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Thursday, June 19, 2025 UPDATE: Greetings: It struck us as an unusual move when it happened last month, and we have the same reaction now that it has (new word alert!) unhappened. JEFF HOFFMAN has left Tegna’s WKYC-TV (NBC) in Cleveland after just one month as news director. While Jeff had been an ND in the past, his last three jobs had been GM positions, including an almost ten year run as GM for WKMG-TV (Graham/CBS) in Orlando, which he left earlier this year. No details on why he left, but here’s the memo that GM JOHN TREVINO sent to [More]
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Tuesday, June 10, 2025 UPDATE: Greetings: What some might consider a non-traditional hire was just announced for a news director job in a top 25 market. CHRIS NAGUS returns to Gray Media’s KMOV-TV (CBS) in St. Louis as its next ND. He worked there for 13 years as an investigative reporter before he left in 2021 to serve as Director of Storytelling and Content, first for Scripps and then for Graham Media. (In both cases he was hired by SEAN McLAUGHLIN who had been his ND at KMOV.) He still lives in St. Louis with his wife and their three [More]
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Thursday, March 20, 2025 UPDATE: Greetings: A SEISMIC change in Miami television today. The ABC affiliation is moving from WPLG-TV, where it has been for almost 70 years to Sunbeam Television, owner of FOX affiliate WSVN-TV. ABC programming will air on a digital channel, 7.2. Here are stories from the individual station’s website with more. First, the story from Sunbeam and WSVN: And WPLG’s report is here. Wow! More this weekend. regards, Rick Gevers **** ***** **** Greetings: Apologies for the tardy posting but travel interfered. This week: TWO newly opened news director jobs, and THREE jobs were filled. Our [More]
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Greetings: A busy week! SEVEN newly opened news director jobs, including ONE in the number ONE market. And FOUR positions were filled. Our list of openings increases, and now stands, by my count at 43 (if my three years of sophomore math paid off). We have a Paid Help Wanted AD for a General Manager’s job, along with ads for two other news positions. There are TWO new obituaries, though both the former NDs died a few months ago. And ONE, who was also on the faculty at Missouri, had a huge impact on this students, including me. A longtime [More]
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