It’s the result of a restructure announced Monday in an e-mail to employees and in a subsequent meeting at channel 6, by David Griffin, president and chief executive officer of Griffin.

Regina Moon, who served as vice president and chief operating officer of the two stations, left channel 6 Monday and was unavailable for comment.

All three Griffin stations will report to a new executive team made up of longtime managers from Griffin’s CBS-affiliated KWTV-channel 9 with a goal of creating “one statewide news organization.”

Moon began with KOTV eight years ago as general manager. She continued in that role when Griffiin purchased former WB-turned-CW affiliate KQCW. She was promoted to vice president and chief operating officer of both stations a little over one year ago. KOTV was consistently ranked No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings during her tenure.

The reason for Moon’s departure was “very simple,” Griffin said in a phone interview Monday. “Regina is an incredibly talented executive. When we sat down and start talking about this, we said we’ve got to consolidate the top level leadership . And, as you move up, there are fewer and fewer jobs.”

Decisions will still be made locally if Oklahoma City executives are unavailable, he said.

“We are aligning our organization to how viewers consume news now days,” Griffin said. “It’s a lot different than it was five years ago. I don’t see a change away from being local (Tulsa) news. We have the largest electronic news gathering organization covering Oklahoma news … If there’s a tornado outbreak in Tulsa, why not take our whole 179 people in our (three) newsroom(s) and focus on it? Tulsa will get more access.”

The net effect of the change will be five new positions among the stations, he said, six positions eliminated and 11 being added. According to the e-mail, among the positions being created are a statewide director of news operations, statewide director of morning/noon news content and a director of special projects.