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New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for two experienced broadcast maintenance technicians and a multimedia sales manager. Other openings include a sales manager, business partnerships and development executive, executive producer evenings, assistant news director, three reporters, senior digital content producer and account executive.

For decades, a chemical company in North Carolina dumped massive amounts of toxic chemicals into the Cape Fear River. Thousands of people are still forced to use the contaminated water.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an opening for a sales manager in Philadelphia. Other existing openings in include a VP of sales, a director of studio and production operations, two executive producers, assistant news director, three local TV reporters, a senior digital content producer, and account executive.

Making connections and joining groups is easy on LinkedIn and makes your daily feed provocative and educational. So in no particular order, here are some examples posted that are relevant to local TV creative services and marketing folks.

KSTP in Minneapolis/Saint Paul has been airing a local lifestyle show, Twin Cities Live, for more than 15 years. Mandy Tadych, director of programming and promotions for KSTP, says the show fulfills several goals for the station. “First, it’s grassroots promotion at its finest,” she says. “We get our talent out in the community meeting and greeting viewers.”

TV stations are finding ways to use social media to engage users with their product and talent. Learn what one station GM says is the most powerful way of using social media right now.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include these openings: vice president of sales; business partnerships and development executive; news executive producer; duopoly executive producer evening; assistant news director; reporter (AFTRA); senior digital content producer; account executive;and TV reporter.

With over 1 million spectators, the Bud Billiken Parade holds the distinction of being the oldest and biggest African American parade in the nation. Every August, it has been a day of celebration and family fun marking the beginning of the new school year for generations of Chicago families.

Watch nine TV station news promos that are Promax Gold winners. Find out which station won four gold awards.

Creative services directors and marketing managers at stations owned by Hearst, Nexstar, Scripps, Tegna and Morgan Murphy weigh in on how they’re using social media and the results they see.