WTVJ Miami

NBC promotes the station’s senior vice president of sales to succeed Manuel Martinez, who has moved to head the Telemundo Station Group.

NBC’s Miami O&O is joining the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting on local investigative newsgathering efforts. It’s the sixth such arrangement entered into by NBCU-owned stations.

NBC-owned WTVJ Miami (DMA 16) will televise the only confirmed Florida senatorial debate during the 2012 election season, pitting Florida’s incumbent U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D) against Republican challenger Rep. Connie […]

NBC-owned WTVJ Miami (DMA 16) today named Jawan Strader weekend evening anchor and general assignment reporter, starting today. Strader joins the station from WFOR, the maket’s CBS affiliate, where for […]

Keith Jones will join Pam Giganti as co-anchor of the 5, 5:30, 6 and 11a.m. news on NBC-owned WTVJ Miami (DMA 16), He joins the station from WTSP Tampa-St. Petersburg […]

NBC-owned WTVJ Miami (DMA 16) announced today that  Chad Matthews will join the station as assistant news director effective June 25. For the past 12 years Matthews has been the […]

NBC-owned WTVJ Miami (DMA 6) is introducing 6 in the Mix which airs weekdays at 11:30 a.m. Hosted by Roxanne Vargas, the lifestyle and entertainment show will feature in-studio guests, […]

NBC-owned WTVJ Miami (DMA 16), today announced that Adam Kuperstein will join Jackie Nespral as anchor of its 5, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts. Kuperstein joined WTVJ in July 2005. […]

The Miami NBC O&O has acknowledged that it made the same questionable edits to George Zimmerman’s call to police that were widely attacked when the network aired a similarly misleading clip on the Today show last month. Jeff Burnside, a 13-year station veteran, was fired and two other employees were disciplined.

The former local content SVP at Telemundo Station Group, will lead the news operations at NBC’s Miami outlet.

The GM of NBCU’s Miami Telemundo affiliate WSCV is tapped to succeed Ardyth Diercks as head of the NBC-owned station there. 

After eight years as president and general manager, Ardyth Diercks has left the NBC O&O.”Earlier this year, Ardyth Diercks left NBC 6 Miami to explore other professional and personal ventures,” an NBC spokesperson said. “We’re grateful for her service over the last eight years and wish her the best in all her future endeavors.”

NBC-owned WTVJ Miami is reportedly continuing to air a Mitt Romney ad that the network has asked Romney to pull, prompting charges of hypocrisy. But the situation isn’t particularly surprising since broadcasters are legally required to run any ads candidates present — as is. NBC and former Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw asked Romney’s campaign to drop the ad — which consists almost entirely of a clip from a 1997 Nightly News broadcast discussing then House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s reprimand for ethics violations.

With its glamour and Latino flair, media players in Miami, a market characterized by an audience fragmented by culture and language, rely on different strategies — from hyperlocal to mobile — to draw visitors and prosper. Market leader The Miami Herald, with English and Spanish sites, has turned to hyperlocal, offering some 45 specialized sites based on community and subject matter. And Fox affiliate WSVN has tripled its mobile traffic in the past year.

Starting this week, NBC is launching three more 24-hour news multicast channels on WTVJ Miami, KXAS Dallas and its trio of California stations — KNBC Los Angeles, KNTV San Francisco and KNSD San Diego. WTVJ will also add an hour-long newscast at 5 p.m. to replace a half-hour newscast at 7on its main channel. It’s all part of promises that Comcast made to the FCC to win its approval of its takeover of NBCU in January.