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Wednesday, April 5, 2017 UPDATE: RTDNA has named former chair and longtime board member DAN SHELLEY to be its next executive director. He’s replacing MIKE CAVENDER in that role. Here’s the news release. Dan’s a longtime radio and online executive. His full background is here on his linkedin page. Some other updates: In Sunday’s newsletter, we told you about former Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Washington news director DAVE KELLY, who was in poor health. Sadly, Dave died Sunday, just two days before his 90th birthday. And in Sunday’s full newsletter I had the wrong call letters for a Tucson news director [More]
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Monday, March 27, 2017 UPDATE: News today about two one-time news directors turned general manager. BRUNO COHEN has announced his retirement. He’s currently GM for CBS’s KPIX-TV in San Francisco, a job he’s held for five years at a station at which he was once news director. He’ll stay on until his replacement is named. Bruno’s also been a GM in Chicago and Sacramento, a news director in New York, and has worked for Buena Vista Productions and CNBC, among others. The whole story is here on his Linkedin page. LES VANN has been named General Manager for Meredith’s WHNS-TV in Greenville, [More]
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Thursday, March 9, 2017 UPDATE: One of our industry’s nicest people…at least in my estimation…is stepping down from his job in mid-April. BRIAN BRACCO told me he’s not ‘retiring’ but ‘re-wiring’. He’s currently the General Manager for Scripps’ KSHB-TV (NBC)in Kansas City. Many of you will remember him from a long career with Hearst, first as ND for KMBC-TV (ABC) in Kansas City and later as VP/News for the company. He also worked as a news director in Columbus (OH), Birmingham, and also worked in Wichita. Brian sent this delightful note to this staff, and we also have the memo [More]
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Greetings: Just in time for some reading during the Oscar telecast…here’s your weekly look at the latest in news director movement and other news management (and GM) news. There’s not much ND movement, though, with just ONE newly named ND and NO new openings. Our list of openings drops to 26. But we have lots to tell you about, with a number of items in Names in the News, Among those items are TWO former news manager taking senior management positions with newspapers. There are a few news managers on the move, and we have a link to a long [More]
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