NEW GMS NAMED IN TEXAS
Telemundo has new jobs for two station vets
Category: Meet the New Boss…
A NEW EXEC TAKES OVER IN HOUSTON
New GM moves up from station manager
SHE’S THE (SOON-TO-BE) NEW BOSS
Station vet assumes the GM chair in March
GETTING TO THE TOP SPOT
#2 becomes #1
A RETURN TO THE LONE STAR STATE
The first go-round was in DFW; this time it’s Houston
HE WORKED HIS WAY TO THE TOP SLOT
From unpaid intern to news director
WEARING SEVERAL HATS AT ONCE
Sinclair puts three more stations under Pensacola GM
THIS NEW PUBLIC TV GM ROSE OUT OF THE NEWSROOM RANKS
His career started nearly thirty years ago
THIS COULD BE A LONG-TERM THING
Joining a station with a stable history of newsroom leadership
SHE’S BEEN ON THE JOB FOR TWO DAYS ALREADY
She joined the station as morning anchor. Now she's the boss.
FOX MOVES AUSTIN GM TO PHOENIX
The current GM is retiring
ANOTHER VET IN PLACE IN EVANSVILLE
He replaces a longtime, and now retired, news executive
A NEW GM NAMED IN MEMPHIS
Imagicomm designates vet for WHBQ front office
NOW IN CHARGE IN ALBUQUERQUE
#Two becomes #1
THE SECOND TIME AROUND IN WICHITA
She’s back!
REUNITED AND IT FEELS LIKE….DEJA VU
The new GM hires the news director from his previous station
GRAY NAMES A GM FOR WEST PALM BEACH OPERATION
She’ll reach the beach from Lexington, KY
VETERAN NEWSMAN LANDS IN ND CHAIR AT WABC
It’s a return to local news for him.
A NEW BOSS IN SATX
Graham Media has bumped up station veteran Ashley Parker to the general manager’s office at KSAT in San Antonio, TX. She’s been with the station for 19 years, the last nine of them as ...
DITCHING THE ANCHOR DESK FOR THE ND OFFICE
Adriana Ruggiero has anchored her final newscast at Entravision’s KHAX in San Diego Now she’s in charge of the station’s newsroom….and the newsrooms of Entravision stations in Palm Springs, El Centro and several smaller ...
MOVING UP IN WEST VIRGINIA
Matt Irvin has been promoted to news director for Gray’s WVVA in Bluefield, WV. A 19 year employee of the station, he’s done a little bit of everything, from master control to satellite truck ...
RETURN TO THE BAYOU STATE.
Jonathan Shelley has just been named the next news director for Manship’s WBRZ in Baton Rouge. Here’s the news release from the station. Jonathan replaces Trey Schmaltz, who is being promoted to general manager, ...
LONGTIME CBS NEWSER LANDS HIS FIRST LOCAL ND GIG
A veteran CBS employee returns to his former station for his first news director’s job. Scott Keenan, a 28 year employee of CBS, has been named Vice President/News Director for KTVT/KTXA the network’s duopoly ...
A RETURN TO FAMILIAR TERRITORY
Karin Movesian returns to her former market, this time as ND for Sinclair’s WEYI in Flint/Saginaw/Bay City, MI. Earlier in her career she was the ND for WNEM there. Movesian has also been ND ...
HE MIGHT UNPACK THIS TIME
Jim Parker will be the next ND at Allen Media’s KADN/KALF in Lafayette, LA. GM Nanette Lavergne told the staff via this memo. Parker has been the ND for Imagicomm’s KIEM/KVIQ in Eureka, CA, ...
TEGNA (YOU FINISH IT) APPOINTS JAX ND
Sarah Bryant Holcomb gets to take the “interim” off her title and is now the full-fledged news director at Tegna’s (soon, Standard Media’s) WTLV/WJXX Jacksonville, FL duopoly. Until she stepped into that “interim” breach, ...
GRAY’S NEW MANAGEMENT TEAM IN CHARLOTTE
With a combined 59 years of experience in television between them, Gray Television introduced Michelle Robinson Harper (left) and Shelly Hill Crawford (right) as the new GM and station manager respectively, of WBTV in ...
