Station's Ratings
News Dirctors
MMJ (OMB) Job details
Yearly salary
Contract2 years
Paired with a photogN/A
Station market rank
Maggie Hradecky
She is amazing! If you are having a bad day, she wants to talk to you about it. If you need help finding a source, she knows someone. She can be difficult and unorganized at times, but the good outweighs the cons time and time again.
Every station has its problems, but the staff is not one here. Everyone is so fun and wants to do a good job. Resources are tight and expectations are high, but no one is yelled at or discouraged for trying their hardest. You will learn so much in this newsroom and make life-long friends along the way. Ignore the problems going on around you, focus on the work and you will make a huge jump in your next market.
Maggie H
Maggie was decent but definitely plays favorites and panics.
An Overall Toxic Work Environment
ND treated me okay, but it will only take you a day to notice she has her favorites. She also panics a lot for minor events. The rest of the staff all think they're better than the other person. Zero unity.
Not worth it... anchors will never leave so impossible to move up.
Producer Job details
Yearly salary
ContractTwo years
Paired with a photogN/A
Station market rankBetween 1-2
Maggie Hradecky
Miserable
An Overall Toxic Work Environment
Management is a joke here.
Every place has pros and cons, but the other stations in town don’t leave to come here for a reason. The ND is controlling, plays favorites, and alters between her moods all day long victimizing others just trying to work. You can learn a lot here if you work with and next to the right people. But the pay is pathetic yet they spent billions to buy another company. If you are truly passionate for news, do your time here and move on. They need to re-evaluate the news director and find someone who can make it less like working in a tornado that never stops spinning.
Maggie Hradecky
I have a good relationship with her, but overall she is very chaotic and unorganized
An Overall Toxic Work Environment
There is a panic culture within the newsroom, clear favorites and lots of false promises. Management is unorganized, lazy and has no clear direction for the future of the station. Multiple reporters and photographers have left due to poor management and management bending over backwards for people who have poor performance. While MMJ’s are encouraged to be creative and enterprise stories, that rarely happens due to ND. She is a control freak and does not trust a majority of the reporting team, so most pitched ideas are not considered and she hands MMJ’s a story she likes instead. Content quality is average, but very little is original/not from a press release.
The market gives MMJ’s starting out great experience at covering breaking news, crime and learning all the aspects of a newsroom. Other stations in town have similar issues, but have better content, less turn over and more opportunities for reporters. This station has an anchor staff of multiple 15+ year veterans who are not leaving/retiring anytime soon, so moving up is not an option here.
