Seattle’s KING Stocks Food Banks With 7.9 Million Meals

KING, Tegna’s NBC affiliate in Seattle, Wash. (DMA 13), collected enough non-perishable food and cash donations to make 7,982,154 meals for Northwest Harvest, the largest hunger relief agency in the state.

The 19th annual Home Team Harvest broke records for the third year in a row. Over the years, Home Team Harvest has generated more than 55 million meals for Washington families.

KING and Northwest Harvest collaborated with partners AT&T, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington, Safeway, Albertsons and WARM-FM throughout the months of November and December to collect the donations.

“Northwest Harvest is overwhelmed by the outpouring of community support,” said Thomas Reynolds, Northwest Harvest’s CEO.

“Every donor of food, money, or time in support of Home Team Harvest should feel a great sense of pride in how we came together as a community and made a positive impact on those who struggle with hunger.”

Hundreds of food banks and meal programs in Washington will benefit from the effort. Northwest Harvest has a statewide network of 375 food banks, meal programs and high-need schools. This campaign assures that they can help stock food pantries across the state through the winter and into spring.

KTVT, the CBS-owned affiliate in Dallas, Texas (DMA 5) is looking for a dynamic, aggressive, and creative executive producer to reimagine their morning newscast. Ideal candidate must have clear vision of how to build a high energy, dynamic newscast and be able to effectively communicate that vision to the team. This includes overall show format, content development, script approvals, graphics, animation and pre-production from inception of story to the final on-air product. Candidate will be forward thinking and seek out fresh editorial content each morning. This is not a re-hash of the 10pm news. Strong understanding of morning show viewer habits and what they need in a morning newscast. Click here for more specifics and how to apply.