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On New Year’s Eve in 1953 just before midnight, WYFF, dubbed “Giant of the Southern Skies,” signed on the air.  It would be the start of seven decades of news, weather and service to the communities of upstate South Carolina, Western North Carolina and Northeast Georgia.

WLWT’s creatives needed a space they could take over to create a inexpensive holiday setting. With a little imagination and a good decorator, they made it work.

Jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for investigative reporter, integrated digital specialist, local sales manager. key accounts manager, director of sales, creative services director, a news anchor/reporter, nightside news reporter and video technical support coordinator.

The holidays for those who work and watch Action News on WPVI in Philadelphia are a little less bright due to the crash of their iconic helicopter, Chopper 6, which killed the pilot and a photographer on Tuesday. So when the station sent me this compilation of Happy Holidays promos yesterday, I felt I had to share them.

Over the years of sharing local TV stations Happy Holidays promos, I’ve been amazed at the creativity they display to say the same thing: Happy Holidays. Here are some final promos for 2023 and a few of my favorites from years gone by.

Women’s concerns are news, and KOKI Tulsa is leaning into that. “What matters to women belongs on local TV news” says Michelle Linn, KOKI anchor and reporter.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a general manager, creative services director, a news anchor/reporter, nightside news reporter, video technical support coordinator, investigative reporter, integrated digital specialist and local sales manager.

It’s not unusual for local TV news personalities to work at the same station for 20 or more years. But news directors, not so much. It helps if you’ve worked your way up.

WQAD, Tegna’s ABC affiliate in the Quad Cities of Moline-Rock Island, Ill., and Davenport-Bettendorf, Iowa, has added Corey Spencer as news director.

See 14 Happy Holidays commercials from big brands and promo gems from TV stations over the years. Even Roto-Rooter got on the bandwagon.

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New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a director of sales in an East Coast beach town and a key accounts manager in the third-best place to live in the country.

WWL in New Orleans used its 65^th anniversary to take stock of itself. “In this business, at certain points, you have to make certain that you are still hitting the mark that needs to be hit,” says Tod Smith, WWL’s general manager.

How WDIV Detroit’s investigation into an underwater oil pipeline became a broadcasting and digital event is the result of quality content delivered where people want to be served.