WKRG news director Mike Rausch is leaving the Mobile, Ala. CBS affiliate WKRG to take a job as news director at KRDO in Colorado Springs.
“From his first day at WKRG we witnessed a dramatic improvement in our news product at every level,” WKRG GM Mark Bunting told Lagniappe Weekly. “Mike brought to us the use of cutting-edge technology, the ability to maximize our personnel resources, increase ratings and create a progressive look to our news.”
Rausch worked with Tim Larson, the GM of the Colorado Springs ABC affiliate, while at WIVB in Buffalo.
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Before joining WKRG, he worked at WOKR (now WHAM) in Rochester,, N.Y., WHAS in Louisville, Ky., KGW in Portland, Oregon, WFTV in Orlando, Fla., and KATU in Portland, Oregon.