Tim Geraghty, whose experience as a TV news director reaches from Florida to California, starts Monday as news director at WKRC-TV (Channel 12).
Geraghty had been senior director for news at Central Florida News 13, a 24-hour news operation covering seven counties. He left that position in January after three years, according to Rick Gevers鈥� weekly TV news talent newsletter.
He replaces , who left the Sinclair Broadcast Group鈥檚 CBS affiliate here on July 3.
Geraghty has been a TV news director in Miami, Sacramento and Grand Rapids. He also worked for stations in Kansas City; Kalamazoo; Decatur, Ill.; and Columbia, Mo.
Jon Lawhead, Channel 12 general manager, says he was a sales manager in Decatur when Geraghty was a news producer, but he didn鈥檛 recall meeting him back then.
鈥淲e were only at the station for about a year at the same time,鈥� said Lawhead, group manager for Sinclair鈥檚 Channels 12 and 12.2; WSTR-TV (Channel 64); and Dayton鈥檚 WKEF-TV (Channel 22) and WRGT-TV (Channel 45).
