June 12, 2022
Friday, June 17, 2022 UPDATE:
Greetings:
Two former Meredith executives have a formed a new firm to invest in companies in the broadcast field, and their first acquisition may surprise you.
Connell
The new entity is called Glass City Talent, and its first purchase is longtime placement and coaching company Talent Dynamics. Longtime Talent Dynamics principal SANDRA CONNELL will continue as President. She formed TD 25 years ago, when it spun off from AR&D. Sandra has been involved in our business for more than 40 years and has helped countless people, both on the air and behind the scenes.
The principals of the new company are former Meredith President PATRICK McCREERY and former SVP of Content GARY BROWN.
McCreery
Patrick first joined Meredith in 2002 as a Special Projects EP at KPHO-TV in Phoenix. He moved up the ranks quickly. Among his jobs were news director and then GM for KPTV in Portland. He spent several years as VP News and Marketing before becoming President in 2018. Patrick held that job until Meredith was sold at the end of 2021. He’ll lead business development and serve as an advisor to TD.
Brown
GARY BROWN will be the CEO for Talent Dynamics. His last role at Meredith was SVP of Content but he had worked for the company several times over the years. He was a news director in several markets, was Vice President of News for Newport Television, and spent five years working as an agent. Much more about Gary’s career and background on his very detailed Linkedin page.
More details about all this in the news release.
As to the “Glass City” reference in the name? McCreery and Brown grew up in Toledo, nicknamed The Glass City for its significant role in glass manufacturing. And they met while working at WTOL-TV there in the 90’s (after my time there, btw.)
Congrats to Patrick, Gary, AND Sandra!
See you Sunday with our full report.
regards,
Rick Gevers
Tuesday, June 14th, 2022 UPDATE #2:
Greetings:
A second UPDATE in the same day usually means a big market change, and today’s is no different.
Rosetti
JEFF ROSETTI has left Tegna’s WTHR-TV (NBC) in Indianapolis after three-plus years as news director and eleven years at the station. GM MICHAEL BROUDER sent this memo to the staff today. Jeff joined the station as its assistant ND in 2011 and was promoted to the top job in March 2019. His Linkedin page (already modified with a “Open to Work” banner) tells the rest of his background.
We’ll see if the rest of the week brings any other news before our next full edition on Sunday.
regards,
Rick Gevers
Tuesday, June 14th, 2022 UPDATE:
Greetings:
A veteran New England newswoman gets her first ND job in New Jersey.
Parker
TEISHA PARKER joins News 12 New Jersey as its next news director. She’s currently the Assistant News Director for Tegna’s WTIC-TV (FOX) in Hartford. She’s worked for other stations in Hartford, Boston and Springfield, MA. Learn more in this memo from Altice Senior Vice President and General Manager JACQUES NATZ.
Teisha replaces JEREMY SETTLE who is leaving after nine years, the last three as news director.
Also, I need to correct an error from last weekend’s full report.
ANDY DELANCEY is headed to Scripps’ WCPO-TV (ABC) in Cincinnati as its next Assistant News Director. We mistakenly reported he was headed to another Scripps owned ABC affiliate in Ohio.
Apologies to Andy and to you.
We’ll see you Sunday with our full report, barring, of course, any significant UPDATES during the week.
regards,
Rick Gevers
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Greetings:
It’s a good week when I don’t have any news director departures to report.
There are THREE new News Directors this week and NO new openings, leaving 31 stations on our list of open ND jobs.
Just ONE paid help wanted ad, for an EP in Houston.
For the second consecutive week, there’s an obituary for a longtime Nevada news director as well as an obit for a broadcaster turned Medill Dean.
No GM news but lots of times in Names in the News:
A new EP for the CBS evening news.
A lawsuit dropped against a former EP for ABC’s Evening News.
A Salt Lake City ND gets a new job, just not the one we were guessing.
FOUR news managers on the move…
and TWO NDs (one retired, one current) enter Halls of Fame.
Read on for more, and stay cool this week!
