Sounds like CBS62 is picking up talent from the big three. That and the great resignation has hit newsrooms particularly Fox 2 in the last year. Newsrooms are poaching talent from their competitors to fill the void and adding a new newsroom in town is causing a bidding war on those without contracts.

A lot of below the line lateral moves are driving the staff salaries up at the 4 local stations.

Sounds like make good theater to me.

Fox 2 needs to go on a producer/writer hiring spree or all those anchors will have nothing to say on their pretty new set.

Looks like every writer/producer in the market is going to get a decent pay bump one way or another this year.

Those decisions will be made in LA and not locally.

Getting MOS is like fishing, you take the fish that will bite and you take the first 3 you get and move on to make deadline.

It's called dental insurance

Technically the numbers were still correct. Was this at 4 or 5pm?

Whatcha gonna do with all that junk, all that junk inside ya trunk?

Paul is an interesting choice, talented photographer and editor and has a boatload of Emmys but yeah, no idea what kind of newsroom management experience he has.

More Rage Against the Keyboard, so tedious

I'll add that Detroit is not a rookie market, there are probably 70 municipalities in the metro area each with it's own city government and public safety departments. Hiring a bunch of 23 year old MMJs with little market experience, who won't be breaking a lot of original stories and sending some yo...

Fox stations require regular testing of employees that are not vaccinated.

CBS has a very strict vaccine mandate, I had to provide proof of full vaccination and booster shot just to work next Saturday's Michigan/MSU game. So if Ben really quit 4 over the vaccination mandate then he will have to get jabbed to work for 62 and pretty much every other major broadcast company.