Comoensation is decent - Local Sales Manager TEGNA Employee Review

1.0
Sep 24, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Base comp ok? Fellow colleagues (the insignificant peasants, not the corporate royalty) are good people.

Cons

Poor health care with extremely high deductibles. Young media company with too many chiefs and not enough Indians. The corporate teams are comprised of pompous and arrogant people who look at spread sheets to tell you everything you do wrong but not one of them has an original thought or idea to improve the situation. Lots of "peeingon territory" at the corporate level and those people have no problem demeaning, bashing, verbally abusing their subordinates. They also have 0 accountability. Even when a mandate they direct goes sour, you are to blame since the royal corporate elites are never wrong. The CEO spent nearly 20 minutes of her Town Hall the other month bashing on Donald Trump. Obviously the company is run by left wing nut jobs who will do anything to favor left wing progressive ways. But I find it appalling that this lady would use a corporate forum to promote her political beliefs on the entire company. Maybe she is retiring because someone on the board woke up? As far as products, depends on your affiliate but in the broadcast side everything is chaos. Their digital platforms are subbed out to G/O Digital which is over priced and competitively flawed. Their online display is a repackaged white label of Collective. Agencies can buy directly from Collective in New York for 50% the cost! As far as GO services those are about a 50% markup as well (email, social media, websites...all but search which they promote 30% margin...which they use Kinsho as a platform and anyone with a lick of common sense could run their own for about 10% margin if they wanted to use Kinsho). If you want to take vacation they will let you...just expect your cell phone to ring all day every day while you on vacation. They will call you at home after work, weekends if they feel like it and you vacation is nothing more than working remotely.

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1.0
Jul 8, 2026
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Recommend
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Pros

Flexible work environment - hybrid

Cons

Heavy workload, way below market compensation for the amount of responsibility, very limited advancement opportunities & uneven workload distribution among teams. In my experience, leadership made repeated statements about promotion opportunities in career growth that ultimately did not materialize. I felt that expectations were set that weren’t followed through on, which made it incredibly difficult to trust leadership. Transparency and follow through on career development could be significantly improved.

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