general managers

The former head of KAZD Dallas will now lead ZGS Communications’ Telemundo affiliate.

Lockwood Broadcast Group names the former WCSC GSM to succeed Ed Marlowe as head of its independent in Norfolk, Va.

Wayne Reed will succeed Julie Pruett as VP-GM of the company’s KFDX Wichita Falls, Texas, operations.

The former KCPQ-KZJO Seattle general sales manager will lead Tribune’s Indianapolis Fox and CW duopoly.

The group owner promotes the news director of its Hartford duopoly to lead its NBC affiliate in Wichita, Kan.

It promotes from within to find new leaders at its WMTV Madison, Wis.; WCTV Tallahassee, Fla.; WOWT Omaha, Neb.; and KOLN-KGIN and KSNB Lincoln/KNPL North Platte, Neb. In addition, it announces the retirement of regional VP Don Ray.

The former Bright House Networks executive will succeed the retiring Ken Tonning as head of Gannett’s CBS affiliate.

The former VP-GM of WPTY, WLMT and WJKT Memphis, will now lead LIN’s duopoly of WIVB (CBS) and WNLO (CW) Buffalo, N.Y..

The longtime Fox Television Stations exec will succeed Duffy Dyer as head of the Washington Fox-MNT duopoly.

The head of Fox’s Fox-MNT duopoly in Washington steps down after 12 years in the market, 26 with FTS.

Larry Delia, the former head of Tribune’s Indy Fox-CW duo, is succeeding John Cardenas as head of NBC affiliate WTHR and Cozi TV station WALV-CD.

The former GM of Nexstar’s KMID Midland, Texas, will head the group’s Abilene, Texas, CBS affil and its JOA with Mission’s NBC affiliate.

The former GM of WHP Harrisburg, Pa., will take over at Raycom’s ABC affiliate in Columbus, Ga., succeeding the retiring Lee Brantley.

Hearst promotes the ABC affiliate’s general sales manager to succeed Michael Hayes who moves to a corporate post at the station group.

The head of the Fox affiliate for the past 11 years said goodbye last Friday. Sinclair Broadcast Broup is buying the Texas station from Cox Media Group. No successor has been named.

The broadcast industry veteran with more than 40 years of service will leave the Granite ABC affiliate on June 30. Prior to leading WKBW, Ransom was the general sales manager of Granite’s WPTA Fort Wayne, Ind., and president-GM of WTVH Syracuse, N.Y.

The Hartford O&O’s VP of sales is promoted to succeed David Doebler who became GM of WMAQ Chicago in March. His 25-year career in media includes a five-year stint as GM of Scripps’ WEWS Cleveland in the early 2000s.

The 35-year broadcast executive will lead CBS affiliate WMBD and its associated digital properties and oversee the operating agreement for Sinclair’s Fox affil WYZZ.

NBC affiliate KIEM Eureka, Calif., announced that Greater Eureka Chamber of Commerce President-CEO J. Warren Hockaday will join the station as general manager, replacing Roy Frostenson, who will be taking a job at the University of Mississippi.

The Dispatch Broadcast Group veteran is also named the group’s vice president of news.

The TV veteran will lead United Communications’ CBS-Fox affiliate in Mankato, Minn.

The 23-Year broadcast executive and New England Native will lead WFFF Burlington and oversee the operating agreement for Mission Broadcasting’s WVNY.

Local TV taps the former Fisher Seattle GM to succeed Karen Adams at its Greensboro, N.C. Fox affiliate.

Tom Griesdorn, head of Dispatch’s CBS affiliate since 1999, says he will step down at the end of May.

The former general sales manager of KSEE Fresno, Calif., is tapped by Granite to run its NBC affiliate in Fort Wayne, Ind.

David Doebler, the former head of the network’s WVIT Hartford-New Haven, Conn., is tapped to lead its Windy City O&O.

Cox Media Group taps Greg Bilte and Suzanne Nadell to lead the duopoly and news operations, respectively. Bilte joins the Tulsa stations from Cox’s KTVU-KICU San Francisco; Nadell, from Cox flagship WSB Atlanta.

The longtime GM of WGHP Greensboro, N.C., Karen Adams, will take over leadership of WJZY and WMYT once FCC approval comes through on the purchase from Capitol Broadcasting.

The group owner’s director of sales for California  is returning to the Fox-CW affiliate where she had been national sales manager earlier in her career.

The veteran Acme Communications executive will oversee the CBS Television Station group’s CW affiliate in Tampa-St. Petersburg.

The broadcast group moves the GM of its Abilene-Sweetwater, Texas, operations to lead KLBK (CBS) and KAMC (ABC).

Cordillera Communications taps the former GM of Nexstar’s Lubbock, Texas, duopoly to head up its multiple operations in Corpus Christi, Texas.

The head of Gannett’s Tampa CBS affiliate announces he’s leaving the business on July 5, capping a tenure that has seen the station return to its old “10 News” brand while pushing the edge of traditional journalism values.

Adell Broadcasting says Matt Uhl, the GM of its Detroit indie, violated corporate policy with the financial arangements for its primetime Dr. Nandi Show.

The former head of WKRC Cincinnati will take over ABC affiliate WJCL and Fox affil WTGS.

The former Bluestone/Bonten executive will lead the Fox affiliate in Fort Myers, Fla.

The broadcast industry veteran to lead WPTY-WLMT Memphis and WJKT Jackson’s television and associated e-media and digital operations.

Fox promotes her from VP-general sales manager of WTXF Philadelphia to VP-GM of WOFL (Fox)-WRBW (MNT) Orlando and WOGX Gainsville.