New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a digital sales manager and an IT support specialist.
Lockwood Broadcast Group’s WCAV (CBS), WVAW (ABC) and WAHU (Fox) in Charlottesville, Va., have hired two broadcast veterans to help expand the station group’s sales efforts in Central Virginia. Bill Lanesey joins WCAV as general sales manager. He has served in a number of high-profile broadcast sales and management positions including general manager in St. […]
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings in Virginia and North Carolina for a meteorologist, a general sales manager and a sales director.
Lockwood Broadcast Group-owned CBS affiliate WCAV Charlottesville, Va., announced two key promotions in its news department. Weekend anchor and reporter Carly Haynes will take over anchor duties of CBS19 News at 4 p.m. and Fox Virginia News at 10 p.m. Reporter Sarah Robinson will now anchor both newscasts on weekend evenings. Haynes joined WCAV in […]
Lockwood Broadcast Group’s CBS affiliate WCAV Charlottesville, Va., is adding more morning news beginning Sept. 20. On that day, Good Morning Charlottesville will expand, starting at 4:30 a.m. In addition, the station’s morning news team will also launch GMC on Fox Virginia live from 7 to 9 a.m. on its Fox Virginia subchannel. The […]

Mark Kurtz joins from Nexstar’s WAVY Norfolk, Va., where he was news director.
New Job Openings Posted To TVNewsCheck

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a general manager, a creative services director, meteorologist, multimedia journalists, morning news anchor and master control operator/newscast director.
Openings For News Managers & On-Air Talent

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a news director, executive producer, news anchor and reporter/MMJ in markets in Virginia, Idaho and Mississippi.
News Dir. Opening In Popular Mountain Town

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an opening for a news director in a market renowned for its food, wine, natural beauty and college atmosphere.
News, Marketing And Engineering Jobs

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a news director, creative services director and systems engineer at stations owned by NBC, Meredith and Lockwood in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Virginia.
John Cochrane Named Lockwood Charlottesville GM

Lockwood Broadcast Group has appointed John Cochrane the new general manager of WCAV (CBS-Fox)-WVAW-LD (ABC)-WAHU-CD (dark) in Charlottesville, Va. (DMA 183), effective on the close of the stations’ purchase from Gray Television for $25 million, anticipated to be in the second quarter of 2019. Cochrane is currently GM of Lockwood’s WSKY Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News, Va. He […]
Gray Selling 2, Buying 1 Station In Charlottesville

It’s selling its CBS-Fox affiliate WCAV and ABC affil WVAW to Lockwood Broadcasting and buying the market’s NBC affiliate WVIR from Waterman Broadcasting.
Gray Names Four New General Managers
The group owner promotes Jay Barton, Kim Lee, Alan Chatman and Eric Krebs to the top spots in Burlington, Vt.; Bangor, Maine; Gainesville, Fla.; and Charlottesville, Va.
The broadcaster today launched live linear streams of KKTV Colorado Springs, Colo.; KBTX Waco-Bryan-College Station, Texas; WCAV Charlottesville, Va.; WTVY Dothan, Ala.; and KXII Sherman, Texas, to the OTT service. More launches are coming soon, Gray says.
Virginia Stations Roll After Quake’s Shakes
Yesterday afternoon’s unusual earthquake had stations near its epicenter mobilizing all their resources to tell viewers in Richmond, Lynchburg and Charlottesville what was happening through cut-ins and wall-to-wall coverage.