View Post Social Media Station Groups Invest in Share Rocket By Kevin Eck on Jan. 11, 2017 - 8:30 AM “It is clear that going forward, our data needs will be met by scrappy startups like Share Rocket, rather than margin driven monopolies.”
View Post FOX Affiliates | TV Biz Tribune Promotes GSM to GM at San Diego Station By Kevin Eck on Jan. 7, 2016 - 3:30 PM Heath started at the station in 1986
View Post Revolving Door | TVBiz Bart Feder Named SVP of News at Tribune By Aneya Fernando on Feb. 18, 2015 - 10:05 AM Veteran local news executive Bart Feder is joining Tribune Broadcasting.
View Post FOX Affiliates | ShopTalk | TV Biz KCPQ Will Pay More to Stay With FOX By Kevin Eck on Oct. 17, 2014 - 11:45 AM Tribune Media just signed an affiliation agreement with 21st Century FOX to keep Seattle’s KCPQ on as a FOX affiliate until July 2018. According to the Tribune press release, “As part of the agreement, FOX has withdraw ...
View Post CW Affiliates | News Directors | Top 10 Mark Effron Leaving WPIX By Kevin Eck on Aug. 19, 2014 - 6:23 PM WPIX news director Mark Effron announced to staff today that he is leaving the Tribune-owned New York CW affiliate. He will stay through October. Effron wrote to staffers in a memo that, when he was hired, he told Tribune Broadcas ...
View Post CBS Affiliates | ShopTalk CBS Switching Affiliates in Indianapolis By Merrill Knox on Aug. 11, 2014 - 11:57 AM CBS has announced it is switching affiliates — from WISH to WTTV — in the Indianapolis market. WTTV, currently the CW affiliate in Indianapolis, will be the CBS affiliate beginning January 1, 2015. WTTV is the sister s ...
View Post TV Biz Larry Wert’s Next Priority For Tribune Stations: Marketing and Sales By Merrill Knox on May. 7, 2014 - 7:28 AM When he was first named president of Tribune Broadcasting, Larry Wert said his first priority was WPIX, Tribune’s station in New York City. With a new general manager and news director in place at the CW affiliate, we caught ...
View Post TV Biz Katherine Green Named SVP of News for Tribune By Kevin Eck on Apr. 24, 2014 - 3:13 PM Tribune Broadcasting has named Katherine Green senior vice president of news. Green will be responsible for all news production and operations across Tribune’s 42 owned or operated stations. She reports to Tribune’s pr ...
View Post ShopTalk | Top 10 | TV Biz Greg Easterly Named GM of Tribune’s WGN By Merrill Knox on Mar. 31, 2014 - 11:57 AM Greg Easterly has been named general manager of WGN, Tribune’s CW affiliate in Chicago, Robert Feder reports. “Greg is a proven leader, both at the head of a station and in the newsroom, and he has a keen understanding ...
View Post TV Biz Angela Betasso Joins Tribune as SVP of Sales By Merrill Knox on Mar. 25, 2014 - 11:07 AM Angela Betasso has been named senior vice president of sales for Tribune Broadcasting. She will begin in her new role on March 31, reporting to Tribune Broadcasting president Larry Wert. “Angela is a strategic thinker and a ...