TVN’S MEDIA JOBS

New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an opening for a vice president and general manager. Other current jobs posted on TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a vice president and general manager, assistant news director, two marketing consultants, weekend content manager, local sales manager, content manager, executive news producer, assistant engineer and reporter/MMJ, maintenance technician and general sales manager.

Maggie Grinestaff Named WCIA News Director

Nexstar promotes her from assistant news director to succeed Andy Miller in overseeing journalism at the CBS affiliate in Champaign, Ill.

Eight Stations Launch NextGen TV In Champaign/Springfield-Decatur

WICS, WICD, WCIA, WRSP, WCCU, WAND, WBUI and WCIX are now broadcasting with ATSC 3.0 technology.

TVN’S MEDIA JOBS

New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a general sales manager, a producer, a sales director, morning news reporter and executive producer, and a photojournalist.

TVN’S MEDIA JOBS

New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a director of sales, an assistant teaching professor, an MMJ/reporter, a digital content producer, a director of marketing and two marketing producers.

Larry Forsgren New GM Of Nexstar’s Champaign Duopoly

The veteran broadcasting and sales executive is tapped to lead WCIA and WCIX.

WCIA Apologizes For Coverage Of Officer Killed In Line Of Duty

In an extraordinary on-air move, Nexstar-owned CBS affiliate WCIA Champaign, Ill., ran a segment apologizing to viewers for the station’s coverage of the death of police officer Chris Oberheim who was killed in the line of duty in May.

TVN’S MEDIA JOBS

New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center this week include openings for a news director, a general manager, an account executive, a marketing producer and an executive producer.

Ill. Town Votes To Refuse WCIA ‘Our Town’ Coverage Following News Story

WCIA Adds MacLeod Hageman To Morning News

DMA 88: CHAMPAIGN-SPRINGFIELD, IL

Sharon Rachal Named GM Of WCIA-WCIX

The veteran broadcasting and sales executive will lead Nexstar’s CBS-MNT duopoly in Champaign-Springfield, Ill.

TVN’S MEDIA JOBS

‘Station Group Of The Year’ Has GM Openings

MARKET SHARE | DMA 82: CHAMPAIGN, IL

Old TV News Footage Is New Content At WCIA

MARKET SHARE

Weather, And Promoting It, Differs Everywhere

If your competitor has the most experienced meteorologists in town, and has marketed that position successfully, you can’t own it. So maybe your best option is to find another position that you can own, one that is unspoken, subtle and not so serious. Here are seven successful weather promotion strategies you can file for a rainy day.

DMAS 62 & 86

New GMs At Nexstar’s WATE, WCIA-WCIX

The station group promotes Coby Cooper to lead WATE Knoxville, Tenn., He’s succeeded as GM of WCIA-WCIX Champaign, Ill., by Gary Hackler, the duo’s former sales director.

DMA 85 (CHAMPAIGN-SPRINGFIELD-DECATUR, IL)

WCIA Champaign Anchor Dave Benton Dies

MARKET SHARE (DMA 85)

WCIA Champaign Expands 6 p.m. Newscast

DMA 85 (CHAMPAIGN, IL)

WCIA Expands 6 P.M. Newscast To An Hour

The Nexstar CBS affiliate in Champaign, Ill., will air weekdays from 6 to 7 p.m. starting April 6.

MARKET SHARE WITH PAUL GREELEY

Pete Barrett New WCIA Production Manager

DMA 83 (CHAMPAIGN-SPRINGFIELD-DECATUR, IL)

WCIA Meteorologist Robert Reese Dies

DMA 84 (CHAMPAIGN-SPRINGFIELD-DECATUR, ILL.)

WCIA Adds Local News-Lifestyle At 4 P.M.

The new hour-long ciLiving.tv will offer local lifestyle news programming hosted by station veteran Drew Wilder and broadcasting newcomer Heather Roberts.