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Friday, June 24, 2016 UPDATE: A surprise from Portland, OR, today, where a General Manager (and a former news director) walks across the street to take a new job. ADRIENNE ROARK who’s been the GM for MGstbN’s (*see below) KOIN-TV (CBS) in Portland since June, 2014, left today to become General Manager of Meredith’s KPTV/KPDX, the FOX/My Network duopoly there. Here’s the news release. Before Portland, Adrienne spent four years as the news director for CBS’s KTVT-TV in Dallas, served as the ND for another CBS o-and-o, WFOR-TV in Miami, and worked for other stations. Her Linkedin page is very [More]
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Tuesday, May 24, 2016 UPDATE: There’s a news director change in a top 20 market to share with you in this UPDATE. Friday will be JEROME PARRA‘s last day as News Director for Tegna’s KXTV in Sacramento, a job he’s held for the last four years. Here’s the note Jerome sent to his staff. Before returning to Sacramento (he began his career at KXTV as a writer and assignment editor there in 1990) Jerome was the Assistant ND for Tegna’s KPNX-TV in Phoenix. Jerome’s also been an ND in Flagstaff and has worked on the assignment desk for another Phoenix [More]
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Greetings: Welcome to your weekly free report on news director, news management, and general management moves around the TV business. This week’s report finds TWO newspeople getting their first ND jobs, while ONE news director moves within her company to take an Assistant ND job. Those changes leave our count of open ND jobs at 27. TWO of those jobs (both in top 30 markets) are featured among our THREE Paid Help Wanted ads. Also this week, a handful of management moves, including one in Chicago. And we have news of some upper level management changes at Tegna, a former [More]
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016 UPDATE: Greetings: There’s a news director change in the 12th market this evening. SANDRA KOTZAMBASIS has left Tegna’s KPNX-TV in Phoenix after less than 18 months as ND. She was promoted to that job, replacing longtime ND MARK CASEY, from her earlier role as Senior Executive Producer. Mark, now the Station Manager at this NBC affiliate, will run the news department in the interim. Sandra sent a note to her fellow Tegna NDs explaining her departure. And she included the note she sent to her staff. You can click here to read both of them, Sandra [More]
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