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Friday, May 19, 2017 UPDATE: I’m saddened to tell you that GARY HANSON died yesterday after a seven year battle with cancer. He was 66. During his career, Gary was a news director, RTNDA chair, and longtime educator at Kent State. Our friendship goes back more than 30 years. He was the news director at the CBS affiliate in Youngstown when I was at the CBS affiliate in Toledo. Gary nominated me when I ran for the RTNDA Board of Directors, and I returned the favor when he ran for chair. More details about his life and many accomplishments are [More]
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Greetings: We’re a few hours early this week as I’m in Las Vegas for the BEA and NAB conventions. RTDNA will hold what’s become an annual get-together this week at NAB. It’s Tuesday night at 9:00 at the Parasol Down bar at the Wynn Hotel and Casino. RTDNA leaders will be there along with other news types in down for the convention. I’m planning on being there, too. On to our normal business…we have THREE newly named news directors in this week report, and the ONE new ND opening was created by a promotion to a larger market. That leaves [More]
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017 UPDATE: Greetings: Once again, we have two items for you this afternoon. First, WNCN-TV, the Nexstar owned CBS affiliate in Raleigh, has named ED TRAUSCHKE as its next news director. Ed’s been the interim ND there since ANDREA PARQUET-TAYLOR left to become ND for KTVT-TV in Dallas. Ed’s no stranger to Raleigh: he was the Managing Editor for WRAL-TV for 2+ years in the late 90s. Ed most recently was the ND for KOTV in Tulsa. He’s also been an ND in Orlando and Little Rock, and began his career as a reporter. Also, veteran Poynter [More]
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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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