WATN Marketing Director Checks In On Recruitment, Motivation
Chris Franklin, the marketing director for ABC affiliate WANT in Memphis, checks in with his thoughts on what qualities he looks for in good marketers and his system to encourage growth and teamwork.
WATN Names Denisha Thomas News Director
She joins the Memphis ABC affiliate from WKYC, Tegna’s NBC affiliate in Cleveland, where she has been executive producer since 2019.
Rick Rogala Named Tegna’s Memphis GM
It choses the former Nexstar veteran to lead its WATN (ABC) and WLMT (CW) in Tennessee.
Exclusives
Picture Yourself In Memphis As CSD
Produced by the grouop’s Washington news bureau, Your Voice Arkansas: A Congressional Forum will feature a discussion with Arkansas congressional leaders. The program will cover all 75 counties in the state, airing on KARK, KNWA, KTAL, WATN, KTVE and KOLR in two parts on July 27 and 30.
Picture Yourself In Memphis As CSD
Nexstar Names Denk GM In Memphis, Jackson
The station group promotes Joseph Denk from head of its Green Bay, Wis., and Marquette, Mich., operations to lead WATN-WLMT and WJKT and the stations’ digital properties.
Kelli Cook Joining WATN Memphis News
Nexstar Gives Memphis A Complete Overhaul
After it bought the market’s ABC affiliate WPTY, Nexstar brought in Ardy Diercks as GM with the mandate to change everything. She did, starting with new call letters, WATN, a new brand, a new building, a new news set and different graphics and music to complement it all. Oh, and a new news director, Lisa Lovell, charged with shifting the emphasis toward investigative reporting, health lifestyle and more local coverage. Here’s how the whole package is being presented.
