WLWT’s Deb Grivois To Receive TVN Tech Award

Deb Grivois

TVNewsCheck will present one of its 2019 Technology Women to Watch Award to Deb Grivois, director of engineering for Hearst Television’s NBC affiliate WLWT in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Grivois began attracting attention after implementing a new satellite studio for WCMH Columbus, Ohio. She later guided the digital build-out of three NBC owned-and-operated stations and at Hearst Television, she has led an effort to make FCC compliance rules easy and accessible for employees.

“Deb Grivois is not just an accomplished technologist. She is also a strong organizational leader who is able to rally a team and lead it to completing challenging projects,” said TVNewsCheck Co-founder and Publisher Kathy Haley. “She is an excellent representative of the values celebrated by the Technology Women to Watch Award.”

Grivois has been director of engineering at WLWT since May 2015, having previously been engineering manager at WBAL Baltimore and director of engineering at WCMH.

She received a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from The Ohio State University and an AAS in electronic engineering from the Columbus Technical Institute.

TVNewsCheck’s Technology Women to Watch Award recognizes women who show significant promise of advancing their industry technologically. It supports the National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation’s Technology Apprenticeship Program, which places graduating engineers, who are women or people of color, in broadcast industry internships.

The award will be presented during the NAB Show on April 9 at 6 p.m. in the Las Vegas Convention Center. At the same ceremony and reception, TVNewsCheck will present a new Women in Technology Futurist Award and its highest honor, the Women in Technology Leadership Award, which this year goes to Tish Graham, VP of broadcast technology at ABC Owned Stations.

Previous Technology Women to Watch Award honorees are Deborah Adeogba, now senior media experience manager at Microsoft; Jennifer Leung, now senior director at AppD Labs and Emerging Tech; Anne Marie Rohaly, director of accessibility, Microsoft; Tania Paz, VP of digital media operations and technology at Telemundo Networks; Yvonne Thomas, product manager, Arvato Systems; Sara Kudrle, now senior product marketing manager at Imagine Communications; and Alison Neplokh, now public policy manager at Facebook.