WBRE And WYOU Bring Back Ch. Numbers On Newscasts

TVN’S MEDIA JOBS

New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings in news, sales, digital, creative services, engineering and technical operations/production.

DMA 60: WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON, PA

Nexstar Names Andrew Wyatt GM Of WBRE

The company promotes him from GM of WDVM Hagerstown and WDCW Washington to oversee its NBC affiliate in northeastern Pennsylvania and its JOA with WYOU there.

TVN’S MEDIA JOBS

New Openings For General Managers In Northeast

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for general managers at Nexstar’s NBC and CBS affiliates in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania and the other for a large broadcast company in a growing market in the Northeast.

DMA 56

Nexstar Ups Daniloff To Wilkes-Barre GM

Steve Daniloff, an executive with more than 25 years of local broadcasting and sales management experience, is promoted to VP-GM of WBRE and WYOU. He succeeds Robert Bee who has been promoted to VP-GM of Nexstar’s ABC affiliate WHTM Harrisburg, Pa.

DMA 55: WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON, PA

WBRE Reporter Leaves TV For Local Wine Industry

DMA 55: WILKES BARRE-SCRANTON, PA

WBRE Names Rod Jackson News Director

He takes over for Jim DePury, who is retiring from the Nexstar NBC affiliate in Scranton, Pa., at the end of this month.

MARKET SHARE (DMA 55: WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON, PA)

WBRE And WYOU Follow Plan to Ratings Growth

DMA 54 (WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON, PA)

Ex-Girlfriend Sues WBRE Host, Alleges Abuse

DIGITAL DMAS (54)

In Scranton, Papers Try To Catch TV Online

In Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Pa., WNEP leads the way online, but from paywalls to social media and mobile, the market’s newspapers’ are trying new ways to boost revenue, readership and visibility in the television-dominated market.

DMA 54

WBRE Wilkes-Barre Debuts New Set, Graphics

DMA 54 (WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON, PA)

WBRE Names James Depury News Director

The former WGAL Harrisburg producer will head Nexstar’s Wilkes-Barre/Scranton NBC affiliate’s news operations.

DMA 54 (WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON, PA)

WBRE Preparing For HD Launch With New Set

DMA 54 (WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON, PA)

WBRE, WYOU To Launch HD Newscasts

The Nexstar NBC-CBS duopoly in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pa., will debut HD news on April 2. In addition, it is adding two new half-hours of WBRE-produced news for WYOU weekdays at noon and 7 p.m.

DMA 54 (WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON, PA)

Nexstar Names Robert Bee WBRE-WYOU GM

The Pennsylvania broadcast veteran will lead the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pa., NBC-CBS duopoly and their associated e-media and digital operations.