue to run its ‘Babe Bracket’ contest but has changed the name to ‘A Contest with No Name’, a play on the show’s title. The move comes after ...
Sinclair’s KOMO In Seattle, WA has a new executive producer. Ana Maria Lamas Brouhard joins the station from Sinclair sister-station in Austin, TX, KEYE, where she was also an EP. She’s also worked for Spanish language ...
Readers of a certain vintage will certainly recognize the name Terry Heaton. He was a news director in Tennessee, Hawaii, North Carolina, and Alabama, spent time as a consultant, and many years as a ...
Kenny Boles, a well respected, long-time small market news director, passed away last night. While he was battling pancreatic cancer, he apparently died of cardiac arrest. He was just 64 years old. He’d spent ...
Bill Dallman moves north to become the next ND for Sinclair’s KOMO in Seattle. This memo to the staff from KOMO General Manager Janene Drafs has more. Bill most recently was the VP/News for KCBS/KCAL, the CBS owned duopoly in ...
Mark Rosen returns to Georgia as the next news director for Raycom’s WTVM in Columbus. Here’s the memo from GM Holly Steuart (a former ND herself) to the staff. Mark’s spent the last two years as ...
Jane Helmke announced late Friday that she was stepping down as news director of Tegna’s KARE in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Jane’s been ND there for about 6 1/2 years and has held a wide variety ...
The other ND change occurred in Las Vegas, where KVUU news director Cristi Jessee has left this Meredith owned station after just over two years as news director. The note from GM Todd Brown to the ...
Grendel Levy is the new news director for Nexstar’s WOWK in Charleston-Huntington, WV. She’s spent the last four years as ND for Scripps’ KIVI in Boise (and two years there before that as an EP). Which ...
Eric Maze is leaving Scripps’ WFTX in Ft. Myers, FL to return to Missouri to take a job media as a media specialist for the University of Missouri’s Hospital System. Eric’s been ND at WFTX for ...
Mark Durham has left Quincy owned WAOW in Wausau, WI after two years as news director. He spent the previous three years as an ND in Beckley, WV. Mark’s also worked in Seattle, Denver, Miami, ...
Steve Colwell joins Nexstar’s WDTN in Dayton, OH as dayside executive producer. He’s spent the last 15 years working for Cox-owned WPXI in Pittsburgh in a variety of roles.
Rhonda Kitchens returns to Raycom’s KPLC in Lake Charles, LA, as morning assistant news director. She has ten years experience in the Lake Charles market and has been working most recently in Beaumont as ...
Spectrum News, Central North Carolina has named Brandon Sherer news director. It’s owned by Charter. Brandon will be based in Raleigh, which is convenient since he’s been the Assistant News Director for WTVD in Raleigh/Durham. ...
Ross Becker has left Entravsion-owned KMIR in Palm Springs, CA after just over a year as ND. Ross has spent most of his career as an anchor, working in Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Indianapolis, ...
Julie Zoumbaris returns to Meredith’s WNEM-TV in Saginaw/Flint, MI as General Manager. Here’s the news release. Julie worked there in a variety of sales roles for 14 years. She’s currently the Director of Sales for WRTV in ...
After more than 35 years at WLS in Chicago, most of them as the 6:00 producer, Bob Veasey is retiring next month. Here’s part of the note that ND Jennifer Graves sent to the newsroom. Remarkably, ...
Jillian O’Brien moves cross country from Hearst’s KSBW in Monterey, where she was the Assistant ND. She’s headed to Washington to be the EP of Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien, to whom she is NOT related.
Scott Brady returns to WJLA (Sinclair) in Washington as an executive producer. He was a producer there in the 90’s. Most recently he was the news director for KYTV in Springfield, MO before losing his job with ...
It’s a short move and a transfer within Sinclair for Sean Carroll who’s been named news director for WSTM/WTVH, a Sinclair duopoly in Syracuse NY. He’s worked at Sinclair’s WHAM in Rochester for almost eleven years, ...
