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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nicole Wolfe, currently the assistant news director for Scripps’s WFTS in Tampa-St. Petersburg, has been named ND for the company’s WSFL in Ft. Lauderdale/Miami, where she’ll oversee a startup news operation there. The news ...
Tegna announced that Doug Wieder is the new general manager at WVEC in Norfolk, Va. For the past seven years, Wieder has been the station’s executive news director. He takes over from Kari Jacobs ...
Michael Miller is the newly-named vice-president and general manager of Sinclair’s WJLA in Washington, DC. He replaces Dan Mellon, who had been a Sinclair group manager before taking the reins at WJLA just a ...
CBS Pittsburgh has a new boss. Chris Cotugno has been named vice president and general manager of KDKA-WPCW. He succeeds Jay Howell, who took over the CBS-owned stations in Los Angeles. Cotugno has been ...
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. ...
It’s back to Buffalo for Marc Jaromin, who returns to Scripps’ WKBW as VP and general manager. At one time earlier in his career, Jaromin served as local sales manager at the station. He’s ...
Melissa Medalie has moved up to VP/News Director for Orlando Fox O&O duopoly WOFL-WRBW and sister station WOGX in Gainesville. Her promotion, effective immediately, was announced Tuesday by Mike McClain, vice president and general manager ...
John Lansing, former news director at CBS-owned WBBM and former president of Scripps Networks, will be the new CEO of NPR. Lansing most recently headed the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice ...
Pending all things working out as planned, Kern Dant will be the new GM of KLKN in Lincoln, NE The station is currently in the process of being bought by Standard Media Group, one ...
Meet the new boss…. Mike Rajewski is the new GM at Lockwood’s KAKE in Wichita, Kan. He replaces Neal Davis, who is moving on to Lockwood’s Knoxville duopoly of WTNZ-WKNX. Most recently Rajewski was ...
Fox-owned WJBK in Detroit has named Greg Easterly as its new General Manager. Easterly, most recently was Senior Vice President of Group Operations for Tribune Media (soon-to-be Nexstar), where he oversaw 15 markets. He’s ...
