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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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,” ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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, ...
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’ ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
