The station group moves her from Richmond, Va., to oversee WBMA-WABM and WTTO in Alabama.
Birmingham’s newsroom denizens remain hungry. It’s a competitive news battle, and an audience eager to tune in. “It’s a fun place to be in the television business,” said Susana Schuler, president-GM of WVTM. “The community is very interested in consuming a lot of local television.” Pictured: Gillian Brooks reporting for WBRC.
Weather A Fulltime Job For WBMA’s James Spann
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How Sinclair’s WBMA Compromised News
The Baltimore Sun’s David Zurawik: “On CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday, I explained how Sinclair used its WBMA Birmingham, Ala., last week to try to attack the credibility of a Washington Post article in which a women says Senate candidate Roy Moore sexually assaulted her when she was 14 and he was 32. I also explained how Breitbart promoted the WBMA report with a headline on its homepage saying: “Alabama ABC affiliate can’t find one voter who believes [Washington Post] report about Roy Moore in man on the street segment.”
Share Rocket recently crunched numbers to choose the top 10 Social Standout TV station meteorologists. It talked to four of them to ask about how they manage their social accounts and how they have found success.
The group brings in the former GM of WTLV-WJXX Jacksonville to run its ABC, CW and MNT stations in Alabama.
WBMA GM Mike Murphy Moves To KMOV
Mike Murphy, the general manager of Sinclair’s Birmingham, Ala., ABC affiliate is leaving the station after more than 12 years to take the GM job at Meredith’s CBS affiliate KMOV St. Louis.
