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Local Television Doesn’t Have an HR Problem. It Might Have a Utilization Problem.

Broadcast, HR Law, Human Resources, Interview Tips, Interviewing Tips, Interviews, Job Search, Jobs, Journalism, JournalismJobs, Local Television, Local TV, Media, MediaJobs, Recruiting, Recruiting Tips, TVjobs, Uncategorized / Ty Carver

Spend enough time around local television stations and you start to notice something interesting about the people responsible for the people. At the station level, they may be called a Business Office Manager, Human Resources Manager or HR Business Partner. Sometimes they are responsible for HR along with payroll, benefits, accounting, compliance and whatever else

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You Don’t Have a Candidate Shortage. You Have a Job Design Problem.

Broadcast, Human Resources, Interview Tips, Interviewing Tips, Interviews, Job Search, Jobs, Journalism, JournalismJobs, Local Television, Local TV, Media, MediaJobs, Recruiting, Recruiting Tips, TVjobs, Uncategorized / Ty Carver

There is a phrase I hear constantly in media recruiting: “There just aren’t any candidates.” Sometimes that’s true. Certain talent pools have unquestionably gotten smaller. Experienced broadcast engineers are becoming harder to find. Newsroom leadership pipelines have thinned. Sales management benches aren’t what they once were. Consolidation, downsizing, retirements and people simply leaving the business

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Your Best Candidate Isn’t Looking for You

There is a fundamental mistake I see companies make when they talk about recruiting. They confuse the applicant pool with the talent market. They are not the same thing. A position opens. The company posts it. The job goes on LinkedIn, the corporate career site and maybe a few industry boards. Applications start coming in.

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America’s Local TV Industry Has a Newspaper Problem

For decades, local television executives looked at newspapers the way a healthy person looks at someone else’s diagnosis: unfortunate, but not contagious. Print publishers got flattened by Craigslist, Google, Facebook, and the internet’s dismantling of classified advertising. Television stations, meanwhile, sat behind a protected moat of retransmission fees, political advertising, cable bundles, and weather coverage

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Tell Me Your Story. Just Not All of It.

There is one question I ask almost every candidate I talk to. “Tell me your story.” It sounds casual. It is not. I’m not asking because I need you to read your résumé to me. I already have it. I’m not particularly interested in where you went to high school, the first job you had

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Everybody Wants Consolidation. Nobody Wants to Talk About the Hangover.

Broadcast, Interview Tips, Job Search, Jobs, Journalism, JournalismJobs, Local Television, Local TV, Media, MediaJobs, Recruiting, TVjobs, Uncategorized / Ty Carver

The FCC voted to eliminate the national television ownership cap. Broadcasters celebrated. Wall Street started doing math. And now Newsmax says it is preparing to sue. Welcome to the next chapter of local television. The FCC’s vote removed the long-standing 39% national audience-reach cap and replaced it with case-by-case review of broadcast transactions. Newsmax CEO

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The TV Talent Shortage: What Station Managers Can Control

CARVER CORNER: What station managers can do now to attract, develop, and keep the people who will determine what local television becomes next. Let’s be honest: most television stations do not have a talent shortage. They have a talent-retention problem, a compensation problem, a leadership problem, or a reputation problem. In some cases, they have

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Is It Time to Rethink the Television Talent Agent Business Model?

Carver Corner By Ty Carver Every industry has business models that make perfect sense, and then there are a few that leave you wondering how they’ve survived for decades without anyone seriously questioning them. One that has always fascinated me is the traditional television talent agent model. Before anyone misunderstands where I’m going with this,

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The Local Television Job Market in 2026: Tough? Maybe. Hopeless? Absolutely Not. 10 Helpful Hints…

If you’ve spent any time scrolling LinkedIn lately (or read my blog posts), you’ve probably seen the headlines: ownership changes, consolidation, budget cuts, hiring freezes, restructuring, and additional responsibilities piled onto already overloaded teams. It’s enough to make even the most accomplished television professional wonder what’s next. Let’s start with some good news. Despite all

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Dear College Graduate: So You Want to Work in Local Television?

*A Survival Guide from Carver Talent* Congratulations. You graduated from college. You survived finals, group projects, professors who still use PowerPoint templates from 2004, and enough ramen noodles to qualify as a sodium-based life form. Now comes the easy part. Just kidding — now you have to find a job. And if you’re reading this

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