SHE’S GETTING HER FIRST NEWS DIRECTOR’S JOB
A veteran newswoman stays in California and gets her first news director’s job. Bobbi Gearhart will be the next ND for Scripps’ KGTV in San Diego. She’s currently the managing editor for KNBC in ...
GRAY STILL HAS GMS WITH REASONABLE RESPONSIBILITIES
Gray Television’s massive reorganization or its station management structure, with the appointment of six new senior vice-presidents, each with multiple station responsibilities, dominated the news earlier this week. Lost in the shuffle was Gray’s ...
VETERAN EXEC REPLACES DISGRACED ND IN ELMIRA
Nexstar’s WETM in Elmira, NY has hired Jim Turpin as its news director. Turpin is a veteran news director with stops in Fresno, Memphis, Norfolk and Wichita. More here. At WETM, he replaces Zach ...
BOSTON BOUND
Gerardo Lopez is headed to Boston, where he’ll be the next vice president and news director for CBS owned WBZ/WSBK. He’ll replace JESSI MILLER BRADLEY who left the station in late May after about ...
VEGAS GETS A NEW GM
Another former news director moves up to the main job as Jeff Kiernan becomes vp and gm at Scripps’ KNTV in Las Vegas. For the past year and a half Kiernan has been the ...
GRAY NAMES A TOLEDO BOSS
It’s a return to the Glass City for Brad Moses, who was named general manager of WTVG, Gray’s Toledo, OH station. In fact, it is return to WTVG for Moses, who was operations manager ...
SETTLE-ING IN BUFFALO
He appears to have gotten out of News 12 New Jersey before things really hit the fan….and now Jeremy Settle has landed in Buffalo, NY as the new news director of Tegna (someday Standard ...
SINCLAIR PROMOTES IN ALBANY
Robert Croteau is the new vice president and general manager of Sinclair duopoly WRGB/WCWN in Albany, N.Y. Croteau has been the stations’ director of sales. Upon his ascension, Croteau gushed, “With nearly 100 years ...
SCRIPPS NAMES A NEW BUTTE GM
Scripps brushed aside the traditional career tracks for new GMs and reached outside the tv business to name Quinn Pacini as vice president and general manager of KBZK-KXLF in Bozeman-Butte, MT. Pacini is coming ...
A NEW NEWS BOSS IN…..NEW JERSEY???
Yep…. Teisha Parker will cross the G.W. Bridge into New Jersey from Connecticut as she moves up to the top news management slot at Altice’s News 12 New Jersey. She’s been around the block ...
SOON-TO-BE STANDARD MEDIA (!) NAMES GRAND RAPIDS ND
Brooks Blanton is moving to Grand Rapids, MI from Charlotte, NC to be the new news director for Tegna’s WZZM. It is a quick return to the Grand Rapids for Blanton, who spent all ...
MOVING UP TO #1
RICH GARCIA has been promoted to news director for locally owned WINK in Fort Myers, FL. He’s been the Assistant ND for almost 15 years. His new boss (also his old boss) Tom Doerr, ...
A NEW NUMBER ONE AT KDKA
Shawn Hoder starts July 6 as VP/news director at KDKA-WPCW (CBS) Pittsburgh. For the past three years, he’s been senior executive producer at WTSP (Tegna s/t/b Standard Media) in Tampa, FL Back in the ...
SCRIPPS MOVES A GM – FAST
No sooner had Dave German learned the shortcuts to the airport and where I-80 intersected with I-29 than Scripps hustled him out of KMTV and Omaha, NE to their duopoly KXXV/KHRD in Waco, TX. ...
LEAVING IOWA, TEXAS BOUND
Dan Delgado is the new news director at Scripps’ KXXV/KRHD in the Waco/Temple/Bryan, Texas, markets. Delgado, a Texas native, recently left Nexstar’s KCAU in Sioux City IA to take this new job. He’s a ...
A NEW NUMBER ONE IN THE BAY AREA
The suits are the CBS News stations group MAY have conducted a nationwide search for a successor to Mark Neerman at KPIX, but in the end, they found their new news director right under ...
SCRIPPS NAMES WEST PALM NEWS DIRECTOR
There’s a new sheriff in West Palm Beach. Scripps-owned WPTV has brought on Kathy Reynolds as news director, effective May 31. Reynolds has been news content director at Tegna s/t/b Standard Media’s WUSA and ...