Newly Named News Directors:
Hernandez
WUSA-TV, Washington, DC…you learned in our UDPATE on Tuesday that CARIDAD (CARI) HERNANDEZ had been promoted to Director of Content for Tegna’s WUSA-TV (CBS) in Washington. She’s been the Assistant ND there for two years, has also worked in Philadelphia, Miami, and for CNN in Atlanta. She replaces KATHY REYNOLDS who left to become ND for Scripps’ WPTV in West Palm Beach, FL.
Wolfe
WTSP-TV, Tampa/St. Petersburg, FL…NICOLE WOLFE returns to Tampa as Director of Content for this Tegna/CBS station. She’s been the ND for Scripps’ WSFL-TV in Ft. Lauderdale, hired there to start a news department before the pandemic derailed that. WSFL now airs newscasts produced by WPLG-TV. Nicole was the Assistant ND at Scripps’ WFTS-TV (ABC) in Tampa before Miami. She replaces KELLY FRANK who became GM for CBS’s KYW-TV in Philadelphia.
Monheit
WCCB-TV, Charlotte, NC…this Bahakel owned CW affiliate has promoted JEFF MONHEIT to news director. More here. Jeff’s has worked here for 14 years, the last seven as Assistant News Director, and has worked in the market for 24 years. He replaces BROOKS BLANTON who was ND here for less than a year before returning to Grand Rapids, this time as ND for Tegna’s WZZM-TV (ABC).
New News Director Openings:
To the best of my knowledge, there are NO new openings this week.
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Other News Management Openings:
ASSISTANT NEWS DIRECTOR:
KTLA-TV, Los Angeles, CA (Digital AND, relisted 4/17/22)
KSTP-TV, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN (listed 5/15/22)
WCNC-TV, Charlotte, NC (relisted 6/5/22)
WTHR-TV, Indianapolis, IN (listed 5/15/22)
KENS-TV, San Antonio TX (listed 5/15/22)
WHAS-TV, Louisville, KY (relisted 6/5/22)
WGRZ-TV, Buffalo NY (listed 5/15/22)
WPRI-TV, Providence, RI (listed 5/22/22)
KRGV-TV, Weslaco, TX (listed 6/5/22)
WAND-TV, Decatur, IL (relisted 6/5/22)
KIVI-TV, Boise, ID (relisted 5/22/22)
WKBT-TV, La Crosse, WI (relisted 6/5/22)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:
KPRC-TV, Houston, TX (listed 5/22/22, see ad above!)
KPHO/KTVK-TV, Phoenix, AZ (relisted 6/5/22)
KPNX-TV, Phoenix, AZ (PM EP, listed 5/15/22)
WFLA-TV, Tampa, FL (relisted 4/24/22)
WFTS-TV, Tampa, FL (listed 5/1/22)
KMGH-TV, Denver, CO (relisted 5/8/22)
KUSA-TV, Denver, CO (listed 6/12/22)
WEWS-TV, Cleveland, OH (listed 6/12/22)
WKYC-TV, Cleveland, OH (listed 5/15/22)
KXTV, Sacramento, CA (AM EP, listed 5/15/22)
WCNC-TV, Charlotte, NC (AM EP, listed 6/12/22)
KMOV-TV. St. Louis, MO (Special Projects EP, listed relisted 5/8/22)
WMAR-TV, Baltimore, MD (listed 6/12/22)
WRAL-TV, Raleigh, NC (listing revised 5/8/22)
WTVF-TV, Nashville, TN (relisted 5/8/22)
KSWB-TV, San Diego, CA (listed 6/5/22)
KSTU-TV, Salt Lake City, UT (listed 4/10/22)
WBNS-TV, Columbus, OH (Special Projects EP. listed 5/15/22)
WCMH-TV, Columbus, OH (listed 5/30/22)
WCPO-TV, Cincinnati, OH (listed 6/12/22)
WJAX/WFOX-TV, Jacksonville, FL (listed 5/1/22)
WTLV/WJXX-TV, Jacksonville, FL (PM EP, listed 6/12/22)
WIAT-TV, Birmingham AL (relisted 4/24/22)
WFMY-TV, Greensboro, NC (AM EP, listed 6/12/22)
WKBW-TV, Buffalo, NY (listed 4/10/22)
KSEE/KGPE-TV, Fresno, CA (listed 5/22/22)
WPRI-TV, Providence, RI (listed 5/22/22)
KJRH-TV, Tulsa, OK (listed 5/1/22)
WBAY-TV, Green Bay, WI (AM EP, listed 6/12/22)
WHO-TV, Des Moines, IA (AM EP, listed 5/22/22)
KOLR-TV, Springfield, MO (listed 6/5/22)
