KARE News Director Lindner Out

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Longtime KARE Minneapolis V.P./News Director Tom Lindner is departing the Gannett station.

President/General Manager John Remes told the Star-Tribune there is no firm timetable for naming a successor to Lindner, who had the job since 1996, and joined KARE in 1992. The Twin Cities represent DMA No. 15.

Lindner addressed the shakeup on his Twitter account yesterday. "Change has come my way KARE today, gone tomorrow Time to grow anew," he tweeted.

KARE has lost ground to CBS-owned WCCO in recent years.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.