DMA 71 (HONOLULU)

LIN Names Kristina Lockwood GM Of KHON

The group owner’s director of sales for California  is returning to the Fox-CW affiliate where she had been national sales manager earlier in her career.

LIN Media today announced the appointment of Kristina Lockwood as president and general manager of KHON Honolulu (DMA 71), which broadcasts Fox on its main channel and the CW on a subchannel. Lockwood replaces Joe McNamara who left the station earlier this month. She will report to Scott Blumenthal, LIN Media’s EVP television.

Lockwood returns to the station after having served as national sales manager in 2004. Most recently, she was director of sales statewide at Cox Media’s California division. During her six-year tenure, she led the sales teams, managed several key client relationships and focused on driving core revenues, increasing digital revenues, growing market share and developing talent.

Prior to that, Lockwood spent over a decade in sales management positions at television stations in Honolulu, including national sales manager of KITV, general sales manager of KGMB and national sales manager of KHON.

In 1999, she received her Bachelor of Arts in communications from Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu.


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