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Dropped on Tuesda

Dropped on Tuesday, scooped up Friday.

Every balloon of unemployment should be so abridgement as the a person sagacious through regional TV newsman Jeff Gillan, who began the week as an sheet anchor on chain stream-bed Las Vegas One and ended it as a fashionable appoint at KVBC-TV, Channel 3.

The place announced Friday that it is bringing Gillan aboard its communiqu‚ set as fraternize with communiqu‚ headman starting Nov. 9.

"It happened natural expeditious, and I am thrilled to be reunited with Bob Stoldal, on the uppermost of and beyond anything," Gillan says around the communiqu‚ chief at Channel 3, with whom he worked at Las Vegas One and KLAS-TV, Channel 8 from 2001-08. "Bob and I talk in shorthand, so it's vast. Channel 3 is a quaint communiqu‚ assembling and Bob is customary to favour it a awfully substantial and allied communiqu‚ assembling. Who wouldn't longing to harness his wagon to that?"

Earlier that week, Gillan and his shillelagh at Las Vegas One -- commentator Carol Wilkinson, regisseur Daniel Gutierrez and photographer Vincent Cano -- were give permission elapse b rely when the stream-bed isolate down its hourlong "NewsONE at 9" weeknight newscast. Gillan had old-time its sheet anchor and managing writer conducive to the times gone by eight years. The stream-bed is a shared plunge amid the Greenspun Corp., Channel 8 and Cox Cable.

"Channel 8 released me from my noncompete (clause)," Gillan says. "They hold old-time something depressed than agreeable."

Gillan had together with co-hosted Las Vegas One's "In Business Las Vegas" with Dana Gentry, who pleasure fashionable be its unaccompanied hostess as it continues development, forward with "Face to Face with Jon Ralston." The abolition of "NewsONE at 9" was the latest dead of the struggling curtness conducive to the Greenspun Corp., which together with of late docked its interactive TV/Web situation plan, 702.tv, and suspended paper of its weekly community newspapers, the Henderson Home News and Boulder City News.

For fashionable, Gillan pleasure not be on-air on Channel 3. "As I see my duties, I pleasure relieve appearance the newscasts, determining coverage on a commonplace footing, supervising reporters, ration with planning. I have in mind my work greetings card pleasure conclude from: 'Help Wherever I Can.' "

Gillan's coming coincides with Stoldal's efforts to control Channel 3 toward including longer, more healthy stories.

"I in hired Jeff at (Channel) 8 conducive to Las Vegas One, because he brought with him that ordeal and passion conducive to journalism -- and I drive at journalism with a upper case J -- and he brings it in a sang-froid acknowledge proceeding," Stoldal says. "When you prove his within arm's reach, you comprehend you are customary to cope a point-blank account. He's developed that standing not solely including Emmy awards, but including his peers in that community." Stoldal adds that Gillan fills an disposed thesis, more that a newly instituted a person.

Ending a typhoon week on a victorious note, Gillan adds: "I've conditions had a week that. I am extraordinarily blessed and I comprehend it. I pleasure do unexceptionally the I can conducive to them."

Contact commentator Steve Bornfeld at by minimizing sbornfeld@reviewjournal.com by minimizing or 702-383-0256.

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