WLTX-TV, Columbia, SC (two openings, AM & PM EP, listed 5/15/22)
WHEC-TV, Rochester, NY (relisted 5/1/22)
WROC-TV, Rochester, NY (relisted 5/22/22)
KRGV-TV, Weslaco, TX (AM EP, relisted 6/5/22)
WBTW-TV, Myrtle Beach, SC (relisted 5/22/22)
WRDE-TV, Milton, DE (listed 5/22/22) **
KFDX-TV, Wichita Falls, TX (listed 4/17/22)
SUPERVISING PRODUCER:
KOMU-TV, Columbia, Mo (relisted 6/5/22)
MANAGING EDITOR:
KMGH-TV, Denver, CO (listed 6/12/22)
KGW-TV, Portland, OR (listed 5/15/22)
KOMU-TV, Columbia, MO (relisted 6/5/22)
More News Management Openings:
Listed 6/12/22:
KVUE-TV, Austin, TX (Director of Digital Content)
KVEO/KGBT-TV, Rio Grande Valley, TX (Digital Content Manager)
Listed 5/30/22:
WVEC-TV, Norfolk, VA (Director of Digital Content)
Listed 5/15/22:
Spectrum News NY1 (Senior Producer & Senior Producer-Politics)
Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, MO: (Supervising Producer, Documentary Journalism Center)
WKYC-TV, Cleveland, OH (Digital Content Director)
WHAS-TV, Louisville, KY (Digital Content Director)
WLAX/WEUX-TV, LaCrosse, WI (Digital Content Manager)
Relisted 5/15/22:
KNXV-TV, Phoenix, AZ: (Assignment Desk Manager)
WFTS-TV, Tampa, FL (Manager of Real Time Depth)
U. of Mississippi, Oxford, MS (Director of Student Media)
Relisted 4/17/22:
WJW-TV, Cleveland, OH: (Digital Content Director)
Obituary:
Bode
KEN BODE, a former dean of the Medill School of Journalism and longtime political reporter who worked for PBS, NBC and CNN, died June 2. He was 83 and his cause of death has not yet been revealed. He also moderated Washington Week in Review for PBS and taught at DePauw University here in Indiana. More in these obituaries from The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Carroll
Another week, another obituary for a longtime Reno broadcaster. BOB CARROLL died Monday, June 6th. He first began in Reno broadcasting in 1956 in radio, moved to KOLO-TV in 1960, and the jumped to KTVN-TV in 1967, where he started the news department and worked as anchor and news director. More about his life and career in this obituary.
Names in the News:
Verdugo
ADAM VERDUGO has been named executive producer for The CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell. He’s currently the story editor for the broadcast but has been teamed with O’Donnell for a more than decade in a variety of roles, including when both he and O’Donnell worked at NBC. More in this news release from CBS. He’s also oared at three different CBS News Bureaus around the country, and starts his new job tomorrow.
Corn
A sexual assault lawsuit against former ABC News executive MICHAEL CORN has been dismissed by a New York State Supreme Court Judge. Details in this story from The Los Angeles Times (registration may be required). Corn had served, at different times, as EP for both World News Tonight and Good Morning America before abruptly leaving ABC in 2021. He’s now President of News for Nexstar’s News Nation.
Sternfield
MARC STERNFIELD gets to be closer to family as he moves to Nexstar’s KTLA-TV (CW) in Los Angeles as the station’s Director of Digital Content. Here’s the memo from KLTA ND PETE SAIERS. We told you last week that Marc was leaving Scripps’ KSTU-TV (FOX) in Salt Lake City after seven years as ND and ten at the station. And we won’t bring up our erroneous speculation last week about his next job if you won’t.
