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Hearst Television’s senior vice president of technology and information services,Alvin R. Lustgarten will retire next summer. Lustgarten has served in his current role since 2020. He’s worked more than three decades with Hearst Television — and more than four decades in various roles within Hearst Corp.

The longtime executive, a key player in the local broadcast TV industry’s efforts to modernize business systems, will cap a four-decade career when he steps down in summer 2023.

Karen Grinthal, a veteran ad-sales executive who has long represented cable’s Food Network and other properties to Madison Avenue, is set to retire from her post. Grinthal, who has worked at Scripps and then Discovery Communications for years, was recently named part of the new senior ad-sales executive team at Warner Bros. Discovery.

The veteran head of Fox’s Los Angeles duopoly will step down on Oct. 3 after a career of 50 years in television.

Longtime CBS golf broadcaster Nick Faldo is taking off his headset after 16 years. Faldo bid farewell Sunday during the final round of the 2022 Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina. The six-time major champion was honored with a plaque behind the ninth green on the club’s Wall of Fame. The broadcast featured emotional messages from Faldo’s former and current colleagues both on and off the golf course.

NBC News celebrated Pete Williams with a send-off at the Cosmos Club in Washington as the longtime Supreme Court and Justice Department correspondent prepares to retire at the end of the month. Williams, who has been with the network for almost 30 years, plans to file his final report on Friday.

In a brief statement issued by World Wrestling Entertainment Friday, Vince McMahon said he is retiring as the company’s chairman and CEO. He noted that he remains its majority shareholder. McMahon stepped down temporarily as CEO and chairman of WWE in mid-June during an investigation into alleged misconduct. Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported McMahon agreed to pay more than $12 million over the past 16 years to suppress allegations of sexual misconduct and infidelity.

Veteran NBC News correspondent Pete Williams will retire at the end of the month, taking with him years of experience in covering the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court. Before he leaves, however, NBC News has unveiled plans to keep its coverage intact.

The veteran leader of Lockwood Broadcast Group’s Tennessee duopoly will end his 33-year career on Aug. 5.

Sir Nick Faldo is planning to retire after 16 years in the booth with CBS Sports and the Golf Channel. The 64-year-old broadcaster shared the news in a signed letter he posted to Twitter on Tuesday — revealing his last day in the booth will be on Aug. 7 for The Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, NC. Trevor Immelman — a South African who won the Masters in 2008 — will replace Faldo next year alongside Jim Nantz, according to Sports Business Journal.

The New York-based Schlesinger, who had also reported for the CBS Evening News, CBS Sunday Morning and occasionally anchored, joined the network in 1984 in its Miami bureau and moved north after three years.

He will maintain a role as a strategic adviser to BIA while Nicole Ovadia takes over management of forecasting services.

Miller is the TV marketer who launched some of NBC’s most iconic shows, including Miami Vice, Golden Girls, Friends, Seinfeld, ER, The West Wing, The Office and 30 Rock among many others.  His “Must See TV” campaign remains one of the most memorable and most cited in TV history.

Pete Williams, longtime correspondent for NBC News covering the Supreme Court and the Justice Department, plans to retire from the network in July. NBC News President Noah Oppenheim made the announcement in a message to staffers on Thursday.