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Monday, May 28, 2018 UPDATE: Greetings: Due to the Holiday weekend, our next newsletter will be posted later today. Thanks for your understanding. regards, Rick Gevers **** **** **** Greetings: Just ONE newly named news director this week, with NO new openings that I’m aware of. With that ONE new news director, the list of openings drops to 28. THREE of those openings are featured among our FIVE paid help wanted ads this week. We have lots of items in Names in the News, so be sure to check that section out. Among the items…a one-time news director named President [More]
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Greetings: Just ONE new news director opening in our report this week, with TWO new news directors…though neither are really new…just at new stations. That brings our list of open ND jobs to 32. ONE of those ND openings is featured in one of our TWO paid help wanted ads this week. The other ad is a for a news management job in Wisconsin. In our GM News and Notes section, details about a promotion for a Boston general manager and the retirement of a longtime Pittsburgh GM. We have an obituary for a longtime Oregon news director and anchor. [More]
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Monday, April 16, 2018 UPDATE: Dear Rick: A busy Monday, with TWO new news directors to tell you about. A veteran news director fills the open ND job at Meredith’s KVVU-TV in Las Vegas. TOM BELL will be the new ND for that FOX affiliate. He’s spent the last five years as ND for the CBS o-and-o in Sacramento, KOVR-KMAX-TV. Here’s the email from GM JAY HOWELL to the staff. While on the surface this may seem like an unusual move, Tom owns a home in Las Vegas, has family there, and used to work for Meredith. He was ND [More]
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January 5, 2018 UPDATE: Greetings: There’s another large market news director opening to tell you about today, with news that FRED D’AMBROSI has parted ways with Raycom’s Cleveland duopoly, WOIO/WUAB-TV (CBS/CW). Fred’s been the ND there since the spring of 2015. He’s also been an ND in Milwaukee, San Diego, and Washington, DC. Fred worked at another Cleveland station earlier in his career as well as in Green Bay and Columbia, MO. We’ll have a full slate of news in our complete newsletter later this weekend. regards, gevers **** ***** **** January 3, 2018 UPDATE: Greetings: It didn’t take long [More]
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