Dwayne Fatherree is the new ND for Bayou City Broadcasting’s KADN, in Lafayette, LA. He’s been the Assistant ND and has held a number of jobs in both broadcast and print as you’ll learn via ...
Congratulations to ROSE ANN SHANNON who is retiring after 25 years as news director for Hearst’s KETV in Omaha, NE. She’s worked at KETV for 32 years and spent 12 years at KMTV in Omaha, worked ...
And check out this video to see how Bakersfield, CA, KGET news director Michael Trihey found a car stolen from one of his photographers and confronted the perp!
Congratulations to longtime ND Bill Evans who’s been promoted to General Manager for Paxton Media owned WPSD in Paducah, KY. Bill’s been there for more than 20 years, first as ND then VP/News and ...
Congratulations as well to Colin Benedict who’s been promoted to VP/News for Morgan Murphy Media, the parent company of WISC in Madison, WI, where Colin will continue to serve as news director. He’s worked ...
WTVF in Nashville has a new executive producer. Bethany Davison joins the Scripps owned station from WJXT in Jacksonville, where she held the same job. Bethany’s also worked in Tampa, Roanoke, and San Luis ...
Lynn Marshall, who once served in a number of roles for KFDX in Wichita Falls, TX, including news director, died unexpectedly this week at the age of 64. According to this obituary, he was ...
In Tampa, veteran news director Bill Berra has announced his retirement from Nexstar’s WFLA at the end of March. Here’s his note to the staff along with the note from his GM, Skip Valet. ...
Patrick McCreery has been promoted to Executive VP of Operations for the Meredith Station group, effective immediately. Here’s the note from President Paul Karpowicz in which he explains that all GMs will report to ...
One week after Jasmine Hatcher Hardin was named general manager at Gray’s WVLT in Knoxville, TN, the station has posted the news director position on its website. Tony Bernhardt has been ND at the ...
Beginning next Monday, Lana Durban Scott takes over as GM at Scripps’ WRTV in Indianapolis, IN, replacing Larry Blackerby, who departed last fall. Currently, she’s senior director of news strategy and operations for Scripps, ...
A veteran Milwaukee news director has resigned her job after 3 1/2 years. Here’s the memo Janet Hundley sent to her staff yesterday afternoon at Scripps-owned WTMJ. Before joining the station, Hundley spent 26 ...
Jennifer Dale returns to Raycom as she’ll be the new ND for WCSC in Charleston, SC. She’s currently the ND for Nexstar’s WJHL in Johnson City, TN where she was hired by GM Dan ...
Dennis Lortz has left Nexstar’s WOWK in Charleston/Huntington, WV after just nine months as news director. He’d been the assistant ND before being promoted, is a former news director and anchor in Nebraska, and ...
After 2 1/2 years, Stephen Crews has left Nexstar’s WDHN in Dothan, AL. Crews had worked there for five years before being promoted, and spent many years before that working for some weekly newspapers ...
One of Raycom’s Regional News Directors, Vicki Zimmerman (LaFluer) is retiring. She’s a former news director at WAFB in Baton Rouge and earlier worked at KPLC in Lake Charles, LA., which paid tribute to ...
One time news director Bridget Breen has been promoted to GM for Quincy Media’s KTIV in Sioux City, IA. She joined the station in 1994 and has done about every job in the building ...
Late Friday, veteran ND Pat Costello announced his pending retirement. He’ll leave Sinclair owned KOMO in Seattle, WA when the February rating period ends. He’s been ND there for three years. GM Janene Drafs ...
Shawn Reynolds is heading 90 miles up I-85 to Atlanta, where he’ll become the morning executive producer for Meredith’s WGCL. The GM for Raycom owned WTVM/WXTX in Columbus, GA, Holly Steuart, distributed this email. ...
Michele Morin has been promoted to assistant news director at Sinclair’s Seattle KOMO. She’s been the dayside EP there, previously was the morning EP, and also worked at KIRO in Seattle.
Former Memphis news director Tammy Phillips didn’t spend much time between jobs. We told you two weeks ago she was leaving Raycom’s WMC in Memphis after six years as ND. She’s moving to a ...
