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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 UPDATE: Greetings: TWO large markets ND jobs are filled by Tegna, and an announcement from the number TWO market proves my speculation skills aren’t so good. CARIDAD (CARI) HERNANDEZ has been promoted to Director of Content for Tegna’s WUSA-TV (CBS) in Washington, She’s been the Assistant News Director there for the past two years and previously worked in Philadelphia, Miami, and at CNN in Atlanta. The WUSA news release fills in the rest. Cari replaces KATHY REYNOLDS who left the station last month to become ND for Scripps’ WPTV (NBC) in West Palm Beach. Tegna’s second [More]
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Thursday, June 2, 2022 UPDATE: Greetings: Now you see them, now you don’t. That’s the case for both the news director and general manager at Scripps’ KTNV (ABC) in Las Vegas. Both ND NANCY BAUER and GM CHRIS WAY were shown the door yesterday, according to this story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. (registration may be required. Bauer’s been the ND there since 2019, coming from Bakersfield where she ran the news department at Scripps’ KERO-TV. Before that she spent 20 years as a news director in Los Angeles at KCBS/KCAL-TV and KNBC-TV. She’s also been an ND in San [More]
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Thursday, May 26, 2022 UPDATE: Greetings: Another UPDATE, another news director move at a CBS o-and-o. This time it’s a new VP/News Director for the CBS owned station in Pittsburgh, KDKA-TV. SHAWN HODER returns to The Steel City, where he began his career as a photographer and producer at Cox owned WPXI-TV (NBC). More in this news release from CBS. He’s currently the Assistant ND at Tegna’s currently news director-less WTSP-TV (CBS) in Tampa-St. Petersburg. Shawn’s also worked in Columbus, OH, Atlanta, Washington, DC, Seattle and Orlando. He replaces KATHY HOSTETTER who was promoted to VP/GM for CBS’s Baltimore station, [More]
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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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