Doctor to Continue as VP and Station Manager for WWOR-TV
FOX News Channel (FNC) announced today that Dianne Doctor, Vice President and Station Manager for WWOR-TV, will be expanding her duties to include Manager of Affiliate Relations for FOX NewsEdge, FOX’s affiliate news service. In this role, Doctor will report to Sharri Berg, COO of FOX TV Stations and SVP of News Operations for FNC.
Doctor, who formerly served as Vice President and News Director for FOX’s WNYW-TV, will be responsible for ensuring that NewsEdge content is comprehensive for multiple platforms and poised for future growth in the coming years.
In making the announcement, Berg said, “Dianne has spent most of her career in local television newsrooms and will be a valuable member of the team as we restructure and fortify our relationships and communication with all our clients. She is experienced, aggressive and will use her knowledge to enhance our affiliate stations’ experience.”
Fox NewsEdge has been providing local FOX-affiliated stations with content and live coverage since 1996. With more than 150 domestic and international clients, the NewsEdge syndicates feature stories and reports for local FOX affiliates to use in their own newscasts.
Prior to being named to her current position at WWOR-TV and FNC, Doctor founded Galloping Hill Media, LLC to encourage and promote the growth of new opportunities in the expanding media universe. Previously, she served as Senior Vice President and News Director at WCBS-TV, the flagship station of the CBS Corporation. Before that, Doctor was Vice President and News Director at WNBC-TV, also the flagship of the NBC/Universal Television Stations Division, where she guided the station throughout its coverage of the September 11th terrorist attacks.
She began her career as a producer and an on-air reporter, working in Syracuse, Little Rock, and at New Jersey’s state-wide broadcast network, NJN.
FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. A top five cable network, FNC has been the most-watched news channel in the country for more than 14 years and according to a Suffolk University/USA Today poll, is the most trusted television news source in the country. Owned by 21st Century FOX, FNC is available in more than 90 million homes and dominates the cable news landscape, routinely notching the top ten programs in the genre.
