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Greetings: We’re a little late due to our attendance at an enjoyable Indiana Pacers-Milwaukee Bucks playoff game, won by the home team. ONE opening and ONE newly named ND (both the same person!) mean our list of openings stays at 37. And we have ONE new paid help want ad for an assistant ND job in what sounds like a nice place to live No GM changes this week. There’s ONE obituary for a San Antonio photographer who died suddenly of natural causes. Our Names in the News section has details on all the Peabody Award nominees. a new regional [More]
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Greetings: Only a handful of ND changes this week, but TWO of them were in top ten markets. Those TWO openings and ONE newly named ND mean our list of openings grows slightly to 37. TWO of those stations are advertising their opportunities in paid help want ads. The other big news of the week was Graham Media’s hire of SEAN McLAUGHLIN as VP/News. We have new details on that surprise move in Names in the News. No obituaries and no GM changes this week. In Names in the News, a new executive director for SPJ, and developments in TWO [More]
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024 UPDATE #2: Exclusive! SEAN McLAUGHLIN has been named Vice President of News for Graham Media. He’ll start next week and be based in Detroit, where the company owns WDIV-TV (NBC), As you know, he just finished a ten year run as VP of Local Media for Scripps. I’m told the news release should be out shortly…and will bring it to you when it is…as long as my return home from NAB doesn’t interfere! regards, Rick Gevers Wednesday, April 17, 2024 UPDATE: One of the longest tenured careers at a network o-and-o in a large market will [More]
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Greetings: Not a lot of news director changes this week, but read on for other items of note. Just ONE new ND named, and we’ve added TWO stations to our list of open ND jobs, bringing that list to 35 stations. ONE of those openings is featured in one of our THREE Paid Help Wanted ads. In a most unusual development, CBS has hired Gray Television’s in house consulting and research group to provide those services to its 14 owned stations. We have more below. And, sadly for me, we have obituaries for TWO former news directors (among other accomplishments) [More]
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