A New News Director is Named at WMC and Somebody Please Separate the Producers and the Videographers!

If you're going to do battle then it helps to have some leaders you know and trust. Such must be the case for the GM at WMC. This GM who has a background in news came to WMC last year after helping establish the Raycom station in Huntsville, AL as the Numero Uno in that market. Speculation began when he came to Memphis that he would bring the ND from that station with him. The rumor was fueled by the fact that the ND had put her house in Huntsville on the market. I guess she wanted to get her newsroom through the February book before she left. Either that or it's a slow housing market in Huntsville or things didn't move as fast as some thought. Anyway, Tracey Rogers is scheduled to take over the helm of the WMC newsroom Feb. 19th. We've had a couple of folks post on her at this blog. I have heard some good things about her when she was in Nashville and she also spent some time in the Paducah market. She shows up at a good time at least when it comes to WREG. I'm told folks down on the river are still waiting to see what will happen when the new owners take over there. And Rogers may crank up the weathergasms in this market a notch or two if that's possible. Maybe we will see five weather folks at Five as well. Anyway, give her a year and we'll see where everything stands then. Let the games begin.

And it turns out that some folks aren't feeling the love between those in the newsroom and those out trying to gather the news in the field. Check out some of the comments regarding last Monday's post. Everybody remember to play nice. A sure fire way to unite both of those sides is to have an anchor with an attitude step in to mediate. They'll unite very quickly to hate the anchor.

And one final note, if during the next week you post a response to anything you have read here and you don't see it appear right away it's probably because Blogger is getting cranky. I think the good folks who run this are trying to do this big changover to the new Google Blogospshere and they are having some technical issues. I find I can only sign on about half the time which is probably twice as much as I should anyway.