A. H. Belo Corporation announces Broadcast Division promotions for Salzberger, Keilty and Haag.DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 1995--A. H. Belo Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : BLC BLC Boston Library Consortium BLC Bethany Lutheran College (Minnesota) BLC Back Light Compensation (video cameras) BLC Belo Corporation (stock symbol) BLC Broadband Loop Carrier ) announced today that Lee R. Salzberger has been named senior vice president/administration for the Company's Broadcast Division, and Richard J. Keilty has been named vice president and general manager of WVEC-TV in Hampton-Norfolk, Virginia. Belo also announced that H. Martin Haag, Jr., has been promoted to senior vice president/news for the Broadcast Division. Lee Salzberger is currently president and general manager of WVEC WVEC Willamette Valley Eye Center . During his 30-year career with Belo, he has held key management positions in four of Belo's seven television stations, as well as at the Broadcast Division level. Ward L. Huey, Jr., Belo's vice chairman and president of the Broadcast Division said: "Lee's rich experience with Belo makes him ideally suited for his new administrative responsibility. He is an extraordinarily talented broadcast executive." Salzberger's first job with Belo was at WFAA-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth, where he served as news reporter, photographer, producer, city editor and acting news director. Subsequently, Salzberger moved to the stations sales department as an account executive and, later, moved to Belo's KFDM-TV in Beaumont-Port Arthur as general sales manager. At the Broadcast Division level, he has served as vice president/personnel and training; vice president/programming and research; and vice president/ administration. Salzberger became president and general manager of KOTV in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1987 and president and general manager of WVEC in 1991. Salzberger holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and a masters degree in arts from the University of Texas. Rick Keilty, who is currently the vice president and general sales manager of Belo's KHOU-TV in Houston, has more than 22 years of television sales and management experience. He has been with KHOU for seven years and, before he assumed his current duties, was the director of sales and marketing for the station. Keilty served as general sales manager at WVEC from 1983 to 1988. In addition, Keilty held sales management positions at WCMH-TV in Columbus, Ohio, and WJAR-TV in Providence, Rhode Island  “Providence” redirects here. For other uses, see Providence (disambiguation). Providence is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. . Jim Moroney III, executive vice president of Belo's television station group, said: "Rick has done an outstanding job in leading the sales department at KHOU to record levels of performance. He is ready for this job, and his prior experience in the Hampton-Norfolk market make it a perfect fit." Marty Haag is a 22-year Belo broadcast veteran who has served as vice president/news since 1992. He was originally recruited to WFAA WFAA Washington Financial Aid Association WFAA Waste Facilities Audit Association (Europe) from WCBS-TV in New York in 1973. During Haag's tenure as executive news director of WFAA, the station was recognized with four duPont-Columbia Awards and a George Foster Peabody
The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ, formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi . In 1981 he received the Dallas Press Club's J.B. Merryat Memorial Award; and in 1987, he won the Silver Excellence Award from the Dallas Chapter of American Women in Radio and Television. In February of this year, Haag was presented the William H. Seay Award by Belo's Board of Directors in recognition of his personal integrity, loyalty, community commitment and journalistic standards. Prior to joining WFAA, Haag served in a variety of journalistic capacities with the NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. and CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. television and radio networks. He has also been assistant news director for WCBS WCBS Wireline Core-Barrel Sampling WCBS West Coast Business Systems and Supplies, Inc. (Palm Desert, CA) in New York and news director for WKYC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio, and KTTV in Los Angeles, California. Haag holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and a masters degree in journalism from Columbia University. Belo's Broadcast Division includes network-affiliated television stations WFAA-TV (ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. ) in Dallas-Fort Worth; KHOU-TV (CBS) in Houston, Texas; KIRO-TV (UPN) in Seattle-Tacoma, Washington; KXTV (ABC) in Sacramento, California; WVEC-TV (ABC) in Hampton-Norfolk, Virginia; WWL- TV (CBS) in New Orleans, Louisiana; and KOTV (CBS) in Tulsa, Oklahoma; as well as Belo Productions, Inc. (BPI); and Belo is the majority partner in Maxam Entertainment. The Company also owns The Dallas Morning News; DFW Suburban Newspapers, Inc., publisher of eight community newspapers; and DFW Printing Company, Inc. Shares of Belo Series A Common Stock are traded on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol BLC. CONTACT: A.H. Belo Corporation, Dallas Ward L. Huey, Jr. 214/977-8267 or Jim Moroney III, 214/977-6685 |
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