ON THE BEACH…IN A GOOD WAY
Paul Caron moves within Nexstar to take over as news director for WBTW in Myrtle Beach, SC. Caron has been the ND for Nexstar’s WHNT in Huntsville, AL for the last three years. He ...
AN EXECUTIVE SHIFT ACROSS THE POND
As Deborah Turness, at one time president of NBC News during a rather turbulent period, prepares to take on her new role as CEO of BBC News, her replacement at ITN in Britain has ...
ESTRELLA MEDIA HIRES NEWS EXECUTIVE
Carlos Diaz Warns is the new senior vp of news at Estrella Media. “Well-respected, knowledgeable, and forward-thinking, Carlos is the ideal person to expand Estrella Media’s position as a leading Spanish-language news content provider,” ...
FROM SOUTH BEND TO LOUISVILLE
John O’Brien spent 14 years as general manager at Gray’s WNDU in South Bend, IN. Now he’s packing his bags and getting ready for an in-house transfer to sister station WAVE in Louisville, KY. ...
MORE DOUBLE DUTY AT SINCLAIR
Sinclair has moved Hilary Walker into the vp/general manager’s office WTGS in Savannah, GA Walker was bumped up from her local sales manager position at Sinclair’s Gainesville, FL duopoly WGFL-WNBW. She gets to hang ...
ANOTHER NEWS DIRECTOR MAKES IT TO THE GM’S CHAIR
We’ll never not enjoy reporting when a news director makes it to the job once reserved for sales geeks and bean counters only – the general manager of the television station. So we point ...
SALES EXEC SHUFFLES OFF TO PROMOTION
Longtime sales executive gets a promotion at Buffalo station
STANDARD MEDIA NAMES NEW PROVIDENCE, RI NEWS DIRECTOR
It’s a return to familiar territory for Allison Gaito, who starts Monday as the new news director at Standard Media’s WLNE in Providence, RI. Gaito was a special project producer and MMJ in the ...
MOVING UP FROM NUMBER TWO
After three years in the assistant slot, Veronika Placencia is now the brand-new news director at Scripps’ KERO in Bakersfield, CA. She’s been the interim since way back in September when Suzanne Rodriguez departed ...
NEWS 12 NEWSROOM FINALLY GETS A NEW BOSS
News 12 Long Island named Robert Rivas its news senior news director. Here’s the memo from News 12’s SVP and GM Jacques Natz. Rivas is an 18 year veteran of NBC News, where he ...
FROM #2 to #1
Nexstar’s KXAN in Austin, TX, has promoted Haley Cihock to news director. She’s a 22 year veteran of the station, first joining in 1999 as a producer. She’s also been the EP and…for the ...
HEADED FOR KC
Call it an in-house move, as Kate Glover becomes the next news director at Gray’s KCTV in Kansas City, MO replacing Karin Movesian. Glover’s been the ND at Gray’s WNDU in South Bend, IN, ...
BUMPED UP IN WEST PALM
Emily Thompson is the new news director at Hearst’s WPBF in West Palm Beach, FL. She knows her way around, having been in the newsroom since 1998, and for the past three years, been ...
ABC NEWS FINALLY FILLS THE SPOT VACATED BY WENDY McMAHON
It was last May that Wendy McMahon pulled up stakes at ABC News, where she had been president of the network’s station group for just under 3 ½ years and head for CBS News ...
HEADING BACK TO THE QUAD CITIES
Anne Hughes is returning to the Quad Cities where she was at WQAD for two decades. While at WQAD, she served as producer, executive producer, assignment editor and assistant news director. (Not all at ...
THE CBS NEWS SHUFFLE CONTINUES
Mark Lima settled in this week as the new Washington Bureau chief for CBS News. He crossed the country, leaving his job as the network’s West Coast Bureau chief – a job he held ...
BACK TO PACKERLAND
Julie Moravchik has returned to Green Bay and started this week as the new ND for Gray’s WBAY. Earlier in her career journey, she spent 2 1/2 years as ND for WGBA, before heading ...
STEPPING INTO THE TOP TOLEDO JOB
It’s been a busy two years for Michael Baldwin, who’s been promoted to news director for Gray’s WTVG in Toledo, OH. Here’s the memo from GM Chris Fedele. Baldwin joined WTVG just this past ...
