View Post CBS Affiliates | News Directors | ShopTalk WAKA News Director Leaves After One Month By Kevin Eck on Jun. 20, 2014 - 9:31 AM Jack Pagano, the newly appointed news director for Montgomery, AL, CBS affiliate WAKA has left the station after being hired in May. Pagano told TVSpy he left so he could take care of a family issue, adding. “I will seek ano ...
View Post ShopTalk | TV Trends What Are Local Stations Covering? By Kevin Eck on May. 20, 2014 - 11:39 AM In the Montgomery, AL, market, three of the four local stations are tangled up with each other through ownership or partnership agreements. ABC affiliate WNCF and CBS affiliate WAKA are owned and/or operated by Bahakel Communica ...
View Post CBS Affiliates | News Directors | ShopTalk WAKA Adds Jack Pagano as News Director By Kevin Eck on May. 19, 2014 - 1:00 PM Jack Pagano has been named news director for Montgomery, AL, CBS affiliate WAKA. Pagano replaces Rob Martin who recently left for WIAT in Birmingham. He’s a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel who told TVSpy he’s participa ...
View Post ShopTalk | Weather WPTV Meteorologist Kait Parker Joins The Weather Channel By Merrill Knox on Dec. 12, 2013 - 1:58 PM After three years at WPTV in West Palm Beach, Kait Parker is leaving the NBC affiliate to join The Weather Channel as an on-camera meteorologist. While she was in Palm Beach, Parker also worked as an instructor for Earth’s C ...
ShopTalk In Montgomery, Three Stations to Merge Operations By Andrew Gauthier on Jul. 8, 2011 - 9:17 AM Sweeping changes are coming to the Montgomery market as three stations are set to merge into one operation. On Thursday, Bahakel Communications, the owner of CBS-affiliate WAKA, announced that it had signed an agreement to purchas ...
CBS Affiliates | ShopTalk WAKA Boss Jim Caruthers Announces Retirement By Andrew Gauthier on Jul. 5, 2011 - 1:44 PM Jim Caruthers is set to retire as vice president and general manager of WAKA, a CBS-affiliate serving the Montgomery-Selma market. Caruthers, who has been WAKA’s VP-GM for the past 13 years, announced that he is retiring at ...
