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Wednesday, May 18, 2022 UPDATE: Greetings: Our last THREE UPDATES have involved women who were once Assistant News Directors at CBS o-and-o’s. TWO were promoted to news director this month. ONE, who was promoted to ND in 2020, left her job. Today’s news is good, though, for MARY BAYNES, who’s been upped to VP/News Director at CBS’s KOVR/KMAX-TV in Sacramento. She’s been the Assistant ND there since 2019 in her second stint at the station. In between, she worked for CBS’s KCBS-KCAL-TV in Los Angeles as an executive producer. She’s also worked in Salinas. More in this news release from [More]
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022 UPDATE: Greetings: And a happy Ides of March to you, too. A veteran newsman gets his first GM job…in a top six market. (And if that line sounds familiar, that’s because it’s almost identical to the open of our most recent UPDATE last Wednesday, reporting the move of KELLY FRANK to GM of CBS’s KYW-TV in Philadelphia.) Today it’s SCOTT WARREN, named General Manager for CBS’s KPIX-TV in San Francisco. He’s currently the Senior Director of News and Content at Spectrum News 1 in Los Angeles. He’s been there since 2018, but previously worked as an [More]
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Tuesday, March 8, 2022 UPDATE: Greetings: One item today, but it’s a another big one. A veteran news director gets her first GM job…in a top five market. KELLY FRANK, currently the Director of Content (aka news director) for Tegna’s WTSP-TV (CBS) in Tampa, has been named President and General Manager for KYW-TV, the CBS o-and-o in Philadelphia. Details are in this news release, where you will learn more about her background, including working earlier in her career with one of the Presidents of the CBS stations, ADRIENNE ROARK. Kelly’s a former ND in Columbus, OH, (WBNS-TV/CBS), has worked for [More]
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Greetings: There were TWO big stories this week, the sale of Tegna and a new president coming for CNN after Discovery takes over the cabler. We’ll cover those below. A modest week of ND changes, as TWO new ND’s were named, with just TWO new openings. Our list of open ND jobs is still high at 45. THREE of those open jobs are among our FOUR Paid Help Wanted ads. The fourth ad is for an Assistant ND job in Texas. Also this week, we’ll fix an omission from last week’s report on changes at a Massachusettes station. That omission involves [More]
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