March 13, 2022
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 UPDATE:
Greetings:
And a happy Ides of March to you, too.
A veteran newsman gets his first GM job…in a top six market.
(And if that line sounds familiar, that’s because it’s almost identical to the open of our most recent UPDATE last Wednesday, reporting the move of KELLY FRANK to GM of CBS’s KYW-TV in Philadelphia.)
Warren
Today it’s SCOTT WARREN, named General Manager for CBS’s KPIX-TV in San Francisco. He’s currently the Senior Director of News and Content at Spectrum News 1 in Los Angeles. He’s been there since 2018, but previously worked as an executive producer for two different stations in San Francisco.
More details in the announcement from CBS.
Scott’s background is wide and varied. Some of it is detailed in the CBS release, and the rest can be found on his Linkedin page.
More in our full newsletter Sunday, the delivery of which may be impacted by the basketball schedule!
regards,
Rick Gevers
**** ***** ****
Greetings:
A slow week of news director changes, so you can read our newsletter quickly and return to filling out your basketball bracket.
Just ONE new ND to introduce, with ONE opening, created by the move of a ND to a GM job in a top five market.
Our list of open ND jobs remains at 39.
ONE of those ND jobs are among our FOUR Paid Help Wanted ads, including a new ad for a sales job with AP which might allow you to work from where you live now.
TWO obituaries this week, one for a former GM in a number of top 25 markets and another for a longtime NBC director.
The aforementioned new GM in Philadelphia is recapped in our GM section, along with details about new responsibilities for SIX Gray GMs.
In Names in the News, TWO assistant news directors named at the same Chicago station. TWO former news directors get new jobs at Scripps stations (though one is an interim hire), and a former ND in several markets (and GM in one) is moved into in-home hospice care.
All that and more below.
Newly Named News Directors:
Bauman
WITN-TV, Washington, NC…CLAYTON BAUMAN is being promoted to news director for this Gray owned NBC affiliate. He’s worked here since 2008, first on air and then in to management. He’s replacing JESSICA BOBULA, who spread the news among her fellow Gray news directors via this email. We told you last month, Jessica is off to be ND for another Gray station, KOLD-TV in Tucson, after two years as ND here.
New News Director Openings:
Frank
WTSP-TV, Tampa/St. Petersburg, FL…congratulations to KELLY FRANK who’s making a big jump to GM for CBS’s KYW-TV in Philadelphia. Kelly’s been the Director of Content for this Tegna owned CBS affiliate since 2018, and had been an ND in Columbus, OH before that. Her background is varied: see her Linkedin page. Of note, earlier in her career she worked with ADRIENNE ROARK, one of the Presidents of the CBS o-and-os, to whom she will report.
Paid Help Wanted Ads:
National Sales Executive, Associated Press:
AP ENPS is hiring! Come join our great team.
The Associated Press is seeking a National Sales Executive, North America to join the ENPS news production team. The National Sales Executive will build on the success of ENPS news production and Playbook editorial planning software and develop this expanding business throughout the United States and Canada.
Main areas of responsibility:
· Work with Sales and Account Management colleagues to further develop existing customers and identify new business.
· Grow new customer base, increase the proportion of revenue which is from cloud-based SaaS solutions.
· Liaise with product management and support teams, both to channel development requests and to troubleshoot customer questions.
· Market and license SaaS cloud-based editorial systems initially to the news sector, as well as to content producers and other adjacent market segments.
· Develop business opportunities with online publishers, broadcasters, news agencies and other organizations managing news output (sports or finance information networks, social networks, associations, aggregators).
The ideal candidate will have:
· College Degree or equivalent relevant industry experience
· Experience of successful SaaS sales strategies either in a sales role directly or with compelling exposure to a range of sales and marketing activity
· Background in news, online publishing, media
· Network of contacts within the target businesses described above
The successful candidate may work on a hybrid schedule based in the Washington, D.C. office, AP’s New York headquarters or any U.S. city with an AP office and will report to the National Sales Director/AP ENPS & Playbook.
.
Assistant News Director, KBTX-TV, Bryan, TX:
KBTX, the legacy CBS station in Bryan-College Station, Texas, is looking for an inclusive, collaborative leader to serve as the station’s Assistant News Director.
