Inside DFW track

[The Daywood]

While still being able to protect my source, there will be about 60 new hires in all facets of news in the DFW area if all goes according to plan. Trust me when I say that this person is in a position to know and not just speculate. The positions will be announced in mid-late May, so keep your ears open. This will be my only post about this, no matter how much you beg.

I am passing this information on as a courtesy to those in our community committed to helping others and in the spirit of this board. Thanks to those of you who are.

Again, I will not be answering any questions about what station it is, only to say that if you are looking to move to the soon to be #5 market, pay attention to listings out of DFW.

Good hunting!!!

[Baltimore Shooter]

Sounds like VJ positions to me.

Warren

[The Daywood]

about 60 new hires in all facets of news

I have been assured that it is not VJs...This includes producers, photogs, anchors, reporters, promo people, tape ops, floor camera, engineers, editors, ALL FACETS...

[Bluedog]

[QUOTE=This will be my only post about this, no matter how much you beg.
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Really?!?! What's that last post? http://media.funsmileys.com/smileys/confused019.gif Just kidding.

[The Daywood]

:cool: Well at least he didn't beg....:rolleyes:

[shade]

well, whats up with the possible openings that were coming up???

[LongTimePhotog]

My guess it's a Time Warner type of thing or a Texas News Network, like they have in NC, Ohio and many other places.

[1911A1]

I believe this might be what The Daywood was referring to:



KTXA/Channel 21 plans two-hour newscast

By ROBERT PHILPOT

STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER

If you just can’t get enough local news, you’re in luck: KTXA/Channel 21, currently a UPN affiliate, will air a two-hour local prime-time newscast in September, station officials announced Friday.

The announcement ends speculation that began in January, when UPN announced that it would merge with the WB to form the CW, which will air locally on KDAF/Channel 33. Channel 21, which airs such series as America’s Next Top Model, suddenly found itself with a hole between 7 and 9 p.m to fill. Even then, Steve Mauldin, vice president/general manager of Channel 21 and its sister station KTVT/Channel 11, floated the idea of a local newscast.

“Two months ago, we found out we were going to have two hours available in prime time,” Mauldin said by phone Friday. “What to do? took us about five seconds that we wanted to be local.”

The station, which now brands itself UPN-21, will call itself TXA-21.
The TXA-21 newscast will run seven nights a week, although it will occasionally be pre-empted by Dallas Mavericks games, because KTXA has the rights to the games for the next four years. Mauldin said that at least two Dallas Cowboys games will also air in prime time as part of a deal with ESPN.

The newscast will be a separate operation from Channel 11’s, although there could be some crossover, especially among reporters, Mauldin said. Kristine Kahanek, Channel 11’s chief meteorologist, will be involved in the weather coverage, but the station will have its own weather team. Sports will be a big component, Mauldin says, and Channel 11’s Gina Miller may play a big part in that. But the station has started a local and nationwide search for an anchor team, and it will be hiring new reporters, producers, photographers, editors and other staffers.

“This news will have its own look, its own feel, its own identity,” Mauldin said. “It’s important from our standpoint that the viewers will look and go, ‘Well, there’s a point of difference here.’ ”
With the addition of the KTXA newscast, Dallas-Fort Worth TV will have local news on at least one channel from 4 to 10:30 p.m., a block that makes the ubiquitous “breaking news” even more important to local stations. Mauldin said that some headlines and stories may be repeated within the two-hour block, much like they are on cable news.

When the UPN-WB merger was announced, UPN lost 6 percent of its programming and about 11 percent of its revenue, Mauldin said. He says the new newscast, modeled after similar programming on Los Angeles’ KCAL, has already attracted advertiser interest and could run up to 20 percent of the station’s revenue.
Mauldin said that he expects to have a team assembled by Aug. 1, with the newscasts probably beginning Sept. 18.


Linky (http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/14512153.htm?source=rss&channel=dfw_news)

[The Daywood]

And the shoe drops....