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON
In Kansas City, MO, you may recognize the name of the person who will be the next general manager for Hearst duopoly KMBC/KCWE. Justin Antoniotti, a Hearst veteran, has been a ND for the ...
VETERAN ND (SURPRISINGLY) TAKES ON NEW CHALLENGE
For the past 17 years, Barry Fulmer has been news director at Block Communications’ WDRB in Louisville KY where he ran a top-ranked and respected newsroom. He evidently was in need of a new ...
GRAY’S MASSIVE GM SHUFFLE INCLUDED ONLY ONE FORMER NEWS DIRECTOR
Almost lost in the shuffle as Gray Television moved to take control of the Meredith stations it recently acquired is the naming of David Hughes as general manager of WSAZ/WQCW in Charleston-Huntington, W VA. ...
NEXSTAR NAMES NEW GM FOR ITS CHAMPAIGN IL OPERATION
It is a return to the Nexstar fold for Larry Forsgren, the newly-named vp and gm of duopoly WCIA/WCIX in Champaign-Springfield, IL. Forsgren previously was sales director for the company’s WMBD/WYZZ duopoly in Peoria, ...
ANOTHER ND MOVES TO THE CORNER OFFICE
Terri Cope-Walton is the latest news director to be awarded the main office down the hall. She is the new VP/GM for Graham Media’s WJXT/WCWJ in Jacksonville, FL. Cope-Walton was the ND for Scripps’ ...
APOLLO COX NAMES NEW BOSTON #1
As of Thursday, Todd Brown, a former Meredith executive, is the new vice-president and general manager of Cox Media Group’s WFXT in Boston, MA. Brown had been with Meredith for two decades, most recently ...
NEXSTAR REACHES INTO SCRIPPS FOR ITS NEW CHARLOTTE GM
Veteran station executive Lloyd Bucher is the new Vice President and General Manager of WJZY, WMYT and fox46.com in Charlotte, NC. For the past 6+ years he’s been serving in that same capacity at ...
LOSING THE “INTERIM” TAG
Aaron Mason is no longer interim news director at Scripps’ WKBW in Buffalo, NY. He got the job permanently. The news veteran now is officially the news director. Mason has been the station’s acting ...
GRAHAM MOVES UP ITS JAX GM
After more than a decade at the helm of Graham Media’s WJXT (and, beginning four years ago, co-owned WCWJ) in Jacksonville, Florida, Bob Ellis is getting back to his Michigan roots. The onetime news ...
SCRIPPS MOVES A GM TO VIRGINIA
Beginning September 6, Adam Chase takes over at vice president and general manager of Scripps’ WTKR in Norfolk, VA. The media company is moving Chase from his current role as VP/GM at its KXXV/KRHD ...
TEGNA NAMES A NEW NUMBER ONE IN LOUISVILLE
There’s a new sheriff…er…general manager at Tegna’s WHAS in Louisville, KY. Effective rightnow, Lisa Columbia is the station’s new president and general manager. She’s been with the station since 2012, starting out at local ...
HEARST NAMES A NEW BOSTON ND
Margaret Cronan is the new news director for Hearst’s Television’s WCVB in Boston – just the eighth in that station’s half-century history. It’s a return to Hearst for Cronan, who once served as news ...
NEW BOSS IN BILLINGS
He’s moving from Denver.
CBS STATIONS HAVE A NEW BOSS
After seven years as a television executive in Portland, OR – first as general manager of CBS affiliate KOIN, beginning in 2014, then as general manager of Meredith duopoly KPTV/KPDX since 2016, Adrienne Roark ...
NEXSTAR BUMPS UP EXEC TO NUMBER ONE IN COLORADO SPRINGS
Donna D’Amico is the newly-minted Vice President and General Manager of KXRM/KXTU-TV and FOX21News.com. Her promotion from Director of Sales took effect immediately. She’s held that position for the past five years and you ...
DISNEY NAMES A NEWS DIRECTOR IN HOUSTON
Keaton Fuchs is the newly-minted news director for Disney’s KTRK in Houston. He has been the head of content and data strategy for the station. “This is a time in our industry when we ...
