Station's Ratings
News Dirctors
MMJ (OMB) Job details
Yearly salary
Contract2 years
Paired with a photogN/A
Station market rankbetween 2-3
Jesse Fray
He's a nice guy who cared most of the time for what the reporters went through. He was reporter in the past, so he really pushes the reporters to be the best they can. He was new to being a news director and it showed when he first started, but towards the end of my time he became better. I liked how he scheduled meetings with each employee to talk about anything.
An Overall Toxic Work Environment
I'm sure many people will say working in a small town with nothing to do is toxic. Some of the employees didn't have lives and cared what what happening in yours instead. The company is through Nexstar and that company is just a headache just thinking about it. They require on air talent to do too much volunteering during their free time. The workload increased once we became Nexstar. It was PKG, 2 VOSOTs over that PKG and a separate VOSOT different from that story which could be an hour or more out of the way. I'll say I signed with Media General when they were a thing. Nexstar paid the employees about 21 to $23,000. So a couple thousand less than older reporters on a different contract.
You'll learn more than you ever expected. That's the best part. Yes, you'll be miserable living in Topeka and you may even want to quit like several other reporters did I worked with back then, but looking back it was all worth it.
Would I recommend: yikes...idk. Yes, but I wouldn't put myself through that again even if someone paid me $1M an hour.
