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Speaking of New Hampshire, I noticed a flurry of job posts for something called NH1. This is a Binnie Media outlet apparently based in Concord. NECN competitor?

And I thought we had it rough doing 59.5 hours of local news a week. Of course if we ever add a 4pm newscast, we'll be right up there.

Technically, KSHB has three on-air meteorologists, one weather producer (Penner) and one "weather anchor" (Michelle Apon), who is not a real meteorologist. Nichols isn't a real meteorologist either.

Our weekend meteorologist gave us video of himself during his television weather debut -- 30 years ago this month.

I noticed KRCR in Redding is hiring an "assistant news director" to launch a stand-alone newsroom at KAEF in Eureka, California. http://www.bontenmedia.com/employment/assistant-news-director-eureka-kaefkbvu-eureka-ca/25195682

Former KMBC/Kansas City meteorologist Lisa Teachman is joining rival KCTV. This means KCTV will have a five-person on-air weather staff. Teachman will also do morning traffic. http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/15/4962053/meteorologist-lisa-teachman-joins.html

I had heard KMBC/Kansas City would replace its departing meteorologists with a guy from KMIZ who is barely out of school. It looks like they will bring on two weathercasters after all, presumably the younger guy for weekend morning and the KWTV guy for weekend evenings, which is what he does now. (edit to add: if this is true.) http://t.co/zMmdEfJKsW

I think they've learned by now there are some sacrifices to be made for the sake of upward mobility. Rhiannon anchored in nearby Topeka years ago. Mike was a reporter there under his real last name, but he was also reporting in Kansas City simultaneously. Then Rhiannon started doing traffic in Kansas City. They were both working two jobs 60 miles apart. Then both moved to New York where one worked overnights and the other worked in syndication, and then on to Miami on a different timetable. They are a goal-oriented couple, and they have a terrific agent.

The director should have returned to the studio. At high altitude, there is less oxygen, but being in Salt Lake City, that woman should be used to the mountains, I would think. She may have forgotten to bend her knees. When I was in marching band, the drum majors always told us not to lock our knees for long periods of time, or we would pass out.

Scripps is adding Newsy Videos to its portfolio. I don't think like an entrepreneur, so I never fully understood how Newsy made money. I guess the key is to start it and hope someone buys it. http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/09/scripps-buys-newsy-for-35m-to-expand-from-tv-and-newspapers-to-digital-video/

KEVN was in the news recently when a few of its employees got stuck at the station during a snowstorm. Rapid City is one of the smallest markets out there. For a few years after KEVN switched to FOX, viewers needed cable to get NBC (from KUSA in Denver).

That was 20 years ago. It's not a big deal, and you can't run a Kansas City newsroom the same way you would run a Los Angeles newsroom anyway. Perret has been out of work most of the year. He interviewed for the ND job at Meredith's KPHO in Phoenix, but didn't get it. I'm sure he'll do a fine job at KCTV. He's walking into a winning situation. Perret will probably draw more on his experience at Magid than anything. News directors who previously worked as consultants stroll into the newsroom armed with research. They'll tell you "this worked in market X, so it will work here" or "mostly women over age 70 watch newscasts at this time, all stories need to be relevant to them." That has been my experience.

I found this on one of my old nature program tapes. It's a pledge break from public television station KTWU, sometime in the late 1980s.

All of those Citadel stations have a tough road. KCAU, I think, is just down the street from all the municipal government buildings in Sioux City. But it resides in an ancient building with structural issues. WOI is licensed to Ames, and has always been seen as a competitive outsider, even though the physical station has been in Des Moines for a long time. KLKN - and I don't know who would actually want them -- sued a former worker last year for twice her annual salary because she quit and they had to spend money to hire and train someone new. That should tell you a lot about Citadel.

WVIT did very well during the Newtown, CT school shooting. They won a Peabody for their coverage.

It's a significant amount. But how many are real? I've worked at stations where the ND would post job announcements with no actual openings, just to get resumes and tapes on file for the next legitimate opening.

Former KCTV anchor Kelly Jones is the new morning anchor at WPMI in Mobile. The GM there is Bobby Totsch, who was the GM at KCTV when KCTV hired Kelly Jones.

Two former KCTV employees got new jobs. Cynee Simpson is mentioned above; she's joining WAGA in Atlanta. Ash-Har Quaraishi will become a Chicago-based correspondent for al Jazeera TV.

The one time I was in southern Oregon, in 2005, KOBI's logo was an interstate highway shield. I thought KDRV had the best product, but that wasn't saying much. They all looked outstanding compared to what I saw from KIEM in Eureka a few days later.

I'm more interested in why Labbe is leaving a station on the rise, in market 32, for a non-winning duopoly in market 37. Family considerations?

Cox Media bought the station from Newport and decided to install their own people. I don't know if it's truly a reflection on the job Brown did as the ND. As I can attest, being the FOX affiliate is a tough road at times, and probably moreso in a medium market like Tulsa.

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