ATLANTA, Jan. 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Gray
Television, Inc. ("Gray," "we," "us" or "our") (NYSE: GTN and
GTN.A) announced today its appointment of three veteran
broadcasters as the new managers of its Alaska television stations.
Gray Co-Chief Operating Officer Bob
Smith explained, "We are thrilled to announce today that we
are entrusting our Alaska stations to three exceptional women who
have earned the confidence of the stations' staffs as well as the
unqualified respect from local civic and business leaders."
In Anchorage, Nancy
Johnson will become the General Manager of KTUU Channel
2 (NBC) and KYES Channel 5 (MY). Mrs. Johnson grew up in
radio and studied journalism before finding her home in television
when she joined KTUU in 1981. Over the years, she has managed
sales, programming, and marketing for the station. She has
served as KTUU's General Sales Manager since 2011.
In Fairbanks, Chris Fry has become the General Manager of
KTVF (NBC), KXD (CBS), and KFXF (FOX). After joining KXD/KFXF
as a traffic manager in 1996, she quickly rose through the ranks to
manage sales and programming. In 2006, Mrs. Fry became
General Manager of the two television stations as well as two radio
stations that the stations' prior owner added to the group in
recent years.
DeeDee Caciari is now the
Station Manager and General Sales Manager of these three
stations. She joined KTVF as an account executive in
1989. After several promotions, Mrs. Caciari became the
General Manager and General Sales Manager of KTVF, the market's
top-rated station, in 2009.
Earlier this month, Andy MacLeod
announced that he will leave KTUU in March after more than 30 years
to run a start-up content development business, Northern Lights
Originals. He will serve as a consultant to KTUU to assist
with the implementation of certain long-term initiatives that began
under his leadership.
About Gray:
Gray owns and/or operates 100 television stations across 54
television markets that collectively broadcast over 200 program
streams including 101 channels affiliated with the CBS Network, the
NBC Network, the ABC Network and the FOX Network. Our
portfolio includes the number-one and/or number-two ranked
television station operations in essentially all of our markets,
which collectively cover approximately 10.1 percent of total
United States television
households.
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SOURCE Gray Television, Inc.