Help wanted, big time; affiliation changes generate market for TV news jobs. (television network affiliations) (includes related article on WB Network's case against Gaylord Broadcasting)

Broadcasting & Cable, August, 1994 by Zier, Julie A.

The broadcast television affiliation war, touched off last May by Fox's blanket affiliation agreement with the New Word stations, has ignited an explosion in news hiring. "A conservative estimate of brandnew positions is somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000," says talent agent Barbara Frye, of Frank N.

Magid Associates. "In my 16 years, this is the most hectic and active I've ever seen it." "I've never seen movement in the industry as great as it is right now," says headhunter Don Fitzpatrick. "We've made more placements in the first six months of 1994 than in the last five years." Broadcast news employs some 25,000, including on-air reporters and anchors, producers, assignment editors, video editors and technical support, according to Vernon...

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