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Thursday, February 16, 2017 UPDATE: A longtime FOX o-and-o news director has left her job, after 16 years running three different FOX owned news departments. DANA McDANIEL (HAHN) has resigned as news director for KTVU-TV, the FOX owned station in Oakland/San Francisco. This story from a Bay Area blogger suggests a family health issue is the reason. Dana’s been the ND here since October, 2014, shortly after FOX acquired the station. She’d been the ND for the company’s Washington station, WTTG-TV, and earlier spent almost 12 years as ND for WJBK-TV in Detroit. More from her Linkedin page. We’ll have more [More]
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Greetings: Welcome to your super edition of our weekly newsletter. (If I use a lower case ‘s’ in super, will I still get sued by a certain league?) We have TWO newly named ND’s in this week’s edition, and TWO new vacancies, including one caused by the promotion of a veteran ND to GM. That brings our count of open ND jobs to 23. There are FIVE paid help wanted ads this week, including an interesting recruiting position at a major group owner. Another group owner is searching for a Washington bureau chief, and RTDNA seeks a new executive director. [More]
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Greetings: Happy New Year! As you’d expect, pretty slow this week. NO newly opened news director jobs, while ONE station announced a new ND. That moves our list of open ND jobs to 23. We welcome a new annual advertiser this week, as Sinclair Broadcast Group supports this newsletter with a series of recruiting ads that you’ll be seeing in the weeks and months ahead. And we have THREE other paid help wanted ads in this issue. As you probably know, today’s was the day of an affiliate change in Boston, and we have the latest in a story from [More]
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Greetings: And my holiday gift to you is…this newsletter, delivered a day early. You weren’t seriously expecting anything else, were you? For a short week leading into a holiday, seems like we have a lot to tell you. For instance, there are THREE new news director openings. TWO stations hired new news directors. Our list of open ND jobs moves slightly higher, to 24. ONE of those open ND jobs is among our FIVE paid help wanted ads. Speaking of FIVE, there are that many items in our General Manager news section. And in Names in the News, we’ll tell [More]
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