Fox Names VPs/News Directors for WNYW, WWOR
Dianne Doctor Joins WNYW New York; Jim Driscoll Promoted at WWOR New York (Secaucus, N.J.)
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 4/8/2008 10:31:00 AM
Fox went out-of-house and in-house to name two top news executives.

Dianne Doctor, former news director at WCBS-TV and WNBC-TV, both New York, and most recently with her own firm, Galloping Hill Media, joined WNYW New York as vice president and news director.
And Jim Driscoll, who has been news director at WWOR New York (Secaucus, N.J.), was promoted to VP and news director.
The appointments are effective immediately.
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RON CORNING WAS A BREATH OF FRESH TO SO MANY OF US THAT ARE PATIENTS IN THE HOSPITAL AS THEY WOULD WAKE US UP AT 6 AM FOR OUR DAILY ROUTINE OF MEDS AND BLOOD WORKUP AND THE FIRST THING MANY OF US DID WAS GO TO THE TV LOUNGE AND PUT ON RON AND JODI WITH THE GDNY TEAM. NOW, WE STAY IN OUR ROOMS AND USE THE TV'S THAT WE HAVE AS THAT WAS OUR MORNING TIME IN THE LOUNGE FOR ALL OF US TO GET TOGETHER AND ENJOY THE DAY AHEAD. THIS IS VERY SAD AND VERY UPSETTING TO SO MANY AND WE ALL WISH RON THE BEST AND WE WILL FOLLOW HIM. THE WAY RON WAS LET GO WAS DISGRACEFUL AND DONE BY A SO-CALLED DOCTOR, I WONDER WHAT KIND OF DOCTOR SHE IS AS SHE IS HEARTLESS AND MANY OF US WOULD NOT WANT HER TREATING US FOR A AILMENT. MAYBE SHE NEEDS A GOOD TALKING TO FROM HER BOSSES FOR WHAT SHE DID WAS TASTLESS. I AM FROM NEW JERSEY AND HER REPUTATION IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE SHE LIVES I AS A LADY WILL NOT REPEAT WHAT MANY SAY ABOUT HER.
I HOPE TO SEE RON BACK AND BIGGER THAN EVER, AS RON SURE HAS THE TALENT.
DIANNE DOCTOR SHAME ON YOU FOR BEING LOW AS THE WAY YOU LET RON GO, I NO LONGER WATCH FOX, AND IF MANAGEMENT HAD SOME SAY IN THIS THEY WOULD TRY AND BRING RON BACK. THEY PERHAPHS SHOULD CHECK THERE STATUS AS THE RATINGS ARE DROPPING, JUST A MATTER OF TIME TILL DOCTOR GETS FIRED.
TINA ROMAN - 6/26/2008 6:11:00 PM EDT -
HUGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE MISTAKE DONE WITH NO REGARD FOR RON CORNING WHO WAS SO MUCH FUN TO WATCH IN THE MORNINGS WITH JODI AS WELL AS THE REST OF THE TEAM... SEEING SO MANY LEAVE SUCH AS JIM RYAN, LYNN BROWN, DAVE PRICE, LARRY HOFF, LUCY NOLAND, CHRIS GALLIS, STACY GOODMAN, ALL THIS DOCTOR DID WAS MADE THE BEST AM MORNING SHOW INTO SOMETHING THAT YOU NEED 6 CUPS OF COFFEE AS JODI DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE THE PERSOAANLITY WITH RICK AND REID. DOCTOR JUST GET A FLY SWATTER AND SWAP THEM LIKE FLIES AS YOU MY DEAR HAVE NO REPECT FOR THE VEIWERS AND I AM SO IRATTE THAT MANAGEMENT LET YOU LET RON GO. I WILL NO LONGER WATCH FOX AS IF DOCTOR AND MANAGEMENT DO NOT GIVE A HOTT ABOUT THE FANS THEN WHY BOTHER, CHANGE TO A CHANNEL THAT CARE ABOUT THE RATINGS AND FANS.
GOOD LUCK RON AND MANY WILL FOLLOW YOU.......BEING A NURSE, MAYBE DIANNE NEEDS A SHOT OF REALITY.
KAYLA AND STAFF - 6/26/2008 5:54:00 PM EDT -
Dear Rupert Murdoch ,
As a veiwer of fox gdny and fox other televison progeams, i must express myself to you as i am also expressing myself for my family, friend and c-workers.
With all due repsect i would like to say what a cruel and visious act ont the part of dianne doctor on the firing of RON COrning. Finally after reading all the comments and so many people enjopying the mornbing with ron and jodi and thegdny team it was fun and so enjoyable. i have been watching fix since 1990 but i am sad to say i will not let ms doctor or mr. leone walk on people and not take into consideration how the many fans would feel about all the changes that have been made. but this was the final one as gdny is not enjoyable any longer and ms doctor has gone from many tv stations and there rating have dropped and after reading a article by SUITSNOB, i can se why many do not like her and the people at fox are walking oin eggshells and many cried when she came and RON left and the tasteless way she did it.
i know that ron will go far as he is so well liked and i just wish the big bosses would do a donal trump and fire dianne as she is not a asset to fox tv. i would appreciate if you would take some time and read all the comments about ron and no ron in the morning sadly makes us upset so now i will go back to wcbs and watch dave price and the morning crew there. as also channel 11 ratings has gone so high since ron has left and you can just feel the tension as jodi is not spunky, rick is boring, so i will patiently await with many till ron is back on the air and he will go places as hemakes us smile and has the perosnality of a real anchor.
thank you for your time a x veiwer of fox
denise
denise e - 5/19/2008 8:56:00 PM EDT -
All of us at work @ Hudson Valley Diagnostic Imaging are absolutely appalled by the treatment of Ron Corning!! How dare you fire the man!!! And to be so low to fire him while he's on vacation!!! I can't stand the guy on now. Jodi and Ron were great together. I never laughed as much as I have while watching them. To top it off, NO GOOD BYE!!!! We're disgusted with the "corporate" mind set and stupid ratings. Who's next? Mike Woods? Jodi? Where is it going to STOP?!!? I can put money on it, there will be no mention of our outrage!!! Some news station. I will find where he will be next and watch them!! Never again Fox 5!!!
Hudson Valley Diagnostic Imaging - 5/16/2008 2:31:00 PM EDT -
lol, docotr pc is this and it better stay that way as she will be loaded up with emails abt ron and gdny
Temporarily Down for Maintenance
maybe she needs some of this for her brain, heart andcourage to realize she mad a bigggggg mistake.
so until she gets fired as she did with other stations i will watch another station... the docotr is like a walking corspe that has not been imbombed yet, to let this happen and the way it happened. she needs a good kick in the a**. how cruel and how mean, but yet the bosses at fox let her do this, shame on them also.....
maria - 5/16/2008 9:26:00 AM EDT
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