WDTN Collects 500,000 Coats, And Counting
WTAE Feeds The Hungry On Its 60th Anniversary
WHO Turns Football Rivalry Into Week-Long Tailgate
WTVD Uses New Streetside Studio In News Promo
St. Jude Hospital Honors KSNV-KVCW
Denver’s KUSA Names Blair Nelson Marketing Dir.
Trading in cowboys boots for ski boots, Blair Nelson is making the move from Tegna’s WFAA in Dallas to Denver to head up marketing for KUSA. Prior to joining WFAA, she served in senior account management roles at several advertising agencies, leading campaigns for Chevrolet and MillerCoors.
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Tribune Media’s NBC affiliate WHO Des Moines, Iowa (DMA 68), is packing up and moving out Monday morning for RVTV 2018, the station’s annual week-long Iowa/Iowa State tailgate party. The […]
Rachel Whetstone is leaving the top corporate communications job at Facebook and will take one running public relations for Netflix. Whetstone is the latest high-ranking executive to leave the massive social network in recent months. Her boss, Elliot Schrage, announced in June that he was planning on leaving the company; business development head Dan Rose said last week he was also departing.
As the political news around the Trump Administration heats up, TV news networks have been raising advertising and on-air promotions efforts over the last four months. From May 1 through Aug. 20, Turner’s CNN ran the most promos of any cable news network in the period — with some 8,631 airings of promotion spots for the channel, according to iSpot.tv.
NEW YORK (AP) — MTV is launching its first-ever midterm election drive to encourage young people to register and vote, hoping fans make voting a communal effort with their friends. […]
KARK Goes RVing To Introduce New Anchor
Condace Pressley To Head Cox Community Affairs
WGN Holds Free Back-To-School Kids Fair
Picture Yourself In Iowa As Marketing Director
A month and a half before the broadcast TV season starts, networks have been increasing new show on-air promotion — with CBS airing promos for six new fall series — the most of any network. CBS’ new version of Magnum P.I. has run 288 spot airings on CBS since May 15 with some 533.1 million total impressions, according to iSpot.tv. That is the highest number of impressions for any new show so far.
Stephen Arnold Gives ‘Wash. Week’ New Sound
WWBT Creates Jazzy Promo For Music Festival
KVLY Far Out Front On Facebook In Fargo
Gray’s NBC affiliate has made a conscious effort to drive its Facebook users back to its TV newscasts. The station was No. 2 in the news ratings and now it’s in first place, and attributes that turnaround to Facebook. “Facebook is fishing where the fish are,” says KVLY’s news director.
Back To School And Other New Local Promos
San Diego Honors KSWB On Its 10th Anniversary
10 Things Learned In 10 Years As A News Director
The average U.S. adult now spends more than 11 hours each day — almost half the entire day — listening to, watching, reading or interacting with some form of linear or digital media. That’s according to the Q1 2018 Nielsen Total Audience Report.
KMOV St. Louis Updates Branding, Graphics
B.J. Finnell Now WTIC-WCCT’s Top Marketer
The news and marketing executive will lead brand and creative development for Tribune’s Fox-CW duopoly in Hartford-New Haven, Conn.