You’ll work in a well-resourced, market-leading newsroom in one of the fastest-growing cities in the country. Bryan-College Station is consistently named one of America’s best college towns, recognized for quality of life no matter the last time you set foot in a classroom.
This is a growth-focused position at a station that prioritizes team members meeting their personal and professional goals. Each day, you’ll oversee KBTX’s multiplatform programming with a commitment to the station’s core values, providing editorial direction, leadership, support, and encouragement to a growing team of journalists. You will also help craft and oversee the newsroom’s strategic plan and development strategies.
KBTX has a deep commitment to community and a strong history of fostering the best in our team members through close, personal relationships. We work each day to build an inclusive, diverse workplace where all ideas and perspectives are valued, ensuring our product best reflects the vibrant community we serve.
You’ll succeed in this role thanks to a community-minded spirit and a vision to maintain and expand the station’s legacy of community outreach. Each year, KBTX’s newsroom helps to raise millions of dollars for local organizations and serves as a trusted community partner to dozens more. As assistant news director, you’ll serve as a direct conduit and among the strongest sustaining forces behind this vision.
To learn more or apply now, click here.
News Director, KADN/KLAF-TV, Lafayette, LA:
NEWS15, the local FOX and NBC affiliate in Lafayette, LA is looking for a News Director to lead our news department. We are looking for someone with outstanding leadership skills who thrives on teaching, coaching and developing a strong and positive newsroom environment. In addition, the News Director leads and supervises all aspects of news, weather, and sports programming production.
The News Director will oversee a department that generates 40.5 hours of on-air content on the Lafayette market’s NBC and FOX stations. Lafayette is a great place to live and work with a culture all its own, and we are looking for a someone to oversee a department that produces professional and engaging content that reflects that culture in a way that appeals to our own families and communities.
Specific Job Duties:
Institutes training systems for new employees.
Makes decisions regarding hiring, evaluation, promotion and termination of employees.
Develops news coverage strategy for the station and its website.
Critiques newscasts daily to correct errors, improve coverage and provide mentoring feedback to news staff.
Prepare the department’s budget and manages expenses to meet established financial goals.
Skills & Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism, or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience preferred.
Minimum five years’ experience in news programming production, with at least two years’ experience in a leadership role.
Must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 (subject to any medical or religious accommodations or other applicable law).
To be considered for this exciting opportunity, please click here.
Equal Opportunity Employer.
Other News Management Openings:
ASSISTANT NEWS DIRECTOR:
KTLA-TV, Los Angeles, CA (Digital AND, relisted 1/16/22)
WRTV, Indianapolis, IN (relisted 2/27/22)
WXIN/WTTV, Indianapolis, IN (relisted 1/30/22)
WBNS-TV, Columbus, OH (relisted 2/27/22)
WKBW-TV, Buffalo, NY (listed 3/13/22)
KTNV-TV, Las Vegas, NV (listed 3/13/22)
KXAN-TV, Austin, TX (listed 2/20/22)
WRIC-TV, Richmond, VA (listed 2/27/22)
KOLR-TV, Springfield, MO (relisted 1/9/22)
KBTX-TV, Bryan, TX (listed 2/27/22, see ad above!)
