Brad Belote, executive producer at KYTV is the new news director at KSPR in Springfield, according to a post on Ron Davis' Chatter. The job has been held by former KODE news director Erik Schrader.
That is just one of many changes expected in the wake of last week's announcement that Schurz, owner of KYTV had joined with Perkim Media, an outfit created to enable Schurz to work around FCC rules, to buy KSPR.
Springfield Business Journal reports that KSPR staffers were told Friday whether they would still have jobs.
Its hard for me to be optimistic about this merger thing. It may be the undoing of both their stations. Bigger isn't always better, it just costs more. When they lost folks like Tony Beason, Dennis Graves, Marci Burdick, and went to the Original Amateur Hour format with all kind of technical snaufus and mistakes, it speaks volumes about their operations and management. Maybe lack of management. I sent them an email recently about an hour of more of "KYTV Please standby" last Sunday. Got a reply, but certainly not an apologetic reply. I wish them good luck, they will need a bunch of it.
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