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America’s Local TV Industry Has a Newspaper Problem

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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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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?

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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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Stop Hiring Mini-Me’s: The Television Industry’s Biggest Recruiting Mistake

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The New Broadcast Talent Playbook: Recruiting Across Four Generations Let’s start with an uncomfortable truth. Most hiring managers say they want diversity of thought, and then they hire someone who thinks exactly like they do. The General Manager who came up through sales wants another sales-minded leader. The News Director wants someone who came up

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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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A Peek Into My Media Recruiting World: The $10 Million TV Sales Candidate

Every recruiter has “the email” — the one you screenshot, the one you forward to a trusted industry friend with zero context except: “Read this. I’m speechless.” Here is mine. And I’m sharing this only to educate, not to embarrass this candidate. I pinky promise — and pinky promises are golden with my daughter. I’ve

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Big 3 Broadcast Groups vs. Smaller Media Companies: What Today’s Television Department Heads Need to Know

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The local television business is changing faster than many executives want to admit. Consolidation. Acquisitions. Budget compression. Corporate layering. Centralization. Hiring freezes disguised as “strategic pauses.” Department heads are managing two stations, three platforms, four new revenue expectations, and five additional job responsibilities — often without meaningful increases in compensation. And yet, despite all of

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New Lawyer. New CEO. New Timing. What Nexstar and TEGNA May Really Be Telling the Industry.

The local television industry just made several very strategic leadership moves, and the timing is difficult to ignore. First, Nexstar Media Group announced Elizabeth Ryder as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary to the Board of Directors — notably, an executive deeply tied to major acquisition and regulatory strategy during Nexstar’s biggest expansion years.

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