Station's Ratings
News Dirctors
Anchor Job details
Yearly salary
Contract2-years
Paired with a photogN/A
Station market rankbetween 3-4
Hiring ND: Darryl Huger. End ND: Michael Raffaele
Darryl was a GREAT guy! But I think I caught him after he had checked out mentally at that station, but he was a good mentor. Michael Raffaele is TERRIBLE! He has no idea what he's doing and is turning the station into "cut-in" central.
An Overall Toxic Work Environment
Overall, this station is a complete mess to work for: Edit bays barely work or they're extremely slow, tons of internet problems in the building, ingest stations take FOREVER which is hardly conducive to a breaking news work flow, cameras are ancient both for reporters and the ones in-studio, nothing gets fixed in a timely manner, station preaches LOCAL but the corporate must-runs make that motto an absolute job, forget about doing stories that the community actually cares about. Hires kids fresh out of college who don't know what they're doing yet they never get feedback so how are they suppose to get better? I mean seriously the list can go on and on about the short-comings of this station. If you need experience, take the job but get the heck out when your contract is up! No point in staying. It's embarrassing how this station even functions when it's in a TOP 100 market. I worked for a starter station in an smaller market that operated better.
Don't expect to cover anything besides "doom and gloom" under Michael Raffaele's watch. Anything FUN doesn't exist here. Worst thing this station did was hire him. He's an absolute lunatic!
Production Director Job details
Yearly salary
Contract2 Years
Paired with a photogN/A
Station market rank#4
Darryl Huger
Awful. Completely Clueless as to what just aired on our newscasts. Would routinely undercut anchors/reporters ideas and planning. Played favorites with certain on air and behind the scenes talent because of prior relationships in market or just because he liked them better. Not based on talent or journalistic abilities at all.
An Overall Toxic Work Environment
The main sports anchor sexually harassed a female sports anchor and wasn't fired, even though the whole station found out about it. The harassed employee quit and they just had hr read us the open door policy in a meeting. The sports anchor still works there to this day like nothing happened.
Station has gone through like 2 Gms and 4 news directors in 2 years. The last GM resigned after picking a fight with a local towing company after they towed her car and she forced a reporter to run a hit piece on them to lead the 10PM News. It made TVSpy and everything. The Newsroom environment was terrible, missing breaking stories left and right. No sense of planning or direction by management. Every MMJ and Reporter since like 2013 has left in 2 years or less. Hard work by reporters there is not rewarded instead political maneuvering by the less talented get promoted. In general Wach FOX is only good for getting a foot in the door early in your career. If you consider working here please know not every place is like this. Wach Fox is uniquely stupid.
An Overall Toxic Work Environment
Lack of leadership
Sinclair owned.
