Burns heads to WRC

NBC-owned WMAQ-TV Chicago News Director Vicki Burns has been named to succeed
Bob Long as VP of news for NBC’s Washington market leader, WRC-TV.

Long took over news at co-owned KNBC(TV) Los Angeles.

Burns has been news director at WMAQ-TV since 1998, and had been assistant
news director there before briefly working at ABC-owned Chicago rival
WLS-TV.