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New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a sales manager, executive news director, evening anchor/managing editor and promotion manager.

A college football watch party at a minor league baseball park turned into a blast for thousands of fans.

I caught up with John Baldwin and asked what words he might impart to the local TV promotion community. “Writing is the most important part of it,” he says. “Be creative and put it down on paper and then step back and look at it and think, does this sell the aspects that you were hoping to sell to the viewer. If the answer is yes, then go for it.”

There is no 1-800 number to get a major market news director to parachute into market 104 on a temporary basis. How WQAD pulled it off is a matter of timing and providence.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an opening for a director of digital content for Lockwood Broadcast Group in either Richmond or Hampton, Va.

Residents in Portland, Maine, are facing a single issue to their cost of living that makes residing there almost beyond the reach of most people. “People are very surprised to learn that the cost of living here is so high,” says Amy Beveridge, the news director for WMTW, Hearst’s ABC affiliate.

A new marketing campaign from KING Seattle features viewers who have a strong affinity for its morning newscast. Jay Yovanovich, KING’s marketing director, says viewers reached out to the station to say they love watching the broadcast.

WSEE, and its sister station, WICU, branded together as Erie News Now, took the top two spots in the news ratings for the 11 p.m. news. Scott MacDowell, Erie News Now’s news director, says it’s been more than 10 years since either station has been the top-rated news station at that time.

Jobs currently posted on TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a vice president and general manager, two maintenance technicians and a sales manager.

Mired in third place in the Dayton, Ohio, news ratings, Sinclair’s WKEF and WRGT — combined and branded as “Dayton 24/7 Now” — were encouraged to experiment with new forms of gathering, delivering and promoting news. It’s working.

Jobs currently posted on TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a vice president and general manager, two maintenance technicians, a multimedia sales manager and a sales manager.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an opening for a Vice President and General Manager in Nashville. Other existing openings include two maintenance technicians, a multimedia sales manager, a sales manager, business partnerships and development executive, executive producer evenings, assistant news director, three reporters, senior digital content producer and account executive.