Nexstar Media Group today appointed Tim Ingram vice president and general manager of its broadcast and digital operations in Baton Rouge, La. (DMA 95), responsible for the long-range planning and day-to-day operations of WGMB (Fox), WBRL (CW), KZUP (ind.), brproud.com, and their related digital and social media channels. He also will be responsible for overseeing Nexstar’s operational agreements with White Knight Broadcasting, Inc., to provide services for WVLA (NBC).
Ingram will begin his new duties immediately and report to Mike Vaughn, senior vice president and regional manager for Nexstar’s broadcasting division.
Ingram brings nearly 20 years of executive broadcast television management, sales, and marketing experience to his new role at Nexstar. He is extremely familiar with Baton Rouge and the surrounding area, having been VP-GM of WVUE in nearby New Orleans from 2015 to 2020. Under his leadership, WVUE expanded local news by 14 hours per week, adding two hours of weekday morning news and launching a new two-hour weekend newscast on Saturdays and Sundays.
Ingram also championed expansion of WVUE’s investigative unit and developed a variety of local sports programming featuring the NFL’s New Orleans Saints, the LSU Tigers, and high school sports. In 2019, he was recognized as “General Manager of the Year” by Broadcasting & Cable.
Over the course of his career, Nexstar said. Ingram “has consistently demonstrated his ability to improve ratings, revenue, and profitability by expanding local news content, identifying new revenue streams, and developing a variety of innovative cross-platform solutions for advertisers and marketers.”
He most recently was senior vice president/local media for Gray Television, where he was responsible for overseeing the broadcast and digital operations of business units in 16 markets across several states, including Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri and Illinois. Earlier in his career, Ingram was VP-GM at television stations in Missouri and Arkansas for Raycom Media.
Vaughn said: “Bringing Tim to Baton Rouge and an area that he knows and understands extremely well is exciting. He’s established a lengthy track record of success, has great experience, and will be able to immediately connect with viewers and advertisers. Tim is a leader and an innovator, and the perfect choice to guide our broadcast and digital operations in Baton Rouge. I am very much looking forward to working with him.”
Ingram has been very involved in media industry and community organizations in every market in which he has lived and worked. During his time in Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana he was a board member of each respective state’s Association of Broadcasters.
He received his bachelor’s degree in radio & television from Arkansas State University.
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