Belo Names Deborah 'DJ' Wilson President and General Manager of KGW-TV in Portland
July 12 2007 - 2:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
PORTLAND, Ore., July 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Belo Corp.
(NYSE:BLC) announced today that Deborah "DJ" Wilson has been named
president and general manager of KGW-TV, Belo's NBC affiliate in
Portland, effective immediately. Since June 2005, Wilson has served
as president and general manager of the Company's two television
stations in Spokane, Washington, KREM-TV (CBS) and KSKN-TV (CW).
She succeeds R. Paul Fry who was promoted to the position of Belo's
vice president/Investor Relations and Corporate Communications
earlier this year. Wilson will report to David Lougee, executive
vice president/Media Operations. (Photo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070712/LATH075) "DJ's
superior leadership and management skills, along with her 23 years
of experience in the Northwest region, make her an excellent choice
for this important role," Lougee said. "She's an outstanding
business manager and a committed community leader, who will be an
excellent complement to our outstanding management team at
NewsChannel 8." "I'm delighted to join one of the most talented
television staffs in the country," said Wilson. "I plan to continue
the station's commitment to providing the Portland community with
the best television programming and quality news reporting, on-air
and online, in the market." Before her term in Spokane, Wilson
served as vice president and Assistant General Manager at Belo's
KING-TV (NBC), KONG-TV (IND) and NorthWest Cable News in
Seattle/Tacoma from November 2002 to June 2005. Prior to that, she
served in a sales and marketing leadership role in Belo's
Seattle/Tacoma operations. Wilson has spent 23 years in the
Seattle/Tacoma market during her 29-year career in television.
Eight of those years were with KING, as vice president/Sales and
Marketing and director/Sales and Marketing from 1998 to 2002 and as
national sales manager and local sales manager from 1991 to 1995.
She spent 10 years with KIRO-TV in various sales management
positions from 1982 to 1988 and 1974 to 1978. She has also worked
as local sales manager at WJBK-TV in Detroit, national sales
manager at WAGA-TV in Atlanta, and vice president/Sales and
Marketing at WBRC-TV in Birmingham. About Belo Belo Corp. is one of
the nation's largest media companies with a diversified group of
market-leading television, newspaper, cable and interactive media
assets. A Fortune 1000 company with 7,100 employees and $1.6
billion in annual revenues, Belo operates in some of America's most
dynamic markets in Texas, the Northwest, the Southwest, the
Mid-Atlantic and Rhode Island. Belo owns 20 television stations,
six of which are in the 15 largest U.S. broadcast markets. The
Company also owns or operates seven cable news channels and manages
one television station through a local marketing agreement. Belo's
daily newspapers are The Dallas Morning News, The Providence
Journal, The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA) and the Denton
Record-Chronicle (Denton, TX). The Company also publishes specialty
publications targeting young adults, and the fast-growing Hispanic
market, including Quick and Al Dia in Dallas/Fort Worth, and El D
and La Prensa in Riverside. Belo operates more than 30 Web sites
associated with its operating companies. Additional information is
available at http://www.belo.com/ or by contacting Jill Matthews,
director/Corporate Communications, at 214-977-6825.
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070712/LATH075
http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Belo Corp. CONTACT: Jill
Matthews, director-Corporate Communications of Belo Corp.,
+1-214-977-6825 Web site: http://www.belo.com/
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