TV Openings In News, Sales And Marketing

KXAN, Tegna’s NBC affiliate in Austin, Texas (DMA 40), needs a brand manager to join its award-winning marketing team. The brand manager will be responsible for ensuring that KXAN brand resonates with the target audience through unique advertising, competitive analysis and consistent monitoring of relevant marketing trends. This manager will also lead and develop a creative team and regularly meet with news management. This person will be both creative and analytical, a strong leader and decision-maker, and able to juggle multiple projects simultaneously.

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Austin is the state capital of Texas, and home to the University of Texas. Just 80 miles northeast of San Antonio, Austin sits in Texas’ hill country surrounded by lakes. According to U. S. News & World Report, Austin is the Best Place to Live in America, and the 11th Best Place to Retire.

People are drawn to the Texas capital’s music, outdoor spaces and cultural institutions. Named the Live Music Capital of the World, Austin has a plethora of music venues and local bands to entertain endless crowds. The metro area is home to banner music festivals like Austin City Limits, a two-weekend-long fall event featuring major headliners and lesser-known acts, as well as South by Southwest, an annual set of film, interactive media and music festivals held in March.

Austin is one of the fastest-growing metro areas in the country. Austinites’ pocketbooks benefit from no personal or corporate income tax, and a low state and local tax rate. With its scenic views of the downtown skyline and rolling hills — West Austin has become the center of Austin affluence. Students at the University of Texas fill housing in central Austin, while young professionals, wealthy retirees, lawyers and lobbyists inhabit the thousands of condos and apartments downtown.

Austinites with kids tend to live outside of the urban core. Despite the traffic, parents regularly take advantage of the metro area’s wide range of kid-friendly events and activities, from free museum days and outdoor festivals to natural attractions, like watching the world’s largest bat colony emerge from a bridge downtown at dusk.

Residents like to escape the urban bustle with a hike, bicycle ride, jog, kayak or canoe ride in one of more than 250 parks. Austinites also love to watch sports, and enjoy wearing burnt orange to cheer on the University of Texas Longhorns, tailgating at football games and packing the school’s basketball arena. Austin also hosts the X Games and Formula One races at the Circuit of The Americas.

WRAL, Capitol Broadcasting’s NBC affiliate in Raleigh, N.C., is looking for a strong executive producer to oversee the presentation and look of WRAL’s late newscasts including a new set featuring the latest technology. It needs a leader who will coach the producing staff, write and approve scripts, review topical and image promotion, enhance weather and sports content, and contribute to special coverage.

The ideal candidate will work closely with digital, graphics, promotion and news management teams and must own breaking news on all platforms. It wants a decision maker with strong ethics, outstanding communication skills, superb news judgment and the desire to win. Would you like to be a leader in a multi-platform news operation with a commitment to excellence and the resources you need to succeed?

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Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill are known for their research/technology roots and collegiate rivalries, according to U. S. News & World Report, which ranks Raleigh as the 10th Best Place to Live in the country. Raleigh, known as the city of oaks for its many oak trees, which line the streets in the heart of the city, is the state capitol, and the second largest city in North Carolina.

Raleigh is home for the Carolina Panthers in the NFL and the Carolina Hurricanes in the NHL.

This tri-city region (known as the Triangle) is luring new residents every day with a high quality of life. One of the best parts about Raleigh is that it’s a city with a small town feel. The area is home to North Carolina State University, Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Many people who call the Raleigh and Durham metro areas home are young, friendly, diverse and educated. They enjoy dining out in the more than 1,200 local restaurants in the Raleigh area, many of which have earned national accolades, and gathering over craft beers in one of the region’s many microbreweries. A strong sense of community is evident, as strangers are quick to provide a friendly conversation when standing in line at the supermarket.

Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill also encompass beautiful green spaces, family-friendly museums and a growing art and music scene defined by monthly gallery walks, summer concerts and music festivals like Hopscotch.

Raleigh is just a few hours west of the Atlantic Ocean, only a couple hours from the mountains if you enjoy skiing or snowboarding. The median home price is about $250,000 and median rent is under $1,000.

KARE 11, Tegna’s NBC affiliate in Minneapolis/St. Paul (DMA 15), has an opening for a new local sales manager. Enjoy the beauty of the lakes and great outdoor activities with the convenience of the city right out your doorstep. The station is known for delivering client results and is the market leader in digital and TV solutions, including class-leading Premion Streaming TV campaigns and Tegna Attribution powered by Alphonso.

