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FOX Milwaukee |
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from Milwaukee site |
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05/26/2005 |
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Announced today in Milwaukee, to be announced tomorrow in Florida.
The ND at FOX Milwaukee is the new honcho at FOX Orlando. |
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Bob Clinkingbeard, who has run Channel 6's newsroom since 1998, is leaving to become vice president and news director at another Fox-owned station, WOFL-TV in Orlando, Fla.
The 45-year-old Clinkingbeard's last day as Channel 6's news director is June 3, and he starts in the 20th-largest TV market on June 13. Milwaukee is ranked No. 32 among TV markets.
"It is a good opportunity professionally," he tells Inside TV & Radio.
And he's not complaining about his coming change in climates, either.
The straight-talking Clinkingbeard is the longest-serving of Milwaukee's five TV news directors, skippering a station that boasts 43 1/2 hours of local news. He has taken Channel 6 far beyond its "friend-you-can-count-on" image and fostered the next generation of familiar faces, like 10 p.m. anchors Ted Perry and Katrina Cravy.
Channel 6's ongoing project on the problem of schoolyard bullies recently earned a prestigious national Peabody award for the station.
"Naturally, 'The Bully Project' is going to come to mind," says Clinkingbeard, reflecting on his time at Channel 6, "just because of the words we've heard back from parents and children and teachers about how it's affected lives. The trophies are nice, but you know you're making a difference. That's what's important."
Clinkingbeard says he'll miss not only the staff he's led but Milwaukee, as well.
"I felt at home in the interview, I felt at home when I started, and it was very easy to build a home here. The only place I've lived longer is the town where I grew up," he says. That would be Alexandria, La.
Channel 6's general manager, Chuck Steinmetz, says the station will begin a national search for a news director.
"We want to find someone who understands what Milwaukee's all about," says Steinmetz.
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