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Greetings: Only a handful of ND changes this week, but TWO of them were in top ten markets. Those TWO openings and ONE newly named ND mean our list of openings grows slightly to 37. TWO of those stations are advertising their opportunities in paid help want ads. The other big news of the week was Graham Media’s hire of SEAN McLAUGHLIN as VP/News. We have new details on that surprise move in Names in the News. No obituaries and no GM changes this week. In Names in the News, a new executive director for SPJ, and developments in TWO [More]
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024 UPDATE #2: Exclusive! SEAN McLAUGHLIN has been named Vice President of News for Graham Media. He’ll start next week and be based in Detroit, where the company owns WDIV-TV (NBC), As you know, he just finished a ten year run as VP of Local Media for Scripps. I’m told the news release should be out shortly…and will bring it to you when it is…as long as my return home from NAB doesn’t interfere! regards, Rick Gevers Wednesday, April 17, 2024 UPDATE: One of the longest tenured careers at a network o-and-o in a large market will [More]
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Greetings: Not a lot of news director changes this week, but read on for other items of note. Just ONE new ND named, and we’ve added TWO stations to our list of open ND jobs, bringing that list to 35 stations. ONE of those openings is featured in one of our THREE Paid Help Wanted ads. In a most unusual development, CBS has hired Gray Television’s in house consulting and research group to provide those services to its 14 owned stations. We have more below. And, sadly for me, we have obituaries for TWO former news directors (among other accomplishments) [More]
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Greetings: Perhaps it’s the holiday, perhaps it’s the NCAA basketball tournament, but the flood of news slowed a little this week. There are TWO ND openings, ONE created when the incumbent left to become one of the TWO new NDs in this week’s report. There are still 34 stations on our list of openings, with THREE of those jobs among our SEVEN Paid Help Wanted ads. A former news director becomes a GM in Atlanta, and replaces a GM who himself had once been a news director. And we have an obituary for another former Atlanta ND who went on [More]
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