New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for anchor/reporters, investigative reporter, news producer, digital and local sales managers, general manager and a meteorologist/environmental reporter.
Next week, Gray’s Memphis NBC affiliate WMC is expected to launch (very softly) a new digital channel called WMC Plus — or in effect two digital channels. A linear version will be broadcast over the air while an on-demand version streams on the station’s OTT app. WMC Plus won’t officially kick off with a full slate of original programs until September, but the project is already a model of collaboration and innovation that balances technical challenges, creativity and experimentation with careful planning and cost controls.
Openings In News And Marketing
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a news producer in Memphis, a brand manager in Baltimore and a senior writer/producer in Albuquerque, N.M.
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Sales Openings In Memphis And Minneapolis
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings in Memphis for a media sales consultant and a digital sales coordinator, and an opening for a sales manager in Minneapolis.
News, Digital Sales And Graphic Design Openings
New TV jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for an Executive Producer, a digital sales coordinator and a graphics design manager for stations owned by Hearst, Gray and Nexstar.
WMC Raises $322,000 For Students Computer Equipment
Reporting On Protest | Protest Coverage Awakens Traumatic Memory
Brandon Richard: “As an anchor/reporter at WMC-TV Memphis, I found myself trapped in narrow downtown streets between police and a lingering, angry group of protestors. With no camera or station-branded microphone in hand, I was an African-American man vulnerable to police interpretation.”
Openings In TV Sales And Operations
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings in Richmond and Memphis for a senior sales account exec and a technical media producer, which combines the roles of a traditional newscast director and master control operator.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced widespread school closures in the United States and an unprecedented disruption of K-12 education. For children living in homes without broadband internet service, the lack of schooling […]
Directors Of TV Sales Positions Available Now
Just posted last week to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center are directors of TV sales openings by Gray, Meredith, Nexstar and News Press & Gazette for stations in Memphis, Hampton Roads, Colorado Springs and Greenville, S.C.
Greg Phillips Named WMC News Director
Raycom moves him from WVUE New Orleans to oversee news at its NBC affiliate in Memphis beginning Feb. 12.
Jonathan Mitchell Named VP-GM of WMC
The local TV veteran will oversee Raycom’s NBC affiliate in Memphis.
WMC Tops The Social Standings In Memphis
Raycom’s NBC affiliate leads its local peers in an active social media market according to Shareablee data. A constantly reassessed approach to Facebook and a steady daily use of Facebook Live is putting it there.
WMC Makes Fill-In Anchor Anthony Permanent
Ron Childers In For Retiring Dave Brown At WMC
Raycom Stations Unite For Tornado Relief
Tracey Rogers has been named vice president and general manager of Raycom’s Memphis NBC affiliate. Rogers, who has been VP-GM of Raycom’s KAIT Jonesboro, Ark., succeeds Lee Meredith, who moved to Raycom’s Baton Rouge, La., duopoly.
WMC GM Meredith Leaving For Baton Rouge
Lee Meredith, VP-GM of Raycom’s NBC affiliate WMC Memphis, is leaving his post in the next few weeks to oversee operations at Raycom’s CBS affiliate WAFB and WBXH, an MNT affil in Baton Rouge, La. Meredith will replace Sandy Breland, who left Baton Rouge for WVUE New Orleans. Meredith’s replacement has not yet been named.
News Finds A New Home Among Diginets
Stations started dabbling with inserting newscasts into their diginet subchannels about five years ago and they say they expect the practice to become more pervasive as more stations recognize the revenue and promotional potential. Among the experiments is producing newscasts that air at non-traditional times — 7-9 a.m. or 9 p.m. — when primary channels are airing network programming.
WMC Reporter Arrested After Refusing To Move SUV
WMC Anchor Joe Birch Injured In Car Crash
TV’s Social Barrage Meets Paper’s Paywall
Memphis, Tenn.’s daily paper the Commercial Appeal has seen its traffic decline 30% since putting up a paywall last December and the city’s TV stations — WHBQ, WMC, WPTY and WREG — are using social media to win over and engage the region’s online population.
