No offense to Chicago, which is totally fabulous (except for the Cubs…no comments please as this is written by a generations-old St Louis Cardinals fan) but this time of year, until at least April, if given the choice between the Windy City and Palm Springs, the California oasis…well, the Springs is going to win. News from that gem in the desert deals with KMIR, the NBC affiliate owned by Entravision. They picked a new Creative Services Director who’s actually returning after working in Chicago. AITOR LOZANO once handled marketing there before heading off to Chi Town’s WBBM where he wrote and produced promos. Born in Spain, he’s got quite the artistic eye and has been freelancing his photography talents while he worked in the TV world. While in Spain, he had the most interesting job of any CSD ever discussed on this blog, and that says a LOT. He was a train engineer. Must talk to him about that. At any rate, a big Well Dunne! goes out to Aitor.

Have always been highly impressed with Technical Directors. All those buttons and switches. Could never do it (and in truth have failed bigly in all attempts). So when MARISSA HUNTER’s TV story unfolded, and she began as a TD…well, it was instant attention. She’s no longer punching in the control booth but sitting in the Creative Services Director’s chair at Weigel’s WBND in the South Bend, Indiana market. It’s an ABC, CW, MyTV, ThisTV, and MYS (and a partridge in a pear tree) affiliate. Her time punching news was at WSBT, Sincialr’s CBS affil in that market. She did all kinds of interesting things while there, including being Sr. Promo Producer. Now she’s wrangling the WBND marketing. Well Dunne! Marissa.

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Job Alert – Creative Services Director KCTV Kansas City (work with GM CURTIS MILES!)

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