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Tribune Broadcasting Appoints Vice
Presidents for News Operations and Creative Services
News Veteran Cissy
Baker Assumes New Duties
Marketing Executive
Rick Felty Expands Creative Role
CHICAGO, January 27, 2003 --
Tribune Broadcasting, a division
of Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB),
today announced that Washington D.C. bureau chief Cissy Baker
has been appointed vice president/news operations and that
marketing executive Rick Felty has been named vice president/creative
services. Both appointments are effective immediately.
" Cissy and Rick are both talented, top-notch executives
with years of experience," said Patrick Mullen, Tribune
Broadcasting president. "Cissy helped launch our state-of-the-art
Media Center in Washington and has been at the forefront of
our efforts to maximize the cooperation among our newspaper
and television news operations. Rick has more than 10 years
of experience with Tribune and has been instrumental in helping
shape promotion of the on-air product at each of our 24 television
stations."
In her new role, Baker will oversee the news
operations of all Tribune television stations and coordinate
news coverage of national events. She will also continue facilitating
content sharing between Tribune’s newspaper and television
operations. Baker joined Tribune Broadcasting as Washington
bureau chief in 1994.
"Our news operations -- at both our newspapers
and our television stations -- are staffed by the best journalists
in the business," said Baker. "I’m excited
to be expanding my role and I look forward to continuing Tribune
Broadcasting’s long history of serving its viewers with
the highest quality journalism possible."
Felty will coordinate marketing and promotion
across the company’s broadcast operations as well as
shared promotional opportunities in Tribune’s cross-media
markets. He will also oversee Tribune Creative Services Group,
which produces on-air promotion for syndicated programming
broadcast on all Tribune’s 24 television stations.
"We have talented creative teams dedicated
to promoting our great entertainment and news programming
at Tribune’s 24 stations," said Felty. "I’m
looking forward to helping them grow their local and network
brands."
Felty was named director/creative services
for Tribune Broadcasting in July 2000. Previously, he was
director/creative services for WGN-TV, Chicago, from 1997
to 2000. He was manager of creative services at WGN from 1992
to 1997, and helped launch Tribune Broadcasting’s first
Web site, for WGN-TV, in 1995. Also at WGN, he received numerous
promotion awards including a national Emmy Award for writing
and producing an AIDS awareness PSA featuring Michael Jordan.
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Tribune Broadcasting owns and operates
24 television stations concentrated in major markets and Superstation
WGN on national cable. The acquisition of two additional stations,
KPLR-TV, St. Louis, and KWPB-TV, Portland, Ore., will be completed
in early 2003, pending regulatory approvals. The group’s
combined reach is more than 80 percent of U.S. television
households. Investment interests include The WB Television
Network (22%) and TV Food Network (31%). Los Angeles-based
Tribune Entertainment develops and distributes first-run television
programming for the Tribune station group and for national
syndication. Tribune Broadcasting also owns and operates Chicago’s
WGN-AM and the Chicago Cubs baseball team.
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