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« Working for Wal-Mart | Main | Better Late Than Never » July 13, 2006Gill Joins WKRNProving once again it is the Nashville news operation that is "thinking outside the box" the most, Nashville's WKRN News 2 today announced that Nashville attorney and radio talk host Steve Gill has signed with the station to serve as WKRN's chief Political Analyst. Gill will provide commentary and reports for the station's newscasts. "I am very excited about becoming a part of the WKRN team," Gill said. "With the station's video journalists expanding the boundaries of local news, their emphasis on the emerging blogosphere and the aggressive approach to telling the important stories that affect our communities, WKRN is poised to dramatically shake up the local news business." Gill was host of the highly rated and influential Steve Gill Show on local radio station WWTN until his contract ended June 30. He indicated that he expects to make an announcement concerning his radio future soon. In the past few years Gill has broadcast his radio show from the Pentagon and the White House, from the New Hampshire presidential primary election, from the Democrat and Republican Conventions, while on patrol with U.S. military forces in Baghdad and Fallujah, and while standing on the Golan Heights in Israel. Gill noted that he plans to take WKRN viewers on similar excursions. "Technology increasingly gives us the opportunity to not only let viewers hear from the newsmakers as they are making news, but to actually take them to where the newsmakers are making that news." It's worth noting that technology increasingly also is enabling news consumers to be news producers as well. Update: Nashville City Paper regurgitates the press release later than I did. The spelling-challenged first commenter is unimpressed. Posted in Journalism & Media
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It's a good move for WKRN, but they must be paying him a fortune. He was making 300 thousand a year on radio...I can't imagine what WKRN had to pay. While I disagree with Gill politically, he is more than qualified for this new position. Good luck, Steve. One of your few liberal friends, I knew that already. ;P Posted by: brittney at July 13, 2006 6:24 PMBeing a political analyst doesn't require all of Steve's time. Analysts provide input into and commentary on news reporting. They aren't hanging out in the office 9 hours a day or necessarily on the payroll. Most of the time they are consultants. Posted by: Christian Grantham at July 14, 2006 8:23 AMI appreciate your comments Sharon. I am not making nearly $300,000 from WKRN, but I am a lot cheaper than a helicopter. Look for the first appearance today at 4 pm as we take a look at the first day of early voting. Posted by: Steve Gill at July 14, 2006 10:47 AMPost a comment
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