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Thursday, December 12, 2019 UPDATE: Greetings: We always delight in reporting the ascension of a news director to a general manager’s job, and that’s the case today. ED CHAPUIS, a veteran ND, is being promoted within Scripps to become GM for KSBY-TV, the company’s NBC affiliate in San Luis Obispo, CA. Details in this news release. Ed already speaks ‘Californian’, as his last FOUR news director jobs have been in The Golden State (not bad for a Chicago native). That includes his current gig at Scripps’ KGTV in San Diego, a job he’s held since September, 2017. Before that, he [More]
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Friday, August 16, 2019 UPDATE: Greetings: Today’s UPDATE brings news of a news director’s resignation at a network o-and-o in a top 25 market. JEFF ZELLER has stepped down as Vice President and News Director for FOX’s WOFL-TV in Orlando. He’s been the ND there for almost ten years and was the Assistant ND for 3 1/2 years before ascending to the top job. Jeff also worked in Pittsburgh, Detroit, Tampa, Cincinnati, and Dayton. The Orlando Sentinel’s longtime TV writer HAL BOEDEKER has more. The change comes about a month after a GM change at WOFL. MIKE McCLAIN was promoted [More]
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Friday, August 9, 2019 UPDATE: Greetings: The ‘nationwide search’ for a new news director for Tegna’s WFAA-TV in Dallas ended up…with someone already in the newsroom. LESLIE McCARDEL has been promoted to Executive News Director for this ABC affiliate. The full story is in the station’s news release. Leslie’s been the director of content and strategy at WFAA since 2016 when she returned after a brief hiatus that’s explained in the news release. She first joined the station in 2006. She’s also worked for sister Tegna station KHOU-TV in Houston and at KSBY-TV in San Luis Obispo, CA. Leslie replaces CAROLYN [More]
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Friday, August 2, 2019 UPDATE: Greetings: A longtime newtork o-and-o news director turned network o-and-o general manager has a new job on the corporate staff of one of America’s biggest broadcast companies. SUSAN TULLY has been named Senior VP of Local Content Development for Nexstar Broadcasting. This news release will tell you that it’s a newly created position and explains the duties. Susan spent 28 years working for NBC, most of that time as VP/News for the company’s KXAS-TV in Dallas/Ft. Worth, before become GM for NBC’s WVIT-TV in Hartford/New Haven. We told you last April that Susan was leaving [More]
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