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Saturday, February 26, 2022 UPDATE: Greetings: One item today, but it’s a big one. CNN has apparently decided on a successor to JEFF ZUCKER who left the network earlier this month. It’s CHRIS LICHT, currently the EP of the Late Show with Steven Colbert, who will take over once the sale to Discovery is complete. These stories for you: CNN: The NY Times: The Wall Street Journal: While he may now be overseeing a comedy show, he’s a former EP for CBS This Morning and was the founding EP for ‘Morning Joe’ on MSNBC. He also worked for NBC owned stations in [More]
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Greetings: Happy 47th anniversary to those of you who remember that President RICHARD NIXON resigned on this date in 1974. I happened to be visiting Washington that day and had taken the public tour of the White House, learning when my friends and I left that the President was going to quit. A flurry of news director hires this week, with SIX new NDs to tell you about. Notably, FIVE of the SIX were promoted within their current company. And I know of NO new openings, so our list of open ND jobs drops to 37. THREE of those 37 [More]
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Greetings: FIVE new news director openings in this week’s report, only ONE of which was created by the incumbent getting a promotion. And that move was one of our THREE new ND hires, leaving our list of open ND jobs at 42! I don’t know if that’s a record in the 25 years we’ve been bringing you this report, but it’s dang close. FOUR of those 42 jobs are advertised among our FIVE paid help wanted ads. One obituary this week, that of a former GM in several midwest markets who retired more than 25 years ago. In Names in the [More]
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Greetings: Grab your favorite beverage and settle in for a very full newsletter. SEVEN! new news directors were named this week while FOUR jobs opened up, THREE because the incumbents took new jobs. Those shuffles results in 35 ND openings, according to our list. And FOUR of them are featured in Paid Help Wanted ads. We’ve got ONE obituary for a legendary Hawaiian broadcaster. THREE GMs to tell you about, with the promotion of ONE of them creating one of the four ND openings mentioned above. In Names in the News: New jobs for former NDs in markets large and [More]
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