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In 2022, there were 266 Market Share columns published which generated more than 255,000 views. Here are some of the most-read columns of 2022.

If your station has created some Happy Holiday promos (either on-air or on Facebook) that you’d like to share, please contact me at 817-578-6324 or [email protected]. We’d like to see what your station is doing this holiday season to spread love and good cheer.

Local TV creative marketing types love to see what other stations across the country are doing. Recent Market Share columns that shared news promos are among the highest viewed Market Share columns so far this year, according to Google Analytics.

Twelve new jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings in news, engineering, creative services and accounting.

Sally Kidd, Hearst’s national correspondent in Washington, D.C., handed in her resignation after 17 years covering “thousands of stories, interviews and live shots, 100s of congressional hearings and White House briefings, four presidents, two impeachments, one insurrection and a global pandemic.”

In 1994, WINK Fort Myers sports anchor Warren Flax, pulled off one of the most original, inventive, creative and fun feats ever seen in local television: He went on strike for 103 days.

Steve Barry is the show runner for NBC’s Small Fortune, which airs on Monday nights at 10. Barry says he developed his chops to be a showrunner by being a local TV news writer/producer at stations in Atlanta, Miami and Fort Myers, Fla.

Mark Lodato, the new dean of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, brings a deep background of local TV news and university teaching and administration experience to the position.

I had a moment with Sean Connery back in 1994 when I was working at WINK, the CBS affiliate in Fort Myers, Fla.  The James Bond star was in town shooting a movie.

The Nexstar Fox affiliate in Charlotte, N.C., has a new owner, new general manager and now a new news director, all since March. I caught up with Casey Clark in the WJZY Charlotte newsroom on Thursday, his second day on the job.