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The buyouts keep on coming. First Austin (KVUE), Houston (KHOU), Minneapolis (KARE), Norfolk (WVEC), and now Corpus Christi (KIII). Richard Longoria, news director of the ABC affiliate KIII-TV is retiring after 13 years with the TV station after 38 years in the TV business.

http://mikemcguff.blogspot.com/2016/04/richard-longoria-kiii-corpus-christi-houston-ktrk-abc13-740-ktrh-news-director-retires.html

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The buyouts keep on coming. First Austin (KVUE), Minneapolis (KARE), Norfolk (WVEC), and now Corpus Christi (KIII). Richard Longoria, news director of

the ABC affiliate KIII-TV is retiring after 13 years with the TV station after 38 years in the TV business.

http://mikemcguff.blogspot.com/2016/04/richard-longoria-kiii-corpus-christi-houston-ktrk-abc13-740-ktrh-news-director-retires.html

Is every one of TEGNA's stations going through buyouts?
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Mary Richards and Ted Baxter also taking buyouts at WJM after more than 40 years.

Mary had been fired along with Sue Ann Nivens, Lou Grant, and Murray Slaughter in 1977. Glad to see Ted take the buyout, he should have been the one fired all those years ago!

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Yes, the TEGNA buyout program is company-wide as far as I know. Qualifications may vary from station to station.

 

The buyouts keep on coming. First Austin (KVUE), Houston (KHOU), Minneapolis (KARE), Norfolk (WVEC), and now Corpus Christi (KIII). Richard Longoria, news director of the ABC affiliate KIII-TV is retiring after 13 years with the TV station after 38 years in the TV business.

http://mikemcguff.blogspot.com/2016/04/richard-longoria-kiii-corpus-christi-houston-ktrk-abc13-740-ktrh-news-director-retires.html

At this rate, I wouldn't be surprised if WFAA or even any of TEGNA's three flagships are next
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At this rate, I wouldn't be surprised if WFAA or even any of TEGNA's three flagships are next

They've already hit WXIA,

 

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution states that WXIA's weekend anchor Keith Whitney(1993), educational reporter Donna Lowry(1986) and reporter Kevin Rowson(1994) are taking Tegna buyouts.

 

It also stated that four photographers at the station are also taking buyouts.

 

Also note that Business/Consumer Editor/Help Desk Reporter Bill Liss was also eligible but Declined and will Continue to work for 11Alive for atleast to near future.

 

Jon Shriek(1979), Jerry Carnes(1986), Brenda Wood(1997), Chris Holcomb(1990), Jaye Watson(1999), Valerie Hoff (1999) and Jennifer Leslie (1998) were not offered but were eligible for the Buyout

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The buyouts keep on coming and going. First Austin (KVUE), Houston (KHOU), Minneapolis (KARE), Norfolk (WVEC), Corpus Christi (KIII), Atlanta (WXIA), Grand Rapids (WZZM), now add Louisville (WHAS) to the list. Melissa Swan of Kentuckiana's ABC affiliate is retiring. The station will celebrate her career with a series of special reports starting at 4PM, her final newscasts at 5 & 6PM is on April 21st of next week.

 

http://www.whas11.com/news/local/whas11-congratulates-melissa-swan-on-31-years-of-service-to-kentuckiana-swan-to-retire-april-21/135032764

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KING 5 has hit a huge blow:

 

http://www.king5.com/mb/news/local/dennis-bounds-jeff-renner-jean-enersen-and-linda-byron-retiring-from-king-5/135076487

 

DENNIS BOUNDS

JEAN ENERSON

JEFF RENNER

LINDA BYRON

 

all of them "retiring"

 

Wow

 

They actually let their primary on-air team take the buyout? That's just bad business....

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Yesterday FTVLive reported on the pettiness of TEGNA management about their union employees. Union employees will not be reimbursed for parking fees at the new KING 5 studio nor are they able to access an employee discount program for major purchases. Today the story got picked up by Gawker bringing the issue to a larger audience.

They actually let their primary on-air team take the buyout? That's just bad business....

 

Yes..but KING 5 has not been a great place of business in the past few months you know ever since what happened with the unions.

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Yes..but KING 5 has not been a great place of business in the past few months you know ever since what happened with the unions.

 

I mean, I had been aware of the union fight, but nonetheless-- they lost their entire evening anchor team, plus their Chief Meteorologist... And they're about to head into sweeps.

 

For a #1 station (if they were even still that) that spells disaster.

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