A number of news management moves to report:
In an inter-Scripps move, ANDY DELANCEY heads north to WEWS-TV WCPO-TV (ABC) in Cincinnati as its next Assistant ND. He had been an EP at WPTV (NBC) in W. Palm Beach.
After a long search, HAYDEN ELLIOTT has been promoted to Executive Producer for Gray’s WNEM-TV (CBS) in Flint/Saginaw, MI. He’s been a producer there for almost five years.
And two management moves at Weigel’s WBND-TV (ABC) in South Bend, IN:
JASON RONIMOUS is the new Assistant ND here. He had been the Chief Photographer/Operations Manager for WRTV (Scripps/ABC) in Indianapolis.
And SEAN McGARRY gets his first management job as the Morning EP. Sean had been the morning producer.
Holliday
TWO news directors, one retired and one still current, have entered Halls of Fames in their respective states.
ART HOLLIDAY, who joined KSDK-TV (Tegna/NBC) in St. Louis as the weekend sports anchor in 1979, was inducted into the Missouri Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame. Art became ND last year. Here’s what the station aired.
Linn
And TED LINN, who spent 16 years as news director for WANE-TV (Nexstar/CBS) in Fort Wayne, IN, before retiring in 2020, will enter the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame. Ted also spent many years as the Assistant ND for then sister station WISH-TV in Indianapolis. Here’s what WANE posted to its website.
General Manager News and Notes:
I’m not aware of any GM changes this week, If you are, please let me know.
Our Full List of Open ND Jobs:
Here’s our list of open ND jobs as of Sunday, June 12, 2022:
It’s unofficial, there may be others that are open, and some of these may have been filled. If you know of any in either category, please let me know: rick@rickgevers.com
News 12 New Jersey 450 Raritan Center Pkwy, Edison, NJ 08837
WBZ-TV 1170 Soldiers Field Rd. Boston, MA 02134
KSTU-TV 5020 West Amelia Earhart Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84116
KTVX-TV 2175 West 1700 South Salt Lake City, UT 84104
WITI-TV 9001 N Green Bay Rd. Milwaukee, WI 53209
KTNV-TV 3355 S. Valley View Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89102
WTLV/WJXX-TV 1070 East Adams Street Jacksonville, FL 32202
WGRZ-TV 259 Delaware Avenue Buffalo, NY 14202
WIVB-TV 2077 Elmwood Ave Buffalo, NY 14207
WYMT-TV 199 Black Gold Blvd. Hazard, KY 41701
KGMB/KHNL-TV 420 Waiakamilo Rd. Suite 205, Honolulu, HI, 96817
KHQ-TV 1201 W. Sprague Ave. Spokane, WA 99201
WHNT-TV 200 Holmes Avenue Huntsville, AL 35801
WSAV-TV 1430 East Victory Dr., Savannah, GA 31404
KTSM-TV 3801-D Constitution El Paso, TX 79922
KRNV/KRXI-TV 1790 Vassar St. Reno, NV 89502
KNDO/KNDU-TV 216 W. Yakima Ave., Yakima, WA 98902
KAPP/KVEW-TV 601 N. Edison Kennewick, WA 99336
KADN-TV 1500 Eraste Landry Rd. Lafayette, LA 70506
WLTZ-TV 6140 Buena Vista Rd. Columbus, GA 31907
KBMT-TV 525 Interstate 10 South, Beaumont, TX 77701
KCAU-TV 5993 Gordon Drive Sioux City, IA
KQDS-TV 2001 London Road Duluth, MN 55812
KULR-TV. 2045 Overland Ave. Billings, MT 59102
KALB-TV 605 Washington Street; Alexandria, LA 71301
WETM-TV 101 East Water Street Elmira, NY 14901
WWNY-TV 120 Arcade St. Watertown, NY 13601
KMVT-TV 1100 Blue Lakes Blvd North, Twin Falls, ID 83301
Delta News 837 Washington Ave Greenville, MS 38701
KAEF-TV 540 E Street Eureka, CA 95501
KYOU-TV 820 West 2nd Street; Ottumwa, IA 52501
**: Spanish language station