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KESQ-TV/KUNA-TV are looking for a bilingual weathercaster. Qualified candidates must have a four year degree in Broadcasting, Journalism and Meterology and at least one year of real world, commercial broadcast experience. THIS IS NOT AN ENTRY LEVEL POSITION. We are looking for a weathercaster who can use our state-of-the-art weather graphics system to tell an

KESQ/KDFX/KCWQ Palm Desert California is seeking a National Sales Manager to direct our National Sales Executives in maintaining market share as well as assist in managing inventory for station cluster. Skills essential for success in this position include excellent knowledge of rating data/TVScan and ability to multi-task. Knowledge of Wide Orbit is a plus. Duties

KESQ/KDFX/KCWQ Palm Desert location is seeking a Local Sales Manager to lead and manage our Local Sales Department and its effort in developing new revenue for television and the web. Duties and responsibilities: Specific duties include but not limited to: managing the local sales department, meeting or exceeding local sales budgets for television and the

Gulf California Broadcasting, owners of the ABC, FOX, CW, and Telemundo affiliates, as well as KUNA FM , have internship opportunities for qualified college students. Students should have a serious interest in broadcasting and some course work in broadcasting, communications, journalism or business. Most internships require a 12 – 15 hour commitment per week. All

Services will be held next week for Palm Springs philanthropist and local television station owner Jackie Lee Houston, the station said today.Houston will be remembered Sept. 23 at 4 p.m. at the Palm Springs Convention Center, and her family asked for donations to one of many charities she supported, in lieu of flowers. Palm Springs

The deadline to get the whooping cough vaccine is here for some, and quickly approaching for others. As the law states, school doors close to the 5 percent of students grades 7 through 12 without a whooping cough vaccine. “We started with about 7,700 kids last spring that were required to have the vaccination,” Coachella

Walk away or sell it short? That’s the dilemna millions of homeowners are faced with, but some real estate experts say walking away for short-term gain, can in the long term do serious damage to your credit. One would be hard-pressed to find many new homes being built in the Coachella Valley. In fact, one

On Friday, Caltrans and SEMA Construction will host the opening of the new Bob Hope Interchange, which connects Rancho Mirage and Thousand Palms to Interstate 10 . It took nearly 2 years to complete the structure at a cost of $25.5 million, according to the Coachella Valley Corridor Improvement Project. The project added a new

More than 80 rescue workers from across Riverside County gathered for a large-scale training exercise Wednesday hosted by the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, marking the first time members from a tribal emergency services unit were involved in such a drill. The exercise by the Countywide HAZMAT Operations Group (CHOG) simulated a chemical leak from

Riverside County sheriff’s are investigating the chain of events that led to a deadly shooting just south of Desert Hot Springs on Tuesday. Deputies responded to a call reporting a domestic disturbance shortly before 2 p.m. at a home on the 15500 block of Avenida Mirola, which is just north of Dillon and in between

The string of unplanned electric grid shutdowns that blacked out the southern Coachella Valley this month was first exacerbated when a power plant in Baja California protectively shut down, it was reported today. The San Diego Union-Tribune quoted California officials who said the first power generating station to shut down after an equipment failure in

Services will be held next week for Palm Springs philanthropist and local television station owner Jackie Lee Houston, the station said today. Houston will be remembered Sept. 23 at 4 p.m. at the Palm Springs Convention Center, and her family asked for donations to one of many charities she supported, in lieu of flowers. Palm

The Southern California Gas Company shut gas service down for the shopping center at the corner of Country Club and Cook Street on Thursday after a leak was reported. Cal Fire and Riverside County firefighters report the 1-inch gas line was ruptured around 10:30 a.m. Construction crews were repaving portions of Cook Street, although it’s

The University of California, Riverside, was listed 97th in U.S. News and World Report’s ranking — released today — of the best universities in the United States. UC Riverside tied in the 97th spot with the University of San Diego, Iowa State University in Ames, and Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. Harvard cliched the

One of the Coachella Valley’s most-known and perhaps most-loved philanthropists, Jackie Lee Houston, has passed away at the age of 76. Her death was announced by the City of Palm Springs in a mass e-mail alert on Wednesday. Houston died after a long fight with Pancreatic Cancer at Eisenhower Medical Center on Wednesday morning with

California Highway Patrol officers sent out a travel advisory on Tuesday, advising drivers in the Coachella Valley of places they need to avoid after Monday night’s thunderstorms. Here are the latest closures affecting area streets: * Adams Street near Highway 111 in La Quinta was shutdown at around 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday by the La

Hundreds of seismologists and students have gathered in Palm Springs to answer one question: what’s shaking? The annual convention of the Southern California Earthquake Center gives experts in the field of natural disasters to share knowledge and new findings about earthquake activity in Southern California. The convention also helps these experts learn ways to communicate

San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies fanned out to help find an 8 year old boy who vanished from the school playground on Monday morning. In a news release sent out shortly after the manhunt began, deputies said Joshua Robb was last seen playing at Grandview Elementary School at around 11 a.m. and didn’t return to

According to records kept by the Federal Communications Commission, KESQ-TV is one of the oldest television stations in the Palm Springs area. KESQ-TV first went on air as KPLM-TV in 1968. KPLM-TV was named for the “Palm” as in “Palm Springs,” and it changed call letters in late 1979 to KESQ-TV under ownership of Esquire