Bob Sullivan

Scripps has made clear its ambitions
to slice syndication costs, and Bob
Sullivan is charged with filling the
gap with fresh, compelling and homegrown
programming.

Sullivan is traipsing across the
country to meet with producers and
has some nine show concepts in the works, with an eye on rolling out
a handful of them in markets where the Scripps stations are signing
off this fall on access monsters Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!.

Formerly news director at KNXV Phoenix, Sullivan is also tasked
with keeping the Scripps stations’ crack local news out" ts, including
teams at WXYZ Detroit and WPTV West Palm Beach, breaking
impactful stories in their markets.

With Scripps adding the McGraw-Hill stations to the group (four
good-sized ABC outlets, five low-power Aztecas), Sullivan will make
a major mark on local TV in 2012.

Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.