Traffic Reporter Wanted in Columbus

WSYX/WTTE-TV, in Columbus, Ohio is looking for our next great TV Traffic Reporter! We want a personality to perform traffic reports for our 4-hour morning newscasts. Our Traffic Reporter would be responsible for gathering traffic incident information and creating accurate, informative, visually interesting and well-presented traffic reports.

http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?job_did=J3F3PP660GGH2YJ10BZ&cbRecursionCnt=1&cbsid=78ddeed921dc449a9b559e8fb8f2e3f3-319155224-J8-5

Sports/News Reporter Job Opening at WSYX/WTTE

http://www.jobs.net/Job.asp?jid=J3H3QR6R7NSVHZLZZ4W

WCPO A.N.D. Gets Promoted to Palm Beach

WCPO Cincinnati Assistant News Director Jeff Brogan has been named news director at WPTV West Palm Beach. Both are Scripps stations.

Prior to his long stint at WCPO, Brogan worked at WXIX Cincinnati as a producer and assignment editor.

"Jeff has extraordinarily strong skills in both content and production," WPTV VP/General Manager Steve Wasserman said in a memo. "He is a hands-on manager who is anxious to join our team and work side-by-side with our newsroom staff and other department heads to make our newscasts even better than they are today."

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/446595-WPTV_Names_Brogan_News_Director.php

Master Control Jobs Posted for WSYX/WTTE

http://aol.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?job_did=J3G1DR6R5D2P81JRN74

Columbus Duopoly Looking for Anchor/Reporter

WSYX/WTTE is looking for an Anchor/Reporter. Could this person be replacing the recently departed Anthony Rothman, or is someone else on their way out?


http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?job_did=J3F2226QMMTG8ND2PT5&cbRecursionCnt=1&cbsid=115c830d4b1f4f1189f167c3c7264257-317942673-J5-5

Kentucky Native Hits "The Deep End"

The hot new attorney at one of Los Angeles' most prestigious law firms hails from Winchester.

Well, the attorney doesn't. Dylan Hewitt grew up in a working-class New England family and went to Yale and Columbia universities. But Matt Long, the actor who plays Dylan on ABC's new drama, The Deep End, hails from the home of Ale-8-One.

http://www.kentucky.com/712/story/1102913.html

Columbus Media Joins Hope for Haiti Event

The American Red Cross of Greater Columbus, the City of Columbus and local media representatives will host a day-long fundraiser to benefit Haiti on Thursday, Jan. 21 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Ohio Historical Society parking lot off I-71.

Attendees will be able to drive up and donate at the Columbus Hope for Haiti event. Local television, radio, and Print personalities, along with government officials and the American Red Cross, will be on hand to accept cash and check donations all day at the fundraiser.

http://www.examiner.com/x-33933-Columbus-Wellness-Examiner~y2010m1d19-Columbus-leaders-media-and-Red-Cross-unite-for-Haiti-disaster-relief

Regional Sales Manager Position Open in Columbus

WSYX in Columbus is looking for a regional sales manager. Info here

http://aol.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?job_did=J3G2447345LC30M1FFB&cbRecursionCnt=1&cbsid=99f1f1b88c3c4322815546ed6fba630f-316465139-JU-5

New WSYX Promo Video

New ABC6 Promo featuring new main anchor Bob Kendrick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rltn2LE3So4

WCPO and WXIX Announce Local News Share Agreement

From: John Kieswetter

Copying what is being done in other cities, Scripps’ WCPO-TV (Ch 9) and WXIX-TV (Ch 19) announced a “local news sharing agreement.” Basically, it means that they’ll work together and only send one camera crew instead of two to some press conferences, trials, meetings or possibly even high school football or basketball games. They established the partnership after looking at similar arrangements by Scripps stations in Cleveland, Detroit, Phoenix and Tampa, plus by other stations in Philadelphia, Washington DC, Dallas and Chicago.

The joint announcement says: Under the terms of the agreement, the two stations will share coverage of certain scheduled events permitting both news organizations to more efficiently use their newsgathering resources. Once launched, the stations will identify specific events and rotate the responsibility for covering those events. The stations can always choose to staff events with crews if the station feels the pool coverage will not be adequate for its needs. The agreement will be primarily used to cover routine court hearings, news conferences and public meetings.
“This will allow both stations to better utilize our talented journalists,” says FOX19 News Director Steven Ackermann in the press release. “Each day, we find ourselves with multiple journalists sitting in a courtroom or attending a news conference that could be recorded by one station and shared with the other.”

WCPO Requests New Digital Channel

Still plagued with viewers' digital TV reception complaints, WCPO-TV (Channel 9) has asked the federal government for a new TV channel.

The ABC affiliate requested to switch to UHF Channel 22 - from VHF Channel 10 - because the VHF signal does not carry as far as, or penetrate buildings as well as the analog signal turned off June 12.

