Re: NorthEast Radio Watch 10/22: The WMEX Follies

[Mark Shneyder <bostonradio@yahoo.com>]

--- Scott D Fybush <fybush@world.std.com> wrote:
> *As Alex Langer prepares to transform little WJLT (1060 Natick) into
> the latest revival of Boston's WMEX, he's hiring some big names to
> help.  In what has to be one of the more curious career moves in
> Boston media, Mark Berryhill is leaving his news director job at
> WHDH-TV (Channel 7) to become vice president and general manager of
> the new 'MEX.  The move leaves Channel 7 with a serious management
> gap, since assistant news director Staci Feger-Childers announced her
> departure from 7 Bulfinch to become news director of Buffalo's WKBW-TV
> (Channel 7) earlier in the month.
> 

One advantage to being a multiple station owner is
that you can develop a solid farm league operation.
On Friday, WSVN/Miami asst. ND Nancy Nydam was introduced
to the 'HDH troops by owner Ed Ansin and GM Mike Carson.
She becomes the interim 'HDH ND who'll lead 7News into
the upcoming November sweeps. 

>  (The WMEX calls, by the way, have been hibernating on AM 1530 in McConnellsburg, PA, the once
> and future WVFC...just in case you wondered.)
>
One of the two Langer's stations in PA. The other
one is in Portage.

-Mark

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