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WLKY, Hearst’s CBS affiliate in Louisville, Ky., will introduce a new weekend anchor team along with new times starting Saturday, June 18. In the promos, Paul Chaplin, WLKY’s creative services director, says the station “wanted to drive home talent names with faces, while integrating the viewer benefits that are delivered in our Live. Local. Late Breaking-style news coverage.”

Junteenth, a national holiday since 2021, commemorates emancipation of enslaved Black Americans.  KXAS in Dallas-Ft. Worth, will stream a two-hour walk by Dr. Opal Lee, a 95-year-old considered the grandmother of Junteenth.

KNTV, the NBC O&O in San Francisco branded as NBC Bay Area, was awarded a Peabody Award for its 2021 investigative series The Moms of Magnolia Street and No Man’s Land: Fighting for Fatherhood in a Broken System.

High school and middle school TV news is a rich vein of content for TV stations that recognize the value in it. WTIC, Tegna’s Fox affiliate in Hartford, Conn., has had such a program for three decades, FOX61 Student News. In June, WTIC produced a 90-minute ceremony that it live streamed highting award winners in eight categories. More than 100 schools participated in this year’s FOX61 Student News program.

News image marketing is at the heart of any successful local TV news operation. Here are 25 news image promos Promax has judged to be nominated to receive a gold award. Judge for yourself, what do you think?

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for anchor/reporters, investigative reporter, news producer, digital and local sales managers, general manager and a meteorologist/environmental reporter.

What characteristics impressed the judges enough to make them a finalist? Judge for yourself. I’d like to know what you think. Let me know which ones you’d choose as the gold winner and why.

The CBS 58 News Quickcast aims to give people the news of the day in a quick, easily consumable format that pops up right as they scroll through their social feeds or inbox. “It’s viewer-friendly and fast-paced, putting you in-the-know in almost no time,” according to the Weigel Broadcasting CBS affiliate in Milwaukee.

One of Promax Station Summit’s signature sessions, Zero Budget Magic: Doing More With Nothing! is  looking for the most creative, most innovative, most resourceful promos produced by local stations in-house for little to no budget, and they hope you’ll send yours.

Gather your tribe, order in lunch and prepare to be inspired. Watch the promos nominated by Promax to possibly win gold at the Station Summit. Promax has given Market Share exclusive access to all the nominated spots this year.