He will oversee the Kansas Sinclair Fox affiliate as well as MNT affil KMTW.
The head of Gray Television’s CBS-Fox affiliate in Minnesota had been suffering from cancer.
CBS taps him to succeed Walt DeHaven, promoting Wieland from news director.
Stephen Eaton, a media executive with more than 25 years of local broadcast experience, will oversee KSVI and Mission Broadcasting’s KHMT in Montana.
Sinclair moves him from sales director at its Columbus, Ohio, duopoly to lead operations at the Fox and CW stations in Nebraska.
The veteran Chicago broadcaster most recently led the creation and launch of NewsNation, Nexstar Media Group’s Chicago-based national cable news channel.
Exclusives
The station group promotes Ronna Corrente to lead WAVE Louisville, Ky., and Mikel Schaefer to oversee WVUE New Orleans.
Graham Media is moving him from GM of WJXT Jacksonville, Fla. to succeed the retiring Marla Drutz as head of its Michigan NBC affiliate.
The media executive with nearly 20 years of local broadcast experience will oversee Nexstar’s WQRF, mystateline.com and Mission Broadcasting’s WTVO.
Block Communications promotes Koenig from station manager to succeed the retiring Ricky Joseph.
The former news director of WXYZ-WMYD Detroit, Rhonda Lavelle is tapped by Hubbard Television to lead its Minnesota ABC affiliate.
Scripps moves him from its KXXV-KEHD duopoly in Waco, Texas, to oversee its CBS affiliate in Virginia.
The station group promotes Lisa Columbia from sales director to oversee all aspects of the Kentucky ABC affiliate.
She is promoted by Gray Television to succeed retiring general manager Frank Brady at the West Virginia NBC affiliate.
Callie Starnes was named station manager at WRCB, the NBC affiliate in Chattanooga, Tenn., owned by Sarkes Tarzian, and will become general manager at the end of the year. The station’s current GM, Pam Teague, was promoted to chief operating officer at Sarkes Tarzian.
The longest serving general manager in the CBS Stations group is retiring at the end of the month. Walt DeHaven, vice president and general manager of the CBS Denver O&O KCNC, is retiring on July 30 after what he called a “long and wonderful career in broadcasting.”
Walt DeHaven, VP and general manager of KCNC Denver, marks his last day on the job July 30. He has spent 20 years atop the CBS O&O, and 14 more with other stations in the CBS group, including ones in Chicago and Boston. The longest-serving general manager in the CBS Stations group, DeHaven has spent 34 years with the Viacom and CBS groups. His successor has not yet been named.
Sean Plater, who already leads the HBCU’s FM station and has led the school’s NextGen TV broadcast collaborative over the past year, will now oversee its public broadcasting TV outlet.
The stations’ former station manager returns to oversee Meredith’s Fox-MNT duopoly in Portland, Ore.
The broadcast executive with nearly 30 years of leadership experience will oversee Nexstar’s KVEO, valleycentral.com and Mission Broadcasting’s KGBT.
The veteran sales executive with more than 30 years of experience will oversee KXRM and KXTU as vice president and general manager.
He currently is interim news director at WCBS New York, a role he has held since January of this year; and vice president of news services at CBS News, where he has overseen Newspath, the division’s affiliate news service, since August 2020.
When Donald K. Boswell took over leadership of Western New York Public Broadcasting in 1998, he told a member of the search committee that hired him he expected to be here five years. Now, after 23 years, Boswell is finally leaving the job.
She moves from Tegna’s WHAS Louisville, Ky., to oversee operations at the company’s Seattle NBC affiliate beginning Aug. 2.
The head of Graham Media’s NBC affiliate will step down later this year or early next, capping a career in local TV of nearly four decades.
New Job Posted To TVNewsCheck
The most recent job posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center is for a vice president and general manager in the Livability-ranked No. 1 small-to-mid-size city in the country.
Fox Television Stations promotes her from news director to oversee all aspects of the Fox-MNT Minneapolis duopoly.
The broadcast executive with nearly 20 years of leadership experience will oversee the broadcast and digital operations of Nexstar’s KSNT, KTMJ and the company’s operational agreements with Vaughan Media’s, KTKA.
Mark Kurtz joins from Nexstar’s WAVY Norfolk, Va., where he was news director.
Scripps promotes him from sales director to lead the NBC affiliate, succeeding Evan Pappas.
The assignment to lead Hearst’s ABC affiliate is a homecoming for the Hearst executive who earlier was the station’s news director.
The station group chooses the GM of its KMSP-WFTC Minneapolis to succeed the retiring Pamela Pearson as head of KCPQ and KZJO in Seattle.
The station group promotes her from sales director to oversee its ABC affiliate WLOS and operations of WMYA, the market’s MNT affiliate owned by Cunningham Broadcasting.
She moves from content director at the company’s WLTX Columbia, S.C., to lead its ABC affil in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pa., following Chuck Morgan’s retirement.
The veteran broadcasting, marketing and sales executive with more than 30 years of large-market leadership experience will oversee KRON, KRON4.com and KRONOn.TV
The station group moves him from its KSDK St. Louis to oversee content, sales, brand and operations at the Texas CBS affiliate.
Openings For Creative Services Director And GM
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an opening for a creative services director in Richmond, Va., and a general manager in Seattle.
He’s adding oversite of the NBC-Telemundo duopoly to his current responsibilities as GM of NBC Sports Chicago beginning June 1.
Openings For VP-GM And IT Systems Engineer
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an opening for a vice president-general manager for Nexstar and a senior IT systems engineer at NBCU-owned WCAU-WWSI.
