WMUR-TV Hires News Director; New Hampshire native Andrew Vrees was at a New Mexico station.Business Editors MANCHESTER, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2004 WMUR-TV announced today the station has hired a new news director. Station General Manager Jeff Bartlett announced today the hiring of Andrew Vrees to serve as the station's news director, effective the week of June 20. Vrees is currently serving as the assistant news director at KOAT-TV, a Hearst-Argyle station in Albuquerque, N.M. A Stratham, N.H. native, Vrees attended the University of New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). before transferring to the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission . "I am very excited that Andrew has decided to join WMUR," said Bartlett. "He brings a great combination of experience and skills that will ensure that our station continues to deliver the kind of quality news coverage that our viewers expect. And he's a Granite Stater Noun 1. Granite Stater - a native or resident of New Hampshire New Hampshirite American - a native or inhabitant of the United States to boot! I have the highest confidence that he and our first-rate news staff can do great things together." "It is a thrill to be able to come back home to New Hampshire," said Vrees. "WMUR is a top notch station in a fast-growing news market and I'm looking forward to working with the talented people at Channel 9 to inform and serve the viewers of New Hampshire." Vrees got his start in television journalism as an Anchor, Producer, and Reporter at KTVF-TV in Fairbanks, Alaska. He did similar work at KSWO KSWO Kantonsschule Wohlen (Wohlen, Switzerland) in Lawton, Oklahoma before moving back to Alaska to become Executive Producer and Anchor at KTUU in Anchorage. He then became Assistant News Director at the ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. owned station, WTVG, in Toledo, Ohio. His many awards over the years include: Best Newscast and Best Documentary from the Alaska Broadcasters Association, his station in Toledo received the 2000 and 2002 Edward R. Murrow Award The Edward R. Murrow Award can mean:
Vrees is scheduled to start the week of June 20th. He is taking the position formerly held by Jennifer Crompton, who stepped down last month to spend more time with her family. Vrees graduated from the University of Southern California where he received degrees in Journalism and Political Science. About WMUR-TV WMUR-TV (Ch. 9) is an ABC-TV affiliate headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire This article is about the city in New Hampshire. For other uses, see Manchester (disambiguation). Manchester is the largest city in the U.S. state of New Hampshire and the largest city of northern New England, an area composed of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. , and is owned and managed by Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc., one of the nation's largest television station groups. WMUR-TV is New Hampshire's largest commercial TV station, reaching more than a million people. Founded in 1954, the station's news, feature and sports coverage has won numerous awards for professional and journalistic excellence. WMUR-TV is considered the broadcast news source of record for New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary election. The station is proud of its role as a leading resident of New Hampshire and supports numerous local civic and charitable causes, including the American Cancer Society American Cancer Society, n.pr established in 1913, this national volunteer-based health organization is committed to the elimination of cancer through prevention and treatment and to diminishing cancer suffering through advocacy, scholarship, research, , the Partnership for a Drug Free New Hampshire, the Boys & Girls Club of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire Special Olympics, and most recently was the sponsor for the first television fund raiser in the country for The Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund following terrorist attacks on September 11th. WMUR-TV provides online news and information at www.TheWMURChannel.com |
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