When a company parts ways with their News Director during ratings, you know it’s not good.

Scripps owned KTNV sent ND Tracie McKinney packing after less than a year on the job.

FTVLIve FIRST told you that McKinney came to KTNV from Scripps sister station WXYZ (Detroit) as an ‘interim’ replacement for Mike Dello Stritto, who left to become ND at the CBS O&O in Sacramento.

It wasn’t long after that Scripps took the ‘interim’ tag off of McKinney and made her the full-time ND.

That was over the Summer and here we are in February and McKinney has been bounced. A couple of sources tell FTVLive that it was over an “HR issue.”

Word is that Scripps is sending in another interim ND from one of their stations.

Let’s hope this one lasts a bit longer.

Here is the internal memo sent to the staff from GM Chris Way and obtained by FTVLive: