James Baronet Is KSAS Wichita’s New GM

Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Fox affiliate KSAS Wichita-Hutchinson, Kan. (DMA 66) named James Baronet general manager. He will also be responsible for the oversight of KMTW (MNT), which is programmed by Sinclair under a time brokerage agreement.

Baronet has been VP-GM of WGMB (Fox) and WBRL (CW) in Baton Rouge, La., since 2014.

From 2005 to 2014 was general sales manager, general manager and regional market manager for Communication Corp. of America serving the Waco-Temple-Bryan, Texas; Jackson, Miss.; Evansville, Ind.; and Baton Rouge, La., markets.

Prior to that he was the station sales manager at KXXV and KRHD-LP in Waco-Temple-Bryan, Texas, since 2002.

Baronet graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in radio/television/film from Sam Houston University in Huntsville, Texas.