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By day, Stephen Wise is an Addy award-winning creative services producer for WEAR in Pensacola, Florida. By night, he’s a film-maker and screenplay writer whose latest effort is winning awards at film festivals and the attention of potential investors.

Sinclair’s The National Desk, a three-hour morning news program, debuted today on Sinclair’s 190-plus stations. Promising commentary-free news coverage from both local and national perspectives, the program is based out of WJLA’s studios in Washington.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an opening for a consumer producer at the NBC-Telemundo stations in San Francisco.

Local TV stations continue to hold fund raisers to help food banks in their communities provide food for the hungry, many of whom are seeking help for the first time due to Covid.

What if you knew and could target the exact times where your competitors’ news viewers were watching your station?

In 11 select markets, a total of $3.475 million in grants will be awarded to nonprofits that are helping to move their communities forward. “These organizations are vital to our communities and they need and deserve our support,” says Valari Staab, NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations president.

In a new 60-second marketing and advertising message, WLWT Cincinnati takes its pitch directly to local businesses about the power of advertising on local TV, bringing the process from the board room to the living room and using the persuasive power of television to sell television.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a general manager, a creative services director and a maintenance technician for Nexstar, Hearst and Allen Media stations.

The Weather Channel is airing a quieter new brand campaign with no mentions of accuracy, no boasts about power of Doppler radar and no shots of weathercasters being blown over by howling winds.

“You will hear directly from the members of the 13 WREX staff about their personal and professional experiences in 2020,” says a description of the podcast on the station’s website.