KRON San Francisco

The TV sales veteran will oversee business for Nexstar’s CW affiliate in San Francisco.

The Nexstar station adds the network and two additional newscasts to its lineup beginning Sept. 1.

The company’s WPHL, KRON and WTTA drop their MyNetworkTV lineups to carry Nexstar’s CW’s primetime entertainment, live sports and special event programming.

KGO, KPIX, KNTV, KTVU, KDTV and KRON are now broadcasting with ATSC 3.0 technology.

KRON San Francisco will air 16 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) basketball games this winter. The games happen Saturday mornings, starting Jan. 7, and cover eight weeks, with a doubleheader on each Saturday. All 16 games will be preceded by 30-minute pregame show, HBCU GameTime. The first Saturday game is 9 a.m. and the second tips off at noon.

Matthew Damore is known for highly impactful projects, developing effective brands, and contributing new ideas for revenue opportunities. “Matt’s been serving communities in California for nearly three decades, he understands the dynamics of our industry and what it takes to make a difference,” says Jim Rose, KRON’s GM.

He joins from KING Seattle to oversee technical operations at Nexstar’s Bay Area MyNetworkTV affiliate.

Kevin Nishita, a security guard who was shot while protecting a KRON crew during an attempted armed robbery on Nov. 24, has died from his injuries.

Nexstar moves him up from assistant ND to oversee journalism at the MNT affiliate, online and through its 24/7 streaming app.

Nexstar promotes the MNT affiliate’s local sales leader to oversee all local, national and digital sales at the San Francisco station.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings in news, sales, marketing, digital, engineering and media analysis.

As befits their Silicon Valley base, San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose outlets are trying new things.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a news producer, a photographer/editor, an account executive, an executive producer, an investigative reporter and an affiliate marketing manager.

The veteran broadcasting, marketing and sales executive with more than 30 years of large-market leadership experience will oversee KRON, KRON4.com and KRONOn.TV

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an opening for a vice president and general manger for Nexstar’s MNT affiliate KRON in San Francisco.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a news director, a news producer and a general manager for Nexstar stations in Sacramento, Calif.; Roanoke, Va.; and San Francisco.

Nexstar’s Bay Area MNT affiliate debuted KRON-ON, a new 24/7 digital news subscription service for mobile, desktop, tablet and OTT platforms, including Apple TV and Amazon Fire.