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5 Ways Television Station GM Candidates Can Separate Themselves and Win the Job

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Landing a General Manager role in today’s broadcast landscape isn’t about having “been around long enough” or “running a tight ship.” That baseline is assumed. The real differentiator is whether you can convincingly blend operator discipline with growth-minded aggression — without sounding like you’re trying to be two different people in the same interview. Stations

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Recruiting Used to Be a Profession. Now It’s a Software Filter.

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Yes, I’m old enough to remember when resumes showed up in the mail. And get this — we posted job ads only in the local newspaper. Yikes. Actual newspapers and snail mail. Resumes delivered by the United States Postal Service, to an office, in an envelope, on expensive “executive” resume paper that could double as

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The Silent Crisis in Local Television: The Broadcast Engineering Brain Drain No One Wants to Talk About

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For years, local television groups have obsessed over ratings, retrans fees, streaming strategy, digital transformation, and cost containment. But behind the scenes, another crisis has quietly been building inside television stations across America: the engineering brain drain. Unlike a bad ratings book or a missed revenue forecast, this problem cannot be fixed overnight, because when

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The Media Industry’s Warning Signs Are Flashing — And Broadcast Television Should Be Paying Attention

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There is absolutely a direct correlation between the collapse of the newspaper industry, the consolidation of the radio business, and the current trajectory of broadcast television. In fact, if you zoom out far enough, the pattern is almost impossible to ignore. First came newspapers, then radio, now television — different platforms, same economic story. The

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I Signed a Non-Compete and Want to Leave My Current Job…Now What?

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Remember day one with your exciting new job opportunity? Yeah, that job. The one where you applied online, jumped through several hoops/interviews in order to seal the deal to several strangers that you were the perfect match against their technical/behavioral job competencies, perhaps negotiated for your pittance, and perhaps passed pre-employment screening/background check/etc. And you

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Work in Television? Under Contract? When To Begin Your Job Search…10 Tips:

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I interview thousands of candidates in the media industry for a living. Contracts are prevalent within our industry, but not for every group and every position. If you are under contract or currently employed and looking for your next opportunity for career growth, there is a strategy and decorum you need to consider. One of

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CARVER TALENT HOT JOBS OF THE WEEK

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Assistant News Director, top 30 market. $145K base compensation range. Executive Producer, top 10 market, $115K base compensation range. Executive Producer, top 15 market, $115K base compensation range. Local Sales Manager, top 100 market, $115K base compensation range and $140K+ all-in at goal. Local Sales Manager, top 100 market, $100K base compensation range and $125K+

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