New KCTV-5 news director

The tradition of "live, late-breaking, investigative" news will continue under Tracy Brogden Miller, who was named Monday to succeed Regent Ducas as news director for KCTV-5 and KSMO, Channel 62.

Miller joins the Meredith Corp.-owned duopoly after spending her entire 16-year career at A.H. Belo Corp. There she worked her way up from producer to assistant news director in Phoenix. Miller has been a news director before, at the Belo station in Boise, Idaho. She'll take over after the May book.

 

Kirk Black, general manager for Meredith in Kansas City, said, "One of my key criteria in hiring Regent's replacement was someone who buys into doing what we do and who will evolve it, make it better." He said the hard-charging news style introduced under Ducas — who has taken a position in Dallas — "won't change."

Miller's producing background appealed to Black, as did her most recent work for Phoenix's VHF independent, which competes against network affiliates. "She has to go up against the big boys every day, and that impressed me," he said.

And this just in from IdahoRadioNews.com editor Don Day: "Just thought I'd note that Tracy was also news director at NorthWest Cable News in Seattle.  I worked for her in Boise, and would say she incredibly talented and has great news judgment.  The KC audience will be served with a better TV news product because of her."