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TEGNA
About TEGNA
TEGNA sells advertising station by station: each local TV station (ABC, CBS and NBC affiliates among them) runs its own team that puts broadcast spots, sports sponsorships, digital video and display, and Premion connected-TV inventory in front of local direct businesses and agencies. Account executives are the largest group, 24 of the 52 sales titles, hunting new advertisers and growing a book in markets from Dallas, Washington and Denver to Bangor, Tyler and a Twin Falls seat run out of KTVB Boise, and a Denver sports partnership AE joins their calls to sell packages around the Broncos, Nuggets, Avalanche and Rockies. Behind the closers sit 11 account managers who own post-sale work (avails, make-goods, traffic, campaign delivery), five digital and media strategists who build cross-platform plans around the pitch, three sales assistants and two Premion sales planners in New York. Seven are leadership seats: local sales managers in Dallas, Washington, Norfolk and Toledo, a director of sales in Spokane, a multi-market digital sales manager in Knoxville and a director of digital sales covering more than a dozen markets from any TEGNA city. A national sales group also hires account managers who can sit at any station, and all 52 openings are in the US.
Stated by the company
, SalesJobs.Now shows 47 open TEGNA sales roles; 20 of them print a salary figure.
TEGNA sales openings
Board read 1 Nov 2026, 21:08 UTCAccount Manager (shows the role here)
Account management · KXTV-TV Sacramento· 3d agoDetails
$26–$28/hr
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Founding Customer Success Manager (shows the role here)
AlwaysHired · Customer success · New York, NY· 4w agoDetails
$100,000/yr
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Founding BDR (shows the role here)
AlwaysHired · SDR & BDR · San Francisco, CA· 4w agoDetails
$70,000–$91,000/yr
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- $40,000–$120,000/yr
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Founding SDR (shows the role here)
AlwaysHired · SDR & BDR · New York, NY· 4w agoDetails
$85,000/yr
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- $35,000–$70,000/yr
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Founding Account Executive (shows the role here)
AlwaysHired · AE · Remote· 4w agoDetails
$130,000–$200,000/yr
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Local Sales Manager (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · WUSA-TV Washington, United States· 4d agoDetails
$130,000–$160,000/yrDirector, Digital Sales (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · Any TEGNA Station Location · 5d agoDetails
$125,000–$180,000/yrDirector of Sales (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · KREM KSKN-TV Spokane· 1w agoDetails
$120,000–$160,000/yrAccount Manager (shows the role here)
Account management · KVUE-TV Austin· 1w agoDetails
Local Sales Manager (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · WFAA-TV Dallas· 1w agoDetails
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TEGNA as an employer
Local TV station group, now a Nexstar subsidiary run separately under a court hold-separate order, whose sales hiring is station account executives and the account managers behind them. Posted pay: Stated per posting (stated by the company).
47 sales openings on its careers board right now47 sales openings at TEGNA, as its own board showed them 1 Nov 2026.
TEGNA pays its station sellers a base plus commission and its sales managers a salary with bonus plan eligibility, with a 401(k) and medical, dental and vision coverage.
US only: station markets including Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Tyler and Midland-Odessa in Texas, Washington, Denver, Phoenix, San Diego, Sacramento, Portland, St Louis, Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Tampa, Jacksonville, New Orleans, Little Rock, Fayetteville (Arkansas), Knoxville, Norfolk, Hartford, Bangor, Davenport, Spokane, Boise and Twin Falls, plus Detroit and New York, and national and digital roles open in any TEGNA market.
Caveats
- The pay figure is stated by the company: a reference point from research, not a salary read off today's postings, so negotiate from the offer in front of you.
Pay at TEGNA
Stated by the company, checked 2026-10-30From our research: stated by the company, checked 2026-10-30
Most station AE postings say only "competitive base + commission" with no number; the exceptions are a San Diego senior account executive at $100,000 to $125,000 and the Denver sports partnership AE, whose base plus a sports revenue incentive comes to $150,000 to $200,000 on target. Manager postings print ranges, from $95,000 to $115,000 for the Toledo local sales manager to $125,000 to $180,000 for the multi-market director of digital sales, while the Dallas local sales manager and the Knoxville digital sales manager name only bonus plan eligibility.
Only 20 of its 47 openings post pay, not enough to call a band typical for TEGNA, so the figure above comes from research. What each sales role posts:
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Is TEGNA a good company to sell for?
Local TV station group, now a Nexstar subsidiary run separately under a court hold-separate order, whose sales hiring is station account executives and the account managers behind them.
Is TEGNA still an active employer?
Yes. Local TV station group, now a Nexstar subsidiary run separately under a court hold-separate order, whose sales hiring is station account executives and the account managers behind them. How its pay is structured: TEGNA pays its station sellers a base plus commission and its sales managers a salary with bonus plan eligibility, with a 401(k) and medical, dental and vision coverage.
What does a sales job at TEGNA pay?
Stated per posting. Most station AE postings say only "competitive base + commission" with no number; the exceptions are a San Diego senior account executive at $100,000 to $125,000 and the Denver sports partnership AE, whose base plus a sports revenue incentive comes to $150,000 to $200,000 on target. Manager postings print ranges, from $95,000 to $115,000 for the Toledo local sales manager to $125,000 to $180,000 for the multi-market director of digital sales, while the Dallas local sales manager and the Knoxville digital sales manager name only bonus plan eligibility.
Is selling for TEGNA worth it?
Posted pay at TEGNA: Stated per posting (stated by the company). Ad and marketplace sales suit reps who sell on results and manage monthly spend targets.
How is TEGNA's sales comp put together?
TEGNA pays its station sellers a base plus commission and its sales managers a salary with bonus plan eligibility, with a 401(k) and medical, dental and vision coverage.
Where are TEGNA's sales roles based?
US only: station markets including Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Tyler and Midland-Odessa in Texas, Washington, Denver, Phoenix, San Diego, Sacramento, Portland, St Louis, Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Tampa, Jacksonville, New Orleans, Little Rock, Fayetteville (Arkansas), Knoxville, Norfolk, Hartford, Bangor, Davenport, Spokane, Boise and Twin Falls, plus Detroit and New York, and national and digital roles open in any TEGNA market.
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