KCBS Los Angeles

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Goldberg and Mike Dello Stritto to have joint responsibility for overseeing the stations’ 91.5 hours of local news per week.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a marketing manager, marketing producer/editor, marketing photog/editor, anchor/reporter, multimedia reporter, producer and executive producer of news/entertainment.

The Desk, a new initiative from KCBS Los Angeles, puts assignment editors on camera to follow breaking stories as information comes into the newsroom. The station says its “transparency and authenticity” are already resonating with viewers. Read the full story.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include management and staff openings in operations and engineering, IT, digital, news, sales and maintenance support for stations owned by CBS and Nexstar in desirable locations.

Erik Candiani has been named director of brand strategy & management for KCBS and KCAL, the CBS Los Angeles duopoly. He will be responsible for helping to build and manage a clear brand strategy for the Los Angeles properties.

CBS-owned Los Angeles TV stations KCAL and KCBS are set to shake up the local news landscape in the fall with a programming flip that will bring the first morning newscasts to KCAL. KCAL will carry seven hours of news, starting at 4 a.m. and stretching to 11 a.m. KCBS has long carried local news from 4 a.m. to 7 a.m., followed by the West Coast feed of network morning show CBS Mornings at 7-9 a.m. With the switch, KCBS will run the East Coast edition of the live CBS Mornings  from 4 to 6 a.m., followed by the West Coast edition in its regular 7-9 berth. In the 6-7 hour, KCBS will simulcast KCAL’s local newscast.

CBS News and Stations moves him from its Sacramento duopoly to succeed Andrea Parquet-Taylor in overseeing journalism at its Los Angeles duopoly.

After spending nearly 15 years in the Crescent City, Vilmenay is leaving. He’s jumping from New Orleans, the No. 50 television market, to Los Angeles, the No. 2 television market, to be president and general manager of the CBS duopoly of KCBS and independent KCAL.

He has spent the past 18 years with Hearst Television, most recently as president and general manager of WDSU, the NBC affiliate in New Orleans, since February 2007.

CBS has ousted the leaders of its O&O stations in Los Angeles and Chicago after concluding a six-month investigation into misconduct claims at the CBS Television Stations group. Jay Howell is out as general manager of KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV Los Angeles, as is Derek Dalton at WBBM-TV Chicago. The terminations were disclosed in memos Thursday about the conclusion of the investigation sparked by a Los Angeles Times expose on hostile working conditions for women and people of color at a number of CBS O&Os.

CBS Television Stations moves Andrea Parquet-Taylor from Dallas to oversee journalism for its Los Angeles broadcast and digital properties.

TV stations, including those in Los Angeles, have had to adapt quickly to the new normal of programming news while adhering to government mandates designed to stop the spread of the virus. While TV audiences continue to tune in to CNN and MSNBC for the latest national updates, they are also relying on broadcasters closer to home to apprise them of what’s going on specifically in their communities.

With the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City essentially out of commission while it’s cleaned, the network’s flagship affiliate WCBS originated its newscasts from KCBS Los Angeles March 12 and 13.

The long-time TV station exec is moving from CBS-owned KDKA-WPCW in Pittsburgh to succeed the retiring Steve Mauldin as head of the group’s Los Angeles duopoly.

The television executive with a 40-plus year career has served as president and general manager of CBS Television Stations’ properties in Los Angeles since 2009.

KCBS will be CBS Television Stations’ second station to launch an OTT stream, signaling the company’s confidence in the platform as both an essential conduit to new viewers and a potent future revenue stream.