AND STILL ANOTHER NEWS DIRECTOR MOVES INTO THE GM CHAIR
Marian Davey, a nearly 20 veteran of FOX-owned KMSP, the last 8 of them as news director, is the Minneapolis station’s new senior vice-president and GM. Previously, Davey held the roles of managing editor ...
HEARST FINDS A NEW CORPORATE NEWS BOSS
Paige Harrison, a tv news veteran who has been running the news operation at Hearst’s WCVB in Boston, MA for the past four years, is being moved up to the corporate level. Harrison, who ...
FOX NAMES NEW SEATTLE DUOPOLY GM
Effective IMMEDIATELY, IF NOT SOONER, Sheila Oliver is taking the reins as senior vice-president and general manager of KCPQ-KZJO, the duopoly in Seattle. Oliver is taking the place of Pamela Pearson, who “retired” Thursday ...
FROM HOUSTON TO MANHATTAN
Recently installed GM Chad Matthews looked to Houston to name his successor at the newsroom helm of Disney flagship WABC in New York. Just a month after being promoted to GM at the station, ...
SCRIPPS TAPS VET FOR ITS NATIONAL NEWS EFFORT
Starting April 12, veteran news exec Kate O’Brian will take on responsibility for the news and programming strategy for Scripps Networks’ news brands Newsy and Court TV. It’s a new title within the Cincinnati-based ...
INTERIM NO MORE
Stop sending in the resumes and, for God’s sake, no more phone calls. The nationwide search is over and the newly-named News Director at Tegna’s KSDK in St. Louis, MO is…..Art Holiday Yep, that ...
NEW NUMBER ONE AT NBCU BOSTON
NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations, a division of NBCUniversal, has promoted Chris Wayland to President and General Manager of NBC10 Boston/WBTS, Telemundo Boston/WNEU and regional cable network NECN, effective immediately. In his new role, and as the ...
KANSAS CITY-BOUND
Charlie Henrich Jr. is the newly-named vice president and general manager of Meredith duopoly KCTV/KSMO in Kansas City, Mo. He’s replacing Chuck Poduska whose retirement is effective on Monday. Henrich starts the next day. ...
IN-HOUSE MOVE
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 ...
WHEN ARE NEWS DIRECTORS LIKE A BAG OF CHIPS?
When they go to work for WGCL. The Meredith revolving door in Atlanta, GA has chewed through ten news directors in the last few years. Matt King will be the latest to take up ...
FROM THE W.VA. MOUNTAINS TO THE MOUNTAIN CITY
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, ...
AN IN-HOUSE MOVE
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 ...
SCRIPPS MOVES UP A GM
There’s a new sheriff in Lexington, KY at Scripps’ WLEX. Andrew Shenkan is taking over as vice president/general manager at his old station next month. Shenkan is currently the vice president and general manager ...
A CHANGE OF SCENERY
David Loving has been named president and general manager at Tegna’s WOI/KCWI in Des Moines. “David is a first-rate leader and innovator with a strong record of success, from launching new programs to providing ...
FORMER NEWSER TAPPED FOR TEGNA GM JOB
Six months after Nexstar Media Group completed its acquisition of Tribune Media, the GM of its Denver stations is out the door. Joan Barrett has been appointed president and general manager at Tegna’s WCNC, ...
YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN
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 ...
UNIVISION NAMES NEW ND
Luis Felipe Godinez is the newly-named news director for Univision’s KUVS in Sacramento, CA Godinez, who started his new role Monday, comes from the Bay Area after eight years at KDTV, where he was ...
BACK IN THE TOP CHAIR
Congratulations to Michael Thompson who’s the new ND for Nexstar duopoly KARD/KTVE in West Monroe, LA. Thompson has been the Executive Producer for KLTV/KTRE in Tyler, TX. He’s a former ND for KWES in ...
ANOTHER NEW NEXSTAR #1
Sharon Rachal has been named vice president and general manager of Nexstar duopoly WCIA-WCIX and related properties in Champaign-Springfield, Ill. She may be at the door Monday morning to greet station employees. It’s her ...
GOIN’ SOUTH
Chris Gegg fills the vacant ND job at WVEC in Norfolk, VA . He’s leaving Sinclair’s WRGB NY in Albany where he’s spent the last three years as ND. Gegg has also been an ND ...
