2025 TV - Radio News Directors Report

Another year, and the RTDNA/Newhouse School at Syracuse University Survey found that TV news directors got a year older — reversing last year’s trend when their median age stayed the same. The good news is that the median tenure for TV news directors returned to the usual three years. Last year, for the first time in 30 years, the median tenure had dropped to two years. Meanwhile, radio news directors got a little younger, with their median age decreasing by one year.

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