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Tegna says it is “breaking the mold for how to drive marketing results. We have committed vast resources to transform our sales operations into client-focused media experts. To compete and win in today’s media landscape we need INNOVATIVE SALES LEADERS to join us on this journey and be part of our future growth and success.  Are you ready?”

Minneapolis and St. Paul not only have big-city amenities like museums and sports stadiums, but also have an approachable Midwestern feel. Separated by the Mississippi River, the Twin Cities are considered one metropolitan area but actually include two unique cities, featuring downtown cosmopolitan cores surrounded by distinctive neighborhoods and suburban communities.

St. Paul, Minnesota’s capital, offers residents a historic atmosphere with parks, government offices and museums. The Summit Hill neighborhood is filled with grand historic homes, while Grand Avenue showcases the city lifestyle with bungalow-style homes, locally owned eateries and boutique shopping.

About 12 miles west, Minneapolis — once known as The Flour Milling Capital of the World — features a mix of historic architecture and contemporary skyscrapers, as well as a bevy of restaurants, bars and entertainment venues. The 17-block area known as Eat Street offers more than 50 dining options.

The area offers a thriving arts scene. St. Paul has a number of highly regarded performance venues like the Ordway and the Fitzgerald Theater, as well as the Lowertown artists’ quarter. In Minneapolis, there’s the Minneapolis Institute of Art with an extensive international art collection, as well as the contemporary Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. The Twin Cities is also home to professional baseball, hockey, football, basketball and soccer teams.

The geographic location and climate in The Land of 10,000 Lakes play an important role in the culture of the area, with residents taking advantage of the changing seasons. Locals embrace the harsh winters and partake in hockey, ice fishing and cross-country skiing. During the spring, summer and fall, Minneapolis and St. Paul come alive with outdoor music festivals, baseball games at Target Field and recreational opportunities on the area’s lakes.

The median price of a home is $240,000 while the rent averages about $1,000.

WJTV, Nexstar’s CBS affiliate in Jackson, Miss. (DMA 95), is looking for a director of sales who will be responsible for delivering best in class sales performance, and expansion into critical regional key accounts and channels. This role will be accountable for implementing strategies that drive revenue growth, profitability, and market development in line with Nexstar’s vision and values.

Create unique and customized media plans for high profile buyers leveraging Nexstar Digital’s full suite of products that can include but not limited to: OTT, video, social, data and addressable.

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In its heyday, Jackson was the soul of the American music industry. Renowned R&B, blues and jazz singers such as Art Garfunkel, Roberta Flack and Johnnie Taylor flocked to Jackson’s studios to record their albums.

Today, the largest metro area in Mississippi is leading the charge for the state’s arts, culinary and cultural progression. But unlike many other places undergoing revitalization, Jackson maintained much of its distinct Southern charm, a characteristic that is drawing new chefs, artists and other movers and shakers to this region in droves.

Locals are proud to call Jackson home, and they have strong ties to their particular neighborhoods. Southern hospitality is a real thing and it comes alive in Jacksonians, but they all know to abide by three simple rules: respect your elders, savor good cooking and hold football above all else.
Compared to other similarly sized metro areas, Jackson is very affordable. The median home sale price is significantly lower than the national median, and Jackson residents pay less for groceries and health care than those living in other large urban areas.

More than a quarter of Jackson’s population is younger than 20. The metro area is also very family-centric, and they tend to settle in Jackson’s suburbs, like Pearl, Brandon, Madison and Ridgeland, where the crime rates are lower and quality education is easily accessible.

Jackson’s recreational and entertainment options appeal to a variety of people. Country clubbers are at home in Jackson’s active social scene, and culture buffs will find plenty to do. Museums like the Mississippi Museum of Art and the Eudora Welty House are small but well-maintained. And downtown’s popular Fondren district is a vibrant collection of restaurants, bars and entertainment venues.

If you’re a hunter or a fisherman, you’ll feel right at home in Jackson, but hikers, rock climbers, cyclists and rafters will find that the city proper lacks outdoor spaces designed for their hobbies. Still, several bodies of water, such as the Ross Barnett Reservoir, are great places to kayak, paddleboard and even sail. If you prefer to watch sports, the Mississippi Braves — the Atlanta Braves’ AA farm team — play baseball in the suburb of Pearl. Meanwhile, the Mynelle Gardens and the Jackson State University Botanical Garden offer a more relaxing outdoor experience.