KXXV-TV, Waco, TX (listed 3/13/22)
WBTW-TV, Myrtle Beach/Florence, SC (listed 2/13/22)
WMBB-TV, Panama City, FL (listed 2/20/22)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:
WFLA-TV, Tampa, FL (listed 2/13/22)
KMGH-TV, Denver, CO (listed 2/27/22)
KTXL-TV, Sacramento, CA (relisted 3/13/22)
Spectrum News, Charlotte, NC (relisted 1/30/22)
WJZY-TV, Charlotte, NC (listed 1/30/22)
KMOV-TV. St. Louis, MO (Special Projects EP, listed 2/27/22)
WMAR-TV, Baltimore, MD (relisted 3/13/22)
WRAL-TV, Raleigh, NC (Streaming EP, relisted 2/27/22)
WTVF-TV, Nashville, TN (listed 2/27/22)
WDAF-TV, Kansas City, MO (Special Projects EP, listed 3/6/22)
WDJT-TV, Milwaukee, WI (listed 2/13/22)
WIAT-TV, Birmingham AL (listed 2/20/22)
WHTM-TV, Harriburg, PA (listed 3/6/22)
WGNO/WNOL-TV, New Orleans (EP Special Projects, revised 2/27/22)
WFTX-TV, Ft. Myers, FL (listed 3/13/22)
WHEC-TV, Rochester, NY (listed 2/27/22)
WNEM-TV, Saginaw, MI (relisted 1/9/22)
WAFF-TV, Huntsville, AL (relisted 1/2/22)
KRGV-TV, Weslaco, TX (AM EP, listed 1/16/22)
WTVC-TV, Chattanooga, TN (listed 1/23/22)
KTSM-TV, El Paso, TX (relisted 1/30/22)
WJHL-TV, Johnson City, TN (listed 2/27/22)
WHBF-TV, Rock Island, IL (Digital EP, relisted 2/13/22)
KADN/KLAF-TV, Lafayette, LA (relisted 2/27/22)
KERO-TV, Bakersfield, CO (listed 2/27/22)
SUPERVISING PRODUCER:
KOMU-TV, Columbia, Mo (listed 1/30/22)
MANAGING EDITOR:
WCPO-TV, Cincinnati, OH (listed 2/27/22)
KOMU-TV, Columbia, Mo (listed 1/30/22)
More News Management Openings:
Listed 3/13/22:
Listed 3/6/22:
U. of Mississippi, Oxford, MS (Director of Student Media (see ad above!)
Listed 2/13/22:
KNXV-TV, Phoenix, AZ (Digital Director)
KOAA-TV, Colorado Springs, CO (Assignment Desk Manager)
Relisted 2/13/22:
E.W. Scripps, Cincinnati, OH: National Director of News Platform Strategies and Special Projects
WSYR-TV, Syracuse, NY (Digital Content Manager)
Relisted 2/6/22:
WJW-TV, Cleveland, OH: (Digital Content Director)
Listed 1/30/22:
Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, MO: (Director, Documentary Journalism Center)
Relisted 1/30/22:
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY (Assistant Professor)
Relisted 1/23/22:
New York 1, New York, NY (Sr. Producer, Mornings on 1)
Listed 1/9/22:
WTMJ-TV, Milwaukee, WI: (Senior Manager of Investigative and Enterprise Content)
Listed 12/26/21:
WIS-TV, Columbia, SC: Digital Content Manager
Obituaries:
Ramsey
BOB RAMSEY, who held general manager or station manager jobs in Chicago, Sacramento, and San Diego, died Tuesday. He was 65 and died of complications while awaiting a liver transplant. He started as a sports anchor in Terre Haute, IN before moving into management. Chicago media reporter ROBERT FEDER has much more on Bob’s life and career in this story.
Schindler
Longtime NBC Director MAX SCHINDLER died this week at the age of 91. He worked for NBC for more than 40 years, and directed both The Today Show and Meet the Press. He was in the booth for coverage of the aftermath of the assassination of President JOHN KENNEDY among other stories. The Today Show remembered him.
Names in the News:
We are tardy in reporting the promotion of TWO people to Assistant News Director jobs at Chicago’s WLS-TV (ABC owned). DOUG WHITMIRE is an 18 year veteran of WLS, most recently as EP for the station’s 10:00 PM newscast. And NNEKA NWOSU FAISON joins the station from WCVB-TV (Hearst/ABC) in Boston where she was an EP. More, including more details on their backgrounds, in this news release.
TWO former news directors have new jobs at Scripps stations, though one is an interim.
Casey
Old friend MARK CASEY is serving as interim ND at Scripps’ WPTV in West Palm Beach. Mark’s last job before ‘retirement‘ was as ND for the company’s KNXV-TV (ABC) in Phoenix. Mark was the longtime ND/Station Manager for KPNX-TV (Tegna-NBC) in Phoenix, and also worked as an ND in several other markets. His entire background is here. In West Palm, he fills in while the station searches for a replacement for NICOLE HOGENSEN who’s off to her native Ohio as ND for Sinclair’s WSYX-WTTE-TV (ABC/FOX) in Columbus.
Foley
And TERRI FOLEY joins Scripps’s KTNV-TV (ABC) in Las Vegas as Managing Editor. She’d been the news director for KLAS-TV (Nexstar/CBS) in Las Vegas, before leaving last September after 35 years, the last six as news director.
