Spectrum News 1 NC

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Station has lost maybe 12-15 producers and EPs since the start of 2021. Station does not promote from with-in. Good EPs who could be news directors have not been able to move up to managing editor for years, Good producers who could be EPs are routinely passed over, right before being asked to train the clueless EPs the station hired instead. . Company is big on not asking questions when they see a manager who has worked at 10 stations in 5 years or 1 station across the country for 20 years before abruptly leaving. This has resulted in the hiring of managers with visible red flags on google when it comes to sexual harassment. Along with a lot of resume fillers who are not capable of doing the job.

If you have been a bad newsroom manager for a couple years who has been forced to move around a lot because you were revealed to be a fraud - This is the station for you.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Kerwin is by far the worst manager I’ve ever worked for. Spectrum is a decent enough company and Charlotte is a great city, but I’ve never seen so many MMJs and producers leave in such a short amount of time after a News Director started. I’ve never seen a ND actively avoid their staff. I was never considering leaving until he took over. It was an overall negative experience working with Kerwin.

If you just want to get a paycheck and live in Charlotte, it could be a fine job. If you want to be a journalist, it’s probably not the best place to be at the moment. Be sure to talk to a current MMJ at the station before applying or accepting any offers. Anchors have a pretty cushy job though, so not a bad place to work the desk.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Bill Denicola, nightside EP, would scream and berate any/all workers at this station as soon as the ND would leave for the day. Be thankful every day you do not have to work with this miserable excuse for a boss. If you did work for him, I'm so sorry.

Avoid entirely. They are constantly losing money, they don't understand how to correctly respond to breaking news, or what news is worthy of appropriate coverage. The allure of being in a top 25 market will go away after 1 month and you'll be left with improper management, inappropriate salary differences, and overworked hours, all to basically never be seen by your DMA because your station will never be advertised

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

I'm still wondering who the boss is and I worked here for two years. It's a hot mess express and everyone knows it.

For anyone considering Spectrum News in Raleigh, don't! It's the station that needs Jesus, Mary, AND Joseph! They hire incompetent people, the decision-making is horrible. The management is tragic. No one ever communicates with each other yet they sit next to each other in the same room. There's also a lack of reporters. They can never stay fully staffed and it's because reporters are over worked and under paid and are miserable. I hated my job 30 days after I started and was counting down every day until my contract ended. I've never experienced this amount of unorganization, confusion, and poor effort from a station ever. They truly need to fire every person in management, get SKILLED employees and just restart. This station has made me and several others get out of the business.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

A lack of communication and a lack of morale. We didn’t even look at Nielsen ratings because we barely registered.

If you can help it, don’t come to Spectrum; it was a negative experience that drained me and left my career going in the wrong direction.

It’s a 24-hour cable station, which means only 40% of people CAN watch us, and those that do often choose the over the air stations unless they’re checking the weather. In other words, you work to the bone to get seen by a very small slice of North Carolinians.

The allure of being in a top-25 market quickly vanished when the reality of being understaffed hit. We barely ever did live shots and we missed several big moments in my time there because we didn’t have enough reporters to cover it all.

Things here were not good when I was there, and I fear things may get worse as more people choose to cut the cord. There are great people here, but being in a top 25 does not make up for these complications.

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