View Post CW Affiliates | Top 10 Joe Young to Retire as KDAF General Manager By Kevin Eck on Sep. 24, 2013 - 4:41 PM Tribune Broadcasting has announced Joe Young will retire from KDAF after serving as vice president and general manager of the Dallas CW station since 1995. Young oversaw the launch of the station’s first prime-time newscast ...
View Post ShopTalk | TV Biz Paul Rennie Named GM of WXIN-WTTV By Merrill Knox on Aug. 22, 2013 - 1:53 PM Paul Rennie has been named vice president and general manager of WXIN-WTTV, the Fox and CW affiliates in Indianapolis. It is a move within Tribune for Rennie, who has been general sales manager of KCPQ-KZJO in Seattle since 2004. ...
View Post CW Affiliates | News Directors | Top 10 WPIX Names Mark Effron News Director By Merrill Knox on Apr. 9, 2013 - 10:01 AM Mark Effron has been named vice president and news director of WPIX, Tribune’s CW affiliate in New York City. Effron is the former vice president of news and daytime programming at MSNBC. He has also worked for the Post-News ...
View Post TV Biz Broadcasting Division CEO Nils Larsen Out at Tribune By Merrill Knox on Apr. 3, 2013 - 1:00 PM Broadcasting division CEO Nils Larsen has left Tribune Co., according to Chicagoland Radio and Media. Larsen joined the company’s senior leadership team in 2008 and was named chief investment officer in 2009. He was named pr ...
View Post News Directors | Top 10 Larry Wert: Hiring a News Director at WPIX is Top Priority By Merrill Knox on Mar. 21, 2013 - 11:52 AM Larry Wert officially began his job as the president of local broadcasting for Tribune’s 23 stations this week. Wert tells Time Out Chicago’s Robert Feder that the vacant news director position at WPIX, Tribune’s ...
View Post NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk | Top 10 | TV Biz Longtime NBC Executive David Doebler Named President-GM of WMAQ By Merrill Knox on Mar. 19, 2013 - 2:41 PM David Doebler has been named president and general manager of WMAQ, the NBC-owned station in Chicago. His appointment is effective immediately, the station announced Tuesday. It is a move within NBC for Doebler, who has been presi ...
View Post NBC Affiliates | Top 10 | TV Biz It’s Official: Larry Wert Leaving WMAQ For Tribune By Merrill Knox on Feb. 13, 2013 - 3:19 PM WMAQ general manager Larry Wert is leaving the NBC O&O for a top job at Tribune Co. Wert will be the president of local broadcasting, overseeing strategy and opreations for 23 television stations and Chicago-based WGN Radio, ...
View Post NBC Affiliates | Top 10 | TV Biz Is Longtime WMAQ GM Larry Wert Moving to Tribune? By Merrill Knox on Feb. 6, 2013 - 11:55 AM WMAQ president and general manager Larry Wert may be taking a new job at Tribune Co., Chicago Business Journal reports: Sources Tuesday said Wert, president and general manager of NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5, could be on the verge of ...
View Post NBC Affiliates | Top 10 WMAQ Moving Morning, Midday Newscasts to NBC Tower in Chicago By Merrill Knox on Jan. 9, 2013 - 10:31 AM WMAQ is closing the street-level studio facility it has leased for ten years and moving the morning and midday newscasts to the NBC Tower in Chicago, Time Out Chicago’s Robert Feder reports. The NBC Tower houses the station& ...
NBC Affiliates | Sports | Top 10 WMAQ Adds a Bear to Sunday Night Sports Show By Kevin Eck on Sep. 6, 2012 - 2:43 PM Brandon Marshall, wide receiver for the Chicago Bears, will join WMAQ as a regular contributor to the Chicago NBC owned television station’s “Sports Sunday” show. “We think Brandon will have a dynamic impac ...