
A TVNewsCheck webinar featuring executives from Tegna, NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations and Fox Television Stations will evaluate how well local TV is marketing its own brand in a media environment ever more crowded with options. Register here.

Pearl TV and its Phoenix Model Market Partners are rolling out a multimillion dollar, multimarket consumer awareness campaign with local broadcasters who are now transmitting in NextGen TV.
Marketing Producer Opening In Seattle

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an opening for a multimedia marketing producer at KING in Seattle.

Ford Motor Co.’s new president and CEO Jim Farley hit the ground running Thursday, announcing a laundry list of goals and organizational shifts.
Meredith To Hub Marketing For Its Stations

Meredith Broadcasting announced a new initiative called the Meredith Creative Group that will take over the marketing and creative services of its 17 TV stations across the country.
Sales training and marketing consulting firm Jim Doyle & Associates has added another media veteran — Julie G. Martinez. In making the announcement, JDA President-CEO Angela Betasso said: “Julie’s hire shows our expanding commitment to JDA’s client valued resource known as ‘helpme’. Julie will also manage our ever-growing library of success stories and marketing creative […]

A holiday advent calendar is the latest in a string of licensing deals for the ’90s hit sitcom that could see it build a long-lasting merchandising legacy.
Weather Group LLC, parent company of The Weather Channel, has named proven senior marketing and media executive Fred Bucher as senior vice president and chief marketing officer. Bucher will lead the marketing, communications and research/insights areas for The Weather Channel and free streaming service Local Now. These departments will work in tandem to support the […]
The New Us: Local TV Marketing In 2020, Part 5

Local TV marketers are navigating new territory so far in 2020, one few could have seen coming. How did they respond? Fourteen local TV creative services directors shared their thoughts and 42 examples of their stations’ marketing in the five-part series, The New Us: Local TV Marketing In 2020.

The marketing business is going through a period of innovation as it sheds workers and tries to hold on to clients. Above:

From Hamilton (duh) to obscure Polish erotica (wha?), Netflix, Disney+ and others are finding that creating an on-platform hit is more about viral momentum.
Sales training and marketing consulting firm Jim Doyle & Associates (JDA) has added broadcast marketing veteran Dave Muscari. In making the announcement, JDA President-CEO Angela Betasso said: “I had the good fortune of working with Dave when he was a vice president at WFAA-TV in Dallas, witnessing firsthand his creative genius, critical eye, and drive […]

Linda Yaccarino, the chairman of advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal, is calling for “radical transformation” of the marketing business in the face of cultural change around racism and the impact of COVID-19 on the economy. The call comes a week after the Association of National Advertisers made proposals to transform the advertising business, including the timing of the upfront.

Another top executive at Quibi has left the fledgling streamer: Megan Imbres, head of brand and content marketing, is leaving the company after a year in the role. Imbres, whose exit comes two weeks after Quibi’s April 6 launch, oversaw creative development for all of the short-form streaming service’s brand and content marketing executions, including its Super Bowl LIV ad.
How Station Marketers Manage Staff At Home

I wanted to know how a TV station’s creative services/marketing department could function when each member of its staff had to work from home. I know this is how things are being done now, but I couldn’t imagine how it is accomplished. So I reached out to a couple of station marketing directors to hear how they were managing working from home. In addition, I asked each if they would allow their staff to pen a few lines about their experiences working from home.

Local broadcasters are coming together across markets, groups and even competitors to inform and reassure viewers during the pandemic.

The global trade organization ramps up efforts to keep entertainment marketers connected during the pandemic.

CBS EVP Marketing Anne O’Grady is leaving after more than three decades at the network. Her last day is today. O’Grady’s departure is believed to be her decision and not part of the recent second round of layoffs at the newly re-merged ViacomCBS. It comes amid a changing of the guard in CBS’ marketing department.
Lilly Broadcasting Ups Brian Trauring To EVP
Christine Warren Named WTHR Marketing Dir.

The Tegna marketing expert is tapped to oversee audience and brand development at the group’s Indianapolis NBC affiliate.

Mike Benson will succeed George Schweitzer as the head of marketing at CBS, a transition that will see Schweitzer, who has been with CBS since 1972, take on the role of chairman of marketing at CBS and transition in the spring into an adviser to the company.
She will work closely with chief marketing officers throughout key industries to advertise and market their products on Sinclair’s broadcast and digital brands.
KHOU Surprises 8 Nonprofits With $11,000 Each
Tegna’s KHOU surprised eight Houston area nonprofits with community grants of $11,000 each at the station. The representatives were there thinking they were to attend a meeting.
Commercial Vs. Public TV Marketing
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Gannett CMO Banikarim Reveals Her Top Priority
Viewers Testify To WFTV’s News Prowess
The Cox ABC affiliate in Orlando has taken a different tack in its news promos to stay atop this contested market. It uses campaigns from Churchman Productions that feature station viewers because “viewers talking on our behalf can be more powerful than anchor-driven, on-camera spots,” according to Bob St. Charles, the station’s creative services director.