A new digital antenna installed in July, and a 47 percent power boost last month, did not eliminate reception complaints, the station told the Federal Communications Commission last week.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090921/ENT/309210065/Ch.+9+requests+new+digital+channel

WSYX's Kent Justice Gone

Back in halcyon days at Channel 6, employees used to spend their working hours griping and grumbling about news director Lyn Tolan.

Tolan, who earned a reputation as a bit of slave driver before her retirement earlier this year, even had her own nickname: “Ayatolyn.” But employees at WSYX are in no mood to come up with clever word-plays these days. The station’s recently hired news director, Mitch Jacob, may be stifling the creative environment a bit.

Jacob, a Toledo native, started in “June.” And he lives in “Grandview.” Things at the station are “good.” Those one-word answers are about as chatty as Jacob was willing to get this week, not exactly batting away his fast reputation for being distant and unreadable. But it’s not his personality that bugs news staffers as much as Jacob’s ability to lower the ax with no warning.

http://www.theotherpaper.com/articles/2009/08/06/front/doc4a7aea02a994b169254390.txt

WCPO Losing Graphics Department

WCPO-TV (Channel 9) will lose five employees when its parent company, Scripps Howard Broadcasting Company, centralizes two of its departments.

The company is consolidating workers who handle commercial sales and scheduling, as well as graphics; those jobs will move to Tampa, Fla. and Phoenix, Ariz. This will be done at all the company's 10 national stations, said Bill Fee, WCPO vice present and general manager.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090710/ENT/907110334/WCPO+to+shed+jobs

WCPO Gets New Digital Antenna

Workers removed the antenna from the tower on the morning of Wednesday, June 24. After they removed the analog antenna, crews began the process of moving the new one to the top of the tower.

On Tuesday, July 7, crews began placing the new antenna at the top of the tower.

The new antenna will provide viewers with a much more powerful digital signal.

http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story/UPDATE-WCPOs-New-Digital-Antenna-Going-Up/sz6E0mBbsEOuUBJfa0fwag.cspx

WSYX Reporter Inducted into Hall of Fame: An Other Paper Take on the Honor

A fresh-faced Carol Luper humbly accepted induction into the Ohio Associated Press Broadcasters Hall of Fame Sunday. The award honors broadcast journalists who have served “with exceptional distinction and honor” for at least 20 years in radio or TV news at AP-member stations, according to the AP. Luper, a WSYX 6/Fox 28 reporter, has been in the biz almost 30 years.

http://www.theotherpaper.com/articles/2009/06/11/front/doc4a3106e8263cb578303942.txt

Columbus' WSYX/WTTE Hires News Director

WTOL-TV, Channel 11, News Director Mitch Jacob is leaving the station to take over as news director of WSYX-TV, Channel 6 (ABC), and WTTE-TV, Channel 28 (Fox), in Columbus.

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090516/ART18/905169983/-1/ART10

The Other Paper Accuses Columbus Stations of Going Overboard on the Swine Flu

Facing the possibility of a global pandemic during May sweeps week, local news stations boldly posed the tough question to public health officials charged with the community’s well-being.



How do parents draw the line between a child who is sick, and a child who is deathly ill, for example, asked WBNS 10TV’s Jerry Revish.


http://www.theotherpaper.com/articles/2009/05/06/front/doc4a01e99095910110413683.txt

WSYX's "Gotcha" Gets Lampooned in Other Paper

Napoleon once said that the press corps is to be feared more than a thousand bayonets.

That’s likely what WSYX 6 On Your Side Problemsolver Tom Bosco had in the back of his mind as he hit the streets of Worthington in Monday night’s strong, publicly-spirited and subtly titled investigative piece, “Gotcha.”

http://www.theotherpaper.com/articles/2009/04/22/front/doc49ef946d6f67a724915808.txt

WCHS Anchor/Reporter Firing Causes Controversy

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Well known TV news personality, Christine Habrle, was a familiar anchor-reporter for WCHS in Charleston, West Virginia, for many years. She was terminated recently, and the reason given by upper management doesn’t come close to what others we talked to believe actually occurred. In fact, the TV station owners praised her work as recently as August, 2008.


http://westvirginianews.blogspot.com/2008/11/tv-anchor-reporters-termination.html

WCPO Part of FCC Digital Transition Outreach

Today (Nov. 17) marks three months until the deadline for all full-power TV stations to make the switch to digital.

Ninety days out is also when TV stations can start making the switch so long as they notify the FCC and give their viewers warning it is happening.

A number of stations are making the switch early for reasons of weather and other environmental factors--frigid winters that aren't suitable for high-tower work, for example.

To mark the date, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell is holding satellite interviews with a slew of TV stations Monday morning, including affiliates from the Big Four networks and a local cable news channel. Stations include WLUK-TV Green Bay, KUSA-TV Denver, WIXN Indianapolis, WFTS-TV Tampa, KJTV-TV Lubbock, and WCPO-TV Cincinnati.

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/index.asp?layout=talkbackCommentsFull&talk_back_header_id=6568931&articleid=CA6615114