It's time for another "behind the scenes" look at what's happening inside the WKYC Digital Broadcast Center at 13th and Lakeside.
2016 will mark the 10th year of the Director's Cut Blog that started as a little project back in 2006 by your blogger as a way to connect with those in the industry, the community and anyone else interested in what happens at Channel 3. Along the way, I have made plenty of friends, and some enemies at the other tv stations for promoting the great work we do here at WKYC - but it's all been worth it for me, now in my 22nd year at the station.
December 2015 ended on a high note for Channel 3 News with another number one sweep of adults 25-54 at 11 pm. This marks one full year now that our late newscast has been the top performing newscast at 11 p.m. in the Cleveland market. Get ready for a new feel coming to Channel 3 News at 11 very soon.
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| Pat Murray |
In 1980, he began directing baseball for the station and did so for 33 years, or approximately 2,500 major league baseball games - the bulk of that in the last 10 years here at Channel 3 where he ended his career working for who else - Brooke Spectorsky.
Your blogger wishes Pat happy retirement as we have worked together on the joint Indians sports venture between Channel 3 and STO over the last decade. Pat directed the games, while I directed several of the "Indians Live" pregame and postgame shows.
Plenty of promotions to talk about to start the New Year including the following:
- Current Assistant News Director Denise Polverine will be stepping up to a new position as Director of Digital and Emerging Platforms. Given her background at Cleveland.com we can look forward to unique and creative programming this year.
- Managing Editor Jon Adkins will be moving into the role of Assistant News Director. Jon has been responsible for organizing and producing many of our largest events and news stories. With the RNC, Olympics and Presidential Election looming this year, he will be busy coordinating our efforts on these big events.
- In addition to helming the 11pm, Executive Producer Julie Flynn will now oversee all the evening shows including Channel 3 News at 6, 7 & 11 p.m.
- Meg Hambach has been upped to Senior Producer. She will continue to line produce the 11 pm and work on special projects.
- Randy Betke becomes Assistant Chief Engineer. Randy has been a key member of our technical staff for the past 31 years and has served as the Engineering Tech Supervisor for the past two years.
