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Greetings: Remember how slow our reports have been the last few weeks. Not this week! Not with FOUR new news directors (all in top 35 markets), and THREE new ND openings, TWO in top 30 markets. One of those ND openings is at a top ten network o-and-o, and the opening was created because the incumber is off to be a GM. Our list of open ND positions eases down slightly to 29. ONE of those openings is featured in this week’s only Paid Help Wanted ad. TWO obituaries this week, one of a veteran news director and one of [More]
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Friday, October 19, 2018 UPDATE: There’s a second news director opening in Indianapolis to report. KATHY HOSTETTER, who’s been the ND for Dispatch’s WTHR-TV, is leaving that NBC affiliate to become ND for KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, the CBS o-and-o in the Steel City. Kathy’s been ND here for about 5 1/2 years, coming from WAVE-TV in Louisville. She’s also been an ND in Norfolk and Ft. Wayne, and has worked in San Jose/San Francisco and Grand Rapids, MI. Her departure creates the second ND opening in the market, as KERRI CAVANAUGH left WTTV-WXIN-TV (Tribune’s CBS/FOX duopoly) last week for a [More]
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Thursday, July 12th, 2018 UDPATE: It’s been exactly one year to the day since we last reported a cross-town news director move. And that’s what we have today, with news that KEITH CONNORS will be the next news director for Meredith’s WFSB-TV (CBS) in Hartford/New Haven. Keith is currently the ND for the market’s ABC affiliate, Nexstar’s WTNH-TV, where he’s been in charge for almost 3 1/2 years. Here’s the WFSB news release about Keith’s hire. Keith’s been an ND in Indianapolis, Houston, Charlotte, Norfolk, and Rochester, NY, and also worked in Nashville and Toledo, where I hired him as [More]
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Tuesday, July 3, 2018 UPDATE: Funeral services for TOM PETNER will be held this Friday, July 6th, at a funeral home in Freehold Township, NJ. We told you last weekend that Tom died Sunday, July 1st, of cancer at the age of 71. Tom served as a news director in New York and Pittsburgh, taught at Temple (his alma mater) and other universities, edited the Shoptalk newsletter, and later started his own blog, the 24/7 Newsroom. Here’s his farewell from January 31, 2013, when he shut down the newsletter. Information about Tom’s survivors, memorial information, and arrangements are in this obituary. regards, Rick Gevers [More]
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