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Greetings: A surfeit (I sneak that word in every year or two) of ND hires this week leads our report. SIX new news directors, with just THREE openings. Our list of stations with open ND jobs drops to 35. One of those 35 stations is among our TWO Paid Help Wanted ads this week. Just TWO items in Names in the News, ONE new GM in a top 20 market, and NO obituaries. And be sure to check out the ad just below. She’s been a news director (in Dallas), a GM (in Sacramento) and now MARIA BARRS adds author [More]
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Greetings: (Apologies for the different look of this week’s newsletter. Our friends at WordPress, taking a page from those at Constant Contact, have installed a new…but not improved, in my view…editor. Hopefully by next week I’ll either have figured it out or found a way to go back to the old system.) There’s a fair amount of news director movement this week, with THREE newly named news directors and TWO new openings, both created when peoole took new jobs. Those changes leaves 22 jobs on our list of open ND positions. We have a report about a huge purge of GMs and GSMs at Univision, [More]
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 UPDATE: Greetings: TWO large markets ND jobs are filled by Tegna, and an announcement from the number TWO market proves my speculation skills aren’t so good. CARIDAD (CARI) HERNANDEZ has been promoted to Director of Content for Tegna’s WUSA-TV (CBS) in Washington, She’s been the Assistant News Director there for the past two years and previously worked in Philadelphia, Miami, and at CNN in Atlanta. The WUSA news release fills in the rest. Cari replaces KATHY REYNOLDS who left the station last month to become ND for Scripps’ WPTV (NBC) in West Palm Beach. Tegna’s second [More]
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Thursday, June 2, 2022 UPDATE: Greetings: Now you see them, now you don’t. That’s the case for both the news director and general manager at Scripps’ KTNV (ABC) in Las Vegas. Both ND NANCY BAUER and GM CHRIS WAY were shown the door yesterday, according to this story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. (registration may be required. Bauer’s been the ND there since 2019, coming from Bakersfield where she ran the news department at Scripps’ KERO-TV. Before that she spent 20 years as a news director in Los Angeles at KCBS/KCAL-TV and KNBC-TV. She’s also been an ND in San [More]
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