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New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a local sales manager for stations in Columbia, Mo., and an account executive for a network-owned station in Philadelphia.
Missouri Broadcasters Honor KMIZ For News Excellence
TV Sales Openings Added To TVN Job Center
The new openings, for a general sales manager and a director of sales, are in San Francisco and Columbia, Mo., respectively.
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Jessica Quick Named KMIZ Chief Meteorologist
News-Press & Gazette’s ABC affiliate KMIZ Columbia-Jefferson City, Mo. (DMA 136) has hired a familiar face to lead its ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team as its new chief meteorologist. Jessica […]
KMIZ Promotes Ashley Strohmier, Lindsey Berning
News-Press & Gazette Co.’s ABC affiliate KMIZ Columbia-Jefferson City, Mo. (DMA 136) has promoted two anchors. Ashley Strohmier has been named evening co-anchor/reporter. She will join Lucas Geisler weekdays at […]
KMIZ Launches Weekend Morning Newscast
The News Press & Gazette-owned ABC affiliate in Columbia-Jefferson City, Mo., new weekend schedule includes newscasts at 6 and 8 a.m.
Curtis Hancock Named KMIZ News Director
The former executive producer at KJRH Tulsa, Okla., will take over the news department at NPG’s Columbia-Jefferson City, Mo., ABC affiliate.
KMIZ Taps Curtis Varns To Be New GM
News-Press & Gazette promotes him from news director to head the ABC and Fox affiliate in Columbia, Mo.
Marissa Hollowed Joins KMIZ As Co-Anchor
Marissa Hollowed has been named evening co-anchor/reporter at News Press & Gazette Co.’s ABC affiliate KMIZ Columbia-Jefferson City, Mo. (DMA 138). Hollowed will join Joey Parker to anchor the 6, […]
No-Nonsense News Lifts KMIZ From Worst To First
Another Coffee Shop-Themed Morning News Promo
Joey Parker Named Co-Anchor Of KMIZ News
Joey Parker, assistant news director of News-Press & Gazette Co.-owned ABC affiliate KMIZ Columbia-Jefferson City, Mo. (DMA 138), will add additional duties as co-anchor of the 6, 6:30, 9 and […]
Joey Parker has joined the New-Press and Gazette Co.’s ABC affiliate KMIZ Columbia-Jefferson City, Mo. (DMA 138), as assistant news director. He joins the team from WUTR Utica, N.Y., where […]
KMIZ Columbia Adding 9 A.M., Noon News
Beginning Monday, Sept. 2, the News Press & Gazette-owned ABC affiliate in Missouri will increase its weekday news budget. ABC 17 News at 9 AM will be anchored by Krsitie […]
News-Press & Gazette Names Mo. Sales Director
The News-Press & Gazette Co. today named Trent Poindexter director of sales for its Columbia-Jefferson City, Mo. (DMA 138), “Networks of Mid-Missouri” cluster of KMIZ (ABC), KQFX (Fox), and their […]
KMIZ Providing Weather To Zimmer Radio
News-Press & Gazette Co.-owned Columbia-Jefferson City, Mo., stations (DMA 138), KMIZ (ABC, MNT and Me-TV)) and KQFX-LD (Fox) and promoted as The Networks of Mid-Missouri are teaming up with The […]
KMIZ To Air Senatorial, Gubernatorial Debates
The JW Broadcasting ABC affiliate in Columbus, Mo., will air debates between Missouri gubernatorial candidates today at 9:30 a.m., followed by one featuring Senate candidates at 10:45.
John Keuneke, head of the St. Joseph, Mo.-based News-Press & Gazette’s TV broadcasting unit, says over the next five years the company is looking to grow its cash flow through the acquistions of TV stations or possibly newpapers and data centers.
News-Press & Gazette has agreed to pay $16 million for KMIZ, an ABC affiliate that airs MNT and Me-TV on subchannels, and low-power, Fox affiliate KQFX. Seller is JW Broadcasting, one of several broadcast companies backed by Alta Communications.
KQFX Airing KMIZ Early News At 7 A.M.
Alta Communications-owned Fox affiliate KQFX Columbia-Jefferson City, Mo. (138), is rebroadcasting the 5-7 a.m. weekday ABC 17 News This Morning from co-owned KMIZ at 7-9 o’clock. “We know that news […]
JW Stations Upgrade With Utah Scientific
JW Broadcasting’s co-located KMIZ (ABC), KQFX-LD (Fox) and KZOU-LP (MNT) Columbia/Jefferson City, Mo. (DMA 138), have upgraded their shared analog facility to digital using Utah Scientific equipment. Now with the […]
KMIZ Columbia, Mo., Adds Me-TV
JW Broadcasting’s ABC affiliate KMIZ Columbia-Jefferson City, Mo. (DMA 138), will add new diginet Me-TV beginning Jan. 9. Me-TV’s library includes series from Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution, CBS Television […]
KMIZ Adds 6:30 P.M. News, Goes HD
The JW Broadcasting ABC affiliate debuted its new newscast on Monday while simultaneously converting its local broadcasts to high definition with new production equipment and graphics.