Scripps also promoted EVAN HUMMEL to EP at KMTV in Omaha. He had been an in-depth planner for that CBS affiliate.
Ogle
Finally, I’m very sorry to report that longtime ND and GM JIM OGLE has entered in-home hospice care. His son, COLIN OGLE, posted this update on his dad’s Facebook page. Jim was a news director in Reno, Greensboro, and Lexington, worked in Miami and Columbia, MO, and a GM in Topeka until 2018 when he became Executive Director at Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area in Lawrence, KS. Friends can post well wishes on Jim’s Facebook page.
General Manager News and Notes:
You learned about (in our News Director Openings section) about KELLY FRANK‘s appointment as GM for CBS’s KYW-TV in Philadelphia.
Gray Television has made a number of management appointments, promoting a current GM to Senior VP/Local Media, and promoted FIVE GMs into new positions as Regional VP/General Managers. Details in this news release.
Our Full List of Open ND Jobs:
Here’s our list of open ND jobs as of Sunday, March 13, 2022.
It’s unofficial, there may be others that are open, and some of these may have been filled. If you know of any in either category, please let me know: rick@rickgevers.com
KPIX-TV 855 Battery St. San Francisco, CA 94111
WTSP-TV 11450 Gandy Blvd, St. Petersburg, FL 33702
KOVR/KMAX-TV 2713 KOVR Drive, West Sacramento, CA 95605
KTVX-TV 2175 West 1700 South Salt Lake City, UT 84104
WPTV 1100 Banyan Blvd. West Palm Beach, FL 33401
WZZM-TV 645 3 Mile Rd NW. Grand Rapids, MI 49544
WHTM-TV 3235 Hoffman Street. Harrisburg, PA 17110
WLNE-TV 10 Orms St. Providence, RI 02904
WTVQ-TV 6940 Man O War Blvd., Lexington, KY 40511
WYMT-TV 199 Black Gold Blvd. Hazard, KY 41701
WOI-TV 3903 Westown Parkway West Des Moines, IA 50266
KHQ-TV 1201 W. Sprague Ave. Spokane, WA 99201
KMTV 10714 Mockingbird Drive Omaha, NE 68127
KOLR-TV 2650 E. Division Springfield, MO 65803
KXXV-TV 1909 S. New Rd. Waco, TX 76711
KWWL-TV 511 E 5th Street Waterloo, Iowa 50703
WLBT-TV 715 South Jefferson Street. Jackson, MS 39201
WNDU-TV 54516 State Road 933, South Bend, IN 46637
KIVI-TV 1866 E. Chisholm Dr. Nampa, ID 83687
KOLO-TV 4850 Ampere Dr., Reno, NV 89502
KNDO/KNDU-TV 216 W. Yakima Ave., Yakima, WA 98902
KAPP/KVEW-TV 601 N. Edison Kennewick, WA 99336
WMBD/WYZZ-TV 3131 N. University, Peoria, IL 61604
KADN-TV 1500 Eraste Landry Rd. Lafayette, LA 70506 (see ad above!)
WLTZ-TV 6140 Buena Vista Rd. Columbus, GA 31907
KRCG-TV 10188 Old Highway 54 North. New Bloomfield, MO 65063
KBJR-TV 246 S Lake Ave. Duluth, MN 55802
KMIR-TV 72920 Park View Dr., Palm Desert, CA 92260
KBMT-TV 525 Interstate 10 South, Beaumont, TX 77701
KIMT-TV 135 E William St. Albert Lea, MN 56007
KOAM-TV 2950 NE Highway 69 Pittsburg, KS 66762
WBNG-TV 560 Columbia Dr. Johnson City, NY 13790
KTAB/KRBC-TV 4510 South 14th St. Abilene TX 79605
KPLC-TV 320 Division St. Lake Charles LA 70601
KALB-TV 605 Washington Street; Alexandria, LA 71301
WTOK-TV 815 23rd Ave. Meridian, Ms. 39301
Delta News 837 Washington Ave Greenville, MS 38701
KAEF-TV 540 E Street Eureka, CA 95501
KYOU-TV 820 West 2nd Street; Ottumwa, IA 52501
**: Spanish language station