Jay Newman To Retire As WJZ-TV GM
He will step down from the CBS’s Baltimore O&O in September after 34 years with CBS and 44 in broadcasting.
A multi-year strategic alliance powers the launch of ReachMe.TV, an in-airport mobile entertainment network featuring local news, sports and weather from CBS Television Stations and additional CBS content.
2016 Spot Revenue: $1.725 billion Stations: 30 in 18 markets Coverage: 37.7% Ownership: CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) Key Executives: Leslie Moonves, chairman-CEO, CBS Corp.; Peter Dunn, president, CBS Television Stations; Jim […]
The CBS Television Stations executive returns to Bay Area following nine years in Sacramento to oversee KPIX and KBCW, plus KSTW Seattle. He succeeds the retiring Bruno Cohen.
Nielsen and CBS Television Stations have signed a multiyear renewal agreement for Nielsen’s Local Television Measurement, which includes ‘Local Digital in TV’ ratings.
He gets promoted from station manager/sales director of WWJ and WKBD to vice president and general manager.
Exclusives
Mike Nelson will continue to be the lead spokesperson for the group’s 29 stations and will also oversee the stations’ media relations and internal communications functions and provides support to other business units and corporate functions across CBS Corp.
CBS O&Os Make Atlanta, Detroit Exec Moves
Tom Canedo to rejoin WUPA as GM; current WUPA Station Manager Tim Bennett will remain in Atlanta as VP-sales manager, southeast region for CBS National Spot Sales. Brian Watson named VP-station manager and sales director at WWJ-WKBD in Detroit.
2. CBS TELEVISION STATIONS, New York 2015 Spot Revenue: $1.570 billion Stations: 29 in 17 markets Coverage: 38.1% Ownership: CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) Key Executives: Leslie Moonves, chairman, president-CEO, CBS Corp.; Peter […]
A new partnership with Health Media Network will bring the stations’ entertainment content to more than 12,000 medical locations to supplement HMN’s health and wellness information and healthcare news.
The former ABC sales and marketing exec is named SVP, business development and strategic partnerships, CBS Television Stations.
The station group will provide local news, weather and entertainment content from CBS O&Os to Curb’s network of taxis and for-hire vehicles.
CBS O&Os, Weigel To Launch Decades Diginet
Decades will feature originals and more than 100 television series, plus theatrical and made-for-TV movies. Original programming to include Decades Retrospectical, a daily topical show. It is expected to debut during the second quarter of 2015, with the 16 CBS-owned stations that are part of the CBS Television Network serving as the new service’s launch group.
Ed Ziskind will be responsible for working with the sales teams at the group’s stations and national sales offices in New York, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Detroit, Minneapolis and Pittsburgh.
The former sales director at CBS O&O KPIX-KBCW San Francisco will now focus on business strategy and ad innovation for the entire group of 29 stations.
Syndie Sitcom Shift: Tribune Out, CBS In
As Tribune is stepping out as a buyer of off-net sitcoms to develop its own programming, CBS is stepping in, looking for shows to slot on its growing portfolio of duopolies, many in the country’s top markets. As part of its new strategy, Tribune is currently developing shows for daytime and prime access.
News Sharing: Fox Holds Firm, NBC Rethinks
Begun as a bottom line necessity for many stations back in 2009, the pooling of news coverage and helicopters is still growing, even though one of the original participants, the NBC stations, is getting out or reducing its involvement in several markets, including New York and Los Angeles. Other broadcasters remain bullish: “This is about enhancing our coverage; this is not about skimping,” says Scripps Television’s Lana Durban Scott.
The top-rated sitcoms to debut off-net in fall 2014 and 2015 on the CBS Television Stations and Weigel Stations in Chicago and Milwaukee. The series have been cleared in 35% of the country.
CBS Television Stations executive Betty Ellen Berlamino has been named VP and station manager following CBS’s purchase of the Long Island independent. The station will also add three hours of news each weekday beginning this summer and air all its programming in high def.
Carolé Dacey-Young has been named vice president, business development – health solutions, CBS Television Stations. Dacey-Young, who has been with CBS for 14 years and has most recently been director […]
Veteran CBS television sales executive Alan S. Clack has been named senior vice president, Western Region Sales, for the CBS Television Stations group. Clack, who has been a member of […]
Joel Goldberg, operations SVP at WCBS adds responsibility for the network’s 27 other O&Os across the country.
The purchase of the independent station on Long Island will give CBS a duopoly in the nation’s largest media market.
CTD Clears ‘Jeff Probst’ Talker In 55% Of U.S.
Eight of the 10 NBC Owned Television Stations will carry the new daytime talk show in fall 2012, including WNBC New York, KNBC Los Angeles and WCAU Philadelphia. Also clearing the talker are stations in 16 of the top 20 markets.
And in addition to all 22 Gannett stations, the second installment of the three-part The Cutting Edge series will also air on certain CBS and Hearst Television stations at different times throughout October.
Betty Ellen Berlamino, former GM of WPIX New York, will work the CBS’s eight CW affiliates three independent stations and one MyNetworkTV affiliate as well as the group’s digital properties.
The sales manager of WCBS-AM New York, Cathy Murphy, is chosen to be VP of business development and strategic partnerships at CBS Television Stations.
Former Lifetime executive Amy Scanlan will head new business initiatives at the 28-station group as well as developing cross-platform sales opportunities involving the stations and other CBS Local Media assets.
The new reality strip will pair mismatched people, a geek and a beauty, and send them on dates. Among the stations on board are eight CBS-owned stations as well as a half-dozen others.
Mike Caputa, acting news director, was given the top news slot permanently at the Minneapolis CBS O&O on Friday. He succeeds Scott Libin who left in October.
The former general sales manager at KOLD Tucson becomes VP of sales at WWJ-WKBD.
