The Deuce is Bumped Up in Austin

A couple of weeks ago, FTVLive told you that longtime KXAN (Austin) News Director Chad Cross was leaving the station after a decade.

The Nexstar station has found Cross’s replacement and they didn’t have to go far to do it.

KXAN Assistant News Director Haley Cihock gets bumped up to the big chair at the station.

Cihock has spent more than 22 years at the station in different roles and finally makes it to the top spot in the newsroom.

Congrats to her, but I do have to wonder, if Cihock was a guy, would this promotion have come a lot sooner than it did?

Tammy Phillips, the Director of Talent Acquisition at Nexstar posted about Cihock’s promotion saying, “She was more than ready for her new role with more than 20 years experience at the station.”

If she was “more than ready” why didn’t Nexstar promote her within the company sooner?

Just asking….