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WKYC-TEGNA News Director Out After One Month
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Any updates on what happened with the guy after his extremely short tenure at Channel 3? It's been crickets since news came out.
Well, there's now a job posting for the News Director position on the TEGNA website.
WKYC has a brand new news director. The station decided to promote assistant news director Julie Flynn to the main job after the previous hire left after only a month.
WKYC Studios names Julie Flynn as news director
WKYC Studios names Julie Flynn as news director
I hope she got a good raise. She will have her hands full. She better start saving her money, not a real "stable" position.
That wouldnt be enough for someone commuting either
It may be moot after Nexstar merges WKYC into WJW outright.
I just read that Nexstar is in talks of buying TEGNA. If this does happen, I hope that they will be required to divest WKYC to another buyer due to ownership limits. They don't need to own any more stations, especially here in Cleveland. Their on air presentation is horrible on both WJW and WBNX, and no one at South Marginal Road reads my feedback or does anything to fix the various problems that I've been complaining about for the last several months. Do they even have an engineer? Does the person who reads and forwards the messages to the proper department not know what they are doing or understands anything in my feedback? Is their system deleting my messages upon arrival? Do they simply not care about what viewers think about the presentation of their stations?
At least management and engineering over at WOIO/WUAB were always addressing my concerns and replying to my messages. Same goes for Weigel's WOCV-CD, as well as WBNX when it was still owned by Winston Broadcasting.
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The impetus behind the merger is that Nexstar will own everything when the merger is completed and the FCC will simply let it happen. Unless Fox has any remote interest in repurchasing WJW, it'll become the first market triopoly.
Official triopoly any way.
Scripps has made WEWS/WVPX/WDLI a "nudge-nudge-wink-wink" triad for awhile now by stashing the latter two under the Inyo shell.
And Gray essentially has one with WOIO, WUAB and the cobbled collection of LPTVs that make up Telemundo Cleveland/RESN.
They can get away with those because their other station isn't affiliated with a big 4 network. (NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX)
Gray: WOIO has CBS. WUAB has The CW, soon to be My Network TV again. Their low power stations don't count towards the ownership limit.
Scripps/Inyo: WEWS has ABC. WVPX has Ion, and WDLI has Bounce (or whatever Scripps diginet randomly gets placed there for cable coverage).
Nexstar: WJW has FOX. WBNX will soon have The CW. If Nexstar ends up acquiring Tegna, NBC on WKYC will exceed the limit of owning multiple stations within the same market with a big 4 affiliation. They would have to divest WKYC to another broadcaster (don't see them doing this with WJW, unless Fox willing to make a generous offer to buy back the station) in order to comply. A recent example occurred several years ago when Gray acquired WTOL/11 (CBS) in Toledo from Raycom. Gray also owns WTVG/13 (ABC), and were required to resell WTOL to another broadcaster (that being Tegna) in order to comply.
Mentioned in one article about the proposed merger was a recent appeals court decision that seemed to toss out the FCC rule prohibiting one company from owning 2 major network affiliates in the same market.
That plus the current direction of the FCC leads me to believe Nexstar will be allowed to keep WKYC.
With the obvious consolidations and the outsourcing of local programming I see the eventual sale of both 8's and 3's studios and the combining of all the Nexstar stations in this region into a trailer in Ravenna.
That plus the current direction of the FCC leads me to believe Nexstar will be allowed to keep WKYC.
With the obvious consolidations and the outsourcing of local programming I see the eventual sale of both 8's and 3's studios and the combining of all the Nexstar stations in this region into a trailer in Ravenna.
And this is why radio has been awful ever since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, even before streaming, as it allowed major corporations like Clear Channel/iHeart to gobble up and own several stations in a market, greatly reducing the local presence and originality. Hopefully the regulation of ownership of TV stations hasn't and will not change to allow this.
Sooner or later someone on this site will post about most stations loosing money and clusters saved the industry from people paying crazy multiples for stations.
There was an urban legion in the early 1970's that the goal of the FCC was to make radio stations as plentiful as gas stations where at the time. "If one went bankrupt it didn't matter because there was another across the street."
IMHO: when Wall Street investors and fund managers got involved "maximizing value" just to make "the numbers this quarter" the smart station owners cashed out.
FTVlive expects the TEGNA/Nexstar deal to be done this week.
Wonder what anchors will be on the chopping block? If any.
Wonder what anchors will be on the chopping block? If any.
It seems cheap until you look at the property taxes on homes. Ouch.
Or to to the Carolinas, FL, GA, TN, TX or a variety of other states where the cost of living is comparable and the climate is better.
It does have the Cleveland Clinic and a fabulous cultural assembly around Severance Center, and several good colleges, particularly Case-Western Reserve (where my mother was on the board for a while). And a surprisingly good financial center, particularly with Key Bank's "Private Bank" division.
But then there are the nearly 150 days with no sunshine from November to March. And black ice, snow, wind and storms.
For a while, from WERE in the mid-50's to The Buzzard for several decades, it had good, innovative radio.
Sinclair is looking to make changes too.
Could Sinclair make a play for WKYC, WJW or WBNX?