View Post NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk NBC Owned Stations Want to Clear the Animal Shelters By Kevin Eck on Jul. 20, 2015 - 5:43 PM 28 NBC-owned stations will team up with 300 animal shelters across the U.S. on Saturday, August 15.
View Post NBC Affiliates | Revolving Door Hartford NBC Station Gets New GM By Kevin Eck on Jun. 22, 2015 - 10:15 AM Tully had been news director at the Dallas NBC-owned KXAS for 14 years.
View Post Revolving Door | ShopTalk NBC Names GM of Philadelphia Station By Kevin Eck on May. 5, 2015 - 4:01 PM Harris, who comes from WVIT in Hartford, takes over for Eric Lerner who moved over as gm of WNBC.
View Post NBC Affiliates | Top 10 | TV Biz Michael Jack to Retire as GM of WNBC By Kevin Eck on Dec. 3, 2014 - 3:23 PM Michael Jack has announced his retirement as GM of New York NBC owned station WNBC. Jack was GM at WRC in Washington, D.C. before coming to WNBC in 2010. He told staffers at a Town Hall meeting he would retire in June 2015. “ ...
View Post Telemundo Telemundo Adds Early Evening Newscasts At 14 Owned Stations By Kevin Eck on Nov. 3, 2014 - 10:29 AM Because of an investment from parent company NBCUniversal, 14 Telemundo owned stations are adding a half-hour early evening newscast starting today. According to the press release, “The new local half-hour news programs will ...
View Post NBC Affiliates NBC Owned Stations Launch Third Annual Grant Challenge By Merrill Knox on Jun. 2, 2014 - 3:16 PM For the third year straight, NBC Universal will award grants to non-profits in the ten markets where NBC owns local stations. 30 grants will be awarded, totaling $1.2 million. The 21st Century Grant Challenge, a partnership betwee ...
View Post TV Biz Valari Staab on Strengthening the NBC Owned Stations By Merrill Knox on Apr. 14, 2014 - 9:54 AM In an interview with TVNewsCheck, NBC Owned Television Stations president Valari Staab talks about the investment in local news that has gone on under her watch. Staab says stations like WTVJ in Miami, WMAQ in Chicago and WCAU in ...
View Post Sports NBC Owned Stations Send Team to Sochi By Merrill Knox on Feb. 5, 2014 - 11:50 AM The NBC owned stations has sent a team of 25 anchors, reporters, photographers and producers to Sochi to cover the Winter Olympics, which kick off on NBC tomorrow. The team, who have dedicated locations in both Olympic Park and ad ...
View Post NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk | TV Biz Larry Olevitch Named President, GM of WTVJ By Merrill Knox on Jan. 27, 2014 - 11:25 AM NBCUniversal has named Larry Olevitch president and general manager of WTVJ in South Florida. His appointment is effective immediately. Olevitch has worked in local television for 30 years, the last 10 of which have been at NBCUni ...
View Post ShopTalk | Telemundo | TVBiz NBC Universal Acquires Telemundo Station in Rio Grande City By Merrill Knox on Jan. 2, 2014 - 11:22 AM The NBC Owned Television Stations has acquired KTLM, the Telemundo affiliate in Rio Grande City, Texas, from Sunbelt Multimedia Company for $8.5 million. The station becomes the 17th Spanish-language station in the Telemundo Stati ...