View Post TV Biz Changes at Raycom Media By Aneya Fernando on Jan. 5, 2015 - 3:10 PM Raycom Media has announced a host of changes in the new year: Dave Thomason has been named vice president and general manager of KFVS-WQWQ in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Thompson had been general sales manager at the station since 2011 ...
View Post TV Biz Raycom Promotes WVUE GM to Group VP, Names Replacement By Kevin Eck on Jan. 5, 2015 - 11:53 AM Sandy Breland has been named Group Vice President for Raycom Media. Breland was named successor to current Group VP Leon Long, who retires at the end of January. Breland will be replaced by KFVS-WQWQ GM Tim Ingram as GM of Raycom& ...
View Post CBS Affiliates | FOX Affiliates | ShopTalk Cape Girardeau Stations to Continue Sharing Agreement By Kevin Eck on Nov. 15, 2013 - 4:52 PM Raycom Media’s Cape Girardeau, MO, CBS affiliate KFVS has agreed to keep producing the 9:00 p.m. news for Sinclair Broadcasting’s cross-town FOX affiliate KBSI. “KFVS12 produces the finest news product in our mar ...
FOX Affiliates | ShopTalk | TV Biz Mike Smythe Comes Out of Retirement to Lead KBSI By Andrew Gauthier on Feb. 27, 2012 - 12:50 PM Mike Smythe, who retired as vice president and general manager of KFVS in November, has been tapped to lead KBSI, KFVS’s rival in the Paducah, KY-Cape Girardeau, MO market. “I am delighted to have the opportunity to re ...
ABC Affiliates | ShopTalk Raycom Taps WMC News Director Tracey Rogers as KAIT General Manager By Andrew Gauthier on Dec. 13, 2011 - 10:16 AM Raycom Media has tapped Tracey Rogers as vice president and general manager of KAIT in Jonesboro, AR. Rogers is currently the news director at WMC, Raycom’s Memphis station. Rogers, who has been WMC’s ND since 2007, ...
CBS Affiliates | ShopTalk | TV Biz Tim Ingram Takes Over As VP-GM of KFVS By Merrill Knox on Dec. 5, 2011 - 10:02 AM Tim Ingram has been named vice president and general manager of KFVS, the CBS-affiliate serving Southeastern Missouri, Raycom Media announced. Ingram replaces Mike Smythe, who recently retired after 11 years with the station. R ...
Digital | ShopTalk Raycom’s KAIT Makes HD Debut By Andrew Gauthier on Oct. 20, 2011 - 11:08 AM KAIT, a Raycom-owned ABC-affiliate in Jonesboro, AR, began broadcasting its newscasts in HD this week. “Over the past couple of years we’ve been putting the pieces in place to produce local news in HD and we couldn’t be ...