Following the company’s recent growth, it promotes its five senior vice presidents — Jim Ryan, Kevin Latek, Bob Smith, Nick Waller and Jason Effinger.
It eliminates the COO and regional VP positions and promotes two former regional VPs to SVP positions, joining three others, all reporting to new President-CEO Hilton Howell.
Gray Television CFO Jim Ryan suggests that networks may capture more than half of an affiliate’s retrans consent dollars over time. Right now, he said, a 50-50 split is emerging as the model.
