If there was a Mount Rushmore of local television news directors, just whose faces would be on it? A few names immediately come to our minds. From the nascent early years of local news on television, a notable figure might be Miami legend Ralph Renick, who served as both the news director and main anchor at the original WTVJ (then on Channel 4). From the 1960s, legendary news director Al Primo, who invented the “Eyewitness News” format, first introduced it in Philadelphia and then achieve...
