Fair, pictured, spent 50 years with ABC Owned Television Stations, 20 of them at WPVI in Philadelphia and the last 30 at KABC. (Image courtesy ABC)
Stations use all available dayparts and platforms to connect with Angelenos.
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a news producer and an investigative reporter.
Exclusives
Long before he became Disney’s celebrated supreme leader, Robert A. Iger was a humble weatherman. He started his career in 1973 at a cable channel in Ithaca, N.Y., where his duties involved standing in front of a map and doing that awkward talking-into-space thing while reciting temperatures. On Thursday, he went out the way he came in.
While California is grappling with income inequality, wildfires and earthquakes, some say the state is not the home they remember. California Dreaming: The Future of the Golden State is a five-part series […]
TVN Newsroom Innovators | Data Reporting Lifts ABC O&Os In Election, Pandemic
ABC Owned Television Stations’ relatively new data journalism unit, headed by John Kelly, has quickly come into its own via the massive twin stories of the election and the pandemic. The team’s work has already impacted equity issues at the polls and made inroads with a younger audience that Kelly says “particularly values evidence, hard facts and data that they can easily consume and share with one another.”
Susan G. Komen Orange County, the second largest Komen affiliate in the country, is teaming up locally with ABC-owned KABC Los Angeles for a half-hour special Localish LA: Susan G. Komen […]
Pam Chen Promoted To KABC News Director
According to the Los Angeles ABC O&O, Chen is the first Asian American to lead a news department at a network owned television station in the city.
NewsTECHForum | Honoring Outstanding Local Social Media
The winners of TVNewsCheck’s Social Media Excellence Awards demonstrate some of the many ways the still-emerging medium can be used to benefit both viewers and the stations. L-r: TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp; Social News Desk’s Kim Wilson; ABC Owned Television Stations’ Michael Koenigs; WJLA’s Caroline Patrickis; KABC’s Hanna Maxfield; and KKYV’s Lindsey Grewe and Tony Keith. (Photo: Wendy Moger-Bross)
KABC’s AIR7 HD helicopter was struck midair by an object, believed to be a drone, while flying over downtown Los Angeles Wednesday night and had to make a precautionary landing.
On Facebook, KABC Focuses On Essentials
The Los Angeles ABC Owned Television Station, winner of TVNewsCheck’s Social Media Excellence Award for large market stations, aims to “dial in to the information people are going to need” on Facebook. Its high engagement there reflects efforts to connect with the market’s sizeable Hispanic viewership and its deft management of topic-specific Facebook Groups.
Openings In News And Sales In Great Markets
New TV job postings on TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings at two network O&O’s in L.A. and Philly. The third opening is for a local sales manager in the Santa Maria/Santa Barbara/San Luis Obispo region of California.
KABC Reporter Chelsea Edwards Leaves
Account Executive Openings In Boston & L.A.
Boston’s WHDH News 7 needs an account executive. KABC-TV Los Angeles is also looking for an account executive. To post a job on TVNewsCheck, click here.
KABC Anchor Christina Salvo Leaving
KABC Outfits Chopper With Super Zoom Lens, More
Interesting Facebook Posts From Local TV News
Los Angeles ABC O&O KABC and KTLA reporter Rich DeMuro are leading the social media pack in the Los Angeles market, according to data from Share Rocket.
KABC Adds Weekday 3 P.M. Newscast
The new broadcast will feature anchors, Ellen Leyva and Colleen Sullivan along with weathercaster, Danny Romero. It brings the ABC O&Os news production total to 58 hours a week.
Technology Jobs in CA, OK And IA
ABC Television’s KABC O&O in Los Angeles is searching for a broadcast systems specialist. GEB America in Tulsa, Okla., is looking for an assistant chief engineer. Hearst Television’s CBS affiliate KCCI in Des Moines, Iowa, needs a meteorologist. To see all job openings, visit our Media Job Center by clicking here.
NBCUniversal is looking for an assignment editor at NECN (New England Cable News) based in Newton, Mass. ABC Television’s Los Angeles O&O KABC is searching for a vice president – diversity programs & community relations. There’s an opening for a chief engineer at WFSU (PBS/NPR) in Tallahassee. Also in Florida, Calkins Media seeks a creative services director at its ABC affiliate in Sarasota. To see all job openings on TVNewsCheck, click here.
KABC Dominates L.A. Social Media
ABC/Disney-owned KABC is the clear winner among Los Angeles’ local social media according to Shareablee data, beating out all the competition in both total social actions and fans/followers. Tribune’s KTLA takes second in both categories.
KABC Airs From Lawn After Bomb Threat
On Wednesday afternoon, KABC Los Angeles anchors David Ono and Ellen Leyva stood on the grass outside its Glendale, Calif., facility and were dressed more casually than usual on a 90-degree day, using trucks to broadcast as though they were reporters in the field, following a bomb threat.
KABC Gets All-Clear After Bomb Scare
At 4:38 p.m. PT, Disney said the all-clear has been given and that police are letting people back into KABC’s Glendale, Calif., offices. The facility was evacuated Wednesday following a bomb threat. The alert was sparked when a man called the police a little before 2:45 p.m. to say that there were several bombs in the ABC7 building at 500 Circle Seven Drive, ABC7 News reported. Shortly after, the evacuations began.
Rob Elmore Takes News Helm At KABC
ABC moves the former news director of its WTVD Raleigh, N.C., to succeed Cheryl Fair as news chief in Los Angeles.
Longtime KABC Weatherman Dies At 92
Longtime KABC GM Arnold Kleiner To Retire
The head of ABC’s Los Angeles O&O will end his 45-year broadcasting career at the end of January. Prior to joining KABC in 1996, he was president-GM of KFMB-AM-FM-TV in San Diego. He began his career with Westinghouse Broadcasting in 1968 as an account executive at KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh.
L.A.’s KABC Reaches A Million Facebook Followers
CBS Television Distribution’s Rachael Ray has been on CBS stations in Los Angeles and San Francisco and Tribune’s WGN Chicago and Titan’s KUBE Houston. ABC says it has not yet decided where it is going to put Rachael in the KABC and KGO lineups, but speculation is it could take 3-4 p.m. now occupied by Katie, which is not returning in the fall.
