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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 UPDATE: The long vacant WBZ-TV (the CBS o-and-o in Boston) news director opening was filled today with someone who won’t have to move. GARY LaPLANTE, who’s been the Assistant ND for Fox-owned-for-now WFXT-TV in Boston, is leaving to take the ‘BZ job. Gary’s been at WFXT for three years, and earlier in his career worked for WHDH-TV in Boston. He was an EP in Hartford, an Assistant ND for WTEN-TV in Albany, NY, and the news director for WXXA-TV, the FOX station in Albany, before returning to Boston. WFXT, as you may know, is being traded [More]
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Greetings: A busy week to share with you, with TWO new ND openings and FIVE new news directors to introduce you to. That brings the count of open ND jobs to a still robust 27. We have paid ads for TWO of those openings, and a total of SEVEN ads altogether, including an EP opening in Chicago. There are TWO obituaries this week, one for a Wisconsin broadcasting legend and the other for an Austin, TX, EP. In Names in the News, a Utah news executive gets bumped up, the Society of Professional Journalists announce their awards, and a handful of news managers [More]
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Greetings: THREE new news director openings and ONE new ND lead our post-NAB report. (And it was nice to see a few of you in Las Vegas.) That leaves our count of open ND jobs at 28. We have FOUR help wanted ads, THREE of them brand new. And we have updated our list of Other News Management Jobs. Also this week, we have a rare taker on our free Situations Wanted listing. In Names in the News, a new president for ABC News, and a new EP in Cincinnati. All that and more below. New News Director Openings: WICS/WICD-TV, Springfield/Champaign, IL…KATIE McMANUS-FAYE will leave this Sinclair-owned duopoly [More]
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Friday, January 31, 2014 UPDATE: There’s news today of a news director opening in a top 25 market. CORRIE HARDING, who’s been the ND at WCNC-TV in Charlotte since November, 2009, is joining NBC News as Director, News Partnerships. He’ll be based in New York. Before Charlotte, Corrie was an ND in Pittsburgh at WPXI-TV. He’s also worked in Columbus, Cleveland (two stations), Washington, and Dallas. Corrie’s move is one of several we’ll have in our full report, which I hope to be able to complete sometime later tonight. regards, Rick Gevers **** ***** **** Greetings: We have a lot [More]
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