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Tuesday, November 29, 2016 UPDATE: Greetings: A veteran news director returns to ‘the corner office’ with a job in New York state. DAN SALAMONE has been named News Director for WTEN/WXXA-TV in Albany, NY. That’s an ABC/FOX duopoly. WTEN is now owned by Media General, but, of course, about to be acquired by Nexstar. It operates WXXA for owner Shield Media. Dan most recently was the morning EP for FOX’s WFLD-TV in Chicago. He spent more than nine years as ND for WOIO/WUAB-TV in Cleveland, and has been a News Director/Station Manager in Portland, OR, and Albuquerque, and a news [More]
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Tuesday, November 22, 2016 UPDATE: Greetings: The long vacant news director opening at Scripps’ WCPO-TV in Cincinnati is filled with what some might consider a surprise hire. CHIP MAHANEY, an eight year Scripps veteran who’s been the company’s first national Director of News Recruitment, will be this ABC affiliate’s next news director. Here’s the news release. Chip has a strong background in digital news operations, fitting for this station with its heavy emphasis on digital. This CJR story explains that. He’s a former ND in Richmond, spent eleven years as a Managing Editor in Dallas, and worked in Oklahoma City, [More]
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Greetings: As those of you who receive this publication via email know (because of UPDATES sent you this week), it’s been busy. Really busy. As in SIX new news director openings, with FOUR newly named news directors. All of those from Tegna, and all first time NDs, including hires in two top 20 markets. So…our list of open ND jobs jumps to 28. ONE of those openings is featured in a Paid Help Wanted ad this week. We have the complete list of the National Edward R. Murrow Awards, as well as an award for a Denver station from the [More]
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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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