Longtime Los Angeles newsman (and former RTDNA board member) Bruce Cramer has announced his retirement at the end of the year. Bruce spent the last 17 years at KABC, where he was recently promoted ...
Another news director change late Wednesday in Los Angeles, as Bill Dallman has left KCBS/KCAL after just over two years as news director for this O&O. Bill’s a former news director in Minneapolis at ...
Veteran broadcaster Dick Reingold left his gig as GM for Sinclair’s WCTI in New Bern-Greenville-Washington, NC on Friday. Here’s part of the note he sent the staff: Though I am not from Eastern North Carolina, I ...
Veteran news director Ken White is on the job for Quincy owned WVVA in Bluefield, WV. Ken’s a former ND at WOWK in Charleston/Huntington and spent 14 years at WCCB in Charlotte where he ...
Former WRIC, Richmond, VA news director Kelly Woodard is the new assistant news director for Scripps' WEWS in Cleveland. She left WRIC in July after almost four years as news director for that Nexstar ...
Congratulations to WJLA news director Mitch Jacob who's assuming additional duties as station manager for this Sinclair station in Washington DC. Mitch has been ND here for just over three years, and has been ...
Sinclair owned triopoly WSTM/WSTQ/WTVH in Syracuse, NY has posted an opening for a news director. Records show that Rae Fulkerson has been the ND here since 2008.
Our dearth of new openings ends this week with news that Tammy Phillips will leave Raycom's WMC Memphis, TN early in December. She shared this heartfelt note with her staff. Tammy's been the ND ...
We're late in reporting that Sarah Gray became the ND for Gray’s WSAW in Wausau, WI. last June. Here's her bio from the WSAW website. She'd been an EP for a Gray sister station, ...
Kate Glover is the new news director for Gray’s WNDU in South Bend, IN. GM John O'Brien sent this note to the staff. Kate most recently spent seven months as ND for Tegna's WGRZ ...
Raquel Amparo moves across town to become ND for Univision’s KUVN, Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX. Raquel shared the news with friends via this post on Facebook. She has been the Managing Editor (and earlier, EP) ...
We promised you an update on the career plans of Steve Korioth who left the ND job at WVVA in Bluefield, WV, a few weeks ago. Steve tells us he's returned to his native ...
Collin Bishop has been promoted to Assistant ND for Tegna's WGRZ in Buffalo. He's worked there for 15 years and most recently was the EP of the morning newscast. He's also worked in South ...
Another news director change in another small Wisconsin market as Lane Kimble is being promoted to ND for Rockfleet Broadcasting owned WJFW, Rhinelander, WI. He's been the Assistant ND here for the past 2 ...
We're a bit tardy in reporting Ryan Hazelwood as the news director for Cordillera owned KOAA, Colorado Springs, CO. Ryan most recently was the ND at KVII in Amarillo, a job he left in ...
Lena Sadiwskyj returns to TV after a 2+ year hiatus in marketing. It's also a return to Gray Television for Lena, as she takes over at WTVY in Dothan, AL. Here's the memo from ...
Barb Roethler has been named ND for Gray’s WILX in Lansing, MI. Barb, a veteran of the Detroit market, been the interim ND since Kevin Ragan suffered a stroke almost a year ago. Kevin ...
Julie Flynn joins Tegna owned WZZM in Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo, MI from Tegna’s WKYC in Cleveland, where she was an executive producer. She's spent the last 15 years in Cleveland, working at both WKYC and ...
Rick Gevers reports that John Wilson has been named ND for CBS-owned KYW in Philadelphia. The move is effective immediately. He’s been filling that role on an interim basis since Margaret Cronan departed in ...
Three time Chicago news director Carol Fowler has a new job as Senior VP of digital news products for the parent company of the Chicago Sun-Times. Fowler was ND at WBBM, WFLD and WGN ...
Michael Sipes will start later this month as the new news director for Nexstar owned KLFY in Lafayette, LA. He's a former news director in Kansas City, Louisville, Wichita, Jackson, MS, and Colorado Springs. ...
